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| Court: Va. man owns 1776 copy of Declaration (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 5:08 pm
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|  AP - A rare 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence belongs to a Virginia technology entrepreneur, not the state of Maine, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled Friday. Richard Adams Jr. of Fairfax County purchased the document from a London book dealer in 2001 for $475,000. But the state of Maine claimed it belongs to the town of Wiscasset, where it was kept by the town clerk in 1776.
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| Vatican: Bishop's apology on Holocaust not enough (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 4:15 pm
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|  AP - An apology from a bishop who denied the Holocaust wasn't good enough, the Vatican said Friday, adding that he must repudiate his views if he wants to be a Roman Catholic clergyman. The statement by Bishop Richard Williamson "doesn't appear to respect the conditions" the Vatican set out for him, said the Rev. Federico Lombardi, a spokesman for the pope.
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| Dobson resigns as chairman of Focus on the Family (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 3:23 pm
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|  AP - Conservative evangelical leader James Dobson has resigned as chairman of Focus on the Family but will continue to play a prominent role at the organization he founded more than three decades ago.
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| Russian bomber neared Canada before Obama visit (Reuters)
February 27, 2009 at 3:22 pm
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| | Reuters - Canadian fighters planes scrambled to intercept an approaching Russian bomber less than 24 hours before U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Ottawa last week, Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay said on Friday. |
| Vatican rejects Holocaust-denying bishop's apology (Reuters)
February 27, 2009 at 2:56 pm
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|  Reuters - The Vatican on Friday rejected an apology from a bishop whose denial of the Holocaust caused international uproar between Jews and Catholics, saying it did not meet its demand for a full and public recanting.
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| Leonardo "Codex" reveals youthful self-portrait (Reuters)
February 27, 2009 at 1:02 pm
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| | Reuters - A sketch obscured by handwriting for five centuries in one of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks may be a youthful self-portrait, according to Italian experts who "aged" the sketch to compare to confirmed later self-portraits. |
| Ryanair could make passengers pay for toilets (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 1:01 pm
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|  AP - Is a bathroom an optional extra when you're at 30,000 feet? Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary seems to think so — and says his no-frills airline might charge customers to use its aircrafts' toilets.
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| AP Source: Obama to rescind Bush abortion rule (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 11:11 am
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| | AP - The Obama administration is moving to rescind a federal rule that reinforced protections for medical providers who refuse to perform abortions or other procedures on moral grounds, an official said Friday. |
| Mayor who sent watermelon e-mail says he'll resign (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 8:12 am
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| | AP - The mayor of a small Southern California city says he will resign after being criticized for sharing an e-mail picture depicting the White House lawn planted with watermelons under the title "No Easter egg hunt this year." |
| AP Exclusive: Gregg had stake in, won aid for base (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 8:10 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama's former nominee to become commerce secretary, Sen. Judd Gregg, steered taxpayer money to his home state's redevelopment of a former Air Force base even as he and his brother engaged in real estate deals there, an Associated Press investigation found.
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| Palin's settlement doesn't address tax issues (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 7:19 am
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|  AP - Gov. Sarah Palin's agreement to reimburse the state for trips her children took at government expense does not address potential tax problems she might face for charging Alaska thousands of dollars for their travel, lawyers handling the settlement said.
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| Officials: Obama sets Aug. 2010 as Iraq end date (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 7:07 am
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|  AP - A "substantial" number of the roughly 100,000 U.S. combat troops to be pulled out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, will remain in the war zone through at least the end of this year to ensure national elections there go smoothly, senior Obama administration officials say.
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| Economy likely suffered deeper contraction (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 6:53 am
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|  AP - The economy's downhill slide at the end of last year was likely much steeper than the government initially thought and it is probably doing just as poorly now — if not worse — as a relentless slew of negative forces feed on each other, pushing the country deeper into recession.
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| Rocky Mountain News publishes final edition (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 5:20 am
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|  AP - Questions about the future of the Rocky Mountain News had become so common, the newspaper's staff put up a handwritten paper sign on the news desk that said, "We don't know."
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| Firms defraud government but get new US contracts (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 4:35 am
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|  AP - Companies that defrauded the United States and jeopardized American lives received new government work despite rulings designed to stop them from receiving federal contracts, government investigators report.
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| Pelosi butts heads with Obama (Politico)
February 27, 2009 at 4:31 am
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|  Politico - Nancy Pelosi repeatedly stood to applaud Barack Obama when he addressed a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. But in the days since, the speaker of the House has been standing up for herself —distancing herself from the president on Iraq, on tax cuts and on the prosecution of former Bush administration officials.
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| An ugly bias is back: blaming Jews for financial woes (The Christian Science Monitor)
February 27, 2009 at 3:00 am
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| | The Christian Science Monitor - The stereotype of the money-grubbing Jew goes back a long way. Zacchaeus was a greedy little tax collector. Fagin was a hideous creature who forced orphans into his organized network of pickpockets. And Shylock, perhaps the most infamous Jewish moneylender of all? Well his avarice ran so deep that he demanded a "pound of flesh" from an indebted Venetian merchant. |
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