| Thai soldiers spray gunfire, tear gas at protest (AP)
April 13, 2009 at 12:17 am
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|  AP - Thai soldiers sprayed automatic weapons fire into the air and threw tear gas to clear protesters blocking roads in the capital in the pre-dawn darkness Monday. Demonstrators responded by hurling at least one gasoline bomb and 70 people were reported injured, most by tear gas.
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| Concert pays tribute to Marian Anderson (AP)
April 13, 2009 at 12:13 am
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|  AP - More than 2,000 people gathered Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial for a concert honoring the 70th anniversary of Marian Anderson's historic performance there in 1939.
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| Kidnapped US captain freed; snipers kill 3 pirates (AP)
April 13, 2009 at 12:00 am
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|  AP - Navy Seal snipers on the fantail of a destroyer cut down three Somali pirates in a lifeboat and rescued an American sea captain on Easter Sunday. The surprise nighttime assault in choppy seas ended a five-day standoff between a team of rogue gunmen and the world's most powerful military.
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| US weighing where to charge captured Somali pirate (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 11:41 pm
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|  AP - The Justice Department was considering whether to prosecute a Somali pirate in Washington or New York, U.S. officials said following the rescue of a U.S. hostage and the apprehension of his only surviving captor.
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| AP IMPACT: Citizens held as illegal immigrants (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 11:30 pm
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|  AP - Pedro Guzman has been an American citizen all his life. Yet in 2007, the 31-year-old Los Angeles native — in jail for a misdemeanor, mentally ill and never able to read or write — signed a waiver agreeing to leave the country without a hearing and was deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant.
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| Military crackdown hasn't deterred Somali pirates (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 11:15 pm
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|  AP - The U.S. military's moves to crack down on high seas piracy have done little to deter the epidemic of ship ransoms that preceded Sunday's Indian Ocean rescue, a top Navy official said Sunday.
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| How 5 days of drama on the high seas unfolded (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 9:21 pm
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|  AP - The lifeboat containing the tied-up hostage captain of the Maersk Alabama had been bobbing in the water for five days, stalked by a small flotilla of American warships.
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| Somali pirates vow retaliation after captain freed (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 9:17 pm
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|  AP - Somali pirates on Monday vowed to retaliate for the deaths of three colleagues who were shot dead by U.S. Navy snipers hours before in a daring nighttime assault that freed a 53-year-old American captain.
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| Family of Sunday school teacher stunned by arrest (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 8:09 pm
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|  AP - Relatives of a Sunday school teacher arrested in the killing of an 8-year-old girl found stuffed into a suitcase said Sunday they are baffled by the accusations against the woman they know as a loving, single parent.
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| Officer: Split-second decision to open fire (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 6:22 pm
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|  AP - A U.S. military official said Navy Seals and other officers opened fire on three pirates when a Navy commander made a split-second decision that an American hostage's life was in danger.
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| Obama twice approved force to rescue hostage (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 6:11 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama twice authorized the military to rescue a U.S. captain who was being held by Somali pirates and whose life appeared to be at risk, administration officials said after Sunday's rescue.
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| AP IMPACT: Citizens held as illegal immigrants (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 5:24 pm
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|  AP - Pedro Guzman has been an American citizen all his life. Yet in 2007, the 31-year-old Los Angeles native — in jail for a misdemeanor, mentally ill and never able to read or write — signed a waiver agreeing to leave the country without a hearing and was deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant.
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| Italy boat owner marvels at US pirate operation (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 5:24 pm
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| | AP - The owner of an Italian-flagged tugboat seized by pirates off Somalia marveled Sunday at the U.S. Navy rescue of an American hostage there, and said he hopes his crew also will be saved. |
| Sudan kidnappers threaten to kill aid workers (Reuters)
April 12, 2009 at 5:15 pm
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|  Reuters - Kidnappers holding two aid workers in Sudan's Darfur region said on Sunday they will kill them unless Paris retried members of a French group convicted but later pardoned over the abduction of children from Chad.
