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Army suicides at record high, passing civilians
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:23 pm PST
 AP - Stressed by war and long overseas tours, U.S. soldiers killed themselves last year at the highest rate on record, the toll rising for a fourth straight year and even surpassing the suicide rate among comparable civilians. Army leaders said they were doing everything they could think of to curb the deaths and appealed for more mental health professionals to join and help out. Full Story | Top |
NJ police: Woman's ex-friends used cold as weapon
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:29 pm PST
 AP - A 19-year-old woman who thought she was going to a party was instead driven to a rural wooded area and abandoned in 8-degree weather in a long-planned attack by three friends angry with her over an insurance claim, police said Thursday. Full Story | Top |
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich thrown out of office
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:27 pm PST
 AP - Gov. Rod Blagojevich was thrown out of office Thursday without a single lawmaker coming to his defense, brought down by a government-for-sale scandal that stretched from Chicago to Capitol Hill and turned the foul-mouthed politician into a national punchline. Full Story | Top |
Common chemical causes locusts to swarm
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:09 pm PST
 AP - A chemical that affects people's moods also can transform easygoing desert locusts into terrifying swarms that ravage the countryside, scientists report. "Here we have a solitary and lonely creature, the desert locust. But just give them a little serotonin, and they go and join a gang," observed Malcolm Burrows of the University of Cambridge in England. Full Story | Top |
Homeland secretary wants criminal aliens out of US
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:22 pm PST
 AP - If you're a criminal and you're not entitled to be in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants you out of the country. Napolitano wants what she calls "criminal aliens" off American streets. She is looking at existing immigration enforcement programs to see if taxpayers are getting the most bang for their buck. Full Story | Top |
Obama calls $18B in Wall St. bonuses 'shameful'
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:24 pm PST
 AP - President Barack Obama issued a withering critique Thursday of Wall Street corporate behavior, calling it "the height of irresponsibility" for employees to be paid more than $18 billion in bonuses last year while their crumbling financial sector received a bailout from taxpayers. "It is shameful," Obama said from the Oval Office. "And part of what we're going to need is for the folks on Wall Street who are asking for help to show some restraint, and show some discipline, and show some sense of responsibility." Full Story | Top |
Ancient Lefties: The History of Obama's Handedness
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:48 am PST
 LiveScience.com - Something sinister is going on, and newly-inaugurated President Obama is behind it. From the Latin for left, "sinistra," southpaw Obama is another notch for the column of left-handed presidents, now totaling eight - a proportion (out of all 43 men who have been POTUS) that is well above their representation in the total population, which hovers around 10 percent. (Let's count James A. Garfield as a lefty, although some say he was ambidextrous and others say he was a lefty; many ambis are lefties who learn to do some tasks with their right hands. ... Full Story | Top |
Police: NY boy dressed as girl to cheat on exam
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:12 pm PST
AP - Dressing as a girl to take a high school Regents exam in place of another student landed a 17-year-old upstate New York boy in some serious detention. Deandre Ellis, 17, of Schenectady was arrested on a felony charge after the incident Tuesday. City school officials said a monitor verifying that each student was taking the proper exam suspected something was amiss when the name on the test and the person taking it didn't match. Full Story | Top |
Senate GOP leader says party must change
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:56 pm PST
 AP - After crushing defeats in back-to-back elections, the top Senate Republican warned Thursday that the GOP risks remaining out of power in the White House and Congress unless it better explains its core principles to woo one-time faithful and new loyalists. Full Story | Top |
Blackwater: We will leave Iraq if US orders it
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:24 pm PST
 AP - Blackwater Worldwide, denied an operating license in Iraq, said Thursday it could leave the country within 72 hours but cautioned that such a move would cause more harm to the American diplomats it protects than the company itself. Full Story | Top |
Springsteen promises high-energy halftime show
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:09 pm PST
 AP - Anybody who thinks it's tough playing the halftime show at the Super Bowl with 150 million people watching should try serenading Barack Obama with the majestic granite visage of Abraham Lincoln staring over your shoulder. Full Story | Top |
Obama, Congress seek deal on economic stimulus
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:33 pm PST
 Reuters - Republicans in the U.S. Senate accepted on Thursday President Barack Obama's offer to search for a compromise on an economic stimulus bill that could end up costing around $900 billion, as long as tax cuts play a large role. Full Story | Top |
New Illinois governor is grass-roots crusader
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:35 pm PST
 AP - Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was schooled in the politics of the Chicago Machine, but his successor's career has been built on grass-roots organizing to cut government and protect the little guy. Full Story | Top |
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