Archive for March 25th, 2009

North Korea readies missile, makes new threat (Reuters)

Written by on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 in Latest News.

Reuters – North Korea said on Thursday that if the international community punishes it for next month’s plotted missile launch it will restart a nuclear plant that makes weapons grade plutonium.

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back

Bismarck, ND, mayor ‘cautiously optimistic’ (AP)

Written by on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 in 193019.

Jack Lubka stands in a boat  in the rising floodwaters of the Red River, Wednesday, March 25, 2009 in Fargo, N.D. as the boat is being loaded with sandbags to reinforce the earthen and sandbag dike around the Stensgard home that can only be reached by boat. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP – Demolition crews blasted chunks of ice near a huge ice jam in the Missouri River on Wednesday in a bid to open a channel, like pulling out a giant plug to drain a flood threatening the city. Officials plotted two more rounds of explosives.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back

House panel endorses Obama’s ambitious budget plan (AP)

Written by on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 in 193017.

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 25, 2009, to meet with senators to discuss his budget. (AP Photo/J.  Scott Applewhite)AP – President Barack Obama’s allies rallied around his ambitious budget blueprint as he visited the Capitol on Wednesday, and only hours later a House panel endorsed it, pointing the way for major legislation this year on health care, energy and education.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back



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