Mom blasts EMTs
Two emergency medical technicians in New York accused of refusing to help a dying pregnant woman are “inhuman,” her mother said Tuesday as a lawyer for the EMTs argued his clients are being vilified in a rush to judgment.
Obama threat arrest
Authorities say a woman accused of threatening to kill first lady Michelle Obama is in federal custody in Honolulu as the Obama family plans to travel to Hawaii.
GOP gains House seat
U.S. House Democrat Parker Griffith of Alabama, who opposes the health care overhaul, announced Tuesday he is defecting to the GOP, another blow to Democrats ahead of the midterm elections.
Dog catches swine flu
A dog in suburban New York is the first in the nation confirmed to be carrying the same strain of swine flu that is infecting humans, experts said Tuesday.
Ears, noses ordered cut off
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A Pakistani court has ordered the noses and ears of two men cut off after they did the same thing to a young woman whose family spurned a marriage proposal from one of the men, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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Feng Zhenghu has been camping out at Tokyo’s international airport for 50 days, sleeping on a blue plastic bench and surviving on handouts of crackers and noodles from passers-by. The Chinese rights activist has a visa to enter Japan, but he’s staying to protest China’s refusal to let him return to his homeland, where he’s been denied entry eight times since June.