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  1. Scientists find a gene that makes cancer spread Reuters - Mon Jan 5, 5:20 PM ETSent 1,117 times

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - A single gene appears to play a crucial role in deadly breast cancers, increasing the chances the cancer will spread and making it resistant to chemotherapy, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

  2. This official White House photograph shows White House pet India, on the South Lawn of the White House dressed for Halloween 31 October 2007 in Washington, DC. The Bush family's 18-year-old cat, India, has died at the White House, First Lady Laura Bush's office announced on January 5, 2009.(AFP/HO/File)
    US First Cat 'India' dies AFP - Mon Jan 5, 12:14 PM ETSent 942 times

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Bush family's 18-year-old cat, India, has died at the White House, First Lady Laura Bush's office announced Monday.

  3. In this Aug. 4, 2002 file photo, President George W. Bush stretches out in his golf cart at the Cape Arundel Golf Club in Kennebunkport, Maine. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
    Bushisms over the years AP - Sat Jan 3, 11:06 AM ETSent 714 times

    President George W. Bush will leave behind a legacy of Bushisms, the label stamped on the commander in chief's original speaking style. Some of the president's more notable malaprops and mangled statements:

  4. A Galapagos National Park picture, showing a pink iguana. A team of Ecuadoran and Italian researchers have discovered a unique species of pink land iguanas living on the Galapagos Islands, the scientist who wrote the report told AFP(AFP/Tui de Roy)
    Pink iguanas unseen by Darwin offer evolution clue Reuters - Mon Jan 5, 5:43 PM ETSent 472 times

    LONDON (Reuters) - Pink iguanas unknown to Charles Darwin during his visits to the Galapagos islands may provide evidence of species divergence far earlier than the English naturalist's famous finches, researchers said Monday.

  5. 7 hospitals in NY accused of $50M Medicaid fraud AP - Mon Jan 5, 8:05 PM ETSent 415 times

    ALBANY, N.Y. - Four hospitals in New York state paid kickbacks to get more patients into their drug treatment programs, which billed Medicaid for services that weren't standard or necessary and lacked state certification, lawsuits allege.

  6. In this image released by Rogers & Cowan public relations, actor John Travolta is shown with his son Jett in an undated family photo. (AP Photo/Rogers & Cowan)
    Autopsy completed on Travolta's son AP - Mon Jan 5, 3:09 PM ETSent 312 times

    FREEPORT, Bahamas - Doctors in the Bahamas conducted an autopsy Monday on John Travolta's 16-year-old son, but authorities did not immediately disclose the results.

  7. Registered nurse Pat Boodoo reviews patient data during a shift last month at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare in the Milwaukee suburb of Brookfield, Oct. 22, 2008. While other industries are shedding jobs, nursing recruiters are frantically trying to hire new workers to address a nationwide nursing shortage expected to worsen as the population ages.(AP Photo/ Dinesh Ramde )
    Nursing industry desperate to find new hires AP - Mon Jan 5, 2:48 PM ETSent 213 times

    MILWAUKEE - Please, please accept a high-paying job with us. In fact, just swing by for an interview and we'll give you a chance to win cash and prizes.

  8. In this Sept. 27, 1996 file photo, then-White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. President-elect Barack Obama has selected Panetta to head the CIA, according to an Obama transition official. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)
    Obama's intel picks short on direct experience AP - Mon Jan 5, 6:25 PM ETSent 146 times

    WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama's decision to fill the nation's top intelligence jobs with two men short on direct experience in intelligence gathering surprised the spy community and signaled the Democrat's intention for a clean break from Bush administration policies.

  9. Boy, 4, shoots babysitter for stepping on his foot AP - Mon Jan 5, 9:08 PM ETSent 139 times

    JACKSON, Ohio - Police say an angry 4-year-old Ohio boy grabbed a gun from a closet and shot his baby sitter. Nathan Beavers, 18, was hospitalized Sunday with minor wounds to his arm and side after the shotgun attack. Police say another teen was also injured.

  10. File photo shows a Wedgwood china coffee cup under the weight of a 1.6-tonne Jaguar car during a promotional event. Waterford Wedgwood, the maker of china and glass, said Monday that some of its businesses were close to bankruptcy as trading in the group's shares was suspended here.(AFP/File/Kim Jae-Hwan)
    Crystal, china maker Waterford Wedgwood collapses AP - Mon Jan 5, 1:26 PM ETSent 127 times

    LONDON - Waterford Wedgwood PLC, the maker of classic china and crystal, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday after attempts to restructure the struggling business or find a buyer failed.

