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Obama Says Devastation Unlike Any He Has Ever Seen
By not in system - AOL NewsTUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Expressing amazement at the destruction all around him, President Barack Obama on Friday stepped through the wreckage left by rampaging tornadoes and pledged help to those who survived but lost their homes in a terrifying flash. Said the president: "I've never seen devastation like this." "We're going to make sure you're not forgotten," Obama said as he and first lady Michelle Obama walked the streets of a reeling neighborhood. He said that although nothing could be done for the many who were killed - "they're alongside God at this point" - Obama assured support for ...
Appeals Court Overturns Stem Cell Research Ban
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Opponents of taxpayer-funded stem cell research lost a key round in a federal appeals court Friday. In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the U.S. court of appeals in Washington overturned a judge's order that would have blocked taxpayer funding for stem cell research. The judges ruled that opponents of taxpayer-funded stem cell research are not likely to succeed in their lawsuit to stop it. The panel reversed an opinion issued last August by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who said the research likely violates the law against federal funding of embryo destruction. "We're thrilled ...
Deadliest Tornado Outbreak in Decades Kills Nearly 300
By not in system - AOL NewsPLEASANT GROVE, Ala. -- Firefighters searched one splintered pile after another for survivors Thursday, combing the remains of houses and neighborhoods pulverized by the nation's deadliest tornado outbreak in almost four decades. At least 297 people were killed across six states - more than two-thirds of them in Alabama, where large cities bore the half-mile-wide scars the twisters left behind. The death toll from Wednesday's storms seems out of a bygone era, before Doppler radar and pinpoint satellite forecasts were around to warn communities of severe weather. Residents were told the ...
Gadhafi Forces Shell Frontline City in West Libya
By not in system - AOL NewsMISRATA, Libya -- Moammar Gadhafi's forces shelled civilian areas in the rebel-held city of Misrata on Thursday, killing 10 people. Regime supporters and opponents battled on another front in western Libya for control of a crossing point along the Tunisian border, killing refugees as they fled. Rockets and other artillery fire slammed into Misrata's western Garara neighborhood, sending up deadly showers of shrapnel. At the city's Hikma hospital, relatives shouting "God is great" collected the dead, each with the word "martyr" written in marker on their white funeral shrouds. Cristophe ...
Obama Assembles All-Star Cast to Talk Immigration
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- His immigration overhaul stalled, President Barack Obama is enlisting an array of voices, including Latino entertainment and media stars, to help jump-start legislation and reassure crucial but restless Hispanic voters that he has not abandoned his campaign pledge to change the law. Obama's political advisers see tremendous potential in a growing Latino electorate. But Obama, who won 67 percent of the Latino vote in 2008, faces a disenchanted Latino community, angry over a record number of deportations and an impasse on revamping immigration laws, and fearful of tough state ...
WikiLeaks Suspect to Be Housed With Other Inmates
By not in system - AOL NewsFORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. -- WikiLeaks suspect Army Pfc. Bradley Manning has passed the lengthy the physical and psychiatric evaluation given to new inmates at the Kansas military prison where he was recently moved and will begin living with other medium-security inmates who are also awaiting trial, the prison commander said Thursday. AP Army Pfc. Bradley Manning will begin living with other medium-security inmates at Fort Leavenworth, a prison official said. The new detention conditions represent a marked change for Manning, who was transferred to Fort Leavenworth last week from the ...
Calif. Couple Plead Guilty to Girl's Kidnap, Rape
By not in system - AOL NewsPLACERVILLE, Calif. -- A convicted sex offender and his wife pleaded guilty Thursday to kidnapping and raping a Northern California girl when she was 11 and holding her captive for nearly two decades. The pleas came as part of a surprise deal with prosecutors that will spare victim Jaycee Dugard and her two daughters born after she was raped by defendant Phillip Garrido from having to testify at a trial. Sacramento Bee / MCT / AP Convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, pleaded guilty Thursday to kidnapping and raping 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard in 1991 and ...
Lara Logan Talks About Assault to '60 Minutes'
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- CBS correspondent Lara Logan says she believed she was going to die while she was being sexually assaulted and beaten in Egypt's Tahrir Square. CBS News / AP "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan is shown covering the reaction in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down. Logan speaks out Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes" about the assault, which happened while she was reporting on that country's political uprising. She was set upon by a mob of several hundred men. She said in an interview with Scott Pelley that "there was no ...
Obama: Storm Damage in Southeast 'Catastrophic'
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says the damage in tornado-stricken states in the Southeast is "nothing short of catastrophic." Speaking at the White House, Obama says the loss of life has been heartbreaking, especially in Alabama, the state hit hardest. At least 250 people have been killed in six states in the deadliest tornado outbreak in 40 years. Obama says the federal government will do everything it can to help the states recover and rebuild. He said the first responders who have been helping those in the region are heroes. Obama will travel to Alabama Friday to view the ...
Gadhafi Regime Hands Weapons to Civilians
By not in system - AOL NewsGAZAHIYA, Libya -- A 22-year-old university student balanced an unloaded grenade launcher on his shoulder, grunted loudly in place of an explosion as he pulled the trigger, then handed the weapon to the next man. The military drill on the lawn of a clinic in a remote village in government-controlled western Libya was part of what Moammar Gadhafi's regime has tried to portray as a large-scale arming and training of the home front. Foreign reporters on a government tour were also taken to a school where a couple of teenage boys fired Kalashnikov rifles in the air. The scenes appeared to have ...
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