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| Tiger Woods loses in second round to Tim Clark (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 8:01 pm
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|  AP - One day after a ceremonious return to golf, Tiger Woods was on his way home. Tim Clark of South Africa played 16 holes without a bogey and pulled ahead for good on the back nine Thursday, knocking Woods out of the Accenture Match Play Championship with a 4-and-2 victory.
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| Colleges warn students about Mexico travel (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 7:48 pm
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|  AP - The U.S. State Department and universities around the country are warning college students headed for Mexico for some spring-break partying of a surge in drug-related murder and mayhem south of the border.
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| Obama budget: Mammoth deficits but headed lower (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 7:47 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama charted a dramatic new course for the nation Thursday with a bold but contentious budget proposing higher taxes for the wealthy and the first steps toward guaranteed health care for all — accompanied by an astonishing $1.75 trillion federal deficit that would be nearly four times the highest in history.
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| Top lawmakers skeptical of Obama's Iraq plan (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 7:47 pm
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|  AP - Congressional leaders were skeptical as they awaited details on President Barack Obama's plan to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq while leaving tens of thousands behind. Senior administration officials were expected to outline a plan that would bring most of the 142,000 forces home by August 2010. As many as 50,000 troops could remain for cleanup and protection operations.
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| 4 members of assisted suicide group are arrested (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 7:47 pm
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|  AP - Joining the Final Exit Network costs $50, and the privileges of membership include this: When you're ready to die, the organization will send two "exit guides" to show you how to suffocate yourself using helium tanks and a plastic hood. The Georgia-based organization says it is providing an invaluable and humane service. Authorities call it a crime.
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| Gates: Media photos of war dead need families' OK (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 7:47 pm
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|  AP - The Obama administration is reversing an 18-year ban on news coverage of the return of war dead, allowing photographs of flag-covered caskets when families of the fallen troops agree, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.
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| Baby giraffe nursed with cow's milk at Mass. zoo (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 7:03 pm
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|  AP - A baby giraffe born in Massachusetts is being nursed with cow's milk after its mother could not produce milk of her own. Veterinarians caring for "Molly" said Thursday that the 3-day-old female calf was in stable condition at the Hospital for Large Animals, part of the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. Molly was born at Southwick Zoo in Mendon.
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| U.S. charges suspected al Qaeda agent (Reuters)
February 26, 2009 at 7:02 pm
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| | Reuters - U.S. criminal charges were filed on Thursday against Ali al-Marri, a suspected al Qaeda "sleeper" agent held for 5 1/2 years at a military prison in South Carolina, sources involved in the case said. |
| Fox renews 'The Simpsons' through season 22 (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 6:20 pm
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|  AP - Fox says it's renewing "The Simpsons" for another two seasons, which will secure its place as TV's longest-running prime-time series. Now in its 20th season, "The Simpsons" already had tied record-holder "Gunsmoke." The Western drama series aired for two decades on CBS before it ended in 1975.
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| Obama drives reform with 3.55-trillion-dollar budget (AFP)
February 26, 2009 at 5:34 pm
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|  AFP - President Barack Obama Thursday rolled out an audacious 3.55-trillion-dollar budget bristling with economic reforms and spending on healthcare and climate change but warned that "hard choices" loomed as the deficit piles up.
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| Mexico to send more troops to besieged city (Reuters)
February 26, 2009 at 3:43 pm
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| | Reuters - Mexico is sending up to 5,000 new troops and federal police to the country's most violent city, where law and order is on the brink of collapse in a war between gangs supplying drugs to the United States. |
| Iran slams Obama government at U.N. (Reuters)
February 26, 2009 at 3:41 pm
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| | Reuters - Iran went on the offensive against the Obama administration on Thursday, accusing Washington's new U.N. ambassador of making the "same tired" accusations against Iran as the Bush administration. |
| Bangladesh mutiny ends in surrender (AFP)
February 26, 2009 at 12:10 pm
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|  AFP - A mutiny by thousands of Bangladesh border guards ended in their surrender Thursday, after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina warned they were on a "suicidal" path that could only end in bloodshed.
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| New-home sales tumble to record low pace in Jan. (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 11:47 am
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|  AP - New-home sales tumbled to a record-low annual pace in January and there's no relief in sight as mounting damage from the collapsed housing market pushes the country deeper into recession.
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| Obama budget plan forecasts $1.75 trillion deficit (Reuters)
February 26, 2009 at 11:45 am
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|  Reuters - President Barack Obama forecast the biggest U.S. deficit since World War Two in a budget on Thursday that urges a costly overhaul of the healthcare system and would spend billions to arrest the economy's freefall.
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| Bangladesh: Mutiny ends after tanks enter capital (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 11:37 am
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|  AP - Mutinous Bangladeshi border guards who seized control of their headquarters completed their surrender Thursday after tanks were sent into the capital as a show of force, the government said.
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| New jobless claims jump unexpectedly to 667,000 (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 11:35 am
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|  AP - New jobless claims rose more than expected last week and the number of Americans continuing to receive unemployment benefits has topped 5.1 million, fresh evidence the recession is increasingly forcing employers to shed jobs.
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| Obama unveils $3.55 trillion budget (AFP)
February 26, 2009 at 11:28 am
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|  AFP - US President Barack Obama on Thursday unveiled a 3.552 trillion dollar budget that outlines aggressive plans to boost the recession-stricken US economy and overhaul its health care system.
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| U.S. workers on jobless benefits at record high (Reuters)
February 26, 2009 at 11:09 am
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| | Reuters - The number of U.S. workers drawing jobless aid jumped to record high in mid-February, while the recession undercut demand for manufactured goods last month and sent new homes sales to their lowest since at least 1963. |
| Dhaka mutineers surrender weapons, troops move in (Reuters)
February 26, 2009 at 11:01 am
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| | Reuters - Mutinous members of a paramilitary unit in the Bangladesh capital surrendered their weapons on Thursday as tanks surrounded their headquarters after a second day of gunfire in a mutiny that killed about 50 people. |
| GM posts $9.6B 4Q loss, burns through $6.2B cash (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 11:00 am
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|  AP - General Motors Corp. posted a $9.6 billion fourth-quarter loss and said it burned through $6.2 billion of cash in the last three months of 2008 as it fought the worst U.S. auto sales climate since 1982 and sought government loans to keep the century-old company running.
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| W. House's Volcker wants tighter bank oversight (Reuters)
February 26, 2009 at 10:24 am
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| | Reuters - Banks that are big enough to destabilize markets should be subjected to tighter regulatory oversight, and some rules ought to be internationally agreed, White House economic adviser Paul Volcker said on Thursday. |
| Israeli rivals divided over Palestinian state (Reuters)
February 26, 2009 at 10:10 am
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| | Reuters - Differences over Palestinian statehood are likely to scupper Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to forge a broad government with his main rival, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, an official from his Likud party said Thursday. |
| Low-carb? Low-fat? Study finds calories count more (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 7:15 am
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|  AP - Low-fat, low-carb or high-protein? The kind of diet doesn't matter, scientists say. All that really counts is cutting calories and sticking with it, according to a federal study that followed people for two years. However, participants had trouble staying with a single approach that long and the weight loss was modest for most.
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