AP - President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate Wednesday and appointed Dr. Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor and patient care specialist, to run Medicare and Medicaid.
AP - The defense attorney for Drew Peterson says an appeal on hearsay evidence in the former police officer's upcoming murder trial signals to him that prosecutors have no case.
Netanyahu bodyguards' guns go missing on U.S. visit
(Reuters)
Wednesday, 07 July 2010 14:30
Reuters - Several pistols belonging to bodyguards of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took an unexplained cross-country U.S. detour this week before four of them went missing altogether, officials said on Wednesday.
Heat wave stresses Mid-Atlantic power grid again
(Reuters)
Wednesday, 07 July 2010 13:30
Reuters - Electric companies urged consumers to keep cutting back on energy use on Wednesday as a record-breaking heat wave continued to grip the Mid-Atlantic states, straining power plants and distribution lines and leaving some customers without power.
AP - Iraqi police say militants have struck across the Iraqi capital, killing 36 people, including 28 who died in a suicide bombing targeting Shiite pilgrims.
