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| Obama confronts Dem skepticism on economic plans (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 7:56 pm
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|  AP - Confronting misgivings, even in his own party, President Barack Obama mounted a stout defense of his blueprint to overhaul the economy Thursday, declaring the national crisis is "not as bad as we think" and his plans will speed recovery.
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| Madoff's new home: Cell the size of walk-in closet (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 7:56 pm
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|  AP - Bernard Madoff's new Manhattan home is the size of a walk-in closet, with cinderblock walls, linoleum floors and a bunk bed. Breakfast will be served before sunrise, and the disgraced financier can stretch his legs outside, but only every other day — in a cage.
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| Pelosi dodges chance to end automatic pay raises (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 7:56 pm
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|  AP - Congress' automatic pay raises are in little immediate danger of being scrapped for good, even with the economy slumping and millions of Americans unemployed. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday would not commit to holding a vote on a bill to do away with the annual cost-of-living increases. She pointed out that Congress recognized the economic crisis by voting this week to skip next year's raise.
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| Police make 3 arrests in Neb. missing-car case (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 7:55 pm
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|  AP - Police have arrested three executives from a troubled western Nebraska car dealership where 81 vehicles worth roughly $2.5 million — as well as the executives themselves — vanished in recent days.
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| GOP's Steele clarifies his opposition to abortion (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 7:55 pm
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|  AP - A day after a magazine quoted him as saying abortion was "an individual choice," GOP Chairman Michael Steele said Thursday he opposes abortion and that Roe v. Wade should be overturned. Steele, who was adopted, told GQ magazine that his mother had the option of getting an abortion or giving birth to him.
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| Steele 'choice' gaffe sparks GOP revolt (Politico)
March 12, 2009 at 7:30 pm
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|  Politico - Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s series of gaffes turned into something more serious Thursday, as leaders of a pillar of the GOP—the anti-abortion movement—shifted into open revolt over comments in an interview with the men’s magazine GQ.
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| Texas gov. rejects stimulus money for unemployment (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 7:07 pm
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|  AP - Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday rejected $555 million in federal stimulus money that would expand state unemployment benefits, saying the money would have required the state to keep funding the expanded benefits after the stimulus money ran out. Perry, an outspoken critic of President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus bill, did accept most of the roughly $17 billion slated for Texas in the plan.
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| Pollution dims skies as well as befouling the air (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 3:27 pm
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|  AP - The skies are dimming, for most of the world. Increases in airborne pollution have dimmed the skies by blocking sunlight over the past 30 years, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
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| Madoff pleads guilty and goes to jail in handcuffs (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 2:42 pm
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|  AP - Saying he was "deeply sorry and ashamed," Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty Thursday to pulling off perhaps the biggest swindle in Wall Street history and was immediately led off to jail in handcuffs to the delight of his seething victims.
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| German school shooter made Internet threat (AFP)
March 12, 2009 at 1:52 pm
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|  AFP - A teenager who went on a rampage in his old school announced his intentions on the Internet just hours earlier, an official said Thursday, as Germany mourned the 15 people he gunned down.
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| GM says it doesn't need $2B from gov't in March (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 1:49 pm
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|  AP - General Motors Corp. says its restructuring plan is starting to take hold, improving the automaker's fortunes at least to the point that it won't need a $2 billion government loan installment that it had requested for March.
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| Army fired 11 soldiers in Jan. as openly gay (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 1:09 pm
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| | AP - The Army fired 11 soldiers in January for violating the military's policy that gay service members must keep their sexuality hidden, according to a Virginia congressman. |
| Humans Respond to Scent of Fear (LiveScience.com)
March 12, 2009 at 12:07 pm
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| | LiveScience.com - Moviegoers might want to scoff a bit less when characters talk about the scent of fear. Women exposed to fear chemicals in male sweat tended to see ambiguous faces as being more fearful, according to a new study. |
| Dutch study says Rembrandt oil was part of series (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 11:37 am
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| | AP - A study commissioned by the Netherlands National Museum says "Night Watch," one of Rembrandt's most famous paintings, was part of a series by leading Dutch artists of his day, and was meant to be displayed alongside the others. |
| Ala. town stunned by gunman's terrifying ride (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 8:00 am
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|  AP - Many residents of this quiet, close-knit farming community could hear the rapid crackling of gunfire that killed nine of their neighbors. Others got frantic phone calls from friends or relatives.
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| Alaska Gov. Palin's daughter, fiance break up (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 7:35 am
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|  AP - Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin, the teenage daughter of Gov. Sarah Palin, have broken off their engagement, he said Wednesday, about 2 1/2 months after the couple had a baby.
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| Roche to take over Genentech for $47 billion (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 7:35 am
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|  AP - Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche said Thursday it has agreed to buy California-based Genentech for $46.8 billion in a takeover described as the largest in Swiss corporate history.
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| Foreclosures up 30 percent in February (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 6:55 am
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| | AP - Despite halts on new foreclosures by several major lenders, the number of households threatened with losing their homes rose 30 percent in February from last year's levels, RealtyTrac reported Thursday. |
| Iraqi journalist who threw shoes gets 3 years (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 6:47 am
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|  AP - The Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at then-President George W. Bush was convicted Thursday of assaulting a foreign leader and sentenced to three years in prison, lawyers said. He shouted "long live Iraq" when the sentence was read.
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| Doctors Without Borders workers abducted in Darfur (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 6:43 am
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| | AP - Five people working for humanitarian aid group Doctors Without Borders' Belgian office were kidnapped in Sudan's Darfur region, officials said Thursday, a week after the government in Khartoum ordered the expulsion of aid groups as a response to the International Criminal Court's decision to indict the president. |
| Report: Greek terror group claims Citibank attacks (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 5:41 am
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|  AP - A far-left Greek militant group claimed responsibility for recent attacks against Citibank offices in Athens, saying they were carried out because of the international financial crisis, a newspaper reported Thursday.
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| Report: US on short end of health care 'value gap' (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 12:48 am
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|  AP - If the global economy were a 100-yard dash, the U.S. would start 23 yards behind its closest competitors because of health care that costs too much and delivers too little, a business group says in a report to be released Thursday.
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| China demands end of US Navy surveillance (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 12:47 am
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|  AP - China's Defense Ministry has demanded that the U.S. Navy end surveillance missions off the country's southern coast following a weekend confrontation between an American vessel and Chinese ships.
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| UN says world population to hit 7 billion in 2012 (AP)
March 11, 2009 at 8:47 pm
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|  AP - The world's population will hit 7 billion early in 2012 and top 9 billion in 2050, with the vast majority of the increase coming in the developing countries of Asia and Africa, according to a U.N. estimate released Wednesday.
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