http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/national RSS Feed for KBAK - News - National & World en-us Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:52:39 GMT http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/national/88763302.html A pair of House Democratic leaders predicted Sunday the final tally on President Barack Obama's historic health care bill will meet or exceed the 216 votes required for passage. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/national/88762992.html A volcano erupted near a glacier in southern Iceland, shooting ash and molten lava into the air and forcing the evacuation Sunday of hundreds of people from nearby villages. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/national/88763082.html A third deadly avalanche in British Columbia within a week has killed two French skiers as they were coming down a mountain after being dropped off by helicopter, police said Sunday. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/national/88762897.html Two police officers who had pulled over a suspicious vehicle were shot and wounded by the driver, and the suspect was killed when the officers returned fire, Baltimore police said Sunday. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/national/88730667.html Authorities will search once again for a missing U.S. teen after an American couple took an underwater picture of what they believe might be Natalee Holloway's remains, a spokeswoman for the prosecutors' office told The Associated Press on Saturday. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/national/88726232.html The tense atmosphere surrounding a California police department plagued by booby trap attacks has been stepped up a notch following the latest threat against officers. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/national/88728712.html Stewart Udall, who sowed the seeds of the modern environmental movement as secretary of the interior during the 1960s and later became a crusader for victims of radiation exposure from the government's Cold War nuclear programs, died Saturday. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/national/88726827.html Rescue crews resumed their search Saturday in British Columbia's mountainous backcountry for any more victims after the region's second deadly avalanche hit in less than a week, killing one snowmobiler. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/national/88726077.html A 16-year-old boy was responsible for an intercom announcement ordering black people to leave from a Wal-Mart store in southern New Jersey, angering customers and prompting company leaders to apologize, police said Saturday. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/national/88710002.html In a fresh appeal directly to the Iranian people, President Barack Obama says in an online video that the United States wants more educational and cultural exchanges for their students and better access to the Internet to give them a more hopeful future.