AP - Residents of the rain-soaked Southeast braced for more storms even as they tried to dry out from a weekend deluge that flooded hundreds of homes, washed out roads and forced evacuations.
AP - The United States and Russia have reached a deal to reopen talks about nuclear warheads, the first major arms discussions since 1997 and a potential breakthrough between the pair.
Reuters - U.S. mortgage rates set fresh record lows last week, fostering demand for refinancing that drove home loan applications to the highest level since mid-January, data from the Mortgage Bankers Association showed on Wednesday.
Reuters - Privately-held QuickPlay Media Inc plans to deliver full length popular television shows to BlackBerry smartphone screens via Research In Motion's applications store after forging agreements with TV networks, including NBC, CBS Corp and MTV.
AFP - The United States has said it had filed a civil law suit against BP's Alaskan subsidiary BPXA, following pipeline leaks which caused crude oil to spill into Alaska's seas in 2006.
Reuters - Research In Motion is launching an online application store that will let users of its BlackBerry smartphones download software for everything from news and entertainment to travel and games.
Reuters - World leaders meet on Wednesday under intense pressure to produce a morale-boosting response to the worst economic downturn seen since the 1930s.
Reuters - A malicious software program that has infected millions of computers could enter a more menacing phase on Wednesday, from an outright attack to a quiet mutation that would further its spread.
Reuters - North Korea's planned rocket launch in the next week would violate U.N. resolutions even if the secretive state tried to put a satellite into space, officials in South Korea and Japan said on Wednesday.
Reuters - U.S. government spending on unclassified satellites and space programs is out of control and soared 42 percent to $16.9 billion in fiscal 2009 from $11.9 billion in 2005, the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense said on Tuesday.
AP - After a short, tense campaign, the New York congressional race focusing on President Barack Obama's economic policies is so tight it may be decided by absentee ballots.
AP - Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius recently corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding "unintentional errors" ? the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee.
AFP - Twelve US lawmakers have urged Internet giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to resist what they called communist Vietnam's "worsening" efforts to restrict online political speech.
Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co is studying uses for Google Inc's Android operating system, but the world's top PC maker stopped short of saying it had decided to adopt the fledgling software in its products.
It's time for Congress to end restrictions that for more than half a century have prevented most Americans from visiting Cuba, a bipartisan group of senators said Tuesday.
AP - Tens of thousands of Americans, from teenagers to baby boomers, soon will get a fresh chance to lend a helping hand in a time of need after Congress voted Tuesday to expand ways for Americans to serve their country and each other.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out A Philip Morris appeal of a $79.5 million award to a smoker's widow, likely forcing the cigarette maker to make the large payout after a 10-year legal fight to have it set aside.
Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt lost her bid for asylum more than four years ago, and a judge ordered her deported. Now Zeituni Onyango's asylum request being reconsidered under a little-used provision.
AP - In a cautious first step toward unlocking 30 years of tense relations, senior U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke had a brief but cordial meeting with Iran's deputy foreign minister Tuesday at an international conference on Afghanistan
Reuters - General Motors Corp will close more U.S. plants and cut more jobs and still faces a higher probability of bankruptcy to shed debt, GM Chief Executive Fritz Henderson said on Tuesday.
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