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Leading the News
Unemployment rate Surges to 8.1 Percent . . . Highest level in a quarter century. Economy shed 651,000 jobs in February. Many are not coming back.
New York Times
Madoff Expected to Plead Guilty . . . Will admit Thursday to running $50 billion Ponzi Scheme. New York Times
Palestinian PM Resigns . . . Move by Salam Fayyad seen as goodwill gesture toward Hamas as power-sharing talks resume. BBC
Politics
Obama To Reverse Bush on Stem Cells . . . will sign an executive order Monday rescinding restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. Los Angles Times
Companies Step Up Opposition to Card Check . . . Public backing by Obama of bill to ease unionization stirs companies to ratchet up drive to kill it. Wall Street Journal
McCain in Winter: The Gloves Are Off . . . While others who lost presidency shifted gears, McCain jumps right back in the battle.
New York Times
Jeremiah Wright: Obama Like Any Other President . . . "Barack's name ain't Jesus. Barack ain't gonna improve your child's reading score," says pastor Obama ditched. Chicago Sun-Times
Obama Says Recovery Plan Already Saving Jobs . . . Touts police positions he says were maintained in Columbus. Boston Globe
Obama Europe Trip to Include Turkey . . . Wants to make a speech in Muslim nation during first 100 days in office. McClatchy Newspapers
National Security
Cybersecurity Chief Quits . . . Says his agency should be run by civilians and not controlled by NSA, which is part of Defense Department. Wall Street Journal
Mullen: Mexico Drug Violence a Crisis . . . Suggest country could borrow from U.S. tactics in the fight against terrorism. Associated Press
Appeal by al Qaeda Suspect Dismissed . . . Supreme Court decision in Al-Marri case means president can still hold 'enemy combatants' indefinitely without charge. Christian Science Monitor
U.S. Envoys Meet With Syrians in Damascus . . . But both sides remain cautious over whether they can surmount their key differences.
The Independent
Iran Will Consider U.S. Invite to Meeting . . . Open to offer to discuss Afghanistan. Reuters
Business
Reduced Spending Deepens Gloom . . . As the unemployment rate rises, even Americans with jobs are afraid to spend, making the economy worse. Wall Street Journal
Sluggish Spring Home Selling Season on Tap . . . Across much of the nation, prices may fall through 2010. New York Times
Merrill Lynch Probes Trader Who Lost $400 Mil. . . . Raises further questions about the financial health of the investment bank.
Financial Times
International
Mugabe Rival Recovering After Car Crash . . . Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is in the hospital. His wife was killed. BBC
China's Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Double . . . No matter what Western industrialized nations do, China's emissions will be hard to stop.
Der Spiegel
Five Tons of Cocaine Seized in Colombia . . . A special anti-drug commando unit raids a jungle lab in the southwestern state of Nariño.
Los Angeles Times
Two Kenyan Human Rights Leaders Murdered . . . Shot after being criticized by government. Kenya is facing a storm of protest.
The Independent
Also Today. . .
Spacecraft Launches to Seek Other Earths . . . Goal is to tally first rigorous census of planets and determine how rare or common Earth-like spheres are. USA Today
Gray Wolf Loses Part of Its Protection in U.S. . . . Obama administration take it off endangered species list in Montana and Idaho.
New York Times
Cornered, Killer Takes His Own Life . . . Hunt ends for man who killed his wife, her sister and three children. Cleveland Plain Dealer
'Mafia Cops' Get Life Behind Bars . . . They earned $4,000 a month on payroll of Luchese underboss Anthony (Gaspipe) Cassoto orchestrate murders. New York Daily News
Today's Video
Clinton's Russia Message Lost in Translation . . . NBC
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