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Obama picks chair for Consumer Product Safety boardReuters - 35 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama chose a former South Carolina education superintendent to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission and announced plans to increase the number of its commissioners, the White House said on Tuesday.
Obama Targets Overseas Tax Dodge Washington Post
Q+A: What is Pakistan doing about the Taliban threat?Reuters - 37 minutes ago
By Zeeshan Haider ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities urged people on Tuesday in the Swat Valley's main town to leave their homes for safer places as security forces could soon launch an offensive against Taliban militants there.
Swat residents urged to evacuate BBC News
Obama to hold Taliban talks as deal unravels CNN International
Georgia Alleges Russian Role in a Coup PlotNew York Times - 8 minutes ago
By ELLEN BARRY MOSCOW - Georgia's Interior Ministry announced on Tuesday that it had uncovered a Russia-backed military coup a day before the scheduled start of NATO military exercises there.
Georgia Says Mutiny Underway Voice of America
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Gunmen in Turkey Kill 44 at Wedding
New York Times - 1 hour ago
By SEBNEM ARSU ISTANBUL, Turkey - In a gruesome massacre, more than 40 people, including many women and children, were killed late Monday when masked assailants attacked a wedding party in southeastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolian News Agency ...
Dozens killed in 'blood feud' gun attack on Turkish wedding guardian.co.uk
Nepal parties begin key meeting
BBC News - 1 hour ago
At least 20 political parties are meeting in Nepal in a bid to form a new coalition a day after Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal resigned.
Police break up Nepal protest Aljazeera.net
Netanyahu calls for 'fresh' approach to peace talks
AFP - 57 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for a "fresh" triple-track approach to peace with the Palestinians that includes an immediate resumption of talks without conditions.
At Annual Meeting, Pro-Israel Group Reasserts Clout New York Times
What Obama must tell Bibi guardian.co.uk
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RHODE ISLAND: Jailed student charged
Chicago Tribune - 3 hours ago
-- A medical student jailed in Boston on suspicion of killing a masseuse he met on Craigslist was charged Monday in an arrest warrant with pulling a gun on a stripper in a Rhode Island hotel.
Rhode Island AG blasts Craigslist Boston Globe
GOP Picks Conservative for Senate Judiciary Post
New York Times - 6 hours ago
By CARL HULSE WASHINGTON - Senator Jeff Sessions, a conservative from Alabama, has struck an agreement to assume the top Republican position on the Judiciary Committee, making him the chief voice of the opposition in summer confirmation hearings for ...
Sessions Takes Specter's Judiciary Post Washington Post
Sen. Jeff Sessions will replace Arlen Specter on judiciary committee Los Angeles Times
High court removes tool for deporting illegals
San Francisco Chronicle - 4 hours ago
The Supreme Court on Monday took away one of the government's legal tools for prosecuting and deporting workers who are in the United States illegally, ruling that the crime of identity theft is limited to those who knew they were using another actual ...
Court Bars Identity-Theft Law as Tool in Immigration Cases New York Times
Unanimous Supreme Court ruling voids Postville-like charge DesMoinesRegister.com
Takeovers Are No Easy Fiat
Forbes - 32 minutes ago
Scrappy Italian carmaker is already hitting speed bumps in bid to buy Chrysler and GM Europe. Fiat might be piecing together scraps of GM and Chrysler with impenetrable calm, but its plans for an automotive behemoth are already being challenged.
Report: Fiat boss sees savings in Opel alliance The Associated Press
Alcatel-Lucent Posts $536 Million Quarterly Loss
New York Times - 46 minutes ago
By DAVID JOLLY PARIS - Alcatel-Lucent, the French-American telecommunications maker born of a 2006 transatlantic merger, reported Tuesday that its first-quarter net loss more than doubled from a year ago, and it blamed “tough market conditions.
Alcatel-Lucent's first-quarter loss widens MarketWatch
Alcatel-Lucent Posts 1Q Adj Oper Loss, Confirms Views Wall Street Journal
TAKE-A-LOOK- US to unveil bank stress tests on May 7
Reuters - 41 minutes ago
The results of the regulatory stress tests for the top 19 US banks will be publicly disclosed on May 7. The results will include a capital recovery plan for those banks demonstrating a capital need under more adverse economic conditions.
More Banks Will Need Capital Wall Street Journal
BlackBerrys Outsell iPhones in US
Techtree.com - 1 hour ago
That, incidentally, makes the BlackBerry Curve the best selling smartphone in US If that wasn't enough, RIM dominated the smartphones chart with as many as three handsets finding place in the coveted top 5 largest selling phones list there.
