| Afghan police: 7 dead in attack on UN in Kabul (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 12:27 am
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|  AP - Gunmen with automatic weapons and suicide vests stormed a guest house used by U.N. staff in the heart of the Afghan capital early Wednesday, killing at least seven people including three U.N. staff, officials said. A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility, saying it was meant as an assault on the upcoming presidential election.
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| Jackson delivers on 'This Is It,' early fans say (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 12:27 am
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|  AP - "Michael Jackson's This Is It" has debuted to enthusiastic applause from fans attending the premiere of the film chronicling the concerts that might have been.
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| Taliban kill three UN workers in Kabul shootout (AFP)
October 28, 2009 at 12:26 am
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| AFP - Taliban gunmen stormed a United Nations hostel in central Kabul Wednesday, killing at least three UN staff in an assault that the Islamists warned marked a bloody countdown to new Afghan elections.
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| Clinton arrives in Pakistan: AFP reporter (AFP)
October 28, 2009 at 12:17 am
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|  AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday at the start of her first visit to the nuclear-armed Muslim state since taking office, an AFP reporter said.
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| Boston cops: Psych patient stabs doc, is shot dead (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 12:07 am
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|  AP - A man stabbed a doctor while being treated at a psychiatric office at a Boston medical building Tuesday and was fatally shot by an off-duty security guard who saw the attack, police said.
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| Pierce powers Celtics past Cavs in season opener (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 11:58 pm
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|  AP - Shaquille O'Neal has learned the ropes in his 17 NBA seasons. There's one lesson that has endured since he was a raw rookie.
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| FAA revokes licenses of wayward Northwest pilots (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 10:44 pm
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|  AP - The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday revoked the licenses of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles.
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| Intense gunfire, explosion heard in central Kabul (Reuters)
October 27, 2009 at 10:37 pm
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| | Reuters - Intense machinegun fire and an explosion resounded in central Kabul on Wednesday morning, but the cause of the firefight was unclear. |
| Karzai's brother said to be on CIA payroll: report (Reuters)
October 27, 2009 at 10:29 pm
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|  Reuters - The brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been getting regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing current and former U.S. officials.
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| Dem moderates challenge Reid on health care plan (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 10:11 pm
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|  AP - Democratic moderates who control the balance of power on health care legislation balked Tuesday at a government-run insurance option for millions of Americans, underscoring the enormity of the challenge confronting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid one day after he unveiled the plan as a consensus product.
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| Obama financial reforms advance in Congress (Reuters)
October 27, 2009 at 9:20 pm
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| | Reuters - The Obama administration made gains on Tuesday in its push for U.S. financial reform, unveiling a landmark bill to tackle systemic risk in the economy and winning congressional committee approval for a measure to expose hedge funds to more government scrutiny. |
| Obama embraces House financial overhaul bill (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 9:18 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama on Tuesday embraced a House bill that would give the government unprecedented power to seize bank holding companies and other large financial firms teetering on the brink of collapse and stick their competitors with the cost.
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| Palin paid $1.25M for book by time she left office (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 9:15 pm
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| | AP - Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin reported Tuesday that she has received at least $1.25 million for her hugely anticipated upcoming memoir "Going Rogue." |
| AP IMPACT: Troops already outnumber Taliban 12-1 (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 9:14 pm
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|  AP - There are already more than 100,000 international troops in Afghanistan working with 200,000 Afghan security forces and police. It adds up to a 12-1 numerical advantage over Taliban rebels, but it hasn't led to anything close to victory.
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| No decision on charges in Colorado balloon case (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 8:43 pm
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|  AP - Prosecutors said Tuesday they haven't decided whether to file charges against the parents accused of falsely reporting their son was in a runaway balloon, sparking a massive rescue attempt before the boy was found at the family's Fort Collins home.
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| Senate healthcare bill draws skeptics, opponents (Reuters)
October 27, 2009 at 8:16 pm
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|  Reuters - A healthcare reform bill with a government-run insurance option faced an uncertain future in the Senate on Tuesday, with many centrist Democrats uncommitted and Senator Joe Lieberman strongly opposed.
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| Dem bill urges new U.S. powers over financial firms (Reuters)
October 27, 2009 at 7:33 pm
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| | Reuters - The U.S. government would gain far-reaching new powers to regulate, and even shut down, large financial firms that threaten economic stability under a draft bill released in Congress on Tuesday. |
| AP IMPACT: Troops already outnumber Taliban 12-1 (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 7:18 pm
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| AP - There are already more than 100,000 international troops in Afghanistan working with 200,000 Afghan security forces and police. It adds up to a 12-1 numerical advantage over Taliban rebels, but it hasn't led to anything close to victory.
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| A-Rod and Howard add luster to starry World Series (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 6:46 pm
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|  AP - Ryan Howard thought about the World Series and his eyes widened.
