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| House OKs $410B spending, reverses Bush policies (AP)
February 25, 2009 at 10:07 pm
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|  AP - The Democratic-controlled House pushed through a $410 billion measure Wednesday that boosted domestic programs, bristled with earmarks and chipped away at policies left behind by the Bush administration.
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| Scores survive Turkish airliner crash in Amsterdam (AP)
February 25, 2009 at 9:41 pm
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|  AP - A Turkish Airlines jetliner plummeted out of the mist and plowed into a muddy field Wednesday near Amsterdam's main airport, but nearly everyone on board — 125 people — survived. The nine dead included both pilots.
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| Obama seeks $634B over 10 years for health care (AP)
February 25, 2009 at 9:34 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama is asking Congress to raise taxes on the wealthy and cut Medicare costs to provide health care for the uninsured while making the just-enacted $400 tax cut for most workers permanent. In his first budget blueprint, Obama proposes setting aside $634 billion over the next decade to expand government subsidized health coverage — a little more than half the money needed to ensure that every American gets medical care.
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| Republicans, Democrats criticize Jindal's speech (AP)
February 25, 2009 at 9:14 pm
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|  AP - Insane. Childish. Disaster. And those were some of the kinder comments from political pundits about Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and his response to President Barack Obama's speech to Congress on Tuesday night. Jindal, 37, a Rhodes scholar and son of Indian immigrants, is considered a rising star in Republican ranks and a likely 2012 presidential candidate.
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| Body rots in hearse, Ala. funeral director charged (AP)
February 25, 2009 at 9:13 pm
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|  AP - A funeral director accused of leaving a woman's body to decay in a parked hearse after her relatives failed to pay the bill was arrested on a felony charge of abusing a corpse, police said Wednesday.
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| Money managers accused of $550 million fraud (Reuters)
February 25, 2009 at 7:41 pm
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| | Reuters - Two money managers who oversaw investments for Carnegie Mellon University and other institutions were arrested on Wednesday on charges of running an estimated $550 million, decade-long swindle, the latest in a wave of big financial fraud cases. |
| Sightings: Brad's Beer Blast With Angelina (E! Online)
February 25, 2009 at 6:58 pm
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|  E! Online - ASIAN PERSUASION: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, dining at Katsuya in Brentwood, CA, just days before their ultraglamorous Oscar appearance. Pitt sipped on beer, and the couple munched on crispy rice with spicy tuna.
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| Woman in Morgan Freeman crash: Not his mistress (AP)
February 25, 2009 at 6:42 pm
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|  AP - The woman who was with Morgan Freeman the night of a car crash that injured both of them insists she was never romantically linked to Freeman and is suing the actor for negligence.
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| U.S. sweep said to cripple Mexico drug cartel (Reuters)
February 25, 2009 at 6:16 pm
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|  Reuters - U.S. authorities capped a nearly two-year campaign against one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels with 52 arrests on Wednesday, and said they had crippled its U.S. distribution network.
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| Obama to lay out 8 keys to health plan (Politico)
February 25, 2009 at 5:57 pm
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|  Politico - The Obama administration will announce a 10-year, $634 billion reserve fund Thursday aimed at expanding health care coverage – and will pay for half the plan with a new tax hike on wealthy Americans that surprised health care advocates and angered Republicans.
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| Morgan Freeman sued over car crash (Reuters)
February 25, 2009 at 5:38 pm
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| Reuters - A woman who was Morgan Freeman's passenger in an August car crash sued the Oscar winner for negligence on Wednesday and said she wants to clear her name from claims she was his mistress. |
| Massive drug sweep nets 750 arrests: US (AFP)
February 25, 2009 at 4:58 pm
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|  AFP - US and Mexican authorities have arrested 750 people over 21 months in an anti-drug sweep, including 52 members of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel who were detained Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder said.
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| Obama chooses Locke to run Commerce Department (AP)
February 25, 2009 at 1:53 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama introduced former Washington Gov. Gary Locke as his nominee for Commerce secretary Wednesday, trying a third time to fill a key Cabinet post for a country in recession.
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| Police: Miami man kills wife, 2 children and self (AP)
February 25, 2009 at 1:51 pm
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|  AP - A 53-year-old man fatally shot his wife and two daughters Wednesday before turning the gun on himself, and a 16-year-old son who survived the attack managed to call 911 as he escaped uninjured from the Miami home, authorities said.
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| 9 dead in Turkish plane crash in Amsterdam (AP)
February 25, 2009 at 1:34 pm
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|  AP - A Turkish Airlines plane carrying 135 people slammed into a muddy field while attempting to land at Amsterdam's main airport in misty weather Wednesday. Nine people were killed and more than 50 were injured, many seriously, officials said.
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| Can Newspapers Survive? (RealClearPolitics.com)
February 25, 2009 at 1:30 pm
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|  RealClearPolitics.com - As media giants totter, battered by the Internet and the economic crisis, saving the newspapers has become a hot topic. It is richly ironic that the online media, which have both greatly facilitated the work of journalists and expanded their readership, have also left many unemployed. Many are expressing concern that the death of journalism as we know it will leave our culture ill-informed - blogs are good for opinion and fact-checking, but they are no substitute for original reporting - and endanger democracy by removing a vital part of its checks and balances.
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| Iran tests its first nuclear power plant (AP)
February 25, 2009 at 11:16 am
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|  AP - Iranian and Russian technicians are conducting a test run of Iran's first nuclear power plant, officials said Wednesday, a major step toward launching full operations at the facility, which has long raised worried the U.S. and its allies.
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| No more lunch bills: Schools go after deadbeats (AP)
February 25, 2009 at 9:03 am
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|  AP - A cold cheese sandwich, fruit and a milk carton might not seem like much of a meal — but that's what's on the menu for students in New Mexico's largest school district without their lunch money.
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| Study: Antarctic glaciers slipping swiftly seaward (AP)
February 25, 2009 at 8:42 am
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|  AP - Antarctic glaciers are melting faster across a much wider area than previously thought, scientists said Wednesday — a development that could lead to an unprecedented rise in sea levels.
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| The 21st-century fireside chat: Did Obama connect? (AP)
February 25, 2009 at 7:45 am
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|  AP - At a harrowing national moment, Franklin D. Roosevelt commandeered the young airwaves for a "fireside chat" with the American people — a candid talk about big troubles and how to fix them. He was confident and strong, a father figure to a nation that was losing its way.
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| Octuplet mom fears hospital may not release babies (AP)
February 25, 2009 at 6:23 am
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|  AP - Nadya Suleman apparently has bigger worries than taking care of her 14 children. Talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw says she may have to prove she can handle the load, or else have hospital officials withhold her newborn octuplets.
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| Jindal's response: Panned, seared (Politico)
February 25, 2009 at 12:56 am
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| Politico - Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.) hoped to step into the national spotlight Tuesday night to sound a hopeful yet defiant note in countering President Barack Obama as the GOP’s fresh and exciting face. | | |  |
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