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Suspect arrested in deadly Australia fires (AP) February 12, 2009 at 10:15 pm AP - Police arrested a suspect Friday in connection to one of the deadly wildfires in southern Australia that killed more than 180 people and left about 7,000 homeless. Stimulus bill offers workers, businesses tax cuts (AP) February 12, 2009 at 9:24 pm AP - Millions of workers would soon see an extra $13 in their weekly paychecks and thousands of small businesses operating in the red could get tax refunds under the economic recovery bill nearing completion in Congress. Businesses won't fare as well as they did in earlier versions of the legislation. But most of the tax cuts for families and individuals were preserved, though some were reduced. Lawmakers say all issues settled in stimulus bill (AP) February 12, 2009 at 9:21 pm AP - Reluctant to call it quits, key lawmakers bargained into overtime Thursday on the $790 billion economic stimulus legislation before reaching final agreement more than 24 hours after first announcing a deal. Winds knock out power to thousands on East Coast (AP) February 12, 2009 at 9:15 pm AP - Wild winds with gusts topping 65 mph blew from the Great Lakes to the East Coast on Thursday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers, disrupting travel and killing at least five people. The high winds, attributed to a strong low pressure system, started Wednesday night and moved east overnight, kicking up gravel and sand from construction sites and hurling garbage cans onto busy New York City streets on Thursday. Woman's record-length fingernails broken in crash (AP) February 12, 2009 at 9:14 pm AP - A Utah woman listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for her long fingernails has lost them in a car crash. Lee Redmond of Salt Lake City sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries in the accident Tuesday. Investigators think missing Fla. girl was abducted (AP) February 12, 2009 at 9:12 pm AP - Investigators were treating the disappearance of a 5-year-old north Florida girl as an abduction and continued searching for the child Thursday. Analysis: Obscure post gives Obama big headache (AP) February 12, 2009 at 7:22 pm AP - Quick, who headed the Commerce Department under President George W. Bush? Skilling to seek Supreme Court review of sentence (Reuters) February 12, 2009 at 7:04 pm Reuters - Former Enron Corp Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling will ask for U.S. Supreme Court review of his 2006 felony conviction stemming from the energy trading giant's collapse, his attorney said on Thursday. Gregg withdraws as commerce secretary nominee (AP) February 12, 2009 at 6:51 pm AP - Saying, "I made a mistake," Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire abruptly withdrew as commerce secretary nominee on Thursday and drew a testy reaction from the White House, suddenly coping with the third Cabinet withdrawal of Barack Obama's young presidency. Iridium says in dark before orbital crash (Reuters) February 12, 2009 at 6:50 pm Reuters - Iridium Satellite LLC said Thursday it had no advance warning of an impending collision between one of its communications satellites and a defunct Russian military satellite above Siberia. Usher's wife recovering after cardiac arrest (AP) February 12, 2009 at 6:46 pm AP - The wife of R&B singer Usher continues to recover in a Sao Paulo hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest shortly before undergoing plastic surgery, the spokeswoman of the doctor who was to perform the procedure said Thursday. Will Pakistan Arrests Ease Terrorism Tensions with India? (Time.com) February 12, 2009 at 6:45 pm Time.com - Good news for Washington as Islamabad ends its stonewalling by arresting suspects in last year's terror attack in India World economic crisis is top security threat: U.S. (Reuters) February 12, 2009 at 6:22 pm Reuters - The global economic crisis has become the biggest near-term U.S. security concern, sowing instability in a quarter of the world's countries and threatening destructive trade wars, U.S. intelligence agencies reported on Thursday.