Latest Breaking News Headlines For Sunday Jan 7, 2007

Latest Breaking News Headlines For Sunday Jan 7, 2007

MSNBC political commentator Chris Matthews has told his colleagues he won't be leaving television to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Pennsylvania. MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines says Matthews told the staff of his...

Minnesota's grueling U.S. Senate race, already dragging on two months past Election Day, has now moved even further from the voters _ and into the hands of lawyers. Republican Norm Coleman filed a lawsuit Tuesday...

President-elect Barack Obama wants to use his economic aid plan to cut energy use in federal buildings, a long-sought goal that has achieved mixed success. "If we do that effectively, then over the long term we are...

Former Gov. Jeb Bush announced Tuesday that he won't run for the U.S. Senate in 2010 to replace the retiring Mel Martinez, saying that it was not the right time to return to elected office. "I can play a role in...

Barack Obama knows Colorado's new senator better than most state voters do. Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet, the man tapped to replace Sen. Ken Salazar, is a mystery to many voters _ but not to...

Caroline Kennedy's missteps and halting speech patterns have been replayed endlessly since she announced her bid to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton in the U.S. Senate. News articles nationwide, editorials and endless...

The Cabinet that President-elect Barack Obama picked on a fast track has an unexpected opening, with New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Obama's choice for commerce secretary, withdrawing under pressure of a federal...

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, who last year helped deliver his state to the Democratic Party in a presidential election for the first time in more than 40 years, has been selected by President-elect Barack Obama to serve as...

Police are blocking off all bridges crossing the Potomac River into Washington and a huge chunk of downtown when Barack Obama takes the oath of office Jan. 20, securing the largest area of the nation's capital for any...

Galveston officials pleaded with state lawmakers Wednesday for help in rescuing their island city from the dire financial straits it finds itself in nearly four months after the devastation of Hurricane Ike. "We're...

Rain and high winds lashed Washington state Wednesday, causing widespread avalanches, mudslides, flooding and road closures as the heavy snowfall that has buried parts of the state began to rapidly melt. More than...

Lawyers for a former Orange County sheriff blasted federal prosecutors Wednesday for failing to call one of his ex-assistants as a key witness in his corruption trial. Michael Carona's attorney, Jeff Rawitz, told the...

A federal judge ordered an Alabama sheriff locked up in his own jail Wednesday after holding him in contempt for failing to adequately feed inmates while profiting from the skimpy meals. U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon...

Firefighters say they have found three young siblings dead in an apartment building that caught fire on Chicago's southeast side. Fire Department spokeswoman Eve Rodriguez says the bodies of 7-month-old Jimmy Gates,...

A Kentucky man who claimed to have a bomb aboard a Los Angeles-bound jetliner and was then tackled and bound by other passengers will not face federal charges, the FBI said Wednesday. No bomb was found aboard the Delta...

Wind-driven wildfires swept across Boulder County grasslands Wednesday, destroying at least four structures and prompting mandatory evacuations of at least 500 homes. Residents were ordered to leave more than 500 homes...

Sri Lankan air force jets launched a series of attacks against Tamil Tigers, keeping pressure on the beleaguered rebels a day after officially banning the group, the military said Thursday. The quarter-century-old...

Israel resumed its Gaza offensive Wednesday, bombing heavily around suspected smuggling tunnels near the border with Egypt after a three-hour lull to allow in humanitarian aid. Hamas responded with a rocket barrage. ...

The Security Council failed to agree on action to end the escalating crisis in Gaza on Wednesday, but the U.S. threw its weight behind a cease-fire initiative and Egypt announced it will host separate talks with Israel...

The United States has released another $99 million as part of an aid package to support Mexico's police and soldiers in their fight against drug cartels. U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza says the funds will help Mexico's...

A spokesman for Pakistan's prime minister has announced that the country's national security adviser has been fired. Spokesman Imran Gardaizi says Mahmood Durrani was fired because "he gave media interviews on national...

The Australian government said Thursday that radical conservationists who have been persuing Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters can refuel their ship in Australia, despite Japan's objections that they are tantamount...

President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday criticized the U.S. government for not stopping Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip and expressed hope the conflict will ease under the incoming administration. Chavez, who a day...

