French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence. The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn't cause AIDS, and then used it to carry in the healthy new gene. Read More
President Obama will not travel to Germany to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9. White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said today that President Obama's schedule will not allow for a visit to Germany.
Adolf Hitler's family home in the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn has been put on the market for $3.3 million, triggering concern that it could become a Nazi shrine.
The National Labor Committee published a report Tuesday bashing Walmart's sick leave policy for giving workers demerits and pay deductions when they stay home due to illness or to care for a sick child. "I have to do whatever I have to do to keep my job," said a 33-year-old mother of two who works at Walmart. "You get a cold or you get the fever or whatever, you've got to be there." Read More
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasasn, the Army psychiatrist suspected of killing 12 soldiers at Fort Hood during a shooting rampage Thursday, shouted "Allahu Akhbar" ("God is great" in Arabic) during the shooting spree, officials quoted witnesses as saying.
At Duke University, a sex toy study being conducted by a behavioral economist and student health workers has aroused criticism. Researchers recruited female Duke students to take part in a "sexually explicit" study on Tupperware-style parties for sex toys.
One people was killed and at least six others were wounded in a shooting incident inside a downtown Orlando high-rise building Friday morning, authorities said. The building was described as not yet secure, and the suspect was still on the loose.
The unemployment rate spiked to 10.2 percent, its highest level since 1983 and a total much worse than expected. Employers continue to trim jobs despite other signs of growth.
When choosing stories for the Drudge Report that link to his own Breitbart.Com news portal, Matt Drudge's collaborator Andrew Breitbart has been influenced by a secret commercial deal with Reuters to link to its stories since 2005. "From all appearances, the synergistic three-way between Breitbart, Reuters, and the Drudge Report remains in effect," journalist Greg Beato writes.
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After alleged shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on a crowd of young soldiers at Fort Hood Thursday, killing 13 and wounding 30, the rampage was ended by Sgt. Kimberly Munley, who exchanged gunfire with Hasan and managed to shoot him four times despite being shot herself. "She was quite effective, one of our most impressive young policemen," said Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone, the base commander. "She walked up and basically engaged him. I think, certainly, this could've been far worse."
As House Democrats prepare to vote Saturday on a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's healthcare system, they have picked up an important endorsement today from the 40-million-member AARP, the nation's largest senior citizens group. Read More
A drop in unemployment claims and an upbeat forecast from Cisco Systems gave investors new reason to be optimistic about the economy and sent stocks to big gains. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 200-plus points Thursday closing above 10,000, while the Nasdaq composite index gained more than 2 percent after Cisco, the maker of computer-networking gear, predicted its revenue would grow.
A military doctor who reportedly feared an impending war deployment is in custody as the sole suspect in a shooting rampage at the Army's Fort Hood that left 12 dead and at least 30 wounded, an Army official said Thursday night. Suspect Major Nidal Malik Hasan is alive and in stable condition, despite early reports that the gunman was among the dead. Read More
Morocco has announced this week the launch of a solar energy project, with an estimated cost of $9 billion, aiming at raising the share of renewable sources in the country's energy production. The plan, unveiled in the southern Moroccan city of Ouarzazate during a ceremony attended by king Mohammed VI and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will, according to the local news agency, enable the country to equally divide its renewable energies' national production between solar, wind and hydroelectric sources by the year 2020.
The actor Willie Aames, who filed for bankruptcy twice since 1997 and was selling his possessions in front of his foreclosed Olathe, Kan., home in March just to make ends meet, is training to become a financial adviser. "As of Dec. 12, I had no wife, no family, no car, no computer, no home, no electricity, no gas and no way to obtain any of it," Aames said this week. "How do you start over from scratch? I didn't know."
