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Migraine With Aura Can Double Stroke Risk
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:49 pm PDT
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Oct. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Women who get migraine headaches with aura should stop smoking and using birth control pills because they may increase their risk of stroke, researchers say. Full Story | Top |
Fla. man says Home Depot fired him over God button
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:35 am PDT
 AP - A former cashier for The Home Depot who has been wearing a "One nation under God" button on his work apron for more than a year has been fired, he says because of the religious reference. The company claims that expressing such personal beliefs is simply not allowed. Full Story | Top |
Obama signs first major federal gay-rights law
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:30 pm PDT
 McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed the first major piece of federal gay rights legislation, a milestone that activists compared to the passage of 1960s civil-rights legislation empowering blacks. Full Story | Top |
Storm dumps snow on Rockies, plains, more forecast
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:48 pm PDT
 AP - A storm bringing the first heavy snows of autumn to a large swath of the Rockies and western plains crippled parts of Colorado and Wyoming Wednesday, forcing road closures and sending students home early as the region battled up to 2 feet of snow but braced for twice that. Full Story | Top |
Boeing picks South Carolina for 2nd 787 line
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:30 pm PDT
 AP - Boeing Co. will open a second assembly line for its long-delayed 787 jetliner in South Carolina, expanding beyond its longtime manufacturing base in Washington state to take advantage of economic incentives and a nonunion work force. Full Story | Top |
House Dems reach deal on key health care elements
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:55 pm PDT
 AP - House Democrats reached agreement Wednesday on key elements of a health care bill that would vastly alter America's medical landscape, requiring virtually universal sign-ups and establishing a new government-run insurance option for millions. Full Story | Top |
Elizabeth Smart on her abduction: 'I never let it hold me back'
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:57 pm PDT
 The Yahoo! Newsroom - In June of 2002, then-14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her family's home in Salt Lake City, Utah. In March of 2003 she was found alive, 18 miles away, with presumed kidnappers Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Ileen Barzee. She was returned to her family. In the years that followed, Smart refused to discuss the specifics of her abduction with the press, even though her ordeal captivated the nation. However, in recent weeks she has begun to open up publicly, notably at a women's conference, "Overcoming the Unimaginable," sponsored by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Full Story | Top |
Swine flu prompts hundreds of schools to close
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:09 pm PDT
 AP - The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide and normally quiet school nurses' offices suddenly look like big city emergency rooms, packed with students too ill to finish the day. Full Story | Top |
Turmoil from climate change poses security risks
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:56 pm PDT
 AP - An island in the Indian Ocean, vital to the U.S. military, disappears as the sea level rises. Rivers critical to India and Pakistan shrink, increasing military tensions in South Asia. Drought, famine and disease forces population shifts and political turmoil in the Middle East. Full Story | Top |
Obama inks defense bill with hate crimes provision
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:38 pm PDT
 AP - Trumpeting a victory against careless spending, President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a defense bill that kills some costly weapons projects and expands war efforts. In a major civil rights change, the law also makes it a federal hate crime to assault people based on sexual orientation. Full Story | Top |
Violence against women, female teens, surges on TV
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:27 pm PDT
Reuters - Incidents of violence against women on mainstream U.S. television has increased by 120 percent in the past five years, with the depiction of teen girls as victims rising by some 400 percent, the Parents Television Council said in a report on Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
Pelosi to unveil House version of health care bill
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:19 pm PDT
 McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to unveil revised health care-overhaul legislation Thursday that would include a stronger government-operated insurance option than the one that the Senate plans to consider. Full Story | Top |
Exclusive Interview: Obama 'Never 100 Percent Certain'
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:37 pm PDT
U.S. News & World Report - President Obama had just received his morning briefings on national security and the economy and was about to confer with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen about the war in Afghanistan. In between, he sat down with U.S. News Chief White House Correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh to discuss one of the most important and fascinating aspects of his presidency--how he makes decisions in a crisis. He was, as usual, methodical, cerebral, and dispassionate. [See photos of Obama behind the scenes.] Full Story | Top |
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