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Obama's nuclear summit yields early dividends (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:18 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama makes a statement during the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. Obama has warned that Al-Qaeda would not hesitate to use a nuclear weapon against the United States, before hosting a global summit aimed at thwarting such a nightmare scenario.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)AP - President Barack Obama's nuclear summit has paid early dividends: China's agreement to work with the U.S. on possible sanctions against Iran and Ukraine's decision to rid itself of nuclear bomb-making materials.

Wrong video of health protest spurs N-word feud (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:39 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 20, 2010 file photo, tea party demonstrators protest outside of the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - Three Democratic congressmen — all black — say they heard racial slurs as they walked through thousands of angry protesters outside the U.S. Capitol. A white lawmaker says he heard the epithets too. Conservative activists say the lawmakers are lying.

Groups look for tea party support on nomination (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:17 AM PDT

In this Sept. 29, 2009 photo, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens sits for a group photograph at the Supreme Court in Washington. Stevens, the court's oldest member and leader of its liberal bloc, announced Friday, April 9, 2010 he is retiring, saying he will step down when the court finishes its work for the summer in late June or early July. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Conservative groups preparing to fight President Barack Obama over his next Supreme Court nomination are trying to recruit tea party activists to their cause, hoping their enthusiasm will help them beat back any nominee that could be too liberal for their taste.

Top ex-WaMu executives come before Congress (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 09:06 PM PDT

AP - Former senior executives of mortgage lender Washington Mutual, the biggest U.S. bank in history to fail, are appearing before Congress on Tuesday for the first time since the bank's September 2008 collapse.

Russia points to human error in fatal Polish crash (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 06:30 PM PDT

Polish soldiers stand guard near a sea of candles in front of the President Palace two days after Polish President Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash, in Warsaw, early Monday, April 12, 2010. Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday, when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - Russian investigators suggested human error may have been to blame in the plane crash that killed the Polish president and 95 others, saying Monday there were no technical problems with the Soviet-made plane.

European abuse hot lines log jump in calls (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:10 PM PDT

A sign attached at the entrance of an apartment building marks the location of a call center of the Vienna archdiocese, in this photo taken on Friday, April 9, 2010 in Vienna, Austria. According to the Vienna hot line, 174 contacts were made between January and the end of March — compared to 17 in all of 2009. Of those, eight turned out to be concrete cases after experts held intensive conversations with alleged victims, said Erich Leitenberger, spokesman of the Vienna Archdiocese. Sign reads 'Catholic University Pastoral Care' and ' Ombudsoffice of the Vienna Archdiocese (EDW)'. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - Telephone hot lines in Europe offering help to people claiming abuse by Roman Catholic priests are being deluged with calls as the crisis spreads — with one center reporting complaints jumping from about 10 cases a year to more than a thousand in the past few weeks.

New media recognized in Pulitzer competition (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:36 AM PDT

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Raquel Rutledge, center, celebrates in the newsroom after hearing she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting Monday, April 12, 2010 at the paper in Milwaukee, Wis. At left is managing editor George Stanley and to the left of Rutledge is editor Marty Kaiser. The award was for investigating the $350 million taxpayer-financed child-care system known as Wisconsin Shares and uncovered a trail of phony companies, fake reports and shoddy oversight (AP Photo/Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, Mark Hoffman)AP - When the Pulitzer board handed out the most important prizes in journalism, The New York Times and The Washington Post topped the list of winners_ and finalists — as usual.

Conan O'Brien picks TBS, not Fox, for his TV home (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:18 AM PDT

FILE - This Nov. 7, 2007 file photo shows Conan O'Brien in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)AP - As Conan O'Brien sought a new place to play TV host, conventional wisdom said he'd be bringing his talk show to Fox.

Johnson scores 31 to help Hawks beat Bucks 104-96 (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 08:05 PM PDT

Atlanta Hawks' Joe Johnson goes up for a shot against Milwaukee Bucks' Carlos Delfino, left, in the first half of an NBA basketball game Monday, April 12, 2010, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Darren Hauck)AP - Joe Johnson scored 31 points to help the Atlanta Hawks beat the Milwaukee Bucks 104-96 in a matchup between potential first-round playoff opponents Monday night.

