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| Obama, Brown say G-20 deal will fight recession (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 9:34 pm
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|  AP - Doggedly optimistic in the face of doubts, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown predicted Thursday's emergency G-20 economic summit would produce a significant global deal to tackle the deepening worldwide recession. Others weren't so sure.
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| SKorea seeks united front against NKorea launch (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 9:32 pm
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|  AP - South Korea's president sought Wednesday to galvanize support from world leaders to pursue U.N. Security Council punishment for North Korea if it proceeds with a rocket launch that is suspected to be a cover for a missile test.
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| Feds seize Madoff's mansion, yacht, small boat (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 9:31 pm
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|  AP - Federal authorities seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's Palm Beach mansion, his vintage yacht and a smaller boat Wednesday, part of an effort to recoup assets to pay back investors he swindled. Barry Golden, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service, said about five marshals arrived at the 8,753-square-foot, five-bedroom mansion late Wednesday afternoon, hours after the boats were seized.
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| US to boost ports of entry along US-Mexico border (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 9:30 pm
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|  AP - The Obama administration plans to spend more than $400 million to upgrade ports of entry and surveillance technologies to help thwart drugs and arms smuggling along the U.S-Mexico border. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that the projects will help keep violence from spilling across the border.
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| North Korea starts fuelling rocket: report (Reuters)
April 1, 2009 at 9:23 pm
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|  Reuters - North Korea has begun fuelling a long-range rocket and could launch it by the weekend, CNN said, with the United States and others promising punishment for a move they say violates U.N. resolutions.
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| Suspect's wife sorry for NC nursing home shooting (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 9:20 pm
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|  AP - The estranged wife of a man charged with gunning down seven residents and a nurse at a North Carolina nursing home said Wednesday she wishes she had been the victim instead. Wanda Gay Neal told WRAL-TV she has apologized to some families of those killed.
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| 9 patients made nearly 2,700 ER visits in Texas (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 9:19 pm
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| | AP - Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report. The patients went to hospital emergency rooms 2,678 times from 2003 through 2008, said the report from the nonprofit Integrated Care Collaboration, a group of health care providers who care for low-income and uninsured patients. |
| Greg Gumbel says he was tricked into infomercials (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 7:13 pm
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| | AP - Greg Gumbel was tricked by a television producer into taping introductions for infomercials — footage the CBS Sports broadcaster thought would be used for educational programs, according to a federal lawsuit. |
| 7 students punished at Winfrey's school for girls (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 5:24 pm
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|  AP - Seven students have been punished for violating the code of conduct at Oprah Winfrey's school for disadvantaged girls in South Africa, the second controversy to hit the fledgling institution since it opened in 2007. Winfrey representative Don Halcombe said Wednesday that four students were expelled and three were suspended last week from her Leadership Academy for Girls outside Johannesburg.
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| Iran denies US reports of warm talks at conference (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 5:06 pm
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|  AP - Iran dismissed American government reports that senior U.S. and Iran envoys had a cordial — and promising — face-to-face exchange at an international conference, saying Wednesday that no "talks" took place. The competing accounts of Tuesday's encounter in the Netherlands appeared to reflect the different approaches to overtures to end the United States' and Iran's nearly 30-year diplomat standoff.
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| Republicans propose big tax cuts, spending curbs (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 5:06 pm
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|  AP - Republicans in the House Wednesday pressed a budget plan that would cut taxes and radically overhaul Medicare, offering a stark alternative to blueprints offered by President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies.
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| The Dark Side of Vegetarianism (HealthDay)
April 1, 2009 at 5:05 pm
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| | HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 1 (HealthDay News) -- Despite its proven health benefits, a vegetarian diet might in fact be masking an underlying eating disorder, new research suggests. |
| Authorities seize Bernard Madoff's 2 boats in Fla. (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 5:04 pm
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|  AP - Federal authorities seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's vintage yacht and a smaller boat from two Florida marinas early Wednesday, part of an effort to recoup assets to pay back his swindled investors. The 55-foot yacht named "Bull" and a 24-foot motor boat were taken from marinas on Florida's east coast, said Barry Golden, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service. The yacht, a 1969 Rybovich, is worth $2.2 million.
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| London police charge to disperse G20 protesters (Reuters)
April 1, 2009 at 5:01 pm
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|  Reuters - Riot police staged baton charges to try to disperse several hundred protesters gathered around the Bank of England in the heart of London's financial center on Wednesday after a day of protest against the G20 summit.
