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| Japan OKs deployment of missile defense system (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 5:50 am
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|  AP - Japan's military mobilized Friday to protect the country from any threat if North Korea's looming rocket launch fails, ordering two missile-equipped destroyers to the Sea of Japan and sending batteries of Patriot missile interceptors to protect the northern coastline.
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| Dam bursts near Indonesian capital, killing 50 (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 5:25 am
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|  AP - Torrential rain caused an old dam to burst its banks early Friday, sending a wall of muddy water crashing into a suburb of the Indonesian capital. The flood killed at least 50 people, left scores missing and submerged hundreds of homes.
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| Financial overhaul plan draws GOP opposition (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 1:44 am
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|  AP - The Obama administration's aggressive plan for strict scrutiny of hedge funds and other freewheeling investors, part of the biggest expansion of financial restraints since the Great Depression, is drawing instant opposition from Republican lawmakers and the rules' targets. And skeptics are questioning whether the new rulebook would work anyway.
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| Key Senate panel backs Obama's budget blueprint (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 1:42 am
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|  AP - A key Senate panel stacked with allies of President Barack Obama approved his ambitious budget blueprint Thursday, giving the president a symbolic endorsement of efforts to boost clean energy, fight global warming and improve access to health care.
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| Sources: More US troops for Afghan war (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 1:41 am
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|  AP - Confronting an inherited and faltering war, President Barack Obama plans to dispatch thousands more military and civilian trainers to Afghanistan by the fall on top of the 17,000 combat troops he has already ordered, senior administration officials said Thursday.
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| $150M buys you late TV producer's L.A. mansion (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 12:34 am
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|  AP - The widow of producer Aaron Spelling is placing "The Manor" in the exclusive Holmby Hills neighborhood on the market for a jaw-dropping $150 million, making it by far the most expensive home for sale in the U.S.
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| Cracks in levee force evacuations in Fargo, ND (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 11:49 pm
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|  AP - Officials ordered the evacuation of one Fargo neighborhood and a nursing home late Thursday after authorities found cracks in an earthen levee built to protect the area from the threat of the rising Red River.
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| Baptist preacher runs again for office he bilked (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 11:32 pm
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|  AP - The ousted former president of a national organization of black Baptist churches is running for the position again, a decade after he was sent to prison for stealing millions of dollars from the group.
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| Alaska volcano erupts twice, sends ash 12 miles up (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 11:31 pm
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|  AP - Alaska's Mount Redoubt erupted several times Thursday, spewing a more than 12-mile-high cloud that could drop ash on Anchorage for the first time since the volcano began erupting Sunday night.
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| Man tosses gas bomb in fight, sets own cars ablaze (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 11:11 pm
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| | AP - Authorities said a man threw a Molotov cocktail at his neighbor's trailer, but the wind shifted and set fire to two cars, a pickup and a travel trailer in the man's own yard. The Florida Highway Patrol reported that a 51-year-old man got into a fight with his neighbor on Tuesday night and threw the makeshift gasoline bomb. |
| Obama seizes bully pulpit online to pitch budget (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 7:23 pm
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|  AP - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama seized the bully pulpit Thursday and reprised the best of his acclaimed campaign skills in an unprecedented Internet town hall from the White House — a direct sales pitch for Americans to get behind his $3.6 trillion budget and be patient as he tries to right the tottering economy.
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| Sources: Obama to add US troops in Afghanistan (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 7:23 pm
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|  AP - Concerned about the faltering war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama plans to dispatch thousands more military and civilian trainers on top of the 17,000 fresh combat troops he's already ordered, people familiar with the forthcoming plan said Thursday.
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| Pop, country singer Dan Seals dies of cancer (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 7:13 pm
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|  AP - Dan Seals, who was England Dan in the pop duo England Dan and John Ford Coley and later had a successful country career, has died of complications from cancer. He was 61.
