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CDC says a third of US flu cases visited Mexico (AP) Posted: 02 May 2009 03:08 PM PDT AP - About a third of the confirmed U.S. cases of swine flu are people who had been to Mexico and likely picked up the infection there, a federal health official said Saturday.

Mine That Bird pulls off upset in Kentucky Derby (AP) Posted: 02 May 2009 05:45 PM PDT AP - Calvin Borel was in a familiar place, along the rail and urging Mine That Bird to fly through the mud. Trainer Bennie Woolley Jr. was someplace he never imagined — the Kentucky Derby, with his horse in the lead.

Mexican swine flu death toll rises to 19 (AP) Posted: 02 May 2009 06:52 PM PDT AP - Mexico's health secretary says the number of confirmed swine flu cases has risen to 473, including 19 people who died.

Officials: Gitmo court system likely to stay open (AP) Posted: 02 May 2009 05:38 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration may revamp and restart the Bush-era military trial system for suspected terrorists as it struggles to determine the fate of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and fulfill a pledge to close the prison by January.

Dems sense opportunity on gay marriage (AP) Posted: 02 May 2009 03:57 PM PDT AP - Gay marriage legalization in several states and the public's growing acceptance of same-sex unions have Democrats sensing political opportunity and some Republicans re-evaluating their party's hard-line opposition to an issue that long has rallied its base.

In flu scare, echoes of a fearful time (AP) Posted: 02 May 2009 09:58 AM PDT AP - The calendar says 2009, but our fears say it is 1918.

Immigration foes link flu to Mexican threat claims (AP) Posted: 02 May 2009 01:16 PM PDT AP - The swine flu virus has infected the immigration debate, with talk show comments like "fajita flu" and "illegal aliens are the carriers" drawing vehement protests from Hispanic advocates.

Americans struggle through a day in the recession (AP) Posted: 02 May 2009 11:14 AM PDT AP - It's a rainy spring morning and Tamara Ogier plants herself at a table in a Spartan room in the Atlanta federal courthouse, computer and tape recorder at hand, ready to hear another day's stories of financial ruin.

Buffett says government is doing the right things (AP) Posted: 02 May 2009 02:53 PM PDT AP - Billionaire Warren Buffett spent Saturday praising the decisions U.S. officials made to right the economy in the midst of a "financial hurricane" and defending the ones he made to help his company navigate the storm.

Pontiac, pop culture icon, hits end of the road (AP) Posted: 02 May 2009 11:48 AM PDT AP - It could crash through burning buildings, make a fool of any number of small-town Southern sheriffs, help save the world from giant robots, even take criminals off to jail while engaging in witty repartee with its driver.

Notre Dame's Obama invite riles Catholic bishops (AP) Posted: 02 May 2009 05:17 PM PDT AP - This coming week, Bishop Thomas Wenski of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando, Fla., will take the unusual step of celebrating a Mass of Reparation, to make amends for sins against God.

Judge rules Texas city's schools integrated (AP) Posted: 02 May 2009 10:25 AM PDT AP - A federal judge has ruled that the Galveston public school system is desegregated, ending a civil rights lawsuit that was initiated in 1959.

Blast ignites fire in hyperbaric chamber, kills 1 (AP) Posted: 02 May 2009 08:07 AM PDT AP - An Italian woman has died and her 4-year-old grandson is in critical condition after a hyberbaric chamber exploded at a South Florida clinic.

Outhouses cushion small plane crash in Wash state (AP) Posted: 02 May 2009 09:00 AM PDT AP - A small airplane dropping from the sky after its engine failed wound up on a cushioning bunch of portable toilets — and the pilot was able to walk away apparently unhurt.

Cops search woods for prof. suspected in killings (AP) Posted: 02 May 2009 05:24 AM PDT AP - Officers in pickup trucks bounced down dirt roads and search helicopters whirred overhead after authorities found the Jeep of a former professor suspected of killing his wife and two others. The academic, however, was proving a much more elusive target than the wrecked vehicle found in a ravine.

New book says FDR tried to save Jewish refugees (AP) Posted: 01 May 2009 06:43 PM PDT AP - A new book disputes widely held assumptions that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was insensitive to the plight of European Jews under the Nazis, and instead concludes that he tried to arrange resettlement for thousands of refugees in the late 1930s, only to be thwarted by his own State Department.

FDA to dieters: Don't use supplement Hydroxycut (AP) Posted: 02 May 2009 07:05 AM PDT AP - Government health officials warned dieters and body builders Friday to immediately stop using Hydroxycut, a widely sold supplement linked to cases of serious liver damage and at least one death.

VA: 5th HIV case linked to unsterile equipment (AP) Posted: 02 May 2009 06:43 AM PDT AP - A fifth patient has tested positive for HIV, and seven more tested positive for hepatitis after being exposed to contaminated medical equipment at three Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals, the agency said Friday.

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