NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People in their 30s and 40s are much less likely than teens to use condoms when having sex with someone for the first time, new research from the UK shows.
While 68 percent of 16- to 19-year-olds said they used protection for the first sexual encounter with a new partner, just […]
US hands back province to Iraqis
Iraqi forces have taken over security control of the central Shia province of Wasit from the US military, making it the 13th of the country’s 18 provinces to be returned to Baghdad.
“We received today the security responsibility of Wasit province,” Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Iraq’s national security adviser, said on […]
Iraq has secured the right to prosecute US soldiers and civilians for crimes committed outside their bases and when off duty, in the latest draft of a security pact that will set the terms of their deployment beyond this year.
The draft stipulates that the United States will have the primary right to exercise jurisdiction over […]
By KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press Writer
Mon Oct 13, 10:44 PM ET
An out-of-work money manager in California loses a fortune and wipes out his family in a murder-suicide. A 90-year-old Ohio widow shoots herself in the chest as authorities arrive to evict her from the modest house she called home for 38 years.
In Massachusetts, a housewife […]
Mr. Obama reprimanded his audience when people started jeering at the mention of Mr. McCain’s name, declaring: “We don’t need that. We just need to vote.”
Said today at Obama’s speech in Toledo. I like that he dismissed the jeering. There’s been too much of that between McCain and Obama(last week’s debate was more of […]
The head of Chicago’s school system has proposed the creation of a “gay-friendly” high school to counter the high bullying, depression and drop-out rates among homosexual pupils.
The Pride Campus of Social Justice High School would be open to all students in the city, and would probably end up being “majority straight”, said Arne Duncan, […]
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website, Barcelona
At least 25% of the world’s mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to the first assessment of their status for a decade.
The Red List of Threatened Species says populations of more than half of mammalian species are falling, with Asian primates particularly at risk. […]
HOMELESS ‘DRIVEN’ TO VOTE OBAMA
By JEANE MacINTOSH
Posted: 9:34 pm
October 6, 2008
CLEVELAND - Volunteers supporting Barack Obama picked up hundreds of people at homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug-rehab centers and drove them to a polling place yesterday on the last day that Ohioans could register and vote on the same day, almost no questions asked.
The […]
Report: Top Bush aides ducked queries on prosecutor firingsBy Michael Isikoff | NEWSWEEK
Published Sep 29, 2008
Karl Rove shows up most nights these days as a commentator on Fox News and offers up political insights in columns for the Wall Street Journal and NEWSWEEK. But when Justice Department investigators tried to ask him about his role […]