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• Obama pushing on health care end game (AP)      Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:20:58 GMT

US President Barack Obama speaks on healthcare and health insurance reform at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Obama has launched a populist assault on price-gouging American insurance firms, escalating his last-ditch bid to pass a historic health reform bill.(AFP/Saul Loeb)AP - President Barack Obama has chosen a suburban St. Louis high school to make his closing argument for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan as he cranks up the pressure on skittish Democratic lawmakers to act fast.




• Israel apologizes for embarrassing Biden (AP)      Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:39:43 GMT

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, left, talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Israel's new plan to build 1,600 homes for Jews in Palestinian-claimed east Jerusalem overshadowed Vice President Joe Biden's visit to the West Bank on Wednesday. Biden was to hold talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, in part to ease their doubts about the latest U.S. peace efforts. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - Israel apologized Wednesday for disrupting the visit of Vice President Joe Biden with its announcement of 1,600 new homes in disputed east Jerusalem, but made clear it had no intention of reversing the order that has cast a shadow over the latest U.S. push for Mideast peace.




• Runaway Prius driver: Brakes were 'almost burned' (AP)      Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:27:34 GMT

Driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in El Cajon, Calif. Sikes' 2008 Toyota Prius raced out of control on a San Diego freeway Monday. A California Highway Patrol officer helped him stop the car. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)AP - Before he called 911, James Sikes says he reached down with his hand to loosen the "stuck" accelerator on his 2008 Toyota Prius, his other hand on the steering wheel. The pedal didn't move.




• AP-GfK Poll: Obama more popular than Congress (AP)      Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:17:36 GMT

President Barack Obama speaks with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou during a ceremony honoring Greek Independence Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Barack Obama, a bright spot for a Democratic Party counting on its leader to help stave off expected losses in elections this fall.




• Taliban claim suicide attack on NATO-Afghan base (AP)      Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:35:37 GMT

Map locates Khost province, Afghanistan, where a suicide bomber targeted a U.S.-Afghan base that killed NATO service membersAP - The Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for a suicide bombing inside a U.S.-Afghan base in eastern Afghanistan that killed two NATO service members.




• Aid group attacked in northwest Pakistan; 6 dead (AP)      Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:38:47 GMT

Map locates Mansehra, Pakistan, where a suicide bomber struck World Vision, a large Christian humanitarian groupAP - Suspected militants armed with grenades attacked the offices of a Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six employees and wounding several others, police and the organization said.




• Senate to pass jobless aid, business tax breaks (AP)      Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:43:02 GMT
AP - Legislation blending help for the jobless with popular tax breaks for businesses and individuals is slated to pass the Senate Wednesday over protests from conservatives who say it adds too much to the $12.5 trillion national debt.

• Gates: Some troops could leave Afghanistan early (AP)      Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:13:53 GMT

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, center, greets U.S. troops as he tours the training grounds of Camp Blackhorse, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Gates raised the possibility Wednesday that some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan surge could leave the country before President Barack Obama's announced July 2011 date to begin withdrawal. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised the possibility Wednesday that some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan surge could leave the country before President Barack Obama's announced July 2011 date to begin withdrawal.




• Osmonds return to stage after death of Marie's son (AP)      Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:53:59 GMT

Marie Osmond watches as the casket of her son Michael Bryan, 18, is taken from a church after his funeral in Provo, Utah on Monday, March 8, 2010. (AP Photo/George Frey)AP - Marie Osmond told a Las Vegas Strip audience as she returned to the stage less than two weeks after her son's apparent suicide that she has relied on her spirituality to cope with his death




• Dunleavy, Los Angeles Clippers sever ties (AP)      Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:59:15 GMT

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2010, file photo, then-Los Angeles Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy glares at his team during an NBA basketball game against the Atlanta Hawks in Atlanta. Dunleavy is out as general manager of the Clippers, barely a month after relinquishing his head coaching duties. The team announced it severed ties with Dunleavy late Tuesday afternoon, March 9, 2010, in an e-mail. Assistant general manager Neil Olshey will take over Dunleavy's job. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith, File)AP - Mike Dunleavy and the Los Angeles Clippers parted company for good Tuesday, barely a month after he relinquished his head coaching duties to focus solely on being general manager.