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Senate to pass jobless aid, business tax breaks (AP)

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, listens as Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md.,  speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, to discuss the Democrats jobs agenda. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - The Senate voted Wednesday to extend a host of soon-to-expire elements of last year's economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless and money to help financially strapped states pay for health care for the poor.


House bans misleading census mailings (AP)

AP - The House passed legislation Wednesday that would ban misleading mailings designed to appear they're from the Census Bureau, following criticism that Republican groups were sending fundraising letters using the census name.

Obama takes health care overhaul push to Missouri (AP)

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 - The nation's top health official challenged insurers on Wednesday to join President Barack Obama's push to overhaul the medical system, arguing that if the effort fails it will hurt them as well as other Americans.


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AP - Senate passes bill extending jobless aid, tax cuts for individuals and businesses..

Italy, FBI raids crack down on Mafia in US, Sicily (AP)

AP - The FBI arrested a reputed U.S. mobster Wednesday on charges he provided protection for a Sicilian counterpart operating in Florida — part of an international sweep aimed at further crippling the storied Gambino organized crime family and disrupting its ties to the Italian mob.

Drug arrests latest black mark on RI police force (AP)

AP - After three Providence police officers were arrested last week in a cocaine-peddling sting, Chief Dean Esserman called it a "hard day" for the department.

Canada Parliament eats seal to defy "ignorant" EU (Reuters)

Appetizers featuring seal meat are displayed during an event to mark the first time seal meat is served in the parliamentary restaurant on Parliament Hill in Ottawa March 10, 2010. REUTERS/Chris WattieReuters - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products.


Study: Law officers struggle to readjust after war (AP)

Wayne Williamson stands at the pedestrian bridge on March 9, 2010 in Austin, Texas, where one of the three shots were fired about three years earlier in March 2007 that cost him his job. (AP Photo/Thao Nguyen)AP - Many law enforcement officers called up to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan are finding it difficult to readjust to their jobs once home, bringing back heightened survival instincts that may make them quicker to use force and showing less patience toward the people they serve.


CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella (AP)

In this photo taken March 9, 2010, Raymond Cirimele, 55, displays his Costco membership card outside his home in Chicago. Cirimele is one of at least 245 people in 44 states who have been sickened by a recent salmonella outbreak. Investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries and followed the trail of grocery purchases to a Rhode Island company that makes salami, then zeroed in on the pepper used to season the meat. He said no one asked for his shopper card data, but he would have provided it if someone had. 'I don't have any secrets, so I'm not worried about it,' he said. 'It's kind of like the whole airport security and all that. I'd rather fly on a safe plane.' (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries.


"Dead" baby elephant calf born alive in Sydney zoo (Reuters)

Taronga Zoo veterinarians give treatment to a newborn elephant calf as its mother Porntip (R) stands next to it in Sydney March 10, 2010. An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydney's main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared the baby had died in the womb. REUTERS/Taronga Zoo/Bobby-Jo Vial/HandoutReuters - An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydney's main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared the baby had died in the womb.


Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying (Reuters)

Canada's Sidney Crosby celebrates after scoring the game winning goal against the U.S. during overtime in their men's ice hockey gold medal game at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics February 28, 2010. REUTERS/Todd KorolReuters - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.


New Zealander auctions "ghosts" in a bottle (Reuters)

Reuters - A New Zealand woman sold two vials that she said contained the ghosts of an old man and a young girl for almost NZ$2,000 ($1,410) after a fiercely contested online auction, local media reported.

Quebec environmental preserve under threat (CBC Ottawa)

Supporters of a farm-like environmental preserve near the village of Wakefield in the municipality of La Pêche, Que., are upset over a proposal to develop part of the land as an industrial park.

Obama renews backing of earthquake-stricken Haiti (AP)

President Barack Obama and Haitian President Rene Preval leave the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, after making a joint statement. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama on Wednesday renewed America's commitment to the recovery and reconstruction of earthquake-devastated Haiti, telling visiting President Rene Preval he knows the crisis has not passed.


Ga. judge's order dismisses claims in King dispute (AP)

Martin Luther King III, left, speaks to news media as Southern Christian Leadership Conference spokesman Bernard LaFayette, center, and vice chairman Rev. Dr. Sylvia Kelsey Tucker, right, look on, after attending a meeting with other 'concerned board members,' Saturday, March 6, 2010, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith)AP - A Georgia judge has dismissed most of the remaining legal claims in a dispute between the children of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., months after the siblings reached a settlement.


Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal (AP)

June Bent of Westboro, Mass., holds a portrait of fellow pilot and friend Doris Duncan Muise, deceased, who also was also a pilot, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, where former members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, the first women in to fly America's military aircraft, were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)AP - A long-overlooked group of women who flew aircraft during World War II were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on Wednesday.


PPP: Meek vs. Rubio would be close (Politico)

Politico - Public Policy Polling is out with a rare bit of good polling news for Democratic Senate candidate Kendrick Meek, showing the congressman within striking distance of former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio in a general election match-up.

