Gov. Eliot Spitzer suspended one top aide and reassigned another after the attorney general accused his staff of using the New York State Police for political purposes.
West Nile virus season is upon us. Each year, reported infections of the disease tend to occur mainly between late July and early September. Cases of the mosquito-spread illness?a couple of them lethal?have already cropped up in states as far apart as California, Mississippi, and North Dakota. But it's not yet clear where, if anywhere, the highly unpredictable virus will be big this year. "From one year to the next, we don't know where it will break out," says Gary Nabel, director of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Carol Ashley has been waiting six long years for the country to become safer. It's been that long since her 25-year-old daughter, Janice, perished when the north tower of the World Trade Center collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001. It's been almost three years now since the 9/11 commission reviewed the attacks and issued recommendations aimed at preventing a similar calamity.
Carol Ashley has been waiting six long years for the country to become safer. It's been that long since her 25-year-old daughter, Janice, perished when the north tower of the World Trade Center collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001. It's been almost three years now since the 9/11 commission reviewed the attacks and issued recommendations aimed at preventing a similar calamity.
AP - Lesbians asking about gay marriage. Two unrelated parents with sons in Iraq asking about the war. And a snowman asking about global warming? Video questions submitted to the hip Web site YouTube shook up the usual campaign debate Monday night.
AP - A suicide car bomber struck the center of a major Shiite city in southern Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 22 people and wounding dozens as the streets were packed with shoppers and people on their way to work, police and hospital officials said.
AP - Emergency workers rescued hundreds of trapped people Monday as water swallowed swaths of central England in the worst flooding to hit the country for 60 years. Officials said some rivers were still rising, with the western section of the rain-swollen River Thames on the verge of bursting its banks.
Voters asked Democratic presidential hopefuls questions directly in the first CNN/YouTube debate Monday. The cameras were focused on the eight runners, but it was the personal, heartfelt and, at times, comical nature of the questions that stole the spotlight.
Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus arrived in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia Tuesday, following their release after serving eight years in jail on the charges.
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