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Combat Vet's PTSD Untreated; Blames Her Gender
According to recent VA statistics, PTSD and depression are the top disability claims among America's female veterans. But many have trouble proving they saw combat — a key to being treated for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. One decorated war veteran's story is emblematic of the struggle to get help.
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:10:00 -0500

Pope Under Fire For Handling Of Sex Abuse Claims
His former archdiocese acknowledged it transferred a suspected pedophile priest while Benedict XVI was in charge, but said he did not know about the transfer. Criticism is also mounting over a 2001 Vatican directive he wrote instructing bishops to keep abuse cases secret.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:13:00 -0500

Meet The Nation's Only Female H.S. Football Coach
Natalie Randolph, a 29-year-old biology and environmental sciences teacher, was introduced Friday as the coach of Washington, D.C.'s Coolidge Colts. She's believed to be the nation's only female head coach of a high school varsity football team.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:57:00 -0500

Federal Court: Vaccines Don't Cause Autism
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has rejected claims in three test cases that tried to show that vaccines preserved with thimerosal contributed to the development of autism.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:49:00 -0500

FDA Warns Plavix May Be Ineffective In Some People
People with a weak liver enzyme don't get the blood-thinning benefit of Plavix. Asians are the most like to have the problem.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:32:00 -0500

Doctor Calls Surgery On Sen. Reid's Wife A Success
Landra Reid suffered a broken back and neck after the van she was riding in with her daughter was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer truck Thursday. Following surgery Friday, her doctor said Reid was not at risk of paralysis.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:02:00 -0500

Clinton Rebukes Israel For Housing Announcement
The State Department said the secretary of state called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to express frustration about a plan to build 1,600 homes in East Jerusalem. Tuesday's announcement cast a pall over a visit to Israel by Vice President Joe Biden and has endangered indirect peace talks with the Palestinians.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:32:00 -0500

Carrot-And-Stick Health Plans Aim To Cut Costs
Workers at a Portland, Ore., steel mill soon will be able to pick a new type of health insurance: one with financial rewards to use proven treatments and disincentives to use less-effective surgeries and diagnostic tests.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:25:00 -0500

Orange County Sues Toyota For Acceleration Flaws
District Attorney Tony Rackauckas accused the automaker of knowingly selling hundreds of thousands of vehicles that had defects. The suit seeks civil penalties of $2,500 per violation under the Unfair Business Practices Act, along with the recovery of attorney fees and investigative costs.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:22:00 -0500

McConnell's Strategy For Health Care: No
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is on a search-and-destroy mission for anything that comes from the Democrats. This especially applies to health care, where he has decided that opposition boils down to one word: No. Is this a winning strategy? McConnell and his GOP colleagues are betting on it.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:00:00 -0500

Hollywood's New Battle Tactic: Make War Personal
Back in 2007, Hollywood was suffering from serious battle fatigue. But a new surge of war movies has come out — Green Zone takes on the search for WMDs; The Hurt Locker follows a bomb squad; and The Pacific is a 10-hour HBO World War II epic. These aren't battle-strategy flicks — they explore the brutality of war on an individual scale.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:25:00 -0500

Abortion Language Still Sticking Point For Health Bill
House Democrats say they're closing in on a final vote on a health overhaul. But a few big issues remain to be ironed out before they can muster the votes needed to get the bill over the finish line. The biggest fight of all remains abortion.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:00:00 -0500

D.C. High School Football Team Picks Woman Coach
Washington, D.C.'s H.D. Woodson High School has a new coach for its boys varsity football team: Her name is Natalie Randolph. Randolph could be the only female high school varsity football coach in the country. She discusses her new job.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:00:00 -0500

Report Finds Lehman Used Accounting Tricks
A bankruptcy court examiner is raising new questions about the actions of Lehman Bros. executives in the weeks before the firm filed for bankruptcy. In a 2,000-page report, the examiner alleges that Lehman's top managers manipulated the firm's balance sheet in a bid to stave off bankruptcy.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:00:00 -0500

Obama Delays Asia Trip To Push Health Care
The White House announced Friday that President Obama and his family travel won't travel to Guam, Indonesia and Australia as planned next week. Instead, the president will travel alone, beginning Sunday on an abbreviated trip. The reason: health care.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:00:00 -0500

Housing Still Elusive in Haiti Ahead of Torrential Rains
Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake ? and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even close to providing the shelters they promised.
Sat, 13 March 2010 01:09:33 EST

