| Mexico swine flu deaths spur global epidemic fears (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 8:55 pm
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|  AP - A unique strain of swine flu is the suspected killer of dozens of people in Mexico, where authorities closed schools, museums, libraries and theaters in the capital on Friday to try to contain an outbreak that has spurred concerns of a global flu epidemic.
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| SC wildfire blamed on blaze some thought was out (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 8:41 pm
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|  AP - Firefighters responded twice to a weekend yard fire that South Carolina officials believe rekindled four days later, igniting a massive wildfire that has destroyed 70 homes and continued to char 31 square miles near Myrtle Beach on Friday.
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| 28 aircraft destroyed by animal strikes since 2000 (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 8:39 pm
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|  AP - Airplane collisions with birds or other animals have destroyed 28 aircraft since 2000, with New York's Kennedy airport and Sacramento International reporting the most incidents with serious damage, according to Federal Aviation Administration data posted for the first time Friday. And the problem appears to be growing.
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| AP source: Craigslist suspect linked to RI hotel (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 8:29 pm
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|  AP - A fingerprint has been found linking a medical student accused of killing a masseuse in Boston to a hotel near Providence where another woman claims she was attacked, a law enforcement official said Friday.
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| Fed says gov't ready to save stress-tested banks (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 8:26 pm
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|  AP - The government signaled Friday that some distressed banks will need to raise more cash to meet stricter standards it has set for the 19 financial firms that took its "stress tests" and suggested it's ready to step in with more federal help.
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| Obama touts plan to change college loan system (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 8:22 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama on Friday renewed his call for the government to stop backing private loans to college students and replace them with direct financial aid to young people.
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| Democrat Murphy wins House race after concession (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 8:03 pm
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|  AP - Almost a month after a special election in a heavily Republican congressional district, the Democratic candidate claimed victory Friday when his GOP opponent conceded in a race that focused attention on President Barack Obama's stimulus plan.
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| Deadly new flu strain erupts in Mexico, U.S. (Reuters)
April 24, 2009 at 7:34 pm
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|  Reuters - A strain of flu never seen before has killed up to 60 people in Mexico and also appeared in the United States, where eight people were infected but recovered, health officials said on Friday.
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| New UC admissions policy angers Asian-Americans (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 7:32 pm
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|  AP - A new admissions policy set to take effect at the University of California system in three years is raising fears among Asian-Americans that it will reduce their numbers on campus, where they account for 40 percent of all undergraduates.
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| Democrats Agree to Fast Track for Health Care Revamp (Bloomberg)
April 24, 2009 at 5:48 pm
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|  Bloomberg - April 24 (Bloomberg) -- Democrats reached a tentative agreement to use a parliamentary procedure that would prevent Senate Republicans from blocking President Barack Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health care system, congressional aides said.
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| A president and his polls (The Yahoo! Newsroom)
April 24, 2009 at 5:36 pm
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|  The Yahoo! Newsroom - Politicians love to say they don't watch polls when their own numbers are down, but few say the same thing when their numbers are up. As Politico puts it: "Presidents have long pooh-poohed polls while privately conducting them."
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| Mother of Mich. girl found dead in bin charged (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 5:34 pm
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|  AP - A 9-year-old quadriplegic girl whose body was found in a storage unit suffered from "severe, ongoing malnutrition and neglect" before her death, a prosecutor said Friday after charging her adoptive mother with murder.
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| Mexico flu deaths raise worries of global epidemic (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 2:11 pm
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|  AP - At least 16 people — and possibly dozens more — have died from a swine flu virus in Mexico, and world health officials worry it could unleash a global flu epidemic. Mexico City closed schools across the metropolis Friday in hopes of containing the outbreak, and tougher measures were being considered.
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| FAA: bird strikes more than double at big airports (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 1:59 pm
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|  AP - Airplane collisions with birds have more than doubled at 13 major U.S. airports since 2000, and New York's Kennedy airport and Sacramento International report the most incidents with serious damage, according to Federal Aviation Administration data released for the first time Friday.
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| Ford shares rise as Q1 loss smaller than expected (Reuters)
April 24, 2009 at 12:59 pm
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|  Reuters - Ford Motor Co posted a smaller-than-expected first-quarter loss and said it was on track to at least break even in 2011 and did not expect to seek U.S. government loans, sending its shares up as much as 20 percent.
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| Thousands of Armenians mourn WWI mass killings (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 12:50 pm
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|  AP - Tens of thousands of Armenians marched through the capital on Friday to commemorate the 94th anniversary of the start of mass killings by Ottoman Turks, many calling on Turkey to recognize the slayings as genocide.
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| Mexico City suspends schools over flu epidemic (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 12:20 pm
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| | AP - Mexico City closed schools across the metropolis of 20 million Friday after at least 16 people died and more than 900 others fall ill from what health officials suspect is a new strain of swine flu. World health officials worried that it could mark the start of a flu pandemic. |
| Bank industry to hear results of 'stress tests' (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 12:01 pm
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|  AP - The nation's 19 largest banks are receiving report cards showing how they performed in the government's stress tests to assess their soundness, a process that could roil the industry.
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| Ford posts $1.4 billion 1Q loss, uses less cash (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 11:42 am
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|  AP - Ford Motor Co. reported a first-quarter loss of $1.4 billion Friday and said it depleted less of its cash, emphasizing that it doesn't expect to seek any of the government assistance that is keeping the rest of the Detroit Three alive.
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| Gore, Gingrich face off on climate (Politico)
April 24, 2009 at 11:26 am
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|  Politico - Former Vice President Al Gore pushed Congress to find the “moral courage” to create a cap-and-trade system, endorsing a sweeping climate change proposal as “one of the most important pieces of legislation ever introduced in the Congress.”
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| Denial Can Bring Marital Bliss (LiveScience.com)
April 24, 2009 at 10:25 am
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| | LiveScience.com - With the divorce rate hovering around 50 percent, and so many people married more than once, it sometimes feels like humans are terrible at figuring out long-term love. The typical pattern starts with falling head-over-heels for someone, with all its heat-thumping, starry-eyed craziness, and it takes a while before that fog dissipates and the real object of desire comes into focus. Often, the truth doesn't hit until after marriage when the real person, warts and all, wakes up next to you in bed wearing a wedding ring. ... |
| UN says nearly 6,500 civilians dead in Sri Lanka (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 6:55 am
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|  AP - Indian officials took a demand for an immediate cease-fire in Sri Lanka's civil war to the country's president on Friday as the U.N. reported that nearly 6,500 ethnic Tamil civilians were killed in the last three months.
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| Miss California: Queen of the GOP (Politico)
April 24, 2009 at 5:22 am
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|  Politico - Miss California may have lost her shot at becoming Miss USA after expressing her opposition to same-sex marriage, but she’s nevertheless emerged as a star.
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| For Obama, hipness is what it is (Politico)
April 24, 2009 at 5:06 am
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|  Politico - During his first 100 days as president of the United States, Barack Obama revealed how different he is from all the white men who preceded him in the Oval Office, and the differences run deeper — in substance and style — than the color of his skin.
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| No charges in freezing death of Mich. man in house (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 5:02 am
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|  AP - No criminal charges will be filed in the death of a 93-year-old man who froze inside his home after an electric utility installed a power-limiting device because of unpaid bills, a prosecutor said Thursday.
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| ACLU: Pentagon to release images of prisoner abuse (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 12:26 am
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| | AP - The Defense Department will release a "substantial number" of photos depicting abuse of prisoners by U.S. personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American Civil Liberties Union said late Thursday. | | |  |
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