Pa. suspect: Caretaker by day, 'Jihad Jane' online
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Colleen LaRose spent long days caring for her boyfriend's father in a second-floor apartment in Pennsburg, a small town north of Philadelphia....
Mexico's Slim becomes 'world's richest' person
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, jumping past Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the first person from a developing nation to top the list, according to Forbes magazine....
Video: Iraq Ambassador: Elections a Success
CBS News' Pamela Falk speaks with Iraq's Ambassador to the U.N., Hamid Al-Bayati, about the recent Iraqi elections, planned U.S. troop withdrawal, and the selection of a new Prime Minister.
Calif. boy who called 911 thanks dispatcher
NORWALK, Calif. (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy who called 911 from a locked bathroom while armed robbers threatened his parents hugged and high-fived on Wednesday the sheriff's dispatcher who took his call....
Brazil leader rapped for stance on Cuba dissidents
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- Brazil's president came under withering criticism Wednesday at home and in Cuba for his deference to the island's communist government over political prisoners and hunger strikes for human rights....
Video: 'Jihad Jane' Captured
Officials have arrested an American woman, Colleen LaRose, accused of planning jihadist-based plots on the Internet. As Bob Orr reports, tracking terrorists in the U.S. is a new fear for the FBI.
Math and English classes could be standardized
SEATTLE (AP) -- Governors and education leaders on Wednesday proposed sweeping new school standards that could lead to students across the country using the same math and English textbooks and taking the same tests, replacing a patchwork of state and local systems in an attempt to raise student achievement nationwide....
Law bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi from elections
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's military regime took yet another step to expunge Aung San Suu Kyi from the political scene Wednesday by effectively barring her from the first elections in 20 years and pressuring her opposition party to expel her from its ranks....
Video: Bowling for Employment
Losing a job in this recession can be traumatic, but for some it is an opportunity to follow a dream. Ben Tracy shows us one man whose dreams of professional bowling came true.
Coast Guard: Icebreaker to be reactivated by 2013
SEATTLE (AP) -- After a $62 million overhaul, the Coast Guard will have its third icebeaker back in service in 2013, filling a critical need as the fleet takes on new responsibilities, the commandant of the service said Wednesday....
US-Israel row highlights quandary over settlements
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- An open diplomatic row during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions that the United States is too weak to broker a deal....
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