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  • January 31, 2010 11:01 pm

Jan. 31, 2010 Edition: Check Out The Results And Weigh In!

Kings of Leon Wins Record of Year

  • January 31, 2010 11:01 pm

Early Grammy Gold Goes To Beyonce, Taylor Swift , Kings of Leon, Stephen Colbert and the Zac Brown Band

Knives, Fire, Chaos Don’t Worry Blind Chef

  • January 31, 2010 11:01 pm

Laura Martinez Seen as a Rising Star at Prestigious Culinary Institute; Gets Job Offer from Famed Chef Charlie Trotter

White: It’s Sometimes Lonely at the Top

  • January 31, 2010 11:01 pm

Bob Simon Profiles Snowboarding Superstar Shaun White

U.S. military resuming Haiti medical flights (AP)

  • January 31, 2010 11:01 pm

Patients rest on cots at the University of Miami-run field hospital in Haiti's international airport in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010.  The U.S. military has halted flights carrying Haitian earthquake victims to the United States because of an apparent dispute over where seriously injured patients should be taken for treatment.  (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP – The U.S. military will resume bringing Haitian earthquake victims to the United States aboard its planes for medical treatment, ending a suspension that lasted several days, the White House said Sunday.

Baptists say they were trying to do good in Haiti (AP)

  • January 31, 2010 11:01 pm

A boy, with a pink tape on his shirt that previously had his name written on it, and who was part of the group of children that U.S. Baptists were trying to take out of Haiti, looks at other kids playing at an orphanage run by Austrian-based SOS Children's Villages in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010.  Ten Americans were detained by Haitian police on Saturday as they tried to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)AP – Ten U.S. Baptists arrested trying to take 33 children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti say they were just trying to do the right thing, applying Christian principles to save Haitian children.

US to resume Haiti victim airlift

  • January 31, 2010 9:50 pm

The US is to resume within hours medical evacuation flights for badly injured Haiti quake victims, after a delay of several days.

Man to Plead Not Guilty to Charges He Abused Haitian Boys

  • January 31, 2010 8:59 pm

A Colorado man is expected to plead not guilty to new charges that he sexually abused boys at a school he founded in Haiti.

US military resuming Haiti medical flights (AP)

  • January 31, 2010 8:59 pm

Patients rest on cots at the University of Miami-run field hospital in Haiti's international airport in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010.  The U.S. military has halted flights carrying Haitian earthquake victims to the United States because of an apparent dispute over where seriously injured patients should be taken for treatment.  (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP – The U.S. military will resume bringing Haitian earthquake victims to the United States aboard its planes for medical treatment, ending a suspension that lasted several days, the White House said Sunday.

Haiti detains Americans taking kids across border (AP)

  • January 31, 2010 8:59 pm

A boy, with a pink tape on his shirt that previously had his name written on it, and who was part of the group of children that U.S. Baptists were trying to take out of Haiti, looks at other kids playing at an orphanage run by Austrian-based SOS Children's Villages in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010.  Ten Americans were detained by Haitian police on Saturday as they tried to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)AP – Ten U.S. Baptists arrested trying to take 33 children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti say they were just trying to do the right thing, applying Christian principles to save Haitian children.

Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget heading to Congress (AP)

  • January 31, 2010 8:59 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama delivers the first State of the Union address of his presidency on Capitol Hill in Washington. To the joint session of Congress Obama said, 'So, as temperatures cool, I want everyone to take another look at the plan we've proposed...  if anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors and stop insurance company abuses, let me know... I'm eager to see it.' Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are seen in the background.  (AP Photo/Tim Sloan, Pool, File)AP – President Barack Obama’s proposed budget predicts the national deficit will crest at a record-breaking almost $1.6 trillion in the current fiscal year, then start to recede in 2011 to just below $1.3 trillion.

Beyonce wins 4 Grammys in pretelecast show (AP)

  • January 31, 2010 8:59 pm

Taylor Swift, right, accepts the best female country vocal performance award for 'White Horse' at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010, in Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)AP – Beyonce, the year’s top Grammy nominee with 10 bids, was the early leader Sunday as she won four trophies during the pre-telecast ceremony including best R&B song for her omnipresent hit, “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It).”

