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"Dead" baby elephant calf born alive in Sydney zoo (Reuters)
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) –
An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydney\’s main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared the baby had died in the womb.
The Asian elephant mother delivered the male baby in the early hours of Wednesday in [...]
AP-GfK Poll: Obama more popular than Congress
WASHINGTON – Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Barack Obama, a bright spot for a Democratic Party counting on its leader to help stave off expected [...]
Another runaway Toyota Prius reported (Reuters)
DETROIT (Reuters) –
Federal regulators said they were looking into a report of another runaway Toyota Prius, this one in Westchester County, New York, where police said a woman pulling out of a driveway zoomed across a busy street and into a stone wall.
The 56-year-old driver sustained nonlife-threatening injuries on Tuesday [...]
Pelosi faces biggest test on healthcare vote (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) –
The leader of the House of Representatives — a persuasive arm twister and deal maker — faces her toughest challenge yet: getting 216 votes to pass final legislation revamping the U.S. healthcare system.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, is scrambling to hit that number in coming [...]
Google chief sees outcome "soon" in China row (Reuters)
ABU DHABI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) –
Google expects an outcome soon from its talks with China over a censorship and hacking dispute, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday.
Google threatened in January to shut its Chinese Google.cn portal and to pull back from China, citing problems of censorship and a [...]
Unemployment rises in 30 states in January
WASHINGTON – Unemployment rose in 30 states in January, the Labor Department said Wednesday, evidence that jobs remain scarce in most regions of the country.
The data is somewhat better than December, when 43 states reported higher unemployment rates, but worse than November, when rates fell in most states.
Still, [...]
Heidi Montag: Consumer Advocate (The Nation)
The Nation — First, the former Saturday Night Live presidents threw their support behind financial regulation. Now an even more unlikely reformer, reality TV star Heidi Montag, is teaming up with director Ron Howard and Americans for Financial Reform in an amusing new video pressing for the creation of [...]
Calif. boy who called 911 thanks dispatcher
NORWALK, Calif. – A 7-year-old boy who called 911 from a locked bathroom while armed robbers threatened his parents hugged and high-fived on Wednesday the sheriff\’s dispatcher who took his call.
The boy, identified only as Carlos, told reporters at a news conference that he remained calm during the [...]
Corey Haim prolonged tragic Hollywood tradition
LOS ANGELES – Corey Haim\’s story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded.
Haim died Wednesday at 38, another chapter in Hollywood\’s tragic history of careers ravaged by drugs.
Brittany Murphy\’s career [...]
Marion Jones signs with WNBA\’s Tulsa Shock
TULSA, Okla. – Marion Jones hasn\’t lost much of her swagger.
The disgraced sprinter once called the world\’s fastest woman was introduced Wednesday as the newest member of the WNBA\’s Tulsa Shock and she offered no apologies for her steroids use or her time in federal prison. She was [...]