| Egypt to search 3 sites for Cleopatra's tomb (AP)
April 16, 2009 at 4:36 am
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| | AP - Archaeologists will begin excavating sites in Egypt next week in an attempt to solve a mystery that has stymied historians for hundreds of years: Where is the final resting place of doomed lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony? |
| US foreclosures up 24 percent in 1st quarter (AP)
April 16, 2009 at 3:28 am
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|  AP - The number of American households threatened with losing their homes grew 24 percent in the first three months of this year and is poised to rise further as major lenders restart foreclosures after a temporary break, according to data released Thursday.
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| Woody Allen says American Apparel is harassing him (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 11:06 pm
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|  AP - Actor-director Woody Allen has accused a clothing company of trying to harass and intimidate him with a "scorched earth" approach to defending itself against a $10 million lawsuit. In papers filed Wednesday by his lawyers, the 73-year-old Allen said American Apparel Inc. went too far in requesting information about his family life, personal finances and career.
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| French raid pirate ship, US seeks to freeze assets (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 10:52 pm
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|  AP - The U.S. and its allies battled Somalia's pirates on two fronts Wednesday, with French forces seizing a bandit mother ship and Washington seeking to keep the marauders from their spoils. Another U.S. freighter headed to port with armed sailors aboard after pirates damaged it with gunshots and grenades.
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| Tens of thousands rally at tax day 'tea parties' (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 10:44 pm
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|  AP - Whipped up by conservative commentators and bloggers, tens of thousands of protesters staged "tea parties" around the country Wednesday to tap into the collective angst stirred up by a bad economy, government spending and bailouts.
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| Most-wanted Colombia drug lord caught 'like a dog' (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 10:38 pm
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|  AP - Colombia's most wanted drug lord was cowering like a dog under a palm tree when he was captured Wednesday in a jungle raid involving hundreds of police officers, the defense minister said.
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| Obamas report $2.7 million in income for 2008 (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 9:54 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, millionaires from his best-selling books, made $2.7 million last year and paid just under one-third of their adjusted income in federal taxes. While the income, mostly his, was far more than the U.S. median household income of about $50,000, it was quite a decrease from the $4.2 million the Obamas made in 2007.
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| Army officials say war concussions overdiagnosed (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 9:47 pm
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|  AP - Mild brain injuries — once considered an under-recognized problem in returning military troops — are being overdiagnosed because the government is using soft criteria instead of hard medical evidence, an Army doctor and two other officials contend.
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| GM pushes faster plan to cut U.S. dealers: sources (Reuters)
April 15, 2009 at 9:35 pm
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|  Reuters - General Motors Corp has told U.S. dealers it is accelerating its timetable for closing about 1,700 dealerships as it rushes to meet a June 1 deadline to restructure under U.S. government oversight, people with knowledge of the discussions said.
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| Republicans criticize report on right-wing groups (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 9:19 pm
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|  AP - Republicans on Wednesday said a Homeland Security Department intelligence assessment unfairly characterizes military veterans as right-wing extremists. House Republican leader John Boehner described the report as offensive and called on the agency to apologize to veterans.
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| Iraq study: Executions are leading cause of death (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 9:19 pm
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|  AP - Execution-style killings, not headline-grabbing bombings, have been the leading cause of death among civilians in the Iraq war, a study released Wednesday shows. The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, point to the brutal sectarian nature of the conflict, where death squads once roamed the streets hunting down members of the rival Muslim sect.
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| DEA says Mexican drug cartels are creeping south (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 9:09 pm
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|  AP - Mexican drug cartels are creeping south into Central America, U.S. drug enforcement officials said Wednesday, as the Obama administration put new pressure on drug kingpins ahead of the president's trip to Mexico City. Drug Enforcement Administration officials said there are growing signs that stepped-up law enforcement efforts on the U.S.-Mexico border are driving the cartels south toward Central America.
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| Fed survey finds faint signs of hope (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 8:58 pm
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|  AP - The Federal Reserve said Wednesday there are some faint signs the steep plunge in economic activity that began last fall is starting to level off.
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| Spice recall expanded because of salmonella threat (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 8:46 pm
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| | AP - Union International Food Co. is expanding a spice recall to include all Lian How brand and Uncle Chen brand sauces, oil and oil blends in various size packages because the products may be contaminated with salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections, especially in young children, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems. The company had previously recalled Lian How brand and Uncle Chen brand dry spices. |
| Child abuse spikes as U.S. economy flounders (Reuters)
April 15, 2009 at 8:12 pm
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| | Reuters - One 4-month-old baby was shaken so violently she needed surgery. Another 3-week-old suffered fractured ribs from abuse at home. A 9-year-old diabetic boy stopped receiving proper treatment for his condition. |
| 6 companies to get $9.9B under mortgage program (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 5:49 pm
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|  AP - The Obama administration on Wednesday named the first six companies participating in a $75 billion program designed to help millions of struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure.
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| Dam threatened, residents evacuate small ND town (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 4:59 pm
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|  AP - Residents of this tiny community cleared out Wednesday as water spilled over a nearby dam and began eroding it, while officials in the larger town of Valley City to the north urged thousands of people to evacuate from their homes because of a flooding threat that could persist for weeks.
