| Fighting rages as Karzai urges restraint from NATO (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 11:53 PM PST  AP - U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers advanced through poppy fields of Marjah on Saturday under withering gunfire from Taliban fighters shooting from mudbrick homes and compounds where families huddled in terror.
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| Live From Washington! It's Obama health care drama (AP) Posted: 21 Feb 2010 12:21 AM PST  AP - Coming soon to daytime television: America's long-running civic drama over how to provide better health care to more of its people without breaking the bank.
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| GOP's 2012 hopefuls crowd town they love to hate (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 11:54 PM PST  AP - Republicans who may want President Barack Obama's job flocked to the town they love to hate this weekend and repeatedly ripped into the Democrat, an early tryout of sorts for the GOP nomination.
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| Governors brace for more economic turmoil (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 08:05 PM PST  AP - On the recession's front lines, governors are struggling to chart the road ahead for states staggered by unrelenting joblessness and cut-to-the-bone budgets even as Washington reports signs of economic growth.
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| Alexander Haig remembered as soldier-statesman (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 11:43 PM PST  AP - Soldier and statesman, Alexander Haig never lived down his televised response to the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Haig died Saturday at age 85 having held high posts in three Republican administrations and some of the U.S. military's top jobs.
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| IRS worker killed in crash was a loyal family man (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 03:27 PM PST  AP - The family of a longtime Internal Revenue Service employee killed when a pilot harboring an anti-IRS grudge flew his plane into his office remembered the Vietnam veteran Saturday as devoted family man who likely would have tried to save his co-workers from the burning building before escaping himself.
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| NASA: Weather iffy for space shuttle return Sunday (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 03:42 PM PST  AP - Space shuttle Endeavour aimed for a Sunday night landing back at NASA's spaceport, but rainy and cloudy weather threatened to delay the astronauts' homecoming.
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| Vegas hotel unveils Elvis extravaganza (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 10:05 AM PST  AP - Three decades after Elvis Presley took his last bow on the Las Vegas Strip, where he once reigned as king, the magicians of Cirque du Soleil have tried to summon back the power of this supreme entertainer in a show titled, "Viva Elvis."
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| 32 reported dead in storm on Portuguese island (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 02:42 PM PST  AP - Flooding and landslides swept away cars and knocked down houses as a violent storm killed at least 32 people Saturday on the Portuguese island of Madeira, a news agency reported.
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| Scientists report on way to derail spread of AIDS (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 01:25 PM PST  AP - A successful AIDS vaccine remains elusive, but researchers say aggressive, early anti-viral therapy might provide a way to derail the spread of disease.
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| Former Nixon aide, Alexander Haig dead at 85 (Reuters) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 01:55 PM PST Reuters - Alexander Haig, a former Army general who became White House chief of staff during the Watergate scandal and secretary of state during the Reagan administration, died Saturday at the age of 85. |
| Taliban reject renewed Karzai call for peace (Reuters) Posted: 21 Feb 2010 01:04 AM PST  Reuters - Afghanistan's Taliban on Sunday rejected President Hamid Karzai's latest call for peace, despite pressure from a NATO offensive and the capture of its number 2.
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| Bad economies in states to worsen: governors (Reuters) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 10:57 AM PST Reuters - The already gloomy conditions of states' economies are set to worsen, according to preliminary survey findings from the National Governors Association released on Saturday. |
| Reviewers urge Glaxo's Avandia come off market (Reuters) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 09:36 PM PST Reuters - Two U.S. drug safety reviewers have recommended that GlaxoSmithKline PLC's diabetes drug Avandia be pulled from the market after concluding it is more dangerous to the heart than a rival medicine, according to documents released on Saturday. |
| White House to publish healthcare proposals Monday (Reuters) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 12:20 PM PST  Reuters - The White House will unveil its latest healthcare reform proposals on Monday ahead of a bipartisan summit that President Barack Obama hopes will advance the stalled legislation, a senior administration official said on Saturday.
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| Chinese schools deny link to Google attack (Reuters) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 06:53 PM PST  Reuters - A prestigious Chinese university and a lesser-known vocational school have denied a report they were the source of recent cyber attacks on Internet giant Google and other U.S. corporations, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.
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| Cuba blasts U.S. meeting with dissidents (Reuters) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 10:19 AM PST Reuters - Cuba angrily criticized U.S. officials on Saturday for meeting with government opponents following high-level talks on migration issues and said it showed the United States' real goal is to topple Cuba's communist government, not move toward better relations. |
| Floods kill at least 32 on resort island Madeira (Reuters) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 01:33 PM PST  Reuters - At least 32 people have been killed by floods and mudslides caused by an unusually violent rainstorm on the Portuguese resort island of Madeira, officials said on Saturday.
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| Flash floods kill 32 on Portuguese tourist island (AFP) Posted: 21 Feb 2010 12:32 AM PST  AFP - Flash floods that turned into street torrents destroying houses and pulling down bridges, killed at least 32 people on the Portuguese island of Madeira, officials said.
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| UN, AU envoys head to Niger for talks with junta (AFP) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 05:32 PM PST  AFP - UN and African Union envoys were expected in Niger Sunday, a day after thousands of people demonstrated in support of the military coup that ousted the country's president.
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