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Study: Tanning beds as deadly as arsenic
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:45 pm PDT
 AP - International cancer experts have moved tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet radiation into the top cancer risk category, deeming them as deadly as arsenic and mustard gas. For years, scientists have described tanning beds and ultraviolet radiation as "probable carcinogens." Full Story | Top |
Warning signs missed in baby dismemberment case
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:44 pm PDT
 AP - The warning signs were there. Otty Sanchez, a schizophrenic with a history of hospitalizations, wasn't taking medication and was depressed after her son's birth, the boy's father said. A simple request seemed to set her off, alarming him and his family. Full Story | Top |
Powell: Harvard scholar might have reacted quickly
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:43 pm PDT
 AP - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was mildly critical Tuesday of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., whose angry response to a Cambridge, Mass., police officer touched off a national debate involving President Barack Obama. Full Story | Top |
AP sources: Bipartisan group eyes Medicare savings
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:16 pm PDT
 AP - A bipartisan group of senators agreed tentatively Tuesday on a plan to squeeze an additional $35 billion out of Medicare over the next decade and larger sums in the years beyond, according to congressional officials, a step toward fulfilling President Barack Obama's goal of curbing the growth of health care spending. Full Story | Top |
Fox's Glenn Beck says he believes Obama is racist
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:03 pm PDT
 AP - Fox News Channel commentator Glenn Beck said he believes President Barack Obama is a racist. Beck made the statement during a guest appearance Tuesday on the "Fox & Friends" morning show. He said Obama has exposed himself as a person with "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." Full Story | Top |
Conflicting portrait of NC terror suspect emerges
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:42 pm PDT
 AP - Daniel Boyd may have spent the past three years traveling to the Middle East, secretly buying guns and training for jihad with a group of aspiring terrorists as federal authorities claim, but people on his cul-de-sac said Tuesday he also made plenty of time to be a good neighbor. Full Story | Top |
SPIN METER: 'Help Wanted' counting stimulus jobs
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:52 am PDT
 AP - How much are politicians straining to convince people that the government is stimulating the economy? In Oregon, where lawmakers are spending $176 million to supplement the federal stimulus, Democrats are taking credit for a remarkable feat: creating 3,236 new jobs in the program's first three months. Full Story | Top |
Where Bailout Money Goes to Die
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:02 am PDT
 U.S. News & World Report - When CIT Group, a medium-sized lender, faced the threat of bankruptcy recently, it raised an uncomfortable prospect for the officials in Washington managing the bailout of the financial system. CIT got $2.3 billion in bailout funds last year--yet it was still failing. And the government decided not to offer any more help. So if CIT declared bankruptcy, taxpayers would be out their $2.3 billion. Full Story | Top |
Microsoft, Yahoo agree on ad partnership: source
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:00 pm PDT
 Reuters - Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc have agreed to an online search and advertising partnership, in an attempt to rival Google Inc, that will be announced within 24 hours, a source familiar with the situation said on Thursday. Full Story | Top |
Hawaii again declares Obama birth certificate real
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:54 pm PDT
 AP - State officials in Hawaii on Monday said they have once again checked and confirmed that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen, and therefore meets a key constitutional requirement for being president. Full Story | Top |
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