• 2-second video causes headache for ABC News (AP)

    FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2010 photo, a 2010 Toyota Corolla is shown at Toyota dealership in San Francisco. For the want of a better two-second picture of a tachometer, ABC News has called into question its reporting on acceleration problems with Toyota vehicles. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)AP - For the want of a better two-second picture of a tachometer, ABC News has called into question its reporting on acceleration problems with Toyota vehicles.


  • Supreme Court chief fights back after criticism from Obama (The Newsroom)
    The Newsroom - It's no secret that many think the fierce mood of partisanship is routinely crippling Washington. While most of the fur flies between the major parties in Congress ? with the president weighing in occasionally to keep his party leaders on message ? this week has seen an outbreak of hostilities in a less traditional venue: between the Supreme Court and the president.
  • Analysis: Greece's crisis could presage America's (AP)

    Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou walks away after talking to the media in front of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 9, 2010, following a meeting with President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Greece is a financial basket case, begging for international help. Is America heading down that same road?


  • 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.


  • Eric Massa on Glenn Beck: Battle on Fox Over Controversy (Time.com)

    US Representative Eric Massa, pictured in 2009, resigned suddenly this week facing harassment allegations from a former male staffer. In his most colorful parting shot, on a radio show on Sunday, he accused the White House chief of staff of cornering him at the locker room of the House of Representatives gym and hammering him for failing to back Obama's budget.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)Time.com - Many conservatives had warned Fox News superstar Glenn Beck to steer clear of aggrieved Democratic Congressman Eric Massa, but he just couldn't resist


  • 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.
  • Obama presses Reid to cut special deals from health bill (Politico)

    President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, right, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., walks back to the White House, from the Blair House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, after meeting all day with Republican and Democrat lawmakers to renew his struggle to reform health care. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Politico - President Barack Obama is pushing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to go further than Obama has previously disclosed to strip the final health care reform bill of the narrow deals aimed at appeasing specific senators.


  • Pelosi: Dems close on health care agreement (AP)

    President Barack Obama greets spectators Wednesday, March 10, 2010, after arriving in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam)AP - Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues despite persistent Republican efforts to knock them off stride.


  • Lost in the ruins: Haiti's best and brightest (AP)

    A helicopter lands on the USNS (United States Naval Ship) Comfort hospital ship in the harbour off Port-au-Prince in January 2010. A US Navy hospital ship was recalled from Haiti Tuesday as the US military cut its emergency deployment to the quake-hit nation, where aid efforts are now turning to reconstruction.(AFP/File/Thony Belizaire)AP - They kept the books, had the training and fixed the computers. They were the educated few of Haiti, an up-and-coming generation of nurses, technicians, office managers and college students.


  • 'Big Mike' draws tears, cheers on 'American Idol' (AP)

    Simon Cowell (R) and Mezhgan Hussainy arrive at the 18th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Award Viewing Party in West Hollywood, California March 7, 2010. REUTERS/Gus Ruelas (OSCARS-PARTY)(UNITED STATES (ENTERTAINMENT)AP - Michael "Big Mike" Lynche made Kara DioGuardi cry and turned the rest of the "American Idol" judges giddy with a moving performance of "This Woman's Work."


  • Spike in Prius complaints may not be all it seems (AP)

    A 2005 Toyota Prius, which was in an accident, is seen at a police station in Harrison, New York, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. The driver of the Toyota Prius told police that the car accelerated on its own, then lurched down a driveway, across a road and into a stone wall.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Reports of sudden acceleration in the Toyota Prius have spiked across the country. But that doesn't mean there's an epidemic of bad gas pedals in the popular hybrid.


  • Sushi chef charged with serving illegal whale (AP)

    An unidentified woman opens the door at the entrance of the Hump Restaurant in Santa Monica, Calif. on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Federal prosecutors have filed charges against the owner of the restaurant and its sushi chef that marine mammal activists say served illegal Sei whale meat. The charges follow a video sting orchestrated by the producers of the Oscar-winning documentary, 'The Cove.' (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Federal prosecutors filed charges Wednesday against a sushi chef and a Santa Monica restaurant on allegations that they served illegal and endangered whale meat.


  • Disney-ABC, Cablevision Battle: More TV-Fee Fights Loom (Time.com)
    Time.com - More than 3 million Cablevision subscribers couldn't see the opening of the Oscars on Sunday because of a dispute over paying for ABC shows
  • Mexico's Slim becomes 'world's richest' person (AP)

    FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2008 file photo, Mexican businessman Carlos Slim visits the Museo Alameda where some of his personal art collection is on display in San Antonio. On March 10, 2010, Forbes announced that Slim claims the title of world's richest person with a net worth of $53.5 billion. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)AP - Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, jumping past Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the first person from a developing nation to top the list, according to Forbes magazine.


  • Corey Haim prolonged tragic Hollywood tradition (AP)

    This undated publicity image provided by A&E shows actor Corey Haim, left, who appeared in the A&E reality TV show 'The Two Coreys' with his friend Corey Feldman, right. Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob for his roles in 'Lucas' and 'The Lost Boys' whose career was blighted by drug abuse, died Wednesday March 10, 2010. He was 38. (AP Photo/Courtesy AETN, L. Pief Weyman) NO SALES. MANDATORY CREDITAP - Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded.


  • Tasmanian devil colony shows immunity to cancer (AP)

    FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2008 file photo, Tex, a Tasmanian Devil, sits in his enclosure at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. Australian scientists say Wednesday, March 10, 2010, they have found a colony of Tasmanian devils that are genetically different from their peers and so far resistant to the face cancer that has decimated the population. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)AP - The discovery of a genetically distinct colony of Tasmanian devils may save the species from being wiped out by a contagious cancer that has decimated the population, Australian scientists said Wednesday.


  • House GOP leaders press earmark moratorium (AP)

    House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - House GOP leaders are pushing rank-and-file Republicans to break their addiction to pet projects by going cold turkey and giving up the long-cherished practice of directing federal dollars to their home districts.


  • Pa. suspect: Caretaker by day, 'Jihad Jane' online (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 - Colleen LaRose spent long days caring for her boyfriend's father in a second-floor apartment in Pennsburg, a small town north of Philadelphia.


  • Miss. school prom off after lesbian's date request (AP)
    AP - A northern Mississippi school district decided Wednesday not to host a high school prom after a lesbian student demanded she be able to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.
  • Conan's lone Twitter followee: 'It's totally nuts' (AP)

    Sarah Killen poses with her new computer in Conway Township, Mich. on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Last week, Killen had three Twitter followers. In early March 2010, she had three Twitter followers. A week later, she has 20,000 - as well as the new computer and offers to help pay for a dress and drinks for her wedding. The unsuspecting rural Michigan woman has one out-of-work late-night talk show host to thank for her newfound online popularity — Conan O'Brien. O'Brien decided last week to pick Killen as the only person he would follow on Twitter, turning the 19-year-old's life upside down. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)AP - Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers.
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