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| Obama takes on North Korea conflict, economy (AP)
April 2, 2009 at 5:42 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart agreed Thursday on the need for a "stern, united" international response if North Korea goes ahead with a planned rocket launch, according to South Korean officials. Obama pledged to push for "peace and stability" as the standoff intensified.
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| World markets surge as US data boost recovery hope (AP)
April 2, 2009 at 4:56 am
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|  AP - World stock markets soared Thursday, with Hong Kong's benchmark vaulting more than 7 percent, as stronger-than-expected U.S. economic figures boosted confidence the world's largest economy is on the mend.
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| Report: NKorea fueling rocket for impending launch (AP)
April 2, 2009 at 3:13 am
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|  AP - North Korea has begun fueling a long-range rocket for an impending launch, a news report said Thursday, as President Barack Obama warned the liftoff would be a "provocative act" that would generate a U.N. Security Council response.
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| Sources: Pentagon seeks $3B for Pakistan military (AP)
April 2, 2009 at 12:37 am
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|  AP - The Obama administration plans to seek as much as $3 billion over the next five years to train and equip Pakistan's military, and is considering sending 10,000 more troops to battle the Taliban in Afghanistan, defense officials said Wednesday.
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| Obama, Brown say G-20 deal will fight recession (AP)
April 2, 2009 at 12:31 am
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|  AP - Doggedly optimistic in the face of doubts, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown predicted Thursday's emergency G-20 economic summit would produce a significant global deal to tackle the deepening worldwide recession. Others weren't so sure.
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| North Korea starts fuelling rocket: report (Reuters)
April 1, 2009 at 11:59 pm
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|  Reuters - North Korea has begun fuelling a long-range rocket and could launch it by the weekend, CNN said, with the United States and others threatening punishment for a move they say violates U.N. resolutions.
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| The Dark Side of Vegetarianism (HealthDay)
April 1, 2009 at 11:49 pm
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| | HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 1 (HealthDay News) -- Despite its proven health benefits, a vegetarian diet might in fact be masking an underlying eating disorder, new research suggests. |
| Army: Officer reprimanded after friendly fire (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 11:44 pm
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| | AP - A 101st Airborne Division officer who killed one of his soldiers in a friendly fire incident hasn't been charged, the Army says, and the family of the man who died is angry no one has been held accountable. |
| Man dies in London protests on G20 summit eve (AFP)
April 1, 2009 at 10:24 pm
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|  AFP - Thousands of people demonstrated on the streets of London ahead of the G20 summit here in angry protests that descended into violent battles with police and saw one man collapse and die.
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| Feds seize Madoff's mansion, yacht, small boat (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 9:31 pm
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|  AP - Federal authorities seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's Palm Beach mansion, his vintage yacht and a smaller boat Wednesday, part of an effort to recoup assets to pay back investors he swindled. Barry Golden, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service, said about five marshals arrived at the 8,753-square-foot, five-bedroom mansion late Wednesday afternoon, hours after the boats were seized.
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| US to boost ports of entry along US-Mexico border (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 9:30 pm
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|  AP - The Obama administration plans to spend more than $400 million to upgrade ports of entry and surveillance technologies to help thwart drugs and arms smuggling along the U.S-Mexico border. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that the projects will help keep violence from spilling across the border.
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| 9 patients made nearly 2,700 ER visits in Texas (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 9:19 pm
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| | AP - Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report. The patients went to hospital emergency rooms 2,678 times from 2003 through 2008, said the report from the nonprofit Integrated Care Collaboration, a group of health care providers who care for low-income and uninsured patients. |
| Twin twitchers: Conn. pet shop has 2-nosed bunny (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 9:01 pm
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|  AP - It's no April Fools joke. The baby bunny really does have two noses. A Connecticut pet shop worker found the nosey bunny in a delivery of 6-week-old dwarf rabbits that arrived at the Milford store last week. Both noses have two nostrils. The owner of the Purr-Fect Pets shop says he's never seen anything like it in 25 years in the business. He says the bunny eats, drinks and hops around like the rest of the litter.
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| House takes up a plan tied to health care overhaul (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 8:14 pm
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|  AP - House Democrats pressed a budget plan Wednesday to make it easier to pass health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama, but their GOP rivals in the Senate preserved their ability to block upcoming legislation on global warming.
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| Todd Palin: $150K on clothes 'out of our control' (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 8:10 pm
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|  AP - The husband of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says the Republican Party's lavish spending on her wardrobe during the presidential campaign was "out of our control." In the May issue of Men's Journal, Todd Palin was asked about the more than $150,000 that the Republican National Committee spent on clothes, accessories and beauty services for the GOP vice presidential nominee.
