| BU med student arrested in Craigslist slaying (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 10:28 pm
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|  AP - A Boston University medical student was arrested Monday in the shooting death in a hotel of a masseuse and the robbery of another woman who both advertised their services on Craigslist.
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| Sri Lanka's Tiger rebels face surrender deadline (AFP)
April 20, 2009 at 10:27 pm
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|  AFP - Tamil Tiger rebels had just hours left to surrender by a government deadline Tuesday, as tens of thousands of civilians fled the sliver of jungle the guerrillas still control in northeast Sri Lanka.
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| UN attempts to contain UN racism meet fallout (AFP)
April 20, 2009 at 10:00 pm
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|  AFP - As delegates reconvene at the UN anti-racism meeting Tuesday, top UN officials sought to contain the fallout after an anti-Israel onslaught by Iran's president prompted a mass walkout.
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| Capitals top Rangers 4-0 to get back into series (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 9:52 pm
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|  AP - While Alex Ovechkin tried to figure out Henrik Lundqvist, the Washington Capitals found a way to beat the New York Rangers. Ovechkin went a third game without a goal, but earned two assists for the second-seeded Capitals, who methodically posted a 4-0 victory over the No. 7 Rangers and got back into the Eastern Conference first-round playoff series Monday night.
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| 1,000 gather to commemorate Columbine victims (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 9:50 pm
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|  AP - With words of hope and healing, Coloradans on Monday marked the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings that left 12 students and a teacher dead.
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| Obama defends secret memo release to CIA employees (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 9:38 pm
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|  AP - Days after releasing top-secret memos that detailed the CIA's use of simulated drowning while interrogating terror suspects, President Barack Obama went to the spy agency's Virginia headquarters on Monday to defend his decision and bolster the morale of its employees.
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| Iran leader sparks walkout at UN over Israel (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 9:29 pm
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|  AP - Dozens of Western diplomats walked out of a U.N. conference and a pair of rainbow-wigged protesters threw clown noses at Iran's president Monday when the hard-line leader called Israel the "most cruel and repressive racist regime."
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| Obama orders Cabinet to cut spending by $100M (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 9:25 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama on Monday ordered his Cabinet to find ways to slice spending by $100 million, but acknowledged it's a "drop in the bucket" and said there's a "confidence gap" that he needs to overcome.
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| Blackwater out of Iraq? No, not yet (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 9:24 pm
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|  AP - Armed guards from the security firm once known as Blackwater Worldwide are still protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq, even though the company has no license to operate there and has been told by the State Department its contracts will not be renewed two years after a lethal firefight that stirred outrage in Baghdad.
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| Somali pirates fire on cargo ships in Gulf of Aden (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 9:23 pm
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|  AP - Somali pirates in speedboats opened fire Monday on two cargo ships in the latest hijacking attempts in the notorious Gulf of Aden.
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| Porterhouse sizzles at bulldog beauty contest (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 9:20 pm
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|  AP - For three years, Porterhouse was so close to the title he could drool on it. Now, the Beautiful Bulldog crown is his to slobber on for the rest of the year. After two runner-up finishes and one "Mr. Congeniality" title, Porterhouse finally nabbed "top dog" honors Monday when he was crowned the winner of Drake University's annual Beautiful Bulldog Contest in downtown Des Moines.
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| Stephen Hawking hospitalized, reported very ill (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 9:18 pm
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|  AP - Stephen Hawking, the British mathematician and physicist famed for his work on black holes, was rushed to a hospital Monday and was seriously ill, Cambridge University said. Hawking has been fighting a chest infection for several weeks and was being treated at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, the university city northeast of London, the university said.
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| NY Times dominates 2009 Pulitzer Prize contest (Reuters)
April 20, 2009 at 7:17 pm
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|  Reuters - The New York Times dominated the Pulitzer Prizes announced on Monday, winning five of the coveted awards for investigative, breaking news and international reporting, feature photography and criticism.
