| North Korea watched intently for rocket launch (AP) April 3, 2009 at 3:21 pm |
| 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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| Obama offers tough love to Europe (Politico) April 3, 2009 at 2:50 pm |
| 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 |
| 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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| Hostages taken, fatalities at NY immigrant center (AP) April 3, 2009 at 2:35 pm |
| AP - A gunman walked into an immigration services center in downtown Binghamton on Friday, killing an unknown number of people, wounding at least six and taking as many as 41 hostage, officials said.
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| Fed 'extremely uncomfortable' about bailouts (AP) April 3, 2009 at 2:23 pm |
| 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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| A tour through the real Europe (The Yahoo! Newsroom) April 3, 2009 at 2:18 pm |
| The Yahoo! Newsroom - From the G-20 summit in London to a NATO summit in Strasbourg, France, President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have spent plenty of time meeting world leaders, including — who could forget? — the queen of England. But sometimes it's the run-ins with unknown people that make great moments for those in the spotlight.
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| More than 16 million watch `ER' finale (AP) April 3, 2009 at 2:04 pm |
| AP - An estimated 16.4 million people paid one last visit to the "ER" on Thursday, as the last piece of NBC's once-mighty "must-see TV" lineup signed off after 15 years. |
| Forecaster: River may return to record level (AP) April 3, 2009 at 1:59 pm |
| AP - The National Weather Service says there's a good chance the swollen Red River separating North Dakota and Minnesota will return to a dangerously high level by late April.
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| Flogging video shakes Pakistan peace accord (AP) April 3, 2009 at 1:48 pm |
| AP - Pakistani authorities ordered inquiries Friday into a video showing the public flogging of a screaming woman in a northwestern valley where officials have yielded to Taliban demands for Islamic law.
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| France — and its president — go gaga over Obama (AP) April 3, 2009 at 1:48 pm |
| AP - France's president grins, schoolboy-like, as he welcomes Barack Obama to his country where Americans in recent years have not always felt so appreciated. An eager French colonel admonishes his men to keep their heads high as Obama strides past. Teenagers blush and beam at the chance to brush fingers with the American leader.
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| Iowa high court legalizes gay marriage in state (AP) April 3, 2009 at 1:27 pm |
| AP - Iowa's Supreme Court legalized gay marriage Friday in a unanimous and emphatic decision that makes Iowa the third state — and the first in the nation's heartland — to allow same-sex couples to wed.
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| Massive Antarctic ice shelf set to break loose (AFP) April 3, 2009 at 11:05 am |
|  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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| U.S. economy sheds 663,000 jobs (Reuters) April 3, 2009 at 8:34 am |
| Reuters - U.S. employers slashed 663,000 jobs in March, lifting the unemployment rate to 8.5 percent, the highest since 1983, official data showed on Friday in a report underscoring the growing distress in the labor market. |
| CDC: Rocket fuel chemical found in baby formula (AP) April 3, 2009 at 7:37 am |
| AP - Traces of a chemical used in rocket fuel were found in samples of powdered baby formula, and could exceed what's considered a safe dose for adults if mixed with water also contaminated with the ingredient, a government study has found. |
| Snow may hamper search for missing Neb. family (AP) April 3, 2009 at 7:37 am |
| AP - Authorities say they're not sure whether Friday's weather will permit them to resume searching the rugged Black Hills of South Dakota for a family of four not seen since a sheriff's deputy interviewed them two weeks ago about allegations of abuse.
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| US in Iraq kills Sunni paramilitary planting bomb (AP) April 3, 2009 at 6:43 am |
| AP - A U.S. aircraft attacked a group of men believed to be members of a government-allied Sunni paramilitary group as they were planting a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, killing one and wounding two, the U.S. military said Friday.
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| Oil rises above $53, extending rally (AP) April 3, 2009 at 6:37 am |
| AP - Oil prices rose above $53 a barrel Friday, extending a rally fueled by market optimism that crude demand may rebound if the U.S. economic downturn bottoms out soon. Investors remained cautious, however, ahead of a crucial U.S. jobs report later in the day.
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| Freed aid worker rests after Philippines ordeal (AFP) April 3, 2009 at 2:26 am |
| AFP - A Red Cross aid worker released by Islamic militants in the southern Philippines rested out of the public glare Friday as negotiators stepped up efforts to free two foreign colleagues.
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| Recent Divorcee Is Unhinged By Men's Romantic Rejection (Dear Abby) April 3, 2009 at 2:16 am |
| Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: I am a 30-year-old, attractive, recently divorced attorney and single mother. My problem is I become extremely threatened when I'm romantically rejected, and I need to know how to gain a healthier approach to rejection. |
| Just published photos show MLK killing aftermath (AP) April 3, 2009 at 12:58 am |
| AP - Almost 41 years to the day after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, newly published photographs of the aftermath of his shooting at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., are on a magazine's Web site. |
| North Korea launch a test for international law (AP) April 3, 2009 at 12:57 am |
| AP - North Korea says it has the right to put a satellite into orbit under an international space treaty. The U.S. and others, suspicious the planned launch is really a test of a long-range military missile, say firing any rocket would violate a United Nations ban.
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