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Two more of the world’s longest surviving octuplets went home Thursday night, and Nadya Suleman’s spacious four-bedroom home is quickly filling up.

To Americans, high-speed trains evoke the gee-whiz factor of a trip to Tomorrowland: Ride futuristic cars that zoom you to a destination in a fraction of the drive time — without having to fight your way through an airport.

The Obama administration’s plan for strict scrutiny of hedge funds and other freewheeling investors is drawing instant opposition from Republican lawmakers and the rules’ targets. Skeptics are questioning whether the new regulation would work anyway.

ND officials keep fighting as projected crest of Red River at Fargo rises.

Asian markets mostly higher after Wall Street extends rally on earnings.

Dam bursts in outskirts of Indonesian capital, at least 50 dead, 100s homeless.

Fargo police ordered mandatory evacuations early Friday after a breach in flood protection created a “significant leak” as the Red River topped 40 feet, breaking a record crest set in 1897.

Torrential rain caused an earthen dam to burst early Friday, sending a wall of water crashing into a crowded neighborhood just outside Indonesia’s capital. The flood killed at least 50 people, left dozens missing and submerged hundreds of homes.

AP – A dike along the Red River is leaking, causing Fargo police to order the evacuation of 150 homes in the area.

AP – Grappling with a war gone awry, President Barack Obama plans to send thousands more U.S. forces into Afghanistan, hoping to hasten the end of a conflict that still has no clear end in sight.

AP – President Barack Obama plans to announce a new aid package for General Motors and Chrysler in the coming days and says the carmakers must make “pretty drastic changes” to save their industry.

AP – Japan’s military mobilized Friday to protect the country from any threat if North Korea’s looming rocket launch fails, ordering two missile-equipped destroyers to the Sea of Japan and sending batteries of Patriot missile interceptors to protect the northern coastline.

AP – The widow of producer Aaron Spelling is placing “The Manor” in the exclusive Holmby Hills neighborhood on the market for a jaw-dropping $150 million, making it by far the most expensive home for sale in the U.S.

AP – A top bank regulator has been placed on leave pending a Treasury Department investigation into regulators’ approval of backdated cash infusions for troubled thrifts.

AP – President Barack Obama says lobbyists pushing for projects in the stimulus package can’t utter a word about them to administration officials. Lobbyists are hardly staying mum about this latest affront and are looking for ways to cope with the extraordinary speaking ban.

AP – Michael Sarver got a crude awakening Thursday night from his “American Idol” life.

AP – Dante Cunningham scored 14 points with 11 rebounds and third-seeded Villanova beat Duke for the first time in more than 50 years, taking advantage of the Blue Devils’ poor shooting to win 77-54 Thursday night and advance to the NCAA regional final.

AP – When freshman Marcus Denmon swished one from three-quarters court at the halftime buzzer to put his team up by 13, it sure looked like Missouri’s night.

AP – Doubts are growing over whether the swollen Red River can be held off, but even as some residents flee their homes, officials are stepping up sandbagging operations and vowing to build the dikes higher and higher to try and save the city from flooding.

AP – Doubts are growing over whether the swollen Red River can be held off, but even as some residents flee their homes, officials are stepping up sandbagging operations and vowing to build the dikes higher and higher to try and save the city from flooding.

AP – Doubts are growing over whether the swollen Red River can be held off, but even as some residents flee their homes, officials are stepping up sandbagging operations and vowing to build the dikes higher and higher to try and save the city from flooding.

AP – Confronting an inherited and faltering war, President Barack Obama plans to dispatch thousands more military and civilian trainers to Afghanistan by the fall on top of the 17,000 combat troops he has already ordered, senior administration officials said Thursday.

AP – Confronting an inherited and faltering war, President Barack Obama plans to dispatch thousands more military and civilian trainers to Afghanistan by the fall on top of the 17,000 combat troops he has already ordered, senior administration officials said Thursday.

