National

• Consumers at Heart of Stimulus Plan

• Weather Stalls Most New Orleans Parades

• Nudity May Cost ABC $1.4 Million

• Spike in Gold Prices Draws Prospectors

• Disaster Avoided in Vegas Casino Blaze

International

• Blasts Hit Baghdad, Including Green Zone

• Iran: Normal Ties to U.S. Impossible

• Pakistan: Nuclear Assets Safe

• American Woman Kidnapped in Afghanistan

• Dozens Dead in Latest Kenya Clash

Politics

• Democratic Polls Open in South Carolina

ODD & Extraordinary

• SPCA: 200 Animals Rescued From Home

• Driver Who Killed Teen Sues for Damage

• Police: Family Caught Shoplifting

Science

• Scientists Create Synthetic Genome

People

• Scarlett Johansson: I'm in Love With Obama!

• College Publishes Famed Killer's Diary

• Ledger's Funeral Arrangements a Mystery

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