| North Korea seeks rare talks with South on factory park (Reuters)
April 17, 2009 at 11:47 pm
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|  Reuters - North Korea made a rare proposal for talks with the South over a joint industrial park just north of the border where the communist state has been holding a South Korean worker captive for weeks, an official said on Saturday.
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| Swiss Red Cross hostage released: Philippine govt (AFP)
April 17, 2009 at 11:27 pm
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|  AFP - Philippine security forces Saturday rescued a Swiss Red Cross worker held hostage for three months by Islamic militant guerrillas, government officials said.
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| Sheffield hits 500th homer in Mets win (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 11:21 pm
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|  AP - Gary Sheffield joined the 500-homer club, and Luis Castillo drove in the winning run with a two-out single in the ninth inning that gave the New York Mets a 5-4 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night.
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| Obama offers talks with Cuba (AFP)
April 17, 2009 at 11:03 pm
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|  AFP - US President Barack Obama has seized on an extraordinary overture from Cuba to propose talks aimed at breaking the half-decade hostility born between Washington and Havana during the Cold War.
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| Obama reaches out to Cuba in new pitch to Americas (Reuters)
April 17, 2009 at 11:00 pm
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|  Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama pledged on Friday to seek a "new beginning" in ties with communist-ruled Cuba as part of a new era of U.S. partnership and engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean.
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| Plane splits Florida home in half; pilot dies (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 11:00 pm
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|  AP - A small plane sputtered and dove into a house shortly after taking off from a local airport Friday morning, slicing the home down the middle into two charred pieces. The pilot was killed.
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| Guerin's OT goal on 2-man PP gives Pens 3-2 win (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 10:51 pm
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|  AP - Bill Guerin scored his second goal of the game after Pittsburgh went on a rare two-man advantage in overtime, and the Penguins went up two games in their first-round playoff series against the Philadelphia Flyers, winning 3-2 on Friday night.
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| U.S. closed banks match total for all of 2008 (Reuters)
April 17, 2009 at 9:53 pm
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| | Reuters - Regulators closed banks on Friday in Missouri and Nevada, bringing the total of U.S. bank failures this year to 25 and matching the number that failed throughout all of 2008, as the struggling economy and falling home prices take their toll on financial institutions. |
| King family draws fees from DC memorial project (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 9:34 pm
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|  AP - The family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has charged the foundation building a monument to the civil rights leader on the National Mall about $800,000 for the use of his words and image — an arrangement one leading scholar says King would have found offensive.
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| Obama 'seeks a new beginning' with Cuba, talks (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 9:23 pm
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|  AP - Trading their warmest words in a half-century, the United States and Cuba built momentum toward renewed ties on Friday, with President Barack Obama declaring he "seeks a new beginning" — including direct talks — with the island's communist regime. As leaders of the Americas gathered for a summit in this Caribbean nation, the head of the Organization of American States even said he'll ask his group to invite Cuba back after 47 years.
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| Pirate hostage captain praises SEAL 'superheroes' (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 9:14 pm
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|  AP - The unassuming ship captain who escaped the clutches of Somali pirates made a triumphant return home Friday, insisting he's no hero, just an ordinary seaman. Richard Phillips said the U.S. Navy, which pulled off the daring high-seas rescue that ended his five-day captivity, deserves the credit.
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| CIA objections slowed torture memos release (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 9:13 pm
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|  AP - Four former CIA directors opposed releasing classified Bush-era interrogation memos, officials say, describing objections that went all the way to the White House and slowed release of the records.
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| New pollution limits seen for cars, big plants (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 9:11 pm
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|  AP - Cars, power plants and factories could all soon face much tougher pollution limits after a government declaration Friday setting the stage for the first federal regulation of gases blamed for global warming.
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| Vatican decries reaction to pope's condom remarks (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 9:11 pm
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|  AP - Critics of the Catholic Church's social teachings are trying to intimidate Pope Benedict XVI into silence, the Vatican charged Friday in responding to attacks on the pontiff's remarks about AIDS and condom use.
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| Test of Lincoln DNA sought to prove cancer theory (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 9:10 pm
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|  AP - John Sotos has a theory about why Abraham Lincoln was so tall, why he appeared to have lumps on his lips and even why he had gastrointestinal problems.
