Though they broke no rules, House Republican leaders were negligent in handling the case of former Representative Mark Foley, the House ethics committee said today.
Housing and autos may be in the dumps, but the rest of the U.S. economy seems to be holding up just fine, adding 132,000 new nonfarm payroll jobs in November. Breaking things down: The service sector added 172,000 jobs last month, according to a preliminary Labor Department report (PDF), while construction lost 29,000 and manufacturing lost 15,000. Of those departed construction jobs, more than half were related to real estate. Some 7,000 auto-related jobs disappeared as well.
This summer, Michael Evans went private. Only the 924 people he considers friends on Facebook.com, a social-networking website, can view photos of his latest exploits and track his online activities. Evans, a senior at Ohio State University, wasn't trying to keep predators or even obnoxious busybodies at bay; he was hiding from the prying eyes of future employers.
President Bush and his strategists say they are concerned that partisan differences are pulling Americans apart over Iraq, partly because of the harsh political campaigns that ended in the Democratic takeover of Congress in the November 7 election.
AP - A gunman in a downtown skyscraper shot four people Friday, killing two of them, and took a hostage before being killed after police fired at him, authorities said.
AP - A Muslim convert who talked about his desire to wage jihad against civilians was charged Friday in a plot to set off hand grenades at a shopping mall at the height of the Christmas rush, authorities said.
AP - Republican lawmakers and aides failed for a decade to protect male pages from sexual come-ons by former Rep. Mark Foley once described as a "ticking time bomb" but they broke no rules and should not be punished, the House ethics committee concluded Friday.
The House ethics committee has found that Republican leaders did not break any rules in handling allegations against former Rep. Mark Foley, but that they were negligent in protecting the teenage pages, the report says. It also says no one will be reprimanded.
As many as 121 people in six states may be infected with the strain of E. coli bacteria involved in an outbreak that may be linked to Taco Bell restaurants, officials said today. Fifty-nine people have been confirmed to have the illness, according to state health agencies, and 62 cases are under investigation. South Carolina and Utah are the latest states to report outbreaks.