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Missing 11-year-old girl found in Fla. swamp (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 07:18 PM PDT

Nadia Bloom, 11, missing since Friday afternoon, is carried by rescuers after being found on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 in the woods surrounding her Winter Springs, Fla., home. Nadia was covered in bug bites, her feet are waterlogged and she is dehydrated, officials said, but she is doing well. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Red Huber)AP - A missing 11-year-old central Florida girl with an autism-related disorder was found alive Tuesday by a member of her family's church four days after she disappeared into an alligator-infested swamp a half-mile from her home.

Petition drive urges Russia not to halt adoptions (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:22 PM PDT

Chart shows declining adoptions from Russia to the U.S. over timeAP - Worried over a threatened freeze of adoptions from Russia, thousands of American adoption advocates are petitioning leaders of the two nations to prevent such a step even as they decry a Tennessee woman returning her adopted son to Russia.

US Catholic church moving faster on abuse cases (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 04:25 PM PDT

FILE - In this January 5, 2007 file photo, Archbishop Charles Chaput is speaks during an interview at the church's headquarters in Denver. Chaput acted swiftly suspending Rev. Melvin Thompson from Saint Thomas More Parish after decades-old child sex abuse allegations were presented against the priest. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, FILE)AP - The action against the priest was swift and public.

US prosecutor asks pope's help to return priest (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 04:34 PM PDT

AP - A Minnesota prosecutor directly appealed to Pope Benedict XVI for help Tuesday as she tries to get an Indian priest back to the United States to face sexual assault charges.

Opening statements begin in Hawaii spy trial (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 08:34 PM PDT

AP - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday accused a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer of betraying the U.S. by selling military secrets to China, but his defense countered that the information he passed on was "obvious" and "well-known."

Oregon man awarded $1.4M in Boy Scouts sex case (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 05:27 PM PDT

Plaintiff Kerry Lewis reacts after the verdict against the Boy Scouts of America was announced in Portland, Ore. on Tuesday, April 13, 2010. A jury found the organization negligent for repeated sexual abuse by assistant Scoutmaster Timur Dykes in the 1980s. Secret 'perversion files' kept by the Irving, Texas-based group were used as evidence. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - A jury delivered an embarrassing rebuke to the Boy Scouts of America on Tuesday when it found that the organization failed to protect a man who was molested by an assistant Scoutmaster in the early 1980s.

Calif. to investigate group behind Palin speech (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 06:34 PM PDT

State Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, right, discusses the the documents related to a speaking contract for former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, found in the trash bins at California State University, Stanislaus, during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, April 13, 2010. CSU, Stanislaus students Alicia Lewis, left and Ashli Briggs, right, say they were tipped off on April 9, about the the administration officials attempt to get rid of documents concerning Palin's speaking appearance with the CSU Stanislaus Foundation in June. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Tuesday his office had launched an investigation into the finances of a state university foundation and the alleged dumping of documents related to Sarah Palin's upcoming speech at the school.

Boston tea rally has glaring absence: Scott Brown (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2010 file photo, Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown removes his glasses after reading a transcript from earlier comments he made about the Tea Party Movement at the Omni Parker House in Boston, during a news conference to accept the support of a group of veterans ahead of the special election to be held to fill the senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy. When the Tea Party Express pulls into the city where the conservative movement got its name, the crowd will be as notable for who is not there as who is. Sarah Palin is the keynote speaker on Wednesday, April 14, 2010, but Brown, whose January election the movement claims as its proudest accomplishment, is skipping the event. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)AP - When the Tea Party Express pulls into the city where the conservative movement got its name, the crowd will be as notable for who is not there as who is.

Women wary of 'socially inept' Pa. judge's defense (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 04:20 PM PDT

AP - Judge Gerard Alonge isn't that different from other guys who can't get a date. The trouble, prosecutors say, is that the objects of his affection are the women in his courtroom, and he isn't getting the message that his crushes aren't interested.

Neb. governor signs landmark abortion bills (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 08:20 PM PDT

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman signs into law in Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday, April 13, 2010, two landmark abortion bills that both sides of the abortion debate say are firsts in the country. One bars abortions at and after 20 weeks of pregnancy based on assertions that fetuses feel pain at that time, and the other bill signed by Heineman will require doctors or other health professionals to assess whether women have risk factors that could lead to mental or physical problems after an abortion. At left is Neb. Speaker Mike Flood of Norfolk.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - Two landmark measures putting new restrictions on abortion became law in Nebraska on Tuesday, including one that critics say breaks with court precedent by changing the legal rationale for a ban on later-term abortions.

