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This edition was generated on Wed May 9 08:45:02 EDT 2012

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General News Update

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

  • Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda speaks during a news conference at the automaker's headquarters in Tokyo Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Toyota's January-March profit more than quadrupled to 121 billion yen ($1.5 billion), and the automaker gave upbeat forecasts, marking a solid recovery from a hardship-filled year following the tsunami in Japan. Toyota's profit for the fiscal year ended March plunged 30 percent to 283.6 billion yen ($3.5 billion), down from 408 billion yen the previous fiscal year, as last year's tsunami damaged supply chains in northeastern Japan and hobbled Toyota production around the world. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
    Toyota quarterly profit quadruples on recovery @ AP - 59 mins ago

    Toyota's quarterly profit more than quadrupled to 121 billion yen ($1.5 billion), and the automaker gave upbeat forecasts as it recovers from a sales plunge caused by the tsunami in Japan last year. More »Toyota quarterly profit quadruples on recovery

    Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda speaks during a news conference at the automaker's headquarters in Tokyo Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Toyota's January-March profit more than quadrupled to 121 billion yen ($1.5 billion), and the automaker gave upbeat forecasts, marking a solid recovery from a hardship-filled year following the tsunami in Japan. Toyota's profit for the fiscal year ended March plunged 30 percent to 283.6 billion yen ($3.5 billion), down from 408 billion yen the previous fiscal year, as last year's tsunami damaged supply chains in northeastern Japan and hobbled Toyota production around the world. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

    Toyota's quarterly profit more than quadrupled to 121 billion yen ($1.5 billion), and the automaker gave upbeat forecasts as it recovers from a sales plunge caused by the tsunami in Japan last year.

  • Amendment One North Carolina: Anti-Gay Marriage Measure Passes
    North Carolina votes to ban gay marriage The Ticket - 11 hrs ago

    North Carolinians voted to change the state constitution Tuesday to say that the only valid "domestic legal partnership" in the state is marriage between a man and a woman, according to the AP's projection. .] More »North Carolina votes to ban gay marriage

    Amendment One North Carolina: Anti-Gay Marriage Measure Passes

    North Carolinians voted to change the state constitution Tuesday to say that the only valid "domestic legal partnership" in the state is marriage between a man and a woman, according to the AP's projection. .]

  • The man ordered by Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen to blow up a US-bound airliner was a double agent, reports say
    Double agent foils 'underwear bomb' plot ABC News - 17 hrs ago

    Double Agent Posed As Suicide Bomber, Disrupted New 'Underwear Bomb' Plot More »Double agent foils 'underwear bomb' plot

    The man ordered by Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen to blow up a US-bound airliner was a double agent, reports say

    Double Agent Posed As Suicide Bomber, Disrupted New 'Underwear Bomb' Plot

  • File photo of U.S. former Republican presidential hopeful Senator Rick Santorum
    Santorum explains late-night Romney backing on late-night TV ABC OTUS News - 7 hrs ago

    Wearing his trademark sweater vest and bringing one as a gift for his host while appearing on “The Tonight Show," Rick Santorum explained why he endorsed Mitt Romney in a lukewarm email to his supporters. More »Santorum explains late-night Romney backing on late-night TV

    File photo of U.S. former Republican presidential hopeful Senator Rick Santorum

    Wearing his trademark sweater vest and bringing one as a gift for his host while appearing on “The Tonight Show," Rick Santorum explained why he endorsed Mitt Romney in a lukewarm email to his supporters.

  • Members of the Mississippi Highway Patrol gather at a staging area during the search for a missing Tennessee family, Monday, May 7 2012 in Guntown, Miss. State troopers stopped vehicles at roadblocks Monday and officers searched the yard of a home in northern Mississippi, seeking to unravel the mysterious disappearance of a Tennessee mother and her three daughters and find the family friend accused of abducting them. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)
    Wife, mother of kidnap-slaying suspect arrested AP - 9 hrs ago

    The wife and mother of a Mississippi man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter before fleeing with her two younger girls were charged in connection with the abduction, authorities said. More »Wife, mother of kidnap-slaying suspect arrested

    Members of the Mississippi Highway Patrol gather at a staging area during the search for a missing Tennessee family, Monday, May 7 2012 in Guntown, Miss. State troopers stopped vehicles at roadblocks Monday and officers searched the yard of a home in northern Mississippi, seeking to unravel the mysterious disappearance of a Tennessee mother and her three daughters and find the family friend accused of abducting them. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)

    The wife and mother of a Mississippi man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter before fleeing with her two younger girls were charged in connection with the abduction, authorities said.