U.S. military flights of Haiti injured to restart

  • January 31, 2010 8:26 pm

Betina Joseph, 5, lies with her mother, Denise Exima, at a field hospital at Haiti's airport in Port-au-Prince on Saturday. Doctors said that tetanus developed in Betina's leg wound and that she might die if not evacuated and treated soon. A private relief group flew her and two others out Sunday.The White House said Sunday that military flights of critically injured Haitians will resume soon after assurances were given that hospitals have the capacity to deal with them.

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Haiti ‘orphans’ may have parents

  • January 31, 2010 7:48 pm

Aid workers in Haiti say some children being taken out of the country by an American group as orphans may have parents.

Mexico partygoers die in attack

  • January 31, 2010 7:48 pm

Thirteen young people are killed as gunmen open fire at a student party in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez.

9/11 ‘kingpin’ ‘faces execution’

  • January 31, 2010 7:48 pm

The self-professed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks is likely to be executed if convicted of his alleged crimes, a US official says.

Swift and GaGa win Grammy Awards

  • January 31, 2010 7:48 pm

Pop stars Lady GaGa and Taylor Swift each pick up two early Grammy Awards at the start of the prestigious music ceremony in Los Angeles.

Haiti Kids Taken by Americans Reportedly Have Families

  • January 31, 2010 6:57 pm

Most of the Haitian children taken by Americans in an alleged attempt to move them out of the country “have family” that survived the earthquake, according to reports.

New Record Deficit Predicted

  • January 31, 2010 6:57 pm

Obama’s $3.8T proposed budget predicts national deficit will crest at record-breaking $1.6T in current fiscal year
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Obama ‘Violates’ Campaign Pledge

  • January 31, 2010 6:57 pm

State Department official says awarding of no-bid contract to Dem donor ‘violates’ promise to crack down on practice

Japan’s reputation takes a beating

  • January 31, 2010 6:25 pm

Japan Airlines, a once proud flag carrier, has filed for bankruptcy, saddled with billions in debt.Toyota is the latest Japanese corporate icon making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

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Japan’s reputation takes a beating

  • January 31, 2010 6:25 pm

Japan Airlines, a once proud flag carrier, has filed for bankruptcy, saddled with billions in debt.Toyota is the latest Japanese corporate icon making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

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Japan’s reputation takes a beating

  • January 31, 2010 6:25 pm

Japan Airlines, a once proud flag carrier, has filed for bankruptcy, saddled with billions in debt.Toyota is the latest Japanese corporate icon making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

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Baptist group denies trafficking in Haitian kids

  • January 31, 2010 6:25 pm

Laura Silsby, of Boise, Idaho, speaks to The Associated Press at police headquarters in Port-au-Prince on Saturday after 10 Americans were detained for trying to bus 33 Haitian children across the border into the Dominican Republic without proper documents. The director of the charity now watching 33 Haitian children that a church group had tried to leave Haiti with tells NBC that one child says she still has parents.

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Baptist group denies trafficking in Haitian kids

  • January 31, 2010 6:25 pm

Laura Silsby, of Boise, Idaho, speaks to The Associated Press at police headquarters in Port-au-Prince on Saturday after 10 Americans were detained for trying to bus 33 Haitian children across the border into the Dominican Republic without proper documents. The director of the charity now watching 33 Haitian children that a church group had tried to leave Haiti with tells NBC that one child says she still has parents.

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Baptist group denies trafficking in Haitian kids

  • January 31, 2010 6:25 pm

Laura Silsby, of Boise, Idaho, speaks to The Associated Press at police headquarters in Port-au-Prince on Saturday after 10 Americans were detained for trying to bus 33 Haitian children across the border into the Dominican Republic without proper documents. The director of the charity now watching 33 Haitian children that a church group had tried to leave Haiti with tells NBC that one child says she still has parents.

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Davos forum ends with no agreement on jobs

  • January 31, 2010 6:25 pm

Ronald Williams, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aetna, USA, right, speaks during a session 'A Roadmap to Sustainable Recovery' at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.The world’s foremost gathering of business and government leaders wrapped up a five-day meeting Sunday with widespread agreement that a fragile recovery is under way.

