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Fighting rages as Karzai urges restraint from NATO (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 11:53 PM PST

Crew Chief Spc. Timothy Johns, of Mitchell, S.D., with Task Force Pegasus, provides ground security as he waits for a flight medic to return with a wounded U.S. service member during a medevac mission, in Marjah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday Feb. 20, 2010. Pegasus crews have come under fire daily while on missions evacuating those wounded as U.S. and Afghan troops take part in the assault in the Taliban-held town of Marjah. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers advanced through poppy fields of Marjah on Saturday under withering gunfire from Taliban fighters shooting from mudbrick homes and compounds where families huddled in terror.

Live From Washington! It's Obama health care drama (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 12:21 AM PST

President Barack Obama speaks to Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce in Las Vegas, Friday, Feb. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)AP - Coming soon to daytime television: America's long-running civic drama over how to provide better health care to more of its people without breaking the bank.

GOP's 2012 hopefuls crowd town they love to hate (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 11:54 PM PST

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Republicans who may want President Barack Obama's job flocked to the town they love to hate this weekend and repeatedly ripped into the Democrat, an early tryout of sorts for the GOP nomination.

Governors brace for more economic turmoil (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 08:05 PM PST

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, left, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, right, listen as Prince Edward Island Premier Robert Ghiz speaks during the National Governors Association's special session on 'Common Border, Common Ground' in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - On the recession's front lines, governors are struggling to chart the road ahead for states staggered by unrelenting joblessness and cut-to-the-bone budgets even as Washington reports signs of economic growth.

Alexander Haig remembered as soldier-statesman (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 11:43 PM PST

This March 30, 1981 photo provided by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library shows Secretary of State Alexander Haig speaking to press after the attempted assassination on President Ronald Reagan. Hours after the shooting, then Secretary of State Haig went before the cameras intending, he said later, to reassure Americans that the White House was functioning. 'As of now, I am in control here in the White House, pending the return of the vice president,' Haig said. Some saw the comment as an inappropriate power grab in the absence of Vice President George H.W. Bush, who was flying back to Washington from Texas. Former Secretary of State Haig, a four-star general who served as a top adviser to three presidents and had presidential ambitions of his own, died Saturday Feb. 20, 2010 of complications from an infection, his family said. He was 85. (AP Photo/Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)AP - Soldier and statesman, Alexander Haig never lived down his televised response to the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Haig died Saturday at age 85 having held high posts in three Republican administrations and some of the U.S. military's top jobs.

IRS worker killed in crash was a loyal family man (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 03:27 PM PST

Investigators stand by the remains of a small air plane, bottom left, on the ground level floor of a destroyed building in Austin, Texas, Saturday Feb. 20, 2010. Authorities said that shortly after taking off from Georgetown Municipal Airport, Thursday, Joseph Stack flew his small airplane into the building where several Internal Revenue Service employees worked. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - The family of a longtime Internal Revenue Service employee killed when a pilot harboring an anti-IRS grudge flew his plane into his office remembered the Vietnam veteran Saturday as devoted family man who likely would have tried to save his co-workers from the burning building before escaping himself.

NASA: Weather iffy for space shuttle return Sunday (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 03:42 PM PST

In this photo provided by NASA, NASA astronaut George Zamka, STS-130 commander, is pictured in a window of the newly-installed Cupola of the International Space Station while space shuttle Endeavour remains docked with the station, Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Space shuttle Endeavour aimed for a Sunday night landing back at NASA's spaceport, but rainy and cloudy weather threatened to delay the astronauts' homecoming.

Vegas hotel unveils Elvis extravaganza (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 10:05 AM PST

In this photo provided by the Las Vegas News Bureau, Priscilla Presley walks the 'Blue Carpet' at the world premiere of Viva Elvis, the newest show by Cirque du Soleil on the Las Vegas Strip, at Aria Resort & Casino in City Center, in Las Vegas Friday Feb. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Las Vegas News Bureau, Glenn Pinkerton)AP - Three decades after Elvis Presley took his last bow on the Las Vegas Strip, where he once reigned as king, the magicians of Cirque du Soleil have tried to summon back the power of this supreme entertainer in a show titled, "Viva Elvis."

