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| Sri Lanka army: 35 rebels killed as civilians flee (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 1:33 am
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|  AP - Sri Lankan soldiers have pushed deep into the sole remaining Tamil rebel enclave and killed 35 guerrillas while nearly 78,000 civilians have fled the northern war zone in the past two days, the military said Wednesday.
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| Scientists discover a nearly Earth-sized planet (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 12:24 am
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|  AP - In the search for Earth-like planets, astronomers zeroed in Tuesday on two places that look awfully familiar to home. One is close to the right size. The other is in the right place. European researchers said they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, called Gliese 581 e, but realized that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habitable zone for potential life.
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| Police say mom ordered daughters out, drove off (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 12:23 am
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|  AP - Usually, it's an empty threat: "If you kids don't stop fighting, I'm going to stop this car right now and leave you here!" But a mother from an upper-crust New York suburb went through with it, ordering her battling 10- and 12-year-old daughters out of her car in White Plains' business district and driving off, police said Tuesday.
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| Police: Med student targeted women on Craigslist (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 12:21 am
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|  AP - Philip Markoff seemed to have a good life: The handsome, clean-cut, 23-year-old medical student was planning a lavish beachfront wedding this summer to a beautiful woman. But authorities say his computer and surveillance video paint a picture of a suspected serial criminal who targeted women offering erotic services through Craigslist. Now he's accused of killing one and suspected of robbing and tying up another.
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| Obama open to torture memos probe, prosecution (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 12:14 am
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|  AP - Widening an explosive debate on torture, President Barack Obama on Tuesday opened the possibility of prosecution for Bush-era lawyers who authorized brutal interrogation of terror suspects and suggested Congress might order a full investigation.
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| Obama urges citizens to undertake national service (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 12:13 am
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|  AP - Calling on Americans to volunteer, President Barack Obama signed a $5.7 billion national service bill Tuesday that triples the size of the AmeriCorps service program over the next eight years and expands ways for students to earn money for college. "What this legislation does, then, is to help harness this patriotism and connect deeds to needs," said Obama, a former community organizer in Chicago.
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| U.S. officials track new flu strain (Reuters)
April 21, 2009 at 10:04 pm
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|  Reuters - A new type of swine flu has infected at least two children in California and while both have recovered, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday they were looking for more cases.
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| Report: Abusive tactics were used to find Iraq-al Qaida link (McClatchy Newspapers)
April 21, 2009 at 10:00 pm
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|  McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a former Army psychiatrist.
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| Unresolved debate in DOJ memos: Does torture work? (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 9:54 pm
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|  AP - Interrogators have centuries of experience extracting information from the unwilling. Medieval inquisitors hanged heretics from ceilings. Salem magistrates used fire to elicit witchcraft confessions. And CIA officers waterboarded terrorism suspects in clandestine prisons.
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| Record attempt reaps 217K texts, $26K phone bill (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 9:00 pm
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|  AP - Their thumbs sure must be sore. Two central Pennsylvania friends spent most of March in a text-messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000. For one of the two, that meant an inches-thick itemized bill for $26,000.
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| Obama open to torture memos probe, prosecution (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 7:40 pm
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| AP - Widening an explosive debate on torture, President Barack Obama on Tuesday opened the possibility of prosecution for Bush-era lawyers who authorized brutal interrogation of terror suspects and suggested Congress might order a full investigation. |
| Obama urges citizens to undertake national service (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 7:40 pm
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|  AP - Calling on Americans to volunteer, President Barack Obama signed a $5.7 billion national service bill Tuesday that triples the size of the AmeriCorps service program over the next eight years and expands ways for students to earn money for college. "What this legislation does, then, is to help harness this patriotism and connect deeds to needs," said Obama, a former community organizer in Chicago.
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| Police: Med student targeted women on Craigslist (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 7:06 pm
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| AP - Philip Markoff seemed to have a good life: The handsome, clean-cut, 23-year-old medical student was planning a lavish beachfront wedding this summer to a beautiful woman. But authorities say his computer and surveillance video paint a picture of a suspected serial criminal who targeted women offering erotic services through Craigslist. Now he's accused of killing one and suspected of robbing and tying up another. |
| Judge nixes Costa Rica trip for ex-Ill. governor (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 6:29 pm
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|  AP - A federal judge told ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday to forget about starring in a reality TV show in the Costa Rican jungle and focus instead on the corruption charges that could send him to prison for years.
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| Scientists discover a nearly Earth-sized planet (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 6:17 pm
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| AP - In the search for Earth-like planets, astronomers zeroed in Tuesday on two places that look awfully familiar to home. One is close to the right size. The other is in the right place. European researchers said they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, called Gliese 581 e, but realized that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habitable zone for potential life. |
| Treasury weighs new mortgage subsidies: sources (Reuters)
April 21, 2009 at 6:02 pm
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|  Reuters - The Treasury Department is considering giving banks and investors billions of dollars in fresh incentives to modify troubled mortgages and save homeowners from foreclosure, sources familiar with official deliberations said.
