Initial Senate vote looms on health legislation
Saturday, November 21, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A crucial first Senate vote on President Barack Obama''s health care overhaul in a rare Saturday night session looms as a test of Democratic unity and the president''s prestige....
Italian police arrest 2 linked to Mumbai attacks
Saturday, November 21, 2009
ROME (AP) -- Italian police on Saturday arrested two Pakistani men accused of providing logistical support for last year''s terror attacks in Mumbai, officials said....
Europe: Proton beams circulate in Big Bang machine
Saturday, November 21, 2009
GENEVA (AP) -- Scientists switched on the world''s largest atom smasher for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago, circulating beams of protons in a significant leap forward for the Large Hadron Collider....
Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin
Saturday, November 21, 2009
ROME (AP) -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery....
Police: NC girl raped, killed on day she was taken
Saturday, November 21, 2009
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying, according to the warrant. Authorities embarked on a nearly weeklong search that ended when the girl''s body was found dumped off a rural road....
GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care
Saturday, November 21, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are seizing on this week''s recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care - and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama''s proposed health care overhaul....
US to drop shooting case against Blackwater guard
Saturday, November 21, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday....
Levin: May be more troubling emails from Hasan
Saturday, November 21, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Friday....
