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A House Subcommittee on Elections, chaired by Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Warrensville Heights, will hold its second hearing Tuesday in Atlanta. Fudge got the elections subcommittee assignment in November after throwing her support behind California Rep. Nancy Pelosi for speaker.

The Phillies postponed a baseball game Monday. They'd left the tarps off the field during the weekend's massive rain. Crews tried unsuccessfully to fix the problems with blowtorches.

The mayor of Blue Ash has died while on vacation in France. Thomas Adamec died from complications from an auto-immune disease he'd been fighting for...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., about voting rights, the opportunities he sees for bipartisan efforts and what Georgia has to gain from the COVID-19 relief bill.

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) charges the Bush administration with hiding the details of a postwar-Iraq oil contract awarded to a subsidiary of the Halliburton Corp., formerly run by Vice President Dick Cheney. The no-bid contract, which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says included not only extinguishing oil fires but also "operation of facilities and distribution of products," could be worth up to $7 billion. Hear Rep. Waxman.

Convicted sniper Lee Boyd Malvo is cross-examined by his former partner and mentor John Allen Muhammad, who is on trial in Maryland on six murder charges. Malvo discussed his role in the sniper shootings that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area four years ago. Muhammad is acting as his own attorney.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff defends his decision to cut his agency's grants to New York City and for the Washington, D.C., area by 40 percent, saying New York still receives the most money of any city for security. News of the grant amounts prompted sharp criticism.

Members of Congress are evaluating their options now that the Supreme Court has rejected the Bush administration's plan to try terror detainees in military tribunals. The court's ruling at the end of last month means that Congress must now decide whether to pass legislation authorizing such tribunals, or set up an alternative. Michele Norris talks with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The highway bill signed by President Bush Wednesday is nearly $30 billion richer than what Bush proposed -- and it tops the figure he said he'd veto. The president has said he expects to cut the federal budget deficit in half by 2009, warning that Congress must control spending.

Alt.Latino puts aside its hatred of Valentine's Day to hear New Yorkers' tales of love lost and found.