Many Muslim northerners are pressing General Babangida to run against Mr. Obasanjo, a Christian southerner.
A fourth congressional committee is pressing for general information about the handling of government documents, use of personal emails and the response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests during her time at the State Department.
The Catholic church in Northern Ireland is pressing the attorney general to appeal against a landmark ruling by Belfast's high court that will ease the near-total ban on abortions in the region.
Mr. Karzai has strengthened the government's anticorruption commission, and his attorney general is pressing forward on some cases involving former government figures.
With attention focused on the Democrats' infighting for the presidential nomination, Senator John McCain is pressing ahead to the general election but has yet to sign up one critical constituency: the big-money people who powered the Bush fund-raising machine.
Already Attorney General John Ashcroft is pressing Congress to adopt several proposals that would give law enforcement officials greater surveillance freedom.
These restrictions present a problem for Mohamed ElBaradei, the agency's director general, who is pressing Iran to reveal its past nuclear activity.
Attorney General John Ashcroft is pressing Congress for a series of new anti-terrorism laws, including measures that would expand electronic surveillance and the search powers of law enforcement officials.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is pressing several charges against Mike Glasgow, a former wastewater treatment plant administrator for Flint who now serves as the city's utilities administrator, and Michigan Department of Environmental Quality MDEQQ) officials Mike Prysby and Stephen Busch.
Representative John Conyers, Chair of the Congressional Out of Afghanistan Caucus, is pressing President Obama to make General David Petraeus available to testify on the administration's review of Afghanistan policy, Amanda Terkel reports for the Huffington Post.
President Obama has told aides to study the matter, and the administration is pressing Mr. Karzai not to return General Dostum to power.