Report: N. Korea to Rejoin Nuclear Talks in April
North Korea plans to head back to the bargaining table early next month for talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program, a news report said Saturday.
Sat, 13 March 2010 03:37:41 EST

Colo. Mom Second U.S. Woman Nabbed in Terror Plot
Jamie Paulin-Ramirez is in the custody of the Irish police, along with six other individuals, arrested as part of an investigation into a conspiracy to commit murder, according to officials familiar with the case
Fri, 12 March 2010 23:24:41 EST

Health Bill a 'Jump Ball'
While the prospects for Democratic victory on health care reform have improved, leaders still lack votes to pass it
• Dems Question Obama's Travel Record
• Stupak: Panel Chair Wants Gov't to Fund Abortions
• FOX FORUM: Pelosi's Arrogance Knows No Bounds
• YOU DECIDE: Is Health Care Reform Doomed?
Sat, 13 March 2010 03:40:37 EST

Calif. Gov. Orders Review of Teen Murder Suspect Case
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered a review Friday of the way the state handled a molestation case involving a man who is now charged with murdering one California teenager and under investigation in another killing.
Sat, 13 March 2010 00:37:51 EST

California Woman Jumps Off Cliff to Flee Attacker
Authorities say a man tried to sexually assault a Malibu jogger who escaped by jumping off a cliff and sliding about 100 feet down a steep hillside.
Sat, 13 March 2010 00:31:32 EST

Homicide Attack at Security Checkpoint in Pakistan Kills 10
A homicide attacker set off a bomb at a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 52, officials and a doctor said, underscoring the relentless security threat to this Islamic nation.
Sat, 13 March 2010 02:25:37 EST

Seattle Cops Stop Man With Device Taped to Body
A man wrapped in duct tape alarmed people in downtown Seattle Friday morning by making threats and walking around with a pipe taped to his arm before surrendering.
Fri, 12 March 2010 14:22:28 EST

Va. Man Waits 5 Months, Collects $200M Lottery Jackpot
For five months, Virginia carpenter Steve Williams lived with a $200 million-dollar secret.
Fri, 12 March 2010 15:22:24 EST

NYC Taxi Drivers Overcharged Riders by Over $8.3M
Thousands of New York City taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million over the past two years by setting their meters at a rate that was supposed to be used for trips to the suburbs, the Taxi and Limousine Commission said Friday.
Fri, 12 March 2010 23:29:45 EST

First Responders Believed Woods' Crash was Domestic Violence
Newly released documents show an ambulance crew that responded to golfer Tiger Woods' car crash wouldn't let his wife ride with him to the hospital because they thought it was a case of domestic violence.
Fri, 12 March 2010 16:20:18 EST

N.Y. Woman Killed by Subway After Jumping on Tracks
A woman dropped her gym bag on the tracks of a crowded Upper East Side subway station yesterday ? then made the fatal decision to jump after it as screaming straphangers watched in horror, The New York Post reported.
Fri, 12 March 2010 09:11:59 EST

Teen Pleads Not Guilty to Murder in Calif. Bonfire Case
18-year-old Jose Manuel Campos was arraigned Friday afternoon, and he is being held on $2 million bail
Fri, 12 March 2010 20:47:07 EST

LIVESHOTS: Justice Dept.: Holder Info Incomplete

Sat, 13 March 2010 03:40:38 EST

LIVESHOTS: Baseball Taiwanese Style

Sat, 13 March 2010 03:40:38 EST

Calif. County Files Suit Over Toyota Defects- 'Out-of-Control' Prius Driver Has Troubled Past

Sat, 13 March 2010 03:40:38 EST

No .XXX Yet: Internet Agency Delays Porn Decision

Sat, 13 March 2010 03:40:38 EST

Ford Tries to Fend Off Rivals in Cop Car Market

Sat, 13 March 2010 03:40:38 EST

Boys and Girls Club CEO's $1M Salary Questioned

Sat, 13 March 2010 03:40:38 EST

LIVESHOTS: Conservative Board OKs Draft Curriculum- FULL COVERAGE: Textbook Wars in Texas

Sat, 13 March 2010 03:40:38 EST

Mary Ann's New Skipper
EXCLUSIVE: Dawn Wells, aka Mary Ann on 'Gilligan's Island,' says she wants to see some black actors reprise 'Gilligan's Island' roles - including Skip!
Fri, 12 March 2010 22:56:14 EST