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| Fannie Mae chief named to head U.S. bank rescue (Reuters)
April 17, 2009 at 7:08 pm
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| | Reuters - Herb Allison, who has been chief executive of Fannie Mae since it was seized by the government last September, has been tapped to oversee the $700 billion financial rescue fund aimed at restoring rattled markets, the White House said on Friday. |
| Arab peace plan as part of Palestinian state push: U.S. (Reuters)
April 17, 2009 at 6:03 pm
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|  Reuters - U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell said on Friday that an Arab peace initiative should be part of a planned U.S. drive to create a Palestinian state.
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| Citigroup results top forecasts (Reuters)
April 17, 2009 at 4:52 pm
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|  Reuters - Citigroup reported better-than-expected results as an accounting benefit for distressed companies, cost-cutting and improved trading results helped offset red ink from consumer lending and credit cards.
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| U.S. clears way to regulate greenhouse gases (Reuters)
April 17, 2009 at 3:31 pm
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| | Reuters - The Obama administration opened the way to regulating U.S. greenhouse gas emissions on Friday by declaring climate-warming pollution a danger to human health and welfare, in a sharp policy shift from the Bush administration. |
| GM readies plans for bankruptcy it hopes to avoid (Reuters)
April 17, 2009 at 3:31 pm
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|  Reuters - General Motors Corp Chief Executive Fritz Henderson said on Friday the automaker was readying detailed plans for a bankruptcy filing that now appears more likely even as it races to complete a business plan under federal oversight.
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| Ashton Kutcher wins Twitter battle with CNN (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 2:56 pm
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|  AP - Ashton Kutcher is the Twitter king.
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| Indy driver Castroneves acquitted in tax case (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 2:34 pm
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|  AP - Brazilian race car driver and "Dancing With The Stars" champ Helio Castroneves was acquitted Friday of most charges that he worked with his sister and lawyer to evade more than $2.3 million in U.S. income taxes.
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| Organization of American States should drop Cuba ban: chief (AFP)
April 17, 2009 at 2:29 pm
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|  AFP - The Organization of American States should drop a 1962 resolution barring membership to Cuba, the head of the pan-American body Jose Miguel Insulza said Friday.
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| EPA finds greenhouse gases pose a danger to health (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 2:22 pm
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| | AP - The EPA on Friday declared that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases sent off by cars and many industrial plants "endanger public health and welfare," setting the stage for regulating them under federal clean air laws. |
| GM CEO says bankruptcy probable but not preferred (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 2:11 pm
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|  AP - General Motors Corp. Chief Executive Fritz Henderson said Friday that a bankruptcy filing is "probable" because of the restructuring goals GM must meet to get more government loans, but that isn't the company's preferred option.
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| New stem-cell rules will limit funding for IVF clinics (Reuters)
April 17, 2009 at 1:45 pm
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|  Reuters - New stem cell guidelines released on Friday by the U.S. National Institutes of Health would limit federal funding of the research to embryos left over at fertility clinics and prohibit federal funding of embryos made by cloning or certain other methods.
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| NIH: New rules will ease, not end stem-cell limits (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 1:21 pm
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| | AP - When President Barack Obama eased limits on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, the big question became how far scientists could go. Friday, the government answered: They must use cells culled from fertility clinic embryos that otherwise would be thrown away. |
| Heidi Klum announces she's pregnant with 4th child (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 11:43 am
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|  AP - German supermodel Heidi Klum is expecting her fourth child.
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| US envoy meets Palestinian leader in peace bid (AFP)
April 17, 2009 at 11:43 am
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|  AFP - US special envoy George Mitchell met Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Friday amid warnings that peace talks will remain stagnant unless Israel's new government commits to a two-state solution.
