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| Obama plans small-business lending boost (AP)
March 16, 2009 at 11:58 am
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|  AP - The Obama administration announced Monday that the 21 largest banks receiving government money must report monthly on how much lending they do to small businesses.
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| Wall Street moves higher, building on 4-day rally (AP)
March 16, 2009 at 11:40 am
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|  AP - Investors are sending stocks mostly higher on reassuring comments on the economy from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. The Dow Jones industrials and Standard & Poor's index are rising for a fifth straight day as financial stocks again lead the way.
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| Adviser: Khatami to pull out of Iranian election (AP)
March 16, 2009 at 11:38 am
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| | AP - A popular reformist politician has decided to pull out of the upcoming race against hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to avoid splitting the pro-reform vote, a senior adviser said Monday. |
| Austrian incest father pleads not guilty to murder (AP)
March 16, 2009 at 11:22 am
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|  AP - An Austrian man accused of fathering his daughter's seven children as he locked her in a basement for decades pleaded guilty to incest but insisted he was innocent of murder and enslavement charges as his trial opened Monday.
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| Prosecutors will seek Madoff's wife's money too (AP)
March 16, 2009 at 11:14 am
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|  AP - Federal prosecutors have notified a New York court that they also want the assets of Bernard Madoff's wife. In a court filing, the government said it will seek the $7 million Manhattan penthouse as well as another $62 million that Ruth Madoff had sought to keep.
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| U.S. seeks Madoffs to forfeit homes, boats, piano (Reuters)
March 16, 2009 at 11:14 am
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|  Reuters - U.S. prosecutors want swindler Bernard Madoff and his wife Ruth to forfeit more than $100 million worth of homes, cars, boats, securities, silverware and a piano following his March 12 guilty plea, according to court papers.
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| Walking, talking female robot to hit Japan catwalk (AP)
March 16, 2009 at 10:14 am
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|  AP - A new walking, talking robot from Japan has a female face that can smile and has trimmed down to 43 kilograms (95 pounds) to make a debut at a fashion show. But it still hasn't cleared safety standards required to share the catwalk with human models.
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| Salvadoran leftist president promises moderation (AP)
March 16, 2009 at 10:13 am
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|  AP - A leftist television journalist ushered a party of former guerrillas into power, ending two decades of conservative rule but promising Monday to unite the country after a bitter presidential campaign.
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| Austria's Fritzl denies murder, admits incest (Reuters)
March 16, 2009 at 10:08 am
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|  Reuters - An Austrian man who fathered seven children with a daughter he held in a cellar for 24 years pleaded guilty to incest on Monday but denied murdering their newborn son or enslaving her.
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| China's last eunuch spills sex secrets (Reuters)
March 16, 2009 at 9:02 am
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|  Reuters - Only two memories brought tears to Sun Yaoting's eyes in old age -- the day his father cut off his genitals, and the day his family threw away the pickled remains that should have made him a whole man again at death.
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| Actor Ron Silver dies in NYC at age 62 of cancer (AP)
March 15, 2009 at 10:53 pm
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|  AP - Actor Ron Silver, who won a Tony Award as a take-no-prisoners Hollywood producer in David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" and did a political about-face from loyal Democrat to Republican activist after the Sept. 11 attacks, died Sunday at the age of 62.
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| Space shuttle Discovery blasts off with crew of 7 (AP)
March 15, 2009 at 10:38 pm
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|  AP - Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven rocketed into orbit Sunday evening, setting off on a space station construction mission cut short by launch delays that dragged on for more than a month.
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| Bomb kills 4 US soldiers in Afghanistan's east (AP)
March 15, 2009 at 10:25 pm
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|  AP - A roadside bomb killed four American soldiers in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday — new evidence of rising violence in a region where clashes and attacks in the first two months of 2009 more than doubled from the same period a year ago.
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| Pakistan to restore chief justice (AP)
March 15, 2009 at 10:15 pm
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|  AP - Pakistan agreed Monday to reinstate a fired chief justice, a move that will help defuse a political crisis that has sparked street battles and raised fears of instability in the country at a time of surging Islamist violence.
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| Millions in AIG bonuses draw chorus of outrage (AP)
March 15, 2009 at 9:10 pm
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|  AP - Leaders of the White House economic team and the Senate's top Republican bellowed about bonuses at a bailed-out insurance giant and pledged to prevent such payments in the future.
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| Bernanke: recession could end in '09 (AP)
March 15, 2009 at 9:07 pm
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|  AP - America's recession "probably" will end this year if the government succeeds in bolstering the banking system, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday in a rare television interview.
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| Chavez: Russia jets welcome, but no Venezuela base (AP)
March 15, 2009 at 5:20 pm
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| | AP - President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Russian bombers would be welcome in Venezuela, but the socialist leader denied that his country would offer Moscow its territory for a military base. |
| Bomb kills 4 US soldiers in Afghanistan's east (AP)
March 15, 2009 at 3:40 pm
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|  AP - A roadside bomb killed four American soldiers in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday — new evidence of rising violence in a region where clashes and attacks in the first two months of 2009 more than doubled from the same period a year ago.
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| White House says economy is sound despite 'mess' (AP)
March 15, 2009 at 3:31 pm
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|  AP - The economy is fundamentally sound despite the temporary "mess" it's in, the White House said Sunday in the kind of upbeat assessment that Barack Obama had mocked as a presidential candidate.
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| California due to release 1970s radical Olson (AP)
March 15, 2009 at 3:04 pm
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|  AP - A saga that began in the violent cauldron of California's 1970s radical counterculture and took a dramatic turn into a quiet middle-class neighborhood in Minnesota is about to come to an end.
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| Summers calls AIG bonuses 'outrageous' (AP)
March 15, 2009 at 2:39 pm
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|  AP - "Outrageous." That's what the president's chief economic adviser calls the tens of millions of dollars in new bonuses paid out by the troubled insurance giant American International Group.
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| Vatican prelate defends abortion for 9-year-old (AP)
March 15, 2009 at 2:25 pm
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| | AP - An influential prelate said Brazilian doctors didn't deserve excommunication for aborting the twin fetuses of a 9-year-old child who was allegedly raped by her stepfather because the doctors were saving her life. |
| Cheney: Obama detainee policies make US less safe (AP)
March 15, 2009 at 1:56 pm
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|  AP - Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that Americans are less safe now that President Barack Obama has overturned Bush terrorism-fighting policies and that nearly all the Republican administration's goals in Iraq have been achieved.
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| Tiny band soaks and star-gazes through polar night (AP)
March 15, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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| | AP - Trapped with his ship in Antarctic ice a century ago, explorer Frederick Cook dreaded the approaching "blackness of the long polar night," the grim winter that would darken "the inner world of our souls." |
| Lawmakers take aim at AIG (Politico)
March 15, 2009 at 12:58 pm
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|  Politico - While lawmakers are vowing to investigate huge bonuses paid by American International Group—the struggling mega-insurer that has received more than $170 billion in government rescue funds—they admit it's not clear the government has the authority to stop them, or recoup the bonus money.
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| Connecticut's Gold Coast braces for Jerry Springer (AP)
March 15, 2009 at 11:03 am
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|  AP - Connecticut's Gold Coast, a bastion of suburban perfection including both Martha Stewart and the Stepford Wives, is about to become home to Jerry Springer's bawdy TV show, which features wife swappers, strippers and skinheads.
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