http://www.philly.com/r?19=960&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F Philly.com national headlines. en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z en-us http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=71316237&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091123_Cyber_school_founder_gets__3_million_to_cut_ties.html The founder of a charter school in Devon that is under federal investigation has received $3 million to sever all ties to the institution, according to terms of a settlement that includes the state Department of Education. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 660f0b89f90a3f0625c04d60492a7e9e 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=71316467&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091123_Sex-bias_complaint_lingers.html LEXINGTON, Va. - Virginia Military Institute is defending itself against a long investigation into accusations that the school's policies are sexist and hostile toward female cadets, a dozen years after women won the right to enroll. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 7ec815d4f68aa5592a5f6984fc789c52 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=71316452&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091123_Dad_s_far_above_Cloud_9_.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronaut Randolph Bresnik jubilantly welcomed his new daughter into the world yesterday as he floated 220 miles above it. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 31d0913d755c2213e7e0549fee017f70 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=71316447&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091123_The_ocean_depths_teem_with_strange_creatures.html NEW ORLEANS - The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive "dumbos" that flap earlike fins, and tube worms that feed on oil deposits. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT b1a527ad71bef5dd6af2cc9a84350b3f 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=71316412&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091123_Kennedy_asked_not_to_commune.html EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Roman Catholic bishop of Rhode Island said yesterday that he asked Rep. Patrick Kennedy in a 2007 letter to stop receiving communion, the central sacrament of the church, because of the congressman's public stance on moral issues. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 78e3ca1c65120000139a4b43efaaa5b4 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=71316402&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091123_Iran_stages_biggest_air-defense_drill.html BEIRUT - Iran yesterday launched what it described as its biggest air-defense drill ever, with the aim of preparing to protect the country's nuclear sites from possible air strikes as international talks to resolve the long deadlock over the nation's atomic-research program falter. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 84d672da9b2ee844b529e15a7178ffc7 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=71316462&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091123_Lawyer__Not_guilty_plea_is_strategy.html NEW YORK - The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said yesterday. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 721b4b9e124d9efcd697c1e1e8997e75 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=71316357&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091123_Jackson_wins_4_AMAs__Swift_gets_big_win.html LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson made history last night by winning four American Music Awards - more career AMAs than any other artist and the show's winningest posthumous artist - but he couldn't beat Taylor Swift as the year's favorite artist. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT f6a12903465d05b1f73e19ba693e9ec9 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=71316372&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091123_92_dead_and_16_missing_in_Chinese_mine_blast.html HEGANG, China - When gas levels suddenly spiked deep in the Xinxing coal mine, Wang Jiguo grabbed two coworkers and they ran for their lives. Minutes later, there was a huge bang, a torrent of hot air and the earth shuddered. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 81b5efab0793ed9fd5e1bc0d73dd0b3f 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=71316362&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091123_Leaked_data_cast_doubt_on_Blair_Iraq_statements.html LONDON - Leaked British government documents call into question former Prime Minister Tony Blair's public statements on the buildup for the Iraq war and show plans for the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 were being made more than a year earlier, a newspaper reported yesterday. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 435df9c99213d688231f8c3b79bc1050 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=71316432&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091123_In_the_Nation.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 2127723a5cef518177baa48f7f78bf2a 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=71316437&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091123_Charter_founder_s_pension_benefits_cut.html Eighteen months after Pennsylvania's retirement system began investigating Dorothy June Brown for collecting full-time salaries from two charter schools, Brown's pension benefits have been slashed. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT f76f1edd0f3fcbecda44b1c93605ec4f 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=71316422&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091123_In-home_day_cares_provide_lots_of_TV_time__survey_finds.html SEATTLE - Parents who thought their preschoolers were spending time in home-based day cares taking naps, eating healthy snacks, and learning to play nicely with others may be surprised to discover they are sitting as many as two hours a day in front of a TV, according to a study published today. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT be5ee53d6623310e28112562454b72e5 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=71316407&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091123_3_Iraqis_jailed_in_deadly_blast_confess_their_tactics_on_TV.html BAGHDAD - Three jailed suspects in the Oct. 25 bombings that killed more than 150 people in Iraq said they filmed the targeted buildings before the attack and escorted the car bombs in a convoy into Baghdad, according to confessions shown on Iraqi television yesterday. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT a44a64b83bcc20db439294cd4729ccce 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=71316377&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091123_As_climate_talks_approach__U_S__still_has_no_plan.html WASHINGTON - With just over two weeks to go before global climate negotiations in Denmark, the United States has yet to decide whether it can meet international expectations and offer to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by a certain amount in the next decade. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT bf3c9fc86ce1dfb17616bfdcf30583c1 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=71316387&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091123_In_the_World.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT a764cb14b51cbd8021352f362c8da190 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=71316397&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091123_At_least_29_die_in_sinking_of_ferry.html JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers saved more than 240 people aboard a crowded Indonesian passenger ferry that sank yesterday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but 29 people have died and at least 17 others were missing, officials said. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 1fe0ea90d8de5236a63cd38b14075eb7 2009-11-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=70734232&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091122_Practices_devote_costly_hours_to_insurance_dealings.html At Cardiology Consultants of Philadelphia, one of the region's largest specialty physician groups, the expensive quest to get paid by dozens of insurance companies begins days before a patient shows up for an appointment and can take weeks or months. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 324136445cc8b116fdfb93e3ac68747a 2009-11-22T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=70734327&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091122_Researcher_says_faint_text_proves_shroud_s_authenticity.html ROME - A Vatican researcher asserts that nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves that the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth is authentic. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 8c221f1e5c8e178cbf953d421304641b 2009-11-22T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165776&44=70734262&32=3796&7=195377&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fnews%2Fnation_world%2F20091122_College_students_rethink_foreign_study.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Economic reality and money problems may be cooling the enthusiasm of U.S. college students to study abroad, just two years after students' interest in foreign study was at an all-time high. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT c6093e027de88c3fb0f0f659450f6c13 2009-11-22T08:01:00Z