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• Trash, astronauts caught up in budget fight (Reuters)
• Troops are political dynamite in budget battle (Reuters)
• Wisconsin court race won't be certified without probe (Reuters)
• Why French Fries Are Good Comfort Food (Time.com)
• Spending Cuts: Will Congress Play Along? (Time.com)
• Southwest Airlines sees narrow concern over 737 jet (Reuters)
• US warns of gov'ts trying to control the Internet (AP)
• Leak case against ex-CIA man may not go to trial (AP)
• LAPD outlines security plans at Dodger Stadium (AP)
• Boeing 737s around the world face new scrutiny (AP)
• Cuban ex-CIA agent acquitted in Texas perjury case (AP)
• SC teen killed on highway named in father's memory (AP)
• Judge postpones honeymoon death trial over layoffs (AP)
• APNewsBreak: Mosque plot suspect calls case absurd (AP)
• Giffords staff planning for space shuttle launch (AP)
• Mass. mom admits withholding cancer meds from son (AP)
• Hoyer faults GOP for government shutdown threat (AP)
• Kennedy Senate Institute in Boston breaks ground (AP)

Trash, astronauts caught up in budget fight (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 01:55 PM PDT Reuters - Trash could pile up in the streets of the capital, the Statue of Liberty will close and astronauts will stay home if the U.S. Congress fails to reach a budget deal and the government shuts down.

Troops are political dynamite in budget battle (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 09:05 AM PDT Reuters - A looming government shutdown would be felt thousands of miles away by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and there could be a high political cost for the lawmakers who let it happen.

Wisconsin court race won't be certified without probe (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 01:48 PM PDT Reuters - The agency overseeing Wisconsin elections will not certify results of Tuesday's state Supreme Court race until it concludes a probe into how a county clerk misplaced and then found some 14,000 votes that upended the contest.

Why French Fries Are Good Comfort Food (Time.com) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 05:15 AM PDT Time.com - A new study suggests that elevated levels of salt in the body lower stress hormones and raise levels of oxytocin, a hormone involved in love

Spending Cuts: Will Congress Play Along? (Time.com) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 05:10 AM PDT Time.com - A Republican offers a daring plan to curb federal spending. Will anyone sign on?

Southwest Airlines sees narrow concern over 737 jet (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 11:47 AM PDT Reuters - Southwest Airlines is willing to expand inspections for its older Boeing 737 aircraft but sees no reason for concern a week after one of its jets made an emergency landing with a hole in its fuselage, the discount carrier's chief executive officer said on Friday.

US warns of gov'ts trying to control the Internet (AP) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 11:02 AM PDT AP - The Obama administration warned Friday that governments around the world are extending their repression to the Internet, seeking to cut off their citizens' access to websites and other means of communication to stave off the types of revolutions that have wracked the Middle East.

Leak case against ex-CIA man may not go to trial (AP) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 01:42 PM PDT AP - The government's case against an ex-CIA officer charged with leaking classified documents to a reporter may not make it to trial because of potential issues with a witness, a federal prosecutor said Friday.

LAPD outlines security plans at Dodger Stadium (AP) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 03:39 PM PDT AP - A savage ballpark beating has turned a young baseball season into open season on everything that is wrong with the Los Angeles Dodgers — from the owners, to the stadium, to security, to the storied franchise itself.

Boeing 737s around the world face new scrutiny (AP) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 03:16 PM PDT AP - The crown prince of Thailand has one. So do the presidents of Peru and Chile. The Chinese Air Force relies on it, as do airlines in Russia, Indonesia, Australia and Romania.

Cuban ex-CIA agent acquitted in Texas perjury case (AP) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 04:25 PM PDT AP - An elderly Cuban former CIA operative accused of lying during a U.S. immigration hearing was acquitted on all charges Friday, with jurors taking just three hours to reach a verdict after enduring 13 weeks of often-delayed testimony.

SC teen killed on highway named in father's memory (AP) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 02:35 PM PDT AP - Aaron Hill knew the road well, and not just because it was the route he took to high school every day. The five-mile stretch of highway was named in memory of his father, a soldier killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in 2008.

Judge postpones honeymoon death trial over layoffs (AP) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 02:50 PM PDT AP - Budget cuts are delaying the trial of an Alabama man charged with killing his wife during a honeymoon diving trip to Australia in 2003 in one of the most visible signs yet of how spending reductions are beginning to affect the state.

APNewsBreak: Mosque plot suspect calls case absurd (AP) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 02:11 PM PDT AP - A mentally ill Vietnam War veteran who has spent much of the past three decades in prison or psychiatric hospitals said he meant to send a message the recent night he was arrested outside a Michigan mosque, just not the violent message authorities say he intended.

Giffords staff planning for space shuttle launch (AP) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 01:23 PM PDT AP - Aides for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords are preparing for her to travel to Florida to watch her husband's space shuttle launch at the end of the month, although doctors have yet to clear her to go, her office said Friday.

Mass. mom admits withholding cancer meds from son (AP) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 04:01 PM PDT AP - A Massachusetts woman charged with attempted murder for withholding cancer treatment from her autistic son testified Friday that she did not give him at least five months of chemotherapy medications because the side effects made him so sick she was afraid the treatments would kill him.

Hoyer faults GOP for government shutdown threat (AP) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 04:27 AM PDT AP - The No. 2 Democrat in the House says lawmakers trying to avert a government shutdown have come "70 percent of the way on the numbers" in budget talks, but are still fighting over social policies such as abortion and the environment.

Kennedy Senate Institute in Boston breaks ground (AP) Posted: 08 Apr 2011 01:46 PM PDT AP - Members of the Kennedy family gathered with former staff members and elected officials on a blustery stretch of Boston's oceanfront Friday to break ground on the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate.

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