Tuesday News

• Obama vows increased diplomacy

  President-elect Barack Obama introduced yesterday his national security team, made up of centrist Washington insiders, and promised an overhaul of foreign policy to give added emphasis to diplomacy and bring a "new dawn of American leadership."

• Focus on Phelps, again

  Over the years, Michael Phelps has mastered the art of playing coy.

• Crash survivors reunite

  Travis Barker and DJ AM will perform together for the first time since the duo survived a fiery plane crash in South Carolina in September that killed four people.

• Arrest in Hudson deaths

  Chicago police arrested the estranged brother-in-law of Jennifer Hudson yesterday in the deaths of the entertainer's mother, brother and young nephew, taking him from a prison where he had been held on a suspected parole violation.

• Fey, husband say scar is from childhood slashing

  Tina Fey's husband is talking about something the 30 Rock actress would rather not discuss: the scar on her left cheek.

• Splitsville

  CSI actress Marg Helgenberger, 50, and her husband of 19 years, actor Alan Rosenberg, 58, have separated, People magazine's Web site reported yesterday.

• Young adults hit by mental health issues

  Nearly half of college-age adults struggle with a mental health disorder, from alcohol dependency to depression and anxiety. But only a quarter seek treatment, according to a study published today.

• House whip calls on Big Three CEOs to resign

  COLUMBIA, S.C. The chief executives of the nation's Big Three automakers should give up their jobs, not just their lavish executive pay packages, as a condition of $25 billion in proposed federal help to keep the companies operating, U.S. House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn said yesterday. "If I had my way, all three of those guys would be in the unemployment line, and I think that ought to be one of the conditions for us doing this," Clyburn, a Democrat from South Carolina, told reporters at a news conference. Democratic leaders have demanded blueprints from Chrysler LLC, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. before they will hold votes on any new federal aid. Clyburn will be responsible for rounding up the votes needed for any automaker rescue package.

• HIV-infected babies need early treatment

  UNITED NATIONS Early treatment for babies born with the virus that causes AIDS can significantly increase their chances of survival, according to a report yesterday by four U.N. agencies. Far too few pregnant women know their HIV status, and in 2007 less than 10 percent of infants born to HIV-positive mothers were tested for the virus before they were 2 months old, the report said. "Survival rates are up to 75 percent higher for HIV-positive newborns who ... begin treatment within their first 12 weeks," said Ann Veneman, executive director of the U.N. children's agency, UNICEF.

• Dozens dead in series of Iraq bombings

  BAGHDAD Bombers targeting Iraqi and U.S. security forces cut a deadly swath across Iraq yesterday, killing as many as 36 people, including 15 police cadets at a police academy in Baghdad. Also in the capital, an Iraqi army general escaped an assassination attempt, but the roadside bomb targeting him killed one of his bodyguards. The blast was intended for Maj. Gen. Mudher Mawla, who is overseeing the transition of tens of thousands of mainly Sunni paramilitary fighters into the Iraqi security forces and other government entities. The fighters, known as the Sons of Iraq, are credited with helping reduce violence nationwide. But they are frequent targets of insurgents, who consider them traitors.

• Detroit mayor's lover pleads guilty

  DETROIT Stoic and publicly silent through months of a sex scandal, the woman whose relationship with former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick led to his downfall broke her silence yesterday, shedding tears as she pleaded guilty. Christine Beatty, a former aide to Kilpatrick, accepted a four-month jail sentence on obstruction of justice charges for her actions in a lawsuit brought by two police officers. Beatty's jail sentence will begin Jan. 5. With credit for good behavior, she could be free in 100 days.

• A defiant Mumbai returns to business

  With a bit of pluck, even if was not always heartfelt, a touch of defiance and a dose of the city's famous resilience, Mumbai dusted itself off yesterday from last week's terrorist attack and headed back to work.

• Correction

  The name of a former Sun reporter was misspelled in Laura Vozzella's column Sunday. He is Rafael Alvarez.

• Cabinet choices biographies

  Secretary of state

  Hillary Clinton