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| Obama releases secret Bush anti-terror memos (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 9:35 pm
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|  AP - The Obama administration threw open the curtain on years of Bush-era secrets Monday, revealing anti-terror memos that claimed exceptional search-and-seizure powers and divulging that the CIA destroyed nearly 100 videotapes of interrogations and other treatment of terror suspects.
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| Search narrows off Fla. Gulf Coast; Man rescued (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 9:34 pm
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|  AP - The Coast Guard on Monday narrowed the search area for two NFL players and a third man missing since a weekend fishing trip off the Florida Gulf Coast after crews rescued a fourth man clinging to their capsized boat. Survivor Nick Schuyler, a former University of South Florida player, told rescuers that the boat the four good friends were aboard was anchored when it flipped Saturday evening in rough seas, said Coast Guard Capt. Timothy M. Close.
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| Raul Castro ousts top Cubans loyal to Fidel Castro (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 9:27 pm
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|  AP - President Raul Castro abruptly ousted some of Cuba's most powerful officials Monday, remaking the government in the biggest shakeup since he took over from his ailing brother Fidel Castro a year ago. The changes replaced some key Fidel loyalists, including the longtime foreign minister, with men closer to Raul. They also reduced the enormous powers of a vice president credited with saving Cuba's economy after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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| Madoff seeks to keep NYC penthouse, $62M in assets (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 9:26 pm
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|  AP - Bernard Madoff is seeking to keep a $7 million Manhattan penthouse and an additional $62 million in assets, saying they are unrelated to the fraud that authorities say cost victims more than $50 billion. In court papers filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Madoff and his lawyer claim the apartment, $45 million in municipal bonds and $17 million more in a separate account all belong to Madoff's wife, Ruth.
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| Gov. Jindal defends message of his GOP speech (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 9:25 pm
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|  AP - Widely panned for his national TV address, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal offered his first defense of the speech Monday, saying he sticks by the message, while acknowledging shortcomings in his delivery.
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| The D-word: Will recession become something worse? (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 6:40 pm
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|  AP - A Depression doesn't have to be Great — bread lines, rampant unemployment, a wipeout in the stock market. The economy can sink into a milder depression, the kind spelled with a lowercase "d."
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| HSBC to end US consumer lending, cut 6,100 jobs (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 6:32 pm
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|  AP - HSBC PLC, Europe's biggest bank, said Monday it will no longer write new consumer loans in the United States and will shut down its U.S. lending unit over the next five years due to the subprime mortgage market's collapse. The decision will cost 6,100 U.S. jobs.
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| Trade nominee Ron Kirk agrees to pay back taxes (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 6:18 pm
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|  AP - Ron Kirk, nominated as U.S. Trade Representative in the Obama administration, owes an estimated $10,000 in back taxes from earlier in the decade and has agreed to make his payments, the Senate Finance Committee said Monday.
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| NC mom recalled to Army duty will be discharged (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 6:17 pm
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|  AP - The North Carolina mother who reported for Army duty with her two young children will be discharged from the military, her attorney said Monday. Attorney Mark Waple of Fayetteville said it wasn't yet clear if Lisa Pagan would receive an honorable discharge or a general discharge under honorable conditions. It also wasn't certain when she would be discharged.
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| Bush-era memo claims unfettered rendition powers (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 6:15 pm
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|  AP - A newly released Bush administration legal memo from 2002 claimed that the president has an unfettered right to transfer suspected terrorists to other governments without regard for whether they would be subject to torture.
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| Bangladesh deploys army to catch mutineers (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 4:41 pm
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|  AP - Bangladesh's government deployed soldiers nationwide Monday to hunt down over 1,000 border guards wielding stolen weapons who fled after a bloody mutiny left scores of army officers dead.
