| In This Afghanistan, the Blood Is Fake |
| Afghan battle scenes with Hollywood-style special effects are staged by a company in San Diego to help U.S. soldiers prepare for deployments.
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| Jobs Bill Clears Senate Hurdle |
| The Senate voted 66-34 to approve a procedural motion extending jobless benefits and healthcare subsidies until year's end.
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| Businesses Buy Ads vs. Health Overhaul |
| Some big U.S. business groups announced a multimillion-dollar TV ad campaign aimed at defeating the Democrats' health-care legislation.
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| Ex-Lawmaker Denies Sexual Allegations |
| Former Rep. Eric Massa said he had "groped" a male aide, but he denied that his actions were sexual in nature.
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| Push to Cure Rare Diseases |
| FDA staff members are doing something unusual. They are leaving Washington to help drug makers take a crucial step in developing drugs for rare diseases.
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| Ex-Clinton Aide Looks to Death Row |
| Betsey Wright, an outspoken death-penalty opponent charged with trying to smuggle contraband to a death-row inmate, will ask a state court to allow a videotaped deposition of the man before he is executed.
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| Study Seeks 'Greener' Flight |
| Airlines, airports and aviation regulators in the U.S. and Europe have found inexpensive ways to cut fuel consumption, carbon emissions and flight times by cooperating more effectively on air-traffic management.
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| Letterman Producer Pleads Guilty |
| Robert Halderman, a former CBS news producer, admitted he tried to extort $2 million from late-night talk-show host David Letterman.
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| | Jury urges death penalty for former 'Bachelor No. 1' |
| A California jury recommended Tuesday that a man who once appeared on "The Dating Game" be executed for the murders of four women and a child.
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| U.S.: 'Jihad Jane' backed terrorists |
| A Pennsylvania woman has been indicted for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, the Justice Department said.
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| Ex-doc sentenced for wife's poisoning |
| A former Ohio doctor was sentenced to life in prison for poisoning his wife with cyanide five years ago. The judge lamented that she could not hand down a stiffer sentence.
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| Missing executive's body found in river |
| The body of a missing energy executive was pulled from the Mississippi River in New Orleans on Tuesday, four days after he disappeared, police said.
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| Police: Ohio State shooter killed himself |
| A gunman apparently angry over a poor evaluation entered an Ohio State University maintenance building today, killing a manager and then himself, police said.
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| Oscar interrupter: I was wronged |
| A documentary producer who interrupted a director's Oscar acceptance speech Sunday night says she was the one who was "big-footed" on stage.
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| China may ban eating dogs, cats |
| Dogs bark and whine behind high chain-link fences, some of them gnawing the wire so hard they bleed at the mouths while cats packed into crowded cages cower in fear if anyone approaches.
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| Jobless benefit bill moves forward |
| A nearly $140 billion bill to extend unemployment benefits and a host of expiring tax cuts cleared a procedural hurdle Tuesday in the Senate on a vote of 66-34, setting up passage of the bill possibly later in the day.
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| Opinion: Gays have right to privacy, too |
| Today is the first day same-sex weddings will be performed in the District of Columbia.
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| | Democrats doubt deadline on healthcare |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats on Tuesday cast doubt on their chances of meeting the White House's March 18 deadline for voting on a stalled healthcare overhaul, but said they are moving as fast as they can.
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| Visiting Biden condemns new Israel settlement plan |
| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday condemned Israeli plans to build 1,600 more homes on occupied land where Palestinians seek statehood, announced in the middle of his visit to help revive peace negotiations.
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| Toyota, U.S. officials investigate runaway Prius |
| LOS ANGELES/DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. safety regulators and Toyota dispatched teams on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier, as the automaker struggled to reassure consumers shaken by its recall crisis.
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| UK PM Brown warns of bumpy economic road ahead |
| LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sees risks to the economic recovery and says it is not the moment to change course as he prepares for an election by June.
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| Pelosi faces biggest test on healthcare vote |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leader of the House of Representatives -- a persuasive arm-twister and deal maker -- faces her toughest challenge yet in the coming weeks: getting 216 votes to pass final legislation revamping the U.S. healthcare system.
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| Economists trim 2011 U.S. growth forecast |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economists raised their forecast for economic growth in 2010 in March, the third straight monthly rise, while trimming their growth forecast for 2011, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
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| Obama backs bipartisan crackdown on healthcare cheats |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, making a final push for healthcare reform, will back bipartisan plans to stamp out waste in government-run medical programs for the old and needy, the White House said on Tuesday.
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| Accused Letterman extortionist pleads guilty |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - A television producer pleaded guilty Tuesday to trying to extort $2 million from U.S. talk show host David Letterman by threatening to reveal his affairs with women who worked on his late-night program on CBS.
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| Bomber's death deals fresh blow to Indonesia militants |
| CANBERRA/JAKARTA (Reuters) - A suspected mastermind of the Bali bombings was killed in a police raid in Indonesia in the latest blow to an Islamist militant movement in the world's most populous Muslim country.
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