Teen lives 4 months with no heart, leaves hospital (AP) AP - D'Zhana Simmons says she felt like a "fake person" for 118 days when she had no heart beating in her chest. "But I know that I really was here," the 14-year-old said, "and I did live without a heart." Publ.Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:29:37 GMT Source: Yahoo.com
Rapper gets 20 years after writing shooting song (AP) AP - He shot a man twice and felt so good about it, police said, a rapper wrote a song describing the shooting and calling out the victim by name. A judge sentenced 25-year-old Rico Todriquez Wright Monday to spend the next 20 years in prison after his victim mentioned the hip hop confession to police. Publ.Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:03:35 GMT Source: Yahoo.com
Finger-pointing begins as Senate nixes auto vote (AP) AP - A Democratic Congress, unwilling or unable to approve a $25 billion bailout for Detroit's Big Three, appears ready to punt the automakers' fate to a lame-duck Republican president. Publ.Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:16:30 GMT Source: Yahoo.com
Obama's first gamble: Clinton at State (Politico) Politico - What is Barack Obama thinking? Publ.Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:03:00 GMT Source: Yahoo.com
Consumer prices drop record 1 percent in October (AP) AP - Consumer prices plunged by the largest amount in the past 61 years in October as gasoline pump prices dropped by a record amount. Publ.Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:25:41 GMT Source: Yahoo.com
Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with racial epithet (AP) AP - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites. The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Publ.Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:25:27 GMT Source: Yahoo.com
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