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| Anti-Obama 'tea party' protests mark US tax day (AFP)
April 15, 2009 at 4:53 pm
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|  AFP - Critics of President Barack Obama marked national tax day Wednesday with "tea party" protests that Republicans are calling the birth of a grassroots opposition, but Democrats dismiss as a fraud.
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| Octuplets' mom says plans documentary series (Reuters)
April 15, 2009 at 4:26 pm
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|  Reuters - An American mother of newborn octuplets says she will do a documentary series following her babies until they are 18 years old, but the production company says it is still in "exclusive negotiations" for the deal.
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| Ohio prison worker handcuffed herself to youth (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 4:24 pm
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| | AP - A superintendent of a youth prison twice handcuffed herself to out-of-control juveniles to help calm them down, defending herself by saying there was no policy specifically prohibiting her from doing so, records show. |
| Tax deadline brings out thousands of protesters (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 4:22 pm
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|  AP - Thousands of protesters, some dressed like Revolutionary War soldiers and most waving signs with anti-tax slogans, gathered around the nation Wednesday for a series of rallies modeled after the original Boston Tea Party. They chose the income tax filing deadline to express their displeasure with government spending since President Barack Obama took office.
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| Obama aims to get dread out of tax deadline day (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 4:22 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama declared on tax-filing day that he aims to take the dread out of deadline day. Obama said at a White House event Wednesday that he's working toward "a simpler tax code that rewards work and the pursuit of the American dream."
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| Fed survey finds faint signs of hope (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 3:47 pm
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|  AP - The Federal Reserve said Wednesday there are some faint signs the steep plunge in economic activity that began last fall is starting to level off.
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| Fox teas up a tempest (Politico)
April 15, 2009 at 2:45 pm
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|  Politico - On “America’s Newsroom” Wednesday morning, Fox News host Megyn Kelly declared that “it’s tea party time, from sea to shining sea.” A short while later, “anti-tax tea parties” rose to the top of the network’s Hot List.
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| UN backs Norway claim to Arctic seabed extension (AFP)
April 15, 2009 at 2:28 pm
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|  AFP - Norway has won the backing of the UN in its sovereignty claim over a potentially resource rich area of seabed, including a region in the much-courted Arctic Ocean, the government said Wednesday.
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| Fiat CEO: Concessions or no Chrysler deal (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 1:01 pm
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|  AP - Automaker Fiat Group SpA will walk away from a deal to take a 20-percent stake in Chrysler LLC if the U.S. automaker's unions don't agree to major cost cuts, Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne said in an interview published Wednesday.
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| Iran willing to build new relationship with US (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 11:33 am
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|  AP - Iran's president said Wednesday he is willing to build a new relationship with the United States and is preparing new proposals aimed at breaking the impasse with the West over his country's nuclear program.
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| American Apparel slams Woody Allen's sex life (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 10:34 am
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| AP - A clothing company known for its racy ads is fighting a $10 million lawsuit brought by Woody Allen, arguing that it can't have damaged his reputation by using his image because the film director has already ruined it himself.
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| Stone-throwing Afghan crowd swarms women's protest (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 10:26 am
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|  AP - Hundreds of Afghans swarmed a demonstration of more than 100 women protesting Wednesday against a new marriage law they say restricts wives' rights. The women were pelted with small stones as police struggled to keep the two groups apart.
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| Egypt to search 3 sites for Cleopatra's tomb (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 10:12 am
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| | AP - Archaeologists next week will begin excavating three sites in Egypt near the Mediterranean Sea that may contain the tombs of doomed lovers, Cleopatra and Mark Anthony. |
| Burger King to scrap ad after complaint (Reuters)
April 15, 2009 at 9:03 am
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|  Reuters - Fast food giant Burger King apologized Tuesday for an advertisement featuring a squat Mexican draped in his country's flag next to a tall American cowboy and said it would change the campaign.
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| Man bites python (Reuters)
April 15, 2009 at 9:00 am
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| | Reuters - A Kenyan man bit a python who wrapped him in its coils and hauled him up a tree in a struggle that lasted hours, local media said Wednesday. |
| Meltdown 101: Can't pay your taxes? Don't panic (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 8:56 am
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|  AP - It's here, April 15, the deadline for filing income tax returns, and the IRS has some reassuring words for procrastinators, especially those who can't pay what they owe: Don't panic.
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| UBS sees $1.75B Q1 loss, to cut 8,700 jobs (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 8:32 am
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|  AP - UBS AG, Switzerland's largest bank, said Wednesday it expects a first quarter loss of nearly 2 billion Swiss francs ($1.75 billion) and announced plans to cut 8,700 jobs worldwide by the end of next year.
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| CIA documents shine light on secretive Air America (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 8:07 am
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|  AP - Former naval aviator Don Boecker isn't too proud to say he was scared out of his wits on that July 1965 day in Laos when he dangled by one arm from a helicopter while enemy soldiers took aim below.
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| 5 reasons Obama sounds optimistic (Politico)
April 15, 2009 at 5:14 am
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|  Politico - President Barack Obama and his economic team are changing their tone on the economy. Gone are Obama’s bleak descriptions of crisis and catastrophe. In their place are “glimmers of hope” of a turnaround.
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| NY Gov. Paterson to reintroduce gay marriage bill (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 4:01 am
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|  AP - Gov. David Paterson is making another push to legalize gay marriage in New York, tapping into the momentum of other states that have recently allowed same-sex couples to wed, but the measure will face stiff opposition in the Legislature.
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