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| Obama challenges lobbyists to legislative duel (AP)
February 28, 2009 at 8:18 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama challenged the nation's vested interests to a legislative duel Saturday, saying he will fight to change health care, energy and education in dramatic ways that will upset the status quo.
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| Clinton to visit Mideast, reconnect with Europeans (AP)
February 28, 2009 at 7:47 am
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|  AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is using her second overseas trip as the nation's top diplomat to assess peace prospects in the Middle East, reconnect with European allies and remind her Russian counterpart that U.S. efforts to rebuild relations with Moscow has its limits.
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| Obama moved toward commanders in Iraq decision (AP)
February 28, 2009 at 7:46 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama leaned heavily toward field commanders' preferences in settling a time frame for ending the war in Iraq, as he weighed the fervent desires of the anti-war community that propelled him into office and the equally strong worries of the generals commanding troops in the war zone.
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| Unions try to heal wounds of bitter split (AP)
February 28, 2009 at 4:41 am
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|  AP - Nearly four years after a nasty breakup split organized labor, union leaders are again talking about reuniting under a single, more powerful federation, possibly this year.
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| AP Source: Obama to rescind Bush abortion rule (AP)
February 28, 2009 at 4:33 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama plans to repeal a Bush administration rule that has become a flash point in the debate over a doctor's right not to participate in abortions. The regulation, instituted in the last days of the Bush administration, strengthened job protections for doctors and nurses who refuse to provide a medical service because of moral qualms.
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| Court: Va. man owns 1776 copy of Declaration (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 6:12 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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| Guard to pull out of New Orleans after 3 1/2 years (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 6:09 pm
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|  AP - Three and a half years after Hurricane Katrina, the National Guard is pulling the last of its troops out of New Orleans this weekend, leaving behind a city still desperate and dangerous. Residents long distrustful of the city's police force are worried they will have to fend for themselves.
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| Pakistan opposition chief warns of dangerous chaos (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 4:40 pm
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|  AP - With his supporters rioting for a third day, opposition leader Nawaz Sharif blamed Pakistan's government Friday for the political turmoil set off by a court order barring him from elected office — unrest that he warned could be exploited by Islamic extremists.
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| Illinois mystery: Placentas found in sewage system (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 4:39 pm
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| | AP - Someone is disposing of placentas in a central Illinois sewage system and authorities want it to stop. Workers in Urbana on Thursday found a placenta in a filter that keeps large objects out of the sewage treatment plant — the third such find this year. So police have enlisted medical experts. "It was one of the weirdest calls I've ever received," said Julie Pryde, who heads the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District. |
| Airlines, plane maker sued over crash near Buffalo (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 4:05 pm
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|  AP - Relatives of a passenger killed when a commuter plane crashed into a house outside Buffalo have sued Continental Airlines and the flight's operators, claiming the aircraft had inadequate deicing equipment and an improperly trained crew.
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| Ed McMahon, 85, hospitalized in Los Angeles (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 3:33 pm
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|  AP - Ed McMahon, former sidekick to Johnny Carson on "Tonight" and a familiar TV commercial pitchman, was hospitalized in intensive care, a spokesman said Friday. McMahon, 85, was suffering from pneumonia and other ailments and had been in the hospital for several weeks, spokesman Howard Bragman said. He declined to identify the Los Angeles facility or the other illnesses.
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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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| 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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| Suspected al Qaeda operative charged in U.S. court (Reuters)
February 27, 2009 at 2:23 pm
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|  Reuters - Suspected al Qaeda operative Ali al-Marri was charged Friday with conspiracy and material support for terrorism, and President Barack Obama ordered his transfer into the U.S. legal system after 5-1/2 years at a military prison in South Carolina.
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| 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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