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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/3069 world Charity and Volunteering en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:35:59 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/3069 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_re_us/us_sacramento_mayor_investigation ap/20091121/us_sacramento_mayor_investigation AP us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:35:59 GMT AP - Two congressional Republicans say federal prosecutors rushed into a settlement with a nonprofit operated by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson that had been accused of misspending government grants. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/us_santa_s_mail_canceled ap/20091120/us_santa_s_mail_canceled AP us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:04:03 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/us_santa_s_mail_canceled"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.3ea81d685f8a460eaf8559f20c392f24.santa_s_mail_cancelled_aksah101.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=LorgZ1zNvP6hTfzpz57ktA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Santa Claus, also known as Patrick Farmer, at Santa Claus House in North Pole, Alaska Wednesday Nov. 18, 2009, holds letters from children sent this year that the U.S. Postal Service says they will no longer deliver. Citing privacy concerns, postal officials say that generically addressed letters to 'Santa Claus, North Pole' will no longer be forwarded to volunteers in the Alaska town as has been done for years. (AP Photo/Sam Harrel)" border="0" /></a>AP - An Alaska senator says the U.S. Postal Service is resuming a program allowing volunteers to respond to letters sent to Santa Claus in care of the North Pole, Alaska, post office.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/us_santa_s_mail_canceled"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.3ea81d685f8a460eaf8559f20c392f24.santa_s_mail_cancelled_aksah101.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=LorgZ1zNvP6hTfzpz57ktA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="Santa Claus, also known as Patrick Farmer, at Santa Claus House in North Pole, Alaska Wednesday Nov. 18, 2009, holds letters from children sent this year that the U.S. Postal Service says they will no longer deliver. Citing privacy concerns, postal officials say that generically addressed letters to 'Santa Claus, North Pole' will no longer be forwarded to volunteers in the Alaska town as has been done for years. (AP Photo/Sam Harrel)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/us_santa_s_mail_canceled ap/20091120/us_santa_s_mail_canceled AP us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:04:03 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/us_santa_s_mail_canceled"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.3ea81d685f8a460eaf8559f20c392f24.santa_s_mail_cancelled_aksah101.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=LorgZ1zNvP6hTfzpz57ktA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Santa Claus, also known as Patrick Farmer, at Santa Claus House in North Pole, Alaska Wednesday Nov. 18, 2009, holds letters from children sent this year that the U.S. Postal Service says they will no longer deliver. Citing privacy concerns, postal officials say that generically addressed letters to 'Santa Claus, North Pole' will no longer be forwarded to volunteers in the Alaska town as has been done for years. (AP Photo/Sam Harrel)" border="0" /></a>AP - An Alaska senator says the U.S. Postal Service is resuming a program allowing volunteers to respond to letters sent to Santa Claus in care of the North Pole, Alaska, post office.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/us_santa_s_mail_canceled"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.3ea81d685f8a460eaf8559f20c392f24.santa_s_mail_cancelled_aksah101.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=LorgZ1zNvP6hTfzpz57ktA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="Santa Claus, also known as Patrick Farmer, at Santa Claus House in North Pole, Alaska Wednesday Nov. 18, 2009, holds letters from children sent this year that the U.S. Postal Service says they will no longer deliver. Citing privacy concerns, postal officials say that generically addressed letters to 'Santa Claus, North Pole' will no longer be forwarded to volunteers in the Alaska town as has been done for years. (AP Photo/Sam Harrel)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/us_hungry_at_thanksgiving ap/20091119/us_hungry_at_thanksgiving AP us Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:42:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/us_hungry_at_thanksgiving"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.1640f46b5a99449c9a5a1a5c4e6d1b56.congress_food_banks_wx201.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=age7aQm3.w4JcPIAlNvZNw--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2009 file photo, volunteer Ken Newman sorts donated food at the Cherry Street Food Bank, run by Northwest Harvest, near downtown Seattle. A week before many Americans will sit down to Thanksgiving dinner, hunger relief advocates on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009, told members of Congress that food banks and charities are struggling to keep up with an increased need for food assistance. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Soup kitchen workers are seeing new faces in line and charities are taking more calls for help as the recession makes for a less-than-bountiful Thanksgiving.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/us_hungry_at_thanksgiving"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.1640f46b5a99449c9a5a1a5c4e6d1b56.congress_food_banks_wx201.