  • Michele Bachmann speaks next to Mitt Romney during a rally at Crofton Industries in Portsmouth
    Michele Bachmann becomes a Swiss citizen The Ticket - 6 hrs ago

    The Minnesota congresswoman and former Republican presidential candidate was recently granted dual citizenship, Bachmann's office confirmed. More »Michele Bachmann becomes a Swiss citizen

    Michele Bachmann speaks next to Mitt Romney during a rally at Crofton Industries in Portsmouth

    The Minnesota congresswoman and former Republican presidential candidate was recently granted dual citizenship, Bachmann's office confirmed.

  • A Southwest Airlines 737-700 takes off from Bob Hope Airport in Burbank
    Bomb threat halts 2 Southwest Airlines flights AP - 5 hrs ago

    Two Southwest Airlines flights with ties to Phoenix and Orange County's John Wayne Airport were grounded Tuesday night following a threatening phone call, authorities said. More »Bomb threat halts 2 Southwest Airlines flights

    A Southwest Airlines 737-700 takes off from Bob Hope Airport in Burbank

    Two Southwest Airlines flights with ties to Phoenix and Orange County's John Wayne Airport were grounded Tuesday night following a threatening phone call, authorities said.

  • In this Feb. 21, 2012 photo, an orangutan works with an IPAD at Jungle Island in Miami.  Experts who work with primates have been using sign language and other methods to communicate with apes for years. But with advancements in tablet computer technology, workers at Jungle Island in Miami are using iPads to better communicate with their orangutans.  (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

    The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family's teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan's elders show no interest.

  • In this May 8, 2012, photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies dinner in Washington. Obama’s campaign is trying an "all of the above" strategy against Mitt Romney. It is criticizing the Republican’s character, wealth and policy positions in attacks that may become more focused as the fall election nears. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    Barack Obama was not the only Democrat on the ballot in West Virginia’s Democratic Presidential Primary. Keith Judd — also known as Inmate No. 11593-051 at the federal prison in Texarkana, Texas — was running against him.

  • Hillary Clinton made major headlines on her trip through Asia, while she managed to avert a full out diplomatic crisis between America and China over a blind dissident and pressed India to reduce its oil imports from that rogue nation Iran. The secretary of state...

  • Gay Marriage Convention Fight?

    The prospect of a floor fight at the Democratic National Convention emerged this week as North Carolinians voted to pass a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships.

  • Experts worry about pill that can prevent HIV @ Good Morning America - 17 hrs ago

    AIDS advocates say a pill proven to protect against the HIV virus could promote unsafe sex by creating a false sense of security.

  • Josh Hamilton tied a major league record with four homers and drove in eight runs

    On Tuesday night in Baltimore, the Texas Rangers star captivated all of baseball with his home run prowess again, swatting four homers off Orioles pitchers in a 10-3 win at Camden Yards.

  • FILE - In this May 2, 2012, file photo President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai shake hands after making statements before signing a strategic partnership agreement at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. Support for the war in Afghanistan has reached a new low, with only 27 percent of Americans saying they back the effort and about half of those who oppose the war saying the continued presence of American troops in Afghanistan is doing more harm than good, according to an AP-GfK poll. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

    Support for the war in Afghanistan has reached a new low, with only 27 percent of Americans saying they back the effort, according to an AP-GfK poll.

  • Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Lansing Community College in Lansing, Mich., Tuesday, May 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

    With victories in Indiana, West Virginia and North Carolina under his belt, Romney moves closer to reaching the 1,144 delegates he needs to officially clinch the Republican Party’s nomination for president.

  • Milwaukee mayor to face Walker in recall ABC OTUS News - 10 hrs ago
    Tom Barrett Hits Campaign Trail

    Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett won the Democratic primary in Wisconsin on Tuesday and will go head-to-head with embattled Republican Gov. Scott Walker in the rare recall election on June 5.

  • Brian Pickett, shown in this Seminole County Sheriff's Department photo released May 8, was one of four white supremacists arrested in Florida for allegedly planning to set off a series of bombs in the Orlando area

    Ten alleged members of a white supremacist group training near Orlando and Disney World for a "race war" have been rounded up in a series of arrests in central Florida, authorities said on Tuesday.

  • Partners Anna Simon, left, and Fran Simon embrace at a rally in support of Civil Unions at the Capitol in Denver on Tuesday, May 8, 2012. The rally pushed for the passage of a Civil Unions bill that must be debated on the House floor before it can be passed on Wednesday the final day of the Legislative session. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

    Chants of "shame on you" from gay rights supporters thundered through the Colorado House on Tuesday night after Republican House Speaker Frank McNulty said legislation to allow civil unions won't get a vote.

  • Biden's gay marriage slip

    Vice President Joe Biden warned that the window of opportunity for peacefully resolving the standoff over Iran's nuclear program was closing "in the near term."

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