Hard to believe a giant, pink lizard could be overlooked for almost two centuries. Charles Darwin missed it during his 1835 study of the Galapagos Islands that led to his theory of evolution. Park rangers ignored the...

Oil prices were steady below $43 a barrel Thursday in Asia after a higher-than-expected increase in U.S. inventories sparked a 12 percent plunge in crude overnight. Light, sweet crude for February delivery dipped 14...

Nissan showed Thursday a 15 million yen ($161,300) souped up version of its GT-R sportscar that the Japanese automaker said was still a bargain compared to European rivals. Tokyo-based Nissan Motor Co.'s GT-R,...

Shares in Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. fell sharply Thursday after Asia's No. 3 carrier said it could lose nearly $1 billion from hedging its jet fuel costs and reiterated a profit warning for 2008. Cathay shares...

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will slash more than 2,000 temporary jobs in Japan by the end of March as the country's fourth largest automaker struggles in the face of a severe slump in sales worldwide, media reports said...

A debate has been raging in New York over the fact that Bernard Madoff remains free on bail, spending his days in his luxury Manhattan penthouse despite being accused of the largest financial fraud in history. ...

With lawmakers angling to pass an economic recovery package by the middle of next month, desperate homebuilders from around the country flew to Washington to spend Wednesday pushing a $150 billion plan to revive the...

Media company Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday that it expects a fourth-quarter charge of $25 billion to write down the value of its cable, publishing and AOL assets, leading to a loss for the year. New York-based Time...

Chesapeake Energy Corp. agreed to a five-year contract with Chief Executive Officer Aubrey McClendon that includes a one-time $75 million "incentive award," the company disclosed Wednesday in a federal filing. After...

Holy, People's Choice Awards, Batman! "The Dark Knight" soared away with every trophy it was nominated for Wednesday at the 35th annual fan-favorite CBS ceremony. The caped crusader flick won five awards, including...

A complete list of winners at the 35th annual People's Choice Awards: _ Movie: "The Dark Knight" _ Family movie: "WALL-E" _ Action movie: "The Dark Knight" _ Comedy movie: "27 Dresses" _ Drama movie: "The Secret...

Taylor Lautner will be back to morph into the monstrous Jacob Black in the "Twilight" sequel "New Moon." There had been talk that a bigger, buffer, more menacing actor might play the role when the second of Stephenie...

The King of Pop is back _ in town, that is. Michael Jackson has signed a yearlong lease on a mansion in the swanky Bel Air area of the city, a spokesman for the singer said Wednesday. Jackson has been staying in the...

Filmmaker Ken Burns is adding a tenth inning to his nine-part "Baseball" documentary series that aired in the '90s on public television. PBS said Wednesday that the new film, titled "The Tenth Inning," will air in...

CBS is giving a juicy post-championship game time slot to its new hit series, "The Mentalist." An episode about murder and the theft of a multimillion-dollar painting will air 10 p.m. EST Jan. 18, following the...

ABC, CBS and NBC haven't sent their top news anchors to the Middle East to cover Israel's conflict with Hamas, even though each network did so in 2006 when Israel fought a war with Hezbollah. The networks said their...

Ian McKellen says his on-stage "King Lear" nude scene is discreetly avoided in the upcoming public television version of the play. A public TV executive said Wednesday at a meeting of the Television Critics Association...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This monthly column about the issue of homosexuality by various authors is a partnership between Baptist Press and the SBC Task Force on Ministry to Homosexuals.SOUTHLAKE, Texas (BP)--"We don't have that...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--While nearly two-thirds of Southern Baptist pastors have preached on stewardship in the past year, a new study shows that some of those pastors may have a disconnect with the financial struggles...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (BP)--The case involving state funding for a new pharmacy school at the University of the Cumberlands has reached the Kentucky Supreme Court.The state Court of Appeals Dec. 18 granted Cumberland's appeal...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The "True Love Waits" abstinence-until-marriage movement has recorded numerous milestones since its launch by LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention.The first True Love...

RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--No Christians in Gaza have been injured despite living in hard-hit areas, a Baptist pastor there reported to Baptist Press late in the afternoon Jan. 6.News staff at Christianity Today, meanwhile,...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Another new look at old data has caused a stir in the national media, and abstinence pledges are taking another hit just as Congress and the new Obama administration are reconsidering millions of...