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| Helmsley estate: $136M to charity, $1M to dogs (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 5:54 pm
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|  AP - Real estate baroness Leona Helmsley's estate gave away $136 million Tuesday to hospitals, foundations and the homeless and left $1 million to animal charities, prompting one advocate to accuse the estate of failing to honor the hotel tycoon's wishes.
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| Top bailed-out firms continue lobbying (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 5:41 pm
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|  AP - The top 10 recipients of the government's $700 billion financial bailout spent about $9.5 million on federal lobbying during the first three months of the year.
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| New ancient Egypt temples discovered in Sinai (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 5:21 pm
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|  AP - Archaeologists exploring an old military road in the Sinai have unearthed four new temples amidst the 3,000-year-old remains of an ancient fortified city that could have been used to impress foreign delegations visiting Egypt, antiquities authorities announced Tuesday.
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| Rivers shrinking: Flow of many rivers in decline (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 5:21 pm
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|  AP - The flow of water in the world's largest rivers has declined over the past half-century, with significant changes found in about a third of the big rivers. An analysis of 925 major rivers from 1948 to 2004 showed an overall decline in total discharge.
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| Geithner tells overseers banks still in distress (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 5:15 pm
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|  AP - America's banks are still broken despite all their bailout billions, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told impatient rescue overseers Tuesday as they pressed him on when things will get better and how much it will cost. A bleak new report estimated U.S. banks and other financial institutions could lose a stunning $2.7 trillion in all.
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| Moon to Hide Venus Wednesday Morning (SPACE.com)
April 21, 2009 at 4:30 pm
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| | SPACE.com - Sometime before or after sunrise Wednesday, April 22 – depending upon your location – the thin waning crescent moon will cover up Venus for most of North America. Since these are the two brightest objects in the sky aside from the sun, the view will be spectacular even to the unaided eye in many places. |
| Want to reduce breast cancer risk? Eat walnuts (Reuters)
April 21, 2009 at 3:47 pm
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| | Reuters - Researchers at Marshall University School of Medicine in Huntington, West Virginia, found that lab mice bred to develop breast cancer had a significantly lower risk of breast cancer if fed the human equivalent of a handful of walnuts a day. |
| Young Jews march in memory of Holocaust victims (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 1:52 pm
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|  AP - Thousands of young Jews and elderly Holocaust survivors marched Tuesday at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz to honor those who perished in the Holocaust, while an Israeli official condemned the Iranian president's recent anti-Israel comments. |
| Obama open to prosecution, probe of interrogations (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 1:25 pm
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| AP - President Barack Obama left the door open Tuesday to prosecuting Bush administration officials who devised the legal authority for gruesome terror-suspect interrogations, saying the United States lost "our moral bearings" with use of the tactics. |
| San Fran Mayor Gavin Newsom running for governor (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 1:07 pm
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|  AP - Mayor Gavin Newsom formally announced his candidacy for California governor Tuesday, offering himself as an heir to the same groundswell for generational change that helped send President Barack Obama to the White House.
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| Volcano 'poses tsunami threat' in Caribbean (AFP)
April 21, 2009 at 11:47 am
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|  AFP - Tsunami waves unleashed by the collapse of an unstable volcano on the Caribbean island of Dominica would hit the highly populated coast of nearby Guadeloupe within minutes, according to a new study.
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| Hubble Photographs Cosmic Fountain (SPACE.com)
April 21, 2009 at 9:48 am
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|  SPACE.com - To commemorate almost two decades of photographing the wonders of the universe, the Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a peculiar group of interacting galaxies that contains a "cosmic fountain" of stars, gas and dust that stretches over 100,000 light years.
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| Sri Lanka rebels: 1,000 civilians die in govt raid (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 9:19 am
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|  AP - Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels said Tuesday that 1,000 civilians died in a government raid on their territory that the military says freed thousands of noncombatants from the war zone. The military denied the accusation.
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| Somali pirate arrives in NYC, awaits court hearing (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 7:46 am
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|  AP - A Somali teenager arrived to face what are believed to be the first piracy charges in the United States in more than a century, smiling but saying nothing as he was led into a federal building under heavy guard.
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| Somali pirate arrives in NYC, awaits court hearing (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 3:47 am
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|  AP - The sole surviving Somali pirate from the hostage-taking of an American ship captain arrived in New York on Monday, smiling for a gaggle of cameras and reporters as federal agents led him into custody to face charges in the attack.
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| Justices hear arguments over school strip search (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 3:05 am
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|  AP - A 13-year-old girl says she will never be able to forget the humiliation of school administrators searching her underwear for prescription-strength ibuprofen pills. Now the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether the search went too far.
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| U.S. to give Chrysler, GM new aid (Reuters)
April 21, 2009 at 1:57 am
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|  Reuters - The Obama administration will make about $500 million available to Chrysler LLC through the end of this month as it seeks to reach an alliance with Fiat, and up to $5 billion through May to help General Motors Corp restructure outside of bankruptcy, an independent oversight report on the Treasury Department's corporate rescue fund said on Tuesday.
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