Shiite, secular blocs pick up provinces in Iraq (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:39:20 GMT
AP - A secular bloc led by former Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi and a Shiite religious bloc both appeared to pick up votes as new results were released in Iraq's election.

Senate, Obama spar over health plan's pet projects (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:26:48 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.

AP Source: Colo. woman held in terror probe (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:06:08 GMT
AP - A U.S. official says a Colorado woman has been detained in Ireland in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist whose sketch offended many Muslims.

Afghan leader to allow foreign election monitors (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:19:27 GMT
AP - Afghanistan's president backed off from a much-criticized move to control the previously independent monitoring body for upcoming parliamentary elections, offering Saturday to allow two foreigners on the commission.

Child abuse claims sweep Catholic Church in Europe (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:40:21 GMT
AP - It often starts as a voice in the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation's demand for truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and confronting the clergy to face its demons.

Daylight-saving time: It's back (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:18:20 GMT
AP - America is springing forward.

Obama promise: Brighter education futures for kids (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:46:29 GMT
AP - President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries.

US avoids anti-abortion debate at UN meeting (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:23:10 GMT
AP - A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme.

Thousands expected to mourn death of SoCal teen (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:23:20 GMT
AP - Students have wrapped ribbons around 8,000 sunflowers to hand out at a memorial service for Chelsea King, the 17-year-old girl whose murder has shaken her community and spurred calls for legal changes in how child sex offenders are treated.

Leach faces James in Texas Tech lawsuit deposition (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:17:42 GMT
AP - Mike Leach sat across from his accuser Saturday as Craig James gave sworn testimony in the former coach's lawsuit against Texas Tech.