AP Top Headlines
Obama heads to Ohio looking for health care votes
36 min 52 sec agoWASHINGTON (AP) -- Still seeking votes for his proposed health care overhaul, President Barack Obama appears ready to reverse his position and allow unpopular deal-sweetening measures in the hopes of finding Democratic support for legislation whose future will be decided in coming days....
US census forms arrive in the mail: What to expect
36 min 59 sec agoWASHINGTON (AP) -- Let the count begin....
Narcos blamed for killings of 3 with US consul tie
37 min 2 sec agoCIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -- Suspected drug gang hit men separately ambushed two cars carrying families with ties to the U.S. consulate in this violent border city, killing an American couple and a Mexican man. Three young children survived, although two suffered wounds....
US lawmakers attack China ahead of Nov. elections
37 min 19 sec agoWASHINGTON (AP) -- China is once again the country Congress loves to hate....
Kansas earns overall top seed in NCAA tournament
37 min 27 sec agoThe selection committee made its choices. Now, it's America's turn....
'Mission: Impossible' star Peter Graves dies in LA
37 min 33 sec agoLOS ANGELES (AP) -- Peter Graves, whose calm and intelligent demeanor was a good fit to the intrigue of "Mission Impossible" as well as the satire of the "Airplane" films, has died....
Rain damage, detours hinder commutes in Northeast
41 min 26 sec agoEGG HARBOR CITY, N.J. (AP) -- A torrential rainstorm that brought heavy winds to the Northeast, causing damage and flooding, created some minor headaches for commuters Monday....
Deadline for Thai Parliament dissolution passes
43 min 44 sec agoBANGKOK (AP) -- Thailand's prime minister, backed by a formidable military force, rejected an ultimatum to dissolve Parliament on Monday as tens of thousands of red-shirted protesters vowed to continue their push to oust the government....
Gov't says it cannot explain runaway Prius
1 hour 2 min agoWASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal government said Monday it cannot explain a reported incident of sudden, high-speed acceleration in a Toyota Prius on a San Diego, Calif., freeway last week....
Officials: US wants Israel to cancel building plan
1 hour 11 min agoJERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli officials said Monday that the U.S. is pressing Israel to scrap a contentious east Jerusalem building project whose approval has touched off the most serious diplomatic feud with Washington in years....
Study: Mini clip is safer than heart-valve surgery
Sun, 03/14/2010 - 8:50pmATLANTA (AP) -- Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A study showed that a tiny clip implanted through an artery was safer and nearly as effective as surgery, doctors reported Sunday....
Blackout leaves millions of Chileans in darkness
Sun, 03/14/2010 - 8:45pmSANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- A power failure plunged nearly the entire Chilean population into darkness Sunday night, rattling a country already anxious after last month's 8.8-magnitude quake....
Dodd seeking middle ground on new financial rules
Sun, 03/14/2010 - 5:19pmWASHINGTON (AP) -- The senator trying to rewrite the nation's financial industry rules is dropping plans to create a stand-alone consumer financial protection agency and to give a single regulator the power to oversee all banks, according to people familiar with the evolving proposal....
Hoax news report on Russia invasion panics Georgia
Sun, 03/14/2010 - 4:35pmTBILISI, Georgia (AP) -- Georgians have been panicked by a hoax television news program announcing the Russian army had invaded and killed President Mikhail Saakashvili....
At least 2 snowmobilers dead in Canadian avalanche
Sun, 03/14/2010 - 4:10pmd K REVELSTOKE, British Columbia (AP) -- An avalanche that killed at least two people at an informal snowmobile rally in Canada's Rocky Mountains may have been triggered by three daredevil sledders who apparently unleashed a deadly wall of snow on up to 200 people below, witnesses said Sunday....
Dem House vote-counter lacks health care votes now
Sun, 03/14/2010 - 3:20pmWASHINGTON (AP) -- The House's chief Democratic headcounter said Sunday he hadn't rounded up enough votes to pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul heading into a make-or-break week, even as the White House's top political adviser said he was "absolutely confident" in its prospects....
Iraqi PM holds slim lead in partial election tally
Sun, 03/14/2010 - 2:28pmBAGHDAD (AP) -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki edged ahead Sunday in a tight race in the country's parliamentary elections after partial results from all of Iraq's 18 provinces showed his bloc leading in seven - two more than his chief rival....
'Alice' extends her No. 1 stay with $62 million
Sun, 03/14/2010 - 12:16pmLOS ANGELES (AP) -- Alice is still ruling the movie palace....
Pakistani jets pound Taliban hide-outs; 17 killed
Sun, 03/14/2010 - 8:51amPARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistani fighter jets pounded Taliban hide-outs near the Afghan border Sunday, killing 17 insurgents, local officials said....
Taliban: Kandahar bombings a 'warning' to NATO
Sun, 03/14/2010 - 8:41amKANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- Deadly bomb attacks in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar were a warning to NATO's top general that the Taliban are ready for a coming offensive in their heartland, the insurgents said Sunday....
