| Snow piles up, paralyzing nation's capital (AP) Posted: 06 Feb 2010 12:47 AM PST  AP - A blizzard battered the Mid-Atlantic region on Saturday, quickly dumping large amounts of snow on that piled up on roadways and toppled trees onto apartment buildings and cars.
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| European crisis highlights fragile global recovery (AP) Posted: 06 Feb 2010 12:41 AM PST  AP - A crisis in Europe over unsustainable government debts that sparked renewed global market turmoil leapt to the top of the agenda Saturday for global financial leaders meeting half a world away in the Canadian Arctic.
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| Japanese media criticize Toyota chief for response (AP) Posted: 06 Feb 2010 12:44 AM PST  AP - Japanese media sharply criticized Toyota's president Saturday as offering a delayed and unconvincing explanation for the massive car recall that has sullied the world's biggest automaker and Japanese corporate icon.
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| Alito objected to Obama's history claim (AP) Posted: 06 Feb 2010 12:43 AM PST  AP - Still wonder exactly why Justice Samuel Alito shook his head and mouthed the words "not true" during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address? He objected to the president's saying the ruling reversed a century of law.
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| Palin e-mails suggest husband's role in governing (AP) Posted: 06 Feb 2010 12:44 AM PST  AP - E-mails shed new light on Todd Palin's role while his wife was Alaska's governor, showing that the one-time oil field worker's advice was sought on board appointments and suggesting he was close to matters related to state government, his wife's image and politics.
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| US missionary freed by NKorea is on his way home (AP) Posted: 06 Feb 2010 12:44 AM PST  AP - Looking pale and drawn, an American missionary was on his way home Saturday after being freed by North Korea, which detained him for illegally crossing its border from China on Christmas Day.
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| Afghan police patrol kills 7 civilians (AP) Posted: 06 Feb 2010 12:45 AM PST  AP - Afghan border police mistook a group of villagers gathering wood near the Pakistan border as insurgents and opened fire, killing seven civilians, a police official said Saturday.
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| Obama admits health care overhaul may die on Hill (AP) Posted: 06 Feb 2010 12:45 AM PST  AP - No, maybe he can't. President Barack Obama, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation's health care system, now concedes the effort may die in Congress.
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| Police: Sheen vehicle stolen, crashed in ravine (AP) Posted: 06 Feb 2010 12:45 AM PST  AP - A Mercedes that Charlie Sheen reported stolen from his Sherman Oaks home was found overturned hundreds of feet down a nearby cliff early Friday, but there's no evidence anyone was in the car when it went into the ravine, police said.
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| Goodell hopes union is wrong about lockout chances (AP) Posted: 06 Feb 2010 12:47 AM PST  AP - The only thing certain about pro football for the rest of this year is that either the Colts or Saints will win Sunday's Super Bowl.
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| Powerful snowstorm hits East Coast (Reuters) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 01:32 PM PST Reuters - A powerful storm slammed the U.S. mid-Atlantic on Friday, threatening record snowfall in a region heavily dependent on home heating oil and natural gas supplies. |
| North Korea releases U.S. activist (Reuters) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 11:04 PM PST  Reuters - A U.S. missionary was on his way home on Saturday after he was freed by North Korea, which had detained him on Christmas day for illegally crossing the border.
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| Iran says starts production of two new missiles (Reuters) Posted: 06 Feb 2010 12:29 AM PST  Reuters - Iran officially started production of two new missiles on Saturday, state radio said.
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| Illinois Democrats no cure for what ails Obama (Reuters) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:00 PM PST  Reuters - Still reeling from the loss of the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat to Republicans in Massachusetts, Barack Obama's Democrats now face the prospect of losing the president's old Senate seat in Illinois.
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| Jobless rate hits 5-month low but payrolls fall (Reuters) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 05:03 PM PST  Reuters - The U.S. unemployment rate surprisingly fell to a five-month low of 9.7 percent in January and factory payrolls grew for the first time since 2007, hinting at a labor market recovery even though the economy lost 20,000 jobs.
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| G7 meets in Arctic with euro debt woes top of agenda (Reuters) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 05:22 PM PST  Reuters - Europe's deepening debt crisis leapt to the top of the agenda of a meeting of G7 rich country finance leaders in the Canadian Arctic on Friday amid fears that Greece's fiscal sickness was spreading.
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| Bill Clinton urges solution to Haiti 'kidnap' case (Reuters) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:49 PM PST Reuters - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton urged the U.S. and Haitian governments on Friday to resolve the case of 10 American missionaries accused of trying to take children illegally out of quake-hit Haiti. |
| Bill Clinton apologizes for slow Haiti aid effort (AFP) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 07:11 PM PST  AFP - Former US president Bill Clinton pledged to try to get aid flowing as he was met by angry Haitians protesting the slow arrival of help since last month's quake.
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| US missionary in China after NKorea release (AFP) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 09:47 PM PST  AFP - A US missionary released by North Korea after entering the communist country on Christmas Day to protest against human rights abuses arrived in China Saturday en route to his homeland, the US embassy said.
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