T O D A Y ' S H E A D L I N E S
Clinton's tenacity may
help the Democrats
For the past few months, the story of the Democratic race has been Barack Obama, his victories, his setbacks, his associations and his words.
Obama rises from political
obscurity to verge of history
 The amazement was on their faces. Hundreds waited for Barack Obama on that evening in South Carolina, 15 weeks ago, to claim victory — a surprising victory, surprisingly large.
Limbaugh: 'My impact will increase'
Conservatives are despondent, liberals are as enthused about a presidential candidate as they've been in 40 years, and the candidate he has long loathed won the Republican nomination.
Republicans forced to turn to
their nemesis: John McCain
The Republican political establishment is looking to the devil to deliver them, the man many have depicted as the incarnation of evil: John McCain.
Obama and McCain
have rifts to heal
In Western Maryland's Allegany County, where Barack Obama got less than one-third of the vote in the state's Feb. 12 Democratic primary, Bill DuVall knows his neighbors harbor misgivings about the man who appears likely to be the party's presidential nominee.
More tornadoes: God
continues to punish the South
 Many have fled this depressed, pollution-scarred mining town. Those who have chosen to stay or have not yet relocated face a new heartache.
Mother's Day celebration
reaches 100th anniversary
 On this 100th anniversary of Mother's Day, the woman credited with creating one of the world's most celebrated holidays probably wouldn't be pleased with all the flowers, candy or gifts.
News Corp. withdraws bid to
buy NY newspaper Newsday
News Corp., the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, has withdrawn its bid to purchase the Long Island daily paper Newsday, a News Corp. spokeswoman said Saturday.
Ex-manager says
OJ Simpson confessed
A memorabilia dealer who profited from O.J. Simpson for many years is the latest former crony to write a tell-all book, this one alleging a groggy Simpson, high on marijuana, confessed to killing his ex-wife after he was acquitted.
Emily, Jacob most
popular baby names
Emily again topped the list of most popular baby girl names last year, registering as No. 1 for the 12th straight time. Jacob led among names for boys for the ninth year in a row.
Jenna Bush's wedding is
low-key affair at ranch
Jenna Bush couldn't see herself getting married at the White House surrounded by antique furniture and oil portraits of presidents.
Mortgage credit losses
could total $500 billion
Goldman Sachs economists expect a total of $500 billion in residential mortgage credit losses, a renewed slowdown in economic activity after the near-term boost from fiscal stimulus, and no monetary policy tightening in 2008 or 2009, according to a research note from the firm.
Stamps go up Monday
The cost of mailing a letter goes up a penny to 42 cents on Monday, the latest in what are expected to be annual price adjustments by the Postal Service.
Ohio Dems strip embattled
attorney general of endorsement
The Ohio Democratic Party no longer considers scandal-plagued Attorney General Marc Dann one of its own, voting Saturday to strip an officeholder of his endorsement for the first time in the organization's history.
McCain and the
Keating Five scandal
Carrie Budoff Brown reports that Sen. Barack Obama's campaign distanced itself tonight from some harsh remarks from Congressman Pete DeFazio about Sen. John McCain at a town hall meeting in Albany, Ore.
Who is Charles Keating?
 HINESSIGHT | Before becoming the central figure in the savings and loan scandal of 1989, Charles Keating was a leader in cleansing his hometown of Cincinnati of pornography and strip clubs. His group was called Citizens for Decency, which later lead the effort to prosecute Larry Flynt in right-wing Cincinnati. You may remember the movie about it.
Why the Obama-Clinton
speculation is nuts
The sun may be setting on Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign. But it is only just rising on what promises to be months of obsessive speculation, cheerleading and naysaying in a media and political circles on the next question: Clinton for vice president?
Analysis: 'Hillary Democrats'
could be up for grabs
With the racially tinged Democratic race drawing to an awkward close, Barack Obama and John McCain face the challenge of winning over "Hillary Democrats" — the white, working-class voters who favored the former first lady over Obama's historic candidacy.
