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| China calls for new global currency (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 10:23 pm
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|  AP - China is calling for a new global currency to replace the dominant dollar, showing a growing assertiveness on revamping the world economy ahead of next week's London summit on the financial crisis.
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| FACT CHECK: Obama having it both ways on economy? (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 10:17 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama's plea Tuesday for patience in the economic turmoil fits with the view of most economists that a turnaround will take some time. It doesn't fit quite so neatly with his bullish budget. |
| La. Gov. Jindal urges GOP to stand up to Obama (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 9:47 pm
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|  AP - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal again found himself carrying the Republican mantle opposite a primetime appearance from President Barack Obama on Tuesday, saying Republicans must be ready to defy the president when they disagree with his policies. He also joked about his widely panned response to Obama's address to Congress last month.
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| Oil terminal a concern as Alaska volcano rumbles (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 9:22 pm
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|  AP - An Alaska volcano continued to rumble Tuesday amid new concerns that eruptions and mud flows will damage a nearby oil terminal where about 6 million gallons of crude are stored. The 10,200-foot Mount Redoubt volcano, about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, erupted Sunday night. Since then there have been five more explosions; the latest, on Monday night, shot an ash plume into the air that was 40,000 to 50,000 feet high.
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| U.S. renters turn buyers as homes become affordable (Reuters)
March 24, 2009 at 9:06 pm
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|  Reuters - After six years of renting in San Francisco, Kate Wilusz jumped at the chance to swap her tiny apartment for a roomy four-bedroom Victorian home. But she is paying a mortgage instead of rent -- and coming out even.
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| Hall of Fame third baseman George Kell dies at 86 (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 7:55 pm
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|  AP - George Kell, the Hall of Fame third baseman who edged Ted Williams for the 1949 American League batting title and became a Detroit Tigers broadcaster for nearly 40 years, died Tuesday. He was 86. Jackson's Funeral Home in Newport confirmed the death but did not give a cause. The Hall of Fame said he died in his sleep at his home in Swifton. Kell was severely injured in a car crash in 2004 but was able to walk with a cane about six months later.
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| Bones may be from US grave of 57 Irish immigrants (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 7:53 pm
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|  AP - Researchers may have discovered a mass grave for nearly five dozen 19th-century Irish immigrants who died of cholera weeks after traveling to Pennsylvania to build a railroad. Historians at Immaculata University have known for years about the 57 immigrants who died in August 1832 but could not find the grave.
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| US takes steps to deport alleged Nazi to Germany (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 7:41 pm
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|  AP - The U.S. government said Tuesday it is asking German officials for travel documents needed to deport accused World War II Nazi guard John Demjanjuk, who is charged in Europe with 29,000 counts of accessory to murder.
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| 2 Pa. brothers dead amid demise of car dealership (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 5:34 pm
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|  AP - Third-generation car dealers Gregory and Randolph Graham watched helplessly over the past year as their business collapsed under the weight of the recession. Now the Graham brothers are gone, too.
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| BofA shareholder looks to oust CEO from board (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 5:21 pm
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|  AP - A group that owns Bank of America stock is waging a battle to get shareholders to vote against re-electing CEO Ken Lewis and two others to the bank's board of directors.
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| GM begins white-collar layoffs with 160 pink slips (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 5:02 pm
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|  AP - Dreaded white-collar job cuts at General Motors Corp. started Tuesday as the wounded automaker began to deliver on promises to the government to shrink its work force so it can be profitable at lower sales levels.
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| SAfrica peace conference postponed over Dalai Lama (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 4:19 pm
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|  AP - Organizers shelved a peace conference meant to show how sports can bring people and nations together because South Africa's government — fearing trouble with China — won't allow the Dalai Lama to attend.
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| White House unveils anti-cartel effort for border (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 3:44 pm
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|  AP - The Obama administration plans to send more agents and equipment to the southwestern border to fight Mexican drug cartels and keep violence from spilling over into the United States. Speaking at the White House Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said officials were still considering whether to deploy the National Guard to the border. She plans to meet with the governor of Texas to discuss the matter.
