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Today's Headlines
Growing diesel fuel from the ground?
A biotech company says it has genetically engineered an organism that secretes fuel.
Ugly U.S. history of
human medical testing
A commission examines dozens of cases where healthy people were made sick.
Best and worst
dressed at the Oscars
Natalie Portman looked perfect in plum, while Halle Berry channeled Hollywood glamour.
James Franco falls
flat as Oscar host
The actor says he doesn't care about his performance at the Academy Awards, and it shows.
Toddler was trapped in
Georgia bank vault for hours
Rescue workers pumped fresh air into the vault's vents at the Wells Fargo branch in Conyers, and a professional safecracker managed to open it Friday evening with the aid of "a very large drill," Conyers Police Chief Gene Wilson told reporters.
Egyptian troops get
tougher, beat protesters
Egyptian military police beat protesters Saturday to clear them from outside the Cabinet office where they were trying to camp out overnight to press demands for sweeping political reforms and the dismissal of remnants of ousted President Hosni Mubarak's regime.
Government shutdown
likely averted, for two weeks
Looks like a government shutdown has been avoided -- for two weeks, at least.
E A R L I E R
From Huckabee to Palin, the
Republicans offer indecision 2012
 Like prominent Republicans from, well, Mississippi (Gov. Haley Barbour) to Alaska (c'mon you can do it), Mike Huckabee admits that he mulls every day whether he should enter the wide-open GOP presidential contest.
Hawaii's governor signs
civil unions into law
Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed same-sex civil unions into law Wednesday, calling it "a triumph for everyone" that gay and lesbian couples will have the same state rights as married partners.
>> Obama administration will no longer
defend Defense of Marriage Act
Six anti-abortion protesters arrested outside Speaker Boehner's office
 Congress isn't in session this week, but that didn't stop anti-abortion protesters from blocking the hallway outside of the Capitol Hill office of House Speaker John Boehner.
Ret. Col. says UFOs are real,
but denies government cover-up
Whether you believe or disbelieve the notion that UFOs are visitors from another planet, a former highly decorated military officer now comes forward with information that may infuriate those on both sides in the ongoing ET debate.
Newt Gingrich's bed-hopping
questioned by heckler
Newt Gingrich's bed-hopping past got thrust into the limelight at a speech at the University of Pennsylvania last night, thanks to a combative question from a student, Politico reports.
Marshals release photo
of alleged Tucson shooter
 The U.S. Marshals Service released a new image Tuesday of the man suspected of shooting U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, killing six people and wounding a dozen others near Tucson last month.
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He was repeatedly rejected by military recruiters and got into uniform at 16 after lying about his age. But Frank Buckles would later become the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I.
