| 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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| GM pushs 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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| Iran willing to build new relationship with US (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 9:18 pm
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|  AP - Iran's president on Wednesday sent the clearest signal yet that the Islamic Republic wants warmer ties with the U.S., just one day after Washington spoke of new strategies to address the country's disputed nuclear program. Taken together, the developments indicate that the longtime adversaries are seeking ways to return to the negotiating table and ease a nearly 30-year-old diplomatic standoff.
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| 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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| French navy detain Somali pirates (Reuters)
April 15, 2009 at 4:23 pm
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|  Reuters - The French navy detained 11 Somali pirates on Wednesday who tried to seize a Liberian-flagged merchant ship, and other pirates released a Greek-owned vessel captured in March, officials said.
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| 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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| DEA says Mexican drug cartels are creeping south (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 4:22 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 the stepped-up law enforcement efforts on the U.S.-Mexico border are driving the cartels south toward Central America.
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| Octuplets' mom says plans documentary series (Reuters)
April 15, 2009 at 4:13 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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| 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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| Yankees force "God Bless America" on fans: lawsuit (Reuters)
April 15, 2009 at 3:31 pm
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| | Reuters - A man ejected from Yankee Stadium during the playing of a patriotic song has sued the baseball team and New York City, saying his civil rights were violated when police barred him from going to the bathroom. |
| Obama vows to reform "monstrous" tax code (Reuters)
April 15, 2009 at 3:26 pm
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| | Reuters - President Barack Obama promised Americans his administration would reform the "monstrous" U.S. tax system as millions faced the dreaded annual deadline on Wednesday for filing income tax returns. |
| Police: Car bomb kills 11 in northern Iraq (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 2:50 pm
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|  AP - A car bomb exploded Wednesday near a government security convoy in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, killing at least 11 guards and wounding about 20 other people, police said.
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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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| Anti-Obama 'tea party' protests mark US tax day (AFP)
April 15, 2009 at 1:20 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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| 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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| Consumer prices dip unexpectedly in March (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 10:01 am
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| | AP - Consumer prices dipped unexpectedly in March, leaving inflation over the past year falling at the fastest clip in more than a half-century. The recession is expected to keep a lid on inflation as widespread layoffs dampen wage pressures and weak demand keeps companies from raising prices. |
| American Apparel slams Woody Allen's sex life (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 9:28 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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| 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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| 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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| Stone-throwing Afghan crowd swarms women's protest (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 8:21 am
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|  AP - A group of some 1,000 Afghans swarmed a demonstration of 300 women protesting against a new conservative marriage law on Wednesday. The women were pelted with small stones as police struggled to keep the two groups apart.
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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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| US to name 'border czar' to watch Mexican border (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 7:35 am
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|  AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is naming a "border czar" to oversee issues related to drug-cartel violence along the U.S.-Mexico border and the hundreds of thousands of people who try to enter the U.S. illegally through the Southwest.
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| Obama to speak on making changes to tax code (AP)
April 15, 2009 at 7:31 am
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|  AP - On the day of the deadline for Americans to file their tax returns, President Barack Obama will talk about restoring fairness to the tax code and providing tax relief to working families.
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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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| Woman's Lie Ends Her Affair, And May Save Her Marriage (Dear Abby)
April 15, 2009 at 2:16 am
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| | Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: I am trying hard to rebuild my marriage. My husband and I have three young children. Four months ago, I met a man (I'll call him "Jack") who made me feel like I haven't felt in a long time. We have not slept together. We tried several times to stop seeing each other, but unfortunately, my attraction to him was too strong. |
| UBS cuts 8,700 more jobs (Reuters)
April 15, 2009 at 2:12 am
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|  Reuters - UBS will post a first-quarter loss and cut 8,700 more jobs as it struggles to recover, its new chief executive said on Wednesday, warning that Switzerland's largest bank faces an uncertain future.
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| NBC recruits Blagojevich as reality star (Reuters)
April 15, 2009 at 1:57 am
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|  Reuters - Rod Blagojevich, recently removed from office as governor of Illinois, has made a deal to star in NBC's upcoming summer reality show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here," the network confirmed Tuesday.
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