Best of the Week
SLIDESHOW: What would Pelosi and fellow lawmakers do if they had to take a pay cut? Check out YOUR take on this and other stories in the news
Fri, 12 March 2010 22:56:14 EST

Greatest War Movies
TOP 30: With 'The Pacific' and 'The Green Zone' coming out, we take a look back at the best war movies of all time | IS GREEN ZONE WORTH SEEING?
Fri, 12 March 2010 22:56:14 EST

Mixed Martial Miesha
FIGHT! FRIDAY: Miesha 'Takedown' Tate is an up-and-coming mixed martial arts fighter who got her start on the boys wrestling team!
Fri, 12 March 2010 22:56:14 EST

What's Frederique Up To?
THEN/NOW: Frederique van der Wal was the hottest swimsuit and undies model of the 1990s. What's the statuesque stunner doing these days?
Fri, 12 March 2010 22:56:14 EST

Aniston Is 'Cougar' Bait
The 41-year-old star looks better than ever, and BFF Courtney Cox wants her on her new show, 'Cougar Town,' pronto | ANISTON HOT SHOTS
Fri, 12 March 2010 22:56:14 EST

New Damon Flick Anti-U.S.?
While 'The Hurt Locker' was largely apolitical in its stance on the Iraq War, some critics are seeing red over 'The Green Zone' and the blame it puts on the U.S.
Fri, 12 March 2010 22:56:14 EST

Lesbian Kiss, Cigarette Hat
SINGER SHOCKER: Lady Gaga set her new 9-minute long video in a women's prison, wears headgear made of Marlboro's, and leaves most of her clothes at home
Fri, 12 March 2010 22:56:14 EST

All Creatures Great and Small
SLIDESHOW: Mother Nature's creatures are both beautiful and bizarre. From the furry to the feathered, our favorite pictures of the planet's diversity of animals
Fri, 12 March 2010 22:56:14 EST

Penn 'Humiliated' Columnist
D.C. columnist says she was berated, told to leave event after asking actor Sean Penn about remark that he wished his critics would 'die screaming of rectal cancer'
Fri, 12 March 2010 22:56:14 EST

Obama delays trip for final healthcare push
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday delayed an overseas trip to focus on the final drive for healthcare reform as the House of Representatives prepared to vote on the sweeping overhaul next week.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:33:55 -0500

Netanyahu's position is "perilous": U.S. official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political standing is "perilous" because of divisions within his coalition over efforts to pursue peace with the Palestinians, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:49:33 -0500

Second U.S. woman probed in plot to kill Swede: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities in Ireland are investigating whether a second American woman was involved in a suspected international plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for mocking the Prophet Mohammad, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:08:42 -0500

Iraq's election race tight, results slow to come
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had a narrow lead over rival Shi'ites, partial results in Iraq's tight election race showed on Friday, but a secularist challenger remained far ahead in minority Sunni areas.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:29:54 -0500

German Church apologizes, vows action on abuse
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The head of Germany's Catholic Church apologized to victims of child abuse by priests on Friday and met Pope Benedict who encouraged him to press ahead with tough new measures.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:13:17 -0500

U.S. man arrested in Yemen worked in nuclear plants
SANAA/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yemen said on Friday it was holding a U.S. citizen suspected of being an al Qaeda militant who killed a hospital guard last week, and a U.S. firm said the suspect had worked at nuclear reactors in New Jersey.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:17:27 -0500

Calif. lawsuit claims Toyota hid defect evidence
SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) - Southern California prosecutors filed the first U.S. consumer protection lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp on Friday, claiming it had engaged in "fraud" by hiding evidence of dangerous vehicle defects.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:05:46 -0500

Suicide bomber kills 11 in Pakistan's Swat
MINGORA (Reuters) - A suicide bomber targeting security forces in Pakistan on Saturday killed at least 11 people, police said, part of a renewed Taliban push against the government after one of the biggest security crackdowns in years.

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:53:53 -0500

U.N.'s Ban to return to earthquake-devastated Haiti
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Haiti on Sunday to meet the country's leaders and people left homeless by a January earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands, Ban's spokesman said.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:18:46 -0500

Women on the pill live longer: study
LONDON (Reuters) - One of the world's largest studies of the contraceptive pill has found that women who have taken it can expect longer lives and are less likely to die from any cause, including cancer and heart disease.