WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders lobbied intensively for historic health care legislation Friday, striving to resolve a last-minute dispute over Medicare while gaining another precious "yes" 48 hours ahead of a climactic vote.
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a bold response to skyrocketing health insurance premiums. President Barack Obama would give federal authorities the power to block unreasonable rate hikes.
MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Friday that the United States and Israel have found a way around the worst disagreement the two allies have faced in years while international diplomats set goals for new U.S.-backed peace talks aimed at establishing an independent Palestinian state.
NEW YORK (AP) — It's the financial equivalent of a high medal count at the Olympics or a seat on the U.N. Security Council — a triple-A credit rating, the seal of approval that lets investors know a country's bonds are safe.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Seven years after the first bombs in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mixture of trepidation and hope.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Call them the Final Four: The four large cities that have made it through the Great Recession with the smallest increases in unemployment.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — One of the heaviest rainfalls since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake swamped homeless camps Friday, sweeping screaming residents into eddies of water, overflowing latrines and panicking thousands.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Anna Nicole Smith's estate will get none of the more than $300 million the late Playboy model claimed a Texas billionaire to whom she was briefly married meant to leave her after he died.
Missouri appears ready to hand Clemson coach Oliver Purnell a familiar outcome. His teams have been bumped from the first round of the NCAA tournament the past three years at Clemson, his two teams at Dayton lost in the opening round, and his only team at Old Dominion to make the field lost in the first round.
Missouri appears ready to hand Clemson coach Oliver Purnell a familiar outcome. His teams have been bumped from the first round of the NCAA tournament the past three years at Clemson, his two teams at Dayton lost in the opening round, and his only team at Old Dominion to make the field lost in the first round.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hall of Fame announcer Vin Scully was released from the hospital Friday after bumping his head, and is looking forward to broadcasting a Dodgers exhibition game this weekend.
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Keaton Grant ignited the decisive run that rallied fourth-seeded Purdue past No. 13 seed Siena 72-64 on Friday in the first round of NCAA tournament's South Regional.
PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — Padraig Harrington, already assured of a memorable week after his trip to the White House, put himself in position to make it even better at the Transitions Championship on Friday.
NEW YORK (AP) — The weeks of talk on whether coach Norm Roberts would return to St. John's ended Friday: He was fired after six seasons with the Red Storm — only two of them with a winning record.
PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — Former PGA champion David Toms has been losing length off the tee that he can't afford, and now he knows why. Toms said Friday he has a bone spur in his rotator cuff that will require surgery.
