 CBC.ca | Grenade attack wounds soldiers amid Thai protests ABC Online The Thai military says two soldiers have been injured in a grenade attack at a barracks near the site of a big anti-government protest in Bangkok. It is not immediately clear if the attack is related to the so-called Red ... Thai PM Rejects Protesters Calls to Dissolve Government Thai Protesters Shut Parts of Bangkok Thai prime minister rejects demand to dissolve parliament |
 Boston Globe | Obama's day: Off to Ohio for more health care USA Today Good morning from The Oval. On this day in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to pass a Voting Rights Act, and said, "it is all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice -- and we shall overcome. ... A look at Democrats' health care overhaul High Stakes On Health Care Health care vote: The final countdown |
 CBC.ca | Officials: US wants Israel to cancel building plan The Associated Press JERUSALEM — Israeli officials said Monday that the US is pressing Israel to scrap a contentious east Jerusalem building project whose approval has touched off the most serious diplomatic feud with Washington in years. Tensions in the city at the center ... US-Israel ties at risk? Israeli envoy sees "historic crisis" with US: paper Who is to blame for the current crisis in the US-Israeli relationship? |
 New Zealand Herald | Tropical Cyclone Tomas slams Fiji CNN International (CNN) -- Tropical Cyclone Tomas battered Fiji's northern islands on Monday evening with gusts of up to 275 km/h (170 mph) and heavy rain, but weather officials had not received immediate reports of damage. The Category 4 storm is the second-most ... How it all began Powerful cyclone batters Fiji Fiji braces as major tropical cyclone bears down |
 The Guardian | Sarkozy's UMP Trails in Regional Vote to Socialists BusinessWeek March 15 (Bloomberg) -- France's opposition Socialists led President Nicolas Sarkozy's party in the first round of regional elections and look set to extend their advantage in what the Socialists termed “a severe sanction” on the ... French snub Sarkozy's party in regional vote Sarkozy and Brown attack US over 'protectionism' Sarkozy faces heavy loss in French regional poll |
 Reuters | Three die in Mexico border shootings The Guardian AP Ciudad Juarez, where the American couple and a Mexican man were killed within minutes of each other in separate attacks. Photograph: Lorena Ros/Getty Images Suspected drugs gang hitmen separately ambushed two cars carrying families with ties to the ... 3 with ties to US Consulate killed in Mexico 2 Americans and a third victim are killed in Mexico shootings 3 with ties to US consulate killed in Mexican city |
 Christian Science Monitor | US census forms arrive in the mail: What to expect The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Let the count begin. More than 120 million US census forms begin arriving Monday in mailboxes around the country, in the government's once-a-decade population count that will be used to divvy up congressional seats and more than $400 ... Census questionnaires will be mailed within county starting today The 2010 census is near, or it's already here Census undercount could cost Texas money, political clout |
 New York Daily News | Obama, US Governors Favor “College-Ready” School Standards Bloomberg March 15 (Bloomberg) -- The first US-wide set of academic standards for schoolchildren may be adopted by half of all states this year, while President Barack Obama presses to overhaul the main law ... Health Care 101: A consumer primer on Obama's bill Obama seeks to overhaul No Child Left Behind Obama Outlines Sweeping Education Revamp |
 The Star-Ledger - NJ.com | Gov. Christie declares state of emergency NorthJersey.com AP AP TRENTON — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has declared a state of emergency following a weekend of flooding and power winds that claimed at least two lines. The declaration broadens the powers of the New Jersey State Power to respond to the ... New Jersey Schools Brace for Governor's Next Round of Cuts Amendments in New Jersey Christie's predecessors faced budget problems, too | Philadelphia Inquirer ... |
 Globe and Mail | US Woman Released in Terror Case Wall Street Journal Irish police released without charge an American woman who was among seven people arrested last week in Ireland in connection with an alleged plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist. Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, a 31-year-old Colorado mother and recent convert to ... Irish police release cartoonist murder plot suspect American Linked to Terror Plot Brainwashed 6-Year-Old Son, Family Says Ireland frees American woman in terrorist plot |
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