| N. Korea launches rocket, defying world pressure (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 12:29 am
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|  AP - North Korea defiantly carried out a provocative rocket launch Sunday that the U.S., Japan and other nations suspect was a cover for a test of its long-range missile technology.
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| Police: 5 children, father die in murder-suicide (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 12:26 am
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|  AP - A father apparently shot to death five of his children, ages 7 to 16, at their mobile home and then killed himself near a casino miles away, police said Saturday.
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| State Department says North Korea launches rocket (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 12:26 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama said North Korea should refrain from further provocative actions after that nation's government made good on their promise to launch a long-range rocket.
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| North Korea launches rocket over Japan (Reuters)
April 5, 2009 at 12:11 am
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| Reuters - North Korea launched a long-range rocket over Japan on Sunday, drawing swift international condemnation and triggering an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council.
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| UN council to meet in emergency session on NKorea (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 12:03 am
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| AP - The U.N. Security Council approved an emergency session Sunday to deal with North Korea's rocket launch.
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| Metallica, Run-DMC headed to Rock Hall of Fame (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 12:02 am
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|  AP - Metallica shoved the mosh pit into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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| Analysis: Negotiating a minefield of bad news (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 11:40 pm
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|  AP - Does the name Byran Uyesugi ring a bell? Odds are not. What about Robert A. Hawkins? Or Mark Barton? Terry Ratzmann? Robert Stewart?
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| As gunman's life fell apart, he took others' (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 11:30 pm
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|  AP - Jiverly Wong was upset over losing his job at a vacuum plant, didn't like people picking on him for his limited English and once angrily told a co-worker, "America sucks."
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| Threat to shut Boston Globe shows no paper is safe (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 11:27 pm
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|  AP - When it bought the Boston Globe for a record $1.1 billion in 1993, the New York Times Co. added one of the nation's most acclaimed and profitable newspapers to its empire.
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| One man's ambivalent retreat from his racist past (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 9:39 pm
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|  AP - Elwin Hope Wilson leans back in his recliner, a sad, sickly man haunted by time.
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| Gunman 'lying in wait' kills 3 Pittsburgh officers (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 9:36 pm
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|  AP - A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and "lying in wait" opened fire on officers responding to a domestic disturbance call Saturday, killing three of them and turning a quiet Pittsburgh street into a battlefield, police said.
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| Europe praises Obama, pledges few Afghan troops (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 9:34 pm
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|  AP - European leaders enthusiastically praised President Barack Obama's new Afghan strategy at a NATO summit Saturday but held their ground on a central disagreement and offered only military trainers and extra security forces for upcoming elections.
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| Kidnapped American UN worker freed in Pakistan (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 8:55 pm
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|  AP - An American U.N. worker abducted more than two months ago turned up unharmed Saturday, lying alongside a road in western Pakistan with his hands and feet bound and pleading "Help me, help me," the man who found him said.
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| Obama to call for nuclear-free world (Reuters)
April 4, 2009 at 6:14 pm
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|  Reuters - President Barack Obama will call for the elimination of all nuclear weapons across the globe, in remarks on Sunday he hopes will lend credibility to his message in atomic disputes with Iran and North Korea.
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| Estimate says bailout will cost taxpayers more (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 6:03 pm
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| | AP - Bailing out the financial sector will cost taxpayers $167 billion more than originally anticipated, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate. |
| One man's ambivalent retreat from his racist past (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 5:44 pm
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| AP - Elwin Hope Wilson leans back in his recliner, a sad, sickly man haunted by time.
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| Obama adviser paid millions as hedge fund director (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 4:50 pm
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| | AP - Lawrence Summers, President Barack Obama's top economic adviser, earned millions over the past year as managing director of the hedge fund D.E. Shaw Group and through speaking fees, some from financial institutions now at the center of the government's rescue program. |
| Metallica, Run-DMC headed to Rock Hall of Fame (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 4:08 pm
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|  AP - Metallica, a heavy-metal machine whose menacing sound has inspired headbangers for nearly three decades, is detouring from its latest world tour for its biggest gig yet.
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| Estimated U.S. taxpayer cost for bailout jumps (Reuters)
April 4, 2009 at 3:19 pm
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| | Reuters - U.S. congressional budget analysts have raised their estimate of the net cost to taxpayers for the government's financial rescue program to $356 billion, an increase of $167 billion from earlier estimates. |
| Police say N.Y. immigrant shooter's act no surprise (Reuters)
April 4, 2009 at 2:42 pm
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|  Reuters - Authorities identified the gunman who killed 13 people and himself at an immigrant services center on Friday as Jiverly Wong, 41, a Vietnamese immigrant who had taken English classes there.
