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Pedestrians come to the aid of Cleveland Police officers who managed to get their cruiser stuck in snow and ice during a storm. A winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow across most of the state, closing roads, canceling airline flights and causing many Ohio counties to declare snow emergencies. (Photo by Mike Levy / AP)

Bush vetoes U.S. bill outlawing CIA waterboarding

U.S. President George W. Bush vetoed legislation passed by Congress that would have banned the CIA from using waterboarding and other controversial interrogation techniques.

Reuters

The unstudied art of interrogation

New York Times

Torture debate at heart of Bush veto

NPR

'Person of interest' sought in death of UNC-Chapel Hill student

Police are looking for a young man who used an ATM card belonging to slain UNC-Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson, but they have stopped short of calling him a suspect in her homicide.

Houston Chronicle

Arrest made in killing of Auburn student

CNN

March roars in with deadly storms

A foot of snow buried parts of the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, creating whiteout conditions and keeping many would-be weekend travelers at home.

CNN

Severe storms, tornados cause minor injuries in north Florida

AOL News

Countrywide is questioned by FBI for possible fraud

Countrywide Financial Corp., the largest U.S. mortgage lender, is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for possible securities fraud.

Bloomberg

Obama takes Wyoming caucuses

Sen. Barack Obama got his presidential campaign back on the winning track in the country’s least populated state, routing Sen. Hillary Clinton in Wyoming’s caucuses.

The Hill

Chinese 'foiled airline attack'

BBC

NATION

Extended daylight saving time not an energy saver?

National Geographic

Affirmative action ban heads for ballot in several states

Ballot initiatives have been proposed in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma that would allow voters to decide whether they want to do away with affirmative action.

CNN

POLITICS

Angry Boeing supporters target McCain

Angry Boeing supporters vowed revenge against John Sen. McCain over Boeing's loss of a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract to the parent company of European plane maker Airbus.

Newsweek

The stalemate continues

Hillary Clinton has battled back to a virtual dead heat with Barack Obama, according to the latest Newsweek poll. And on the major issue, the economy, neither candidate is pulling ahead.

Newsweek

Ex-Obama aide sorry for 'monster' remark

ABC News

BUSINESS

Tempered optimism greets iPhone's push

Apple Inc. made a big splash by unveiling a new software upgrade for the iPhone, but after assessing the details, investors took a mixed view of the company's stock.

MarketWatch

Heading in the wrong direction

Americans are seeing their home value sink, giving them an incentive to ditch their property and stack up higher losses for banks. That would push prices down and rattle already teetering financial markets.

Economist

Oil-for-Food figure gets 2 years

Houston oil trader David B. Chalmers Jr. was sentenced to two years in prison for scheming to funnel kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime.

Houston Chronicle

SPORTS

Shipp's unconvential shot helps UCLA rally past Cal

California took it to UCLA for 38 minutes and 17 seconds. The Bruins escaped with a shot worthy of highlight reels for years to come.

ESPN

Roddick rallies past Lopez to claim Dubai tennis crown

Andy Roddick rallied from a set down to beat Spain's Feliciano Lopez in the final at the Dubai Tennis Championships.

Sports Network

Serena outlasts Venus, will face Schnyder in Bangalore Open final

CBS SportsLine

HEALTH

Vaccine settlement complex, not the first

For those convinced that vaccines can cause autism, the sad case of a Georgia girl, daughter of a doctor and lawyer, seems like clear-cut evidence.

CNN

Golf swing is rough on new knees

Researchers have found that new knees take a beating when you swing a golf club, putting a great deal of pressure on the forward knee in particular.

WebMD

RELIGION

Professor says he found Ark of the Covenant -- maybe

Brushing back a thick layer of dust, Tudor Parfitt revealed a distinctive interwoven pattern carved around the outside of the wooden artifact tucked away on the bottom shelf of a Zimbabwe warehouse.

Beliefnet

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GOOD NEWS

Komen for the Cure to help women

The world's largest breast cancer organization has launched a fund for breast health and breast cancer programs and services in countries with high breast cancer incidence and death rates.

PNN

Man's class ring returned after 33 years

Some investigative work by a New York couple has led to return of a McKinley High School ring to its owner, Bernard Yuen, 33 years after it was lost on Waikiki.

Associated Press

WORLD

Serbia PM Kostunica to step down

Serbia's Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica has announced his resignation and called for new elections.

BBC

International Women's Day: a call for justice for women around world

Thousands of women are gathering around the globe to celebrate the collective power of women during International Women's Day.

CNN

'National crisis' for Iraqi women

BBC

Military: About 100 bodies found in Iraq mass grave

Iraqi security forces found about 100 badly decomposed bodies in a mass grave north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said, one of the largest such finds in the country for months.

Reuters

US, Iraq starting work on long-term treaty

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Is daylight savings time actually bad for the environment?

The annual time change has long been sold as a way to save energy, but the opposite might be true.

Toronto Star

Activists, whalers clash in Antarctic

The Japanese coast guard said that anti-whaling activists threw rotten butter and other objects at a Japanese whale-processing ship, the latest high seas clash over the country's annual hunt.

Google News

Special section:

Great Whales

BBC

Corn is king, but also a growing problem

Economists caution that the nation's growing dependence on corn would make for a double jolt in the event of a drought across the Midwest: soaring prices not just for food but also for gasoline.

Environmental News Network

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

European cargo capsule begins mission to space station

A European Space Agency cargo freighter hurtled into orbit on its inaugural mission, bound for the international space station for resupply.

Houston Chronicle

Space freighter's complex mission

BBC

Endeavour ready for launch early Tuesday

USA Today

Mars and Venus are surprisingly similar

Using two ESA spacecraft, planetary scientists are watching the atmospheres of Mars and Venus being stripped away into space.

Science Daily

Mysterious eel fishery decline

American eels are fast disappearing from restaurant menus as stocks have declined sharply across the North Atlantic.

Science Daily

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Poet's verses explore grief, salvation

In "Behind My Eyes," Li-Young Lee's first collection of poetry in seven years, the acclaimed poet reflects on his extraordinary family history in meditations on suffering, prayer, death and love.

NPR

"Immigrant Blues"

NPR

Is it better to rent, buy or download?

With so many options available for seeing movies, it’s hard to know where to start and which site or service makes the most sense for you.

MSNBC

EDUCATION

Criminalizing home schoolers

Parents of nearly 200,000 home schooled children in California may have to shutter their classrooms — and go back to school themselves, if they want to continue teaching their own kids.

TIME

Governor vows to protect homeschooling

San Francisco Chronicle

Photo of the Day

A boy goes down a slide through cherry blossoms at a park in Matsuda village, on the outskirts of Tokyo. Hundreds of people came to the park to admire the beauty of the tiny pink petals of the cherry trees. (Photo by Shuji Kajiyama / AP)

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