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| Pakistani Taliban threaten strike on Washington (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 12:44 am
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|  AP - Pakistan's Taliban chief has claimed responsibility for a deadly assault on a police academy, saying he wanted to retaliate for U.S. missile attacks on the militant bases on the border with Afghanistan.
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| Sebelius admits errors, pays $7,000 in back taxes (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 10:02 pm
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|  AP - Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius recently corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding "unintentional errors" — the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee.
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| Desperate world leaders meet on economic woes (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 9:39 pm
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|  AP - Desperate but divided on ways to lift their nations from economic misery, world leaders converged for an emergency summit Tuesday holding scant hopes of finding a magic-bullet solution for the crisis that brought them hurrying to London.
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| GM, Chrysler race deadlines to hold off bankruptcy (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 9:22 pm
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|  AP - He doesn't know exactly what the Obama administration wants him to cut, but Fritz Henderson, the new CEO of General Motors Corp., isn't waiting around to find out. Cut deeper. Work harder. Move faster. That's how he described the ailing automaker's urgent effort to meet a June 1 deadline to fix its debt-ridden balance sheet, cut billions in costs and take other steps to transform itself into a profitable entity.
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| Mom: Suspect's wife survived NC shooting by hiding (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 9:18 pm
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|  AP - The nurse's assistant who may have been the target of a deadly nursing home rampage in North Carolina survived by hiding in a bathroom inside a locked area for Alzheimer's patients, her mother said Tuesday.
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| Pistachio warning could signal food safety shift (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 9:12 pm
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|  AP - It could take weeks before health officials know exactly which pistachio products may be tainted with salmonella, but they've already issued a sweeping warning to avoid eating the nuts or foods containing them.
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| Sebelius admits errors, pays $7,000 in back taxes (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 7:16 pm
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| AP - Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius recently corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding "unintentional errors" — the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee. The Kansas governor explained the changes to senators in a letter dated Tuesday that the administration released. She said they involved charitable contributions, the sale of a home and business expenses. |
| Long-necked dinos didn't reach for the skies (AFP)
March 31, 2009 at 7:13 pm
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|  AFP - A fondly-held belief about long-necked sauropods, the giant four-footed dinosaurs beloved of monster movies and children, is most probably untrue, a dino expert said on Wednesday.
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| GAO: Treasury should take a harder line with AIG (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 7:09 pm
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|  AP - The Treasury Department should deny American International Group Inc. a $30 billion "contingency" bailout until the company agrees to take back millions in bonuses and negotiate cheaper exits from its financial contracts, congressional auditors said Tuesday.
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| A quarter defined by historic whiplash on Wall St. (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 6:32 pm
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|  AP - The first quarter on Wall Street was so extreme it included a bear market and a bull market all its own — moves that sometimes take years or more. Now investors head for spring still unsure which side is in control.
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| Flood dampens North Dakota's economic success (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 5:49 pm
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|  AP - North Dakota has largely escaped the recession, enjoying slow but steady growth and even a budget surplus. But as the floodwaters begin to recede, the swollen Red River still threatens to wash away some of that prosperity.
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| Iran pledges Afghan help in new gesture to U.S. (Reuters)
March 31, 2009 at 5:28 pm
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|  Reuters - Iran offered help in combating the Afghan drugs trade on Tuesday, in a gesture to a U.S. call for regional support in Afghanistan that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described as promising.
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| Ohio man charged with drunken driving on bar stool (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 5:10 pm
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|  AP - Authorities in Ohio say a man has been charged with drunken driving after crashing his motorized bar stool. Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, say when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries on March 4, they found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower.
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| Brothers: Chimp victim is talking and improving (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 4:55 pm
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|  AP - A Connecticut woman nearly killed by a chimpanzee is speaking, asking for her daughter and even responding to fairly complicated commands, her brothers said Tuesday. Stephen and Michael Nash told The Associated Press by telephone on Tuesday that they are encouraged by test results for brain damage to their sister Charla.
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| Madonna confirms her adoption push in Malawi (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 4:08 pm
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|  AP - Madonna said Tuesday that she was following standard procedures in her adoption of a Malawian girl, her first response to accusations that she is using her fame to speed the process.
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| FDA cracks down on unapproved narcotic painkillers (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 3:05 pm
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| | AP - The government ordered 14 unapproved narcotic painkillers off the market Tuesday, prescription versions of potent morphine, hydromorphone and oxycodone. The Food and Drug Administration told nine manufacturers to quit distributing the drugs within 90 days — but insisted there are plenty of legal versions of the painkillers being sold for patients who need relief. |
| Coffee Lessens the Pain of Exercise (LiveScience.com)
March 31, 2009 at 1:37 pm
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|  LiveScience.com - That cup of coffee that many gym rats, bikers and runners swill before a workout does more than energize them. It kills some of the pain of athletic exertion, a new study suggests. And it works regardless of whether a person already had a coffee habit or not.