1913 Abraham Lincoln film found in NH barn cleanup (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 04:42 PM PDT

In this handout photo courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director and film star Francis Ford is seen in the roll of Abraham Lincoln in a 1913 film that had been lost for 97 years. (AP Photo)AP - In a tale celebrating the romance of movies, a contractor cleaning out an old New Hampshire barn destined for demolition found seven reels of nitrate film inside, including the only known copy of a 1913 silent film about Abraham Lincoln.

NASA begins science flights with robotic jet (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 07:19 PM PDT

A NASA Global Hawk robotic jet sits in a hangar at Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on April 13, 2010. The Air Force turned over to NASA three Global Hawks, which were designed for military reconnaissance but equipped with science sensors for conducting atmospheric research over the Pacific. The space agency will use them for unmanned, long-duration, autonomous research flights.(AP Photo/John Antczak)AP - One of NASA's newest research jets soared high over the Pacific Ocean Tuesday on a 24-hour mission to study Earth's atmosphere.

Ex-mine official to lead probe of W.Va. blast (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 07:14 PM PDT

Letters, drawings and well-wishes by school children appear hanging on a fence at a make shift memorial in Whitesville, W.Va., on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 for twenty-nine miners who died in the explosion at Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, W. Va. a week ago Monday. Workers were able to remove the bodies of the last 9 miners from the mine earlier this morning. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - Gov. Joe Manchin on Tuesday asked a former top federal mine safety official to independently investigate an explosion that killed 29 West Virginia miners, and also called for more scrutiny of mines with a history of safety violations.

Investigators search river for missing Fla. girl (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 05:36 PM PDT

FILE - This file photo released by the Putnam County Sheriff's Office shows Haleigh Cummings, 5, of Satsuma, Fla. Investigators searched a river Tuesday, April 13, 2010, for Cummings, who disappeared from her father's mobile home more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Putnam County Sheriff's Office, HO, File)AP - Investigators searched a murky river Tuesday for a 5-year-old girl who disappeared from her father's Florida mobile home more than a year ago.

Obama revives capsule from canceled moon program (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 05:23 PM PDT

Apollo 11 hero Neil Armstrong, pictured in March 2010, Tuesday lashed out at President Barack Obama's decision to axe NASA plans to return to the Moon, describing the move as AP - President Barack Obama is reviving the NASA crew capsule concept that he had canceled with the rest of the moon program earlier this year, in a move that will mean more jobs and less reliance on the Russians, officials said Tuesday.

Sue yourself? Conn. official does to get on ballot (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 11:38 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2010, file photo, Connecticut Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz announces that she will seek the Democratic nomination for State Attorney General at a news conference in Middletown, Conn. At rear is her daughter Ava Donaldson. As Connecticut's secretary of the state, Susan Bysiewicz has spent 11 years explaining and defending election laws to candidates. But now, as a Democratic candidate for state attorney general, Bysiewicz finds herself in strange territory: as plaintiff in a lawsuit against her own office, challenging the constitutionality of a law she is sworn to uphold. (AP Photo/Bob Child, Pool, File)AP - As Connecticut's secretary of the state, Susan Bysiewicz has spent 11 years explaining and defending election laws to candidates.

News sites funded by think tanks take root (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 02:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 29, 2010 file photo, Wayne Hoffman, center, the executive director of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, talks with acquaintances in the Idaho Capitol in Boise, Idaho. A growing number of conservative groups are bankrolling startup news organizations around the country, aggressively covering government and politics at a time when newspapers are cutting back their statehouse bureaus. (AP Photo/John Miller, File)AP - A growing number of conservative groups are bankrolling startup news organizations around the country, aggressively covering government and politics at a time when newspapers are cutting back their statehouse bureaus.

Inquest begins in Mass. shooting by Ala. professor (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 04:29 PM PDT

FILE - A Feb. 13, 2010 file police booking photograph released by the Huntsville (Ala.) Police Dept., shows college professor Amy Bishop, charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. A closed-door inquest began Tuesday, April 13, 2010, in Massachusetts in the 1986 death of Bishop's brother. (AP Photo/Huntsville Police Department, File)AP - Ten witnesses were questioned Tuesday during a closed-door inquest into the 1986 shooting death of the brother of Amy Bishop, who is accused — 24 years later — of fatally shooting three colleagues at an Alabama university.

