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Round 2: Snow slams Mid-Atlantic, points north (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 12:07 AM PST

Ricki Ghani, left, and Eric Brannon clear snow from sidewalks around Festival Hall Park in Racine, Wis. as snow sweeps across southeastern Wisconsin Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Mark Hertzberg)AP - Plows that have been rolling around the clock for days in the nation's capital, Philadelphia and Baltimore won't be heading for the garage any time soon as a second major storm in a week moved into the snowbound region Wednesday.

Obama, Palin trade telling jibes over crib sheets (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 12:11 AM PST

FILE - In this May 17, 2009, file photo, President Barack Obama delivers his commencement address through a teleprompter during commencement ceremonies at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. The jokes about Obama's close relationship with his teleprompter have been a constant since he became president. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - The jokes about Barack Obama's close relationship with his teleprompter have been constant since he became president.

Doctor says vendor may have been in rubble 27 days (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 11:00 PM PST

In this photo provided by michaelthemaven.com, a man who identified himself as Evans Monsigrace, 28, is attended at the Salvation Army medical center after being brought in by two men in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. University of Miami doctors working in Haiti are treating Monsigrace, who, according to two Haitian men who brought him, had been trapped in rubble since the Jan. 12 earthquake, and he may have been provided food and water during his reported ordeal. The men's account could not be confirmed by doctors at a university field hospital or at a Salvation Army medical center where Monsigrace, emaciated and suffering from dehydration, was first brought. (AP Photo/Michael Andrew, michaelthemaven.com)AP - The tale seems dubious: that a rice vendor survived 27 days trapped under the rubble of a flea market following Haiti's devastating earthquake.

New report: Consumers spent modestly in January (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 11:16 PM PST

AP - Americans backed off from holiday spending in January, but retail sales rose for a third month in a row compared with a year earlier, largely because of gas price hikes, according to figures released Wednesday by a key data service.

Iran rewards Basij militia with political clout (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 12:11 AM PST

FILE-- In this Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008, Iranian Basij paramilitary volunteers, affiliated to the elite Revolutionary Guards, attend a parade ceremony, marking the 28th anniversary of the onset of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)AP - During an Iranian government meeting late last month, a top adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brought a proposal to expand the political voice of a group more known for its street muscle: the civilian militia corps called the Basij.

Space shuttle Endeavour pulls in at space station (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 12:46 AM PST

Space shuttle Endeavour lifts-off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Endeavour is carrying six astronauts who will deliver a room and observation deck to the International Space Station. A piece of foam insulation is seen falling to the right of the orbiter. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Shuttle Endeavour arrived to a warm welcome at the International Space Station early Wednesday, delivering a new room and observation deck that will come close to completing construction 200 miles above Earth.

AP sources: FAA eyes hefty fines for American (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 12:12 AM PST

AP - The Federal Aviation Administration is close to wrapping up a two-year investigation of safety violations at American Airlines that could result in one of the largest fines in the agency's history, according to government and industry officials familiar with the investigation.

Fans delighted by DeGeneres' 'American Idol' debut (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 12:48 AM PST

In this undated publicity image released by Fox, new 'American Idol,' judge Ellen DeGeneres is shown. (AP Photo/Fox, Michael Becker)AP - Ellen DeGeneres (dih-JEN'-ur-us) hit the right notes with "American Idol" viewers.

Carmelo returns to help Nuggets beat Mavs, 127-91 (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 12:39 AM PST

Denver Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony, right, goes up for a shot over Dallas Mavericks forward Josh Howard in the third quarter of the Nuggets' 127-91 victory in an NBA basketball game in Denver on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)AP - Carmelo Anthony scored 19 points in his return from an ankle injury and the Denver Nuggets had their biggest win of the season, routing the Dallas Mavericks 127-91 on Tuesday night.

Honda adds 437,000 cars to global air bag recall (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 11:26 PM PST

FILE-In this Oct. 27, 2009 file photo, a visitor looks at a car in front of Honda Motor Co. headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. Honda Motor Co. says it is adding 17,000 more cars in Japan and elsewhere to an existing global recall for faulty airbags, bringing the latest round of recalls to 437,000. The Feb. 10, 2010 announcement in Tokyo came after Honda said Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, that it is adding more than 378,000 cars to the recall in the U.S. and Canada. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)AP - Honda Motor Co. is adding 437,000 vehicles to its 15-month old global recall for faulty airbags in the latest quality problem to hit a Japanese automaker.

Honda expands airbag recall as more Toyotas probed (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 11:54 PM PST

A Toyota mechanic fixes the anti-lock brake software on a Prius hybrid vehicle at a dealer's repair shop in Aichi prefecture, central Japan on February 10. The car firm's dealership in Japan has started to fix the software problems that can make brakes slow to respond in its third-generation hybrid vehicle, its less-polluting flagship model manufactured in the country.(AFP/Jiji Press/File)Reuters - Honda Motor Co said it would recall another 440,000 cars around the world for faulty airbags as rival Toyota Motor Corp faced further probes over its largest-ever safety crisis.

Second big snowstorm slams East Coast (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 10:30 PM PST

This NOAA satellite image taken Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 at 12:45 a.m. EST shows a large storm system covering much of the Eastern U.S., which is generating moderate to locally heavy snow over the Great Lakes, and northern Mid-Atlantic. Farther south, clouds associated with a subtropical jet stream are streaming northeastward across southern Baja California, northern Mexico and southern U.S.(AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)Reuters - The second major snowstorm in less than a week slammed the East Coast from Washington to New York on Tuesday, forcing the United Nations to close and Congress to curtail legislative action.

Iran says nuclear fuel deal "still on the table" (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 11:40 PM PST

Reuters - Iran believes a nuclear fuel exchange with the West is still possible, state television said on Wednesday, a day after the Islamic Republic's expansion of uranium enrichment drew a U.S. warning of more sanctions soon.

Inside Toyota's epic breakdown (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 01:28 PM PST

Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp, the world's most dominant and profitable automaker, was not accustomed to outsiders telling it what to do, let alone some obscure bureaucrat from the United States, whose own car industry was on taxpayer-funded life support.

Google Gmail tweak challenges Facebook, Twitter (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 06:05 PM PST

A model demonstrates a Nexus One smartphone, the first mobile phone Google will sell directly to consumers based on its Android platform, after a news conference at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California January 5, 2010. REUTERS/Robert GalbraithReuters - Google Inc is tapping its huge network of Gmail users and Web surfers to create a Buzz that it hopes will help it catch up with online social networking leaders Facebook and Twitter.

Honda airbag recall adds to Japan auto sector woes (AFP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 12:24 AM PST

A Honda Motors dealership in Manassas, Virginia. The Japanese automaker has recalled more than 430,000 vehicles worldwide, mostly in North America, to fix defective airbags that can blow up and injure or kill occupants.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)AFP - Honda, Japan's second-biggest carmaker after crisis-hit Toyota, Wednesday recalled more than 400,000 vehicles to fix airbags that it said can explode and spray out potentially deadly metal shards.

Search ends for survivors of Haiti supermarket collapse (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 10:11 PM PST

French search and rescue team members carry a special detection device as they search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed supermarket on February 09, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, damaged by the January 12th earthquake.(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)AFP - Rescue workers abandoned the search for survivors at a Haitian supermarket that collapsed with several people thought to be inside.
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