| Lawmakers meet Castros, urge end to embargo (AP)
April 8, 2009 at 4:09 am
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|  AP - As the Obama administration considers a shift in the half-century policy of isolating Cuba, members of the Congressional Black Caucus returned from Havana saying the Castro brothers are eager to see a new day in U.S.-Cuban relations.
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| Safety team warns of 'catastrophic' wiring in Iraq (AP)
April 8, 2009 at 3:20 am
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| | AP - A military team sent to evaluate electrical problems at U.S. facilities in Iraq determined there was a high risk that flawed wiring could cause further "catastrophic results" — namely, the electrocutions of U.S. soldiers. |
| Obama in Baghdad, tells troops Iraq must take over (AP)
April 8, 2009 at 12:33 am
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|  AP - Flying unannounced into a still-dangerous war zone, President Barack Obama told U.S. troops and Iraqi officials alike Tuesday it is time to phase out America's combat role in a conflict he opposed as a candidate and has vowed to end as commander in chief.
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| Ex-POW McCain visits 'Hanoi Hilton' Vietnam prison (AP)
April 8, 2009 at 12:13 am
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|  AP - Sen. John McCain paid a quiet visit to the "Hanoi Hilton" prison where he was held for more than five years during the Vietnam War on Wednesday, making a few deadpan remarks as he made his way through dark corridors and past musty cells.
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| Flight student charged with piloting plane into US (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 11:34 pm
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|  AP - Suicide by fighter jet was the goal of a flight student who stole a plane in Canada, entered U.S. airspace and flew an erratic path over the Midwest with the military on his tail before he landed safely on a rural Missouri road, federal authorities said Tuesday.
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| Vermont legalizes gay marriage with veto override (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 10:23 pm
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|  AP - Vermont, which invented civil unions, on Tuesday became a pioneer again as the first state to legalize gay marriage through a legislature's vote, suggesting growing popular acceptance of the idea.
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| Official: Ala. man kills wife, 3 others, self (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 10:10 pm
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|  AP - A man facing a divorce trial shot and killed his estranged wife, their teenage daughter and two other relatives in rural north Alabama before returning to his home in a nearby town and killing himself, authorities said Tuesday.
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| Fidel Castro meets with 3 visiting US lawmakers (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 9:25 pm
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|  AP - Signaling its willingness to discuss improved relations with the U.S., Cuba on Tuesday granted three visiting members of the Congressional Black Caucus the first meeting with Fidel Castro by American officials since he fell ill in 2006.
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| Quake-prone Italy lags in quake-proofing buildings (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 9:22 pm
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|  AP - Italy is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world, but the vast majority of buildings in its most vulnerable regions don't meet modern seismic safety standards, experts say. Scientists say that is why Monday's temblor near L'Aquila took such a devastating toll.
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| Biden says Cheney 'dead wrong' on security policy (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 9:21 pm
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|  AP - Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday his predecessor, Dick Cheney, is "dead wrong" when he says President Barack Obama's national security policies are making the United States less safe. Biden said the exact opposite is true and added that President George W. Bush's vice president was part of a dysfunctional decision-making system.
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| Suleman: Wages, inheritance paid for in vitro (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 9:19 pm
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|  AP - Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman says she used money from an inheritance and overtime wages from her job as a psychiatric technician to pay for her early fertilization procedures. Suleman told celebrity magazine Life & Style Weekly she spent at least $24,000 on the in vitro fertilization procedures that led to her first four babies.
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| 'House' actor Kal Penn joins White House team (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 9:18 pm
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|  AP - The White House has hired actor Kal Penn as a liaison between President Barack Obama's administration and Asian constituents. White House spokesman Shin Inouye said Tuesday that the actor who had a recurring role on Fox's TV show "House" and has starred in several movies would join the staff as an associate director in the Office of Public Liaison.
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| Govt. approves plan for new spy satellites (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 8:53 pm
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| | AP - The Obama administration on Tuesday approved the purchase of pricey new spy satellites and will buy more commercial imagery from the private sector to plug immediate gaps in satellite coverage. |
| Israel tests system to shoot down Iranian missiles (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 8:35 pm
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|  AP - Israel successfully tested an anti-missile system designed to protect the country against Iranian attack, the Defense Ministry said, perfecting technology developed in response to failures of similar systems during the 1991 Gulf War.
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| U.S. drones: Killing Pakistan extremists or recruiting them? (McClatchy Newspapers)
April 7, 2009 at 8:21 pm
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|  McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Even as the Obama administration launches new drone attacks into Pakistan's remote tribal areas, concerns are growing among U.S. intelligence and military officials that the strikes are bolstering the Islamic insurgency by prompting Islamist radicals to disperse into the country's heartland.
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| Powerful sonar causes deafness in dolphins: study (AFP)
April 7, 2009 at 7:05 pm
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|  AFP - Very loud, repeated blasts of sonar can cause a dolphin to temporarily lose its hearing, according to an investigation into a suspected link between naval operations and cetacean strandings.
