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    Edwards endorses Obama

    May 14: John Edwards announces he is endorsing Barack Obama for president, saying “one man who knows in his heart that it is time to create one America, not two.” (MSNBC)Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a move designed to help solidify support for the party's likely presidential nominee.


    Clinton regrets racial tension

    Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that she shouldn't have suggested in a newspaper interview that Barack Obama was having trouble winning over "hardworking ... white Americans."

    Quake cracks threaten Chinese dam

    Rescue workers pull out 8-month pregnant Zhang Xiaoyan, 34, alive from an apartment that partially collapsed following Monday's powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Dujiangyan, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Chinese troops rushed to plug "extremely dangerous" cracks in a dam upriver from Dujiangyan an earthquake-hit town, state media said Thursday.


    Myanmar toll could top 127,000

    Internally displaced people eat at a relief centre near Dedaye, in the Irrawaddy Delta, in the Irrawaddy Delta May 14, 2008. At least 100,000 people are thought to have died in the May 2 cyclone and storm surge in the Irrawaddy delta, a death toll that could rise dramatically if survivors do not get access to food, clean water and medicine in the next few days, experts say. REUTERS/Sstringer (MYANMAR)The Red Cross on Wednesday boosted its estimate of the cyclone death toll in Myanmar to as many as 128,000 — a much higher figure than the government tally.


    Polar bear listed as threatened

    Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne gestures during a news conference at the Interior Department in Washington, Wednesday, May 14, 2008, to announce the Interior Department has declared the polar bear a threatened species, saying it must be protected because of the decline in Arctic sea ice from global warming. Citing shrinking Arctic sea ice, the Bush administration on Wednesday declared the polar bear a threatened species. But activists were quick to criticize the ruling, saying it was full of loopholes.


    Report: GE to quit making appliances

    General Electric Co. plans to auction off its appliances business, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

    GOP’s Miss. loss bigger than W. Va.

    May 14: NBC's David Gregory reports with a look-ahead to the key battleground states that John McCain and the Democratic nominee will be contesting in November. (Today Show)This latest loss for the GOP makes the House 236 Democrats to 199 Republicans.  Can cash and campaigning stop the bleeding come November?


    Suspect arrested in Fla. wildfires

    Authorities arrested a man they say was seen throwing a Molotov cocktail into the woods Wednesday in this Atlantic coast town, where several homes have been gutted by wildfires this week.


    Without ads, restless legs may take a hike

    Man in bed --- Image by © T. Kruesselmann/zefa/CorbisFDA approval of generic drugs to treat restless legs syndrome could cool marketing hype for the controversial twitching condition.


    Audio of Rumsfeld on Iraq creates buzz

    The blogosphere has been abuzz about audio of a luncheon with former Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld that provides insight into the relationship of media military analysts to the Pentagon.

    Google starts to blur faces in Street View

    After privacy complaints, Google is beginning to automatically blur faces of people captured in the street photos taken for its Internet map program. Rolling it out will take several months, however.

    Chicago overturns foie gras ban in restaurants

    Chicago has repealed a two-year-old ban on foie gras.

    Foreclosure filings rise 65 percent

    A foreclosure sign stands outside an existing home on the market in Denver on Friday, May 9, 2008. More U.S. homeowners fell behind on mortgage payments last month, driving the number of homes facing foreclosure up 65 percent Wednesday, May 14, 2008, versus the same month last year and contributing to a deepening slide in home values. More U.S. homeowners fell behind on mortgage payments last month, driving the number of homes facing foreclosure up 65 percent versus the same month last year.


    Ants swarm over Houston area

    Tom Rasberry, , an exterminator, lets "crazy rasberry ants", named after him, crawl on his arm, Tuesday, May 13, 2008, in Deer Park, Texas. The ants are throwing off the balance of nature as they feast on beneficial insects, researchers say, noting that even the hatchlings of the endangered Attwater Prairie Chicken are at risk from these omnivores. They're invading homes and shorting out electrical boxes and electronics by getting their tiny bodies wedged into the intricate equipment. In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.


    Paper: NFL spygate story false

    New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft complimented the Boston Herald on Wednesday for apologizing for a story that said his team videotaped a St. Louis Rams walkthrough before the 2002 Super Bowl.


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