Oprah’s emotional goodbye
Updated: 11/21/09 7:07 AM
CHICAGO—For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.
Senate edges closer to debate on health care
Updated: 11/21/09 7:07 AM
WASHINGTON — After negotiating critical last-minute commitments, Senate Democratic leaders Friday stood on the verge of achieving the necessary 60 votes to begin consideration of the most expansive health care legislation to go before the Senate in nearly half a century.
Moderate Dems pivotal in Saturday health care vote
Updated: 11/20/09 5:21 PM
Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.
6 world powers meet about Iran nuclear issue
Updated: 11/20/09 8:41 AM
Representatives of six world powers on Friday were considering measures against Iran for its refusal to halt nuclear enrichment activities, as the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency warned Tehran not to miss the opportunity to resolve the dispute.
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SC lawmakers to take up impeachment of governor
Updated: 11/20/09 4:21 PM
South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider impeaching Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week, the chairman of the committee beginning that work said Friday.
Resort island reels after deadly attack by gunman
Updated: 11/21/09 4:41 AM
The gunman who carried out Saipan's most violent attack in recent memory ended his life on the same rocky cliffs where numerous Japanese leapt to their deaths to avoid capture by U.S. troops during World War II.
Police: NC girl raped, killed on day she was taken
Updated: 11/20/09 8:41 PM
A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying, according to the warrant. Authorities embarked on a nearly weeklong search that ended when the girl's body was found dumped off a rural road.
Pentagon looking for Fort Hood management lapses
Updated: 11/20/09 3:26 AM
The Pentagon said Thursday it will scour its procedures for identifying volatile soldiers hidden in the ranks following the Fort Hood shooting rampage and lapses that might allow others to slip through bureaucratic cracks.
Suicide bomber kills 16 in western Afghanistan
Updated: 11/20/09 8:46 AM
A suicide bomber killed 16 people and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, while near Kabul a powerful former warlord narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, officials said.
State
- State lawmakers again head home after failing to act on deficit
- Albany to shine light on authorities
- Paterson threatens layoffs as talks stall
- Paterson warns schools, others of state aid cuts
- Poll shows Paterson losing voter support
- Schools fight using reserves in state fiscal crisis
- Leaders ready to scrap new license plate plan
- Bid to cut deficit still stalled
- Crisis mode declared on deficit
- Paterson calls on Legislature to erase $3.2 billion deficit
International
- Pope and Anglican leader agree on closer relations
- Sentence request for US woman in Italy murder case
- Sri Lanka to release 136,000 Tamil war refugees
- Italian police arrest 2 linked to Mumbai attacks
- Buddhists from 2 Koreas hold joint ceremony
- Chavez praises Carlos the Jackal
- 3 men blow themselves up in Pakistani Kashmir
- China says 42 dead, 66 trapped in mine explosion
- Pro-Castro mob attacks spouse of top Cuban blogger
- Mexico shifts strategy in border city violence
National
- Resort island reels after deadly attack by gunman
- Postal Service to resume North Pole Santa letters
- Senate edges closer to debate on health care
- Oprah’s emotional goodbye
- Obama trumpets Asia trip as boost to US economy
- Car strikes crowd outside Ala. school, 1 killed
- No appeal of dismissed conviction in MySpace case
- Prosecutor: Alleged Maui spy is difficult but sane
- UC students occupy buildings to protest fee hike
- Porn mogul's son to be tried in girlfriend's death
Strange Stories
- Authorities: Man tied lizards to chest at airport
- Ala. court says woman can't claim $41.8M jackpot
- Pregnant woman seeks help, allegedly robs homes
- Eye doc may lose license after calling patient fat
- Cops: Woman smuggled drugs to Pa. inmate with kiss
- Mich. police nab wrong-way driver twice in 3 days
- CA man allegedly paid teens to spit in his face
- Man who claimed disability spotted on TV show
- Alleged burglar warms up bottle for crying baby
- Miss. toddler, 2, helps mom give birth to brother
Columns
Davis departs
Brian C. Davis, the former Ellicott District member of Buffalo's Common Council, took a
long time leaving. Even after he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors regarding misuse of
campaign funds, he clung to his seat, leaving only after his colleagues shoved him.
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- George Borrelli: Life and death: one man’s decision
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