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White House: State dinner crashers met Obama
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:50 pm PST
 AP - A reality TV hopeful and her husband who crashed a presidential dinner met President Barack Obama in the receiving line, the White House said Friday, as a "deeply concerned and embarrassed" Secret Service acknowledged its officers failed to check whether the couple was on the guest list. Full Story | Top |
Police chief: Woods' wife helped after accident
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:43 pm PST
 AP - Tiger Woods was injured early Friday when he lost control of his SUV outside his Florida mansion, and a local police chief said Woods' wife used a golf club to smash out the back window to help get him out. Full Story | Top |
Military divorces edge up again in 9th year of war
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:53 pm PST
 AP - The toll for a nation long at war is evident in military homes: The divorce rate in the armed forces edged up again in the past year despite many programs to help struggling couples, and the rate now is a full percentage point higher than around the time of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Full Story | Top |
Treasury, Fed delay Internet gambling ban 6 months
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:35 pm PST
Reuters - The U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve on Friday delayed the implementation date for a new Internet gambling payment ban for six months, a move that gives lawmakers time to overturn it or end confusion over illegal practices. Full Story | Top |
Signal fading on radio traffic reports
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:13 pm PST
 AP - For more than 20 years, Mike Nolan was known to radio listeners as the "eye in the sky." He flew over Southern California freeways in his single-engine plane, reporting on the nation's worst traffic. Full Story | Top |
Official: Blast may have caused train wreck
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:02 pm PST
 AP - An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed, killing dozens of people and injuring scores of others in what may have been an act of sabotage, Russian officials said. Full Story | Top |
Mass. woman sees image of Jesus on her iron
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:54 am PST
 AP - A Massachusetts woman who recently separated from her husband and had her hours cut at work says an image of Jesus Christ she sees on her iron has reassured her that "life is going to be good." Full Story | Top |
US and China to reduce emissions, but not enough
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:47 pm PST
 AP - Even after the U.S. and China set targets this week for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the world's combined pledges ahead of next month's climate summit fall far short of what experts say is needed to avert dangerous global warming. Full Story | Top |
UK diplomat: US was 'hell bent' on Iraq invasion
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:26 am PST
 AP - The United States was "hell bent" on a 2003 military invasion of Iraq and actively undermined efforts by Britain to win international authorization for the war, a former British diplomat told an inquiry Friday. Full Story | Top |
4 killed at Fla. Thanksgiving, relative sought
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:55 pm PST
 AP - A Florida man opened fire on his family after Thanksgiving dinner, killing his pregnant sister, 6-year-old cousin and two other relatives before speeding off and initiating a statewide manhunt, police said Friday. Full Story | Top |
The dangers of revolutionary right-wing rhetoric
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:00 am PST
The Christian Science Monitor - Few places have deeper scars from violent invective and verbal incitement than this North Carolina city where people still speak in whispers, embarrassed by the events of Nov. 10, 1898. Wilmington is tragic testament to the fact that social progress is not inevitable and that, left unchallenged, hateful speech and words frequently morph into violence. Full Story | Top |
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