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A policy change on abortion, but how radical? (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:06 AM PST

President Barack Obama speaks about health care reform at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa. on Monday, March 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama's health care bill would change federal policy on abortion, but not open the spigot of taxpayer dollars that some abortion opponents fear.

Senate to take up unemployment insurance extension (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:17 AM PST

AP - Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year.

9th US missionary freed in Haiti, returns home (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 11:06 PM PST

Charisa Coulter, second from right, of Meridian, Idaho, one of two US Baptist missionaries held on kidnapping charges in Haiti, arrives to the airport, accompanied by US embassy staff, after her release from jail in Port-au-Prince, Monday, March 8, 2010. Coulter was set free more than a month after she and nine other Americans were arrested for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti without proper documents after the Jan. 12 earthquake. Laura Silsby, the leader of the Idaho-based missionaries, remains detained. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - A U.S. missionary held for more than a month in Haiti on kidnapping charges flew back to the United States after being released from prison, while the leader of her Baptist group remained in custody.

Biden sees "moment of opportunity" in Mideast (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:23 AM PST

Vice President Joseph Biden, center, enters a car upon his arrival to Ben Gurion airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, March 8, 2010. Biden arrived to Israel Monday, the first leg of a five-day tour of the Middle East. Biden's trip is the highest-level visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories yet by an Obama administration official. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, Pool)AP - U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden says there is a "moment of opportunity" for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Cyprus police confirm body is ex-leader's corpse (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:10 AM PST

Cypriot forensic experts inspect the dug-out grave of former Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulos in the village of Deftera on the outskirts of Nicosia in 2009. Cypriot authorities have found the body of Papadopoulos three months after it was snatched from his grave on the Mediterranean island, state-run media reported on Monday.(AFP/File/Stefanos Kouratzis)AP - A body discovered in a Nicosia cemetery is the stolen corpse of Cyprus' ex-president Tassos Papadopoulos, police said Tuesday.

Gates praises troops in southern Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:02 AM PST

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, left, sits with Commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal during a meeting in Kabul on Monday March 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Watson/Pool)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a hard-hit battle unit Tuesday that its heavy losses have helped the U.S. begin to push back against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.

Brown team takes campaign template on the road (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:08 AM PST

In this Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 photo, Rob Cole, right, a Shawmut Group member, walks with R.I. State Rep. John Loughlin, R-Tiverton, left, during an event held to announce Loughlin's candidacy for Congress, in Lincoln, R.I. The Shawmut Group also worked on Republican U.S. Senator Scott Brown's successful race in Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - The political team that helped Scott Brown stage his improbable victory in the Massachusetts Senate race wants to apply its winning strategy elsewhere this election year. First stop: Rhode Island.

Parents of dead SoCal teen urge new predator laws (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:49 AM PST

FILE - This undated file image provided by the Dubois family shows Amber Dubois. Authorities in Southern California say the skeletal remains of Dubois, a 14-year-old girl who disappeared a year ago while walking to school, have been found in a remote area of the Pala Indian Reservation. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Dubois family, File) NO SALESAP - The father of a 14-year-old girl whose bones were found more than a year after she vanished walking to school urged supporters to behave like his late daughter's favorite animal, the wolf, to hunt down child predators.

Lil Wayne begins 1-year jail term in NYC gun case (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:09 AM PST

FILE- In this Feb. 9, 2010, file photo, rapper Lil Wayne enters Manhattan criminal court in New York. After two delays, Lil Wayne is finally set to be sentenced Monday, March 8, 2010, to a year in city jail, as planned when he pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon. He admitted illegally having a loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic gun on his tour bus in July 2007. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, file)AP - After saying goodbye on concert stages and online video streams, Lil Wayne had nothing to add as he was sentenced Monday to a year in jail for having a loaded gun on his tour bus.

Mavericks top Timberwolves for 12th straight win (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 07:44 PM PST

Dallas Mavericks' Jason Kidd goes airborne with a layup in the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Minnesota Timberwolves Monday, March 8, 2010 in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - Shawn Marion had a season-high 29 points and 14 rebounds and the Dallas Mavericks stretched the league's longest active winning streak to 12 straight games with a 125-112 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday night.

Obama targets insurers, sells reform plan (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:20 PM PST

President Obama as he holds a bipartisan meeting to discuss health reform legislation with lawmakers at Blair House in Washington, February 25, 2010. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - President Barack Obama launched a sharp attack on health insurers on Monday and called on his fellow Democrats to rise above politics and pass a healthcare overhaul in the next few weeks.

Toyota finds no flaw with safety electronics (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 09:15 PM PST

A Toyota Sai hybrid, a model that was recalled due to brake trouble, at a showroom in Tokyo. Crisis-hit Toyota hit back once again Monday at allegations that the electronics in its vehicles caused the problems with sudden acceleration which led to the recall of millions of vehicles.(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp said it had found no flaw with its throttle controls as it seeks to dismiss an external study critical of its electronic safety systems.

Nigeria urged to end impunity after village massacre (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:26 AM PST

A woman cries during a funeral for victims in the Dogo Nahawa village, about 15 km (9 miles) to the capital city of Jos in central Nigeria, March 8, 2010. Soldiers patrolled the central Nigerian city of Jos on Monday and aid workers tried to assess the death toll after attacks on outlying communities in which several hundred people were feared to have been killed. REUTERS/Akintunde AkinleyeReuters - U.S.-based Human Rights Watch on Tuesday urged Nigeria to prosecute those behind what it called a massacre of at least 200 Christian villagers and end a cycle of impunity which has allowed instability to persist.

Britain heads for hung parliament: polls (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:42 AM PST

Reuters - Britain is heading for a hung parliament after an election expected on May 6, opinion polls indicated on Tuesday.

New poll spells potential trouble for Democrats (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:23 PM PST

US President Barack Obama speaks on healthcare and health insurance reform at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Obama has launched a populist assault on price-gouging American insurance firms, escalating his last-ditch bid to pass a historic health reform bill.(AFP/Saul Loeb)Reuters - A new poll on Monday found signs of trouble ahead for President Barack Obama and his Democrats on national security issues such as the handling of terrorism suspects.

Appeals for calm after Nigeria sectarian slaughter (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 06:45 PM PST

A woman reflects as women and children, killed during religious clashes in central Nigeria, are buried in a mass grave on March 8. Survivors of the latest wave of inter-ethnic violence, in which mainly women and children were hacked to death or burned alive in their homes, have denounced the authorities for having failed to intervene in time.(AFP)AFP - Nigerian troops were patrolling villages near the northern city of Jos Tuesday after the massacre of more than 500 Christians there that sparked international shock and outrage.

Tentative Mideast peace talks begin (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 06:32 PM PST

File photo shows two Israeli boys and their mother walking in the Southern Gaza Strip settlement of Ganei Tal close to an armed Israeli settler. Palestinians and Israelis have held their first indirect talks in more than a year in a tentative boost to the Middle East peace process, frozen since the Jewish state's devastating war on Gaza.(AFP/File/Roberto Schmidt)AFP - Palestinians and Israelis held their first indirect talks in more than a year in a tentative boost to the Middle East peace process, frozen since the Jewish state's devastating war on Gaza.
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