Republican Party leaders said the best outcome they could foresee was losing 12 seats in the House, but they were increasingly steeling themselves to the loss of at least 15.
If your normal state seems to be crushing exhaustion, the problem may be more than just the job plus the kids. Today, concerned that chronic fatigue syndrome is an underappreciated public-health problem, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a $4.5 million campaign to educate physicians and the public about the illness.
The Harvard Crimson has, sort of, retracted its decision to fire two columnists, the Yale Daily News reports . The cartoonist and the opinion writer will remain suspended this semester--but then they can reapply in the spring. The decision follows an internal investigation that concluded the artist plagiarized only one cartoon. Kathleen Breeden, who offered to take a polygraph test to prove her innocence, told the Crimson the cartoon copying was "unintentional".
AP - U.S. and Iraqi forces drastically tightened security across Baghdad on Saturday in advance of the expected guilty verdict against Saddam Hussein, and the Iraqi prime minister said he hoped the ousted dictator will "get what he deserves."
AP - The Rev. Ted Haggard said Friday he bought methamphetamine and received a massage from a male prostitute. But the influential Christian evangelist insisted he threw the drugs away and never had sex with the man.
AP - Long locked out of power, Democrats appear poised to win control of the House and possibly the Senate in midterm elections this week amid a national clamor for change after four years of war in Iraq.
Sweeping curfews to be imposed in Iraq as Saddam Hussein hears war crimes verdictJudges may order death penalty for former dictator All people, vehicles to be banned from streets of capital and airport closed indefinitelyIraq's new leader says he hopes Hussein gets what he deserves at end of war crimes trial
An editorial to be published in independent publications that serve the U.S. military will call for President Bush to replace Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. "It's clear now ... that he's lost the support and respect of the military leadership," said Robert Hodierne of the publications' parent company Army Times Publications.
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