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| New tactic for U.S., NATO in Afghanistan: say sorry (Reuters)
April 17, 2009 at 11:00 am
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| | Reuters - After years of alienating Afghans by being slow to acknowledge killing civilians, U.S. troops are trying a new tactic: say sorry fast. |
| What recession? Funds flow for Senate races (Reuters)
April 17, 2009 at 9:42 am
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| | Reuters - The recession shadowing the United States and draining Americans' savings has hardly dented efforts by Senate candidates to raise cash for the 2010 elections, and Democrats appear ahead early in the game. |
| RI cops: Case similar to Boston Craigslist slaying (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 9:15 am
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|  AP - An attempted robbery of a woman at a suburban Providence hotel may be linked to the slaying at an upscale Boston hotel of a woman who advertised massage services on Craigslist, police said Friday.
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| Citigroup, GE post better-than-expected earnings (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 8:49 am
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|  AP - Citigroup lost money and General Electric's profits fell, but both beat Wall Street's expectations as investors look for further signs that the economy has begun to stabilize.
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| Mumbai attacks suspect retracts confession (AFP)
April 17, 2009 at 8:18 am
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|  AFP - The suspected Pakistani gunman on trial in India for last year's Mumbai attacks wants to retract his confession, claiming it was extracted by torture, his defence lawyer told reporters Friday.
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| US nuclear experts depart North Korea (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 7:47 am
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|  AP - U.S. monitors of North Korea's nuclear program pulled out of the communist nation Friday after the regime expelled them and vowed to restart its reactor in anger over U.N. criticism of its recent rocket launch.
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| Cuba ready for U.S. talks on rights, prisoners (Reuters)
April 17, 2009 at 7:44 am
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| | Reuters - Cuba is open to talks with the United States about "everything" including political prisoners, President Raul Castro said on Thursday, a major softening of the communist island's stance toward its long-term foe. |
| Afghan earthquakes kill 21, destroy homes (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 7:40 am
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|  AP - Two earthquakes shook eastern Afghanistan early Friday, collapsing mud-brick homes on top of villagers while they slept and killing at least 21 people.
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| Obama heads to Americas summit with Cuba focus (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 7:40 am
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|  AP - After backing Mexico's ongoing battle against drug cartels, President Barack Obama is heading to a Western Hemisphere summit with a sudden spotlight on Cuba.
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| Captain of ship seized by pirates to come home (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 7:38 am
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|  AP - Richard Phillips' crew missed out on a reunion with him. His hometown won't. Balloons, "Welcome Home" signs and spirits are up as the small Vermont town where the freed sea captain lives gears up to welcome the "biggest celebrity in Underhill." Phillips is scheduled to return Friday.
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| Hiller gets shutout, Ducks stun top-seeded Sharks (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 7:31 am
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|  AP - Jonas Hiller coolly stopped every puck like a seasoned playoff veteran, showing all the postseason poise that the top-seeded San Jose Sharks still haven't found. Hiller made 35 saves in a sparkling playoff debut for eighth-seeded Anaheim, and Ryan Getzlaf had a goal and an assist in the third period of the Ducks' 2-0 victory over the Sharks on Thursday night.
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| Man finally might see Tyra Banks — in NY courtroom (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 7:27 am
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|  AP - Brady Green turned up at television studios from coast to coast in search of Tyra Banks and said he and the supermodel "had a thing together."
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| Court finds The Pirate Bay founders guilty (AFP)
April 17, 2009 at 6:46 am
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|  AFP - A Stockholm court on Friday found four men guilty of promoting copyright infringement by running The Pirate Bay, one of the world's top websites for illegal filesharing, and sentenced them to a year in prison.
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| Obama to extend hand to Latin America at summit (Reuters)
April 17, 2009 at 5:47 am
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| | Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama meets his counterparts in Latin America and the Caribbean on Friday, offering practical cooperation over the ideological differences that have strained U.S. ties with the region. |
| U.S. business worried China stimulus favors locals (Reuters)
April 17, 2009 at 5:31 am
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| | Reuters - U.S. companies are concerned that they are not getting a fair chance at contracts linked to China's 4 trillion yuan ($585 billion) stimulus package, a leading U.S. business group said on Friday. |
| Regional powers aim to rein in North Korea (Reuters)
April 17, 2009 at 4:33 am
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| Reuters - Russia's foreign minister will visit North Korea next week, a source said on Friday, as regional powers try to prevent the state from restarting its nuclear arms plant and defuse tensions that have rattled regional security.
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