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| Stephen Hawking admitted to hospital (Reuters)
April 20, 2009 at 6:05 pm
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| | Reuters - Physicist Stephen Hawking, the author of "A Brief History of Time" who is almost completely paralyzed by motor neurone disease, has been urgently admitted to hospital, Cambridge University said on Monday. |
| U.S. judge orders Madoff assets secured for seizure (Reuters)
April 20, 2009 at 5:47 pm
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| | Reuters - A U.S. judge blocked the transfer of the personal wealth of swindler Bernard Madoff and his wife because it could be subject to forfeiture as various parties compete to lock down the assets for distribution to defrauded investors. |
| U.S. said unlikely to attack Somali pirate bases (Reuters)
April 20, 2009 at 5:16 pm
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|  Reuters - The United States is unlikely to attack Somali pirate bases on land due to the risk of civilian deaths but it may help local authorities fight the scourge, a senior U.S. defense official said on Monday.
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| Bank of America net up, shares sink on bad loans (Reuters)
April 20, 2009 at 4:36 pm
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|  Reuters - A surge of troubled loans overshadowed better-than-expected earnings at Bank of America Corp, and the largest U.S. bank said it expects the credit situation to worsen, driving its shares down 24.3 percent.
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| Stakes high as Congress returns (Reuters)
April 20, 2009 at 4:01 pm
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|  Reuters - Barack Obama's presidency has been a wild ride for the U.S. Congress and lawmakers are bracing for more turbulence when they begin returning on Monday to tackle an array of tough issues from healthcare to energy.
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| GM cutting 1,600 U.S. salaried positions (Reuters)
April 20, 2009 at 2:57 pm
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|  Reuters - General Motors Corp said on Monday it is telling about 1,600 salaried U.S. employees this week to leave by May 1 as it scrambles to reduce costs under a restructuring mandated by the U.S. government.
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| Bank of America posts 1Q profit but stocks fall (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 11:52 am
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|  AP - Bank of America Corp. warned of worsening loan default problems Monday even as it posted a first-quarter profit of $2.81 billion. Investors concerned about the banking industry's health sent financial stocks and the overall market sharply lower.
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| GM exec says 1,600 will lose jobs in next few days (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 11:47 am
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|  AP - About 1,600 white-collar workers at General Motors Corp. will lose their jobs in the next few days as the troubled automaker accelerates cost cuts in order to qualify for more government aid.
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| Jamaican police storm airliner to capture gunman (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 11:44 am
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|  AP - A gunman forced his way though airport security onto a Canadian jet near Montego Bay, holding six crew members hostage for eight hours before police and soldiers stormed the aircraft on Monday and captured him.
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| They're off! at the Boston Marathon (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 11:38 am
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|  AP - A field of 26,386 runners left Hopkinton for the Boston Marathon on Monday, with some top American contenders hoping to earn the first U.S. victory in the race in decades.
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| Winfrey cancels program on Columbine anniversary (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 11:28 am
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|  AP - Oprah Winfrey has canceled an episode of her talk show that was to mark the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre, saying it focused too much on the killers.
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| Official: Obama wants agency spending cut by $100M (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 11:23 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama convenes his first formal Cabinet meeting Monday and will ask department and agency chiefs to look for ways over the next 90 days to cut $100 million out of the federal budget, a senior administration official said.
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| Washington to get first crack at free mobile TV (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 11:09 am
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| | AP - Washington will be the first U.S. city to get free digital TV broadcasts for mobile devices like cell phones, laptop computers and in-car entertainment systems, broadcasters were set to announce Monday. |
| Stressed Americans postpone healthcare (Reuters)
April 20, 2009 at 10:41 am
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| | Reuters - Twenty percent of Americans say they have delayed or postponed medical care, mostly doctor visits, and many said cost was the main reason, according to a survey released on Monday. |
| Sri Lanka gives Tigers ultimatum as thousands flee (Reuters)
April 20, 2009 at 10:41 am
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| | Reuters - Sri Lanka Monday gave the Tamil Tigers 24 hours to surrender or die after troops breached a huge earthen defense and unleashed an exodus of tens of thousands of civilians held there by the rebels, the military said. |
| Parents of American jailed in Iran visit daughter (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 10:07 am
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|  AP - The parents of an American journalist imprisoned in Iran for allegedly spying for the U.S. visited their daughter Monday for the first time since she was sentenced to eight years in prison and said she was in good condition.
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| 21 polo horses die at Fla. match; cause unknown (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 10:04 am
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| | AP - Seven more Venezuelan polo horses sickened just before a Florida tournament died overnight, raising the death toll to 21, and officials said Monday they may have been killed by some type of poison. |
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