Each year, Baptist Press cartoonist Joe McKeever creates a series of cartoons dealing with the theme for the Southern Baptist Convention's annual January Bible Study. This month, churches around the SBC will be studying...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (BP)--The Prince family rang in the second day of the New Year with a lunch of Vienna sausages, sliced cheese and chips. While certainly not the most upscale lunch cuisine, it was quite functional for a...

The nation's largest medical lab company says it recently discovered and fixed a problem that led to inaccuracies in a small number of tests for vitamin D deficiency. Quest Diagnostics of Madison, N.J., notified...

Health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak that has reportedly sickened nearly 400 people in 42 states, but they don't know how the bacteria are spreading. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...

Babies do better after a scheduled Caesarean section if they're born no sooner than seven days before their due date, a new large study of U.S. births shows. Those delivered earlier had more complications, including...

Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says. Mississippi's rate was more than 60 percent higher than the national...

Parkinson's sufferers who had electrodes implanted in their brains improved substantially more than those who took only medicine, according to the biggest test yet of deep brain stimulation. The study, which followed...

Ever watched a teen skulk in the corner of a toddler-packed pediatrician's waiting room, obviously wishing to be anywhere else? Adolescents aren't just big kids, and too many start falling through cracks in the health...

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. Sounds too good to be true, especially in an economy riddled with job cuts in...

When Dr. Trevor Banka treats cancer patients alongside Dr. Michael Mott he is working with not only his mentor, but the physician who helped save his life. "I wanted to work next to Dr. Mott and I wanted to train with...

Banking on the idea that consumers want new ways to tap their ever-growing collections of music, photos and videos, Cisco Systems Inc. unveiled a media hub Wednesday that lets people access and share songs, pictures and...

Microsoft Corp.'s next version of the Windows operating system is almost ready for prime time. That's one message Chief Executive Steve Ballmer delivered on the eve of the official opening of the International Consumer...

Lenovo Group said Wednesday it will lay off 2,500 workers, or about 11 percent of its work force, as part of a plan aimed at helping the computer maker remain competitive amid the global economic downturn. The...

As he's done for the last decade, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs took home his customary $1 annual salary in 2008, but the economic meltdown and Apple's falling stock price whacked half a billion dollars off the...

The Jurassic version of jumbo jets _ huge flying creatures weighing hundreds of pounds _ is a mystery of dinosaur-era flight: How did something so big get off the ground? A Johns Hopkins University biologist thinks he...

Shares of Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, sank Wednesday after chip maker Intel Corp. said fourth-quarter sales missed already lowered expectations. Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft's stock closed...

Toyota said Wednesday that it plans to roll out new safety and driver-assist programs on certain Toyota and Lexus models beginning late this summer. That marks the first major competition for Detroit-based General...

Google Inc. has jettisoned a substantial number of temporary workers in a recent austerity drive spurred by the recession, although the Internet search leader still intends to spend billions of dollars during the next...

A dynamic storm system that swept across the Northwest this morning produced strong winds and rain. Heavy rainfall and melting snow prompted flood warnings and watches in parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. ...

Wet weather was predicted along the East Coast on Wednesday, with a wintry mix forecast for the Northeast and showers and thunderstorms expected in the Southeast. Another storm was targeting the Northwest. The storms...

A cold front stretching from the Southeast to the Northeast was expected to trigger showers and thunderstorms early Tuesday, while heavy rain was expected in the Pacific Northwest. A low pressure system will begin to...

Storms swirled over the Northwest and Gulf Coast early Monday, dumping snow from Washington to Northern California and promising wind-swept showers for the Southeast. A Pacific storm system will push inland across the...

Snow was to fall in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes on Sunday morning. Southern Wisconsin, Michigan, and parts of the Ohio Valley were to get a mixture of rain, snow, and freezing rain. Scattered showers and...

A low pressure system moving over the Plains was to affect several parts of the country Saturday. The Upper Midwest and parts of the Dakotas were to see several inches of snow, and some areas could get up to a foot by...

Snow showers were reported through the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley, and rain showers developed throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. Cold air flowed behind this storm into the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest. A...

The Pacific Northwest was in for heavy mixed precipitation on Friday. Snow levels were to drop to 1,500 feet Friday morning over the Cascades, while the Northern Rockies were to see a mixture of snow and rain as a warm...