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Al Qaeda suspect's work at nuke sites stirs call for probe

Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling for a federal probe into the system of background checks for employees at nuclear plants after learning that a suspected al Qaeda member from New Jersey worked at five such sites.

Source: CNN.com | 13 Mar 2010 | 4:15 pm

Utah GOP leader resigns after hot tub confession (AP)

This undated image provided by the State of Utah shows Majority Leader Republican Kevin Garn. A late-night confession Thursday March 11, 2010 by Utah's House majority leader, Garn, about sitting nude in a hot tub with a minor 25 years ago has shocked this highly conservative state's political establishment. (AP Photo/State of Utah)AP - Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after his confession about sitting nude in a hot tub with a teenage girl 25 years ago stunned this conservative state.


Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 4:07 pm

Al-Qaida suspect from US tricked his Yemeni guard (AP)

This 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in   Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010 that the agency is looking into the case of 26-year-old son, Sharif Mobley, who grew up in Buena and is an alleged al-Qaida member raised in New Jersey who is accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen. (AP Photo/Roman Castro) NO SALESAP - An American al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen fooled his hospital guards into unshackling him by asking to join them for prayers, security officials said Saturday. He then killed a guard who laid down his weapon as he went ahead at prayer time.


Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 4:06 pm

New Sen. Brown bashes Obama's `bitter' health push (AP)

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, talks with Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, after voting on the Tax Extenders Act. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and endless" drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous.


Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 4:04 pm

Gap in world view of Democrats, Republicans - San Francisco Chronicle


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Gap in world view of Democrats, Republicans
San Francisco Chronicle
The polarization between the worldviews of Republicans and Democrats, and the intense negative effects they produce, reach new lows daily. The recent health care summit moderated by President Obama was marked more by the deep and often bitter ...
Is Failure Forgivable? Health Care and the PresidencyNew York Times
New Sen. Brown bashes Obama's 'bitter' health pushThe Associated Press
Republicans say door open on financial reformReuters
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Source: Top Stories - Google News | 13 Mar 2010 | 4:02 pm

US Woman Held in Ireland Plot Had Been Isolated From Family - New York Times


Boston Globe

US Woman Held in Ireland Plot Had Been Isolated From Family
New York Times
LEADVILLE, Colo. — An American woman, who family members fear may have become a radicalized Muslim, was detained in Ireland this week in connection with a plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist. ...
First 'JihadJane,' now Colorado woman held in death plotWashington Post
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Source: Top Stories - Google News | 13 Mar 2010 | 4:00 pm

Turner leads Ohio St. past Illinois 88-81 in 2OT (AP)

Ohio State's Evan Turner (21) blocks a shot by Illinois's Mike Davis (24) in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in the semifinals of the Big Ten conference tournament Indianapolis, Saturday, March 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)AP - Evan Turner rescued No. 6 Ohio State for the second straight day in the Big Ten tournament.


Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 3:49 pm

Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot (AP)

Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks walks in the streets of Stockholm. A second American Muslim woman has been arrested in Ireland on charges of conspiracy to kill the cartoonist who made fun of the Prophet Mohammed, The Wall Street Journal reported.(AFP/File/Francois Campredon)AP - Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist.


Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 3:43 pm

Netanyahu: Probe events that led to row with US over East Jerusalem - Ha'aretz


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Netanyahu: Probe events that led to row with US over East Jerusalem
Ha'aretz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday said he would establish a committee to probe Israel's announcement this week that it would construct 1600 new housing units in East Jerusalem, ...
Israel restricts access to Al-Aqsa in JerusalemAFP
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Source: Top Stories - Google News | 13 Mar 2010 | 3:36 pm

Vatican officials defend pope on abuse (AP)

In this photo released by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, left,  meets Archbishop Robert Zollitsch during an audience in his private library at the Vatican, Friday, March 12, 2010. Germany's top bishop has informed Pope Benedict XVI on cases of clerical sex abuse in the pontiff's native Germany and said the pope encouraged him to pursue the truth and assist the victims. Zollitsch said the pope was greatly dismayed and deeply moved as he was being briefed on the scandal during Friday's meeting at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his German homeland. It also insisted that church confidentiality doesn't prevent bishops from reporting abuse to police.


Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 3:32 pm

Iraqi vote signals shift from religious leaders (AP)

Counting and data input workers at the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 12, 2010. Partial tallies have been released from seven of Iraq's 18 provinces, excluding Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of Baghdad, pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that Iraqis want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious hard-liners leading the postwar nation.


Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 3:32 pm

Suicide attackers hit Afghan city; at least 30 die (AP)

Map locates Kandahar and Kandahar province, Afghanistan where multiple explosions have been reportedAP - A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations late Saturday, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland.


Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 3:32 pm

Senate, Obama spar over health plan's pet projects (AP)

Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., left, looks on as Gina Owens hugs her grandson, Marcelas Owens from Seattle, Wash., whose mother, Tiffany Owens died after losing her job and health care, Thursday, March 11, 2010, during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.


Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 3:32 pm

Sweden, Turkey jointly denounce genocide vote (Reuters)

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt (C) and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu (R) talk to the media after their meeting in Saariselka Inari, in the Finnish Lapland March 12, 2010.REUTERS/Lehtikuva/Jussi NukariReuters - The foreign ministers of Turkey and Sweden condemned on Saturday a vote in the Swedish parliament that defined the early 20th-century killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.


Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 3:17 pm

Explosions across Afghanistan's Kandahar; 30 dead - Washington Post


Globe and Mail

Explosions across Afghanistan's Kandahar; 30 dead
Washington Post
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar on Saturday, killing 30 people and wounding scores in a series of strikes the militants called a message to NATO. ...
Four suicide bombings kill 31 in AfghanistanLos Angeles Times
Deadly blasts rock southern AfghanistanCNN
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Source: Top Stories - Google News | 13 Mar 2010 | 2:51 pm

Obama proposes overhaul of education system, No Child Left Behind - Los Angeles Times


Houston Chronicle

Obama proposes overhaul of education system, No Child Left Behind
Los Angeles Times
The president, in his weekly address, says he'll send a blueprint to Congress next week to give high school grads 'the best chance to succeed' globally. Republicans insist economy is being ignored. By Richard A. Serrano President Obama on Saturday said ...
Obama Proposes Overhaul in Education LawNew York Times
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Source: Top Stories - Google News | 13 Mar 2010 | 2:50 pm

Iraqi PM Remains Ahead After Partial Vote Count - Voice of America


Telegraph.co.uk

Iraqi PM Remains Ahead After Partial Vote Count
Voice of America
Iraqis continue to await the final results of the country's March 7th parliamentary election and the country's high electoral commission continues to slowly tabulate votes. Final results are not expected for at least another 48 hours, ...
Issue of Presidency Endangers Iraq's Tenuous BalanceNew York Times
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Source: Top Stories - Google News | 13 Mar 2010 | 2:42 pm

Mbarek Lafrem, charged with attempted murder, says alleged nurse bar beating ... - New York Daily News


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Mbarek Lafrem, charged with attempted murder, says alleged nurse bar beating ...
New York Daily News
Mbarek Lafrem was arrested Friday night for the brutal beating of a 29-year-old nurse after she refused to dance with him at Midtown pub Social. The savage beating allegedly took place in a bathroom at Social, ...
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Source: Top Stories - Google News | 13 Mar 2010 | 2:39 pm

South Afghanistan blasts kill at least 27: health official (AFP)

Afghan and international security forces inspect the site of a suicide attack in southern city of Kandahar in February 2010. A series of suicide attacks in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar killed at least 27 people on Saturday, a senior official said, in the country's deadliest assault so far this year.(AFP/File/Hamed Zalmy)AFP - A series of suicide attacks in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar killed at least 27 people on Saturday, a senior official said, in the country's deadliest assault so far this year.


Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 2:14 pm

Coffee Party tries to answer Tea Party

Is the Coffee Party on the scale of the Tea Party movement? Saturday is the first big test in attempting to answer that question.

Source: CNN.com | 13 Mar 2010 | 1:54 pm

Lesbian sgt. discharged after police tell military (AP)

This Tuesday March 9, 2010 image made from video provided by KOTA-TV shows Jene Newsome during an interview in her home in Rapid City, S.D. on date. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a complaint against the Rapid City Police Department, saying two officers were responsible for getting a lesbian Air Force sergeant tossed out of the military. Police went to Jene Newsome's Rapid City home last November to serve an out-of-state warrant on Cheryl Hutson, Newsome's partner. The officers allegedly noticed an Iowa marriage certificate showing the two were married and notified Ellsworth Air Force Base, which later gave Newsome an honorable discharge. (AP Photo/KOTA-TV)  MANDATORY CREDIT. KOTA BUG MAY NOT BE CROPPED OUTAP - Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old's honorable discharge under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D., saw an Iowa marriage certificate in her home and told the nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base.


Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 1:52 pm

Anti-government Rally Set for Sunday in Thailand - Voice of America


Sydney Morning Herald

Anti-government Rally Set for Sunday in Thailand
Voice of America
Photo: AP Thousands of people from all over Thailand are converging on Bangkok for a rally aimed at toppling the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajhiva. Many are backers of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 ...
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Source: Top Stories - Google News | 13 Mar 2010 | 1:22 pm

Deadly blasts rock Afghanistan

A series of explosions rocked southern Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province today, killing at least 35 people and wounding 47 others, local officials said.

Source: CNN.com | 13 Mar 2010 | 1:18 pm

China delivers Venezuela jets for anti-drugs fight (Reuters)

Reuters - Venezuela on Saturday tested six training and light attack jets bought from China for defense and anti-drugs flights in a deal that dodges an embargo banning sales of U.S. weapons parts to oil exporter Venezuela.

Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 1:14 pm

Hanks and Spielberg see in 'The Pacific' a harbinger of today's wars - Christian Science Monitor


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Hanks and Spielberg see in 'The Pacific' a harbinger of today's wars
Christian Science Monitor
'The Pacific,' a 10-part HBO drama that launches Sunday, spins the tales of those who fought on the Pacific front in World War II. Creators Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg suggest that the type of warfare waged on those little-known islands may give ...
Hanks and Spielberg return to WWII together for 'The Pacific'USA Today
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Source: Top Stories - Google News | 13 Mar 2010 | 1:14 pm

Irish police release three over cartoonist plot (Reuters)

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard poses in Aarhus in this September 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Preben Hupfeld/ScanpixReuters - Irish police have released three of the seven people arrested on Tuesday in connection with an alleged plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist over a drawing depicting the Prophet Mohammad with the body of a dog.


Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 1:12 pm

Iraq PM picks up steam in bid to retain post (AFP)

An Iraqi man looks up at a poster picturing Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad on March 12. Maliki's bid to retain his job gained steam on Saturday as early results put him ahead in the capital, while rival blocs began jostling over the formation of a government.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's bid to retain his job gained steam on Saturday as early results put him ahead in the capital, while rival blocs began jostling over the formation of a government.


Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 1:09 pm

Netanyahu's position is "perilous": U.S. official (Reuters)

Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political standing is "perilous" because of divisions within his coalition over efforts to pursue peace with the Palestinians, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.

Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 12:25 pm

Iraq PM Maliki leads Baghdad, a big election prize (Reuters)

Journalists monitor a screen showing the initial results of national election in Baghdad March 11, 2010. REUTERS/Mohammed AmeenReuters - Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki held a wide lead on Saturday in early results from Baghdad, the major prize in a tight election race that Iraqis hope will bring stability after years of sectarian conflict.


Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 12:01 pm

Annie Lennox speaks out on AIDS

Singer and activist Annie Lennox wants the world to know that the HIV virus and the debilitating condition it causes, AIDS, are the leading killers of women of reproductive age in the world.

Source: CNN.com | 13 Mar 2010 | 11:50 am

Weir snubbed by ice tour; GLAAD upset

American figure skater Johnny Weir says he doesn't understand why the only ice skating tour in the United States doesn't want him.

Source: CNN.com | 13 Mar 2010 | 11:34 am

Afghanistan eases ban on news coverage of raids (Reuters)

Reuters - Afghanistan rowed back on Saturday from a total ban on media broadcasts of "disturbing" images from insurgent attacks or live pictures of security operations.

Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 10:34 am

13 People Dead in Another Suicide Bombing in Pakistan - Voice of America


Globe and Mail

13 People Dead in Another Suicide Bombing in Pakistan
Voice of America
Photo: AP Top military officials in a northwestern Pakistani district say a suicide bomber has killed at least 13 people, including security personnel, and wounded more than 50 others. Taliban militants have claimed responsibility for the bombing, ...
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Source: Top Stories - Google News | 13 Mar 2010 | 10:20 am

Kissinger hospitalized in South Korea

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was admitted to a hospital in Seoul today for "minor stomach troubles," the state-run Yonhap news agency reported.

Source: CNN.com | 13 Mar 2010 | 7:51 am

Google "99.9 pct" sure to shut China search engine: report (Reuters)

Reuters - Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday.

Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 4:34 am

Suicide bomber kills 11 in Pakistan's Swat (Reuters)

A woman weeps for her missing son at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Lahore March 12, 2010. REUTERS/Mohsin RazaReuters - A Taliban suicide bomber targeting security forces killed at least 11 people on Saturday, Pakistani police said, part of a renewed push against the state after one of the biggest security crackdowns in years.


Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 13 Mar 2010 | 4:09 am

AG: Haim's death linked to drug probe

Corey Haim's death is linked to an "illegal and massive prescription-drug ring," California's attorney general said. The coroner hasn't ruled on a cause of death.

Source: CNN.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 10:01 pm

Tips pour in on serial killer's photos

Dozens of tips have poured in after California authorities recently released more than 100 photos of women and children that are believed to have been taken by a serial killer who appeared on the "Dating Game."

Source: CNN.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 9:31 pm

Silver Star soldier gets reprimand

A soldier who received the third-highest award for valor after his outpost was attacked by the Taliban has also received a letter of reprimand for his actions leading up to the same battle, according to Army officials.

Source: CNN.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 6:49 pm

170,000 get mortgage aid

More than 170,000 troubled homeowners are breathing a lasting sigh of relief now that they've received permanent modifications under the Obama administration's foreclosure prevention program.

Source: CNN.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 5:29 pm

Arts giving down, but local groups find ways to survive

People cut the fat in tough times, often spelling doom for arts groups that rely on donations to survive, but Tarrant County groups and organizations have managed to hold on despite difficult times. Arts, culture and...

Source: Top Story | 8 Mar 2010 | 12:00 am

Making the grade Local teacher’s game helps student test scores

For many school children, studying for and then passing the TAKS test can be a real monster. Janice Stahl, a retired kindergarten to sixth grade classroom teacher with 34 years experience, set out four years ago...

Source: Top Story | 8 Mar 2010 | 12:00 am

Electricity generation: Gas producers take on coal

There’s a battle going on: shale gas producers, searching for a home for their fuel, say natural gas can take on a larger burden of the electricity-generation market, but the coal lobby isn’t going without a fight. ...

Source: Top Story | 8 Mar 2010 | 12:00 am