BlackBerry Storm 2 confirmed by RIM CEO CNET News
BlackBerry Curve outsells iPhone in 1st quarter San Francisco Chronicle
Windows 7 RC available for download
Afterdawn.com - 1 hour ago
The software giant Microsoft has officially started distributing the Release Candidate version of Windows 7. As expected, today they expanded the distribution to all of us average Joes, who now get a hold of the future de facto operating system.
Is Gartner Set To Take A Vista View? ChannelWeb
Windows 7 Virtualization ... InternetNews.com
Amazon's Kindle Is Off to College
BusinessWeek - 6 hours ago
Six universities are partnering with Amazon and major publishers to supply students with Kindles this fall. Will campus crack open the e-book market?
'Wolverine' weekend box office nudged lower
Reuters - 10 hours ago
LOS ANGELES, May 4 (Reuters) - Comic book movie "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" saw its box office tally lowered slightly to $85 million from $87 million in the US and Canada, according to final studio figures released on Monday.
Hugh Jackman was ordered to diet before hosting the Oscars! Los Angeles Times
Self-proclaimed dad of Mercy, Malawian child Madonna wants to ...
New York Daily News - 1 hour ago
BY Corky Siemaszko That was the message Monday to the self-proclaimed dad of little Mercy James from the tot's uncle. "How can he claim he is the father when he hasn't been around all this time?
No Ruling on Madonna's Appeal New York Times
NBC hopes six new series and Jay Leno in prime time shakes things up
Los Angeles Times - 5 hours ago
By Maria Elena Fernandez On Monday, the fourth-ranked broadcast network announced to reporters and advertisers most of the programs that will be in its lineup next season.
NBC renews 'Southland' and Amy Poehler, adds six shows MiamiHerald.com
Red Sox expect Beckett to be himself
MLB.com - 1 hour ago
Josh Beckett enters Tuesday having allowed 15 earned runs in his past two starts. (Chris O'Meara/AP) By Ian Browne / MLB.com NEW YORK -- If there is one near constant in this rivalry between the Red Sox and Yankees, it's that the teams always seem to ...
Sox make good first impression Boston Globe
Deschamps to replace Gerets as Marseille coach
The Associated Press - 47 minutes ago
MARSEILLE, France (AP) - Didier Deschamps will replace Eric Gerets as Marseille coach starting next season. Marseille announced on its Web site Tuesday that Deschamps, a former France midfielder, has agreed to a two-year contract and will start in June ...
Deschamps to succeed Gerets at Marseille CNN International
Deschamps to replace Gerets SkySports
Lakers strangely encouraged after lethargic Game 1 loss
CBSSports.com - 1 hour ago
By Ramona Shelburne LOS ANGELES -- The betting line was a lie. Their week of rest did nothing but rust. It was an overcast day here Monday, but you could see the Lakers' 100-92 loss to the Rockets in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals coming ...
Rockets soar, Magic dazzle in playoff upset wins Washington Post
Ron Artest takes direct approach Los Angeles Times
Diplomatic Swine Flu Flyovers
Forbes - 17 minutes ago
The charter flights arrangement between China and Mexico may sooth the latest Sino-Mexican tension aroused by the spread of swine flu.
More Americans taking drugs for mental illness
Reuters - 6 hours ago
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Many more Americans have been using prescription drugs to treat mental illness since 1996, in part because of expanded insurance coverage and greater familiarity with the drugs among primary care doctors, ...
Mental-Health Drug Usage Rises Wall Street Journal
Programs to mark Mental Health Month Oneonta Daily Star
Schools Chief Challenges Need To Keep Rockville High Closed
Washington Post - 34 minutes ago
By Nelson Hernandez and Daniel De Vise Montgomery County School Superintendent Jerry D. Weast took issue yesterday with the closing of Rockville High School to stem the flu, amid indications that federal officials might revise their recommendations on ...
Md. confirms 4 swine flu cases Baltimore Sun
Md's First Confirmed Cases Of Swine Flu WBAL Radio
Obama assures Hatch he'll pick a pragmatist
Salt Lake Tribune - 5 hours ago
By Thomas Burr Washington » President Barack Obama assured Sen. Orrin Hatch on Monday that he would pick a "pragmatist, not a radical" to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, Hatch's office said.
President Obama's Supreme choice: Someone who knows race is now ... New York Daily News
Specter starts anew with longtime constituents
CNN International - 6 hours ago
By Dana Bash HERSHEY, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- He has represented Pennsylvania in the US Senate for nearly three decades, but Arlen Specter now has to reintroduce himself back home.
Ridge May Run for Specter's Senate Seat Washington Post
Keep Cool With Credit Card Firms
Forbes - 35 minutes ago
One of the savviest investors is closing his short positions on credit card firms. And a new consumer protection bill won't change that.
Taming credit card companies with the Credit Card Bill of Rights The Star-Ledger - NJ.com