NATIONAL STORIES
BEIJING (AP) -- China's premier says the world might face a "double dip" recession due to continued high unemployment and risks in financial systems.
CARACAS (AP) -- A Venezuelan police official says security forces have seized two tons of cocaine that was intended to be smuggled to the Netherlands.
DENVER (AP) -- An American woman and three others arrested in Ireland over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks have been freed without charge, Irish police said Saturday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown is criticizing President Obama for a "bitter, destructive" push to overhaul the nation's health care system.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A high school in Washington, D.C., has hired a woman to coach its varsity football team.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A late-night confession by Utah's House majority leader about sitting nude in a hot tub with a minor 25 years ago has shocked this conservative state's political establishment.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A senior U.S. official says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to complain bluntly about Israel's announcement this week of new housing settlements in East Jerusalem.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lawyers and city officials expressed confidence Friday that they can get ground zero responders to agree to a settlement that would pay up to $657 million to workers who developed health problems after toiling in the ruins of the World Trade Center.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House leaders have concluded they cannot change a divisive abortion provision in President Barack Obama's health care bill and will try to pass the sweeping legislation without the support of ardent anti-abortion Democrats.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Auto safety officals are telling Congress the government may require automakers to include brake systems that can override the gas pedal in response to Toyota's massive recalls.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Kansas City School Superintendent John Covington says the decision to close almost half the district's schools was difficult and painful but "unquestionably the right thing to do."
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Two strongly felt earthquakes have rocked central Chile as dignitaries arrive for the inauguration of President-elect Sebastian Pinera.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Governors and state education leaders are proposing a new set of standards to define what should be taught in the nation's public schools.
HARRISON, N.Y. (AP) -- A New York police official says Toyota wants a Prius that was involved in a crash -- but his department is "not prepared to release it just yet."
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- She's an American convert to Islam, who allegedly called herself JihadJane online. And authorities say a Pennsylvania woman expressed a willingness to become a martyr on behalf of Muslims.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate voted Wednesday to extend a host of soon-to-expire elements of last year's economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless and money to help financially strapped states pay for health care for the poor.
DUBLIN, N.H. (AP) -- A New Hampshire woman who was known as Granny D and walked across the country a decade ago to publicize the need for campaign finance reform has died. She was 100.
EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) -- Federal officials are sending two investigators to California to determine what caused a Toyota Prius to race out of control on a San Diego-area freeway.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Financial companies have led stocks higher on the one-year anniversary of the market's hitting a 12-year low.
(NBC) -- A new study out Tuesday says Alzheimer's cases are on the rise in the United States. The study also shows a surprising spike in the number cases in the African-American and Hispanic communities.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- SeaWorld and the family of a trainer slain by a killer whale want to prevent video of the attack from becoming public.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The man who tried to shake down David Letterman over his affairs with members of his staff will be going to jail for six months as part of a plea deal.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Labor union members, religious leaders and other activists expressed outrage over what they call greedy insurance companies and urged Congress to pass health care reform during a protest Tuesday in the nation's capital.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A new Ohio State University custodial employee who received a bad job evaluation shot two co-workers in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them, and then fatally shot himself, officials said Tuesday.
EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) -- The California Highway Patrol says an officer helped slow a runaway Toyota Prius from 94 mph to a safe stop after the accelerator got stuck.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- New York Rep. Eric Massa is blaming his resignation on a conspiracy by House Democratic leaders to force him out before a crucial vote on health care.
GENEVA (AP) -- Operators of the world's largest atom smasher hope to provide first discoveries about the elusive nature of dark matter later this year.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Early estimates from a range of Iraqi parties predict a coalition led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will take the lead in the parliamentary race.
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistani officials are backing away from a claim that an American member of al-Qaida who was picked up in a raid in Karachi is U.S.-born spokesman Adam Gadahn.
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