http://cupidgossip.net Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:23:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Pope under fire for transfer, letter on sex abuse (AP) http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/pope-under-fire-for-transfer-letter-on-sex-abuse-ap/ http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/pope-under-fire-for-transfer-letter-on-sex-abuse-ap/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:23:02 +0000 Yahoo! News: Top Stories ap/20100312/eu_church_abuse Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, head of Germany's bishops conference, is seen before the beginning of the spring meeting of Germany's bishops conference in Freiburg February 22, 2010. REUTERS/Johannes Eisele/FilesAP - Germany's sex abuse scandal has now reached Pope Benedict XVI: His former archdiocese acknowledged it transferred a suspected pedophile priest while Benedict was in charge and criticism is mounting over a 2001 Vatican directive he penned instructing bishops to keep abuse cases secret.


]]> Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, head of Germany's bishops conference, is seen before the beginning of the spring meeting of Germany's bishops conference in Freiburg February 22, 2010. REUTERS/Johannes Eisele/FilesAP - Germany's sex abuse scandal has now reached Pope Benedict XVI: His former archdiocese acknowledged it transferred a suspected pedophile priest while Benedict was in charge and criticism is mounting over a 2001 Vatican directive he penned instructing bishops to keep abuse cases secret.


]]> http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/pope-under-fire-for-transfer-letter-on-sex-abuse-ap/feed/ 0 Clinton slams Israel on housing announcement (AP) http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/clinton-slams-israel-on-housing-announcement-ap/ http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/clinton-slams-israel-on-housing-announcement-ap/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:21:24 +0000 Yahoo! News: Top Stories ap/20100312/us_us_mideast Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks on the release of the State Department's 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Thursday, March 11, 2010, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his government's announcement this week of new Jewish housing in east Jerusalem, calling it "a deeply negative signal" for the Mideast peace process and ties with the U.S.


]]> Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks on the release of the State Department's 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Thursday, March 11, 2010, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his government's announcement this week of new Jewish housing in east Jerusalem, calling it "a deeply negative signal" for the Mideast peace process and ties with the U.S.


]]> http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/clinton-slams-israel-on-housing-announcement-ap/feed/ 0 Senators question $1 million pay for charity’s CEO (AP) http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/senators-question-1-million-pay-for-charitys-ceo-ap/ http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/senators-question-1-million-pay-for-charitys-ceo-ap/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:18:18 +0000 Yahoo! News: Top Stories ap/20100312/us_charity_expenses FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2010, file photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa., arrives to vote on the Senate Jobs Bill on Capitol Hill in Washington. A group of Republican senators is questioning high salaries and expensive travel bills for executives at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, raising issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national charity. 'The question is whether or not a very top-heavy organization might be siphoning off federal dollars that should be going to help kids,' said Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - A group of Republican senators is questioning high salaries and expensive travel bills for executives at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, raising issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national charity.


]]> FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2010, file photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa., arrives to vote on the Senate Jobs Bill on Capitol Hill in Washington. A group of Republican senators is questioning high salaries and expensive travel bills for executives at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, raising issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national charity. 'The question is whether or not a very top-heavy organization might be siphoning off federal dollars that should be going to help kids,' said Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - A group of Republican senators is questioning high salaries and expensive travel bills for executives at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, raising issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national charity.


]]> http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/senators-question-1-million-pay-for-charitys-ceo-ap/feed/ 0 Twin suicide bombs kill 43 in Pakistani city (AP) http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/twin-suicide-bombs-kill-43-in-pakistani-city-ap/ http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/twin-suicide-bombs-kill-43-in-pakistani-city-ap/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:18:16 +0000 Yahoo! News: Top Stories ap/20100312/as_pakistan_violence Pakistan's security officials and investigator gather near an army truck damaged by suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, March 12, 2010. A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other, killing scores of people, police said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)AP - Two suicide bombers killed 43 people in near-simultaneous blasts Friday, the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week and a clear sign that militants have the power to strike targets despite months of army offensives and U.S. missile strikes.


]]> Pakistan's security officials and investigator gather near an army truck damaged by suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, March 12, 2010. A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other, killing scores of people, police said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)AP - Two suicide bombers killed 43 people in near-simultaneous blasts Friday, the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week and a clear sign that militants have the power to strike targets despite months of army offensives and U.S. missile strikes.


]]> http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/twin-suicide-bombs-kill-43-in-pakistani-city-ap/feed/ 0 Dems seek agreement, quick vote on health care (AP) http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/dems-seek-agreement-quick-vote-on-health-care-ap/ http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/dems-seek-agreement-quick-vote-on-health-care-ap/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:18:10 +0000 Yahoo! News: Top Stories ap/20100312/us_health_care_overhaul House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. leaves after a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Under White House pressure to act swiftly, House and Senate Democratic leaders reached for agreement Friday on President Barack Obama's health care bill, sweetened suddenly by fresh billions for student aid and a sense that breakthroughs are at hand.


