AP - North Korea fired a rocket over Japan on Sunday, defying Washington, Tokyo and others who suspect the launch was cover for a test of its long-range missile technology.
AP - The Obama administration is pushing to protect Antarctica's fragile environment by imposing mandatory limits on the size of cruise ships sailing there and the number of passengers they bring ashore.
Stop after stop, crowds are thronging, leaders gushing, headlines blaring. Even a roomful of foreign reporters applauded after President Barack Obama's London news conference.
AP - President Barack Obama emerged from this year's congressional budget debate with a half-victory: a green light to pursue an overhaul of health care, accompanied by a rebuke over how to pay for it.
President Barack Obama said on Sunday that he will convene a global summit by year's end to discuss the protection, reduction and eventual elimination of nuclear weapons.
AFP - Barack Obama mapped out Sunday his vision for a world free of nuclear weapons on the latest leg of his tour of Europe after venting his fury at North Korea's "provocative" rocket launch.
AP - President Barack Obama, pushing plans to rid the world of nuclear arms, said Sunday that North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket underscores the urgency of his weapons agenda.
Bailing out the financial sector will cost taxpayers $167 billion more than originally anticipated, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate.
AP - Stop after stop, crowds are thronging, leaders gushing, headlines blaring. Even a roomful of foreign reporters applauded after President Barack Obama's London news conference.
AP - Bailing out the financial sector will cost taxpayers $167 billion more than originally anticipated, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate.
AP - President Barack Obama hailed "strong and unanimous support" from NATO allies on Saturday for his stepped-up anti-terror strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan and welcomed their "down payment" promises of 5,000 fresh forces.
Rod Blagojevich's schemes and corruption stretch back beyond trying to sell a Senate seat, even beyond his first day in the Illinois governor's office, federal prosecutors say.
AP - President Barack Obama's vision of a world without nuclear arms is an achievable goal and the president will pursue it with an eye on the lessons learned from four decades of difficult diplomacy, the White House said Saturday.
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HuffingtonPost.com - So in just a few short days the New York Mets baseball team will have its first 2009 home game in its brand-new stadium, Citi Field.
AP - Bailing out the financial sector will cost taxpayers $167 billion more than originally anticipated, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate.
In the coming weeks and months, hundreds of thousands of jobless Americans will exhaust their unemployment benefits, just when it's never been harder to find a job.
Reuters - Representatives from at least 15 U.S. states discussed with a federal regulator the possibility of using their pension funds to buy troubled loans and securities, or "toxic assets," the Bergen County Record in New Jersey reported.
Reuters - U.S. congressional budget analysts have raised their estimate of the net cost to taxpayers for the government's financial rescue program to $356 billion, an increase of $167 billion from earlier estimates.
Reuters - International Business Machines has lowered its offer price for Sun Microsystems to $9.50 a share from $9.55 a share, although they are still in talks and the deal is not final, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday.
Reuters - International Business Machines has lowered its offer price for Sun Microsystems to $9.50 a share from $9.55 a share, although both sides are still in talks and the deal is not yet finalized, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday.
Politico - President Barack Obama said Saturday that NATO allies will send up to 5,000 more security forces and trainers to Afghanistan – calling it “a strong down payment” on the war even as Europe declined to match the U.S. commitment of new combat might.
AP - Hundreds of mourners paid their final respects to reality television star Jade Goody on Saturday, most of them watching her funeral play out ? like much of her life ? through the lens of a camera.
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