| Official: Suspected US strike kills 13 in Pakistan (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 2:54 am
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|  AP - A suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles at an alleged militant hide-out Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, killing 13 people in the latest strike aimed at extremists who pose a threat to international troops in Afghanistan, intelligence officials and residents said.
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| Unemployment Rise Shows Recession Far from Over (Time.com)
April 4, 2009 at 1:25 am
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|  Time.com - With the economy showing nascent signs of improvement, Friday's jobs report is a grim reminder that the recession is far from over
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| Barack Obama's New World Order (Time.com)
April 4, 2009 at 1:15 am
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|  Time.com - Under Obama's leadership, the U.S. has a new look for Europe -- short on grand designs and long on collaboration
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| New York Times threatens to shut Boston Globe (Reuters)
April 3, 2009 at 10:03 pm
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|  Reuters - The New York Times Co has threatened to shut The Boston Globe unless the newspaper's unions quickly agree to $20 million in concessions, the Globe reported on Friday, quoting union leaders.
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| Gunman blocks NY center's door, kills 13, self (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 9:30 pm
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|  AP - A gunman barricaded the back door of a community center with his car and then opened fire on a room full of immigrants taking a citizenship class Friday, killing 13 people before apparently committing suicide, officials said.
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| North Korea watched intently for rocket launch (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 9:28 pm
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|  AP - Spy satellites trained high-resolution cameras on a coastal North Korean launch pad. U.S., Japan and South Korea deployed warships with radar and other surveillance equipment in the waters near the communist nation — all for one of the most closely watched rocket launches ever.
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| Palin sister-in-law accused of breaking into home (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 9:25 pm
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|  AP - Police say Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's sister-in-law is accused of breaking into the same home twice to steal money.
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| Calif. nut plant: Kraft found salmonella in 2008 (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 9:23 pm
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|  AP - Kraft Foods Inc., the company whose testing led to the nationwide pistachio recall, said Friday it first heard there was salmonella in its trail mix in late 2007, but could not trace the possible source to tainted nuts from California until two weeks ago.
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| Va. boy drove 1,300 miles to Texas rodeo grounds (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 9:15 pm
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| | AP - A 13-year-old Virginia boy apparently loaded his family's pickup truck with food, clothes and his dog, hitched up a trailer with two horses in tow and drove nearly 1,300 miles to Texas, police said. The teen's parents found him safe Friday. |
| Iowa Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 8:55 pm
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|  AP - Iowa's Supreme Court legalized gay marriage Friday in a unanimous and emphatic decision that makes Iowa the third state — and first in the nation's heartland — to allow same-sex couples to wed.
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| Unemployment soars to 8.5 pct.; 13 million jobless (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 8:53 pm
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|  AP - Unemployment zoomed to 8.5 percent last month, the highest in a quarter-century, as employers axed 663,000 more workers and pushed the nation's jobless ranks past 13 million. The hard times were only expected to get harder — a painful 10 percent jobless rate before long.
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| Obama campaigns for help in Afghan terror fight (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 8:49 pm
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|  AP - Courting Europe with an American-style campaign, President Barack Obama on Friday talked up his plans — popular here — to eliminate nuclear weapons, close the Guantanamo Bay prison and tackle global warming.
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| Homeland Security boss says cartels under pressure (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 8:43 pm
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|  AP - Beefed up vehicle inspections, more drug-sniffing dogs and improved surveillance should help curb the flow of guns and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday.
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| Islands resent crackdown of tax havens by G-20 (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 8:36 pm
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|  AP - More than 400,000 companies share a few local addresses in this tiny Caribbean financial center, where their incorporation papers are kept in a gray two-story building.
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| Obama to abolish limits on U.S.-Cuba family ties (Reuters)
April 3, 2009 at 8:10 pm
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|  Reuters - In a move that could herald better ties between Cold War foes, the Obama administration is planning to abolish limits on family travel and cash remittances between the United States and Cuba, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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| Barack Obama's New World Order (Time.com)
April 3, 2009 at 7:55 pm
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| Time.com - Under Obama's leadership, the U.S. has a new look for Europe -- short on grand designs and long on collaboration
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| Ohio man branded Nazi guard stalls his deportation (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 7:02 pm
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|  AP - John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi death camp guard, marked his 89th birthday Friday by winning a reprieve of his ordered deportation to Germany to face possible trial.