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| Jury convicts teenager in Mich. homeless killings (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 6:27 pm
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| | AP - A 15-year-old was convicted on Tuesday of beating two homeless men to death in a fading Michigan industrial city and will spend the rest of his life in prison. |
| U.S. calls for lasting military dialogue with China (Reuters)
October 27, 2009 at 6:22 pm
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| | Reuters - Defense Secretary Robert Gates called for lasting dialogue with China's military after years of "on-again, off-again" talks as he welcomed a top Chinese general to the Pentagon on Tuesday. |
| Palin makes at least $1.25 million in book deal (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 3:40 pm
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| | AP - Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin reported Tuesday that she has received at least $1.25 million for her hugely anticipated upcoming book "Going Rogue." |
| NY AG: Consumers can soon access health cost info (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 3:39 pm
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| | AP - Consumers across the country soon will be able to find impartial information about out-of-network health care costs on a new Web site, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday. |
| U.S. defense bill authorizes paying Taliban who switch (Reuters)
October 27, 2009 at 3:38 pm
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| | Reuters - The defense bill that President Barack Obama will sign into law on Wednesday contains a new provision that would pay Taliban fighters who renounce the insurgency, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said on Tuesday. |
| Boston cops: Psych patient stabs doc, is shot dead (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 3:30 pm
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| | AP - A man stabbed a doctor while being treated at a psychiatric ward at a Boston medical building Tuesday and was fatally shot by an off-duty security guard who saw the attack, police said. |
| Lawmakers won't consider SC gov impeachment — yet (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 3:22 pm
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|  AP - South Carolina lawmakers will not consider a move to impeach Republican Gov. Mark Sanford anytime soon.
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| Senate Dems reach deal on homebuyer credit: Dodd (Reuters)
October 27, 2009 at 3:20 pm
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|  Reuters - Top Democrats in the Senate have reached an agreement to extend the soon-to-expire $8,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said on Tuesday.
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| Chiefs RB Johnson apologizes for gay slurs (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 3:19 pm
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|  AP - Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson was told to stay away from the team Tuesday while the NFL and the Chiefs complete their investigation into his use of a homosexual slur twice this week.
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| US swine flu vaccine outlook improving, CDC says (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 3:14 pm
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|  AP - More than 22 million doses of swine flu vaccine are available now, and most Americans should soon find it easier to get their dose, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.
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| Tax bill demands reporting by banks, rich (Reuters)
October 27, 2009 at 2:42 pm
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|  Reuters - U.S. Democrats aim to stop rich Americans from hiding assets offshore to evade taxes by slapping penalties on individuals and foreign banks, according to legislation introduced in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday.
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| Obama putting $3.4B toward a 'smart' power grid (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 2:13 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama made a pitch for renewable energy Tuesday, announcing $3.4 billion in government support for 100 projects aimed at modernizing the nation's power grid.
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| Bomb blasts kill 8 U.S. troops in Afghan south (Reuters)
October 27, 2009 at 12:23 pm
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|  Reuters - Eight U.S. troops were killed in bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday ahead of a run-off presidential election, the NATO-led alliance said, in the deadliest month for U.S. troops since the start of the war eight years ago.
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| Cuomo sets healthcare reimbursement reform (Reuters)
October 27, 2009 at 12:21 pm
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| | Reuters - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday the creation of a nationwide database to help set health care reimbursement rates, benefiting patients who use doctors outside their insurers' networks and capping an industrywide probe. |
| `Michael Jackson's This Is It' to open worldwide (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 11:16 am
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|  AP - When Michael Jackson died in June, he was just days away from launching a 50-show run of comeback concerts in London. Now, video footage of preparations for those performances have become "Michael Jackson's This Is It," a documentary opening worldwide Tuesday.
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| Sale of Cubs, Wrigley complete (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 11:07 am
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| | AP - The $845 million sale of the Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field and other assets from the Tribune Co. to the Ricketts family was completed Tuesday, more than 2 1/2 years after the baseball franchise was put on the market. |
| Facebook keeps profiles of the dead (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 11:04 am
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| | AP - Death doesn't erase the online footprints that people leave in life and Facebook won't either, though it will make some changes. |
| NATO says eight US soldiers killed in Afghanistan (AFP)
October 27, 2009 at 11:00 am
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|  AFP - Eight American soldiers and an Afghan civilian were killed Tuesday in bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, NATO said.
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| Eight U.S. troops killed in Afghan bomb attacks (Reuters)
October 27, 2009 at 10:28 am
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|  Reuters - Eight U.S. service members working for the NATO-led force and one Afghan civilian were killed in multiple bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the alliance said in a statement.
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| Karadzic genocide trial resumes in his absence (AFP)
October 27, 2009 at 10:27 am
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|  AFP - The warcrimes trial of Radovan Karadzic went ahead without him Tuesday, with prosectors branding him "supreme commander" of ethnic cleansing during the 1992-95 conflict in Bosnia.
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| Oct. consumer confidence slips unexpectedly (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 10:13 am
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|  AP - Consumer's confidence about the U.S. economy fell unexpectedly in October as job prospects remained bleak, a private research group said Tuesday, fueling speculation that an already gloomy holiday shopping forecast could worsen.
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| Church of Scientology convicted of fraud in France (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 10:09 am
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|  AP - A Paris court convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud and fined it more than euro600,000 ($900,000) on Tuesday but stopped short of banning the group as prosecutors had demanded.
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| Home prices rise in most major cities in August (AP)
October 27, 2009 at 9:25 am
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|  AP - Home prices rose for the third straight month in August, data Tuesday showed, a key sign for a broad and sustained housing recovery.
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| French court fines Scientologists, allows operations (Reuters)
October 27, 2009 at 7:36 am
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|  Reuters - A Paris court on Tuesday fined the French branch of the Church of Scientology a total of 600,000 euros ($902,200) after finding it guilty of fraud but allowed the group to continue operating in France.
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| Abbas says might not run in poll, officials say (Reuters)
October 27, 2009 at 7:16 am
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|  Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told U.S. President Barack Obama he would not run for re-election unless Israel dropped its refusal to freeze settlements, Palestinian officials said on Tuesday.
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| Senate healthcare bill includes public option (Reuters)
October 27, 2009 at 6:27 am
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|  Reuters - Democratic leader Harry Reid said on Monday the Senate's healthcare overhaul will include a government-run insurance plan that lets states opt out, handing liberals an early victory on the bill's most contentious issue.
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