House unveils final healthcare bill changes (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:39:33 GMT Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) waits to leave Andrews Air Force Base after stepping off Air Force One near Washington, March 15, 2010. REUTERS/Jim Young

Data points to modest recovery, muted inflation (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:59:53 GMT Reuters - The economy is on a moderate growth path and inflation pressures are contained, data showed Thursday, backing up the Federal Reserve's vow to keep benchmark interest rates ultra-low for some time.

Brewing tensions between the Tea Party and GOP (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:09:18 GMT West Michigan Tea Party member Joyce Wykretowicz holds one of her signs following a Tea Party meeting in Ludington, Michigan in this picture taken February 11, 2010. Some Tea Partiers say they can pinpoint the precise moment when they made it clear to the Republican Party they had no intention of being its lapdog. On a bright, brisk afternoon in mid-February, with snow still thick on the ground from storms that had battered Washington the week before, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele met with more than 50 members of the Tea Party, the Twitter Age conservative movement that is reshaping the U.S. political landscape. Picture taken February 11, 2010. To match Special Report USA-POLITICS/TEAPARTY. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS)

Obama scraps Asia-Pacific trip for healthcare (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:37:28 GMT Supporters of President Barack Obama gather for a party to welcome him at Fabulous Bellagio Mall in Jakarta March 17, 2010. The words on the T-shirts read: "Welcome". REUTERS/Crack Palinggi

Greece ups stakes in quest for EU help (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:58:02 GMT Reuters - Greece raised the stakes on Thursday in its quest for EU help to tackle its debt crisis, saying it cannot achieve promised deficit cuts if its borrowing costs remain so high and may have to call in the IMF.

Obama signs $17.6 billion jobs bill (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:32:43 GMT Reuters - President Barack Obama signed into law a $17.6 billion jobs bill on Thursday and sounded an optimistic note about the U.S. economy, saying it may soon begin adding jobs instead of losing them.

Domestic militants harder to profile - experts (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:56:46 GMT Reuters - The changing face of U.S. homegrown extremism has officials and analysts worried as a growing number of unlikely militants in small-town America radicalize themselves using the Internet and plot attacks at home and abroad.

EPA begins study on shale gas drilling (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:58:15 GMT Reuters - The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday it will begin to take a closer look at the environmental and human health impact of shale gas drilling, which could mean new regulations on a booming area of the energy sector.

Gaza rocket kills one in Israel, clouds Mideast peace moves (AFP) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:15:49 GMT An Israeli sapper removes the remains of a rocket launched from the nearby Gaza Strip and which landed in the southern Israeli Netiv Haasara Kibbutz. A flurry of Middle East diplomacy was marred on Thursday as a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip killed a civilian in Israel as the EU foreign policy chief was visiting the Palestinian enclave.(AFP/David Buimovitch)

Thai Red Shirts declare 'class war' (AFP) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:32:05 GMT Two supporters of deposed premier Thaksin Shinawatra hold masks showing his face during an anti-government protest in Bangkok. Thailand's rural underclass -- vying to revive flagging momentum after a week of colourful protests -- have appealed for a popular uprising against the well-entrenched political and aristocratic elite.(AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)