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Mumps break out in New York, New Jersey

UPI  | Links  | Related | Feb 09, 2010 09:04 AM EST   [*New!*]

NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A case of mumps at a summer camp has spread to more than 1,000 people in New York and New Jersey, most of them adolescent Orthodox Jews, officials said.

Quinn: No reimbursement for Cohen

UPI  | Links  | Related | Feb 09, 2010 09:01 AM EST   [*New!*]

CHICAGO, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- There was no political trading to get the scandal-ridden winner of the Illinois lieutenant governor Democratic primary to quit the race, Gov. Pat Quinn says.

US Army tightens noose in southern Afghanistan

AP Top International News  | Links  | Related | Feb 09, 2010 09:01 AM EST   [*New!*]

NEAR LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Army soldiers have launched a major operation in support of a planned U.S.-Afghan attack on the largest Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan....

Obama has miles to go to keep all promises

MSNBC - Politics  | Links  | Related | Feb 09, 2010 09:01 AM EST   [*New!*]

If there were a scorecard for the promises President Barack Obama made a year ago in this struggling city in northern Indiana, he would probably get a C.

NYT: McCain takes on GOP foe by tilting right

MSNBC - Politics  | Links  | Related | Feb 09, 2010 09:00 AM EST   [*New!*]

Challenged by J. D. Hayworth from the airwaves, and soon in a primary, John McCain has moved starkly, and often awkwardly, to the right.

Russian military calls US missile defense a threat

Associated Press - National Security  | Links  | Related | Feb 09, 2010 09:00 AM EST   [*New!*]

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's top military officer says U.S. missile defense plans in Europe are aimed at Russia and should be part of talks on a new arms control treaty....

Dangerous weather

UPI  | Links  | Related | Feb 09, 2010 08:57 AM EST   [*New!*]

By United Press International LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Officials in Los Angeles County ordered more than 500 homes evacuated due to fears of mudslides while on the East Coast residents braced for a second snowstorm.

Stranded panda lured to safety in China

AP Top International News  | Links  | Related | Feb 09, 2010 08:55 AM EST   [*New!*]

BEIJING (AP) -- It was like getting a cat out of a tree - Sichuan style....

Toyota recalls

UPI  | Links  | Related | Feb 09, 2010 08:51 AM EST   [*New!*]

By United Press International TOKYO, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Toyota added more than 400,000 2010 hybrids to the list of vehicles the Japanese automaker is recalling because of various problems.

Defiant Iran accelerates nuclear program

AP Top International News  | Links  | Related | Feb 09, 2010 08:50 AM EST   [*New!*]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran began enriching uranium to a higher level on Tuesday over the vociferous objections of the U.S. and its allies who fear the process could eventually be used to give the Islamic republic nuclear weapons....

U.S. Rep. John Murtha dies

UPI  | Links  | Related | Feb 09, 2010 08:48 AM EST

By United Press International ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- John Murtha, a long-time U.S. representative from southwestern Pennsylvania known for pork-barrel earmarks and opposition to the Iraq war, had died. He was 77.

State Farm says it warned gov't on Toyota in 2007

AP Top Political News  | Links  | Related | Feb 09, 2010 08:48 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's largest auto insurer says it alerted federal safety regulators in late 2007 about a rise in reports of unexpected acceleration in Toyota vehicles....

Protein critical for synapse growth found

UPI  | Links  | Related | Feb 09, 2010 08:46 AM EST

DAVIS, Calif., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have identified a protein that plays an essential role in the formation of synapses in vertebrates' central nervous systems.

Another major storm headed to snowy Mid-Atlantic

AP Top U.S. News  | Links  | Related | Feb 09, 2010 08:42 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Snow blew across the Midwest on Tuesday on track for the hard-hit Mid-Atlantic region, where federal government offices were closed for a second day and utility workers struggled to restore power knocked out by a weekend blizzard....

Lincoln Faces Pack of GOP Challengers for Arkansas Senate Seat

FNC Politics  | Links  | Related | Feb 09, 2010 08:42 AM EST

U.S. Rep. John Boozman is the ninth Republican to say he's going to make a go for two-term Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln's seat, but a recent survey shows the congressman isn't fighting for elbow room.