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Bad reaction to good news could mean trouble

  • January 31, 2010 6:25 pm

Investors can look forward to reports on corporate purchasing, chain store sales and employment this week.Dozens of companies this past month posted blow-out earnings but instead of being thankful, investors stomped their feet and sold.

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Despite setbacks, Obama’s aims unchanged

  • January 31, 2010 6:25 pm

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden take in the Duke vs. Georgetown NCAA college basketball game on Saturday in Washington.For a president in political trouble, the State of the Union address seems the ideal launch site to tweak one’s agenda. But not so for President Obama.

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Obama’s new climate card: nuclear power

  • January 31, 2010 6:25 pm

This unfinished nuclear power plant in Scottsboro, Ala., is on the list of sites for proposed expansion.President Barack Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation.

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Snow Storm Causes Damage Across South

  • January 31, 2010 4:56 pm

A winter storm that crossed in a nearly straight line dumping snow, sleet and ice this week from northern Texas to Washington was heading off the Atlantic coast early Sunday.

Protecting Against ‘Lone Wolf’ at Super Bowl

  • January 31, 2010 4:56 pm

The vast security operation protecting the Super Bowl and surrounding events ranges from Air Force F-16s patrolling the skies above Miami on game day to a buffer zone extending at least 100 yards out from the stadium.

Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget heading to Congress (AP)

  • January 31, 2010 4:56 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama delivers the first State of the Union address of his presidency on Capitol Hill in Washington. To the joint session of Congress Obama said, 'So, as temperatures cool, I want everyone to take another look at the plan we've proposed...  if anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors and stop insurance company abuses, let me know... I'm eager to see it.' Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are seen in the background.  (AP Photo/Tim Sloan, Pool, File)AP – The Obama administration on Sunday endorsed spending an additional $100 billion to attack painfully high unemployment as it prepared to send Congress a $3.8 trillion budget that would provide billions more to pull the country out of the Great Recession while increasing taxes on the wealthy and imposing a spending freeze on many government programs.

Docs Skirt Red Tape to Save Haitian Kids

  • January 31, 2010 2:55 pm

Deu to Military’s Suspension of Medevac Flights, 3 Critically Ill Quake Victims Are Flown by Private Jet to U.S.

Idaho pastor defends church members held in Haiti (AP)

  • January 31, 2010 2:55 pm

American citizen Laura Silsby, 40, of Boise, Idaho, right, speaks as Nicole Lankford, 18, of Middleton, Idaho, left, and Carla Thompson, 53, of Meridien, Idaho, center, look on during an interview with the Associated Press at police headquarters at the international airport in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010. Ten Americans were detained by Haitian police on Saturday as they tried to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP – An Idaho pastor condemned child trafficking as a ‘wicked and evil practice,’ defending members of his congregation detained in Haiti after they tried to bus 33 children into the Dominican Republic.

UN begins major Haiti food push

  • January 31, 2010 1:43 pm

The UN begins distributing food aid to women in Haiti’s capital, nearly three weeks after the deadly earthquake.

Key US bail-out targets ‘not met’

  • January 31, 2010 1:43 pm

The US government bail-out programme has done little to prevent future financial crises, a key watchdog’s report says.

Back From the Brink

  • January 31, 2010 12:53 pm

“Sunday Morning”: Henry Paulson Talks About His Tenure at Treasury, Bank Bailouts, and a Regulatory System That’s “Still Very Sick”

Florida Gov. Crist: Flights Continue Out of Haiti

  • January 31, 2010 12:53 pm

Florida’s governor says hundreds of people have been flown from Haiti to Florida for repatriation, even after the U.S. military halted evacuation flights for critically injured patients.

Haitian child quake victims flown to US for care (AP)

  • January 31, 2010 12:53 pm

A woman and her son wakes up after spending the night on the street in front of the collapsed National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP – Doctors skirted a bureaucratic logjam to save the life of two critically ill child victims of Haiti’s earthquake on Sunday, flying them to U.S. hospitals on a private jet to avoid a military suspension of medical evacuation flights.

