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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has announced the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs). He's nominating as her successor his budget director, Sylvia Mathews Burwell. With a new face soon to be in charge at HHS, the White House wants to see if the poisonous atmosphere surrounding the new health care law might give way to more pragmatic efforts aimed at fixing problems with the program.
LONDON (AP) — Stock markets around the world are feeling the impact of the recent slump in the tech-heavy Nasdaq index on Wall Street. The index is even lower today, after slumping three percent yesterday -- its worst day since 2011. The Nasdaq has been driving global markets since last Friday, when concerns over the valuation of many of its stocks first erupted. One market analyst says there's "a lot of pessimism in the markets right now."
ORLAND, Calif. (AP) — A survivor of yesterday's fiery bus and truck crash on a Northern California freeway says many of the people on the bus were able to escape through a window that someone had kicked open. They ran for their lives to the other side of Interstate 5 before hearing an explosion and seeing the bus burst into flames. The bus was carrying high school students for a college campus tour. The crash killed nine people on the bus, including the driver, as well as the driver of the truck.
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Australia's prime minister says he's "very confident" that the signals being detected deep in the Indian Ocean are from the black boxes of the missing Malaysian jetliner. He says crews hunting for Flight 370 have zeroed in on a smaller area in their search for the sounds, which were first heard on Saturday. But the signal, he says, is starting to fade.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A woman has been taken into federal custody in Las Vegas, after admitting that she tossed a shoe at Hillary Rodham Clinton while Clinton spoke to a recycling industry group yesterday. Clinton joked that she "didn't know that solid waste management was so controversial." The shoe-thrower didn't say why she did it.
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