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| Obama throws $75 billion lifeline to homeowners (AP)
February 18, 2009 at 8:34 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama threw a $75 billion lifeline to millions of Americans on the brink of foreclosure Wednesday, declaring an urgent need for drastic action — not only to save their homes but to keep the housing crisis "from wreaking even greater havoc" on the broader national economy.
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| GOP governors consider turning down stimulus money (AP)
February 18, 2009 at 8:32 pm
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|  AP - A handful of Republican governors are considering turning down some money from the federal stimulus package, a move opponents say puts conservative ideology ahead of the needs of constituents struggling with record foreclosures and soaring unemployment.
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| Owner now says she never gave slain chimp Xanax (AP)
February 18, 2009 at 8:05 pm
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|  AP - As authorities considered criminal charges, the woman whose 200-pound domesticated chimpanzee went berserk and mauled a friend backtracked Wednesday on whether she gave the animal the anti-anxiety drug Xanax. Sandra Herold told The Associated Press on Wednesday that she never gave the drug to her 14-year-old chimp, Travis, who was shot dead by Stamford police Monday after he grievously wounded Herold's friend Charla Nash.
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| Holder: US a nation of cowards on racial matters (AP)
February 18, 2009 at 8:04 pm
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|  AP - Eric Holder, the nation's first black attorney general, said Wednesday the United States was "a nation of cowards" on matters of race, with most Americans avoiding candid discussions of racial issues. In a speech to Justice Department employees marking Black History Month, Holder said the workplace is largely integrated but Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives.
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| Pope tells Nancy Pelosi life must be protected (AP)
February 18, 2009 at 8:04 pm
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|  AP - Pope Benedict XVI received Nancy Pelosi, one of the most prominent abortion rights politicians in America, and told her Wednesday that Catholic politicians have a duty to protect life "at all stages of its development." The U.S. House speaker, a Catholic, was the first top Democrat to meet with Benedict since the election of Barack Obama, who won a majority of the U.S. Catholic vote despite differences with the Vatican on abortion.
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| Billionaire's bank customers denied their deposits (AP)
February 18, 2009 at 7:39 pm
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|  AP - Panicky depositors were turned away from Stanford International Bank and some of its Latin American affiliates Wednesday, unable to withdraw their money after U.S. regulators accused Texas financier R. Allen Stanford of perpetrating an $8 billion fraud against his companies' investors.
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| Fed says US economy will get worse in 2009 (AP)
February 18, 2009 at 7:31 pm
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|  AP - The Federal Reserve warned Wednesday that the nation's crippled economy is even worse than thought and predicted it would deteriorate throughout 2009, with no sign that the housing market will stabilize.
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| UBS to pay $780M, open secret Swiss bank records (AP)
February 18, 2009 at 6:22 pm
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|  AP - Banking giant UBS has agreed to pay $780 million and turn over once-secret Swiss banking records to settle allegations it conspired to defraud the U.S. government of taxes owed by big clients.
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| Man kills himself in Schuller's Crystal Cathedral (AP)
February 18, 2009 at 6:20 pm
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|  AP - A man shot and killed himself in front of a cross inside televangelist Robert H. Schuller's Crystal Cathedral on Wednesday, police and church officials said. The man handed a note and his driver's license to two ushers, walked to the cross and then shot himself in the head as he appeared to be praying, Senior Pastor Juan Carlos Ortiz said.
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| Geronimo's kin sue Skull and Bones over remains (AP)
February 18, 2009 at 5:36 pm
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|  AP - Geronimo's descendants have sued Skull and Bones — the secret society at Yale University linked to presidents and other powerful figures — claiming that its members stole the remains of the legendary Apache leader decades ago and have kept them ever since.
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| Australia's child survivors struggle to cope (AP)
February 18, 2009 at 5:08 pm
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|  AP - The crayon colors on the page were bright — orange, red, sunny yellow. But the drawings were as dark as the blackened remains of the landscape near the tiny Australian schoolhouse.
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| Stress testing "nationalization" (The Yahoo! Newsroom)
February 18, 2009 at 4:51 pm
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|  The Yahoo! Newsroom - A touchy word has entered the public debate about the future of America’s economy. It’s a word that would shock the nation in normal times, but as even Republicans begin to whisper it, temporary “nationalization” of troubled banks is increasingly seen as our last best hope for fixing our financial system.
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| Bankruptcy remains an option for GM, analysts say (Reuters)
February 18, 2009 at 2:53 pm
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|  Reuters - A government-backed bankruptcy reorganization remains an option for saving General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC, analysts said on Wednesday, even though the automakers have said they would rather not go down that road.
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| Stanford depositors swarm banks (Reuters)
February 18, 2009 at 11:36 am
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|  Reuters - Hundreds of people lined up to withdraw money from banks in Antigua and Caracas affiliated with Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, a day after the tycoon was charged with an $8 billion fraud.
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| Pope to US Speaker Pelosi: Reject abortion support (AP)
February 18, 2009 at 10:41 am
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| | AP - Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday told U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic who supports abortion rights, that Catholic politicians have a duty to protect life "at all stages of its development." |
| Pilot error may have downed Buffalo flight: report (AFP)
February 18, 2009 at 10:37 am
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|  AFP - Investigators of last week's plane crash near Buffalo found evidence that pilot error -- and not ice build-up -- may have led to the accident that killed 50 people, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
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| Brains of Lonely People Work Differently (LiveScience.com)
February 18, 2009 at 9:57 am
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| | LiveScience.com - Lonely people have less activity in a part of the brain that normally lights up in association with reward, scientists have found. It's not clear if social isolation diminishes the brain-reward response, however, or if people with less activity in that part of the brain tend toward loneliness. |
| And the Oscar goes to Matilda if Ledger wins (AP)
February 18, 2009 at 9:19 am
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| | AP - If Heath Ledger is named best supporting actor at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony, his daughter, 3-year-old Matilda Rose Ledger, will become the owner of the Oscar statuette. |
| Clinton looks to boost US image in Asia (AP)
February 18, 2009 at 8:58 am
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|  AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton moved Wednesday to boost U.S. ties with the world's most populous Muslim nation and its neighbors, pledging a new American willingness to work with and listen to Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia.
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| Iran says it has built unmanned aircraft (AP)
February 18, 2009 at 8:55 am
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| | AP - Iran has built an unmanned surveillance aircraft with a range of more than 600 miles — enough to reach Israel — a top defense official said in remarks published Wednesday. | | |
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