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• Legal challenge filed against Wisconsin's anti-union law (Reuters)
• NRC head says U.S. could handle nuclear crisis (Reuters)
• U.S. travel group urges overhaul to aviation screening (Reuters)
• Q&A: Jay Bakker on Faith, Grace and Gay-Friendly Churches (Time.com)
• Alvarez Recall: Miami-Dade Prepares to Vote Out Mayor (Time.com)
• More radiation detectors deployed on U.S. islands (Reuters)
• Reporter: Ex-CIA agent viewed bombings as 'heroic' (AP)
• Texas' economic miracle beginning to tarnish (AP)
• AP Exclusive: Ali asks Iran to free US hikers (AP)
• States consider legislator layoffs to trim budgets (AP)
• Shooter in 1997 school attack testifies at hearing (AP)
• Feds deploy more radiation monitors in western US (AP)
• NRC: No water in spent fuel pool of Japan plant (AP)
• US life expectancy surpasses 78, a new record (AP)
• For Irish-Americans, labor threats carry poignancy (AP)
• 4 New York Times journalists missing in Libya (AP)
• Crash highlights Chinese-American gambling market (AP)
• 'Rockefeller' to lawyer: I didn't kill Calif. man (AP)
• Giffords wristband worn by husband's twin in space (AP)
• Judge: Free speech no defense for urging suicide (AP)

Legal challenge filed against Wisconsin's anti-union law (Reuters) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 04:43 PM PDT Reuters - The legal challenge to the new Wisconsin law that curbs the union rights of public workers moved forward on Wednesday with the filing of a formal complaint against the Republican lawmakers who steered the bill through the legislature.

NRC head says U.S. could handle nuclear crisis (Reuters) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 01:44 PM PDT Reuters - The head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Gregory Jaczko, told lawmakers on Wednesday he strongly believes the United States could "mitigate" the impact of a nuclear crisis similar to the one unfolding in Japan.

U.S. travel group urges overhaul to aviation screening (Reuters) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 04:38 AM PDT Reuters - The Obama administration should adopt a trusted traveler program and order airlines to permit travelers to check one bag for free to make airport screening faster and encourage more travel, a leading industry group said on Wednesday.

Q&A: Jay Bakker on Faith, Grace and Gay-Friendly Churches (Time.com) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 11:10 PM PDT Time.com - The son of televangelists Jim Bakker and the late Tammy Faye Bakker on faith, grace and his controversial stance urging full acceptance of gays and lesbians in Christian churches

Alvarez Recall: Miami-Dade Prepares to Vote Out Mayor (Time.com) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 11:10 PM PDT Time.com - Republican Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez, who faces a recall on Tuesday, had the courage to raise taxes to plug a budget gap, but he may not have been stringent enough with his administration

More radiation detectors deployed on U.S. islands (Reuters) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 02:05 PM PDT Reuters - The United States is deploying additional radiation monitors on Hawaii and other U.S. islands even though it does not expect harmful levels of radiation from damaged Japanese nuclear power plants to reach U.S. soil, environmental regulators said.

Reporter: Ex-CIA agent viewed bombings as 'heroic' (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 02:41 PM PDT AP - A New York Times reporter who interviewed an elderly ex-CIA agent about masterminding deadly bombings that rocked luxury hotels and other top tourist sites in Cuba in 1997 testified Wednesday that he sought out the newspaper to better explain the heroism of those attacks.

Texas' economic miracle beginning to tarnish (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 03:23 PM PDT AP - Some in Texas had talked tough about solving the state's budget problem by austerity alone, but lawmakers finally faced a hard fact: Texas is in serious financial trouble.

AP Exclusive: Ali asks Iran to free US hikers (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 01:50 PM PDT AP - Boxing champ Muhammad Ali is seeking the release of two American hikers from Iran by lobbying the country's supreme leader in a way that few American dignitaries can: as a brother in Islam.

States consider legislator layoffs to trim budgets (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 01:43 PM PDT AP - Almost every legislature in the country is talking about cutting costs and services because of budget problems, but a few also are talking about downsizing themselves.

Shooter in 1997 school attack testifies at hearing (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 04:15 PM PDT AP - A man serving a life prison sentence for killing three classmates in a Kentucky high school shooting that shocked the nation in 1997 testified Wednesday that he was commanded to attack by delusions in the form of voices he called "the danes."

Feds deploy more radiation monitors in western US (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 04:17 PM PDT AP - More radiation monitors are being deployed in the western United States and Pacific territories, as officials seek to mollify public concern over exposure from damaged nuclear plants in Japan, federal environmental regulators said.

NRC: No water in spent fuel pool of Japan plant (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 04:40 PM PDT AP - The chief of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday that all the water is gone from one of the spent fuel pools at Japan's most troubled nuclear plant. But Japanese officials denied it.

US life expectancy surpasses 78, a new record (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 01:18 PM PDT AP - U.S. life expectancy has hit another all-time high, rising above 78 years. The estimate of 78 years and 2 months is for a baby born in 2009, and comes from a preliminary report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For Irish-Americans, labor threats carry poignancy (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 03:39 PM PDT AP - In a year when the questions of union power and the responsibility of governments to their employees have taken center stage, St. Patrick's Day is taking on dual meaning for many Irish-Americans, with their rich ties to the labor movement.

4 New York Times journalists missing in Libya (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 04:04 PM PDT AP - Four New York Times journalists covering the fighting in Libya were reported missing Wednesday, and the newspaper held out hope that they were alive and in the custody of the Libyan government.

Crash highlights Chinese-American gambling market (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 10:31 AM PDT AP - At age 75, Mon Ling Ng is hard of hearing and often lonely — a resident of Manhattan's Chinatown who finds a way to fill his days: by gambling.

'Rockefeller' to lawyer: I didn't kill Calif. man (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 02:05 PM PDT AP - A man who claimed to be a member of the storied Rockefeller family insists he had nothing to do with the killing of a California man more than 25 years ago, his lawyer said Wednesday — a day after Los Angeles prosecutors charged the man with murder in the case.

Giffords wristband worn by husband's twin in space (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 03:23 PM PDT AP - Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth wearing a wristband for his sister-in-law, the wounded Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

Judge: Free speech no defense for urging suicide (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 03:49 AM PDT AP - Freedom of speech is no defense for a former nurse who engaged in "lethal advocacy" when he encouraged an English man and Canadian woman to kill themselves after searching for depressed people over the Internet, a Minnesota judge said in delivering a guilty verdict against the man.

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