Testing finds no health threat along West Coast (AP)
AP – Minuscule amounts of radiation from Japan’s stricken nuclear plant have reached the west coast but federal and state officials say it poses no health risk.
Pentagon chief heads to Russia (AP)
AP – Defense Secretary Robert Gates will make his final trip to Russia as a cabinet member this weekend, as the two military powers struggle to find common ground in the campaign to put a missile defense shield in Europe.
Negotiator Warren Christopher dies at 85 (Reuters)
Reuters – Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who helped bring peace to Bosnia and negotiated the release of American hostages in Iran, died in California at age 85, news media reported.
Report: Valerie Plame Wilson to pen suspense books (AP)
AP – Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson is turning to fiction writing more than three years after publishing a memoir about her career.
Japanese media pull story of "miracle" tsunami survivor (Reuters)
Reuters – It seemed too good to be true. A young man pulled alive from the rubble on Saturday eight days after Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Obama endorses military action to stop Gadhafi (AP)
AP – After weeks of hesitation and divisions among his advisers, President Barack Obama on Friday endorsed military action against Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi, saying U.S. values and credibility are at stake to stop “the potential for mass murder” of innocents.
George Mason tops ‘Nova 61-57 in NCAA tournament (AP)
AP – George Mason has another fantastic March story to tell. Luke Hancock hit a 3-pointer with 21 seconds left, capping the Patriots’ comeback and keeping the one-time NCAA tournament darlings playing with a 61-57 win over Villanova on Friday.
Japan lays power cable in race to stop radiation (Reuters)
Reuters – Exhausted engineers attached a power cable to the outside of Japan’s tsunami-crippled nuclear plant on Saturday in a race to prevent deadly radiation from an accident now rated at least as bad as America’s Three Mile Island incident in 1979.
Libya insists respecting truce, rebels mobilise (AFP)
AFP – Libya insisted it was respecting a self-declared ceasefire on Friday in line with UN Security Council demands as rebel fighters mobilised to defend their stronghold of Benghazi.
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