AP - In an uncertain reach across party lines, Senate moderates struggled for a compromise on economic stimulus legislation Thursday as the government spit out grim new jobless figures and President Barack Obama warned of more bad news ahead. With partisan tensions rising, several Republican attempts to remake the bill — with higher tax cuts, lower spending and fresh relief for homeowners — failed on party-line votes.
AP - The Pentagon's senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barack Obama's order to freeze military tribunals there. The charges against suspected al-Qaida bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri marked the last active Guantanamo war crimes case.
AP - In her first interview since giving birth to octuplets, Nadya Suleman tells NBC she wanted a huge family to make up for the isolation she says she always felt as an only child.
While reports of fraud have been common in phony phone calls and e-mails, similar cases are now surfacing on social-networking sites. In Seattle, a hacker appeared to steal Bryan Rutberg's identity to get money from his friends by toying with their emotions. In Wisconsin, police accuse an 18-year-old man of posing as a woman to get high school boys to send him naked photos of themselves.
A bipartisan group of senators sounded less optimistic after ending a second meeting on the economic stimulus bill today than they had at the end of the first. Sen. Ben Nelson, a Democrat, and Republican Sen. Susan Collins said they are having a difficult time finding the right balance of cutting some Democrat-backed programs while adding spending on infrastructure, which Republicans want.
One week after the U.S. Army announced record suicide rates among its soldiers last year, the service is worried about a spike in possible suicides in the new year. The Army said 24 soldiers are believed to have committed suicide in January alone -- six times as many as killed themselves in January 2008. "This is terrifying," an Army official said. "We do not know what is going on."
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