The complaints reflect fresh tensions between the Pentagon and the State Department over personnel demands that have fallen most heavily on the military.
Chemotherapy can be lifesaving, but it's also unpleasant and carries long-term health risks. That's why doctors would love to be able to accurately gauge the chance that cancer will return, so they could treat the people who needed to be treated and let the rest forgo the hazards of chemo. The Food and Drug Administration has approved an additional tool in the case of breast cancer to move that scenario closer to reality: On Tuesday it OK'd the MammaPrint, a test that looks at 70 genes to calculate the odds that women in the early stages of breast cancer will experience a recurrence of the disease.
The "floodgates of fraud reporting" have opened at the National Reconnaissance Office, the nation's top-secret builder and operator of spy satellites. This bit of news comes from no less a source than the NRO's inspector general, Eric Feldman. Yet Feldman and other NRO officials are mum about just how big the flood is over there.
For the life of me, I can't figure out how it's advantageous for Republicans to postpone a vote on the war. I understand the cute politics that is being played here: The Republicans (led by the White House) are essentially trying to call the Democrats' bluff. If you're really against the war and the troop surge, they taunt, then vote to cut off funds. And the Democrats won't do that–and they know that any measure that says "we won't cut off funds" for the troops is bound get unanimous approval. And the president could claim the largest victory.
AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki complained Tuesday the long-awaited Baghdad security operation was off to a slow start and warned that insurgents are taking advantage of the delay to kill as many people as possible.
AP - Democratic critics of the Iraq war seized the offensive at both ends of the Capitol on Tuesday, disclosing plans for a symbolic rejection by the House of President Bush's decision to deploy additional troops and filing legislation in the Senate to require withdrawal of U.S. military personnel.
AP - She was the Robochick. He was Billy-O. According to police, her obsession with him led her to drive 900 miles from Houston to Orlando, bringing with her a trenchcoat and wig, armed with a BB gun and pepper spray, and wearing a diaper to avoid bathroom breaks on the arduous drive.
A NASA astronaut accused of attempting to kill her love rival separated from her husband a few weeks ago, her family said Tuesday evening. Lisa Nowak is also charged with attempting to kidnap Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman. Police say both women were in a relationship with astronaut Bill Oefelein.
A British tabloid newspaper has released cockpit video from a U.S. fighter jet being used in the investigation of a "friendly-fire" incident during the early stages of the Iraq war, in which a British soldier was killed.
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