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| Bristol Palin's ex-fiance cites tension with her (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 5:59 pm
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|  AP - Levi Johnston says ex-fiance Bristol Palin, daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, allows him to visit their 3-month-old son but won't let him take the baby out.
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| Street looks past job data, logs 4th week of gains (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 5:59 pm
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|  AP - Not even grisly job losses could get in the stock market's way Friday.
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| McCartney says meditation helped stabilize Beatles (Reuters)
April 3, 2009 at 5:03 pm
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|  Reuters - The surviving members of the Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, will perform at a concert on Saturday to raise funds to help children learn a meditation technique McCartney said helped stabilize the band at the height of its fame.
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| Ex-U.S. sailor jailed for 10 years on terrorism charges (Reuters)
April 3, 2009 at 4:54 pm
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| | Reuters - A former U.S. Navy sailor stationed in the Middle East was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on Friday for spying and providing material support to a terrorist organization. |
| Iowa court ruling transforms the gay-marriage map (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 4:46 pm
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|  AP - Until Friday, only states in the Northeast and bordering the Pacific had granted broad legal recognition to same-sex unions, but that changed with the Iowa Supreme Court ruling ordering that gay and lesbian couples be allowed to wed.
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| Massacre kills 12 at immigration center in NY (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 3:19 pm
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|  AP - A gunman opened fire at an immigration services center in downtown Binghamton on Friday, killing as many as 13 people before authorities found him dead, officials said.
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| North Korea readies rocket for launch (Reuters)
April 3, 2009 at 2:55 pm
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|  Reuters - North Korea is preparing a rocket to blast off as early as Saturday, officials said, readying what it describes as a satellite launch but is widely regarded as a disguised long-range missile test.
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| Obama offers tough love to Europe (Politico)
April 3, 2009 at 2:50 pm
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|  Politico - STRASBOURG, France — President Barack Obama offered a gentle rebuke to star-struck Europeans Friday that it’s time for them to stop blaming the United States for all the world’s ills — especially now that they’ve got an American president they can embrace.
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| Fannie, Freddie worker bonuses total $210M (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 2:37 pm
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|  AP - Mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plan to pay more than $210 million in bonuses through next year to give workers the incentive to stay in their jobs at the government-controlled companies.
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| Fed 'extremely uncomfortable' about bailouts (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 2:23 pm
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|  AP - While acknowledging that the Federal Reserve was "extremely uncomfortable" about last year's bailouts of big financial companies, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday the central bank's strategy to ease the financial crisis is working.
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| Inside Obama's bank CEOs meeting (Politico)
April 3, 2009 at 2:00 pm
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|  Politico - The bankers struggled to make themselves clear to the president of the United States.
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| Peter Madoff can spend $10K a month on expenses (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 1:34 pm
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|  AP - Bernard Madoff's brother Peter gets access to $10,000 a month for living expenses under an agreement approved Friday in a lawsuit accusing him of swindling a college student.
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| Want to Save Some Money? Shop Without Touching (Time.com)
April 3, 2009 at 1:20 pm
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|  Time.com - New research shows that people who touch merchandise while shopping arewilling to pay more to have it
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| Massive Antarctic ice shelf set to break loose (AFP)
April 3, 2009 at 11:05 am
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|  AFP - A Jamaica-sized ice shelf is close to wrenching itself away from Antarctica, following dramatic weakening of an ice "bridge" linking it to the continent, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported Friday.
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| Iowa court says gay marriage ban unconstitutional (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 10:09 am
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| AP - The Iowa Supreme Court says the state's same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gay and lesbian couples, making it the third state where gay marriage is legal.
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| Dogs Do Look Like Owners (LiveScience.com)
April 3, 2009 at 10:05 am
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| | LiveScience.com - People can guess pretty successfully what breed of dog a person might own just by looking at the owner, a new study finds. |
| Malawi court rejects Madonna adoption request (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 9:16 am
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|  AP - In a surprise move, a judge on Friday rejected Madonna's request to adopt a second child from Malawi even though the country's child welfare minister had supported Madonna's application to raise the 3-year-old girl.
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