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| Tainted Chinese drywall shows up in Katrina homes (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 4:21 pm
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|  AP - Thomas Stone and his wife rebuilt after their home was flooded by six feet of water during Hurricane Katrina, never dreaming they would face the agony of tearing it apart all over again.
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| Iraq's embattled Christians celebrate Easter (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 3:44 pm
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|  AP - Iraq's embattled Christians took advantage of improved security and gathered Sunday to celebrate Easter, even as roadside bombings killed a U.S. soldier and wounded four other Americans in separate attacks north of Baghdad.
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| Obama's half-brother refused visa to Britain: reports (Reuters)
April 12, 2009 at 11:37 am
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| | Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama's half-brother has been denied a visa to come back to Britain after he earlier gave a false name to police when accused of an attempted sexual assault, British newspapers reported on Sunday. |
| Fox's Glenn Beck announces comedy tour (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 10:56 am
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| | AP - Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel's latest sensation, is taking a comedy show on the road for six live performances over six days during the first week of June. |
| Obama seeks new relationship with Latin America (Reuters)
April 12, 2009 at 8:16 am
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|  Reuters - President Barack Obama will try to establish a cooperative new relationship with Latin America this week, but U.S. resistance to change on highly symbolic issues like Cuba and immigration could undercut the effort, analysts said.
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| Militants torch trucks along US-NATO supply line (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 8:13 am
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|  AP - About 150 militants armed with rockets and automatic weapons attacked a transport terminal in northwestern Pakistan that lies along a key supply route used by U.S. and NATO troops, wounding three guards and torching eight cement trucks Sunday, police said.
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| Concert to pay tribute to late opera singer (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 8:11 am
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| AP - Marian Anderson couldn't sing at Constitution Hall or even a local high school because of the color of her skin. So the opera singer performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in April 1939 and sang "My Country, 'Tis of Thee."
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| Thailand announces state of emergency in capital (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 6:16 am
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|  AP - Thailand's embattled government, humiliated by demonstrators who shut down a 16-nation Asian summit, declared a state of emergency in the capital Sunday and ordered armored vehicles into the streets to stem a tide of protest across the country.
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| Christians celebrate Easter in Jerusalem (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 6:08 am
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| | AP - Christians prayed at an ancient church and sang in a garden outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City as they marked Easter Sunday in the city where they believe Jesus was crucified and resurrected. |
| New orangutan population found in Indonesia (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 5:43 am
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|  AP - Conservationists have discovered a new population of orangutans in a remote, mountainous corner of Indonesia — perhaps as many as 2,000 — giving a rare boost to one of the world's most critically endangered great apes.
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| The American mood: Is the angst bottoming out? (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 4:50 am
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|  AP - Friday night in northern New Jersey, circa April 2009, offers clues to prove any theory about the American economic meltdown, depending on what you want to believe. Just like so many places these days.
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| Market rally could trip over the bottom line (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 4:48 am
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|  AP - It's the earnings, stupid. Optimism that the fortunes of financial companies like Citigroup were improving sparked a four-week rally beginning March 10 that drove the Standard & Poor's 500 index up 25 percent.
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| Military tightens grip on Fiji (AP)
April 12, 2009 at 2:44 am
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|  AP - Fiji's armed forces chief tightened his grip on the country Sunday, posting censors in newsrooms and roadblocks on the capital's streets as critics accused him of establishing a military dictatorship.
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| Ski Trip Tradition Begins To Wear On Weary Hostess (Dear Abby)
April 12, 2009 at 2:16 am
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| | Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: My father-in-law passed away in 2002 and had a friend I'll call "Roy," who was his skiing buddy. This "friend" now comes to Canada every winter for a 10-day vacation. He expects us to drive him to his destination two hours away, over icy roads and at times blizzard-like conditions, leave him there for a week, return the following weekend at night, stay the weekend and then host him for two to three days. | | |  |
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