Fargo’s rush to prepare for potentially disastrous flooding on the Red River flooding got a major setback late Thursday when the National Weather Service raised its crest estimate to as high as 43 feet.

Fargo’s rush to prepare for potentially disastrous flooding on the Red River flooding got a major setback late Thursday when the National Weather Service raised its crest estimate to as high as 43 feet.

The Mexican government is not on the verge of collapse, the top U.S. intelligence official said Thursday, seeking to tamp down increasing alarm over the powerful and violent drug cartels operating near the southern U.S. border.

The Mexican government is not on the verge of collapse, the top U.S. intelligence official said Thursday, seeking to tamp down increasing alarm over the powerful and violent drug cartels operating near the southern U.S. border.

Three decades after the Three Mile Island disaster, fears of an atomic catastrophe have been largely supplanted by fears about global warming, easing nuclear energy into the same sentence as wind and solar power.

Three decades after the Three Mile Island disaster, fears of an atomic catastrophe have been largely supplanted by fears about global warming, easing nuclear energy into the same sentence as wind and solar power.

Japan’s defense minister ordered the military to prepare to shoot down any debris that could fall on Japanese territory if a North Korean rocket launch fails, mobilizing interceptor missiles and sending two warships to the Sea of Japan.

Officials ordered the evacuation of one neighborhood and a nursing home late Thursday after authorities found cracks in an earthen levee built to protect the area from the threat of the rising Red River.

Residents worked in subfreezing weatger to pile sandbags along the Red River.

Weather services raise crest forecast to 43 feet, the height of Fargo’s levees.

Weather services raise crest forecast to 43 feet, the height of Fargo’s levees.

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Japan has approved a deployment of interceptors in case debris falls onto its territory if a North Korean rocket launch fails, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported Friday.

Authorities say three inmates who escaped last week from an Indiana prison have been caught in the Nebraska Panhandle.

AP – Officials ordered the evacuation of one neighborhood and a nursing home late Thursday after authorities found cracks in an earthen levee built to protect the area from the threat of the rising Red River.

Crews began setting explosives Wednesday in a huge ice jam in the Missouri River in a bid to blast open a channel, like pulling out a giant plug to drain a flood threatening Bismarck, N.D.

Fargo’s rush to prepare for potentially disastrous flooding on the Red River flooding got a major setback late Thursday when the National Weather Service raised its crest estimate to as high as 43 feet.

AP – Confronting an inherited and faltering war, President Barack Obama plans to dispatch thousands more military and civilian trainers to Afghanistan by the fall on top of the 17,000 combat troops he has already ordered, senior administration officials said Thursday.

AP – Confronting an inherited and faltering war, President Barack Obama plans to dispatch thousands more military and civilian trainers to Afghanistan by the fall on top of the 17,000 combat troops he has already ordered, senior administration officials said Thursday.

AP – Officials in North Dakota have ordered a mandatory evacuation of one Fargo neighborhood and a nursing home after authorities found cracks in an earthen levee built around the area.

AP – WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama seized the bully pulpit Thursday and reprised the best of his acclaimed campaign skills in an unprecedented Internet town hall from the White House — a direct sales pitch for Americans to get behind his $3.6 trillion budget and be patient as he tries to right the tottering economy.

AP – The Obama administration’s aggressive plan for strict scrutiny of hedge funds and other freewheeling investors, part of the biggest expansion of financial restraints since the Great Depression, is drawing instant opposition from Republican lawmakers and the rules’ targets. And skeptics are questioning whether the new rulebook would work anyway.

AP – A key Senate panel stacked with allies of President Barack Obama approved his ambitious budget blueprint Thursday, giving the president a symbolic endorsement of efforts to boost clean energy, fight global warming and improve access to health care.

AP – The ousted former president of a national organization of black Baptist churches is running for the position again, a decade after he was sent to prison for stealing millions of dollars from the group.