Teen's NY hate crime stabbing case heading to jury (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 03:01 PM PDT

AP - An Ecuadorean immigrant broke the rules when he decided to fight back against a gang of mostly white teenagers and ended up paying with his life, a prosecutor said Tuesday in closing arguments in the murder trial of one of the teens.
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Obama's nuclear summit yields early dividends (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:18 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama makes a statement during the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. Obama has warned that Al-Qaeda would not hesitate to use a nuclear weapon against the United States, before hosting a global summit aimed at thwarting such a nightmare scenario.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)AP - President Barack Obama's nuclear summit has paid early dividends: China's agreement to work with the U.S. on possible sanctions against Iran and Ukraine's decision to rid itself of nuclear bomb-making materials.

Wrong video of health protest spurs N-word feud (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:39 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 20, 2010 file photo, tea party demonstrators protest outside of the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - Three Democratic congressmen — all black — say they heard racial slurs as they walked through thousands of angry protesters outside the U.S. Capitol. A white lawmaker says he heard the epithets too. Conservative activists say the lawmakers are lying.

Groups look for tea party support on nomination (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:17 AM PDT

In this Sept. 29, 2009 photo, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens sits for a group photograph at the Supreme Court in Washington. Stevens, the court's oldest member and leader of its liberal bloc, announced Friday, April 9, 2010 he is retiring, saying he will step down when the court finishes its work for the summer in late June or early July. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Conservative groups preparing to fight President Barack Obama over his next Supreme Court nomination are trying to recruit tea party activists to their cause, hoping their enthusiasm will help them beat back any nominee that could be too liberal for their taste.

Top ex-WaMu executives come before Congress (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 09:06 PM PDT

AP - Former senior executives of mortgage lender Washington Mutual, the biggest U.S. bank in history to fail, are appearing before Congress on Tuesday for the first time since the bank's September 2008 collapse.

Russia points to human error in fatal Polish crash (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 06:30 PM PDT

Polish soldiers stand guard near a sea of candles in front of the President Palace two days after Polish President Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash, in Warsaw, early Monday, April 12, 2010. Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday, when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - Russian investigators suggested human error may have been to blame in the plane crash that killed the Polish president and 95 others, saying Monday there were no technical problems with the Soviet-made plane.

European abuse hot lines log jump in calls (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:10 PM PDT

A sign attached at the entrance of an apartment building marks the location of a call center of the Vienna archdiocese, in this photo taken on Friday, April 9, 2010 in Vienna, Austria. According to the Vienna hot line, 174 contacts were made between January and the end of March — compared to 17 in all of 2009. Of those, eight turned out to be concrete cases after experts held intensive conversations with alleged victims, said Erich Leitenberger, spokesman of the Vienna Archdiocese. Sign reads 'Catholic University Pastoral Care' and ' Ombudsoffice of the Vienna Archdiocese (EDW)'. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - Telephone hot lines in Europe offering help to people claiming abuse by Roman Catholic priests are being deluged with calls as the crisis spreads — with one center reporting complaints jumping from about 10 cases a year to more than a thousand in the past few weeks.

New media recognized in Pulitzer competition (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:36 AM PDT

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Raquel Rutledge, center, celebrates in the newsroom after hearing she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting Monday, April 12, 2010 at the paper in Milwaukee, Wis. At left is managing editor George Stanley and to the left of Rutledge is editor Marty Kaiser. The award was for investigating the $350 million taxpayer-financed child-care system known as Wisconsin Shares and uncovered a trail of phony companies, fake reports and shoddy oversight (AP Photo/Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, Mark Hoffman)AP - When the Pulitzer board handed out the most important prizes in journalism, The New York Times and The Washington Post topped the list of winners_ and finalists — as usual.

Conan O'Brien picks TBS, not Fox, for his TV home (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:18 AM PDT

FILE - This Nov. 7, 2007 file photo shows Conan O'Brien in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)AP - As Conan O'Brien sought a new place to play TV host, conventional wisdom said he'd be bringing his talk show to Fox.

Johnson scores 31 to help Hawks beat Bucks 104-96 (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 08:05 PM PDT

Atlanta Hawks' Joe Johnson goes up for a shot against Milwaukee Bucks' Carlos Delfino, left, in the first half of an NBA basketball game Monday, April 12, 2010, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Darren Hauck)AP - Joe Johnson scored 31 points to help the Atlanta Hawks beat the Milwaukee Bucks 104-96 in a matchup between potential first-round playoff opponents Monday night.

