| 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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| Mexico swine flu deaths spur global epidemic fears (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 7:39 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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| 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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| Fed says gov't ready to save stress-tested banks (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 7:30 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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| 'Secret' Sharon Stone lawsuit unsealed (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 7:27 pm
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|  AP - A civil lawsuit against Sharon Stone that had been held in secret turns out to be a routine dispute over legal fees that the judge says she sealed in error.
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| 28 aircraft destroyed by animal strikes since 2000 (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 7:23 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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| Petraeus: Shippers should consider armed guards (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 7:23 pm
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|  AP - The global shipping industry should consider placing armed guards on its boats to ward off pirates who have become increasingly violent, the U.S. military commander who oversees the African coastline said Friday. Gen. David Petraeus told a House committee Friday that just trying to outrun or block pirates from boarding cargo ships isn't enough to deter sea bandits off the Somali coast who are becoming more aggressive.
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| Obama touts plan to change college loan system (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 7:23 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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| 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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| Fox faces uncertainty over fate of "Idol" judges (Reuters)
April 24, 2009 at 5:35 pm
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| | Reuters - Fox television this week faced an uncomfortable future when the two biggest stars on its No. 1-rated show "American Idol" openly discussed leaving, which experts said could send viewership plummeting in future seasons. |
| AP sources: Chrysler could still avoid bankruptcy (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 1:17 pm
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|  AP - With a government-imposed deadline for massive restructuring less than a week away, Chrysler LLC and Treasury Department officials are still holding out hope that they can reach deals to keep the troubled automaker out of bankruptcy courts, two people briefed on the talks said Friday.
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| Cyndi Lauper shares screen with husband (Reuters)
April 24, 2009 at 12:32 pm
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| | Reuters - U.S. pop singer Cyndi Lauper and husband David Thornton share the big screen as actors at Tribeca Film Festival for the first time since the couple met on a movie set nearly 20 years ago. |
| Man shot 34 times in head with nail gun (Reuters)
April 24, 2009 at 12:12 pm
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| | Reuters - Australian police released Friday a shocking x-ray photo showing the skull of a murdered Chinese immigrant shot 34 times in the head and neck with a high-power nail gun. |
| 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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| Analysis: Obama walks thin line on interrogations (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 6:32 am
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|  AP - Barack Obama, facing perhaps the trickiest political issue of his young presidency, is trying to appease his liberal base without losing control of a potentially volatile inquiry into George W. Bush administration's use of harsh interrogation tactics against terrorism suspects.
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| Tori Spelling's life is an open book (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 6:23 am
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| | AP - On "Beverly Hills 90210," Tori Spelling's character Donna Martin wasn't as pretty or as cool as the characters played by co-stars Jennie Garth or Shannon Doherty. |
| Pakistani Taliban pull back to Swat stronghold (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 6:20 am
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|  AP - Taliban militants began pulling out of a recently seized district of northwestern Pakistan on Friday, a local official and the insurgents said, after the government warned it would remove them by force.
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| Top pop star's finances hit by economic downturn (AFP)
April 24, 2009 at 5:50 am
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|  AFP - The finances of Britain's top music stars, including Elton John, Paul McCartney and Robbie Williams, have been badly hit by the recession, figures from the Sunday Times Rich List showed Friday.
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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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| Pakistani Taliban say withdrawing from key valley (Reuters)
April 24, 2009 at 4:56 am
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| | Reuters - A Pakistani Taliban commander has ordered his men to withdraw from Buner district, a spokesman said on Friday, amid mounting alarm in the United States over the Taliban advance toward the capital of the nuclear-armed Muslim state. |
| South Africa's ruling ANC party looks at huge win (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 4:45 am
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|  AP - South Africa's long-dominant governing party was racing against itself Friday, leaving its opponents far behind and closing in on its goal of doing as well or better than in the last elections.
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| Homeland security secretary taking heat already (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 4:30 am
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|  AP - It didn't take long for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to shoot herself in the foot or for Republicans to make her a target of their opposition to Obama administration policy.
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| Parents' Absence Is Leaving A Hole In Little Girl's Life (Dear Abby)
April 24, 2009 at 2:16 am
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| | Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: I'm a nanny and have been for three years. The 10-year-old girl I work with is wonderful, and I love her dearly. Her parents are not abusive, but they are caught up in their own lives. They devote very little time or effort to their daughter. |
| 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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