Hezbollah tightens grip of Beirut
Lebanon's Iranian-backed Shi'ite movement Hezbollah tightened its control of the capital Beirut on Saturday in a show of force after it routed gunmen loyal to the Western-backed government.
Kick the oil habit and
make your own ethanol
 A new company hopes drivers will kick the oil habit by brewing ethanol at home that won't spike food prices.
E-Fuel Corp unveiled on Thursday the "MicroFueler" touting it as the world's first machine that allows homeowners to make their own ethanol and pump the brew directly into their cars
Commando leaders shift
away from Rumsfeld strategy
 The military command overseeing the nation's most elite forces has moved away from a contentious plan that gave it broad control over anti-terrorism operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and other hot spots around the globe.
Bad day: Driver gets in wreck, sees his home catch fire, gets ticket
One moment, Justin Hill was turning into his driveway. Minutes later he was being flown to a hospital as his home went up in flames. Then he got a traffic ticket.
Video games don't create
killers, new book says
 Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson, a husband-and-wife team at Harvard Medical School, detail their views in "Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do," which came out last month and promises to reshape the debate on the effects of video games on kids.
Data from Columbia shuttle's disk drives survived the shuttle accident
Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003.
Seaweed provides clues to
earliest inhabitants of Americas
 Remains of meals that included seaweed are helping confirm the date of a settlement in southern Chile that may offer the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas.
Researchers date the seaweed found at Monte Verde to more than 14,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than the well-studied Clovis culture.
Obama unlikely to pick Clinton
as running mate, Kennedy says
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama isn't likely to pick rival Hillary Clinton as a running mate, according to one of his most prominent supporters.
Obama picks up 9 superdelegates,
union endorsement
Barack Obama all but erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates on Friday and won fresh labor backing as elements of the Democratic Party began coalescing around the Illinois senator for the fall campaign.
Happy Mother's Day: Woman
pregnant with 18th child
 It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman — she's pregnant with her 18th child. Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins.
Records show Sharpton owes
overdue taxes, other penalties
Big corporations give him money. Presidential candidates seek his endorsement. He has influential friends in Congress and the governor's mansion.
Housing aid bill faces
veto by Bush
 Democrats' plans to help hundreds of thousands of homeowners struggling with rising subprime mortgage rates and plummeting house values could be sidetracked by Bush's threatened veto and the backing of many congressional Republicans.
Clinton presses on, urges supporters
to ignore calls to quit
 Her voice raspy, her tone determined, Hillary Rodham Clinton urged her supporters Thursday to ignore the political pundits who have declared her toast.
The former first lady raced into a long West Virginia-to-the-West Coast campaign day.
Clinton rejects latest
Michigan delegate plan
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday rejected a compromise plan to seat Michigan's delegates to the national convention that would give 69 delegates to Clinton and 59 to Barack Obama.
E A R L I E R H E A D L I N E S
Rendell: 'Crushing' victories
in favor of Clinton are ahead
"How big would it be if Clinton's victories in West Virginia and Kentucky are by these margins? If Clinton adds something close to this many votes to her total, she catapults herself back into the popular vote lead with all contests counted and estimates from four caucus states."
Analysis: Gas tax suggestion
backfired on Clinton
The heated presidential campaign battle over a federal gas tax holiday turned out to be a much needed gift for Barack Obama -- and he can thank Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
Florida Dems: We're closing
in on deal to seat delegation
Florida Democrats say they're on the verge of finishing a plan to have the state's delegates counted toward the party's presidential nomination.
Oil close to $126 a barrel
 Oil raced to a new record high above $125 a barrel on Friday, as a strong performance over the last week and a surge in heating oil futures saw investment funds trooping into the market.
Kick the oil habit and
make your own ethanol
A new company hopes drivers will kick the oil habit by brewing ethanol at home that won't spike food prices.
More shoppers seeking shelter
from economy in discounters
Low-price operators Costco Wholesale Corp., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and TJX Cos. reported better-than-expected sales on Thursday, while traditional apparel chains J.C. Penney Co. and Limited Brands Inc. struggled.
Retail: Still not so great
veto by Bush
Despite a good month, even Wal-Mart is worried about the future economic climate for retailers.