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=age7aQm3.w4JcPIAlNvZNw--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2009 file photo, volunteer Ken Newman sorts donated food at the Cherry Street Food Bank, run by Northwest Harvest, near downtown Seattle. A week before many Americans will sit down to Thanksgiving dinner, hunger relief advocates on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009, told members of Congress that food banks and charities are struggling to keep up with an increased need for food assistance. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/us_texas_execution ap/20091119/us_texas_execution AP us Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:44:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/us_texas_execution"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.f3ac00220f0e425197a66429577b0b02.texas_execution_xdn101.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=U3lRTk3TeTV6MQDlyqP1mA--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="In this photo taken Nov. 4, 2009, is death row inmate Robert Lee Thompson during an interview in Huntsville, Texas. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, in a rare ruling, recommended the death sentence of Thompson be commuted to life in prison. Thompson, 34, was set for lethal injection Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 for his part in the fatal shooting of a Houston convenience store clerk. He was not the triggerman when Mansoor Bhai Rahim Mohammed, 29, was gunned down 13 years ago during a robbery but was convicted under the Texas law of parties, which made him equally culpable for the slaying. The shooter, Sammy Butler, was convicted and received life in prison. Thompson, tried separately, got death. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk )" border="0" /></a>AP - Gov. Rick Perry refused to spare a man facing execution Thursday evening for his role in a fatal robbery, rejecting a parole board recommendation that the death sentence of 34-year-old Robert Lee Thompson be commuted to life in prison.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/us_texas_execution"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.f3ac00220f0e425197a66429577b0b02.texas_execution_xdn101.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=U3lRTk3TeTV6MQDlyqP1mA--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo taken Nov. 4, 2009, is death row inmate Robert Lee Thompson during an interview in Huntsville, Texas. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, in a rare ruling, recommended the death sentence of Thompson be commuted to life in prison. Thompson, 34, was set for lethal injection Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 for his part in the fatal shooting of a Houston convenience store clerk. He was not the triggerman when Mansoor Bhai Rahim Mohammed, 29, was gunned down 13 years ago during a robbery but was convicted under the Texas law of parties, which made him equally culpable for the slaying. The shooter, Sammy Butler, was convicted and received life in prison. Thompson, tried separately, got death. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk )" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091118/ts_alt_afp/uspovertycharitycambodiachinalaosthailandvietnam afp/20091118/uspovertycharitycambodiachinalaosthailandvietnam AFP us Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:51:07 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091118/ts_alt_afp/uspovertycharitycambodiachinalaosthailandvietnam"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091118/capt.photo_1258382393963-1-0.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=LyDG9XK_bbwKAFtUypWvrQ--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="Former US president Jimmy Carter builds homes for the poor during the Habitat for Humanity project in Chiang Mai province as part of a campaign in which thousands of volunteers will build homes for the poor in five nations along the Mekong River.(AFP/AFP)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Former US president Jimmy Carter launched a campaign Monday in which thousands of volunteers will build homes for the poor in five nations along the Mekong River, a humanitarian group said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091118/ts_alt_afp/uspovertycharitycambodiachinalaosthailandvietnam"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091118/capt.photo_1258382393963-1-0.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=LyDG9XK_bbwKAFtUypWvrQ--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="photo" title="Former US president Jimmy Carter builds homes for the poor during the Habitat for Humanity project in Chiang Mai province as part of a campaign in which thousands of volunteers will build homes for the poor in five nations along the Mekong River.(AFP/AFP)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091116/ts_alt_afp/entertainmentbrazilusmusicpeoplecharitymalawi afp/20091116/entertainmentbrazilusmusicpeoplecharitymalawi AFP us Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:56:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091116/ts_alt_afp/entertainmentbrazilusmusicpeoplecharitymalawi"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091116/capt.photo_1258381839795-1-0.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=xiajdAhj3xj30ay3vOmffg--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="US singer Madonna, seen here in the Dona Marta shantytown in Rio De Janeiro, has raised $11 million from Brazilian millionaires for her Raising Malawi Foundation, the daily Rio O Dia has reported.