AIDS activists shut down Capitol rotunda (pictured):
Some 26
AIDS activists
faced arrest after they chained themselves to each other at the
national landmark in D.C. on Thursday morning to protest
President Obama's failure to eliminate a ban on funding
needle-exchange programs.
Justice Ginsburg speaks:
As confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor loom
,
Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg talks with
The New York Times Magazine
about
"the place of women on the
court."
Marcia, Marcia, oh, Marcia!
Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia on
The Brady Bunch
, thinks Eve Plumb, who played younger sister Jan, might still
be annoyed about McCormick's
joke
last year that the two were lesbians.
Accused murderer of Lawrence King offered plea deal:
Ventura County prosecutors offered a
plea deal
to 15-year-old Brandon McInerney, charged with the shooting
death of Oxnard classmate Lawrence King last year, saying that
McInerney can plead guilty to first-degree murder and receive a
lighter sentence.
Tehran calm disrupted
: Iranian security forces moved to
disperse
thousands of protestors on Thursday, breaking 11 days of
relative silence after confrontations in the wake of the
contested national election last month.
"Directly discriminatory":
Utah Republican representative Jason Chaffetz decried a bill
offering spousal benefits to the same-sex domestic partners of
federal employees as
unfair
to heterosexual couples who choose not to marry.
Where are all the white iPhones?
Is high demand or low manufacturing levels prompting the
shortage
of Apple's 16GB white iPhone model in U.S. stores?
Janet tried to save Michael
: Janet Jackson reportedly was so
worried
after she visited her emaciated superstar brother in 2007 that
she attempted to stage an intervention with her other
brothers.
China vows crackdown on Xinjiang rioters:
President Hu Jintao and other leaders promised to
punish
those responsible for the uprising in the country's
northwest.
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