Pakistan investigates report Taliban chief is dead (AP)

  • January 31, 2010 12:53 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2008 file photo, Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is seen in Orakzai tribal region of Pakistan. The Pakistani army says it is investigating reports that Mehsud has died from injuries sustained in a U.S. drone missile strike.Pakistani army spokesman Gen. Athar Abbas says the army is using its agents in Pakistan's northwest where the death is reported to have occurred to try to confirm or deny the reports. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mehsud, File)AP – The Pakistani government was investigating reports Sunday that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud died from injuries sustained in a U.S. drone missile strike launched in mid-January after he helped orchestrate a deadly bombing against the CIA in Afghanistan.

5-day Davos forum ends on note of humility (AP)

  • January 31, 2010 12:53 pm

From left, Senior Managing Editor for the Associated Press Michael Oreskes, Chairman of the Management Board of Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann, Chairman and CEO of Archer Daniels Midland, USA, Patricia Woertz, Chairman of Wipro, India, Azim Primji, Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered Bank, UK, Peter Sands and Chairman and CEO of Aetna, USA, Ronald Williams during a session 'A Roadmap to Sustainable Recovery' at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)AP – The world’s foremost gathering of business and government leaders wrapped up a five-day meeting Sunday with widespread agreement that a fragile recovery is under way but no consensus on what’s going to spur job growth and prevent another global economic meltdown.

Obama pushes nuclear energy to boost climate bill (AP)

  • January 31, 2010 12:53 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2010 file photo, Energy Secretary Steven Chu addresses the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting in Washington.  In an effort to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation, President Barack Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, calling for a new generation of nuclear power plants to be built around the country.  (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)AP – President Barack Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation.

Israel: Slain Hamas leader key arms smuggler (AP)

  • January 31, 2010 12:53 pm

The father of Palestinian militant Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was recently killed, holds up a family photo showing al-Mabhouh, at their home in the Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. Hamas claimed on Friday that Israeli agents assassinated one of the Palestinian militant group's veteran operatives in a killing allegedly carried out last week in Dubai, and vowed to retaliate. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)AP – Israeli officials said Sunday that a Hamas commander assassinated in Dubai played a central role in smuggling weapons from Iran to Gaza militants. But they refused to say whether Israel was responsible for killing the man it had sought for two decades.

Gibbs: Cost of Obama’s jobs push in range of $100B (AP)

  • January 31, 2010 12:53 pm

AP – White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says President Barack Obama’s push to create jobs may carry a price tag in the $100 billion range.

Problems at Toyota, JAL taint Japan Inc.’s image (AP)

  • January 31, 2010 12:53 pm

In this Jan. 28, 2010 photo, a visitor leaves a Toyota Motor Corp. showroom in Tokyo, Japan. Toyota is the latest in a string of corporate Japanese icons to make headlines for all the wrong reasons.  (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP – Toyota is the latest Japanese corporate icon making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

China’s strident tone raises concerns in West

  • January 31, 2010 10:19 am

This Nov. 2 photo shows pedestrians standing beside a Chinese-made fighter jet displayed in front of the Aviation Industries of China headquarters in Beijing. China and the U.S. are locked in a standoff over American arms sales to Taiwan.China’s indignant reaction to the announcement of U.S. plans to sell weapons to Taiwan appears to be in keeping with a new attitude that is worrying governments across the globe.

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‘Women-only’ aid handed out in Haiti

  • January 31, 2010 10:19 am

A woman and her son wake up after spending the night on the street in front of the collapsed National Palace in Port-au-Prince on Saturday.Relief workers in Haiti began handing out women-only food coupons to help ensure that families and the weak get supplies following the country’s devastating earthquake.

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10 Americans accused of taking kids in Haiti

  • January 31, 2010 10:19 am

American Laura Silsby, 40, of Boise, Idaho, speaks to The Associated Press at police headquarters in Port-au-Prince on Saturday after ten Americans were detained trying to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic. Haitian police arrests 10 U.S. citizens after they try to take 33 Haitian children out of the earthquake-stricken nation, authorities say.

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Roger Federer Wins 16th Grand Slam Title

  • January 31, 2010 8:50 am

Says He Is “Over the Moon” After Dismantling Andy Murray in Australian Open Men’s Final