Kennedy cousin loses appeal in murder conviction (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 06:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 17, 2007 file photo, Michael Skakel sits in the courtroom at Superior Court in Stamford, Conn., on the first day of a hearing to determine whether he will get a new trial for the 1975 murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley. The Connecticut Supreme Court is planning to release its ruling Monday, April 12, 2010, on Skakel's appeal of his conviction in the 1975 slaying. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)AP - The state Supreme Court on Monday rejected Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel's bid for a new trial in the 1975 killing of his 15-year-old neighbor, ruling that a claim implicating two other men, including a large black man, was not credible.

World leaders meet on nuclear terrorism threat (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:11 PM PDT

President Barack Obama addresses reporters during his meeting with South African President Jacob Zuma at Blair House in Washington D.C. April 11, 2010. Zuma is in town for this week's nuclear security summit. REUTERS/Richard ClementReuters - World leaders meet in Washington on Tuesday for the biggest summit hosted by the United States since 1945, and they will have just one item on the agenda -- stopping terrorists from getting a nuclear bomb.

Pressure mounts on Thai PM after deadly clashes (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:35 AM PDT

Anti-government red shirt demonstrators holding the Thai flag lead vehicles carrying the caskets of those killed during clashes with security forces two days earlier, as they protest through the streets of Bangkok April 12, 2010. REUTERS/Adrees LatifReuters - Thai "red shirt" protesters threatened on Tuesday to march on an army barracks where Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has been based after the Election Commission unexpectedly recommended his party be dissolved.

Poland moves to fill key posts after plane crash (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 11:02 AM PDT

The coffin of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski at the chapel of presidential palace in Warsaw. The pilots of a plane that crashed and killed Poland's president had received explicit weather warnings before they attempted to land at a fog-bound Russian airport, investigators said on Monday.(AFP/Maciej Chojnowski)Reuters - Poland moved on Monday to fill key state posts after a weekend plane crash in western Russia killed President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of other top officials, plunging the country into mourning.

U.S. says "good news" Kyrgyzstan to keep base deal (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 04:50 PM PDT

U.S. servicemen march during a change of command ceremony at Manas Air Base near Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek June 15, 2009. REUTERS/Vladimir PirogovReuters - The United States on Monday welcomed statements from Kyrgyzstan's interim government that it will abide by agreements covering a U.S. air base that supports military operations in Afghanistan.

Pupils "sadistically tormented" at German monastery (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 11:42 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI waves during Sunday Angelus prayer at his residence of Castelgandolfo, south of Rome, April 11, 2010. REUTERS/Osservatore RomanoReuters - Children were "sadistically tormented and also sexually abused" at a Catholic monastery in Pope Benedict's native Bavaria, according to a new report commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church.

Egypt says had no hand in Kuwait deportations (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 12:39 PM PDT

Reuters - Egypt has said it did not ask Kuwait to deport a group of Egyptians there who had backed former nuclear watchdog head Mohamed ElBaradei as a potential Egyptian presidential candidate.

U.S. military playing expanded role in Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 03:04 PM PDT

An unidentified U.S. security official, center, examines the scene as a private guard cordons off the site of a suicide bombing near the U.S. consulate, unseen, in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, April 5, 2010. Islamist militants attacked the consulate in northwest Pakistan with car bombs and grenades Monday, killing three people. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)Reuters - U.S. Special Operations Forces on a training mission in Pakistan are playing an expanded but largely unseen role in the country's counterinsurgency campaign, working with paramilitary units to "hold and build" tribal areas as militants are cleared out.

At U.S. nuclear site, visitors weigh changed threats (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 04:34 PM PDT

Reuters - With 3 ton-blast doors, 8-foot thick concrete walls, the Titan Missile Museum reaching down nine stories in the Arizona desert is a stark and imposing monument to the Cold War nuclear threat.

Leaders at summit work on halting nuclear traffic (AFP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:12 AM PDT

The sealed-off Washington Convention Center where the Nuclear Security Summit is being staged. US President Barack Obama will urge world leaders to harden their resolve to lock down nuclear material on the second day of the summit aimed at keeping atomic weapons out of terrorist hands.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - US President Barack Obama will urge world leaders to harden their resolve to lock down nuclear material on the second day of a summit Tuesday aimed at keeping atomic weapons out of terrorist hands.

Thailand accuses Thaksin of stoking deadly unrest (AFP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 11:20 PM PDT

AFP - The Thai government accused ousted former leader Thaksin Shinawatra of stoking deadly weekend unrest as pressure mounted Tuesday on the embattled prime minister over the crippling political crisis.
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