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What Supersonic Looks Like
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:35 am PDT
 LiveScience.com - The breaking of the sound barrier is not just an audible phenomenon. As a new picture from the U.S. military shows, Mach 1 can be quite visual. Full Story | Top |
AP Exclusive: Insomniac Jackson begged for drug
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:39 pm PDT
 AP - Michael Jackson was so distraught over persistent insomnia in recent months that he pleaded for a powerful sedative despite warnings it could be harmful, says a nutritionist who was working with the singer as he prepared his comeback bid. Full Story | Top |
FDA Advisers Urge Smaller Doses of Acetaminophen
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:03 pm PDT
 HealthDay - TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health advisers recommended Tuesday to lower the maximum dose of over-the-counter acetaminophen -- the key ingredient in Tylenol, Excedrin and many other pain-killing medications. Full Story | Top |
Immigrants in US are asking for money from home
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:20 pm PDT
 AP - For five years, immigrant day laborer Leo Chamale wired money twice a month from New Jersey to his family in Guatemala. Recently, he stepped up to the money transfer window for a different purpose — to ask that his family send some of his savings back to him. Full Story | Top |
US: UBS must release names of suspected tax cheats
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:39 pm PDT
 AP - Swiss bank UBS AG "systematically and deliberately" violated U.S. law by dispatching private bankers to recruit wealthy Americans interested in evading taxes and must be forced to reveal the identities of 52,000 of those clients, the Justice Department said in a court filing Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
Coleman concedes race to Franken
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:14 pm PDT
 Politico - Republican Norm Coleman has conceded to Democrat Al Franken in the Minnesota Senate race, ending one of the longest Senate races in American history and clearing the way for Democrats to hold a 60-seat supermajority in the Senate. Full Story | Top |
AP Newsbreak: SC gov 'crossed lines' with women
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:34 pm PDT
 AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, already struggling to salvage his family and his political career after admitting a scandalous affair, added explosive details Tuesday, including more visits with the mistress he calls his "soul mate" and additional women in his past. Full Story | Top |
Wal-Mart, union back employer health insurance
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:04 pm PDT
 AP - Wal-Mart is the latest in a line of traditionally Republican-leaning businesses to embrace key portions of President Barack Obama's bid to overhaul health care, a trend that could complicate opponents' efforts to build a united front when Congress ramps up its work on the issue this summer. Full Story | Top |
AP Source: Jackson's will puts assets in trust
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:13 pm PDT
 AP - The first hints about Michael Jackson's final wishes surfaced Tuesday in a will he signed nearly seven years ago to the day, and although details won't be available until the document is filed in a court, there's nothing to indicate that its instructions are at odds with the hasty arrangements made by the singer's mother and father. Full Story | Top |
FDA Panel Urges Ban on Vicodin, Percocet
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:48 pm PDT
HealthDay - TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- The popular prescription painkillers Vicodin and Percocet, which combine acetaminophen with an opiate narcotic, should be banned, and the maximum dose of over-the-counter painkillers with acetaminophen, like Tylenol or Excedrin, should be lowered, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel urged Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
FDA panel: Lower maximum daily dose of Tylenol
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:51 pm PDT
 AP - Government experts called for sweeping safety restrictions Tuesday on the most widely used painkiller, including reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and eliminating prescription drugs such as Vicodin and Percocet. Full Story | Top |
Farrah Fawcett's life celebrated at LA funeral
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:43 pm PDT
 AP - The life of "Charlie's Angels" star Farrah Fawcett was celebrated Tuesday at a private funeral in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Her longtime companion, Ryan O'Neal, 68, was among pallbearers who accompanied the casket, covered in yellow and orange flowers, into the Roman Catholic cathedral. Full Story | Top |
Franken wins Minn. Senate race; Coleman concedes
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:23 pm PDT
AP - Al Franken ascended Tuesday from the ranks of former "Saturday Night Live" comedians to an even more exclusive club, outlasting Republican Norm Coleman in an eight-month recount and courtroom saga to win a seat in the U.S. Senate. Full Story | Top |
Why Coleman lost
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:21 pm PDT
 Politico - The Republican Party put an inordinate amount of faith in Norm Coleman’s long-shot legal challenge, spending a million bucks on the idea that he’d catch a break in court. Full Story | Top |
California, other states face tough budget choices
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:13 pm PDT
AP - Lawmakers around the nation spent Tuesday in grueling, around-the-clock budget sessions as they struggled to avoid government shutdowns and other painful cuts, with the most dramatic negotiations unfolding in California amid a historic $24.3 billion deficit. Full Story | Top |
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