| • |
Yahoo News |
1:36pm PDT |
Israeli PM Olmert denies taking bribes, won't resign
(Reuters)
|
| |
Summary: Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
admitted on Thursday that he accepted campaign donations from
an American businessman but denied that they were bribes and
said he would only resign if he were indicted. |
| • |
Yahoo News |
1:30pm PDT |
House passes major housing rescue bill
(Reuters)
|
| |
Summary: Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives on
Thursday approved a bill to create a $300 billion
mortgage-insurance fund and provide billions more in homeowner
aid to stabilize a housing market shaken by a wave of
foreclosures. |
| • |
Yahoo News |
1:23pm PDT |
House passes broad housing rescue despite veto threat
(AP)
|
| |
Summary: AP - The House has passed a housing aid plan to provide $300 billion in refinanced mortgages for struggling homeowners. President Bush says he'll veto the bill. It passed 266-154 with support from 39 Republicans. |
| • |
Cnn.com |
1:12pm PDT |
Obama: World wants to see U.S. lead |
| |
Summary: Sen. Barack Obama today said the most important thing he could achieve as president would be to deal with Iraq and the threat of al Qaeda in Afghanistan while improving "our influence around the world." In his first interview since Tuesday's primaries, Ob |
| • |
Yahoo News |
1:05pm PDT |
Yankees hit 4 homers to defeat the Indians 6-3
(AP)
|
| |
Summary: AP - Jason Giambi and the sluggish New York Yankees suddenly turned sluggerish. The Yankees played home run derby Thursday, with Giambi, Johnny Damon, Robinson Cano and Wilson Betemit connecting in a 6-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians. |
| • |
Yahoo News |
1:05pm PDT |
Pentagon proceeding cautiously on aid drop
(AP)
|
| |
Summary: AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday the U.S. military was moving forward with plans to mount a relief mission in Myanmar, but he said he couldn't imagine air dropping aid without permission from the closed regime. |
| • |
Yahoo News |
12:53pm PDT |
Giambi, Yankees play home run derby against Cleveland
(AP)
|
| |
Summary: AP - Jason Giambi and the sluggish New York Yankees suddenly turned sluggerish. |
| • |
Cnn.com |
12:50pm PDT |
Hostin: Self-appointed lawyers learn hard way |
| |
Summary: There's a courthouse adage: A person who represents himself has a fool for a client.
|
| • |
BBC News |
12:46pm PDT |
Five killed in Beirut gun battles |
| |
Summary: At least five people are killed in armed clashes as Hezbollah accuses Lebanon's government of a "declaration of war". |
| • |
Yahoo News |
12:44pm PDT |
Cindy McCain says she'll never release her tax returns
(AP)
|
| |
Summary: AP - 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. |
| • |
Yahoo News |
12:38pm PDT |
Medical know-how raises suicide risk for doctors
(AP)
|
| |
Summary: AP - 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 highe |
| • |
Yahoo News |
12:38pm PDT |
Clashes erupt for second day in Lebanon, killing 4
(AP)
|
| |
Summary: AP - Sectarian fighting tore through the streets of Beirut on Thursday as Shiite Hezbollah supporters and the Lebanese government's Sunni backers battled with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades after Hezbollah's leader vowed to fight any attempt t |
| • |
Yahoo News |
12:36pm PDT |
Housing OKs foreclosed-property bill, weighs rescue bill
(AP)
|
| |
Summary: AP - The House on Thursday approved sending $15 billion to states to buy and fix up foreclosed property. The measure, passed 239-188, is part of a sweeping housing package Democrats are pushing to prevent more foreclosures and help homeowners and communit |
| • |
Yahoo News |
12:35pm PDT |
Fighting rocks Beirut, kills six
(Reuters)
|
| |
Summary: Reuters - Fierce clashes raged in Beirut on
Thursday after the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah said the
U.S.-supported Lebanese government had declared war by
targeting its military communications network. |
| • |
Yahoo News |
12:21pm PDT |
Woman files claim, saying dog feces ruined family outing
(AP)
|
| |
Summary: AP - A New York woman has filed a $100 claim against Norwalk saying a family outing to the Maritime Aquarium was ruined by dog feces. The woman claims her child's shoes, along with the entire outing, were ruined when her 1-year-old stepped in dog feces ou |
| • |
Yahoo News |
12:11pm PDT |
New idea in mortuary science: Dissolving bodies with lye
(AP)
|
| |
Summary: AP - 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. |
| • |
AgapePress |
12:11pm PDT |
Pastor?s daughter gang-raped in Bangladesh |
| |
Summary:
Muslim villagers in Bangladesh eager to rid their area of the Christian work of a local pastor have gang-raped his 13-year-old daughter.
