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| Obama nixes plan to tax motorists on mileage (AP)
February 20, 2009 at 10:33 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama on Friday rejected his transportation secretary's suggestion that the administration consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive instead of how much gasoline they buy.
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| Obama warns mayors not to waste stimulus money (AP)
February 20, 2009 at 9:33 pm
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|  AP - Invoking his own name-and-shame policy, President Barack Obama warned the nation's mayors on Friday that he will "call them out" if they waste the money from his massive economic stimulus plan.
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| Official: Pentagon report says Gitmo is humane (AP)
February 20, 2009 at 9:32 pm
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|  AP - The Pentagon says the Guantanamo Bay prison meets the standard for humane treatment laid out in the Geneva Conventions, according to a report for President Barack Obama, who has ordered the terrorist detention center closed within a year.
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| Some denounce Obama's homeowner rescue as unfair (AP)
February 20, 2009 at 9:31 pm
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|  AP - Banks got bailed out. So did automakers. So why not struggling homeowners? The question has struck a raw nerve across the country, with critics saying the Obama administration's latest housing rescue rewards people who bought homes they couldn't afford. Others counter that the taxpayer-financed plan will slow spiraling home prices and avert a deeper economic disaster.
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| 3 teens fatally shot on Chicago's South Side (AP)
February 20, 2009 at 9:28 pm
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| | AP - Three teenagers, including a 13-year-old, were killed Friday in a shooting on Chicago's South Side that authorities believe involved an assault rifle. It appears "several individuals" attacked the teens, and shell casings found at the scene point to at least one assault rifle, said Police Superintendent Jody Weis. |
| Hugh Jackman to Do Oscars Drunk and Nude (E! Online)
February 20, 2009 at 8:23 pm
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|  E! Online - Sunday night's Oscars host, Hugh Jackman, is sure to shake things up. For one thing, he's not a professional comedian like most previous hosts. For another, he tells CNN that he plans to do the entire show naked and inebriated.
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| Jindal to refuse some stimulus money (Politico)
February 20, 2009 at 5:10 pm
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|  Politico - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal announced Friday that he will decline stimulus money specifically targeted at expanding state unemployment insurance coverage, becoming the first state executive to officially refuse any part of the federal government’s payout to states.
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| Antigua to pay price for hosting Stanford (AP)
February 20, 2009 at 4:50 pm
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|  AP - Regulators in the Caribbean took over Antiguan banks owned by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford on Friday, hoping to contain damage to the local economy as U.S. investigators explore an alleged fraud scheme involving billions of dollars.
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| Obama warns mayors not to waste stimulus money (AP)
February 20, 2009 at 4:27 pm
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| AP - Invoking his own name-and-shame policy, President Barack Obama warned the nation's mayors on Friday that he will "call them out" if they waste the money from his massive economic stimulus plan. |
| Netanyahu urges moderates to join broad government (AP)
February 20, 2009 at 4:26 pm
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|  AP - Benjamin Netanyahu appealed to his moderate rivals Friday to join a unity government — a tricky alliance that would let the hawkish Israeli leader avoid relying on an unstable grouping of right-wingers almost sure to collide with the Obama administration and each other.
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| Stocks extend slide but regain some lost ground (AP)
February 20, 2009 at 4:24 pm
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|  AP - Stocks have extended their slide but regained some lost ground after the White House doused fears that the government would nationalize crippled banks. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday the Obama administration continues to "strongly believe that a privately held banking system is the correct way to go."
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| Kyrgyzstan issues eviction notice to key US base (AP)
February 20, 2009 at 4:18 pm
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|  AP - The United States was on the verge of being kicked out of its only military outpost in Russia's historic backyard after Kyrgyzstan Friday gave U.S. forces six months to vacate an air base that serves as a key supply hub for troops in Afghanistan.
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| George Mason U. elects man as homecoming queen (AP)
February 20, 2009 at 4:16 pm
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| | AP - George Mason University students have elected a drag queen as homecoming queen. Student Ryan Allen beat out two women for the title at the 30,000-student school in suburban Washington, D.C., famous for its run to the Final Four a few years back. Allen competed under his drag queen persona of Reann Ballslee. |
| California's video game law ruled unconstitutional (Reuters)
February 20, 2009 at 3:59 pm
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|  Reuters - A U.S. appeals court ruled Friday that a California law restricting the sales and rental of violent video games to minors and imposing labeling requirements is too restrictive and violates free speech guarantees.
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| Nationalization fears pummel BofA, Citi (Reuters)
February 20, 2009 at 3:34 pm
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|  Reuters - Bank of America Corp and Citigroup Inc shares plummeted for the sixth straight day on Friday, hammered by fears the U.S. government could nationalize the banks, wiping out shareholders.
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| Trustee: No evidence Madoff bought any securities (AP)
February 20, 2009 at 2:39 pm
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|  AP - The trustee in charge of untangling the mess left behind by Bernard Madoff told a packed auditorium Friday there was no indication the disgraced money manager had bought securities for his clients for over a decade.
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| BofA's CEO Lewis subpoenaed by Cuomo (AP)
February 20, 2009 at 2:21 pm
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|  AP - Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Ken Lewis has received a subpoena from the New York state attorney general's office in connection with Merrill Lynch's payment of employee bonuses before the companies combined on Jan. 1.
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| Buffalo crash investigator once held nuclear codes (AP)
February 20, 2009 at 12:34 pm
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|  AP - The public face of the probe into the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 is a 62-year-old former Air Force fighter pilot and stunt flyer deemed so trustworthy he once carried the nuclear codes for President Ronald Reagan.
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| TMZ posts photo it claims is a beaten Rihanna (AP)
February 20, 2009 at 8:39 am
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|  AP - A photo that appears to be Rihanna's face with bruises, scratches and swelling from an attack allegedly at the hands of boyfriend Chris Brown was posted Thursday night by the celebrity Web site TMZ.
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| While New York Bleeds, Washington Thrives (BusinessWeek Online)
February 20, 2009 at 8:08 am
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|  BusinessWeek Online - As the nation's most populous metro area feels Wall Street's pain, the fourth-largest -- Washington -- is barely sensing the recession. In fact, Moody's Economy.com estimates that metro Washington's economy will actually grow 2.5% from mid-2008 through mid-2010. New York's economy is expected to shrink 4.2%.
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| Clinton to Obama: Talk optimistically on economy (AP)
February 20, 2009 at 7:16 am
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|  AP - It used to be gospel in the nation's power center: Presidents didn't talk publicly about what the markets were doing. The notion was that anything a president said on this subject could be too easily misinterpreted, sending Wall Street into a dive.
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| NY Post apologizes — to some — over Obama cartoon (AP)
February 20, 2009 at 4:43 am
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|  AP - After two days of protests, the New York Post apologized Thursday for a cartoon that some have interpreted as comparing President Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee gunned down by police. But the newspaper also said its longtime antagonists exploited the image for revenge.
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| Woman OK after bullet ends up in her hair weave (AP)
February 19, 2009 at 11:37 pm
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| | AP - Other than having a bit of a headache, a Kansas City woman was uninjured after a bullet fired at her ended up tangled in her hair weave. Police said the 20-year-old woman was in a convenience store parking lot late Wednesday when a man flagged her down and told her that her ex-boyfriend still loved her. | | |  |
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