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President Bush speaks about the congressional debate on Iraq war spending during a meeting with reporters in Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

Bush: No Iraq funding bill by mid-April will affect troops

President Bush warned Congress that if it fails to send him an acceptable Iraq war funding bill soon, it will threaten U.S. military equipment and training.

CNN

Bush criticizes Democrats on war funding

Yahoo! News

Stricter emission limits get a boost

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has authority to regulate vehicle emissions that cause global warming.

USA Today

SCOTUS rebukes Bush on auto emissions

CBS News

Millions of toys recalled for lead dangers

About 4 million Groovy Grabber children’s bracelets, manufactured by A&A Global Industries, have been recalled because the paint on the metallic part of the bands contains high levels of lead.

MSNBC

Solomon Islands tsunami death toll rising

Survivors sought food and water in towns hammered by a tsunami on the Solomon Islands' west coast, while officials said the death toll was 28 and would rise as they struggled to reach remote communities.

CNN

Humanitarian crisis threatens tsunami-hit Solomons

Reuters

New images released of seized Britons

CNN

Iran's president to talk about British sailors

Reuters

ABC: Iran nuclear bomb could be possible by 2009

ABC News

Ukraine leader calls early election

Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved Ukraine’s parliament and called early elections. But parliament refused to acknowledge the order and vowed to continue meeting.

Ireland On-line

Shiite cleric rejects proposal to allow Baathists to return to government

The most powerful Shiite cleric in Iraq has rejected an American-backed proposal to allow thousands of former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party to return to government service.

International Herald Tribune

NATION

National strike begins in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean police and troops fanned out through impoverished townships on the first day of a two-day national strike called to protest deepening economic hardships blamed on the government.

CNN

Huge hailstones kill 13 in China

Seven people were killed and one was injured when a bus was hit in a landslide triggered by hailstorms in a mountainous region of Sichuan Province. The other six were killed by falling roofs and lightning.

Channel 4 News

FDA blocks Chinese wheat gluten

The U.S. is blocking imports of wheat gluten from a company in China, acting after an investigation implicated the contaminated ingredient in the recent pet-food deaths of cats and dogs.

Houston Chronicle

POLITICS

Reid says he'll try to cut off war funds

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he wants to cut off money for the Iraq war next year, making clear for the first time that Democrats are willing to pull out all the stops to end U.S. involvement.

AOL News

Pelosi shrugs off White House criticism of trip

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shrugged off White House criticism of her impending visit to Damascus, saying she had “great hope” for reviving U.S. relations with Syria and changing its behavior.

MSNBC

White House effort aims at Syrian leader

Kansas City Star

Book: Kissinger kept Nixon in the dark

Newly released documents show that former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger delayed telling President Richard Nixon about the start of the 1973 Yom Kippur War to keep him from interfering.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Brussels accuses Apple over iTunes

Apple is facing a European Commission antitrust probe after Brussels issued formal charges alleging that the deals that underpin the sale of music through iTunes violate competition rules.

Financial Times

New Century files for bankruptcy as mortgages default

New Century Financial Corp. became the biggest subprime mortgage company to go bankrupt in the past year after the lender was overwhelmed by customer defaults.

Bloomberg

Tribune accepts $8.2B offer from Zell

Tribune Co. is going private in a deal engineered by Chicago real estate tycoon Sam Zell that will give shareholders $34 a share in a two-stage transaction, the media giant announced.

Editor & Publisher

SPORTS

Florida wins second straight college basketball title

The Gators were too much to handle once again, keeping their stranglehold on the college basketball world with an 84-75 victory over Ohio State for their second straight national championship.

Sports Illustrated

NCAA college basketball championships

CBS SportsLine

Devils GM follows form, dumps coach of winning team

The New Jersey Devils' Lou Lamoriello lived up to his reputation as the NHL's most aggressive general manager as he fired coach Claude Julien even though the team is second in the Eastern Conference.