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| Baptist preacher runs again for office he bilked (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 6:23 pm
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| AP - The ousted former president of a national organization of black Baptist churches is running for the position again, a decade after he was sent to prison for stealing millions of dollars from the group. |
| John McEnroe duped in art scam (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 6:07 pm
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| | Reuters - Former tennis champion John McEnroe was duped along with Bank of America, investment firms, art owners and collectors in a sophisticated $88 million art investment scam revealed in New York on Thursday. |
| Doctors say kidney stones in kids are on the rise (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 5:56 pm
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|  AP - Doctors are puzzling over what seems to be an increase in the number of children with kidney stones, a condition some blame on kids' love of cheeseburgers, fries and other salty foods.
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| Official: Mexico not in danger of collapse (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 4:11 pm
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|  AP - The Mexican government is not on the verge of collapse, the top U.S. intelligence official said Thursday, seeking to tamp down increasing alarm over the powerful and violent drug cartels operating in the country that is the United States' southern neighbor.
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| Investigators win approval of fake medical product (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 3:15 pm
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| | AP - Government investigators looking into lax screening of medical research said Thursday they easily won approval from a private review board of a fake product to be used in medical testing on human subjects. |
| Jobless claims set new record; GDP down more in 4Q (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 1:59 pm
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|  AP - For a 10th straight week, the number of people who are continuing to claim jobless benefits increased, fresh evidence that the labor market remains weak despite other hopeful signs that the recession may be nearing a bottom.
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| IRS launches crackdown on offshore tax evasion (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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|  Reuters - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service announced new steps on Thursday aimed at getting taxpayers hiding money in offshore accounts to pay up, promising not to file criminal charges for those who voluntarily fess up to hiding money overseas.
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| 17 injured after tornado rips through Mississippi (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 12:56 pm
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|  AP - Severe weather across the South unleashed tornadoes in rural Mississippi, including one that shattered dozens of homes, flattened a church and injured at least 17 people, authorities said Thursday.
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| Mortgage rates drop to record low (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 11:47 am
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|  AP - Rates on 30-year mortgages fell this week to the lowest level on record after the Federal Reserve launched a new effort to assist the staggering U.S. housing market.
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| North Korea readies missile, makes new threat (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 9:48 am
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|  Reuters - North Korea said on Thursday that if the international community punishes it for next month's planned missile launch it will restart a nuclear plant that makes weapons grade plutonium.
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| Robert Pattinson readies fans for "Twilight" sequel (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 9:01 am
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| | Reuters - For "Twilight" movie fans who are anxiously awaiting the sequel but haven't read the second book in the vampire series, "New Moon," the film's star Robert Pattinson offers this advice -- be ready for something different and perhaps a little strange. |
| North Korea positions rocket for April liftoff (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 8:40 am
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|  AP - North Korea has mounted a rocket on a launchpad on its northeast coast, American officials said, putting Pyongyang well on track for a launch the U.S. and South Korea warned Thursday would be a major provocation with serious consequences.
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| AP IMPACT: More bad wiring imperils troops in Iraq (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 8:29 am
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|  AP - The military is racing to inspect more than 90,000 U.S.-run facilities across Iraq to reduce a deadly threat troops face far off the battlefield: electrocution or shock while showering or using appliances.
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| 20,000 ring Thai PM's office, demand resignation (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 7:27 am
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|  AP - More than 20,000 protesters ringed the prime minister's office Thursday, demanding the government resign, deriding its distribution of checks to millions of low-income workers as a payoff.
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| Fargo, ND, officials to raise dikes as river rises (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 7:15 am
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|  AP - As the Red River rises into "uncharted territory," officials Thursday pleaded for thousands of volunteer sandbaggers, readied their evacuation plans, and vowed to build the dikes a foot higher than planned in an effort to hold back the water.
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| Crystal Cathedral: OMG! Poser tweets as Schuller (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 4:02 am
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|  AP - Televangelist Robert H. Schuller has reached millions worldwide with his weekly "Hour of Power" TV broadcasts, but when it comes to the Internet, he had a high-tech headache: an online impostor.
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| What if women ran the world? (The Christian Science Monitor)
March 26, 2009 at 4:00 am
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| | The Christian Science Monitor - It is getting harder to escape the sense that most of the trouble in the world – whether it's coming out of the Senate, a mortgage lender, or a tank turret – can be traced to one overriding problem: too many men steering. Had our economic, domestic, and foreign policy been more informed by women, we might be enjoying a safer ride. |  |
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