Judge orders CIA to turn over torture memo, says ACLU
A U.S. judge ordered the Central Intelligence Agency on Thursday to submit to the court a 2002 memo said to specify harsh interrogation methods used on suspected terrorists held abroad.
Obama accuses McCain
of 'losing his bearings'
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that Republican John McCain was "losing his bearings" for repeatedly suggesting the Islamic terrorist group Hamas preferred Obama for president.
GOP voters still
dissing John McCain
On the surface, it would seem that McCain, the party's presumptive nominee, still has some distance to go in winning over his party.
Beat the Press: High-flying
Obama plays to win
Perhaps Barack Obama's competitive juices need new outlets now that he has expanded his lead over Democratic presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton.
'Examiner' newspapers
add Sunday editions
Clarity Media Group, which operates the free Examiner newspapers in Washington, D.C., Baltimore and San Francisco, plans to add a Sunday edition to each and expand the current Thursday editions.
Man who lost homes in Katrina
claims $97M Powerball prize
A construction company owner who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million Powerball prize, a jackpot won off a ticket he bought at a convenience store where he stopped to buy his wife a gallon of milk.
Police: Convicted murderer
shot hikers on Appalachian Trail
A convicted murderer is suspected of shooting and wounding two men on the Appalachian Trail a few miles from the spot where he killed two hikers in 1981, authorities said.
7 more cops pulled from
Philly streets over taped beating
 Seven more police officers were taken off street duty Thursday as investigators look into the videotaped police beating of three shooting suspects during a traffic stop.
Woman fired for giving
16-cent treat to toddler
An attendant at a Canadian restaurant who was sacked for giving a bite-sized doughnut, worth 16 cents, to an agitated toddler was given her job back on Thursday after the case received wide media attention.
Court orders American Indian
to trial for shooting eagle
An American Indian who shot a bald eagle for use in a tribal religious ceremony must stand trial, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Lawyers: McGreeveys reach
custody deal in divorce case
ELIZABETH, N.J. - Former Gov. James E. McGreevey and his estranged wife settled custody issues for their only child on Thursday as they moved closer to dissolving their marriage, their lawyers said.
Cindy McCain says she'll never
release her tax returns program
Cindy McCain says she will never make her tax returns public even if her husband wins the White House and she becomes the first lady.
Congress begins to look into NBC News, others' use of Bush propaganda program
On Tuesday, Reps. Rosa DeLauro and John Dingell sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin “urging an investigation of the Pentagon’s propaganda program” to determine if the networks or analysts violated federal law.
Economic anxiety hits US
women harder than men
The U.S. economic downturn has spread personal financial worries far and wide but women, are more worried about paying bills, losing jobs, providing for children and saving for retirement, according to a study released on Thursday.
Obama plans to
declare victory May 20
Not long after the polls close in the May 20 Kentucky and Oregon primaries, Barack Obama plans to declare victory in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Fear of women like Hillary
"Too few commentators, even women themselves, have taken Hillary's monumental candidacy to heart. Some of that is due to the traditional media's flippancy towards women, but also because the fourth estate in this country is still backwards, not allowing women their due."
McCain raises $7M in NYC
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., raised $7 million for his campaign and the Republican National Committee Wednesday night at a fundraiser in New York City.
Mr. Voting Rights says Florida
and Michigan should not count
Former President Jimmy Carter told Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" yesterday that the Michigan and Florida Democratic primaries should not count since the two states "disqualified themselves" by holding early primaries contrary to Democratic Party rules.
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Omaha man uses steak knife to perform self-tracheotomy
An Omaha man struggling to breathe used a steak knife to perform an at-home tracheotomy. Steve Wilder said he thought he was going to die when he awoke one night last week and couldn't breath.
114-Year-Old Man Takes
Longevity Keys to the Grave
A man who lived to age 114 died recently on a small Mediterranean island. Until age 102 he rode a bicycle every day to tend to his family's orchards. His 101-year-old brother, his two daughters aged 81 and 77, and a nephew aged 85 all still live in a small town on the Spanish island of Minorca.