USA Today

HEALTH

New mammography guidelines issued for women 40-49

New mammography guidelines for women 40 to 49 years old suggest that any decision to undergo the exam should be based on a discussion between a woman and her doctor.

Health Day

Pregnancy weight linked to heavy kids

Mothers-to-be who follow widely accepted recommendations for weight gain during pregnancy may still be putting their babies at risk for becoming overweight early in life.

WebMD

Technique to convert blood types could end shortages

Scientists have developed a simple method of converting blood from one group to another. The breakthrough could potentially mean the end of blood shortages.

London Independent

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GOOD NEWS

NY Academy of Medicine receives $9.5M to address workforce shortage

The Social Work Leadership Institute at The New York Academy of Medicine has been awarded more than $9.5 million in grants to address the rising demand for care for the nation’s aging population.

PNN

Because of boy's spirit, doctor's dream comes true

On the wall of Dr. Alan Wong's office is a framed check for $10,000 signed by Jan-Willem Knapen, one of his patients. A small note is pasted on it like an affirmation: "The check that started it all."

San Jose Mercury News

NATION

Little redress in U.S. courts for detainees

A sharply divided Supreme Court has declined to decide whether detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are entitled to federal court hearings to challenge their open-ended detention.

Christian Science Monitor

Mom offers 7-year-old daughter for sex

A 33-year-old woman was jailed after she was charged with offering to let an undercover investigator take pornographic photos of one of her children and have sex with the 7-year-old.

WXYZ

Mom offers daughter for sex

CNN

2 brothers missing since November found dead in Minn.

The tiny bodies of two young brothers who disappeared while playing outside their home were found encased in ice, four months after the search for them began.

San Diego Union-Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

Seafood poisoning on the rise as oceans become warmer, more polluted

Bowls of piping hot barracuda soup were the much-anticipated treat when the Roa family gathered for a casual and relaxing meal. Within hours, all six fell deathly ill.

Environmental News Network

Tuscan countryside yields 4-million-year old whale skeleton

The skeleton of a 10-meter-long (33-foot) prehistoric whale in the Tuscan countryside found by Italian researchers could shed light on the ancient environment of the sea, officials said.

PlanetSave.com

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

'Blades of Glory' debuts atop U.S., Canada box office

The Will Ferrell figure-skating comedy "Blades of Glory'' opened as the top film in U.S. and Canadian theaters this weekend, taking in $33 million in ticket sales for Paramount Pictures.

Bloomberg

Why is Will Ferrell funny?

Slate

Australia becoming a land of singletons

The United States got there first, but Australia is a close second with demographers expecting the next census to show that just over half of all women in the country are unmarried.

Monsters and Critics

EDUCATION

British schools drop Holocaust lessons

Schools have avoided teaching the Holocaust and the Crusades in history lessons because they are concerned about causing offense to Muslim pupils, government research has found.

Guardian

M.I.T. education in China, minus the degree

When M.I.T. introduced its OpenCourseWare project six years ago, the project was intended to make virtually all of the institute’s course materials available online for free.

Ledger

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Katrina's scars will be restored on Google Earth

Accused by lawmakers of "airbrushing history" for altering Google Earth to show pre-Hurricane Katrina imagery of New Orleans, Google plans to include pictures that better reflect reality.

InformationWeek

Apple iTunes to sell EMI catalogue without DRM controls

Apple said EMI Music has agreed to allow its entire digital music catalog to be sold free of digital rights management controls on Apple's iTunes music store.

InformationWeek

As tech stocks slip, Apple rises after EMI deal

MarketWatch

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

City of David claim reinforced by find

A recently found wall from the first Jewish temple in Jerusalem has given strength to a claim of where King David's palace existed, an archaeologist says.

Playfuls

U.S. Orthodox, Reform at odds over Iraq

Agudath Israel of America and the Reform movement are at odds over what Jewish values say about U.S. military involvement in Iraq.

Jerusalem Post

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