The blond, blue-eyed Philly suburbanite called Jihad Jane (AP)

In this June 26, 1997 booking photo released by the Tom Green County Jail in San Angelo, Texas, is shown Colleen R. LaRose. LaRose, the self-described 'Jihad Jane' who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in Sweden, is a rare case of an American woman aiding foreign terrorists and shows the evolution of the global threat, authorities say. LaRose is accused in an indictment filed Tuesday, March 9, 2010, of actively recruiting fighters, as well as agreeing to murder the artist, marry a terrorism suspect so he could move to Europe and martyr herself if necessary. (AP Photo/Tom Green County Jail)AP - The self-dubbed "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond, all-American profile would help mask her plan to kill a Swedish cartoonist is a rare case of a U.S. woman inciting foreign terrorism and shows the latest evolution of the global threat, authorities say.


National environmental policy to be drawn up (di-ve)

A process set to lead to the publication of a comprehensive national environmental policy has been launched, Parliamentary Secretary Mario de Marco announced on Wednesday.

Remember 11/4/08? (The Nation)

The Nation - The Nation -- On the day of President Obama's healthcare summit, I took a break from the political hubbub and saw a new documentary about the day of his election, 11/4/08.

Rockhill Adds Schneider to Environmental Insurance Team (Insurance Journal)

Rockhill Underwriting Management, based in Kansas City, Mo., has hired Kenneth Schneider as senior vice president of its Environmental unit. Schneider will manage all aspects of the environmental ...

Minority births on track to outnumber white births (AP)

AP - Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years.

Crossroads marks 30 years; environmental change cited (Carteret County News-Times)

MIKE SHUTAK MOREHEAD CITY â€" A lot has changed in the county during the 30 years Carteret County Crossroads has existed as a citizens' environmental group.

Environmental forum scheduled for March 13 (The Michigan City News-Dispatch)

MICHIGAN CITY â€" Save the Dunes will host an environmental policy and legislation forum at noon Saturday, March 13, at its headquarters, 444 Barker Road. Indiana and federal environmental issues will be discussed.

Hawaii companies get Navy environmental contracts (Honolulu Advertiser)

HONOLULU â€" The Navy is awarding environmental cleanup contracts of up to $30 million to four small Hawaii businesses.

Heidi Montag: Consumer Advocate (The Nation)

The Nation - The Nation -- First, the former Saturday Night Live presidents threw their support behind financial regulation. Now an even more unlikely reformer, reality TV star Heidi Montag, is teaming up with director Ron Howard and Americans for Financial Reform in an amusing new video pressing for the creation of a new agency to protect consumers. After all, "a consumer agency will stop the banks and credit card companies from being such sleazy jerks."

Ignore the Media's Rahm Obsession (HuffingtonPost.com)

HuffingtonPost.com - Read John McQuaid's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com

Face-off: Sebelius confronts insurers (Politico)

Politico - She's challenging them to divert millions in anti-reform advertising dollars toward cutting premiums.

The Whiskey Renaissance: Top 5 Rye Bottles (HuffingtonPost.com)

HuffingtonPost.com - Read Andrew Knowlton's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com

Environmental Commission Commended for Its Princeton Ridge Recommendation (Princeton Town Topics)

The Princeton Environmental Commission (PEC) has again taken the lead in preserving Princeton's valuable natural assets from inappropriate development or destruction.

Governor Proposes DEP Absorb Environmental Watchdog Group (WNPR Connecticut Public Radio)

Part of Governor Jodi Rell's budget plan is a proposal to have the Department of Environmental Protection absorb the Council on Environmental Quality, also known as the C-E-Q. Some are worried if the C-E-Q loses its independence it will lose its effectiveness.

Families: 3 Americans detained in Iran call home (AP)

FILE - This combination of undated file photos released by freethehikers.org shows, from left: Joshua Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd. The families of the three Americans detained in Iran for months say their loved ones have been allowed to call home for the first time. The families said in a statement Wednesday, March 10, 2010, that they received the calls Tuesday. The three reported being well. The families called the conversations 'a tremendous relief.'  (AP Photo/freethehikers.org, File)  NO SALESAP - Cindy Hickey had rehearsed what she would say to her son when she finally got to talk to him months after he was detained in Iran. When the time came, the conversation lasted only about a minute, she said, "so it was hard to say a lot."


Runaway Prius driver: Brakes were 'almost burned' (AP)

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.


Cyprus holds two for theft of ex-leader's corpse (Reuters)

Cyprus' President Tassos Papadopoulos addresses a news conference at the end of a European Union Heads of State and Government summit in Brussels December 14, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Ezequiel ScagnettiReuters - A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery Monday.


EPA launches environmental justice video contest (Saipan Tribune)

WASHINGTO, D.C. (EPA)-The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is sponsoring an environmental justice video contest that challenges professional or aspiring filmmakers to create videos that capture the faces of the environmental justice movement.

New national math, English standards drafted (AP)

In this Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 photo, first grader Victoria Bernade copies a sentence as teacher Lori Peck goes over sentence structure during class at Grace L. Patterson Elementary school in Vallejo, Calif.  The nation's public schools are falling under severe financial stress as states slash education spending and drain federal stimulus money that staved off deep classroom cuts and widespread job losses. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform — and more rigorous — standards Wednesday as draft new national guidelines were released.




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