| Catholic Hospitals Support Health Care Bill Barack Obama's health care bill ahead of a House vote in which anti-abortion lawmakers could play a decisive role. The chief executive of the Catholic Health Association, Carol Keehan, wrote on the... | |
| Formula One Gets Back One Of Its Biggest Stars Formula One races. His teammate and countryman is Nico Rosberg, son of Keke, a former champion. “When I retired from racing in 2006, my batteries were simply empty,” Schumacher said.... |
| Capital Joy For D.c.'s Same-sex Couples March 13, 2010 This week, the District of Columbia started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. About 150 couples applied for the licenses and soon, there was a flurry of weddings —... |
| Targeted By Drug Cartels, Reporters In Mexico Retreat REYNOSA, Mexico — The big philosophical question in this gritty border town does not concern trees falling in the forest but bodies falling on the concrete: Does a shootout actually happen if... |
| Suicide Bomber Kills 13 At Checkpoint In Pakistan Pakistan on Saturday, officials said, underscoring the nation’s relentless security threat. At least 13 people were killed and more than 50 were wounded in the blast here in the small town of... |
| Karzai Reverses On Vote Auditors Afghanistan has agreed to reverse an earlier decision and allow two foreigners on a commission that will monitor coming parliamentary elections, his spokesman said Saturday. The development comes... |
| Iran Says It Broke Up Us-backed Cyber War Networks Filed at 12:58 p.m. ET TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran says it has dismantled several U.S.-backed cyber warfare networks that were gathering information on nuclear scientists and provoking unrest in the... |
| Mozambique: 42 Dead In Worsening Cholera Outbreak Filed at 12:04 p.m. ET MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) -- Mozambique's health ministry spokesman says the country's cholera outbreak has now killed 42 people in the northern and central parts of the... |
| Thousands March Over Togo Presidential Vote Filed at 11:57 a.m. ET LOME, Togo (AP) -- Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Togo's capital in two organized, opposing marches more than a week after a disputed presidential... |
| Court In Sf To Rehear Nazi Salute Case Filed at 1:26 p.m. ET SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A California man who was ordered removed from a Santa Cruz City Council meeting after making a one-armed Nazi salute has won another day in court. The... |
| Jewish Retiree Creates Stir Defending Pope Pius Filed at 1:25 p.m. ET LONG BEACH, N.Y. (AP) -- A retired Jewish businessman from Long Island finds himself in the middle of a decades-long debate over whether Pope Pius XII could have done more to... |
| Arrests Expose Eta’s Roots In Venezuela CARACAS, Venezuela — The shadowy underworld of Basque exiles in this city is coming under sharp scrutiny after recent arrests in Europe and an indictment this month from one of Spain’s... |
| Kissinger Hospitalized In South Korea Henry Kissinger , the former United States secretary of state, was hospitalized here because of stomach pains on Saturday. But his condition has quickly improved, said a spokesman for Yonsei... |
| Swiss Media: 60 People Report Abuses By Priests Filed at 11:14 a.m. ET GENEVA (AP) -- A Swiss abbot says 60 people have reported being victims of abuse by Catholic priests in Switzerland. Abbot Martin Werlen of the Benedictine Abbey of... |
| Holocaust Monument In Poland Vandalized Filed at 11:04 a.m. ET WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Polish media say vandals have sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti on a Holocaust memorial at a former Nazi concentration camp. Words including ''Jude Raus''... |
| Al-qaida Suspect From Us Tricked His Yemeni Guard Filed at 10:41 a.m. ET SAN'A, Yemen (AP) -- The U.S. al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen had persuaded his guard to unshackle him so the two could pray together and then snatched his unattended gun... |
| New Border Violence Erupts With Mexico Cartel Rift Filed at 11:55 a.m. ET REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) -- This border city and others near the eastern end of the U.S. border escaped the worst of Mexico's... |
| Rio's Christ Statue Getting $4m Renovation Filed at 10:59 a.m. ET RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The iconic statue of Christ with outstretched arms that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is getting a $4 million renovation. Heavy rains have eroded portions... |
| Fla. Woman Dies During Weeks-long Religious Fast Filed at 11:37 a.m. ET BARTOW, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities say a 55-year-old woman died alone in a bedroom of her central Florida home after locking herself in the room for several weeks for a lengthy... |
| Child Abuse Claims Sweep Catholic Church In Europe Filed at 10:09 a.m. ET DUBLIN (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... |
| Daylight-saving Time: It's Back More Politics News WASHINGTON (AP) -- America is springing forward. Most Americans trade an hour's sleep this weekend for more evening sunshine to enjoy after work. Officially the change to... |
| Sri Lankan Tamil Party Drops Separatist Demand Filed at 8:51 a.m. ET COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Sri Lanka's main ethnic Tamil party on Friday dropped its demand for an independent state and said it is ready to accept regional self-rule,... |
