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| Japan OKs deployment of missile defense system (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 5:58 am
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|  AP - Japan's military mobilized Friday to protect the country from any threat if North Korea's looming rocket launch fails, ordering two missile-equipped destroyers to the Sea of Japan and sending batteries of Patriot missile interceptors to protect the northern coastline.
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| THE INFLUENCE GAME: Obama limits stimulus lobbying (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 5:52 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama says lobbyists pushing for projects in the stimulus package can't utter a word about them to administration officials. Lobbyists are hardly staying mum about this latest affront and are looking for ways to cope with the extraordinary speaking ban.
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| Obama says automakers need 'drastic changes' (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 5:49 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama plans to announce a new aid package for General Motors and Chrysler in the coming days and says the carmakers must make "pretty drastic changes" to save their industry.
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| Sources: More US troops for Afghan war (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 5:48 am
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|  AP - Grappling with a war gone awry, President Barack Obama plans to send thousands more U.S. forces into Afghanistan, hoping to hasten the end of a conflict that still has no clear end in sight.
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| Dozens killed after Indonesia dam bursts (AFP)
March 27, 2009 at 5:38 am
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|  AFP - A dam burst its banks near the Indonesian capital Jakarta early Friday, drowning 52 people in a deadly torrent of muddy water that flooded hundreds of homes, health ministry officials said.
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| Japan says ready to shoot down N.Korea missile (AFP)
March 27, 2009 at 5:30 am
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|  AFP - Japan on Friday gave its military the green light to shoot down any incoming North Korean rocket, with tensions high ahead of a planned launch that the US and allies say will be an illegal missile test.
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| Obama's new Afghan plan to target al Qaeda havens (Reuters)
March 27, 2009 at 4:37 am
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|  Reuters - President Barack Obama plans to send thousands of troops to train Afghan forces as part of a new war strategy that will focus U.S. efforts on destroying al Qaeda safe havens and rolling back the Taliban insurgency.
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| Obama's economic remedies may face pushback at G20 (Reuters)
March 27, 2009 at 1:02 am
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| | Reuters - Barack Obama will make his debut as president on the world stage next week with calls for global economies to use government spending to jumpstart growth and work on a reshaping of the chaotic financial system. |
| Villanova beats Duke for first time in 50 years (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 12:44 am
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|  AP - Dante Cunningham scored 14 points with 11 rebounds and third-seeded Villanova beat Duke for the first time in more than 50 years, taking advantage of the Blue Devils' poor shooting to win 77-54 Thursday night and advance to the NCAA regional final.
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| $150M buys you late TV producer's L.A. mansion (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 12:35 am
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|  AP - The widow of producer Aaron Spelling is placing "The Manor" in the exclusive Holmby Hills neighborhood on the market for a jaw-dropping $150 million, making it by far the most expensive home for sale in the U.S.
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| Obama war plan to 'defeat' Al-Qaeda (AFP)
March 27, 2009 at 12:22 am
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|  AFP - President Barack Obama will Friday announce a new strategy to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat" Al-Qaeda in safe havens in Afghanistan and Pakistan and deploy an extra 4,000 military trainers. |
| Sources: Obama plans to send more troops to Afghanistan (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 12:19 am
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|  AP - Confronting an inherited and faltering war, President Barack Obama plans to dispatch thousands more military and civilian trainers to Afghanistan by the fall on top of the 17,000 combat troops he has already ordered, senior administration officials said Thursday. |
| Cracks in levee force evacuations in Fargo, ND (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 11:49 pm
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|  AP - Officials ordered the evacuation of one Fargo neighborhood and a nursing home late Thursday after authorities found cracks in an earthen levee built to protect the area from the threat of the rising Red River.
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| Japan says ready to shoot down NKorea missile (AFP)
March 26, 2009 at 11:45 pm
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|  AFP - Japan gave its military the green light on Friday to shoot down any incoming North Korean rocket, with tensions high ahead of a planned launch that the US and allies say will be an illegal missile test.
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| Alaska volcano erupts twice, sends ash 12 miles up (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 11:31 pm
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|  AP - Alaska's Mount Redoubt erupted several times Thursday, spewing a more than 12-mile-high cloud that could drop ash on Anchorage for the first time since the volcano began erupting Sunday night.
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| Key Senate panel backs Obama's budget blueprint (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 11:27 pm
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|  AP - A key Senate panel stacked with allies of President Barack Obama approved his ambitious budget blueprint Thursday, giving the president a symbolic endorsement of efforts to boost clean energy, fight global warming and improve access to health care.
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| Financial overhaul plan draws GOP opposition (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 11:24 pm
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|  AP - The Obama administration's aggressive plan for strict scrutiny of hedge funds and other freewheeling investors, part of the biggest expansion of financial restraints since the Great Depression, is drawing instant opposition from Republican lawmakers and the rules' targets. And skeptics are questioning whether the new rulebook would work anyway.
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| China says Pentagon report will hurt military ties (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 8:41 pm
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| | Reuters - The United States' latest report on China's growing military power throws new obstacles in the way of restoring defense ties between the two powers, a Chinese spokesman said in the latest broadside at Washington. |
| Obama seizes bully pulpit online to pitch budget (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 7:23 pm
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|  AP - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama seized the bully pulpit Thursday and reprised the best of his acclaimed campaign skills in an unprecedented Internet town hall from the White House — a direct sales pitch for Americans to get behind his $3.6 trillion budget and be patient as he tries to right the tottering economy.
