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Louisiana bones to be reinterred
posted: 02/08/2012 6:31 a.m. Discuss
Bones uncovered at a south Louisiana slave cemetery where black Union veterans were buried after the Civil War will likely be reburied nearby to ensure their reinterment doesn’t disturb other graves, federal authorities have announced.
U.S. boosts Alzheimer’s research funding
posted: 02/08/2012 6:30 a.m. Discuss
The Obama administration is increasing spending on Alzheimer’s research, planning to surpass half a billion dollars next year, as part of a quest to find effective treatments for the brain-destroying disease by 2025.
Gifted earn time with Obama
posted: 02/08/2012 6:29 a.m. Discuss
Under the watchful eyes of the Abraham Lincoln portrait in the White House’s State Dining Room, high school senior Taylor Wilson chatted Tuesday about nuclear physics with the president.
Senior citizens can’t reject Medicare right, appeals court rules
posted: 02/08/2012 6:28 a.m. Comment 1
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that senior citizens who receive Social Security cannot reject their legal right to Medicare benefits in a rare case of Americans suing to get out of a government entitlement.
Komen official quits after fray
posted: 02/08/2012 6:27 a.m. Discuss
Karen Handel, a senior vice president of public policy for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, resigned Tuesday after the breast-cancer group decided to overturn a decision to end grants to Planned Parenthood.
In shift, Obama seeking donors for super PAC
posted: 02/08/2012 6:25 a.m. Discuss
President Barack Obama, who has decried the influence of outside groups in politics, is now encouraging his top donors to contribute to the independent political action committee backing his re-election.
Back to sea roots, Marines practice taking the beach
posted: 02/08/2012 6:22 a.m. Discuss
A small group of Marines trudged onto the beach sands in pitch-black night with an armada of U.S. Navy warships sailing just off the shore. Their mission: root out insurgents that threatened to attack another American force to the south.
Congressmen trading blame on payroll tax
posted: 02/08/2012 6:18 a.m. Discuss
Republicans and Democrats in Congress sought to blame one another for stalled House-Senate negotiations over how to continue a payroll-tax cut set to expire at month’s end.
Names and faces
posted: 02/08/2012 6:17 a.m. Discuss
A civil jury will likely not hear directly from Mel Gibson about the night of his drunken-driving arrest because his testimony doesn’t appear relevant to a deputy’s claim that he was discriminated against because of the traffic stop, a Los Angeles judge said Tuesday.
In the news
posted: 02/08/2012 6:15 a.m. Discuss
Adam Mars-Jones, whose review of Michael Cunningham’s By Nightfall accused the Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist of dangling literary allusions like “tin cans tied to a tricycle,” has been named the winner of the Hatchet Job of the Year Award, a prize established by a British review-aggregating website to honor scathing reviews.
The nation in brief
posted: 02/08/2012 6:15 a.m. Discuss
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gay men and lesbians in California.” Judge Stephen Reinhardt, in the ruling that a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in California violated the Constitution Article, 1A
Getting it straight
posted: 02/08/2012 6:14 a.m. Discuss
The Democrat-Gazette wants its news reports to be fair and accurate.
The world in brief
posted: 02/08/2012 6:13 a.m. Discuss
QUOTE OF THE DAY “It’s clear that efforts to stop the violence should be accompanied by the beginning of dialogue among the political forces.Today we received confirmation of the readiness of the president of Syria for this work.” Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, according to the Russian news agency ITAR-Tass Article, this page
Gay-marriage ban loses again
posted: 02/08/2012 5:40 a.m. Discuss
A federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday that a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in California violated the Constitution, all but ensuring that the case will proceed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Minnesota, Missouri, Colorado give Santorum wins
posted: 02/08/2012 5:38 a.m. Discuss
A resurgent Rick Santorum won Minnesota’s Republican presidential caucuses with ease Tuesday night and was declared the victor in Colorado as well, raising fresh questions about front-runner Mitt Romney’s appeal among the ardent conservatives at the core of the party’s political base.
