GOP assails Dems on approach to health bill (AP)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:59:55 GMT
AP - Democrats defended plans to push massive health care legislation through the House without a direct vote and Republicans assailed the strategy Tuesday, as both parties fenced ferociously over the health overhaul end game.

Fed weighs how and when to signal higher rates (AP)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:24:22 GMT
AP - Debate is heating up within the Federal Reserve over how and when to signal that the days of record-low interest rates are numbered.

Thai protesters pour own blood at government HQ (AP)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:33:33 GMT
AP - Thai protesters seeking a change of government turned to shock tactics Tuesday, pouring gallons of their own blood into a glistening puddle at the gate of the prime minister's office.

Clashes erupt in Jerusalem; US envoy cancels trip (AP)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:08:40 GMT
AP - Hundreds of Palestinians in east Jerusalem set tires and garbage bins ablaze on Tuesday and hurled rocks at Israeli riot police, who responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. The heaviest clashes in months broke out as an American envoy abruptly canceled a visit, deepening a U.S.-Israeli diplomatic feud.

Mexican tour bus overturns in Texas, killing 2 (AP)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:50:35 GMT
AP - A tour bus headed for Mexico carrying 40 people overturned along a southern Texas highway on Tuesday, killing at least two people and injuring an unknown number of others, officials said.

Woods to return to golf at the Masters (AP)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:06:36 GMT
AP - Tiger Woods said Tuesday he will return to golf next month at the Masters, ending a four-month hiatus brought on by a sex scandal that shattered his image as the gold standard in sports.

Housing construction drops 5.9 pct in February (AP)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:22:56 GMT
AP - Housing construction fell in February as winter blizzards held down activity in the Northeast and South. The decline highlighted the challenges facing builders as they struggle to emerge from the worst housing slump in decades.

Break the law and your new 'friend' may be the FBI (AP)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:51:39 GMT
AP - The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.

World's shortest man dies in his early 20s (AP)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:56:36 GMT
AP - The world's shortest man has died in Italy, where he was to take part in a TV show, the program's production company said Tuesday.

Judge: Winfrey must defend ex-headmistress's suit (AP)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:36:20 GMT
AP - Talk show host Oprah Winfrey must defend a defamation suit over remarks she made about a headmistress at her girls' school in South Africa after a sex-abuse scandal erupted there, a U.S. judge ruled.