Aides said the question was whether they could tackle health care, climate change and energy independence at once or needed to stagger these initiatives over time.
AP - A new Russian submarine's fire safety system malfunctioned as the nuclear-powered vessel took a test run in the Sea of Japan, suffocating 20 people and sending 21 others to the hospital, officials said Sunday.
AP - Doctors struggled Sunday to contain an outbreak of cholera in a sprawling refugee camp just outside Congo's eastern provincial capital of Goma, amid fears that renewed fighting could scatter infected patients and launch an epidemic.
AP - Haitian police on Sunday were holding the owner of a school that collapsed, killing at least 88 people and setting off a desperate search for survivors trapped in tons of rubble.
A Canadian journalist, who was freed Saturday, said her abductors kept her in an underground cave but didn't mistreat her. Melissa Fung said she had been in Afghanistan for about a month when she was kidnapped on October 12 as she left a U.N. refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul.
Authorities have detained the owner of a Haitian school that collapsed on Friday, killing at least 84 students, sources tell CNN. The school's owner surrendered to authorities on Saturday, said police spokesman Garry Desrosier. Meanwhile, international aid crews continue to sift through the wreckage in search of survivors.
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