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Obama delays trip for final healthcare push


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday delayed an overseas trip to focus on the final drive for healthcare reform as the House of Representatives prepared to vote on the sweeping overhaul next week.





Clinton berates Netanyahu over settlements


JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday he must work to repair relations with Washington after a debacle over Jewish settlements that has undermined U.S. efforts to mediate new peace talks with the Palestinians.





Second U.S. woman probed in plot to kill Swede: report


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities in Ireland are investigating whether a second American woman was involved in a suspected international plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for mocking the Prophet Mohammad, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.





Iraq's election race tight, results slow to come


BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had a narrow lead over rival Shi'ites, partial results in Iraq's tight election race showed on Friday, but a secularist challenger remained far ahead in minority Sunni areas.





German Church apologizes, vows action on abuse


VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The head of Germany's Catholic Church apologized to victims of child abuse by priests on Friday and met Pope Benedict who encouraged him to press ahead with tough new measures.





U.S. man arrested in Yemen worked in nuclear plants


SANAA/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yemen said on Friday it was holding a U.S. citizen suspected of being an al Qaeda militant who killed a hospital guard last week, and a U.S. firm said the suspect had worked at nuclear reactors in New Jersey.





Calif. lawsuit claims Toyota hid defect evidence


SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) - Southern California prosecutors filed the first U.S. consumer protection lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp on Friday, claiming it had engaged in "fraud" by hiding evidence of dangerous vehicle defects.





Suicide bombing kills 7 in Pakistan's Swat


MINGORA (Reuters) - A suicide bombing attack on security forces in Pakistan's Swat Valley on Saturday killed at least seven people and wounded 13, police said.





U.N.'s Ban to return to earthquake-devastated Haiti


UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Haiti on Sunday to meet the country's leaders and people left homeless by a January earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands, Ban's spokesman said.





Women on the pill live longer: study


LONDON (Reuters) - One of the world's largest studies of the contraceptive pill has found that women who have taken it can expect longer lives and are less likely to die from any cause, including cancer and heart disease.

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Calif. lawsuit claims Toyota hid defect evidence


SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) - Southern California prosecutors filed the first U.S. consumer protection lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp on Friday, claiming it had engaged in "fraud" by hiding evidence of dangerous vehicle defects.





Second U.S. woman probed in plot to kill Swede: report


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities in Ireland are investigating whether a second American woman was involved in a suspected international plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for mocking the Prophet Mohammad, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.





States tap stimulus as more U.S. families seek aid


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many states have used funds from the $863 billion U.S. economic stimulus plan to help give a rising number of poor families emergency cash assistance, the Government Accountability Office said on Thursday.





U.S. court rules again against vaccine-autism claims


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vaccines that contain a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal cannot cause autism on their own, a special U.S. court ruled on Friday, dealing one more blow to parents seeking to blame vaccines for their children's illness.





Woods crash ambulance crew cited domestic violence


MIAMI (Reuters) - The ambulance crew that took golfer Tiger Woods from the scene of his fateful car crash last year did not let his wife ride with him because they said the incident was a case of domestic violence, according to Florida police records cited by a local newspaper on Friday.

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Combat Vet's PTSD Untreated; Blames Her Gender


According to recent VA statistics, PTSD and depression are the top disability claims among America's female veterans. But many have trouble proving they saw combat — a key to being treated for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. One decorated war veteran's story is emblematic of the struggle to get help.

Pope Under Fire For Handling Of Sex Abuse Claims


His former archdiocese acknowledged it transferred a suspected pedophile priest while Benedict XVI was in charge, but said he did not know about the transfer. Criticism is also mounting over a 2001 Vatican directive he wrote instructing bishops to keep abuse cases secret.

Meet The Nation's Only Female H.S. Football Coach


Natalie Randolph, a 29-year-old biology and environmental sciences teacher, was introduced Friday as the coach of Washington, D.C.'s Coolidge Colts. She's believed to be the nation's only female head coach of a high school varsity football team.

Federal Court: Vaccines Don't Cause Autism


The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has rejected claims in three test cases that tried to show that vaccines preserved with thimerosal contributed to the development of autism.

FDA Warns Plavix May Be Ineffective In Some People


People with a weak liver enzyme don't get the blood-thinning benefit of Plavix. Asians are the most like to have the problem.