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| Bill to appease public without peeving investors (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 4:25 am
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|  AP - Democrats are looking for a way to respond to the public's outrage over taxpayer money being used to bankroll big bonuses for financial executives without alienating an industry whose cooperation is crucial to the nation's economic recovery.
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| U.S. missiles hit NW Pakistan, rewards offered (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 3:55 am
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|  Reuters - Missiles believed to have been fired by a U.S. drone aircraft killed four people in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on Thursday, hours after a similar strike killed seven in neighboring South Waziristan.
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| Congress approves landmark conservation bill (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 3:14 am
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| | Reuters - The Democratic-led U.S. Congress gave final approval on Wednesday to sweeping land and water conservation legislation that environmental groups praised as one of the most significant in U.S. history. |
| AP IMPACT: For troops in Iraq, shower may be fatal (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 3:14 am
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|  AP - The military is racing to inspect more than 90,000 U.S.-run facilities across Iraq to reduce a deadly threat troops face far off the battlefield: electrocution or shock while showering or using appliances.
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| Investigators say food tracing system full of gaps (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 2:09 am
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|  AP - Government investigators testing the nation's food tracing system were able to follow only five out of 40 foods all the way through the supply chain, according to a report to be released Thursday.
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| Clinton: US shares blame for Mexican drug wars (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 1:08 am
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|  AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday pledged to stand with Mexico in its violent struggle against drug cartels and admitted that Americans' "insatiable" appetite for illegal narcotics and their inability to control weapons smuggling was partly to blame.
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| Obama to tighten screws on Wall Street: officials (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 12:48 am
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| | Reuters - In a bid to quash Wall Street excesses that nearly caused the collapse of the U.S. financial system, the Obama administration will propose tough restrictions on financial firms, hedge funds and derivatives markets. |
| Clinton vows US backing in Mexican drug wars (AFP)
March 26, 2009 at 12:04 am
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|  AFP - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed that Washington will stand by Mexico in its fight against drug cartels and said the United States shared blame for the deadly unrest.
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| Fewer than 10 pct. of blind Americans read Braille (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 12:02 am
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|  AP - Jordan Gilmer has a degenerative condition that eventually will leave him completely blind. But as a child, his teachers did not emphasize Braille, the system of reading in which a series of raised dots signify letters of the alphabet.
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| North Korea readies missile, U.S. warns (Reuters)
March 25, 2009 at 11:36 pm
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| | Reuters - North Korea has put a long-range missile in place for a launch the United States warned would violate U.N. sanctions already imposed on the reclusive state for past weapons tests. |
| Sources: Extensive regulatory overhaul planned (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 11:24 pm
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|  AP - The Obama administration is proposing an extensive overhaul of financial regulations to increase oversight of such exotic instruments as credit default swaps that have been blamed for contributing to the worst financial crisis to hit the country in seven decades.
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| F-22 crashes in California desert; pilot killed (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 10:55 pm
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|  AP - One of the Air Force's top-of-the-line F-22 fighter jets crashed Wednesday in the high desert of Southern California, killing a test pilot for prime contractor Lockheed Martin Corp.
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| ND officials: More blasts needed to break ice jam (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 10:36 pm
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|  AP - Demolition crews blasted chunks of ice near a huge ice jam in the Missouri River on Wednesday in a bid to open a channel, like pulling out a giant plug to drain a flood threatening the city. Officials planned two more rounds of explosives.
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| Obama defends strategy of tackling many issues (Reuters)
March 25, 2009 at 10:33 pm
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| | Reuters - President Barack Obama defended his strategy of tackling multiple challenges instead of focusing solely on fixing the U.S. economy in a return on Wednesday to the political fund-raising that helped elect him. |
| Chaos and clashes undermine help for octuplets mom (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 10:21 pm
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|  AP - The list of people octuplets mother Nadya Suleman has alienated from her chaotic life grows by the day: A number of public relations handlers have parted ways and Suleman fired a group of nurses providing charity care.
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| NKorea places long-range missile on launch pad (AFP)
March 25, 2009 at 10:15 pm
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|  AFP - North Korea has placed a long-range missile on a launch pad, a US official has said, as Washington warned it would take the matter to the United Nations if Pyongyang goes ahead with the planned launch.
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| Unified Democrats mirror Obama budget priorities (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 9:24 pm
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|  AP - In a springtime show of unity, congressional Democrats welcomed President Barack Obama to the Capitol Wednesday and unveiled budget blueprints that embrace his key priorities and point the way for major legislation this year on health care, energy and education.
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| Reid open to fast-tracking health overhaul (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 9:23 pm
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|  AP - Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated Wednesday he's willing to move sweeping health care legislation through the Senate with a procedural maneuver that would block a GOP filibuster. The prospect of the controversial tactic has already ignited Republicans' ire, and key Senate Democratic chairmen have said they don't want to do it.
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| Merengue star Crespo accused of sex act on plane (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 9:20 pm
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|  AP - Merengue star Elvis Crespo is being investigated after a woman said she saw him performing a sex act on an airplane en route from Houston to Miami, according to Miami-Dade County police.