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| Fatty oil in fish may help reduce tumors: study (Reuters)
April 1, 2009 at 7:18 pm
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| | Reuters - An omega 3 fatty acid found in fish oils reduced the size of tumors in mice and made a chemotherapy drug more potent while limiting its harmful effects, Egyptian researchers reported on Thursday. |
| Greg Gumbel says he was tricked into infomercials (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 7:13 pm
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| | AP - Greg Gumbel was tricked by a television producer into taping introductions for infomercials — footage the CBS Sports broadcaster thought would be used for educational programs, according to a federal lawsuit. |
| Authorities seize Madoff's home, boats in Fla. (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 6:51 pm
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|  AP - Federal authorities seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's Palm Beach mansion, his vintage yacht and a smaller boat Wednesday, part of an effort to recoup assets to pay back investors he swindled.
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| 9 patients made nearly 2,700 ER visits in Texas (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 6:17 pm
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| | AP - Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report. The patients went to hospital emergency rooms 2,678 times from 2003 through 2008, said the report from the nonprofit Integrated Care Collaboration, a group of health care providers who care for low-income and uninsured patients. |
| Todd Palin: $150K on clothes 'out of our control' (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 6:07 pm
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| AP - The husband of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says the Republican Party's lavish spending on her wardrobe during the presidential campaign was "out of our control." In the May issue of Men's Journal, Todd Palin was asked about the more than $150,000 that the Republican National Committee spent on clothes, accessories and beauty services for the GOP vice presidential nominee. |
| 'Project Runway' lands at Lifetime after dispute (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 6:04 pm
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|  AP - After months in limbo, "Project Runway" has a new home at Lifetime. The popular design-competition series that aired for five seasons on the Bravo network had been mired in a legal struggle involving NBC Universal, which owns Bravo, the Weinstein Co. and the Lifetime channel.
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| Fargo resisted FEMA recommendation to evacuate (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 6:03 pm
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|  AP - With floodwaters rising around them, Fargo officials and the Federal Emergency Management Agency faced an agonizing decision: Should they order a mandatory evacuation of the entire city?
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| 7 students punished at Winfrey's school for girls (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 5:24 pm
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|  AP - Seven students have been punished for violating the code of conduct at Oprah Winfrey's school for disadvantaged girls in South Africa, the second controversy to hit the fledgling institution since it opened in 2007. Winfrey representative Don Halcombe said Wednesday that four students were expelled and three were suspended last week from her Leadership Academy for Girls outside Johannesburg.
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| Obama aunt can stay in US until 2010 in asylum bid (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 1:57 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama's aunt will remain in the United States until at least next year as she awaits a chance to make her case before an immigration judge in her bid for asylum from her native Kenya.
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| Mass. regulator charges Madoff feeder fund (Reuters)
April 1, 2009 at 1:30 pm
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|  Reuters - Massachusetts' top securities regulator charged hedge fund firm Fairfield Greenwich Group with fraud for allegedly lying to investors about confessed swindler Bernard Madoff's phony management business.
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| Republicans propose big tax cuts, spending curbs (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 1:20 pm
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| AP - Republicans in the House Wednesday pressed a budget plan that would cut taxes and radically overhaul Medicare, offering a stark alternative to blueprints offered by President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies. |
| Feds seek to reverse Ted Stevens' conviction (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 12:51 pm
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|  AP - The Justice Department asked a judge Wednesday to toss out the corruption conviction of former Sen. Ted Stevens after finding a fresh instance of prosecutorial misconduct in the case.
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| G-20 protesters break into Royal Bank of Scotland (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 12:40 pm
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|  AP - G-20 protesters clashed with riot police in central London on Wednesday, breaking into the heavily guarded Royal Bank of Scotland and smashing its windows. Nearly two dozen people were arrested.
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| The Dark Side of Vegetarianism (HealthDay)
April 1, 2009 at 12:05 pm
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| | HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 1 (HealthDay News) -- Despite its proven health benefits, a vegetarian diet might in fact be masking an underlying eating disorder, new research suggests. |
| Obama, Brown talk at G-20 about ending recession (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 11:23 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown exuded optimism about a global deal to help pull the world out of recession on Wednesday, downplaying a rift with French President Nicolas Sarkozy ahead of the imminent Group of 20 leaders summit.
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| U.S. plans to ease GM into bankruptcy: report (Reuters)
April 1, 2009 at 9:13 am
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|  Reuters - The Obama administration is seeking to ease General Motors Corp into a "controlled" bankruptcy by persuading some creditors to agree to a plan that would divide the company into two pieces, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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| 6,000 Rare Dolphins Found in South Asia (LiveScience.com)
April 1, 2009 at 9:06 am
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| | LiveScience.com - A huge population of rare dolphins threatened by climate change and fishing nets has been discovered in South Asia. Researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society estimate that nearly 6,000 Irrawaddy dolphins, marine mammals that are related to orcas or killer whales, were found living in freshwater regions of Bangladesh's Sundarbans mangrove forest and adjacent waters of the Bay of Bengal. There has been hardly any marine mammal research done in this area up to this point. ... |  |
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