Congressional and state lawmakers offered their condolences Thursday to the family of Terri Schiavo (search) and said the severely brain-damaged woman’s death left many emotional issues to be dealt with. “Today, millions of Americans are saddened by the death of Terri Schiavo,” President Bush said just before commenting on a …
Read More »Topics and Guests for March 7
Watch “The Big Story” weekdays at 5 p.m. ET After five months in prison, Martha Stewart’s first day back at work is Monday. How will her colleagues receive her? Barbara Lippert from Adweek Magazine discusses Martha’s big return. It’s still early in President Bush’s 60-day 60-stop tour to sell his …
Read More »Town Library Gets Mean
Better return those overdue library books — they could land you in jail. Jeremy Jones of Burlington, Wash., called police to his home on Feb. 22 about a case of mail theft. But the cops found Jones had a warrant out for “detaining city property” and missing a related court …
Read More »A Closer Look at Michael Schiavo
This is a partial transcript from “On the Record,” March 25, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: At this hour on Friday, Terri Schiavo’s body is slowly shutting down. She’s showing obvious signs of dehydration, and she is near death. Michael Schiavo (search) has been …
Read More »Bush Picks Physicist As New NASA Chief
WASHINGTON – President Bush on Friday picked Johns Hopkins University physicist Michael D. Griffin to head the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Sean O’Keefe (search) left NASA last month after three years as the space agency’s administrator to become chancellor of Louisiana State University. Former space shuttle commander Frederick Gregory …
Read More »What Will An Autopsy Reveal?
This is a partial transcript from “On the Record,” March 28, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: Can an autopsy (search) reveal what landed Terri in this tragic situation? Joining us from New York is forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden. DR. MICHAEL BADEN, FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST: …
Read More »Doctors Upgrade Falwell's Condition
LYNCHBURG, Va – Doctors upgraded the Rev. Jerry Falwell‘s (search) condition from critical to stable on Wednesday and removed the Moral Majority (search) founder from a ventilator. Falwell, 71, has fluid in his lungs and doctors say he suffers from congestive heart failure, although a cardiologist, Dr. Carl Moore, said …
Read More »Rice Meets On India, Pakistan
NEW DELHI – The United States and India papered over differences on U.S. arms sales to Pakistan and an Indian oil pipeline deal with Iran on Wednesday, ahead of a possible visit to India by President Bush later this year. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (search) discussed future sales of …
Read More »Dodging the Kyoto Bullet
While you weren’t looking, most of the world’s nations got bulldozed by their indigenous environmentalists and signed the weirdly suicidal Kyoto Global Warming Accord (search). The U.S. didn’t sign it. People like Mrs. Larry David — the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” zillionaire’s wife — are saying it’s America’s moment of shame. …
Read More »Benet Apologizes in Song to Berry
LOS ANGELES – Eric Benet (search) is singing an apology to ex-wife Halle Berry (search). Benet said lyrics in his upcoming album include an apology — but she’s heard it all before. “I think somewhere along the way, she’s heard everything,” he told “Access Hollywood” in an interview broadcast Tuesday. …
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