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Most popular news on 18 September 2009 |
Picture emerges of Yale suspect as controlling
AP - As police charged a Yale animal lab technician with murdering a graduate student who worked in his building, a portrait began to emerge Thursday of an unpleasant stickler for the rules who often clashed with researchers and considered the mice cages his personal fiefdom.
Beck vs. Limbaugh
Politico - GOP media strategist Mark McKinnon thinks there are two people in the world who fear Glenn Beck — even if "neither will admit it."
Dueling 'racist' claims defuse once powerful word
AP - Everybody's racist, it seems.
TV anchor's flub turns into catch phrase overnight
AP - A veteran New York City news anchor flubs a line and an obscene catch phrase goes viral on the Internet.
Dems unhappy with proposed tax in health care bill
AP - Unhappy Senate Democrats on Thursday found plenty to complain about in the fine print of the latest health overhaul bill, particularly a tax provision they fear would hit hard at middle-class Americans, from coal miners in West Virginia to firefighters in New York.
Ill. woman dies after catching fire during surgery
AP - A southern Illinois woman died after being severely burned in a flash fire while undergoing surgery, a rare but vexing dilemma in operating rooms. Janice McCall, 65, of Energy, Ill., died Sept. 8 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., six days after being burned on the operating table at Heartland Regional Medical Center in Marion, Ill., her family's attorney said.
Joe Perry frustrated over Steven Tyler accident
AP - Joe Perry is angry that Aerosmith has been sidelined due to Steven Tyler's tour injury.
AP NewsBreak: Nuke agency says Iran can make bomb
AP - Iran experts at the U.N.'s nuclear monitoring agency believe that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and worked on developing a missile system that can carry an atomic warhead, according to a confidential report seen by The Associated Press.
Heigl and husband adopt baby girl from Korea
AP - Katherine Heigl and husband Josh Kelley have completed their adoption of a baby girl from Korea.
Left and right plot on Baucus bill
Politico - A day after Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus released a health care bill that he predicted would win bipartisan support, Democrats and Republicans retreated to their separate corners Thursday as both parties plotted their strategy to shape the legislation.
Meyers says Palin was 'fastball' for 'SNL' writers
AP - Sarah Palin may not be around as a font of comic material this year, but Seth Meyers of "Saturday Night Live" doubts he'll be starved for things to poke fun at.
House votes to defund ACORN
AP - The House voted Thursday to deny all federal funds for ACORN in a GOP-led strike against the scandal-tainted community organizing group that comes just three days after the Senate took similar action.
Canada introduces bill supporting US deserters
AP - Canadian Parliament will consider a bill introduced Thursday that would allow American and other war resisters to stay in Canada.
8'1" Turk takes title of world's tallest man
AP - A towering Turk was officially crowned the world's tallest man Thursday after his Ukrainian rival dropped out of the running by refusing to be measured.
Spain indicts alleged 3 ex-Nazis for genocide
AP - A Spanish judge on Thursday indicted three alleged ex-Nazi death camp guards who all lived for many years in the United States, charging them with being accessories to genocide and crimes against humanity.
Implanted tooth helps blind US woman recover sight
AFP - A 60-year-old US grandmother, blind for nearly a decade, has recovered her sight after surgeons implanted a tooth in her eye as a base to hold a tiny plastic lens, her doctors said.
U.S. regulators propose ban on "flash" trading
Reuters - U.S. securities regulators proposed on Thursday a ban on flash orders that stock exchanges send to a select group of traders, fractions of a second before revealing them publicly.
Mary Travers of 1960s folk anthem trio dies at 72
AP - Mary Travers, one part of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, which used beautiful, tranquil harmonies to convey the angst and turmoil of the Vietnam anti-war movement, racial discrimination and more, died after a yearslong battle with leukemia. She was 72.
Can men be taking to eyebrow-grooming?
Reuters - British men are becoming increasingly interested in having their eyebrows professionally groomed, according to Debenhams department store which plans to hold men-only "guybrow" nights.
Pelosi worried about angry health care rhetoric
AP - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the anti-government rhetoric over President Barack Obama's health care reform effort is troubling because it reminds her of the violent debate over gay rights that roiled San Francisco in the 1970s.
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