  11. This undated hand out artist rendering provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows the latest view of the Milky Way's structure. Our Milky Way galaxy may not be the snack-sized collection of stars astronomers have long thought it was. (AP Photo/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Robert Hurt, Mark Reid)
    Milky Way — the galaxy — not snack-sized anymore AP - 1 hour, 24 minutes agoSent 111 times

    WASHINGTON - Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth's cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda. Not anymore.

  12. U.S. anti-kidnap expert's vanishing spins Mexico mystery Reuters - Mon Jan 5, 2:28 PM ETSent 111 times

    MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - The abduction of a U.S. anti-kidnap expert in northern Mexico last month remains a mystery with no clues to the man's whereabouts and no ransom demanded by his captors, police said on Monday.

  13. This photo taken Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009 provided by French Defense Minister shows suspected pirates arrested by Marine commandos of the French Navy in the Gulf of Aden, off Somalia coasts. French government officials say the Jean de Vienne intercepted and captured 19 pirates Sunday as they tried to take over two cargo ships, one Croatian and the other Panamian. French Navy vessel Jean de Vienne is seen on background. (AP Photo/French Navy/French Defense Minister/HO)
    Pirates attack French vessel off Nigerian coast AP - Mon Jan 5, 5:50 PM ETSent 111 times

    PARIS - Pirates hijacked a French boat and took its nine crew members hostage in the latest attack in some of the world's most dangerous waters off oil-rich southern Nigeria, the boat's owner said Monday.

  14. In this Feb. 16, 2005 file photo buffalo graze in a frozen forest inside Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch, File)
    A Spurt of Quake Activity Raises Fears in Yellowstone Time.com - Mon Jan 5, 1:05 PM ETSent 108 times

    Scientists are carefully measuring the geological activity in the national park because it contains the caldera of an enormous, ancient and still active volcano

  15. A view of a comet shot by the Deep Space 1 spacecraft September 22, 2001. (NASA/JPL/Handout/Reuters)
    Diamonds suggest comets caused killer cold spell Reuters - Sun Jan 4, 5:55 PM ETSent 90 times

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tiny diamonds sprinkled across North America suggest a "swarm" of comets hit the Earth around 13,000 years ago, kicking up enough disruption to send the planet into a cold spell and drive mammoths and other creatures into extinction, scientists reported on Friday.

  16. President-elect Barack Obama, flanked by Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner, left, and Council of Economic Advisers Chair-designate Christina Romer meets with members of his economic team at his transition office in Washington, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
    Obama says his plan with tax cuts to get quick OK AP - Mon Jan 5, 9:43 PM ETSent 85 times

    WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama plunged into rare pre-inaugural crisis talks with congressional leaders Monday, declaring the national economy was "bad and getting worse" and embracing tax cuts now expected to reach $300 billion. He predicted lawmakers would approve a mammoth revitalization package within two weeks of his taking office.

  17. Group sues to force EPA to clean up Chesapeake Bay AP - Mon Jan 5, 3:43 PM ETSent 60 times

    WASHINGTON - A conservation group filed a federal lawsuit Monday to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to enforce the law and clean up the polluted Chesapeake Bay, citing 25 years of failure to restore the nation's largest estuary.

  18. Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff leaves U.S. District court after a bail hearing in New York, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Prosecutors on Monday said Madoff violated bail conditions by mailing about $1 million worth of jewelry and other assets to relatives and should be jailed without bail. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
    Prosecutor wants Madoff jailed without bail AP - Mon Jan 5, 9:43 PM ETSent 53 times

    NEW YORK - A prosecutor on Monday asked that Bernard Madoff be jailed pending trial, saying the disgraced financier violated an agreement with the court by mailing watches, jewelry, cufflinks and mittens worth more than $1 million to relatives and friends.

  19. Stop picking on Jimmy Carter The Christian Science Monitor - Mon Jan 5, 3:00 AM ETSent 49 times

    Oakton, Va. - In this season of new resolutions, Americans would do well to rethink their perceptions of Jimmy Carter. President Carter has suffered the misfortune of having his legacy almost entirely shaped by his political enemies rather than by objective reality or a basic sense of American fairness.

  20. Palestinians carry the bodies of three toddlers Ahmed, Mohamed, and Issa Samouni, who according to Palestinian medical sources were killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
    Gaza civilian toll rises; diplomats seek truce AP - 8 minutes agoSent 43 times

    GAZA CITY, Gaza - Israel ignored mounting international calls for a cease-fire and said it won't stop its crippling 10-day assault until "peace and tranquility" are achieved in southern Israeli towns in the line of Palestinian rocket fire.

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