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....
Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin
Friday, November 20, 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....
Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found
Friday, November 20, 2009
ROME (AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei''s corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday....
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....
Floods devastate UK Lake District, much of Ireland
Friday, November 20, 2009
COCKERMOUTH, England (AP) -- Raging floods engulfed northern England''s picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes....
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....
Oprah's departure presents problem for TV stations
Friday, November 20, 2009
CHICAGO (AP) -- For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night....
