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Obama to sign student loan legislation in Virginia (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:07 AM PDT

President Barack Obama exits Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Monday, March 29, 2010, after making a surprise visit to Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - President Barack Obama prepared Tuesday to sign the piece of his sweeping health care overhaul that makes the government the primary lender to students and strips banks of that power.

Militia accused of plotting war on US government (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:53 AM PDT

Two Detroit city police officers on horses wait outside the Federal Courthouse. Nine members of a radical Christian militia were charged with plotting to kill police in Michigan and wage war on the government, an indictment unsealed Monday said.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)AP - A ninth alleged member of a Christian militia group that prepared to battle the Antichrist and the U.S. government was arrested after the FBI played recorded messages from family and friends, who urged the man to give himself up, over loudspeakers outside a home in rural Michigan.

Death toll from Moscow subway blasts rises to 39 (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:21 PM PDT

A woman cries as Interior Ministry officers block her way in front of the exit of Lubyanka metro station in Moscow March 29, 2010. Two blasts ripped through packed Moscow metro stations on Monday during rush hour, killing at least 34 people and wounding 18, Russian officials said. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin (RUSSIA - Tags: DISASTER CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST TRANSPORT)AP - A woman has died in a clinic from wounds suffered in the double suicide bombing of the Moscow subway, officials said Tuesday, raising the death toll to 39 as the country entered a day of mourning.

NASA will help probe Toyota acceleration problem (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:16 AM PDT

A Toyota Motor Corp car is seen inside the environment testing chamber during a quality control demonstration at its headquarters in Toyota, central Japan, March 30, 2010. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonAP - NASA and the National Academy of Sciences are joining the government's effort to figure out what caused the sudden acceleration problems that led to Toyota's massive recalls.

Obama set to ask visiting Sarkozy for Afghan help (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:07 AM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech to students at Columbia University in New York. Sarkozy called Monday for US economic reforms, and in comments echoing Franco-American spats of the past, said Washington cannot AP - France's President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves behind a romantic sojourn in New York for an encounter he's long been waiting for: talks Tuesday with President Barack Obama in the White House.

No communication from 153 trapped in China mine (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:44 PM PDT

Coal miners wait for news of their colleagues at the entrance to a flooded mine shaft at the Wangjialing coal mine, in northern China's Shanxi province on March 29, 2010. Nearly 1,000 rescuers raced against the clock Tuesday to free more than 150 workers trapped in a flooded half-built coal mine in north China, as officials warned gas was building up in the pit.(AFP/Peter Parks)AP - Anxious relatives of 153 workers trapped in a flooded mine in northern China milled helplessly above ground Tuesday, demanding action and answers as rescue efforts stretched into the third day with no communication from those stuck deep underground.

More flooding threatens storm-weary East Coast (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:47 AM PDT

National guardsmen, including Norma Fuentes, center, stack sandbags onto pallets at the Massachusetts Highway Department in Lexington, Mass., Monday, March 29, 2010, to be deployed to flood areas as needed around the state. Residents along the East Coast are bracing Monday for days of heavy rain, flooding and the wettest March on record in some areas. The National Weather Service posted flood warnings and advisories from Maine to the Carolinas as forecasts called for as much as 5-to-7 inches of rain over the next three days. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - A second major storm in less than a month continued to drench the East Coast as meteorologists predicted "very dangerous" flooding Tuesday in the Northeast and the wettest March on record in some places.

SKorean president visits site where navy ship sank (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:14 AM PDT

South Korean Navy's Landing Platform Helicopter (LPH) vessel Dokdo (behind) and South Korean Marines on rubber boats search possible survivors and bodies from a sunken naval ship Cheonan along the seashore on Baengnyeongdo, an island near the border with North Korea March 30, 2010. The South Korean naval ship sank on Friday night near the disputed maritime border with the North and 46 sailors were reported missing. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: MILITARY DISASTER)AP - South Korea's president ordered the military on alert Tuesday for any moves by rival North Korea after the defense minister said last week's explosion that sank a South Korean ship may have been caused by a North Korean mine.