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| France to compensate nuclear test victims (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 3:44 pm
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|  AP - The French government offered for the first time Tuesday to compensate victims of nuclear tests in Algeria and the South Pacific, bowing to decades of pressure by people sickened by radiation — and seeking to soothe France's conscience. "It's time for our country to be at peace with itself, at peace thanks to a system of compensation and reparations," French Defense Minister Herve Morin said in presenting a draft law on the payouts.
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| 10 questions for Obama (Politico)
March 24, 2009 at 3:40 pm
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|  Politico - President Barack Obama holds his second primetime news conference at 8 p.m. Tuesday and, much like the first, the economy will be center stage.
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| China calls for new global currency (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 3:28 pm
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|  AP - China is calling for a new global currency to replace the dominant dollar, showing a growing assertiveness on revamping the world economy ahead of next week's London summit on the financial crisis.
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| Police: Woman handcuffed self to husband, bit him (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 3:25 pm
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| | AP - A woman attempting to reconcile with her estranged husband handcuffed herself to him as he slept and then bit him on his torso and arms as he phoned for help, police said. Helen Sun, 37, told police she wanted to have a conversation with Robert Drawbaugh without him leaving. She changed the locks on their bedroom door and, while he was sleeping Monday, handcuffed herself to him, authorities said. |
| FDA told to reconsider morning-after pill (Reuters)
March 24, 2009 at 2:54 pm
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| | Reuters - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration must reconsider its decision under the Bush Administration to limit access to emergency contraception, a U.S. court ruled on Monday, saying the agency allowed politics to interfere with its usual decision-making. |
| Early soy diet may protect against breast cancer (Reuters)
March 24, 2009 at 2:46 pm
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| | Reuters - Asian-American women who ate a lot of soy as children had a 58 percent reduced risk of developing breast cancer, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a finding that suggests soy may have a protective effect. |
| Saudi clerics want women banned from TV, media (AFP)
March 24, 2009 at 2:11 pm
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|  AFP - Hardline Saudi clerics have called on the government to ban women from appearing on television and to prohibit their images in print media, which they called a sign of growing "deviant thought." |
| Scientists in possible cold fusion breakthrough (AFP)
March 24, 2009 at 12:46 pm
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|  AFP - Researchers at a US Navy laboratory have unveiled what they say is "significant" evidence of cold fusion, a potential energy source that has many skeptics in the scientific community.
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| Geithner seeks new powers over financial companies (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 10:41 am
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| | AP - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner called on Congress Tuesday to grant him new powers to regulate huge financial companies like insurance giant AIG, whose failure would pose a grave danger to the U.S. financial system and the broader economy. |
| Gang of Juvenile Dinosaurs Discovered (LiveScience.com)
March 24, 2009 at 10:32 am
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| | LiveScience.com - Three juvenile Triceratops, a species thought to be solitary, died together in a flood and now have been found in a 66 million-year-old bone bed in Montana, lending more evidence to the idea that teen dinosaurs were gregarious gangsters. |
| River rises 5 feet in day, record flood possible (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 9:25 am
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|  AP - Volunteers and government teams threw everything they could Tuesday into the fight against the rising Red River as the water rose 5 feet in a day on its way to possible record flooding.
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| Gun control debate hangs over U.S.-Mexico violence (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 8:06 am
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|  AP - Members of Congress may be alarmed by the surge in Mexican drug violence and its potential to spill across the border, but they grow silent when the talk turns to gun control as a solution.
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| Obama tries to temper furor over AIG bonuses (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 7:44 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama is trying to dampen a fire he once stoked, urging a more tempered response to public furor over bonuses paid to executives of the publicly rescued insurance giant American International Group.
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| Sutherland says he's on for 8th '24' season (AP)
March 24, 2009 at 6:16 am
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|  AP - Kiefer Sutherland will be back to play Jack Bauer for an eighth season of the hit counterterrorism drama "24," but the show's longevity will depend on its writers, the actor said Tuesday.
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