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NASA Delays Space Shuttle Endeavour's Last Launch
By not in system - AOL NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA abruptly called off space shuttle Endeavour's final launch Friday because of a puzzling heater failure in a critical power unit, disappointing huge crowds converging on the area for the afternoon liftoff. President Barack Obama and his family were planning to watch Endeavour blast off. It would have been the first time in NASA history that a sitting president and his family witnessed a launch. Already at Cape Canaveral for the liftoff was wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, wife of the shuttle's commander. Launch commentator George Diller said the next try likely ...
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 ...
Army Corps Preps to Blast Levee to Save Town; Legal Tussle Looms
By not in system - AOL NewsEAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- As ominous as a floating hearse, twin barges creep up the Mississippi River carrying a payload of explosives bound for southeast Missouri and a levee facing the prospect of being sacrificed to spare a flood-threatened Illinois town just upriver. The Army Corps of Engineers' tugboat-shoved shipments were to arrive Thursday, the same day Missouri stood poised to press a federal judge to block the corps from possibly blasting a gaping hole in the earthen berm to ease waters rising around Cairo, Ill., nestled where the swollen Mississippi and Ohio rivers meet. Cairo's mayor, ...
Buddhists Remember Japan's Tsunami Victims
By not in system - AOL NewsSOMA, Japan -- Buddhist priests in black and gold robes chanted and rang bells Thursday to mark the 49th day since Japan's massive tsunami when the dead are believed to end their restless wandering through the devastated coastline. About 1,200 mourners filled a hall to overflowing, with many standing outside a gate, for a ceremony organized by 170 priests in the northeastern town of Soma, where much of the coast remains buried in mountains of debris from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Many carried framed photographs of lost loved ones, and wept. Some clutched wooden tablets containing ...
At Least 85 Dead as Tornadoes Devastate South
By not in system - AOL NewsTUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Fierce storms obliterated large swaths of land from Mississippi to Georgia, wiping out homes and businesses, causing a nuclear power plant to use backup generators and even forcing the evacuation of a National Weather Service office. The death toll was staggering - at least 85 people killed in five states, including 61 in Alabama alone, a number that was likely to increase. One of the hardest-hit areas was Tuscaloosa, a city of more than 83,000 and home to the University of Alabama. The city's police and other emergency services were devastated, the mayor said, and ...
Blowout Could Spill 58 Million Gallons in Arctic
By not in system - AOL NewsANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The federal agency overseeing offshore drilling in Alaska says the worst-case scenario for a blowout in the Chukchi Sea lease could result in a spill of more than 58 million gallons of oil into Arctic waters. That's about a quarter of the Deepwater Horizon spill, which put 206 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. But it's far more than Shell Oil - the major leaseholder in the area - says it could handle under its response plan. When applying for exploratory permits, Shell was required to prepare for a maximum spill of 231,000 gallons per day. The company says ...
Floodwaters Threaten to Overrun Midwest Levees
By not in system - AOL NewsPOPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Floodwaters threatened earthen levees protecting thousands of homes in the nation's midsection Tuesday, rising so fast in some places that panicked residents didn't have time to pile up sandbags. Storms have unleashed more than a foot of rain across the region, and the forecast offered little hope for relief. Another, larger system was brewing along the same path, bringing several more days of rain and the possibility of tornadoes. The greatest flooding threat loomed in the southeastern Missouri community of Poplar Bluff, a town of 17,000 residents about 130 ...
Obama Says He Wants Oil Producers to Boost Output
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- As the high cost of gasoline takes a toll on politics and pocket books, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he is calling on major oil producers such as Saudi Arabia to increase their oil supplies to help stabilize prices, warning starkly that lack of relief would harm the global economy. "We are in a lot of conversations with the major oil producers like Saudi Arabia to let them know that it's not going to be good for them if our economy is hobbled because of high oil prices," Obama told a Detroit TV station. Joe Raedle, Getty Images President Obama is calling on an ...
Angry Farmers Protest Against Japanese Nuke Plant Owner
By not in system - AOL NewsTOKYO -- Angry farmers brought two cows to Tokyo where they shouted and punched the air Tuesday in a protest to demand compensation for products contaminated by radiation spewing from Japan's crippled nuclear plant. The 200 farmers, mostly from northeastern Japan, wore green bandanas, held aloft cabbages they said they couldn't sell and carried signs saying "Stop nuclear energy" outside the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the plant damaged in the March 11 tsunami. "My patience has run out. The nuclear crisis is totally destroying our farming business," said ...
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