Women of the Year:
NEW YORK Even for a venue as grand as New York s Carnegie Hall, there was a pretty dazzling concentration of star power at Glamour magazine s Women of the Year awards. Pop star Rihanna was there, in the most body-hugging of gowns. Tennis star Seren...
 4.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 54.0 Bill Clinton pitches health bill to Dems
WASHINGTON Former President Bill Clinton knows just how high the political stakes are in the fight to overhaul America s health care system. His failed attempt to revamp the delivery of medical care contributed to the Republican takeover of the Hou...
3.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 108.0 Housing plan reaches 1 in 5 borrowers
WASHINGTON (AP) After a slow start, the Obama administration s mortgage relief program has reached one in five eligible homeowners, a government report says. More than 650,000 borrowers, or 20 percent of those eligible, have signed up for trials la...
2.1K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 108.0 FBI reassess its past look at Fort Hood suspect
WASHINGTON (AP) Nearly a year before Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, terrorism investigators conducted an assessment of him before deciding he did not pose a threat. After the shooting, the FBI is doing a new a...
5.9K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 85.0 North, S. Korea vie in naval clash
SEOUL, South Korea A badly damaged North Korean patrol ship retreated in flames today after a skirmish with a South Korean naval vessel along their disputed western coast, South Korean officials said. The first naval clash between the two sides in ...
6.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 163.0 GOP ducks on health care reform
Late in the game, Republicans are proposing alternatives to Democratic health-care reform, but they re certainly not being bold. If they were, they d follow the lead of Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the party s foremost Jack Kemp-style conservative, whose ...
3.1K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 108.0 What's Obama thinking?
President Obama and Democrats in Congress hope to cut Medicare spending by nearly a half-trillion dollars over the next decade, and reform plans call for a big expansion of Medicaid during the same period. Is it really possible to take so much money ...
3.0K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 361.0 U.S. troops likely for Afghanistan in January
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan, though probably not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there. The White House emphasized that the president hasn t made a deci...
3.3K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 163.0 What's next for health care?
WASHINGTON Don t look for the Senate to quickly follow the House on health care overhaul. A government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate. They ...
5.2K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 280.0 Fort Hood is on the mend after shootings
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) Pvt. Joseph Foster took a bullet in the leg during the Fort Hood shooting rampage. He pauses when he s asked about the mayhem, then credits a stout heritage with bringing him through the ordeal and leaving him eager for his sc...
4.0K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 54.0 Al-Qaida training sites are harder to locate
WASHINGTON (AP) Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al-Qaida terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to...
1.5K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 54.0 Tough road ahead in Senate for health care bill
WASHINGTON (AP) The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed far-reaching health care legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard-won victory on his chief domestic priority though the road ahead in the Senate promises to be rocky. The 220...
4.3K - Nov. 8, 2009; scored 280.0 Wis. man donates cheesehead hat signed by Obama
MADISON, Wis. (AP) A Wisconsin man who got his cheesehead hat signed by President Barack Obama has decided to donate it to a museum rather than sell it on eBay. Mansfield Neblett told The AP on Friday in an e-mail that he decided to donate the tria...
0.8K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 280.0 World leaders needed at talks to cut climate deal
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world s rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday a new global agreement now rides on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts next month in Copenha...
5.7K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 85.0 Public Enemy No. 1: Cancer patients
A lot has changed in the 210-plus years since the nation adopted the Second Amendment, guaranteeing gun rights. For one thing, federal gun laws now ban convicted illegal drug users from toting handguns. But two Oregon sheriffs say that s not tough en...
2.1K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 54.0 Hitting 10 percent
WASHINGTON (AP) The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 and is likely to go higher. Nearly 16 million people can t find jobs even though the worst recession since the Great Depression has apparently ended. Man...
7.3K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 108.0 Dems push for health care votes
WASHINGTON House Democrats are scrambling to secure enough support to pass President Barack Obama s historic health overhaul initiative, working to soothe last-minute concerns from rank-and-file Democrats ahead of a make-or-break vote. Voting is se...
3.7K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 126.0 Gunman: 'Allahu Akbar!'
FORT HOOD, Texas Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted Allahu Akbar! an Arabic phrase for God is great! before opening fire, the base commander said Friday. U.S. A...
9.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 54.0 Army post shooting rampage leaves 13 dead, 30 hurt
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Tex...
7.3K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 54.0 Obama to sign jobless benefit
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is set to sign a $24 billion economic stimulus bill providing tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and extending unemployment benefits to the longtime jobless who have been left behind as the economy veers...
4.4K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 217.0 | 