|
| • |
Yahoo News |
12:08pm PDT |
Deadly battles as Hezbollah says Lebanon 'declares war'
(AFP)
|
| |
Summary: AFP - Deadly gunbattles erupted in Beirut on Thursday after Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah charged that a Lebanese government crackdown on his group was tantamount to a "declaration of war," raising fears of a full-blown sectarian conflict. |
| • |
Yahoo News |
12:08pm PDT |
Israeli PM Olmert to make statement
(Reuters)
|
| |
Summary: Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
convened a late-night news conference at short notice on
Thursday as speculation swirled that a police investigation
into his affairs would increase pressure on him to resign. |
| • |
Yahoo News |
12:05pm PDT |
1.5 million people affected in Myanmar cyclone: U.N.
(Reuters)
|
| |
Summary: Reuters - The United Nations estimated 1.5
million people have been "severely affected" by the cyclone
that swept through Myanmar and the United States expressed
outrage on Thursday at the delays in allowing in aid. |
| • |
Yahoo News |
12:01pm PDT |
Congress to pass Iraq war funds by end of May: Pelosi
(Reuters)
|
| |
Summary: Reuters - The U.S. Congress will send
President George W. Bush a bill by the end of this month to pay
for the war in Iraq through next year, House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi said on Thursday. But first she must heal a rift within
her own Democratic Party ov |
| • |
Yahoo News |
11:48am PDT |
Gas tax battle was a political gift to Obama
(Reuters)
|
| |
Summary: Reuters - 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. |
| • |
BBC News |
11:38am PDT |
Bail for Islamic preacher Qatada |
| |
Summary: Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, whom the UK had hoped to deport to Jordan, is granted bail with a 22-hour curfew. |
| • |
Yahoo News |
11:33am PDT |
Fighting rocks Beirut, five die, Hezbollah defiant
(Reuters)
|
| |
Summary: Reuters - Fierce clashes raged in Beirut on
Thursday after the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah said the
U.S.-supported Lebanese government had declared war by
targeting its communications network. |
| • |
BBC News |
11:33am PDT |
Top policeman shot dead in Mexico |
| |
Summary: The Mexican policeman in charge of co-ordinating operations against drugs traffickers is shot dead in Mexico City. |
| • |
AgapePress |
11:31am PDT |
Crude: the urgency of supply and demand |
| |
Summary:
An analyst who predicted historic high oil prices three years ago is accusing the U.S. government of being shortsighted in neglecting to establish a solid energy policy.
|
| • |
Cnn.com |
11:11am PDT |
Facebook OKs anti-predator safeguards |
| |
Summary: Read full story for latest details.
|
| • |
BBC News |
11:04am PDT |
Great tits cope well with warming |
| |
Summary: Great tits in Britain seem to be adapting to climatic change, scientists report, unlike some other birds. |
| • |
BBC News |
11:04am PDT |
Great tits in Britain seem to be adapting to global warming |
| |
Summary: Great tits in Britain seem to be adapting to climatic change, scientists report, unlike some other birds. |
| • |
BBC News |
11:03am PDT |
Gunman 'deeply committed' to wife |
| |
Summary: The wife of a barrister who died in a five-hour armed siege in south-west London says they were "deeply committed to each other". |
