Suicide attackers hit Afghan city; at least 30 die (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:51:41 GMT
AP - A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations late Saturday, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland.

Senate, Obama spar over health plan's pet projects (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:51:48 GMT
AP - President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.

Al-Qaida suspect from US tricked his Yemeni guard (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:52:03 GMT
AP - An American al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen fooled his hospital guards into unshackling him by asking to join them for prayers, security officials said Saturday. He then killed a guard who laid down his weapons as he went ahead at prayer time.

Iraqi vote signals shift from religious leaders (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:26:36 GMT
AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of Baghdad, pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that Iraqis want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious hard-liners leading the postwar nation.

Vatican officials defend pope on abuse (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:56:36 GMT
AP - The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his German homeland. It also insisted that church confidentiality doesn't prevent bishops from reporting abuse to police.

AP Source: Colo. woman held in terror probe (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:44:48 GMT
AP - A Colorado woman has been detained in Ireland in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist whose sketch offended many Muslims, a U.S. official said Saturday.

Divided party? It's not just GOP, but also Dems (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:49:53 GMT
AP - For all the evidence of a divided GOP, the Democratic Party has its own widening cracks that could make a potentially bleak election year even more dour.

Lesbian sgt. discharged after police tell military (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:52:40 GMT
AP - Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old's honorable discharge under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D., saw an Iowa marriage certificate in her home and told the nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base.

Hearts may swoon when stocks do, study suggests (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:58:21 GMT
AP - Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart attacks. Duke University researchers found a link between how a key stock index performed and how many heart attacks were treated at their North Carolina hospital shortly after the recession began in December 2007 through July 2009, when signs of recovery emerged.

Utah GOP leader resigns after hot tub confession (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:44:46 GMT
AP - Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after his confession about sitting nude in a hot tub with a teenage girl 25 years ago stunned this conservative state.