]]> House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. leaves after a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Under White House pressure to act swiftly, House and Senate Democratic leaders reached for agreement Friday on President Barack Obama's health care bill, sweetened suddenly by fresh billions for student aid and a sense that breakthroughs are at hand.


]]> http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/dems-seek-agreement-quick-vote-on-health-care-ap/feed/ 0 Lawyers urge WTC workers to take $657M settlement (AP) http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/lawyers-urge-wtc-workers-to-take-657m-settlement-ap/ http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/lawyers-urge-wtc-workers-to-take-657m-settlement-ap/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:17:49 +0000 Yahoo! News: Top Stories ap/20100312/us_attacks_health_trials 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 expressed confidence Friday that they can get ground zero responders to sign on to a settlement that would pay up to $657 million to workers who developed health problems after toiling in the ruins of the World Trade Center.


]]> 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 expressed confidence Friday that they can get ground zero responders to sign on to a settlement that would pay up to $657 million to workers who developed health problems after toiling in the ruins of the World Trade Center.


]]> http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/lawyers-urge-wtc-workers-to-take-657m-settlement-ap/feed/ 0 2 months after Haiti quake, housing still elusive (AP) http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/2-months-after-haiti-quake-housing-still-elusive-ap/ http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/2-months-after-haiti-quake-housing-still-elusive-ap/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:13:42 +0000 Yahoo! News: Top Stories ap/20100312/cb_haiti_earthquake Marcel, 6, leans on the wall of his collapsed home as he looks toward a new home built by the Danish People's Aid organization in the Carrefour neighborhood on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Thursday, March 11, 2010. The UN and the Haitian government have approved the Danish organization's design for temporary shelters to be built for displaced earthquake survivors prior to the upcoming rainy season.(AP Photo/Andres Leighton)AP - Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake — and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even close to providing the shelters they promised.


]]> Marcel, 6, leans on the wall of his collapsed home as he looks toward a new home built by the Danish People's Aid organization in the Carrefour neighborhood on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Thursday, March 11, 2010. The UN and the Haitian government have approved the Danish organization's design for temporary shelters to be built for displaced earthquake survivors prior to the upcoming rainy season.(AP Photo/Andres Leighton)AP - Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake — and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even close to providing the shelters they promised.


]]> http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/2-months-after-haiti-quake-housing-still-elusive-ap/feed/ 0 Obama’s proposed student loan overhaul gets boost (Reuters) http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/obamas-proposed-student-loan-overhaul-gets-boost-reuters/ http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/obamas-proposed-student-loan-overhaul-gets-boost-reuters/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:10:59 +0000 Yahoo! News: Top Stories nm/20100312/us_usa_healthcare_students http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/obamas-proposed-student-loan-overhaul-gets-boost-reuters/feed/ 0 Calif. lawsuit claims Toyota hid defect evidence (Reuters) http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/calif-lawsuit-claims-toyota-hid-defect-evidence-reuters/ http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/calif-lawsuit-claims-toyota-hid-defect-evidence-reuters/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:05:46 +0000 Yahoo! News: Top Stories nm/20100312/us_toyota Toyota Prius hybrid model cars wait for customers at a Toyota dealer in Hollywood, California on March 10. A California prosecutor filed a civil lawsuit against Toyota Friday accusing the Japanese automaker of intentionally hiding deadly defects from consumers.(AFP/Fiile/Mark Ralston)Reuters - Southern California prosecutors filed the first U.S. consumer protection lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp on Friday, claiming it had engaged in "fraud" by hiding evidence of dangerous vehicle defects.


]]> Toyota Prius hybrid model cars wait for customers at a Toyota dealer in Hollywood, California on March 10. A California prosecutor filed a civil lawsuit against Toyota Friday accusing the Japanese automaker of intentionally hiding deadly defects from consumers.(AFP/Fiile/Mark Ralston)Reuters - Southern California prosecutors filed the first U.S. consumer protection lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp on Friday, claiming it had engaged in "fraud" by hiding evidence of dangerous vehicle defects.


]]> http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/calif-lawsuit-claims-toyota-hid-defect-evidence-reuters/feed/ 0 Court rules again against vaccine-autism claims (Reuters) http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/court-rules-again-against-vaccine-autism-claims-reuters/ http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/court-rules-again-against-vaccine-autism-claims-reuters/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:58:59 +0000 Yahoo! News: Top Stories nm/20100312/us_autism_vaccine http://cupidgossip.net/2010/03/12/court-rules-again-against-vaccine-autism-claims-reuters/feed/ 0