(AFP/File/Antonio Scorza)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Madonna has raised 11 million dollars from Brazilian millionaires for her Raising Malawi Foundation, the daily Rio O Dia reported on Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091116/ts_alt_afp/entertainmentbrazilusmusicpeoplecharitymalawi"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091116/capt.photo_1258381839795-1-0.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=xiajdAhj3xj30ay3vOmffg--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="photo" title="US singer Madonna, seen here in the Dona Marta shantytown in Rio De Janeiro, has raised $11 million from Brazilian millionaires for her Raising Malawi Foundation, the daily Rio O Dia has reported.(AFP/File/Antonio Scorza)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_re_us/us_mosque_forfeiture ap/20091113/us_mosque_forfeiture AP us Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:40:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_re_us/us_mosque_forfeiture"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091113/capt.3d5575c3a805407791d186fd1897eb5d.mosque_forfeiture_nysc104.jpg?x=130&y=100&q=85&sig=yVq2KSUzz5DEMCYhu5x0oQ--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="Students arrive at the Razi school, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 in the Queens borough of New York. The school was among the assets seized by the federal government in a civil complaint in federal court seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets of the Alavi Foundation and an alleged front company. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)" border="0" /></a>AP - The organization that federal investigators say is a front for the Iranian government has spent millions of dollars over the years on philanthropy: buying property for four U.S. mosques, funding religious schools and language classes, and translating books on Islam.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_re_us/us_mosque_forfeiture"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091113/capt.3d5575c3a805407791d186fd1897eb5d.mosque_forfeiture_nysc104.jpg?x=130&y=100&q=85&sig=yVq2KSUzz5DEMCYhu5x0oQ--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="photo" title="Students arrive at the Razi school, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 in the Queens borough of New York. The school was among the assets seized by the federal government in a civil complaint in federal court seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets of the Alavi Foundation and an alleged front company. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_re_us/us_mosque_forfeiture ap/20091113/us_mosque_forfeiture AP us Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:40:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_re_us/us_mosque_forfeiture"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091113/capt.3d5575c3a805407791d186fd1897eb5d.mosque_forfeiture_nysc104.jpg?x=130&y=100&q=85&sig=yVq2KSUzz5DEMCYhu5x0oQ--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="Students arrive at the Razi school, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 in the Queens borough of New York. The school was among the assets seized by the federal government in a civil complaint in federal court seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets of the Alavi Foundation and an alleged front company. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)" border="0" /></a>AP - The organization that federal investigators say is a front for the Iranian government has spent millions of dollars over the years on philanthropy: buying property for four U.S. mosques, funding religious schools and language classes, and translating books on Islam.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_re_us/us_mosque_forfeiture"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091113/capt.3d5575c3a805407791d186fd1897eb5d.mosque_forfeiture_nysc104.jpg?x=130&y=100&q=85&sig=yVq2KSUzz5DEMCYhu5x0oQ--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="photo" title="Students arrive at the Razi school, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 in the Queens borough of New York. The school was among the assets seized by the federal government in a civil complaint in federal court seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets of the Alavi Foundation and an alleged front company. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091112/ap_on_re_us/us_skydiver_killed ap/20091112/us_skydiver_killed AP us Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:23:55 GMT AP - A skydiver killed during a jump this week had tried earlier in the day to set a parachuting record in a charity event, friends and officials said Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091112/us_nm/us_fda_internet nm/20091112/us_fda_internet Reuters us Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:04:03 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091112/us_nm/us_fda_internet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091112/i/r3413278923.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=In_5gRQjAHCsAoWaip1ITA--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="A customer shops for medicine at a Portland, Oregon drugstore July 31, 2005. REUTERS/Richard Clement RC/YH" border="0" /></a>Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Drug makers, Internet companies and nonprofits packed a hearing into what is a gray area for U.S. health regulators: how far Twitter, Wikipedia, blogs and other social media can go in promoting drugs.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091112/us_nm/us_fda_internet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091112/i/r3413278923.