Democrats, White House close in on health bill (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:10:35 GMT
AP - A final agreement nearly in hand, President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders are about to embark on one last sales job that will determine the outcome of the president's signature health care overhaul.

Success of lone gunmen may shift al-Qaida strategy (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:04:29 GMT
AP - On Christmas Day, a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit tried to blow up the plane with plastic explosives in his underwear. He failed, yet the very attempt shook the U.S. government, set federal agencies against each other and triggered months of political second-guessing.

Safety agency under spotlight in House hearing (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:06:22 GMT
AP - Toyota's massive recalls are bringing new scrutiny to the government's auto safety agency, prompting Congress to look at how federal safety officials have lived up to their mission of protecting motorists.

NJ man accused of raping, beating 5 daughters (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:24:23 GMT
AP - A New Jersey man with apocalyptic visions is accused of years of terrorizing his family, raping his five daughters and impregnating three, beating his children with wooden boards and even moving at one point to avoid child welfare investigators.

Mexico's Slim becomes 'world's richest' person (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:40:25 GMT
AP - The naming of Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim as the world's richest person — the first from a developing nation — underlines the loosening of America and Europe's stranglehold on the top spots in the billionaires' club.

Complaints persist as US frees Afghan detainees (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:07:49 GMT
AP - The Pashtun tribal leaders picked at the chocolate cake and fruit laid out for them at the conference table. Politely, they listened to speeches touting a new program to release detainees from Afghanistan's largest U.S.-run military prison if community leaders vouch for them.

Critics of Justice Dept. lawyers under fire (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:05:58 GMT
AP - A conservative group's bashing of several Obama administration lawyers as the "al-Qaida Seven" has struck a nerve in the U.S. legal community, prompting even some fellow Republicans to denounce the group's attack.

Ga.'s system to defend the poor still reeling (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:14:25 GMT
AP - Georgia's public defender system is still trying to recover its financial footing five years after a courthouse gunman racked up a $3 million taxpayer-funded defense tab on the way to his conviction.

'Big Mike' draws tears, cheers on 'American Idol' (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:57:41 GMT
AP - Michael "Big Mike" Lynche made Kara DioGuardi cry and turned the rest of the "American Idol" judges giddy with a moving performance of "This Woman's Work."

A-Rod: Lawyers are setting up interview with feds (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:20:46 GMT
AP - Alex Rodriguez may soon be talking to federal authorities, and he hopes it will happen close to spring training.