The confirmation of Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general appeared to be all but certain after Senators Dianne Feinstein and Charles E. Schumer gave him their support.
AP - As authorities tried to understand why a contract worker would bring a pipe bomb to the nation's largest nuclear power plant, one thing was immediately clear: The security worked.
AP - The astronaut chosen to make emergency repairs on the space station's ripped solar wing — a dangerous and unprecedented electrical job — is actually an emergency medical doctor and mountaineer whose specialty at NASA just happens to be spacewalks.
A judge Friday handed a legal victory to a former astronaut accused of assaulting a romantic rival, ruling evidence found in her car and statements she made to police after her arrest were inadmissible at trial.
The girl's tiny lifeless body, stuffed in a plastic crate and dumped off Galveston, was just too much for Ray Tuttoilmondo. The self-described "cynical old cop" is urging all involved in the case to buck the system, use their emotions and give the girl back her identity and some justice.