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=In_5gRQjAHCsAoWaip1ITA--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="photo" title="A customer shops for medicine at a Portland, Oregon drugstore July 31, 2005. REUTERS/Richard Clement RC/YH" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091110/us_time/08599193694300 time/20091110/08599193694300 Time.com us Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:05:00 GMT Time.com - What the 1.8 million U.S. troops back home from Iraq and Afghanistan want is to be asked to serve again, this time on the home front. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_wisconsin_cheesehead ap/20091107/us_obama_wisconsin_cheesehead AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:22:37 GMT AP - A Wisconsin man who got his cheesehead hat signed by President Barack Obama has decided to donate it to a museum rather than sell it on eBay. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_re_us/us_yellowstone_bioblitz ap/20091104/us_yellowstone_bioblitz AP us Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:18:10 GMT AP - Scientists searching for Yellowstone National Park's lesser-known life forms &mdash; beyond its famed bison, bears and wolves &mdash; found more than 1,200 species, including several never known before to exist in the park. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_re_us/us_nonprofit_news_denver ap/20091103/us_nonprofit_news_denver AP us Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:10:43 GMT AP - A Denver public television station is planning a nonprofit investigative news operation with a Web site and on-air program. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_re_us/un_un_peacebuilding_lennon ap/20091103/un_un_peacebuilding_lennon AP us Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:47:53 GMT AP - John Lennon's widow and two sons are donating the proceeds from the 40th anniversary release of the hit "Give Peace a Chance" to a U.N. peacebuilding fund used to help countries emerging from conflict, the fund announced Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091103/us_nm/us_flu_nurses nm/20091103/us_flu_nurses Reuters us Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:27:09 GMT Reuters - After months of talks, the largest U.S. nurses union and California's biggest nonprofit healthcare chain have agreed to safeguards that the nurses believe may serve as a national model for curbing H1N1 swine flu in hospitals. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_re/us_rel_church_online ap/20091102/us_rel_church_online AP us Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:36:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_re/us_rel_church_online"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091101/capt.5679b091611442e5b628c854c6b43e92.church_online_fljc202.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=CdFlTeg7WfNKgV0Uimlhow--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this photo taken Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009, Brian Vasil, the Internet pastor for the Flamingo Road Church in Cooper City, Fla., chats with attendees from around the world as he prepares to deliver a sermon Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)" border="0" /></a>AP - Church volunteers greet visitors entering the lobby. The worship band begins its set and a pastor offers to pray privately with anyone during the service.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_re/us_rel_church_online"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091101/capt.5679b091611442e5b628c854c6b43e92.church_online_fljc202.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=CdFlTeg7WfNKgV0Uimlhow--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo taken Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009, Brian Vasil, the Internet pastor for the Flamingo Road Church in Cooper City, Fla., chats with attendees from around the world as he prepares to deliver a sermon Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_re_us/us_abortion_provider_protection ap/20091029/us_abortion_provider_protection AP us Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:54:32 GMT AP - The widow of a doctor who was shot to death in his New York home in 1998 by an abortion protester said Thursday the new state law setting tougher penalties for people who attack abortion providers or their employees and volunteers will reduce such incidents. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/ts_alt_afp/healthfluuswhoaid afp/20091029/healthfluuswhoaid AFP us Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:01:43 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/ts_alt_afp/healthfluuswhoaid"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091029/capt.photo_1256777494696-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=rcb7R8PMpbwd98jyhh0zyA--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="The United States will not donate swine flu vaccine to poor countries until at-risk Americans have been inoculated against H1N1, US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said at the news conference on October 28, in Washington, DC.(AFP/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The United States will not donate swine flu vaccine to poor countries until at-risk Americans have been inoculated against H1N1, an official said Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/ts_alt_afp/healthfluuswhoaid"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091029/capt.photo_1256777494696-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=rcb7R8PMpbwd98jyhh0zyA--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="The United States will not donate swine flu vaccine to poor countries until at-risk Americans have been inoculated against H1N1, US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said at the news conference on October 28, in Washington, DC.(AFP/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)