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Friday, March 12, 2010 at 12:51 PM

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama returns to the White House from the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., following a medical exam in Washington. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans — even President Obama — are being overtreated. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

AP - Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans — maybe even President Barack Obama — are being overtreated. [ Full Story ]

Confrontations, anger in Jerusalem over building (Reuters)

Friday, March 12, 2010 at 12:19 PM

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy walks in Ramat Shlomo, a religious Jewish settlement in an area of the West Bank annexed to Jerusalem by Israel, March 11, 2010. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Reuters - Israeli forces sealed off the West Bank and massed riot squads around Jerusalem's Old City and Arab neighborhoods during Muslim weekly prayers on Friday, facing down Palestinian anger over Jewish settlement expansion. [ Full Story ]

Court OKs TV rules opposed by Comcast, Cablevision (AP)

Friday, March 12, 2010 at 12:14 PM

AP - A federal court Friday upheld regulations that require cable TV companies to make sports programming and other channels they own available on equal terms to rival TV providers such as satellite companies. [ Full Story ]

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Another hassle for Illinois Senate candidate (AP)

Friday, March 12, 2010 at 12:55 PM

AP - The Illinois Democrat running for President Barack Obama's old Senate seat has a new political hassle. [ Full Story ]

Lawyers urge WTC workers to take $657M settlement (AP)

Friday, March 12, 2010 at 12:48 PM

Firemen and rescue personnel work at the site of the World Trade Center in New York in September 2001. More than 10,000 people who worked in the toxic chaos of New York's Ground Zero after 9/11 could receive compensation totalling 657 million dollars for health problems under a settlement reached.(AFP/File/Marcos Townsend)

AP - Lawyers and city officials say they are confident they can get ground zero responders to agree on a settlement for sick people who toiled in the ruins of the World Trade Center. [ Full Story ]

US terror suspect in Yemen worked at 5 nuke sites (AP)

Friday, March 12, 2010 at 12:04 PM

This 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010 that the agency is looking into the case of 26-year-old son, Sharif Mobley, who grew up in Buena and is an alleged al-Qaida member raised in New Jersey who is accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen. (AP Photo/Roman Castro) NO SALES

AP - Federal regulators say a U.S. citizen in custody in Yemen as a suspected al-Qaida member worked at five nuclear plant complexes in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. [ Full Story ]

Business Headlines

Toyota hit by California lawsuit (Reuters)

Friday, March 12, 2010 at 12:49 PM

A Toyota gas pedal assembly and other parts required to correct the occurrence of sticking accelerator pedals on some 270,000 recalled vehicles are shown during a news conference in Toronto, February 22, 2010. REUTERS/Mike Cassese

Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp was hit by a planned lawsuit by California prosecutors on Friday over vehicle defects and by renewed political pressure to cooperate with investigators on cases of runaway cars. [ Full Story ]

FDA warning: some patients cannot process Plavix (AP)

Friday, March 12, 2010 at 12:44 PM

FILE - In this July 28, 2006 file photo, blood thinner medication Plavix is shown in New York. The Food and Drug Administration is adding its strongest warning to the label for Plavix Friday, March 12, 2010, after reports that some patients cannot process the blood thinning drug.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)

AP - The Food and Drug Administration is adding its strongest warning to the label for Plavix after reports that some patients cannot process the blockbuster blood thinner. [ Full Story ]

EU ministers to mull Greek rescue plan (AFP)

Friday, March 12, 2010 at 12:41 PM

A group of striking policemen hold a large banner as they march in Athens on March 11.(AFP/File/Louisa Gouliamaki)

AFP - Detailed options for concrete European-level financial support to help Greece out of its debt crisis will be presented to eurozone finance ministers next week, sources said Friday. [ Full Story ]

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