Republican leaders said the best outcome they could foresee was losing 12 seats in the House, but they were 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 - Iraq's prime minister on Saturday urged his countrymen to accept the impending verdict against Saddam Hussein without violence, then in the next breath declared the former dictator must get "what he deserves" with the decision that could send him to the gallows.
AP - The Rev. Ted Haggard was dismissed Saturday as leader of the megachurch he founded after a board determined the influential evangelist had committed "sexually immoral conduct," the church said.
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.
Cancer patients who cannot get the modern drugs they need on the NHS are ordering them directly from 'internet pharmacies', often without their doctors' knowledge.
Saddam Hussein could be sentenced Sunday to death by hanging for his role in a brutal crackdown nearly 25 years ago in Dujail -- the once obscure Iraqi town that is now a symbol of his regime's cruelty. A five-member tribunal will meet amid heavy security and sweeping curfews in Baghdad and elsewhere, as authorities brace for violent reactions.
The Rev. Ted Haggard is pastor no more. The board overseeing the 14,000-member New Life Church in Denver, Colorado, forced him out today, citing "sexually immoral conduct." On Friday, Haggard admitted seeking a massage from a Denver man and buying methamphetamine. He has denied that he paid the escort for sex over three years.
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