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A fallen tree is removed from a house in the aftermath of a storm Monday in White Plains, N.Y. No one was hurt in the incident.
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Lincoln touts child-nutrition bill
$4.5 billion plan targets food in schools, kids’ obesity
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln unveiled a bill Wednesday that would add $4.5 billion to federal child-nutrition programs that provide the day’s only meals for some children. Read More »
Senate sends jobs bill to Obama for signing
WASHINGTON — Companies that hire unemployed workers will get a temporary payroll-tax holiday under a bill that easily won congressional approval Wednesday in what Democrats hope is just the first of several election-year measures aimed at boosting hiring. Read More »
Health-proposal holdout relents
Liberal Kucinich aboard; nuns say bill wouldn’t fund abortions
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s healthcare legislation won support from a longtime liberal holdout in the House on Wednesday and from Catholic nuns representing dozens of religious orders, gaining fresh traction in the run-up to a weekend vote. Read More »
Can’t charge girl in text, court says
Judges rule in case over racy photo
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday that a northeastern Pennsylvania prosecutor may not pursue felony charges against a teenage girl who appeared in a racy cell-phone photo. Read More »
Would attempt to catch bin Laden, says general
WASHINGTON — Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said Wednesday that the military would “certainly” try to capture Osama bin Laden alive and “bring him to justice” — contradicting remarks by a top Obama administration official. Read More »
St. Patrick’s Day turns world Irish
NEW YORK — All the world from the Sydney Opera House to the Empire State Building turned Irish, or at least Irish for the day, as revelers marked St. Patrick’s Day with bagpipes, dancing, emerald lights and green body paint in a flurry of celebration. Read More »
5 Virginians face terror counts in Pakistan
Five Virginia men arrested in Pakistan in December were charged Wednesday with six terrorism-related counts, two of which carry potential sentences of life in prison. Read More »
Numbers belie Obama’s vow of openness
Legal closure of records in ’09 soars above previous year’s tally, review shows
WASHINGTON — Federal agencies have increased their use of legal exemptions to keep records secret during President Barack Obama’s first nine months in office, despite his promise of a more open government. Read More »
Holder: Bin Laden never facing U.S. trial
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive. Read More »
Bus bound for Mexico flips over in Texas median; 2 die
CAMPBELLTON, Texas — A crowded bus carrying young families and spring breakers toward Mexico went careening off a Texas highway and flipped onto its side Tuesday, killing two people and forcing dozens of bloodied passengers to climb to safety through broken windows and an emergency exit. Read More »
Woman touted by Obama to keep home, clinic says
CLEVELAND — A cancer patient who has emerged as the emblem of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul was stunned last month when she unsealed a handwritten letter from none other than the president himself. Read More »
Nor’easter gone, but flooding stays
WAYNE, N.J. — Flooding lingered Tuesday in many Northeast communities from a powerful nor’easter that now has moved out to sea. Read More »
Lincoln faults no-vote measure
House laboring over Senate bill
WASHINGTON — Some Democrats defended plans to push health-care legislation through the House without a direct vote, and Republicans assailed the tactic Tuesday as both parties fenced ferociously over the health overhaul endgame. Read More »
Census forms in the mail
Head count expects challenges with young, Hispanics
WASHINGTON — Let the count begin. Read More »
Rains, winds keep Northeast miserable
BOUND BROOK, N.J. — Torrential rains and high winds pounded the Northeast for a third day Monday, taking a heavy toll on people and property in a region that only recently restored power or finished digging out from the last of several major winter storms. Read More »