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| Israel tests system to shoot down Iranian missiles (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 6:16 pm
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| AP - Israel successfully tested an anti-missile system designed to protect the country against Iranian attack, the Defense Ministry said, perfecting technology developed in response to failures of similar systems during the 1991 Gulf War.
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| Biden says Cheney 'dead wrong' on security policy (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 6:16 pm
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|  AP - Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday his predecessor, Dick Cheney, is "dead wrong" when he says President Barack Obama's national security policies are making the United States less safe. Biden said the exact opposite is true and added that President George W. Bush's vice president was part of a dysfunctional decision-making system.
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| 'House' actor Kal Penn joins White House team (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 5:50 pm
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| AP - The White House has hired actor Kal Penn as a liaison between President Barack Obama's administration and Asian constituents. White House spokesman Shin Inouye said Tuesday that the actor who had a recurring role on Fox's TV show "House" and has starred in several movies would join the staff as an associate director in the Office of Public Liaison.
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| Actor resurfaces in White House after "suicide" (Reuters)
April 7, 2009 at 5:48 pm
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| | Reuters - Hollywood star Kal Penn has swapped television's "House" for the White House. The 31-year-old actor, who made his mark as the pot-smoking Kumar in the "Harold and Kumar" feature film comedies, will become associate director in the White House office of public liaison, Entertainment Weekly reported on Monday. |
| Former sheriff's deputy on America's Most Wanted (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 5:38 pm
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| | AP - A former sheriff's deputy accused of killing his wife and a day laborer has joined the ranks of "America's Most Wanted" after cutting the leather strap of his electronic monitoring device and fleeing from house arrest. |
| Peru's Fujimori gets 25 years prison for massacres (Reuters)
April 7, 2009 at 5:33 pm
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|  Reuters - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was convicted of human rights crimes and sentenced to 25 years in prison on Tuesday, the first time a democratically elected Latin American president has been found guilty in his own country of such offenses.
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| Fidel Castro meets with 3 visiting US lawmakers (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 5:20 pm
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| AP - Signaling its willingness to discuss improved relations with the Obama administration, Cuba on Tuesday granted three visiting members of the Congressional Black Caucus the first meeting with Fidel Castro by American officials since he fell ill in 2006.
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| Peru's Fujimori gets 25 years for death squad (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 5:12 pm
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|  AP - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison Tuesday for death squad killings and kidnappings as his autocratic government battled the Shining Path insurgency in the 1990s.
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| Apostles, not apostates: BYU paper's ungodly typo (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 4:34 pm
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| | AP - Thousands of issues of Brigham Young University's student newspaper were pulled from newsstands because a front-page photo caption misidentified leaders of the Mormon church as apostates instead of apostles. |
| Changes to Apple's iTunes prices take effect (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 4:26 pm
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|  AP - The era of one-price-fits-all-songs on iTunes came to an end Tuesday as Apple Inc., the Internet's dominant digital music retailer, began selling some of its most-downloaded songs for $1.29 apiece.
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| Red Cross says doctors helped CIA "torture" (Reuters)
April 7, 2009 at 4:04 pm
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|  Reuters - Health workers violated medical ethics when they helped interrogate terrorism suspects who were tortured at secret CIA prisons overseas, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
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| Pentagon spends $100 million to fix cyber attacks (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 2:11 pm
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| | AP - The Pentagon spent more than $100 million in the last six months responding to and repairing damage from cyber attacks and other computer network problems, military leaders said Tuesday. |
| Don't worry...be happy? (The Yahoo! Newsroom)
April 7, 2009 at 2:09 pm
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|  The Yahoo! Newsroom - Unemployment is at the highest level in decades. Housing prices are continuing on their downward spiral. Even rental apartments are sitting empty. And yet...
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| Stevens case closed, case against prosecutors open (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 12:07 pm
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|  AP - A federal judge dismissed the corruption conviction of former Sen. Ted Stevens on Tuesday and took the rare and serious step of opening a criminal investigation into prosecutors who mishandled the case.
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| Obama in Baghdad, tells troops Iraq must take over (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 11:54 am
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|  AP - Cheered wildly by U.S. troops, President Barack Obama flew unannounced into Iraq on Tuesday and promptly declared it was time for Iraqis to "take responsibility for their country" after America's commitment of six years and thousands of lives.
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| Rare megamouth shark caught, eaten in Philippines (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 10:17 am
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|  AP - Fishermen in the Philippines accidentally caught and later ate a megamouth shark, one of the rarest fishes in the world with only 40 others recorded to have been encountered, the World Wildlife Fund said Tuesday.
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| 911 worker didn't warn Pittsburgh police of guns (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 9:32 am
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|  AP - The mother of a man charged with killing three Pittsburgh police officers told a 911 dispatcher he had weapons, but the dispatcher didn't relay that information to officers, the official in charge of county dispatchers says.
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| Obama speech draws praise in Mideast (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 8:53 am
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|  AP - Syria's foreign minister praised President Barack Obama's address to the Arab and Islamic world in Turkey, and many Arabs were cheered by the American leader's promises to push for a Palestinian state.
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