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Today's Most Popular News: Obama announces 15 recess appointments, scolds GOP Obama health insurance requirement taken from GOP Take two: Gov't tries new fix for mortgage crisis Palin to tea party rally: Don't sit down, shut up Ex-Scientology lawsuits reveal elite Sea Org group NJ county's Sunday buying ban may be checking out Fox says Kiefer Sutherland's '24' will end May 24 Landmarks, cities worldwide unplug for Earth Hour 321 civilians killed in 2009 massacre in Congo Phony products impress federal energy program Moth forces wine country's secret into the open A look at details of the health care overhaul law Ky. Mennonites labor through grief to bury family US deaths double in Afghanistan as troops pour in Analysis: Allawi win could curb Iran's influence AP Exclusive: `Smart' meters have security holes Israeli soldiers leave Gaza after fierce clash A frail Dennis Hopper gets Hollywood star SKorea resumes searching for 46 missing navy crew Christian faith: Calvinism is back Obama announces 15 recess appointments, scolds GOP Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:47 pm PDT AP - Fed up with waiting, President Barack Obama announced Saturday he would bypass a vacationing Senate and name 15 people to key administration jobs, wielding for the first time the blunt political tool known as the recess appointment. Full Story Top Obama health insurance requirement taken from GOP Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:51 pm PDT AP - Republicans were for President Barack Obama's requirement that Americans get health insurance before they were against it. Full Story Top Take two: Gov't tries new fix for mortgage crisis Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:27 pm PDT AP - The government's bold new plan to stem the foreclosure crisis aims to succeed where previous efforts have fallen flat. Yet just as before, the odds are long, and many struggling borrowers won't qualify. Full Story Top Palin to tea party rally: Don't sit down, shut up Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:47 pm PDT AP - Sarah Palin told thousands of tea party activists assembled in the dusty Nevada desert Saturday that Sen. Harry Reid will have to explain his votes when he comes back to his hometown to campaign. Full Story Top Ex-Scientology lawsuits reveal elite Sea Org group Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:52 pm PDT AP - At the edge of arid foothills far outside Los Angeles, hundreds of Scientology followers live on a gated, 500-acre campus and work long hours for almost no pay reproducing the works of founder L. Ron Hubbard and creating the church's teaching and promotional materials. Full Story Top NJ county's Sunday buying ban may be checking out Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:17 pm PDT AP - During a powerful storm that flooded basements, uprooted trees and left tens of thousands of families without power through a late winter weekend, residents of one New Jersey county had to wait till Monday morning to buy sump pumps, generators and other cleanup tools at local stores. Full Story Top Fox says Kiefer Sutherland's '24' will end May 24 Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:29 am PDT AP - The drama "24" won't be ticking much longer on TV. Fox announced Friday that its action-packed real-time show starring Kiefer Sutherland as anti-terrorism agent Jack Bauer will wind down at the end of its current eighth season on May 24. Full Story Top Landmarks, cities worldwide unplug for Earth Hour Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:56 pm PDT AP - Europe's best known landmarks — including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and Rome's Colosseum — fell dark Saturday, following Sydney's Opera House and Beijing's Forbidden City in joining a global climate change protest, as lights were switched off across the world to mark the Earth Hour event. Full Story Top 321 civilians killed in 2009 massacre in Congo Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:04 pm PDT AP - At least 321 civilians were killed in a previously unreported massacre in Congo in late 2009, while villagers that escaped their rebel captors were sent back with their lips and ears cut off as a warning to others of what would happen if they tried to talk, according to an investigation by a human rights group. Full Story Top Phony products impress federal energy program Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:15 pm PDT AP - Fifteen phony products — including a gasoline-powered alarm clock — won a label from the government certifying them as energy efficient in a test of the federal "Energy Star" program. Full Story Top Moth forces wine country's secret into the open Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:21 pm PDT AP - One of the dirty secrets of California's wine country is now on everyone's lips. Somehow a voracious grape-eating moth has found its way nonstop from Europe to the heart of the Napa Valley, the land of three-figure cabernet. With valuable fruit at risk, the region's fast and loose play with federal agriculture quarantine laws is getting new scrutiny from investigators and researchers. Full Story Top A look at details of the health care overhaul law Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:09 am PDT AP - Some features of the health care overhaul bill President Barack Obama has signed, as modified by a package of changes passed Thursday by the House and Senate: Full Story Top Ky. Mennonites labor through grief to bury family Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:33 pm PDT AP - As members of a close-knit Mennonite community prepared to bury their own, they sliced through wooden planks with electric saws Saturday and wrestled with the loss of a family of nine killed in a central Kentucky crash. Full Story Top US deaths double in Afghanistan as troops pour in Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:24 pm PDT AP - The number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year as Washington has added tens of thousands of additional soldiers to reverse the Taliban's momentum. Full Story Top Analysis: Allawi win could curb Iran's influence Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:25 pm PDT AP - The surprisingly strong election showing by a secular, nationalist coalition in Iraq has provided a sudden opening for the mostly Sunni Arab world to curtail Iranian influence in Iraq, something that has been a source of serious alarm for the United States and its Arab allies since 2003. Full Story Top AP Exclusive: `Smart' meters have security holes Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:19 am PDT AP - Computer-security researchers say new "smart" meters that are designed to help deliver electricity more efficiently also have flaws that could let hackers tamper with the power grid in previously impossible ways. Full Story Top Israeli soldiers leave Gaza after fierce clash Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:24 pm PDT AP - Israel withdrew its troops from the Gaza Strip Saturday after some of the fiercest gunbattles with Palestinian militants in the Hamas-run territory since last year's military offensive. Full Story Top A frail Dennis Hopper gets Hollywood star Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:40 pm PDT AP - A bandaged and frail Dennis Hopper was surrounded by friends, family and colleagues Friday as he was honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Full Story Top SKorea resumes searching for 46 missing navy crew Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:47 pm PDT AP - Weeping, angry relatives of 46 crew members missing after a mysterious explosion sank a South Korean navy ship sailed around the site Sunday as rescue teams took to the air and sea still hoping to find survivors. Full Story Top Christian faith: Calvinism is back Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:00 am PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Snow falls resolutely on a Saturday morning in Washington, but the festively lit basement of a church near the US Capitol is packed. Some 200 female members have invited an equal number of women for tea, cookies, conversation – and 16th-century evangelism. Full Story Top

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