This is a rush transcript from “America’s Election HQ,” April 23, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. MEGYN KELLY, CO-HOST: Clinton’s big win last night makes for at least another two weeks of the Democrats battling it out, and that means John …
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Republican and Democratic leaders in Washington jointly touted the roughly $168 billion in rebates set to begin reaching Americans by Monday as a means of breathing life into a sluggish economy. President Bush said Friday that the checks would come out a week earlier than previously announced, a move officials …
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MOSCOW – Fourteen followers of a self-declared prophet emerged Tuesday from a dank, muddy cave in Russia after melting snow damaged the hillside shelter where they had been waiting for the world to end, officials said. Another 14 cult followers remained in the underground cavern, the last holdouts among the …
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NEW YORK – The video-sharing site YouTube will be allowed to mask the identities of individual users when it provides viewership records to Viacom Inc. and other copyright holders behind a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit. YouTube disclosed late Monday that it would substitute user IDs, Internet addresses and other identifiers …
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HELENA, Mont. – An Oregon man was recovering in a hospital Friday from wounds inflicted by a bear at a Montana campground a day earlier, and wildlife officials were trying to trap the animal they believe is a grizzly. The man was at a campground about five miles from the …
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HOBART, Ind. – Police officer Tim Pochron’s first day on the job went poorly: Less than a half-hour into it, his squad car was wrecked in a crash. Pochron was inside his house at 12:29 a.m. Monday when someone hit his new squad car parked outside, as well as a …
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PHILADELPHIA – Among the most notorious on-screen gaffes ever, Janet Jackson’s breast-baring “wardrobe malfunction” on CBS during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show drew a $550,000 indecency fine from the Federal Communications Commission. Now a federal appeals court has thrown it out. A panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court …
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – WTLR station manager Mark VanOuse said the station received a tip around 10 a.m. that someone armed with a shotgun was asking people for the address of the radio station and for money. Police got the same tip and went to the station, Centre County District …
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MOSCOW – A pack of enormous bears searching for food killed and ate two men at mines in Russia’s Pacific Kamchatka region and have kept hundreds of geologists and miners from reaching the mine, news agencies reported Wednesday. A pack of up to 30 Kamchatka bears—which are similar to grizzlies—prowled …
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LIMA, Peru – A double-decker bus crashed on a Peruvian jungle highway, killing 14 and injuring 10. Luis Miguel Ciccia, manager of the Civa transport company, told Peru’s PRR radio that the bus crashed into a rocky hillside at dawn on Saturday after the driver swerved to avoid hitting an …
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