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• From now on, most every call can be challenged by a manager. When that happens, the final decision will come from a replay booth in New York, rather than the field. And instead of out or safe, fair or foul, disputes will be settled with two words new to baseball's lingo: confirmed or overturned.
• Commissioner Bud Selig was at Miller Park in Milwaukee for the first call that got reversed. Minutes later, another ruling got changed at PNC Park in Pittsburgh.
• "You know what? They got the play right. That's the bottom line," said Atlanta manager Fredi Gonzalez, who won his challenge in Milwaukee but lost the game.
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Senator says manufacturing giant Caterpillar uses offshore haven to avoid billions in US taxes
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Executives from manufacturing giant Caterpillar Inc. are heading to Capitol Hill to explain what one senator calls an aggressive strategy to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes.
• Caterpillar has avoided paying $2.4 billion in U.S. taxes since 2000 by shifting profits to a wholly-controlled affiliate in Switzerland, according to a report released by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.
• Levin chairs the Senate investigations subcommittee. His subcommittee is holding a hearing on the report Tuesday. Representatives from Caterpillar and accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP are scheduled to testify.
• The report says Caterpillar paid PricewaterhouseCoopers $55 million to develop its tax strategy.
• The committee's Democratic staff compiled the report as part of a nine-month investigation into Caterpillar's taxes. It was released Monday.
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10 Things to Know for Today
The Associated Press
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• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
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• 1. HEALTH CARE ENROLLEES ENDURE BLIZZARDS, LINES, GLITCHES
• Across the nation, interest in getting health insurance_and avoiding the penalty_was piqued as midnight deadline loomed.
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