COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is with his family, a day after his admission that he'd been having a yearlong extramarital affair with a woman from Argentina. A spokesman says Sanford is with his family at their beach home. His wife and their four sons had been staying there. Jenny Sanford wasn't with her husband for yesterday's announcement, but both have said they plan to try to reconcile.
HOUSTON (AP) Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford has pleaded not guilty to charges he swindled investors out of $7 billion as part of a massive investment scam. Stanford entered his plea during his arraignment in federal court in Houston. He'd been indicted last week by a grand jury on charges that his international banking empire was really just a colossal Ponzi scheme.
Washington (AP) An Arizona teenager says she's "pretty excited" about today's Supreme Court ruling that says school officials acted illegally by strip-searching her. She says she hopes her court fight will "keep it from happening to anybody else." Savana Redding was 13 when school officials ordered her to remove her clothes during a search for prescription-strength ibuprofen. The justices say it violated the Constitution's ban on unreasonable searches.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi could be planning another demonstation. His Web site says Mousavi has applied for permission to hold a gathering to commemorate the "martyrs" of the post-election confrontations. A march today by another opposition figure was postponed because of a lack of a permit. Yesterday, security forces with clubs broke up a small group of protesters outside Iran's parliament.
WASHINGTON (AP) Senators who are trying to bring down the cost of a health care reform plan say they're making progress in reaching their $1 trillion target. Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus says there are options that would allow a bill of that size to be "fully paid for." But Republicans are adding that there's no agreement yet on even the outlines of a measure.
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