Obama takes health care overhaul push to Missouri (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:19:41 GMT
AP - The nation's top health official challenged insurers on Wednesday to join President Barack Obama's push to overhaul the medical system, arguing that if the effort fails it will hurt them as well as other Americans.

US-Israel row highlights quandary over settlements (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:45:55 GMT
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.

'Lost Boys' actor Corey Haim dead in Calif. at 38 (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:19:49 GMT
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.

Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:08:44 GMT
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.

Abuse scandal creeps closer to the pope (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:45:10 GMT
AP - Church abuse scandals in Germany have reached the older brother of Pope Benedict XVI and are creeping ever closer to the pontiff himself.

A blond, blue-eyed Philly suburbanite called Jihad Jane (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:23:58 GMT
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.

Senate passes jobless aid, business tax breaks (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:44:22 GMT
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.

Nothing is too holy for mockery, Muhammad cartoonist says (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:50:03 GMT
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.

Midnight knitter pulls the wool over NJ shore town (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:17:43 GMT
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.

Garciaparra rejoins Red Sox for day, then retires (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:29:03 GMT
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.