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Miners' families want answers in China mine blast
HEGANG, China (AP) — Grieving miners' families demanded answers Monday from mining officials about the underground gas explosion that left at least 104 men dead in northeastern China.
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Historic health care bill nears key Senate vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — Invoking the name of the late Edward M. Kennedy, Senate Democrats sealed a 60-vote majority needed to advance health care legislation Saturday ahead of an evening showdown with opposition Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.
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Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views
NEW YORK (AP) — The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.
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NRC: Three Mile Island radiation not significant
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the small amount of radiation detected at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is not significant.
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Iran begins war games to protect nuclear sites
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported, as an air force commander boasted the country could deter any military strike by Israel.
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RI bishop asked Kennedy in 2007 to avoid Communion
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated Sunday when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion because of the Democratic lawmaker's support for abortion rights.
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Study: kids watching hours of TV at home daycare
SEATTLE (AP) — Parents who thought their preschoolers were spending time in home-based day cares, taking naps, eating healthy snacks and learning to play nicely with others may be surprised to discover they are sitting as many as two hours a day in front of a TV, according to a study published Monday.
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Michael Jackson wins 4 at AMAs; Swift top artist
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson made history by posthumously winning four American Music Awards on Sunday night, but he couldn't beat Taylor Swift as the year's favorite artist and the evening's top winner.
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McNabb, Eagles beat Bears 24-20
CHICAGO (AP) — Donovan McNabb and the Philadelphia Eagles found a way to pull out a close win. They also hurt the Chicago Bears in the process.
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Johnson wins 4th straight NASCAR championship
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson was chasing much more than a championship.
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Miners' families want answers in China mine blast
HEGANG, China (AP) — Grieving miners' families demanded answers Monday from mining officials about the underground gas explosion that left at least 104 men dead in northeastern China.
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Search on for Indonesian ferry accident survivors
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers returned to choppy waters off Indonesia's Sumatra island Monday to search for 21 passengers still missing after a ferry sank in a storm. Officials say 254 survivors were pulled from the sea and at least 29 other people drowned.
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Iran begins war games to protect nuclear sites
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported, as an air force commander boasted the country could deter any military strike by Israel.
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US sailor cleared of assaulting Sydney prostitute
SYDNEY (AP) — A U.S. Navy serviceman was found not guilty Monday of sexually assaulting a prostitute at a brothel while on shore leave in Australia's biggest city.
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Exit polls: No clear winner in Romania's election
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A presidential election aimed at helping Romania emerge from a political and economic crisis failed to produce a winner on Sunday, and the top two candidates will compete in a runoff next month, according to two exit polls.
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Iraq PM ramps up attacks on Baathists before vote
BAGHDAD (AP) — A stepped-up campaign by Iraq's prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is alienating Sunni Muslims and stoking tensions between them and the majority Shiites ahead of key national elections.
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Denmark: 65 world leaders for UN climate summit
COPENHAGEN (AP) — Sixty-five world leaders have said they will attend the Copenhagen climate summit in December, and several more have responded positively to invitations, Danish officials said Sunday.
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Israeli aircraft strike Gaza targets
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli aircraft attacked two suspected weapons-making factories and a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip early Sunday in what the military said was retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire into southern Israel.
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Iran releases ex-official on bail in mass trial
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran released a former vice president on a $700,000 bail Sunday after his lawyer said he had been sentenced to six years in prison in the mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the post-election unrest.
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Egypt's media stoked soccer fan anger with Algeria
CAIRO (AP) — Angry soccer fans rampaged through a posh diplomatic neighborhood in Cairo over the weekend, smashing shop windows and shouting obscenities in a frenzy fed by venomous headlines that portrayed Algerians as barbaric terrorists with a history of violence.
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Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views
NEW YORK (AP) — The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.
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SF area officer, passenger injured during arrest
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A train passenger's video of an arrest shows heavy-duty glass shattering and showering down on a San Francisco area transit police officer and an unruly passenger in an incident that injured both men.
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RI bishop asked Kennedy in 2007 to avoid Communion
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated Sunday when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion because of the Democratic lawmaker's support for abortion rights.
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Victim ID'd in fatal NYC subway seat stabbing
NEW YORK (AP) — A subway passenger stabbed to death in front of horrified straphangers has been identified as 36-year-old Dwight Johnson of Brooklyn.
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Attorney: Jackson's doctor returning to work
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Michael Jackson's former personal physician is returning to work at his Houston clinic for the first time since before the pop singer's death, his lawyer said Sunday.
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Demonstration at UC Santa Cruz ends peacefully
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Officials at the University of California, Santa Cruz say dozens of protesters who were occupying the university's main administrative building have ended their protest.
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Lethal injection creator fine with 1 drug in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one — as his home state of Ohio has proposed — as long as the drug works efficiently.
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Holidays will again test NYC air travel bottleneck
NEW YORK (AP) — Fewer people are expected to fly this holiday season, but travelers shouldn't expect a full reprieve from the horrid flight delays of Thanksgivings past, especially if they need to land anywhere near New York City.
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Mammogram guidelines spark debate over health bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.
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Astronaut's baby daughter born as he circles Earth
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronaut Randolph Bresnik jubilantly welcomed his new daughter into the world Sunday as he floated 220 miles above it.
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