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| U.S. looks at Pakistani Taliban threat on Washington (Reuters)
April 1, 2009 at 4:59 pm
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| | Reuters - U.S. officials are studying whether a Pakistani Taliban leader blamed for the assassination of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto poses a credible threat to the United States, a top U.S. military official said on Wednesday. |
| 9 patients made nearly 2,700 ER visits in Texas (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 4:35 pm
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| | AP - Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report. The patients went to hospital emergency rooms 2,678 times from 2003 through 2008, said the report from the nonprofit Integrated Care Collaboration, a group of health care providers who care for low-income and uninsured patients. |
| Puerto Rican actor Miguelangel Suarez dies (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 4:29 pm
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| | AP - Puerto Rican actor Miguelangel Suarez, whose career included minor roles in last year's epic "Che" and Woody Allen's "Bananas," died on Wednesday. He was 69. |
| Obama sees G20 consensus, France unhappy (Reuters)
April 1, 2009 at 11:35 am
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| | Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday there was "enormous consensus" between the largest developed and emerging economies on plans to haul the world out of the deepest downturn since the 1930s. |
| Feds seek to reverse Ted Stevens' conviction (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 11:27 am
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|  AP - The Justice Department asked a judge Wednesday to toss out the corruption conviction of former Sen. Ted Stevens because prosecutors withheld evidence from his defense team.
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| Obama accepts invitations to visit China, Russia (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 11:24 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama has accepted an invitation to visit China later this year. The White House said Wednesday that Obama has accepted an invitation from President Hu Jintao. Obama and Hu met in London ahead of the G-20 economic summit.
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| Pending home rise 2.1 percent in Feb. from Jan. (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 10:14 am
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| | AP - An index that tracks signed contracts to purchase previously occupied homes rose in February from a record low a month earlier as buyers took advantage of deeply discounted prices and low interest rates. |
| G-20 protesters break into Royal Bank of Scotland (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 9:48 am
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|  AP - G-20 protesters clashed with riot police in downtown London on Wednesday, breaking into the heavily guarded Royal Bank of Scotland and smashing its windows. Earlier, they tried to storm the Bank of England and pelted police with eggs and fruit.
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| NBC a lot different from days when `ER' started (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 9:20 am
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|  AP - The "ER" that exits television with its final episode Thursday on NBC is a shadow of its former self, stripped of the star power and buzz — and a majority of viewers — from its heyday.
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| U.S. plans to ease GM into bankruptcy: report (Reuters)
April 1, 2009 at 9:13 am
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|  Reuters - The Obama administration is seeking to ease General Motors Corp into a "controlled" bankruptcy by persuading some creditors to agree to a plan that would divide the company into two pieces, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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| 6,000 Rare Dolphins Found in South Asia (LiveScience.com)
April 1, 2009 at 9:06 am
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| | LiveScience.com - A huge population of rare dolphins threatened by climate change and fishing nets has been discovered in South Asia. Researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society estimate that nearly 6,000 Irrawaddy dolphins, marine mammals that are related to orcas or killer whales, were found living in freshwater regions of Bangladesh's Sundarbans mangrove forest and adjacent waters of the Bay of Bengal. There has been hardly any marine mammal research done in this area up to this point. ... |
| Investors seek ouster of AIG compensation chief (Reuters)
April 1, 2009 at 8:33 am
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| | Reuters - A group of investors is seeking to oust an American International Group Inc director who leads a committee it said authorized bonuses to executives that brought the insurer to the brink of failure. |
| Pardon sought for first black heavyweight champ (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 6:26 am
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|  AP - Sen. John McCain wants a presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, who became the nation's first black heavyweight boxing champion 100 years before Barack Obama became its first black president.
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| North Korea threatens to shoot down spy planes (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 6:24 am
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| AP - North Korea accused the United States of spying on the site of an impending rocket launch and threatened Wednesday to shoot down any U.S. planes that intrude into its airspace. |
| Analysis: Dems punt hard choices on Obama budget (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 6:21 am
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| | AP - President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in Congress are taking only baby steps with his budget, putting off crucial decisions on his ambitious plans to expand health care, curb global warming and raise taxes on the wealthy. |
| Obama tries to rally world to cope with downturn (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 6:10 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama sought Wednesday to rally the world's top and emerging powers to help cope with a global economic downturn, saying, "We can only meet this challenge together."
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