U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee have purportedly been sentenced to 12 years in a North Korea labor camp for "hostilities against the Korean nation and illegal entry." The two women were arrested in March while reporting for Al Gore's Current TV along the Chinese-North Korean border. Meanwhile, the U.S. government is working feverishly for their release. ABC News
Seventeen bodies have been recovered from last week's crash of an Air France jetliner off the South American coast, according to Brazil's military. Air France 447 disappeared over the Atlantic early last Monday. The jet was en route to Paris, France, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with 228 passengers and crew aboard. The bodies were found floating about 700 miles from the Brazilian coast. Items found in the same area Saturday were confirmed to have come from the jet, including pieces of the aircraft's wing section, luggage and a leather briefcase containing an airplane ticket with a reservation code for the doomed flight. Two key pieces of evidence -- the flight data and cockpit voice recorders -- remain missing, and could lay on the ocean floor. CNN
President Barack Obama promised Monday to deliver more than 600,000 jobs through his $787 billion stimulus plan this summer, with federal agencies pumping billions into public works projects, schools and summer youth programs. Obama is ramping up his stimulus program this week even as his advisers are ramping down expectations about when the spending plan will effect a continuing rise in the nation's unemployment. Many of the stimulus plans that Obama announced Monday already were in the works, including hundreds of maintenance projects at military bases, about 1,600 state road and airport improvements, and federal money states budgeted for 135,000 teachers, principals and school support staff. FOX News
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