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| Astronomers catch a shooting star for 1st time (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 9:20 pm
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|  AP - For the first time scientists matched a meteorite found on Earth with a specific asteroid that became a fireball plunging through the sky. It gives them a glimpse into the past when planets formed and an idea how to avoid a future asteroid Armageddon.
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| Armstrong gets plate, 12 screws in collarbone (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 9:18 pm
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|  AP - His broken collarbone surgically mended, Lance Armstrong is on the clock. The seven-time Tour de France champion will be back on his bike in days even though the bone may take eight to 12 weeks to fully mend. Armstrong must resume training almost immediately if he's to meet his goal of racing in the Giro d'Italia, which begins May 9.
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| US: North Korea loading rocket on launch pad (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 6:05 pm
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|  AP - North Korea is loading a Taepodong rocket on its east coast launch pad in anticipation of the launch of a communications satellite early next month, U.S. officials say. U.S. counterproliferation and intelligence officials have confirmed Japanese news reports of the expected launch between April 4 and 8.
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| Study: Male circumcision helps prevent 2 STDs (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 5:51 pm
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| | AP - Circumcision not only protects against HIV in heterosexual men, but it also helps prevent two other sexually transmitted infections, a large new study found. Circumcised males reduced their risk of infection with HPV, or human papillomavirus, by 35 percent and herpes by 28 percent. However, researchers found circumcision had no effect on the transmission of syphilis. |
| Astronomers catch a shooting star for 1st time (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 5:51 pm
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| AP - For the first time scientists matched a meteorite found on Earth with a specific asteroid that became a fireball plunging through the sky. It gives them a glimpse into the past when planets formed and an idea how to avoid a future asteroid Armageddon. |
| Top Vatican official rededicates Mass. menorah (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 5:50 pm
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|  AP - The Vatican's top liaison to Jews helped rededicate a menorah in memory of Holocaust victims Wednesday amid fallout from the Holy See's botched decision to lift the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop. Cardinal Walter Kasper joined Holocaust survivors and local Roman Catholic leaders at the ceremony for the Yom Hashoah Menorah at the Boston Archdiocese's Braintree offices.
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| Mexico captures another 'most-wanted' trafficker (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 5:47 pm
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|  AP - Soldiers captured one of Mexico's most-wanted smugglers, a man accused of controlling the flow of drugs through the northern city of Monterrey for the powerful Beltran-Leyva cartel, the Mexican army said Wednesday.
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| Armstrong gets plate, 12 screws in collarbone (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 5:11 pm
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| AP - Lance Armstrong was recovering Wednesday from surgery on his broken collarbone. Surgeon Doug Elenz inserted a steel plate and 12 screws to stabilize the collarbone, which was broken in four pieces. Rating the surgery on a scale of one to 10, from easiest to most difficult, Elenz called Armstrong's procedure an 8. |
| Obama asks fellow Democrats to back budget plans (Reuters)
March 25, 2009 at 4:55 pm
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|  Reuters - President Barack Obama on Wednesday personally lobbied fellow Democrats to support key initiatives in his $3.55 trillion budget proposal even as lawmakers sought to trim it to reduce long-term deficits.
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| IBM to cut 5,000 jobs in U.S. (Reuters)
March 25, 2009 at 4:51 pm
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| | Reuters - IBM will cut about 5,000 jobs in the United States, adding to similarly large cuts in the past few months, sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. |
| Mich. baseball park to offer 4,800-calorie burgers (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 12:45 pm
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|  AP - Well, at least the salsa is low-cal. The West Michigan Whitecaps, a minor league baseball team, will be offering up major league cholesterol, carbohydrates and calories in an enormous hamburger being added to the menu this year at the Fifth Third Ballpark.
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| AIG executive resigns on NY Times op-ed page (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 12:22 pm
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|  AP - An American International Group Inc. executive who received a bonus worth more than $742,000 after taxes has resigned publicly — in an Op-Ed column in The New York Times.
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| Durable goods orders, new home sales rise in Feb. (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 11:44 am
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|  AP - Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods and new homes sales both rose unexpectedly in February, but economists said the gains were unlikely to last as the recession persists.
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| Pentagon questions growing Chinese military power (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 11:25 am
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|  AP - China is increasing its military power more rapidly and developing new "disruptive technologies" that are shifting the military balance in its region and possibly beyond, a new Pentagon report said.
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| Study: Range of pharmaceuticals in fish across US (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 11:00 am
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| | AP - Fish caught near wastewater treatment plants serving five major U.S. cities had residues of pharmaceuticals in them, including medicines used to treat high cholesterol, allergies, high blood pressure, bipolar disorder and depression, researchers reported Wednesday. |
| U.S. home sales climb at fastest pace in 10 months (Reuters)
March 25, 2009 at 10:51 am
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| | Reuters - New orders for long-lasting U.S. made goods rose in February for the first time in seven months and new home sales rebounded, government reports showed on Wednesday, suggesting the economic downturn might be easing a bit. | | |  |
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