http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/fronts/HOME?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION=HOME News feeds provided by Newslookup.com en Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:22 EST http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/stories/U/US_AMERICAN_TERROR_PLOT?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-03-13-18-20-32 Irish police release US woman held in murder plotDENVER (AP) - Irish police say an American woman and three others arrested in Ireland over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks has been freed without charge. Seven people - including the American woman, three Algerians, a Libyan, a Palestinian and a Croatian - were arrested Tuesday in Ireland. After the arrests, U.S. authorities unsealed terror charges against Colleen LaRose of Pennsylvania. She allegedly went by the name "Jihad Jane" to recruit others online to kill the cartoonist. http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/stories/U/US_HEALTH_OVERHAUL_SPECIAL_DEALS?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-03-13-17-44-01 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ. The Senate-approved health measure lawmakers hope to send to Obama soon would steer $600 million over the next decade to Vermont in added federal payments for Medicaid and nearly as much to Massachusetts. http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/stories/A/AS_AFGHANISTAN?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-03-13-17-43-54 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations late Saturday, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland. The prison was the main target, but no prisoners escaped, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half-brother said. Ahmed Wali Karzai, a member of the Kandahar provincial council, said two of the explosions occurred near his home, which was not damaged. http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/stories/M/ML_YEMEN_HOSPITAL_CLASH?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-03-13-17-43-53 SAN'A, Yemen (AP) - An American al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen fooled his hospital guards into unshackling him by asking to join them for prayers, security officials said Saturday. He then killed a guard who laid down his weapon as he went ahead at prayer time. The new details of Sharif Mobley's failed escape attempt, obtained by The Associated Press, indicate the 26-year-old American of Somali descent has a level of training and cunning characteristic of the terror network. http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/stories/E/EU_CHURCH_ABUSE?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-03-13-17-44-15 VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his German homeland. It also insisted that church confidentiality doesn't prevent bishops from reporting abuse to police. The Vatican's campaign to defend the pope's reputation and resolve in combatting clergy abuse of minors followed acknowledgment by the Munich archdiocese that it had transferred a suspected pedophile priest to community work while Benedict was archbishop there. http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAQ?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-03-13-17-44-05 BAGHDAD (AP) - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of Baghdad, pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that Iraqis want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious hard-liners leading the postwar nation. Partial results released by the Independent High Electoral Commission showed the State of Law coalition with about a 60,000-vote edge nationwide over its main moderate challenger, the secular Iraqiya coalition. The Shiite fundamentalist Iraqi National Alliance was in third place. http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/stories/U/US_REPUBLICANS_HEALTH_CARE?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-03-13-17-44-16 WASHINGTON (AP) - Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and endless" drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous. "An entire year has gone to waste," Brown said in the weekly GOP radio and Internet address. "Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, and many more jobs are in danger. Even now, the president still hasn't gotten the message. http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/stories/U/US_LESBIAN_SERGEANT_DISCHARGED?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-03-13-14-52-43 Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old's honorable discharge under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D., saw an Iowa marriage certificate in her home and told the nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base. Newsome and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint against the western South Dakota police department, claiming the officers violated her privacy when they informed the military about her sexual orientation. The case also highlights concerns over the ability of third parties to "out" service members, especially as the Pentagon has started reviewing the 1993 "don't ask, don't tell" law. http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/stories/U/US_MAJORITY_LEADER_CONFESSION?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-03-13-18-03-48 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after acknowledging he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about a nude hot-tubbing incident that took place a quarter century ago when she was a teenager. Republican Rep. Kevin Garn's Thursday night confession came in a speech before House colleagues and stunned this conservative state. On Saturday, he apologized in an e-mail to House Speaker David Clark for becoming a distraction. http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/stories/B/BKC_T25_B10_ILLINOIS_OHIO_ST?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-03-13-16-49-24 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Evan Turner rescued No. 6 Ohio State for the second straight day in the Big Ten tournament. He scored 12 of his 31 points after regulation, helping the Buckeyes pull away for an 88-81 double overtime victory over Illinois in the semifinals.