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AP - 2 hours , 49 minutes ago
A bitter dispute over abortion that prompted Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop to ask Rep. Patrick Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion has revealed the depth of the divide among Catholics over how politicians should reconcile their faith with their public duties.
 
  • Medical marijuana finds social outlet in Ore. cafe
    AP - 3 hours , 16 minutes ago
    At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" -- a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of heated marijuana. Glass jars hold donations of dried, milky-green weed, and the cafe serves up meals and snacks for the hungry.
  • Holidays will again test NYC air travel bottleneck
    AP - 4 hours , 13 minutes ago
    Fewer people are expected to fly this holiday season, but travelers shouldn't expect a full reprieve from the horrid flight delays of Thanksgivings past, especially if they need to land anywhere near New York City.
  • FBI wants public's help in civil rights killings
    AP - 5 hours , 28 minutes ago
    Over the last three years, the FBI scoured faded documents, interviewed aging lawmen and tracked down witnesses from killings that occurred decades ago, many of them involving white police officers who shot black men or teenagers.
  • Program to help truckers attracts drug smugglers
    AP - 5 hours , 44 minutes ago
    A U.S. program that offers trusted trucking companies speedy passage across American borders has begun attracting just the sort of customers who place a premium on avoiding inspections: Mexican drug smugglers.
  • Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views
    AP - 6 hours , 9 minutes ago
    The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said.
  • Bio-fuel growth raises concerns about forests
    AP - 7 hours , 17 minutes ago
    Forests are a treasure trove of limbs and bark that can be made into alternative fuels and some worry the increasing trend of using that logging debris will make those materials too scarce, harming the woodlands.
  • New olive planting method prompts Calif. oil boom
    AP - 8 hours , 21 minutes ago
    An oil boom is under way in California's agricultural heartland, as evolving tastes and a trend toward healthy fare have transformed a profession as old as civilization: olive production for the extra virgin market.
  • SF area officer, passenger injured during arrest
    AP - 12 hours , 52 minutes ago
    A train passenger's video of an arrest shows heavy-duty glass shattering and showering down on a San Francisco area transit police officer and an unruly passenger in an incident that injured both men.
  • Demonstration at UC Santa Cruz ends peacefully
    AP - 18 hours , 45 minutes ago
    Officials at the University of California, Santa Cruz say dozens of protesters who were occupying the university's main administrative building have ended their protest.
  • Lethal injection creator fine with 1 drug in Ohio
    AP - 19 hours , 41 minutes ago
    The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one -- as his home state of Ohio has proposed -- as long as the drug works efficiently.
  • Mammogram guidelines spark debate over health bill
    AP - 20 hours , 26 minutes ago
    Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.
  • Arrest in 1981 tribal murders revives old mystery
    AP - 22 hours , 13 minutes ago
    In the days before Fred Alvarez was shot execution-style with two friends on his verandah, the strapping Cabazon tribal leader feared he was a marked man: His motorcycle had been tampered with, his mailbox shot up and his house ransacked.
  • NRC investigating radiation at Three Mile Island
    AP - 22 hours , 38 minutes ago
    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is sending investigators to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant after a small amount of radiation was detected there.
  • Police identify gunman in deadly Saipan rampage
    AP - 23 hours , 40 minutes ago
    The gunman who killed four people and wounded nine in a shooting rampage on the Pacific island of Saipan was identified Sunday as a Chinese national believed to be employed at the shooting range where the deaths occurred.
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