Ricky Martin is livin' la vida open, says he's gay (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:46 AM PDT

Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin arrives at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in this January 31, 2010 file photo. Martin admitted March 29, 2010 that he was gay in a blog posting, ending years of speculation on the subject. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY)AP - Ricky Martin is no longer denying the rumors: He's gay.

Nets get 10th win, avoid share of NBA's worst mark (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:45 PM PDT

San Antonio Spurs' Richard Jefferson, center, and Tim Duncan, upper right, knock the ball away from New Jersey Nets' Yi Jianlian, of China, as Nets' Brook Lopez, left rear, looks on during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game Monday, March 29, 2010 in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)AP - The New Jersey Nets notched their 10th victory Monday night, avoiding any chance of tying for the worst record in NBA history by beating the short-handed San Antonio Spurs 90-84.

G8 ministers call for strong measures against Iran (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:20 PM PDT

Reuters - Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight leading industrial nations will call on the international community to take "appropriate and strong steps" to show its resolve over Iran's nuclear activities.

Obama administration has blunt message for insurers (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:54 PM PDT

Nils Higdon, 24, poses for a photo at his Chicago home, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. Higdon is a self-employed percussionist and music teacher, and sees the age issue as a sign of why the health care system needed reform.(AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)Reuters - The Obama administration on Monday had a blunt message for health insurers -- the new healthcare law requires that they not drop coverage for children with certain pre-existing conditions.

NASA to test Toyota electronics in safety probe (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:13 AM PDT

Reuters - U.S. auto safety regulators are turning to NASA scientists for help in analyzing Toyota Motor Corp electronic throttles to see if they are behind unintended acceleration, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said on Tuesday.

Obama tells China U.S. wants positive relationship (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 08:21 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama told China's new ambassador Washington wanted to "further develop" a positive relationship with China, the White House said in a statement on Monday.

Christian militia members charged in Michigan (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:47 AM PDT

Reuters - Nine members of a Christian militia group were indicted on charges of conspiring to wage war against the U.S. government, federal prosecutors said on Monday.

Australia says Rio trials opaque, business seeks answers (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:29 PM PDT

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said the world is watching the trial of the Rio Tinto employees. The trial has been widely seen as a test of the rule of law in China and has sparked concerns about doing business in the world's third-largest economy.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)Reuters - Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Tuesday that the verdicts in the trial of four executives of global miner Rio Tinto left serious unanswered questions for business about China's legal system.

Health reform faces big test with implementation (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:04 AM PDT

Reuters - Democrats are pushing to shore up support for the U.S. healthcare overhaul signed into law by President Barack Obama, but the final public verdict will largely depend on how smoothly it is put into effect.

'Shattered' Russia mourns metro bombing victims (AFP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:44 PM PDT

Russian police stand near a map of the Moscow metro transport system outside the Lubyanka metro station in Moscow on March 29, 2010. Moscow held a day of mourning Tuesday for the 39 victims of twin rush-hour suicide bombings on packed metro trains, as Russian leaders pledged to hunt down and wipe out those behind the attacks.(AFP)AFP - Moscow held a day of mourning Tuesday for the 39 people killed in a pair of underground suicide bombings as the Russian authorities faced pressure to prevent a resurgence of deadly militant attacks.

Obama wants 'positive relationship' with China (AFP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:31 PM PDT

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama conducts a press conference February 18, 2010 in Washington, DC. Washington angered Beijing on its bubbling issues over separatism with a 6.4-billion-dollar arms sale to Taiwan in January, and US President Barack Obama's talks with the Dalai Lama at the White House the following month.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)AFP - US President Barack Obama is determined to further develop a "positive relationship" with China, the White House said in comments welcomed by Beijing as the two powers seek to overcome deep strains in their ties.
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