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  • Click for Full Story Obama would OK health bill minus items he pursued

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Signaling he'd meet critics part way on health care, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he's willing to sign a bill even if it doesn't deliver everything he pursued through a year of grinding effort at risk of going down as a dismal failure.

     
  • Click for Full Story Snow shuts down federal government, life goes on

    WASHINGTON (AP) — If snow keeps 230,000 government employees home for the better part of a week, will anyone notice?

     
  • Click for Full Story Haiti parents testify they gave kids to Americans

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Parents of some of the children who 10 U.S. missionaries tried to take out of Haiti after its catastrophic earthquake told a judge Tuesday that they freely handed over their kids, the Americans' lawyer said.

     
  • Click for Full Story NY governor says he'll step aside only 'in a box'

    ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. David Paterson, defying calls from even fellow Democrats to drop out of the race for a full term, said Tuesday that he would leave only if the voters turned him out through the ballot box, or he's carried out "in a box."

     
  • Space shuttle Endeavour pulls in at space station

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Shuttle Endeavour arrived at the International Space Station early Wednesday, delivering a new room and observation deck that will come close to completing construction 200 miles above Earth.

     
  • Iran boosts nuclear enrichment, drawing warnings

    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian nuclear technicians set dozens of centrifuges spinning Tuesday to begin enriching uranium stocks to a significantly higher level, prompting President Barack Obama to warn of a "significant regime of sanctions."

     
  • Click for Full Story LA-area foothills under mudslide threat

    LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (AP) — A new winter storm washed over the wildfire-scarred foothills north of Los Angeles Tuesday, leaving some residents to flee their homes in baggage-laden cars while others used shovels and buckets to try to hold back the muddy deluge.

     
  • Fans delighted by DeGeneres' 'Idol' debut

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ellen DeGeneres hit the right notes with "American Idol" viewers.

     
  • Click for Full Story Relatives in eastern Cuba say woman has turned 125

    HAVANA (AP) — Relatives in eastern Cuba claim to have held a 125th birthday party for a woman named Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez, but it is not clear if she is really that old.

     
  • Click for Full Story Good times roll at Saints victory parade

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Only a Super Bowl victory parade could upstage Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Carnival floats carrying Saints players, coaches and team owner Tom Benson rolled past tens of thousands of jubilant fans in downtown New Orleans on Tuesday, two days after the 43-year-old franchise won its first NFL championship.

     
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  • Click for Full Story Health crisis in Haiti enters a deadly new phase

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Fourteen-month-old Abigail Charlot survived Haiti's cataclysmic earthquake but not its miserable aftermath. Brought into the capital's General Hospital with fever and diarrhea, little Abigail literally dried up.

     
  • Click for Full Story Doctor says vendor may have been in rubble 27 days

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A rice vendor may have lived under the rubble of a flea market for 27 days with little more than water and possibly fruit, a doctor said Tuesday, in what would be a dramatic tale of survival four weeks after Haiti's devastating earthquake.

     
  • Click for Full Story US poised to seize Afghan town as Taliban dig in

    NEAR MARJAH, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. and Afghan forces pushed Tuesday to the edge of the southern Afghan town of Marjah, poised to seize the major Taliban supply and drug-smuggling stronghold in hopes of building public support by providing aid and services once the insurgents are gone.

     
  • Myanmar court sentences US man to 3 years prison

    YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A Myanmar court ordered a U.S. citizen on Wednesday to serve three years in prison for entering the military-ruled country with forged documents and undeclared foreign currency.

     
  • Click for Full Story UN envoy in North Korea to spur nuke talks

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A senior U.N. envoy pressed ahead Wednesday with international efforts to get North Korea back into nuclear disarmament talks, during the world body's first high-level visit to the reclusive state in nearly six years.

     
  • Click for Full Story Iran boosts nuclear enrichment, drawing warnings

    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian nuclear technicians set dozens of centrifuges spinning Tuesday to begin enriching uranium stocks to a significantly higher level, prompting President Barack Obama to warn of a "significant regime of sanctions."

     
  • Click for Full Story Nigeria: Vice president now acting president

    ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to run Africa's most populous nation Tuesday in place of an ill and absent president, striving for a political end to a crisis that ground the government to a virtual halt and triggered the resumption of an insurgency in the vital oil sector.

     
  • Iran sentences another activist to death

    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has convicted another opposition activist on charges related to the country's post-election turmoil and sentenced him to death, the judiciary said Tuesday, bringing to at least 10 the number of those facing the death penalty for the unrest following June's disputed presidential election.

     
  • Click for Full Story Haiti parents testify they gave kids to Americans

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Parents of some of the children who 10 U.S. missionaries tried to take out of Haiti after its catastrophic earthquake told a judge Tuesday that they freely handed over their kids, the Americans' lawyer said.

     
  • Italian Catholic scandal draws in Pope Benedict

    VATICAN CITY (AP) — A scandal in Italy's Catholic Church has morphed into a tale of Vatican intrigue complete with forged documents, reports of dueling cardinals and a papal admonishment Tuesday to put the matter to rest.

     
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  • Click for Full Story Snow shuts down federal government, life goes on

    WASHINGTON (AP) — If snow keeps 230,000 government employees home for the better part of a week, will anyone notice?

     
  • Click for Full Story NY governor says he'll step aside only 'in a box'

    ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. David Paterson, defying calls from even fellow Democrats to drop out of the race for a full term, said Tuesday that he would leave only if the voters turned him out through the ballot box, or he's carried out "in a box."

     
  • Space shuttle Endeavour pulls in at space station

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Shuttle Endeavour arrived at the International Space Station early Wednesday, delivering a new room and observation deck that will come close to completing construction 200 miles above Earth.

     
  • Click for Full Story LA-area foothills under mudslide threat

    LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (AP) — A new winter storm washed over the wildfire-scarred foothills north of Los Angeles Tuesday, leaving some residents to flee their homes in baggage-laden cars while others used shovels and buckets to try to hold back the muddy deluge.

     
  • Anthem asked to justify rate hike in California

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — In his push to move stalled health care reform, President Barack Obama is appealing to American pocketbooks by calling one health insurer's major rate hike in California a harbinger of rising premiums.

     
  • Click for Full Story Teen arrested in killing of LA anti-gang counselor

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Ronald "Loony" Barron urged a young graffiti tagger to put away his paint cans, he was doing what he viewed as his mission — steering kids away from crime — but he paid for it with his life.

     
  • Click for Full Story Target pulls Valentine's toys over lead concerns

    OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Target Corp. said Tuesday it was pulling its Valentine's Day "Message Bears" from store shelves after California's attorney general raised concerns that the toys have illegal levels of lead.

     
  • Click for Full Story Kerrigan family disputes autopsy report on father

    BOSTON (AP) — The family of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan insisted Tuesday that they do "not blame anyone" for her father's death and criticized a medical examiner's finding that Daniel Kerrigan died of a heart rhythm problem after a fight with his son.

     
  • Click for Full Story NY Senate votes to expel convicted lawmaker

    ALBANY, N.Y (AP) — The New York Senate voted Tuesday night to expel a senator convicted of a misdemeanor charge of assaulting his girlfriend, a resolution the lawmaker assailed as an injustice to the people who elected him.

     
  • ATF blames Texas church fires on serial arsonist

    TYLER, Texas (AP) — A spate of recent fires that destroyed or damaged several churches in eastern Texas were intentionally set, likely by the same person or group, federal authorities said Tuesday.