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| 28 injured as tornados rip through southern Miss. (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 6:57 pm
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|  AP - Residents in a tornado-ravaged community took advantage of clearing skies Thursday to collect family keepsakes and begin cleaning up from a storm that left 28 injured and dozens of homes and businesses flattened across south-central Mississippi.
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| Senate votes to expand U.S. public service (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 6:29 pm
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| | Reuters - The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted for the biggest boost in public service since President John F. Kennedy urged Americans in 1961 to "ask what you can do for your country." |
| Baptist preacher runs again for office he bilked (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 6:23 pm
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|  AP - The ousted former president of a national organization of black Baptist churches is running for the position again, a decade after he was sent to prison for stealing millions of dollars from the group.
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| US plans sweeping financial regulatory reforms (AFP)
March 26, 2009 at 6:08 pm
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|  AFP - President Barack Obama's administration proposed to Congress Thursday sweeping financial regulatory reforms, including a single entity to oversee key US financial institutions and payment systems.
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| Doctors say kidney stones in kids are on the rise (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 5:56 pm
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|  AP - Doctors are puzzling over what seems to be an increase in the number of children with kidney stones, a condition some blame on kids' love of cheeseburgers, fries and other salty foods.
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| Iran, NATO in first talks in 30 years: NATO (AFP)
March 26, 2009 at 4:43 pm
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|  AFP - Iran and NATO have held their first talks since the Iranian revolution 30 years ago, officials at the military alliance said Thursday, in a new sign of a thaw in Tehran's ties with the West. |
| Obama says to help U.S. automakers (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 4:43 pm
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| | Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Thursday that his administration would unveil in the coming days the next part of its plan to help the troubled U.S. auto industry, provided the companies push ahead with sweeping restructurings. |
| North Korea readies missile, makes new threat (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 3:37 pm
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|  Reuters - North Korea said on Thursday that if the international community punishes it for next month's planned missile launch it will restart a nuclear plant that makes weapons grade plutonium. |
| Woman arrested 3 times in 3 days for drunk driving (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 3:28 pm
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| | AP - A 60-year-old Washington woman arrested for drunken driving three times in three days while vacationing in Wisconsin has been sentenced to a month in jail. The woman was arrested first at 2 p.m. March 11, 2008. A deputy saw her try to drive out of a ditch, wearing only one shoe and had a blood-alcohol level of 0.21, authorities said. The legal driving limit is .08. |
| Tejada gets probation for misleading Congress (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 2:38 pm
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|  AP - With an apology to Congress, baseball fans and the kids who looked up to him, All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada received a sentence of one year of probation Thursday for misleading Congress about the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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| Fisher admits Fed missed oncoming crisis (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 2:14 pm
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| | Reuters - The Federal Reserve failed to spot the global financial crisis ahead of time, but its aggressive rescue efforts should soon stem the decline in growth, Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher said on Thursday. |
| Obama says U.S. automakers to get "some" aid (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 1:52 pm
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|  Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Thursday that struggling U.S. auto companies could expect "some" government aid if they commit to restructuring their businesses and that an announcement on the issue was coming soon.
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| Iran, NATO in first talks in 30 years: NATO (AFP)
March 26, 2009 at 1:09 pm
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|  AFP - Iran and NATO have held their first talks since the Iranian revolution 30 years ago, officials at the military alliance said Thursday, in a new sign of a thaw in Tehran's ties with the West. |
| IRS launches crackdown on offshore tax evasion (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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|  Reuters - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service announced new steps on Thursday aimed at getting taxpayers hiding money in offshore accounts to pay up, promising not to file criminal charges for those who voluntarily fess up to hiding money overseas.
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| Washington Post to offer new buyouts (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 11:55 am
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| | Reuters - Washington Post Co plans to offer a new round of buyouts in 2009 to employees at its namesake, money-losing newspaper and cannot rule out layoffs, its publisher said on Thursday. |
| US plans sweeping financial regulatory reforms (AFP)
March 26, 2009 at 11:28 am
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| AFP - US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday proposed to Congress a set of sweeping financial regulatory reforms, including a "single entity" to oversee all key financial institutions and payment systems. |
| House panel approves $3.45 trillion budget (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 9:26 am
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|  Reuters - A key congressional committee on Wednesday approved a $3.45 trillion budget framework for next year that embraces many of President Barack Obama's priorities but spends slightly less than he sought.
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| More than 5.5 million are getting jobless benefits (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 9:24 am
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|  AP - The number of laid-off Americans filing initial jobless benefit claims rose slightly last week while the number of people continuing to claim benefits set a record for the ninth straight week, the Labor Department said Thursday.
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| U.S. economy shrinks, profits plunge in Q4 (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 9:14 am
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| | Reuters - The U.S. economy shrank at its fastest pace since 1982 in the fourth quarter and corporate profits plunged a record $120.1 billion, pulled down by falling consumer spending and exports, government data showed on Thursday. | | |  |
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