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• Dems defend House health care strategy (AP)      Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:31:12 GMT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leaves a Democratic Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 15, 2010.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)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 holds rates at record lows to foster recovery (AP)      Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:05:32 GMT

The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to keep its key lending rate at virtually zero percent as financial markets look for signals of future monetary policy tightening.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AP - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday repeated its pledge to hold interest rates at record lows to foster the economic recovery and ease high unemployment.




• Thai protesters pour own blood at government HQ (AP)      Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:33:33 GMT

A supporter of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra holds a blood bottle before spilling at the front gate of the Government House Tuesday, March 16, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai protesters poured blood they had donated outside the front gate of the government headquarters Tuesday in a symbolic sacrifice to press their demands for new elections. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)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 18:06:05 GMT

Undercover Israeli police officers detain a Palestinian demonstrators during clashes in east Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Dozens of masked Palestinians hurled rocks at police and set tires ablaze across the holy city's volatile eastern sector, where thousands of officers, including reinforcements brought in from other locations, were in place for a fifth straight day. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)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.




• Mexico-bound bus overturns in Texas, killing 2 (AP)      Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:35:39 GMT

Map locates Campbellton, Texas, where a tour bus has overturned, killing two passengers.AP - A bus headed for Mexico carrying 40 people overturned along a southern Texas highway on Tuesday, killing at least two people and sending at least 30 people to hospitals, officials said.




• PepsiCo cuts sugary drinks from schools worldwide (AP)      Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:16:42 GMT

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2009 file photo, Pepsi products are seen on the shelf at a grocery store in Danvers, Mass. Following the success of programs to remove sugary drinks from U.S. schools to cut down on childhood obesity, PepsiCo plans to expand the effort worldwide in the next two years. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole, File)AP - PepsiCo plans to remove sugary drinks from schools worldwide, following the success of programs in the U.S. aimed at cutting down on childhood obesity.




• Woods to return to golf at the Masters (AP)      Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:02:32 GMT

FILE - In this April 13, 1997, file photo, Masters champion Tiger Woods receives his green jacket from the previous year's winner Nick Faldo, rear, at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga. In a statement Tuesday, March 16, 2010, Woods said he will play at Augusta National after a four-month hiatus because of a sex scandal. The Masters begins on April 8. (AP Photo/ Dave Martin, File)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.




• When tweets can make you a jailbird (AP)      Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:04:27 GMT

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2009, file photo, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Scoville displays part of the Facebook page, and an enlarged profile photo, of fugitive Maxi Sopo in Seattle. The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too. U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a tantalizing glimpse of issues related to privacy and crime fighting. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Maxi Sopo was having so much fun "living in paradise" in Mexico that he posted about it on Facebook so all his friends could follow his adventures. Others were watching, too: A federal prosecutor in Seattle, where Sopo was wanted on bank fraud charges.




• World's shortest man dies in his early 20s (AP)      Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:56:36 GMT

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010 file photo, the world's shortest man He Pingping and world's tallest man Sultan Kosen of Turkey, 27, pose together during an event organized by the Guinness World Records in Istanbul, Turkey. According to a spokesperson for Guinness World Records in London, He Pingping, has died at the age of 21, after developing chest problems while filming a television programme in Italy. The Chinese-born man, who became a record-holder in March 2008, was taken to hospital in Rome for treatment but died on Saturday March 13.(AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta, File)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.




• Charlie Sheen back at work on `Two and a Half Men' (AP)      Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:55:33 GMT

Actor Charlie Sheen enters Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen, Colo., on Monday, March 15, 2010, to attend a hearing on domestic violence charges stemming from a Christmas Day dispute with his wife. Sheen entered a plea of not guilty to charges of menacing, criminal mischief and assault for the incident. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)AP - Charlie Sheen is back at work and shooting has resumed on "Two and a Half Men."