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Democrats seek back footing after epic Mass. loss (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 12:11 AM PST

Massachusetts State Sen. Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, celebrates in Boston, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, after winning a special election held to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy. Brown defeated Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, a Democrat, and Joseph L. Kennedy, a Libertarian running as an independent and not related to the late Sen. Kennedy. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - A year to the day after his inauguration, Barack Obama and his Democratic allies are suddenly scrambling to save his signature health care overhaul and somehow rediscover their political magic after an epic loss in the Massachusetts Senate race.

Gut-check for Obama and Democrats on health care (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 12:38 AM PST

President Barack Obama walks to the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - It's gut-check time for President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats on their health care overhaul.

Crews pull more Haiti quake survivors from ruins (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 12:02 AM PST

Earthquake survivor Hotteline Lozama, 26, shakes hands with a rescuer as she was pulled out from the rubble by French aid group Secouristes Sans Frontieres in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. International working groups are racing against the clock across Haiti to find more victims still possibly buried alive in the rubbles. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)AP - A 69-year-old ardent Roman Catholic who said she prayed constantly during her week under the rubble was among the unlikely survivors of the epic Haitian earthquake.

8 dead in Va. shootings; police corner suspect (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 01:00 AM PST

This image provided by the Virginia State Police shows shooting suspect Christopher Speight, 39, who is being sought in connections with the fatal shootings of eight people in Appomattox, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Virginia State Police)AP - Police early Wednesday swarmed the woods and cornered a man who they said shot and killed eight people and fired on a state police helicopter that was searching for him, rupturing its fuel tank.

AP-GfK Poll: Obama's 1st year gets mixed verdict (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 12:10 AM PST

FILE - In this May 6, 2008, file photo, then-Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., drinks beer at Raleigh Times bar in Raleigh, N.C. President Barack Obama earns decidedly mixed reviews in a new Associated Press-GfK poll judging his first year in office. His approval ratings have been becalmed for months, 56 percent in the survey out Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - You're likable enough, Barack.

Congress seeks specific fixes on intel failures (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 12:05 AM PST

AP - The Obama administration has so far used broad strokes to describe how it will repair an intelligence system that failed to stop an attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack. This week, Congress starts pressing for specifics.

Afghanistan seeks new ideas against corruption (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 12:31 AM PST

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, presides over the oath giving ceremony for the 14 ministers for the new cabinet that Afghan parliament has approved, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Zabi Tamanna, Pool)AP - The Afghan government has chosen a former World Bank executive and ex-presidential contender to develop new ideas to battle corruption.

Officials order evacuations before 3rd SoCal storm (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 12:52 AM PST

Jerry Bridges paddles an inflatable kayak down a flooded section of Bennett Aveue in Long Beach, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. The second in a series of powerful storms roared into Southern California, bringing heavy rains and winds that smashed windows, submerged cars and flipped an SUV along a stretch of coastline. (AP Photo/Scott Smeltzer)AP - After two days of lightening, flooding and even a tornado, officials tried to get ahead of the next round of powerful storms that are pummeling Southern California by ordering evacuations in mudslide-prone foothill neighborhoods.

Brittany's mom, husband say drugs didn't kill her (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 12:44 AM PST

Simon Monjack, left, husband of deceased actress Brittany Murphy and Murphy's mother Sharon pose with a portrait of the actress in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. Monjack said the portrait by photographer Bruce Weber was Murphy's favorite photo of herself. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)AP - A month after her sudden death, Brittany Murphy's mother and husband say they are convinced the actress died of natural causes, not drugs or an eating disorder.

Clijsters, Kuznetsova, Nadal advance to 3rd round (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 11:07 PM PST

Kim Clijsters of Belgium reacts after beating Thailand's Tamarine Tanasugarn to win their Women's singles match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday Jan. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)AP - U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters took another step toward winning consecutive Grand Slams with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Tamarine Tanasugarn in the second round of the Australian Open on Wednesday.

In blow to Obama, Republican wins in Massachusetts (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 11:45 PM PST

President Barack Obama attends a campaign rally for U.S. Senate candidate Attorney General Martha Coakley at Northeastern University in Boston, January 17, 2010. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - In a stunning blow to President Barack Obama, Republican Scott Brown won a bitter Senate race in Massachusetts on Tuesday and promised to be the deciding vote against his sweeping healthcare overhaul.

Haiti violence fears lift, U.S. troops help deliver aid (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 09:27 PM PST

A man comforts Desie Ulachine, 7, at a hospital in Port-au-Prince, January 18, 2010. REUTERS/Tatyana MakeyevaReuters - Fears of violence and looting eased in earthquake-devastated Haiti as U.S. troops provided security for water and food aid deliveries, and thousands of displaced Haitians heeded the government's advice to seek shelter outside Port-au-Prince.

Obama targets "tax cheats" seeking government work (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 11:26 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama will order federal agencies on Wednesday to take measures to prevent companies that are delinquent in paying taxes from obtaining new government contracts, the White House said.

Diplomats: Iran spurns nuclear fuel deal in writing (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:23 PM PST

A suspected uranium-enrichment facility near Qom, 156 km (97 miles) southwest of Tehran, is seen in this September 27, 2009 satellite photograph released by DigitalGlobe on September 28, 2009. REUTERS/DigitalGlobe/Handout/FilesReuters - Iran has notified the U.N. nuclear watchdog it rejects key parts of a draft deal to send abroad most of its enriched uranium, designed to ease fears the material could be used to make nuclear weapons, diplomats said on Tuesday.

Suspected U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, 6 killed (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 06:36 AM PST

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates addresses the media in New Delhi on January 20. Al-Qaeda is seeking to de-stabilise the entire South Asia region and could trigger a new war between Pakistan and India, Gates told reporters.(AFP/Manan Vatsyayana)Reuters - A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles into Pakistan's North Waziristan region on the Afghan border on Tuesday, killing six militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

U.S. has met with China on Internet freedom (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 11:46 PM PST

A Chinese national flag flies in front of Google China's headquarters in Beijing, January 15, 2010. REUTERS/Alfred JinReuters - The United States has had multiple meetings with Chinese authorities over Internet freedom and will have more in the coming days, a top State Department official said on Tuesday amid continuing tensions between Google and Beijing.

U.S. court sends back Abu-Jamal death penalty case (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 12:01 PM PST

Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted an appeal by prosecutors and set aside a ruling that invalidated the death sentence of black political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer.

Haiti aid relief steps up as US troops pour in (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 11:12 PM PST

French rescuers work on a woman who survived one week in a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince. But with hopes of finding more survivors fading, the deputy commander of the military operation in Haiti said US forces would soon switch the focus of the operation to recovering bodies.(AFP/Juan Barreto)AFP - US troops fanned out across the ruined Haitian capital as the military ramped up a huge aid operation Wednesday with tensions mounting on the streets more than a week after the catastrophic quake.

Republicans deal Obama massive blow with Senate win (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 11:03 PM PST

US Senator-elect, Republican Scott Brown speaks to supporters after winning the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat in Boston. Brown pulled off the shock victory, capturing the late Democratic icon Edward Kennedy's seat in a stern rebuke of Obama exactly a year after he swept into office.(AFP/Getty Images/Robert Spencer)AFP - Republicans won a stunning upset in Massachusetts's Senate election, dealing a potentially fatal blow to US President Barack Obama's health care reforms.
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