Kennedy cousin loses appeal in murder conviction (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 06:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 17, 2007 file photo, Michael Skakel sits in the courtroom at Superior Court in Stamford, Conn., on the first day of a hearing to determine whether he will get a new trial for the 1975 murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley. The Connecticut Supreme Court is planning to release its ruling Monday, April 12, 2010, on Skakel's appeal of his conviction in the 1975 slaying. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)AP - The state Supreme Court on Monday rejected Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel's bid for a new trial in the 1975 killing of his 15-year-old neighbor, ruling that a claim implicating two other men, including a large black man, was not credible.

World leaders meet on nuclear terrorism threat (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:11 PM PDT

President Barack Obama addresses reporters during his meeting with South African President Jacob Zuma at Blair House in Washington D.C. April 11, 2010. Zuma is in town for this week's nuclear security summit. REUTERS/Richard ClementReuters - World leaders meet in Washington on Tuesday for the biggest summit hosted by the United States since 1945, and they will have just one item on the agenda -- stopping terrorists from getting a nuclear bomb.

Pressure mounts on Thai PM after deadly clashes (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:35 AM PDT

Anti-government red shirt demonstrators holding the Thai flag lead vehicles carrying the caskets of those killed during clashes with security forces two days earlier, as they protest through the streets of Bangkok April 12, 2010. REUTERS/Adrees LatifReuters - Thai "red shirt" protesters threatened on Tuesday to march on an army barracks where Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has been based after the Election Commission unexpectedly recommended his party be dissolved.

Poland moves to fill key posts after plane crash (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 11:02 AM PDT

The coffin of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski at the chapel of presidential palace in Warsaw. The pilots of a plane that crashed and killed Poland's president had received explicit weather warnings before they attempted to land at a fog-bound Russian airport, investigators said on Monday.(AFP/Maciej Chojnowski)Reuters - Poland moved on Monday to fill key state posts after a weekend plane crash in western Russia killed President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of other top officials, plunging the country into mourning.

U.S. says "good news" Kyrgyzstan to keep base deal (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 04:50 PM PDT

U.S. servicemen march during a change of command ceremony at Manas Air Base near Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek June 15, 2009. REUTERS/Vladimir PirogovReuters - The United States on Monday welcomed statements from Kyrgyzstan's interim government that it will abide by agreements covering a U.S. air base that supports military operations in Afghanistan.

Pupils "sadistically tormented" at German monastery (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 11:42 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI waves during Sunday Angelus prayer at his residence of Castelgandolfo, south of Rome, April 11, 2010. REUTERS/Osservatore RomanoReuters - Children were "sadistically tormented and also sexually abused" at a Catholic monastery in Pope Benedict's native Bavaria, according to a new report commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church.

Egypt says had no hand in Kuwait deportations (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 12:39 PM PDT

Reuters - Egypt has said it did not ask Kuwait to deport a group of Egyptians there who had backed former nuclear watchdog head Mohamed ElBaradei as a potential Egyptian presidential candidate.

U.S. military playing expanded role in Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 03:04 PM PDT

An unidentified U.S. security official, center, examines the scene as a private guard cordons off the site of a suicide bombing near the U.S. consulate, unseen, in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, April 5, 2010. Islamist militants attacked the consulate in northwest Pakistan with car bombs and grenades Monday, killing three people. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)Reuters - U.S. Special Operations Forces on a training mission in Pakistan are playing an expanded but largely unseen role in the country's counterinsurgency campaign, working with paramilitary units to "hold and build" tribal areas as militants are cleared out.

At U.S. nuclear site, visitors weigh changed threats (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 04:34 PM PDT

Reuters - With 3 ton-blast doors, 8-foot thick concrete walls, the Titan Missile Museum reaching down nine stories in the Arizona desert is a stark and imposing monument to the Cold War nuclear threat.

Leaders at summit work on halting nuclear traffic (AFP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:12 AM PDT

The sealed-off Washington Convention Center where the Nuclear Security Summit is being staged. US President Barack Obama will urge world leaders to harden their resolve to lock down nuclear material on the second day of the summit aimed at keeping atomic weapons out of terrorist hands.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - US President Barack Obama will urge world leaders to harden their resolve to lock down nuclear material on the second day of a summit Tuesday aimed at keeping atomic weapons out of terrorist hands.

Thailand accuses Thaksin of stoking deadly unrest (AFP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 11:20 PM PDT

AFP - The Thai government accused ousted former leader Thaksin Shinawatra of stoking deadly weekend unrest as pressure mounted Tuesday on the embattled prime minister over the crippling political crisis.
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