National

• Newborn snatched from Tennessee home missing

• Wrong turn on highway may lead to WA man's removal

• Police use acoustic warfare to disperse crowds

• Hudson 'Miracle' pilots reuniting for NY flight

• Hit by 2 hurricanes, deserted town seeks identity

• Revamped Carter Museum opens Thursday in Georgia

• Recession doesn't douse dreams at stuntman school

International

• 2nd quake shakes Indonesia after temblor kills 529

  • Death toll in Samoas tsunami reaches 150

• 6 or more Afghan civilians die in airstrike

• Turkey: Student protester hurls shoe at IMF chief

• Iraq's al-Maliki joins with Sunnis in election bid

• Iran meets the West in Geneva for nuclear talks

• Big parade: Communist China marks its 60th year

Politics & Government

• Different views complicate Obama's Afghan decision

• Health care may hit House, Senate floor mid-month

• Congress approves tripling aid to Pakistan

• Supreme Court takes a fresh look at handgun laws

• Stop sign ahead for texting while driving?

• Bernanke asks Congress to empower regulators

• New missile defense plan bets on Navy interceptors

• Brief Michigan shutdown ends, interim budget OK'd

ODD & Extraordinary

• Cops: Woman fried, ate goldfish amid fight with ex

• Bangladesh awards farmer who killed 83,000 rats

• Pa. woman tackles burglar who broke into her home

• Motorcyclist riding with baby leads to 3 arrests

• What the? Tourism group changes name, acronym

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• Michael Moore makes friends in GOP-leaning town

• Former prosecutor says he lied about Polanski case

  • Polanski: Regard for his art, disdain for his act

• Travolta testifies Bahamas medic threatened him

• LA Phil's new conductor: 'Classical music is cool'

Science, Technology & Environment

• EPA moves to regulate smokestack greenhouse gases

• Method to monitor quake fault strength eyed

• EU unveils more precise satnav system

• Panel: Overzealous rules may stifle germ research

• Hawking steps down as Lucasian professor in UK

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