http://maycha.com/word Maycha Blog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:05:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en AP - Senate Democrats struggled to avert a showdown steeped in race and corruption Monday as a defiant Roland Burris declared, "I'm a United States senator" and flew to the capital to claim President-elect Barack Obama's old seat in Congress. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/maycha/~3/503946271/5870 http://maycha.com/word/archives/5870 AFP - The heaviest fighting of Israel's war on Hamas raged in Gaza City early on Tuesday as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rebuffed appeals to stop the death toll from mounting further. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/maycha/~3/503946272/5881 http://maycha.com/word/archives/5881 AP - GAZA CITY, Gaza — Israel ignored mounting international calls for a cease-fire Monday and said it won't stop its crippling 10-day assault until "peace and tranquility" are achieved in southern Israeli towns in the line of Palestinian rocket fire. Friendly fire killed three Israeli soldiers. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/maycha/~3/503946273/5867 http://maycha.com/word/archives/5867 Reuters - The legal battle over gay marriage in California turned on Monday to whether the state's top court could strike down a change in the state constitution that was approved by voters. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/maycha/~3/503946274/5880 http://maycha.com/word/archives/5880 AP - President-elect Barack Obama's decision to fill the nation's top intelligence jobs with two men short on direct experience in intelligence gathering surprised the spy community and signaled the Democrat's intention for a clean break from Bush administration policies. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/maycha/~3/503946275/5868 http://maycha.com/word/archives/5868 AP - President-elect Barack Obama plunged into rare pre-inaugural crisis talks with congressional leaders Monday, declaring the national economy was "bad and getting worse" and embracing tax cuts now expected to reach $300 billion. He predicted lawmakers would approve a mammoth revitalization package within two weeks of his taking office. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/maycha/~3/503946276/5869 http://maycha.com/word/archives/5869 AP - A prosecutor on Monday asked that Bernard Madoff be jailed pending trial, saying the disgraced financier violated an agreement with the court by mailing watches, jewelry, cufflinks and mittens worth more than $1 million to relatives and friends. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/maycha/~3/503946277/5837 http://maycha.com/word/archives/5837 AP - Anthrax mailing suspect Bruce Ivins tormented his wife with rudeness and behaved erratically in the weeks before the Army scientist took his own life by overdosing on Tylenol, according to documents released Monday. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/maycha/~3/503946278/5841 http://maycha.com/word/archives/5841 AP - Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth's cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda. Not anymore. The Milky Way is considerably larger, bulkier and spinning faster than astronomers once thought, Andromeda's equal. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/maycha/~3/503946279/5833 http://maycha.com/word/archives/5833 AP - Jett Travolta's body shows no sign of head trauma and his death certificate says he was killed by a seizure, an undertaker said Monday, after doctors performed an autopsy on the 16-year-old son of the U.S actor. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/maycha/~3/503946280/5871 http://maycha.com/word/archives/5871