| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Report: Obama to ease Cuba restrictions (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 10:08 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama intends to lift the U.S. ban on family members traveling to Cuba and remittances to the island, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
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| Madonna to appeal court ruling on Malawi adoption (AP)
April 3, 2009 at 9:26 pm
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|  AP - Wealthy, famous, fabulous at 50 — but not a mother of four. Pop star extraordinaire Madonna lost a bid Friday to adopt a second child from Malawi, rejected by a judge who said she would not bend the country's strict residency rules even for a wealthy celebrity.
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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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