| Vatican Officials Defend Pope On Abuse Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his German homeland, and contended he has long confronted abuse cases with courage. In separate interviews, both the Holy See's... |
| Stolen Sarcophagus Returns To Egypt From Us Filed at 8:22 a.m. ET CAIRO (AP) -- A 3,000-year-old wooden sarcophagus confiscated at Miami airport after being shipped from Barcelona has returned to Egypt. The brightly painted sarcophagus dates... |
| Bishop: 23 Christians Wounded In Egypt Filed at 8:02 a.m. ET CAIRO (AP) -- An Egyptian bishop says 23 Coptic Christians have been wounded when extremist Muslims attacked a church community center in a western province. The Rev. Bejemy... |
| Hearts May Swoon When Stocks Do, Study Suggests Filed at 8:45 a.m. ET ATLANTA (AP) -- Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart... |
| Obama Chooses 1st Young Appeals Court Nominee Barack Obama finally gave liberal supporters the kind of judicial nominee they had sought and conservatives feared. Goodwin Liu, 39, is an unabashed liberal legal scholar who, if confirmed, could... |
| Gop Warns Again Against Passing Health Bill Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a ''bitter, destructive and endless'' drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous. ''An entire year has gone to waste,''... |
| Police: Suspect In Poker Heist Arrested Filed at 6:31 a.m. ET BERLIN (AP) -- German authorities say they have arrested a man suspected of taking part in the storming last weekend of a poker tournament in which armed robbers made off with... |
| Blufin Tuna Tops Cites Conference Agenda In Doha Filed at 7:20 a.m. ET DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- The Atlantic bluefin tuna and other marine life in the world's overfished oceans are the focus of... |
| Iraq's Pm Leads In Early Baghdad Vote Count Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was winning in the all-important capital, according to a partial tally of results released Saturday. If the trend continues, the vote tallies would be a substantial... |
| Israeli Troops, Palestinians Clash Near Jerusalem Palestinian women scuffled with Israeli troops on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Saturday amid rising religious and political tensions in the disputed city. The confrontation erupted at the Qalandiya... |
| Senators Resist Obama Over Projects In Health Bill 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. The Senate-approved health... |
| Gay Rights' Surprise Ally In Va. There are two interesting things about Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell's executive directive this week banning discrimination in the state government's personnel actions on the basis of sexual... |
| Free Speech Is Paramount More than 30 years ago, a young Jewish lawyer named David Goldberger defended the rights of American Nazis to march through the streets of Skokie, Ill., home to thousands of Holocaust survivors.... |
| Serbian Police Detain 9 Over Alleged War Crimes Filed at 5:56 a.m. ET BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- Serbian police have detained nine former paramilitary fighters suspected of killing civilians and looting homes during the Kosovo war, a war crimes... |
| Irish Police Free 3 In Alleged Artist Murder Plot Filed at 5:39 a.m. ET DUBLIN (AP) -- Three Muslims arrested over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks have been freed without charge, but three other men and an American woman... |
| Hrw: Iran Should Release Or Charge Famed Filmmaker Filed at 5:39 a.m. ET CAIRO (AP) -- An international human rights group on Saturday called on Iran to either charge or release an acclaimed Iranian filmmaker who backed the country's... |
| Obama Prepares Education Overhaul No Child Left Behind with a plan to prepare students for life after high school and to place better teachers at the blackboards. Obama said he would send Congress his proposed overhaul of the 2001... |
| Gay Rights' Surprise Ally Democratic Party ) expressing at least qualified support for Mr. McDonnell's action. It isn't everything one might hope for - an executive directive is less than an executive order and does not carry... |
| Kazakhstan Flooding Death Toll Rises To 35 Filed at 4:22 a.m. ET ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) -- The death toll from a massive flood that devastated a village in southern Kazakhstan has soared to 35, the country's president said Saturday. A... |
| Roadside Bomb Kills 6 Civilians In Afghanistan Filed at 4:14 a.m. ET KABUL (AP) -- A remote-controlled bomb killed six Afghan civilians Saturday as they traveled in a central province, an official said. Insurgents detonated the explosives... |
| Roethlisberger's Lawyer Hires Private Investigator Filed at 4:06 a.m. ET ATLANTA (AP) -- An attorney for Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has hired a private investigator to look into a sexual assault allegation made by a... |
| Campaign To Test Mayor Newsom's Focus On S.f. Mayor Gavin Newsom, the quintessential multitasker, has set himself a new challenge. He insists he can run for state lieutenant governor while meeting the demands of his day job in San Francisco,... |
| Civil Disagreement: One Nation, Under God? Civil disagreements, with Lynne Varner and Bruce Ramsey of the Seattle Times editorial board, is a feature of the Ed Cetera blog. Today's topic is the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling Pledge... |