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| Will Underwood's secret dress be for ACMs success? (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 2:25 pm
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| | AP - It's as if Carrie Underwood's dress were a matter of national security. |
| World leaders ponder how to punish NKorea (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 2:15 pm
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|  AP - North Korea is once again creating an international crisis with a plan to launch a rocket and is once again thumbing its nose at a world community wondering what to do if the rogue communist state goes ahead with the liftoff.
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| Michelle Obama dodges protesters and kisses Carla (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 1:21 pm
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|  AP - It was perhaps not what Michelle Obama expected on her first presidential foray to France. But it was certainly very French.
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| Calif woman gets 6 years for fatal texting crash (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 1:02 pm
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| | AP - A woman who crashed into a line of stopped vehicles while text-messaging on her cell phone has been sentenced to six years in a California prison for killing a woman in one of the vehicles. |
| Police official: 3 officers killed in Pa. shooting (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 12:49 pm
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|  AP - A man opened fire on officers during a domestic disturbance call Saturday morning, killing three of them, a police official said. Friends said he feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns.
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| Analysis: In US, Europe a delicate political topic (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 11:55 am
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|  AP - He came and he saw, but he didn't play the conqueror. Instead, Barack Obama journeyed to Europe, as he put it, to pay attention.
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| Analysis: Obama's trip: Big cheers, some results (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 11:54 am
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|  AP - Stop after stop, crowds are thronging, leaders gushing, headlines blaring. Even a roomful of foreign reporters applauded after President Barack Obama's London news conference.
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| Moore, Nugent, Wilson sound off on Detroit (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 11:38 am
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|  AP - Michael Moore says parts of it look like "the landscape of another planet."
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| Afghan leader orders review of Shi'ite law (Reuters)
April 4, 2009 at 11:18 am
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|  Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered a review of a new law for Afghanistan's Shi'ite minority after Western nations raised concerns over its impact on women's rights, Western officials said on Saturday.
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| Shrinking airlines park more planes in the desert (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 10:45 am
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|  AP - Old jets come here, empty engine pods shrink-wrapped in white, tall red tails fading to pink in the desert sun. More will come soon. Some will never fly again.
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| Obama: Threats to security, economy are worldwide (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 10:22 am
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|  AP - It takes coordinated global responses to tackle terrorism, the financial meltdown, global warming and other problems in an age when such issues recognize no boundaries, President Barack Obama said Saturday.
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| France, Germany firm on Afghan involvement (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 7:11 am
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|  AP - France and Germany fully endorsed President Barack Obama's new Afghan war strategy but continued to firmly resist U.S. demands for more combat troops on Saturday at the start of NATO's 60th-anniversary summit.
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| As West warms, some fear for tiny mountain dweller (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 7:00 am
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|  AP - The American pika — a short-legged, hamster-sized fur ball that huddles in high mountain slopes — isn't built for long-distance travel.
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| Obama welcomes Albania, Croatia to NATO (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 6:57 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama on Saturday welcomed Albania and Croatia to NATO and declared to other nations that "the door to membership will remain open."
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| Jobless make TV ads pitching themselves for work (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 6:32 am
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|  AP - Jayna Dinsmore dressed in a sharp pink blouse and black slacks and made the pitch she hoped would end her five months of unemployment: Experienced marketing manager and analyst. Diverse background. Trade show experience.
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| Dispute on NATO chief clouds anniversary summit (Reuters)
April 4, 2009 at 5:30 am
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| | Reuters - A dispute between Turkey and its NATO allies over the military alliance's next leader soured a 60th anniversary summit on Saturday. |
| Receptionist a 'hero' at NY center where 14 killed (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 5:23 am
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|  AP - The two receptionists at the American Civic Association community center barely had time to react when a gunman stormed in the front door and shot them at close range before firing on a roomful of immigrants taking a citizenship class.
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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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| North Korea says satellite launch coming 'soon' (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 1:10 am
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|  AP - North Korea said preparations to launch a satellite were complete Saturday and liftoff was imminent, as U.S., Japanese and South Korean warships with radar plied waters near the communist nation to monitor what they fear is a long-range missile test.
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| Gunman blocks NY center's door, kills 13, self (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 1:08 am
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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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