National news
- Officials: Al-Qaida in Iraq leader arrested
- May 9, 2008
- 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.
- Facebook adding new safeguards
- May 9, 2008
- Facebook, the world’s second-largest social networking Web site, is adding more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies under an agreement with officials nationwide that was announced Thursday.
- Housing aid bills face vetoes
- May 9, 2008
- They’re trapped in loans they can’t afford and saddled with more debt than their homes are worth.
- Lawmakers hash out farm bill
- May 9, 2008
- Married couples with joint incomes of up to $1.5 million from their farm operation could still qualify for crop subsidies under a five-year, $300 billion farm bill compromise that would boost the Agriculture Department’s food and farm programs.
- Obama gets big welcome, fresh support on Capitol tour
- May 9, 2008
- Sen. Barack Obama got a front-runner’s welcome back at the Capitol Thursday, pressing congressional “superdelegates” to support him in a visit that had the look and feel of a campaign victory lap.
- Victims’ photo helps cops nail suspect
- May 9, 2008
- Police say they had no trouble tracking down a robbery suspect, because the victims had taken his picture while chatting with him at a bar a short time before the theft.
- Gov. vows to examine undercover procedures
- May 9, 2008
- New York Gov. David Paterson pledged to examine undercover police conduct on Thursday, a day after more than 200 people were arrested protesting the acquittal of three detectives involved in the shooting death of an unarmed man.
World news
- Sectarian gunbattles break out in Lebanon
- May 9, 2008
- Running gunbattles raged in parts of Beirut on Thursday after the leader of Hezbollah accused Lebanon’s Western-backed government of declaring war on his Shiite militant group. At least four people were killed and eight wounded in the capital.
- Officials: Al-Qaida in Iraq leader arrested
- May 9, 2008
- 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.
- Acting chief of federal police shot dead
- May 9, 2008
- Mexico’s acting federal police chief was shot dead early Thursday outside his home in Mexico City — a brazen attack as drug traffickers increasingly lash back at a nationwide crackdown on organized crime.
- Morales agrees to recall vote
- May 9, 2008
- President Evo Morales has agreed to stand for election in a nationwide recall vote, gambling that Bolivians will re-elect him after just two years in office.
- PM denies taking illicit donations
- May 9, 2008
- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denied fresh accusations that he illegally accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from a U.S. citizen, but said Thursday night that he will step down if he is indicted.
- Putin signals he intends to stay in charge
- May 9, 2008
- When Boris Yeltsin left the Kremlin eight years ago, he gave Vladimir Putin the pen he had used to sign important documents and decrees, a gesture symbolizing the transfer of power to Russia’s new president.
- First major foreign aid flights finally let in by junta
- May 9, 2008
- Myanmar’s military regime allowed in the first major international aid shipment Thursday, but it snubbed a U.S. offer to help cyclone victims struggling to recover from a tragedy of unimaginable scale.
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