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Kremlin drive for new global currency »»» China drive for new reserve currency »»» Saturday: Orlando ‘Tea Party’ le by conservative radio host Bud Hedinger draws 4,000 plus »»» 15 of top 20 AIG executives have given back bonuses »»» Mexico: $2 million reward for info leading to arrest of drug lords »»» Rio Grande: Clearing brush to expose smugglers, robbers and illegal immigrants »»» US bill to make newspapers non-profit, educational, tax exempt; no political endorsements allowed »»» S&P 500 Caps Biggest 10-Day Gain Since 1938 »»» Radio newsman George Weber stabbing a gay sex slaying? »»» […]

60 Minutes Kroft to chuckling Obama: Are you punch-drunk? »»» IMF: Economic crisis dire, risk of unrest, war »»» Poland hopes US continues with plans for missile defense system in Poland »»» Mount Redoubt in Alaska erupts up to 50,000 feet in the air »»» Bay City, Michigan teen fights police, gets tasered and dies »»» WABC radio personality George Weber stabbed, throat slashed in Brooklyn apartment »»» Schenectady, NY Police: 6 fired for misconduct; martial law considered »»» Vandals cause $50,000 damage to 130-yr-old home in Aurora »»» […]

»»» Obama seeks increase in oversight of executive pay »»» Iran to Obama: No change seen in US policy »»» Obama says he would not accept Geithner resignation »»» US Rep. Barney Frank wants Fannie, Freddie bonuses halted »»» US Postal Service: Cut 1,400 jobs and offer 150,000 early retirement after mail volume drop »»» Chrissy Miller, 41, off-duty suburban St. Louis police officer involved in fatal crash »»» Sarah Palin, Maria Shriver critics of Obama Special Olympics comment »»» […]

Obama tongues slips on Leno: My bowling — it was like Special Olympics or something »»» Future of America at stake with preparation to absorb excess money poured into U.S. economy »»» UN panel says world should ditch dollar »»» IMF forecast first shrink of world economy in 60 years »»» Million-plus French workers march and strike government’s response to global crisis »»» […]

Photo emerges showing KGB Putin posing as tourist in background of Reagan photo? »»» Oil prices reach new high for 2009 as dollar falls »»» US stock rally fades, Dow 7,400.80 (-85.78) »»» ‘Talk and die syndrome,’ Natasha Richardson, 45, dies after fall on beginner’s trail »»» March Madness starts today »»» Cubs retire #31 »»» […]

Anger over bonuses in AIG contracts, Democrats struggling »»» Robert Gibbs on the defensive over Timothy Geithner lack of awareness on AIG contracts »»» Obama to be on Leno Thursday, March 19 »»» Comedian Stephen Colbert called for mob attack of AIG with pitch forks »»» Natasha Richardson brain dead at 45 after falling during ski lesson »»» Washington D.C. HIV epidemic at 3% »»» […]

Obama damage control over populist anger at AIG bonuses »»» Russia seeks to reform global financial system with new international currency »»» Illinois soldiers killed in Afghanistan: Sgt. Christopher Abeyta, 23, Spc. Robert Weinger, 24, Spc. Norman Cain III, 22, killed by IED »»» American Legion irate, opposes Obama’s plan to require private insurance to reimburse the Department of Veteran Affairs »»» National debt: record $11 trillion »»» Tuesday market resumes rally: 7,395 (+178.73) »»» […]

U.S. drops enemy combatant term »»» Neo-Nazi ideology: Rise of Fascism in Austria »»» Fire at Bashundhara City shopping mall in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills 7, injures 50 »»» Killed by Metra: Lawsuit claims Grayslake Police negligent for releasing .255 BAC-DUI arrest while still incapacitated »»» DUI Driver crashes into CPD squad car, injures to police officers »»» Gulf War veteran Kevin Baker dies during cross-country bike trek »»» (Kevin Baker blog) »»» […]

Russian strategic bombers considered for air bases in Cuba, Venezuela »»» Ciudad Juarez: Police find 7 bodies buried »»» Washington Post merging business into front section, dropping, full stock listings web only »»» Pink Friday California: 26,500 teachers, 15,000 support personnel get pink slips »»» Six Flag: Talk of bankruptcy »»»Hurricane/Cyclone activity lowest in 30 years, Atlantic forecast for 2009 still up »»» “Let Friendship Shine” to replace “Stir the Soul” for Chicago 2016 Olympic Slogan »»» Chicago 2016 Olympic Games equestrian and shooting events would be Lake County location »»» NCAA basketball: Purdue beats Illinois »»» […]

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls U.S. deadbeat »»» Japan’s warns N. Korea it will shoot down missile if flight path endangers Japan »»» US troops to Mexican border for drug violence? »»» Private equity co. Blackstone CEO: 45 percent of world’s wealth destroyed »»» U.S. Navy warships headed for South China Sea after standoff »»» Illinois Income Tax May Jump 50 Percent »»» Stolen Laptop Could Lead To ID Thefts for Chicago FD ambulance patients »»» Edelman: Hoffman Estates 60192 & 60169, Chicago 60606 (O’Hare area): disproportionately high adult web subscribers; Utah has top state rate »»» Howard K. Stern »»» Boston teens surveyed: Rihanna fault for assault »»» WSJ: failing grades for Obama, Geithner on economic revival »»» Obama: Economic crisis ‘not as bad as we think’ »»» […]

Judge to investor, “Speak directly to the bench.” Inmate: Madoff in jail »»» DJI (7170.66 (+239.66), good news from banks, GM, GE, retail, S&P »»» 36 y/o Sears Tower to be renamed Willis Tower »»» Lake County (IL) : Potent heroin caused 20 deaths »»» Oak Park dismembered body ID’d: Rafael Ramirez, 18 »»» Chicago ex-cop was sleeper agent for Chicago outfit »»» Charles Freeman Jr. withdraws from consideration as chairman of National Intelligence Council »»» Divorce papers: Las Vegas Steve Wynn and Elaine »»» Happiness Poll: Tops are Utah, Hawaii, Wyoming; bottom are Mississippi, Kentucky and West Virginia »»» […]