Will taxpayers be on the
hook for subprime crisis?
With a nationwide housing crisis far from over, the risk of future mortgage losses is rapidly shifting from the private sector toward government – and potentially US taxpayers.
New idea in mortuary science:
Dissolving bodies with lye
Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest — dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.
Obama accuses McCain of
'losing his bearings'
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that Republican John McCain was "losing his bearings" for repeatedly suggesting the Islamic terrorist group Hamas preferred Obama for president.
Tornado blows vehicles off
highway in N. Carolina, kills 1
A line of severe storms swept across the Southeast on Thursday, damaging homes and businesses in at least four states. One person was killed and three were injured by a tornado in North Carolina, authorities said.
UN blasts Myanmar for
visa policy on aid workers
The United Nations blasted Myanmar's military junta on Friday, calling its refusal to let in foreign aid workers "unprecedented" as survivors of a devastating cyclone waited for food, shelter and medicine.
New health woes as China
moves from famine to feast
Evening exercise classes at the Nirvana fitness centre in Beijing are in high demand these days as young professionals whose mothers once counted ration cards seek to stay svelte despite lavish lunches.
Study of 'Daily Show':
It's a lot like O'Reilly
A journalism think tank studying "The Daily Show" doesn't believe many people get their news from Jon Stewart — because otherwise they wouldn't get the jokes.
U.S. economic anxiety
hits women harder: study
The U.S. economic downturn has spread personal financial worries far and wide, but women are more worried about paying bills, losing jobs, providing for children and saving for retirement, according to a study released on Thursday.
Acting Mexican police
chief killed
Mexico's acting federal police chief was shot dead Thursday outside his home — a brazen attack that comes as drug traffickers increasingly lash back at a nationwide crackdown on organized crime.
Iraqi officials say leader
of al-Qaida in Iraq arrested
Iraqi police commandos captured the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq in a raid in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said Thursday, in what could mark a significant blow to the Sunni insurgency in its last urban stronghold.
Scientists map the genetic
makeup of the platypus
With a bill like a duck, a tail like a beaver and snake-like venom hidden in heel spurs, the platypus could be the result of some strange genetic experiment.
Lost in the Holocaust: experts
plumb newly opened archive
A mother and child separated. A father's war wound. An uncle's name on a list.The unrelated and disparate items are among the discoveries made by 40 Jewish genealogists who spent the past week plumbing a trove of Nazi documents made public after 60 years.
Housing aid bill faces
veto by President Bush
Democrats' plans to help hundreds of thousands of homeowners struggling with rising subprime mortgage rates and plummeting house values could be sidetracked by President Bush's threatened veto and the backing of many congressional Republicans.
Spain claims $500 million
in sunken treasure
Spain formally laid claim Thursday to a shipwreck that yielded a $500 million treasure, saying it has proof the vessel was Spanish.
Seaweed provides clues to earliest
inhabitants of Americas
Remains of meals that included seaweed are helping confirm the date of a settlement in southern Chile that may offer the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas.
Kick the oil habit and
make your own ethanol
A new company hopes drivers will kick the oil habit by brewing ethanol at home that won't spike food prices. E-Fuel Corp unveiled on Thursday the "MicroFueler" touting it as the world's first machine that allows homeowners to make their own ethanol and pump the brew directly into their cars.
Church records offer rare look
inside polygamist families
Hand-scrawled records taken from a polygamist sect are helping untangle the spider-web network of family relationships at the Yearning For Zion ranch, where some husbands had more than a dozen wives.
Medical know-how raises
suicide risk for doctors
There's a grim, rarely talked-about twist to all that medical know-how doctors learn to save lives: It makes them especially good at ending their own. An estimated 300 to 400 U.S. doctors kill themselves each year — a suicide rate thought to be higher than in the general population, although exact figures are hard to come by.
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On the outside, there is no quit in the Clinton campaign. They keep talking about finding a way to count the votes and seat the delegates for her from the Florida and Michigan primaries that were ruled rogue operations by the Democratic National Committee.
