Politico - Pelosi owes her current place on the cusp of a historic health care vote to anonymous contemporaries.

AP - His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients.

In a special edition of Guardian Daily devoted to events in Afghanistan we ask how significant were the killings of five British servicemen by an Afghan policeman in Helmand this week? What impact will the UN withdrawal from Kabul have on the Nato operation? And what effect will a troop surge - or a phased withdrawal - have on Afghanistan?Jon Boone reports from Kabul on the hunt for the policeman who carried out the gun attack.Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor ... more

Reuters - The influential American Medical Association on Thursday said it supported passage of the Democratic-written healthcare legislation that the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on this week.

AP - The American Medical Association says it supports the House Democratic health care bill, but it can't give a full endorsement yet.