32 reported dead in storm on Portuguese island (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 02:42 PM PST

A man is helped while trying to cross a flooded street in Funchal, the Madeira Island's capital, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010. Heavy rain caused flash floods all around the Portuguese island and the local government has confirmed 32 dead. (AP Photo/Octavio Passos)AP - Flooding and landslides swept away cars and knocked down houses as a violent storm killed at least 32 people Saturday on the Portuguese island of Madeira, a news agency reported.

Scientists report on way to derail spread of AIDS (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 01:25 PM PST

HIV-positive women are seen in a social center in Ba Vi district, outside Hanoi, November 30, 2009. REUTERS/KhamAP - A successful AIDS vaccine remains elusive, but researchers say aggressive, early anti-viral therapy might provide a way to derail the spread of disease.

Former Nixon aide, Alexander Haig dead at 85 (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 01:55 PM PST

Reuters - Alexander Haig, a former Army general who became White House chief of staff during the Watergate scandal and secretary of state during the Reagan administration, died Saturday at the age of 85.

Taliban reject renewed Karzai call for peace (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 01:04 AM PST

In this photo released by Presidential Palace, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, standing, speaks during the opening session of Afghan Parliament in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010. Karzai said in a speech that NATO's efforts to prevent civilian deaths during its operations are not enough because innocent people keep dying, as the military alliance continued its offensive in a key Taliban stronghold. (AP Photo/Presidential Palace)Reuters - Afghanistan's Taliban on Sunday rejected President Hamid Karzai's latest call for peace, despite pressure from a NATO offensive and the capture of its number 2.

Bad economies in states to worsen: governors (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 10:57 AM PST

Reuters - The already gloomy conditions of states' economies are set to worsen, according to preliminary survey findings from the National Governors Association released on Saturday.

Reviewers urge Glaxo's Avandia come off market (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 09:36 PM PST

Reuters - Two U.S. drug safety reviewers have recommended that GlaxoSmithKline PLC's diabetes drug Avandia be pulled from the market after concluding it is more dangerous to the heart than a rival medicine, according to documents released on Saturday.

White House to publish healthcare proposals Monday (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 12:20 PM PST

President Barack Obama makes a statement on health care and climate change at the White House in Washington, December 19, 2009. REUTERS/Yuri GripasReuters - The White House will unveil its latest healthcare reform proposals on Monday ahead of a bipartisan summit that President Barack Obama hopes will advance the stalled legislation, a senior administration official said on Saturday.

Chinese schools deny link to Google attack (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 06:53 PM PST

A man walks past Google China headquarters in Beijing January 26, 2010. REUTERS/Jason LeeReuters - A prestigious Chinese university and a lesser-known vocational school have denied a report they were the source of recent cyber attacks on Internet giant Google and other U.S. corporations, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

Cuba blasts U.S. meeting with dissidents (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 10:19 AM PST

Reuters - Cuba angrily criticized U.S. officials on Saturday for meeting with government opponents following high-level talks on migration issues and said it showed the United States' real goal is to topple Cuba's communist government, not move toward better relations.

Floods kill at least 32 on resort island Madeira (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 01:33 PM PST

A police officer looks on as a man is helped across a street during floods in downtown Funchal, Madeira February 20, 2010. REUTERS/Duarte SaReuters - At least 32 people have been killed by floods and mudslides caused by an unusually violent rainstorm on the Portuguese resort island of Madeira, officials said on Saturday.

Flash floods kill 32 on Portuguese tourist island (AFP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 12:32 AM PST

A resident looks at flood waters in Funchal. Flash floods that turned into street torrents destroying houses and pulling down bridges, killed at least 32 people on the Portuguese island of Madeira, officials said.(AFP/Gregorio Cunha)AFP - Flash floods that turned into street torrents destroying houses and pulling down bridges, killed at least 32 people on the Portuguese island of Madeira, officials said.

UN, AU envoys head to Niger for talks with junta (AFP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 05:32 PM PST

People rally in Niger's capital Niamey on February 20, 2010 in support of their new military rulers after a coup ousted the strongman of the uranium-rich nation, Mamadou Tandja. A crowd of around 10,000 men and women, students and jobseekers, massed outside the parliament building in downtown Niamey early Saturday following an appeal by an opposition coalition.(AFP/Boureima Hama)AFP - UN and African Union envoys were expected in Niger Sunday, a day after thousands of people demonstrated in support of the military coup that ousted the country's president.
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