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| GM's new CEO says bankruptcy is 'more probable' (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 1:33 pm
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|  AP - General Motors Corp.'s new chief executive said Tuesday that more of the automaker's plants could close and bankruptcy is "more probable" as GM works to meet new, tougher requirements for government aid.
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| Uneasy rivals US, Iran meet at Afghan conference (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 1:16 pm
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|  AP - Top U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke had a brief but cordial meeting with Iran's deputy foreign minister Tuesday at an international conference on Afghanistan, marking another step in unlocking 30 years of tense relations.
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| Ford, GM to cover car payments if buyer loses job (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 1:08 pm
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|  AP - Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. are offering payment protection plans to help reassure consumers who may be putting off buying a new car because of worries about losing their job.
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| Vatican to inspect Legionaries after scandal (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 12:51 pm
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| | AP - Pope Benedict XVI has taken the extraordinary step of ordering an investigation into a conservative Roman Catholic order that recently disclosed that its late founder had fathered a child. |
| Netanyahu says he wants full peace with Arab world (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 12:03 pm
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|  AP - Israel's incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck a conciliatory tone as he took office Tuesday, promising to seek a "permanent arrangement" with the Palestinians and full peace with the entire Arab and Muslim world.
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| Sun-Times Media Group files for bankruptcy (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 10:46 am
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|  AP - The Sun-Times Media Group, owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and dozens of suburban newspapers, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Tuesday, making it the fifth newspaper publisher to seek protection from creditors in recent months.
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| Walgreens giving free care to jobless and uninsured (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 8:57 am
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|  AP - Drugstore operator Walgreens will offer free clinic visits to the unemployed and uninsured for the rest of the year, providing tests and routine treatment for minor ailments through its walk-in clinics â€" though patients will still pay for prescriptions.
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| Russia locks up six for Mars experiment (AFP)
March 31, 2009 at 8:45 am
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|  AFP - The hatch slammed shut Tuesday behind six volunteers from Europe and Russia who will spend three months isolated in a capsule in Moscow to simulate conditions for a manned mission to Mars.
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| Obama leaves White House for European meetings (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 8:36 am
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| | AP - President Barack Obama left for Europe Tuesday, packing a weighty agenda as he heads for critical economic and political talks in his first journey across the Atlantic since taking office two months ago. |
| 300 African migrants feared drowned off Libya (Reuters)
March 31, 2009 at 7:32 am
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| | Reuters - More than 300 Africans including women and children are feared to have drowned after their boats capsized off Libya during a new upsurge of illegal migration to Europe, officials said Tuesday. |
| World Bank creates trade fund, OECD casts G20 pall (Reuters)
March 31, 2009 at 7:28 am
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| | Reuters - The World Bank announced a $50 billion program on Tuesday to counter a decline in global trade and Britain called on G20 leaders to supply "the oxygen of confidence" to save the world economy from recession. |
| Police and protesters prep for NATO summit (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 7:16 am
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|  AP - Some 25,000 French and German police — and perhaps as many protesters — are taking up positions around three cities on both sides of the Rhine before a NATO summit involving President Barack Obama and 25 other leaders.
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| Police: Dad killed kids, relatives, then himself (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 7:06 am
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|  AP - A father is suspected of killing his two children and three other relatives before taking his own life in an upscale neighborhood of Silicon Valley where the family had recently moved.
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| Officials probe role of relationship in NC rampage (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 6:29 am
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|  AP - A painter charged with killing eight people at a North Carolina nursing home never got over his estranged wife who worked there, according to a different woman he married during a break in the rocky relationship.
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| Japan urges North Korea to cancel rocket launch (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 3:02 am
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|  AP - Japan urged North Korea on Tuesday to cancel an impending rocket launch and prepared to defend itself against any danger from it, as Pyongyang's detention of American and South Korean citizens further aggravated tensions on the Korean peninsula.
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| Migration group: 300 drown off Libyan coast (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 2:56 am
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| | AP - Vessels carrying hundreds of migrants capsized off the coast of Libya, with more than 300 people believed to have drowned, an international migration group said Tuesday. |
| U.S. voters don't blame Obama for economy (Reuters)
March 31, 2009 at 1:45 am
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|  Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama benefits from a broadly held perception that others bear the bulk of responsibility for state of the U.S. economy, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll published on Tuesday.
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