Update as of March 10th, 2010
Obama says health care fraud and abuse must end
(AP)
AP - President Barack Obama says Washington for too long has accepted billions of dollars in health care fraud and abuse as simply the cost of doing business. He says that must end.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
US-Israel row highlights quandary over settlements
(AP)
AP - An open diplomatic row during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions that the United States is too weak to broker a deal.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
Garciaparra rejoins Red Sox for day, then retires
(AP)
AP - Nomar Garciaparra rejoined the Red Sox for one day and then retired, ending a 14-year career in which he won two batting titles with Boston and was once a beloved player in the city.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
Church abuse scandal reaches pope's brother
(AP)
AP - Church abuse scandals in Germany have reached the older brother of Pope Benedict XVI and are creeping ever closer to the pontiff himself.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal
(AP)
AP - They flew planes during World War II but weren't considered "real" military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own bus fare home.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
'Lost Boys' actor Corey Haim dead in Calif. at 38
(AP)
AP - Corey Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob whose career was blighted by drug abuse, has died. He was 38. Haim died early Wednesday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
Midnight knitter pulls the wool over NJ shore town
(AP)
AP - Someone is spinning quite a yarn over one New Jersey shore town. An unknown person dubbed The Midnight Knitter by West Cape May residents is covering tree branches and lamp poles with little sweaters under cover of darkness.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
Swedish artist has no regrets over prophet drawing
(AP)
AP - The point of a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog was to show that artistic freedom allows mockery of all religions, including the most sacred symbols of Islam, the Swedish artist who created it said Wednesday.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
A blond, blue-eyed Philly suburbanite called Jihad Jane
(AP)
AP - The self-dubbed "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond, all-American profile would help mask her plan to kill a Swedish cartoonist is a rare case of a U.S. woman inciting foreign terrorism and shows the latest evolution of the global threat, authorities say.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
Senate passes jobless aid, business tax breaks
(AP)
AP - The Senate voted Wednesday to extend a host of soon-to-expire elements of last year's economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless and money to help financially strapped states pay for health care for the poor.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
U.S. says hikers detained in Iran call families
(Reuters)
Reuters - Three American detained in Iran last year and accused of spying have been allowed to telephone their families, although formal consular access has not been granted, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
Biden scolds Israel over settlement plan
(Reuters)
Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden publicly scolded Israel on Wednesday over a Jewish settlement plan, saying it was undermining peace efforts after Palestinians agreed to U.S.-mediated talks.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
Gunmen storm US charity in Pakistan killing six aid workers
(AFP)
AFP - Militants armed with guns and grenades stormed the offices of a US-based Christian charity in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six aid workers in an attack blamed on Islamist rebels.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
Another runaway Toyota Prius reported
(Reuters)
Reuters - Federal regulators said they were looking into a report of another runaway Toyota Prius, this one in Westchester County, New York, where police said a woman pulling out of a driveway zoomed across a busy street and into a stone wall.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
Biden condemns Israel settlement move at Palestinian talks
(AFP)
AFP - US Vice President Joe Biden told Palestinian leaders on Wednesday that Washington will hold accountable any side that hurts peace prospects, pointedly citing Israel's settlement expansion plans.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
Iraq PM said to be ahead on eve of vote results
(Reuters)
Reuters - Initial results from Iraq's national election are likely to be released by Thursday, Iraqi and U.N. officials said on Wednesday, as further signs emerged of a strong showing for Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
Pelosi faces biggest test on healthcare vote
(Reuters)
Reuters - The leader of the House of Representatives -- a persuasive arm twister and deal maker -- faces her toughest challenge yet: getting 216 votes to pass final legislation revamping the U.S. healthcare system.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
"JihadJane" accused of terror plot in Sweden
(Reuters)
Reuters - A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with plotting to kill a Swedish man and trying to recruit fighters via the Internet to commit violent attacks overseas, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
Retaliation fears stalk Nigeria city after clashes
(Reuters)
Reuters - Sporadic shooting rang out overnight in the central Nigerian city of Jos and witnesses said at least one person was killed by soldiers enforcing a curfew days after attacks on three nearby Christian villages.
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Update as of March 10th, 2010
Brown says UK to maintain AAA credit rating
(Reuters)
Reuters - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday he believed Britain would maintain its coveted top credit rating and announced a pay freeze for senior civil servants and military officers to help tame a record deficit.
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