| 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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| Police probing Calif. child slaying search church (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 9:39 pm
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|  AP - Police on Tuesday searched a local church and questioned neighbors of an 8-year-old girl whose body was stuffed in a suitcase and dumped in a pond a few miles from this quiet, working-class community.
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| Italy rocked by strong aftershocks; Woman rescued (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 9:33 pm
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|  AP - Strong aftershocks Tuesday sent a fresh wave of fear across earthquake-shattered central Italy, and rescue crews pulled a young woman alive from a collapsed building about 42 hours after the main quake struck the mountainous region. Eleonora Calesini, a 20-year-old student, was found alive in the ruins of the five-story building in central L'Aquila, said her grandfather, Renato Calesini, in the seaside town of Mondaini.
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| Obama in Baghdad, tells troops Iraq must take over (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 9:29 pm
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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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| 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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| NKorea shows footage of healthy leader Kim Jong Il (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 9:24 pm
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|  AP - State-run television gave North Koreans their first glimpse of the country's "auspicious" rocket launch_ and of an apparently healthy leader Kim Jong Il mingling with farmers and watching bears at the zoo. What the TV didn't show Tuesday was just as notable: footage of the "Dear Leader" during the 3 1/2 months after he is believed to have suffered a stroke that sparked fears of a succession crisis in the poor, nuclear-armed nation.
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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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| 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. |
| Analysis: Obama achieves defining TV shot in Iraq (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 5:53 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama went for the defining television shot in Iraq and got it — pictures of hundreds of U.S. troops cheering wildly as he told them it was time for the Iraqis to take charge of their own future.
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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. |
| Biden says Cheney 'dead wrong' on security policy (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 5:28 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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| 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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| Israel tests system to shoot down Iranian missiles (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 5:10 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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| Death of a village: Losses devastate Italian town (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 4:33 pm
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|  AP - Some stumbled around dazed, still wearing the pajamas they fled in. Others wept or stared at heart-wrenching items jutting out of a pile of rubble three stories high: a child's shattered guitar, a little girl's play stroller — a bloodstained mattress.
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| 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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| Iraqi salesman saves baby after bomb kills mother (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 4:21 pm
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|  AP - A salesman rescued a baby from a blaze ignited by a car bombing in a Shiite neighborhood Tuesday, reaching through the shattered window and grabbing the boy after the blast killed his mother and eight other people.
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| Man hoping to be deported streaks down Fla. street (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 3:23 pm
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| | AP - Authorities said a man claiming to be an illegal immigrant ran naked down a Port St. Lucie street so that he would be sent back to Mexico. Police responded to a home Saturday night where they found a 28-year-old man arguing with his boyfriend. |
| 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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| Obama in Baghdad, tells troops Iraq must take over (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 11:40 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 is time for Iraqis "take responsibility for their country" after America's commitment of six years and thousands of lives.
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| Obama in Iraq to push for political progress (Reuters)
April 7, 2009 at 11:21 am
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|  Reuters - President Barack Obama flew to Baghdad on Tuesday to meet U.S. military commanders and Iraqi leaders, making his first trip as president after announcing his new strategy to wind down the unpopular six-year-old war.
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| Peru's Fujimori convicted in death squad trial (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 11:16 am
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|  AP - A special tribunal convicted former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori of murder and kidnapping on Tuesday for death squad activities during his 10-year rule during the 1990s.
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| Court reduces sentence for Iraqi shoe thrower (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 10:58 am
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| | AP - Iraq's highest court on Tuesday reduced the prison sentence for an Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at former President George W. Bush from three years to one, a court spokesman said. |
| Colo. hurricane team now predicts average season (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 10:28 am
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|  AP - Hurricane experts at Colorado State University have scaled back their prediction for the Atlantic and now say this will be an average season with 12 named storms, including six hurricanes. They say two of them could be major.
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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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| Hard-up Nicolas Cage sells German castle (AFP)
April 7, 2009 at 9:51 am
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|  AFP - The global recession has forced Hollywood star Nicolas Cage to tighten his purse strings and sell his sumptuous castle in Bavaria in southern Germany, the actor told a magazine 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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| Body of missing Northern California girl, 8, found (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 5:16 am
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| | AP - A few miles from the irrigation pond where the body of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu was discovered in a suitcase, authorities roped off the mobile home park where she was last seen searching for clues to her death. |
| Calif. river system is nation's most endangered (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 4:05 am
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|  AP - California's two longest rivers have been named the country's most endangered waterways because of outdated water management and poor flood planning, according to an environmental advocacy group.
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| Judge expected to toss Stevens conviction (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 3:22 am
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| | AP - Former Sen. Ted Stevens is getting another day in court, and this time a federal judge is expected to dismiss his corruption conviction after prosecutors acknowledged mishandling the case. |
| Dutch soldier, 4 insurgents killed in Afghanistan (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 3:08 am
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|  AP - A rocket struck the Netherlands' main base in southern Afghanistan, killing a Dutch soldier and wounding five others, officials said Tuesday. U.S.-led coalition troops killed four militants in the same region.
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| Optimism on U.S. economy up: poll (Reuters)
April 7, 2009 at 2:26 am
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|  Reuters - Americans have grown more optimistic about the economy and the direction of the country since President Barack Obama took office in January, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll on Monday.
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