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Most popular news on 6 November 2007 |
Ron Paul raises more than $4.2 million
AP - Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, aided by an extraordinary outpouring of Internet support Monday, hauled in more than $4.2 million in nearly 24 hours.
Wis. boy, 3, finds woolly mammoth tooth
AP - Gary Kidd had a pretty good idea that what his 3-year-old grandson had found was no rock, but the tooth of a woolly mammoth. That's because he had found one himself nine years ago. Kaleb Kidd was chasing squirrels Monday at a family friend's property near La Crosse when he spotted what looked like an unusual rock.
Air Force suspends some F-15 flights
AP - The Air Force has suspended some F-15 flights, citing a possible structural failure discovered after one of the fighter jets crashed in central Missouri.
Australian researchers find hunger switch
Reuters - Australian scientists have found how to
switch hunger on and off using a molecule that targets the
brain -- a discovery which could stop weight loss in terminally
ill patients or produce weight loss in the morbidly obese.
Paparazzo says Reeves hit him with car
AP - A photographer sued Keanu Reeves, accusing the actor of hitting him with his Porsche in a not-so-excellent encounter in March. The lawsuit said Reeves struck Alison Silva on March 19 and alleges that Silva suffered shock and serious injuries. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeks unspecified damages.
Sinking Currency, Sinking Country
Pat Buchanan - The euro, worth 83 cents in the early George W. Bush years, is at $1.45.
Clinton defends wife on licenses
AP - Former President Clinton on Monday compared Republican criticism of his wife's position on driver's license for illegal immigrants to the ads that helped sink John Kerry's White House hopes in 2004.
Judge orders halt to 'Dog's' extradition
AP - Television bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman, who had his reality show taken off the air after getting caught using a racial slur, will not be extradited to Mexico to face a pending appeal of kidnapping charges against him, a judge ruled Monday.
Colts deny alleged 'artificial noise'
AP - The Indianapolis Colts contend the debate about the decibel level in the RCA Dome is merely noise, and now they have the NFL taking their side.
Lack of sleep may lead to fatter kids
AP - Here's another reason to get the kids to bed early: More sleep may lower their risk of becoming obese. Researchers have found that every additional hour per night a third-grader spends sleeping reduces the child's chances of being obese in sixth grade by 40 percent.
Nancy Grace gives birth to twins
AP - Nancy Grace is now the mother of twins, after doctors induced labor two months before her due date.
Loss, Grief and Jack Daniels
Dear Margo - DEAR MARGO: My husband and I have been married almost five years.
21,000 slipped past borders illegally
AP - Some 21,000 people who should not have been allowed to enter the U.S. came through official border crossing points between Oct. 1, 2005 and Sept. 30, 2006, according to a government report released Monday.
Mudslide buries houses in flooded Mexico
Reuters - A huge wall of mud and
water engulfed a remote village in flood-ravaged southern
Mexico on Monday and the government said at least 16 people
were missing.
Musharraf's crackdown could fuel Islamic insurgency in Pakistan
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON? President Pervez Musharraf's imposition of emergency rule in Pakistan, which he said is intended to curb Islamic extremism, could actually aid the growing insurgency by militants allied with al Qaida and the Taliban, U.S. officials and experts warned Monday.
House Democrats press Bush on subpoenas
AP - House Democrats threatened Monday to hold President Bush's key confidants in contempt of Congress unless they comply with subpoenas for information on the Justice Department's purge of federal prosecutors last winter.
Mexican flood victims scramble for food
AP - A massive wave of mud and water swept through a Mexican village Monday and up to 16 people were feared buried, officials said, as rescuers elsewhere worked furiously to deliver aid to victims of devastating flooding in southern Mexico.
"Cremated son" turns up alive
Reuters - A mother cremated a body she thought was
that of her dead son, only for him to turn up alive later,
police said on Friday.
Kind of Like Unofficial Polygamy
Dear Margo - DEAR MARGO: I am a very happily married woman with a problem: well-intentioned friends and family. My husband and I are polyamorous and not ashamed of it. We have wonderful girlfriends who are special and a part of our family.
Winfrey in tears over abuse scandal
AP - Oprah Winfrey said Monday she wept for half an hour when she heard a dorm matron was accused of abusing students at her school for disadvantaged South African girls. She promised to "clean house" starting with the headmistress.
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