Freshman Democrat upbraids Obama on spending (AP)

Freshman Democrat upbraids Obama on spending (AP)
Guatemala first lady seeks power
Libya: we cannot stand aside - PM
Angry residents of CA city vote on council recall (AP)
Madoff trustee: Lawsuits delay money for victims (Reuters)
Gadhafi forces barrage rebels in east and west (AP)
Restaurant Review: United at Tables in Harlem
Billionaire Carl Icahn returns $1.76B to investors (AP)
Qaddafi Forces Renew Assault Against Rebels on 2 Fronts
Oil price falls on Saudi comments

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:58 PM PST

AP - A freshman Democratic senator accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of failing to provide leadership on a worsening national deficit as top Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill spent more time pointing fingers than seeking common ground on a must-do measure to fund the government for the next six months.

Guatemala first lady seeks power

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:56 PM PST

Guatemala's first lady, Sandra Torres, says she hopes to succeed her husband Alvaro Colom as president, despite a ban on relatives standing for election.

Libya: we cannot stand aside - PM

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:55 PM PST

The world cannot "stand aside" and allow violent repression to continue in Libya, Prime Minister David Cameron tells the BBC.

Angry residents of CA city vote on council recall (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:54 PM PST

AP - Voters went to the polls Tuesday with a chance to elect a group of reformers in a blue-collar Southern California community that became the face of municipal corruption in the country when officials were accused of paying themselves six-figure salaries while the city was going broke.

Madoff trustee: Lawsuits delay money for victims (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:54 PM PST

Reuters - The trustee seeking money for investors hurt by Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme said he hopes to begin distributing money "in the near future" but that lawsuits challenging his efforts are causing delays.

Gadhafi forces barrage rebels in east and west (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:53 PM PST

AP - After dramatic successes over the past weeks, Libya's rebel movement appears to have hit a wall of overwhelming power from loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi. Pro-regime forces halted their drive on Tripoli with a heavy barrage of rockets in the east and threatened Tuesday to recapture the closest rebel-held city to the capital in the west.

Restaurant Review: United at Tables in Harlem

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:47 PM PST

The racial and ethnic variety in Marcus Samuelsson's latest restaurant is rivaled only by the range of ages present within it.

Billionaire Carl Icahn returns $1.76B to investors (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:46 PM PST

AP - On the eve of the bull market's second anniversary, billionaire investor Carl Icahn had an unsettling message for his investors: Take your money back. Icahn told investors in his hedge funds that he didn't want to be responsible to them for "another possible market crisis," especially given the rapid increases over the past two years. Stocks have nearly doubled since hitting 12-year lows on March 9, 2009.