Levin: May be more troubling emails from Hasan
Friday, November 20, 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....
Europe: Proton beams circulate in Big Bang machine
Friday, November 20, 2009
GENEVA (AP) -- Scientists switched on the world''s largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago....
Army relents, will allow media at Palin book event
Friday, November 20, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The U.S. Army said Friday it would open Sarah Palin''s appearance on Fort Bragg to media, a reversal from earlier in the week when the military wanted the event closed out of fears it would prompt political grandstanding against President Barack Obama....
Calif. launches probe into scam targeting churches
Friday, November 20, 2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California is investigating several companies suspected of bilking churches nationwide of hundreds of thousands of dollars through fraudulent computer leasing schemes, authorities said Friday....
GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care
Friday, November 20, 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
Friday, November 20, 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....
Police: NC girl raped, killed on day she was taken
Friday, November 20, 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....
Moderate Dems pivotal in Saturday health care vote
Friday, November 20, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana....