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| Neb. deputies say man stuffed cat inside 'bong' (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 4:34 pm
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|  AP - A man who tried to cool out his hyper cat by stuffing her into a boxlike homemade bong faces cruelty charges — and catcalls from animal lovers. Lancaster County sheriff's deputies responding to a domestic disturbance call Sunday alleged they saw 20-year-old Acea Schomaker smoking marijuana through a piece of garden hose attached to a duct-taped, plastic glass box in which the cat had been stuffed.
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| NKorea: US must cancel military drill with South (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 3:47 pm
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|  AP - North Korea demanded Monday that the U.S. call off its annual military exercises with South Korea, a report said as rare talks between the North and U.N. forces ended without clear progress on defusing tensions.
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| Congress renews push to regulate cigarettes (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 3:20 pm
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| | AP - With support from a president who's been trying to kick the habit himself, lawmakers renewed their efforts Monday to require government regulation of cigarettes. |
| Chinese man bids but won't pay for looted bronzes (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 2:00 pm
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|  AP - A Chinese art collector revealed himself Monday as the man behind the winning bids for two imperial bronzes auctioned at Christie's over Beijing's objections, then announced he had no intention of paying the $36 million.
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| Wall Street tumbles anew as financials slide (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 10:39 am
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|  AP - Investors turned cautious again Monday as a staggering $61.7 billion in quarterly losses at insurer American International Group Inc. touched off fresh worries about the health of the nation's financial system.
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| Clinton calls for action to forge Mideast peace (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 10:17 am
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|  AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on her first foray into Middle East diplomacy, declared the Obama administration committed to pushing intensively to find a way for Israelis and Palestinians to exist peacefully in separate states.
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| Soldiers assassinate Guinea-Bissau president (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 9:56 am
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|  AP - Soldiers assassinated the president of Guinea-Bissau in his palace Monday hours after a bomb blast killed his rival, but the military insisted no coup was taking place in the West African nation.
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| Former Iranian president visits Iraq (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 9:55 am
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|  AP - One of Iran's most powerful political and religious figures — former President Hashemi Rafsanjani — began talks Monday with Iraqi leaders in the latest high-level contacts between the neighboring countries.
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| With the Economy Down, Sleeplessness Is Up (HealthDay)
March 2, 2009 at 9:02 am
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| | HealthDay - MONDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- Almost a third of all Americans are tossing and turning, unable to get a good night's sleep because they're worrying about the economy, their jobs or their money, a new poll finds. |
| Northeast pounded by snowy late-winter storm (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 8:27 am
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|  AP - A massive late winter snow storm roared out of the Southeast and into the Northeast overnight, idling hundreds of flights and making Monday's morning rush treacherous as motorists contended with nearly a foot of snow in spots.
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| Obama to tap Kan. Gov. Sebelius as health chief (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 8:05 am
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|  AP - Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, the president's choice for health and human services secretary, will face a host of challenges in her new job, including a health system in disarray and a nation's food supply at risk.
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| Clinton says no U.S. funds will go to Hamas (Reuters)
March 2, 2009 at 7:35 am
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|  Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a hard line against the Islamist Hamas group on Monday and said $900 million in U.S. aid for the Palestinians was part of a broader bid for Arab-Israeli peace.
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| Obama will sign spending bill despite earmarks (AP)
March 2, 2009 at 4:20 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama will break a campaign pledge against congressional earmarks and sign a budget bill laden with millions in lawmakers' pet projects, administration officials said.
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| COMPATIBLE RELATIONSHIPS ARE BUILT ON RESPECT, NOT ARGUMENT (Dear Abby)
March 2, 2009 at 2:17 am
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| | Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: I have been dating a wonderful man I'll call "George" for the past 14 months. We have never had an argument or even a disagreement. We both have good jobs, like doing the same things, and we see each other every weekend. Our co-workers and family members have commented that we seem remarkably happy as a couple. |
| Vitamin B12 can prevent major birth defects (Reuters)
March 2, 2009 at 12:02 am
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| | Reuters - Before becoming pregnant, women need to get enough vitamin B12 in addition to folic acid to cut their risk of having a baby with a serious birth defect of the brain and spinal cord, researchers said on Monday. | | |  |
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