AP - Major League Baseball reversed its long-standing opposition to instant replay and will allow umpires to check video on home run calls in series that start Thursday.
Number of uninsured drops; poverty holds steady
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AP - The number of people without health insurance fell by more than 1 million in 2007, the first annual decline since the Bush administration took office, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Incomes edged up for the middle class while poverty held steady.
Reuters - Russia recognized two rebel
regions of Georgia as independent states on Tuesday, driving up
tension in the volatile Caucasus and putting Moscow on a
collision course with the West.
AFP - Russia on Tuesday formally recognised the Georgian rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states in a new challenge to the West that drew sharp warnings of consequences.
AP - Americans felt better about the economy in August, as a barometer of sentiment posted the biggest boost in two years amid falling gas prices. Two reports suggested that a bottom could be nearing for the housing market, but economists caution it's too early to proclaim that the worst is over.
Reuters - North Korea said on Tuesday it will stop
disabling its nuclear facilities and consider restoring the
Yongbyon reactor that can make material for atomic bombs,
accusing the United States of violating a disarmament deal.
Reuters - Authorities on Tuesday were
investigating whether three men arrested in Colorado with guns
and drugs planned to kill Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama, but said they posed no real threat.
AP - For a second straight year, SAT scores for the most recent high school graduating class remained at the lowest level in nearly a decade, a trend attributed to a record number of students now taking the test.
AFP - Thousands of Thai protesters stormed a state-run TV station and the seat of government on Tuesday, in what Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said was an effort to provoke another coup.
