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- PUBLIC EYE | Week in review
Showered with gifts
A baby shower was held for a very pregnant Minnie Driver at a friend's Malibu home last weekend. Friends and family gathered round the 38-year-old British-born singer/actress to celebrate the impending birth of her first child, which is due this summer.
- THE LIST
Meaty topics
More than 1 in 4: The chance that the hot dogs and pork sausages you purchase originated in Iowa. The Hawkeye State was home to 17.6 million market hogs and pigs on March 1, 2008. This represents more than one-fourth of the nation's total. North Carolina (9 million) and Minnesota (6.7 million) were the runners-up.
- WORLD
Pakistan strikes back at rebels
KHYBER AGENCY, Pakistan – Pakistan's newly elected government launched the first major assault against militants in the country's volatile northwest yesterday, destroying a militant leader's headquarters and shelling suspected hide-outs of other fighters.
- McCain, Obama reach out to Latino officials at conference
WASHINGTON – Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama vied yesterday for the support of Latinos, beginning a four-month courtship of a pivotal voting constituency by vowing to revamp immigration policy.
- WORLD
President proposes global arms embargo against Zimbabwe
WASHINGTON – President Bush called yesterday for an international arms embargo against Zimbabwe in the wake of last week's “sham election” and announced that the United States is drafting new economic sanctions that, for the first time, would target the entire government of President Robert Mugabe.
- This Day In History
- Health advisories issued as California's air quality worsens from wildfires
SACRAMENTO – Hundreds of lightning-caused wildfires have turned California skies into an unhealthy stew of smoke and ash, forcing the cancellation of athletic events and other outdoor activities across the state.
- Gender wars scorch Ariz. country club for men's grill room
PHOENIX – When the men of the Phoenix Country Club saw their feeding ways in peril, they did not tarry. Some sent nasty e-mail messages, hectored players on the fairway and, for good measure, urinated on a fellow club member's pecan tree.
- Border agent union slams hiring standards
TUCSON – The Border Patrol agents union is criticizing hiring and training shortcuts they say the agency is making as it seeks to double in size before President Bush leaves office.
- Heart transplant survivor, 46, adds Yosemite's Half Dome to climb list
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK – Heart transplant survivor Kelly Perkins has added another first to her long string of mountaineering feats since getting a new heart 13 years ago – a dangerous 2½-day climb up a sheer, 2,000-foot face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park's famed granite monolith.
- REGION UPDATE
National cemetery refuses vet's burial
RIVERSIDE – The family of a veteran awaiting burial at Riverside National Cemetery had to find a new grave site because police believe he killed his wife before he died in a car crash, authorities said.
- NATION UPDATE
Six Flags coaster kills teen in off-limits area
AUSTELL, Ga. – A teenager was decapitated by a roller coaster after he hopped a pair of fences and entered a restricted area yesterday at Six Flags Over Georgia, authorities said.
- Rate of smoking among teens no longer declining, study shows
WASHINGTON – The campaign to reduce teenagers' smoking has stalled, new federal data show, dismaying federal health officials and anti-smoking advocates who said that one of the nation's most important public health priorities is faltering.
- 'Valiant effort' to spare Mo. town from flooding proves unsuccessful
WINFIELD, Mo. – A makeshift barrier holding back the Mississippi River failed early yesterday, swamping the low-lying part of the small community of Winfield and ending a valiant but ultimately doomed battle against the surging river.
- Cost put much higher for radiation monitors at U.S. borders, ports
WASHINGTON – The cost to put a new kind of radiation monitor in place at borders and ports across the country would be far more than the Department of Homeland Security initially told Congress, according to budget documents and interviews with officials.
- Investigation into servicewoman's death focuses on soldier
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – A soldier at Fort Bragg in North Carolina is a person of interest in the death of a pregnant servicewoman whose body was found in a motel bathtub a week ago, a military spokesman said yesterday.
- U.S.-led coalition reports killing 32 militants in major battle in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan – The U.S.-led coalition said yesterday that its troops had fought gunbattles and called in airstrikes against insurgents in southern Afghanistan, killing 32 militants.
- THE WEEK IN MEXICO
Drug gunmen kill six
Drug hit men shot dead six Mexican policemen on patrol in the marijuana-producing state of Sinaloa, the latest in a growing stream of attacks on police, the local Attorney General's Office said Friday
- In India, a month rife with unrest
NEW DELHI – Discontent is sweeping through India in the form of widespread protests over land use, food, fuel and jobs.
- Report: If attacked, Iran vows to bombard Israel
TEHRAN, Iran – The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned that Tehran would respond to an attack against it by barraging Israel with missiles and controlling a crucial oil passageway in the Persian Gulf, according to a newspaper report published yesterday.
- Israel says food shipments to Hamas-held Gaza Strip can resume
JERUSALEM – Israel will allow the resumption of food shipments into the Gaza Strip today after a four-day halt in response to Palestinian rocket attacks, defense officials said.
- WORLD UPDATE
Backers of Iran group fight terrorist label
PARIS – Thousands of supporters of an Iranian opposition group called on the European Union and the United States to remove the organization from terror blacklists at a massive rally yesterday outside Paris.
- Ex-officers say Chávez punishing dissenters
CARACAS, Venezuela – Hundreds of Venezuelan military officers are no longer assigned duties and have been relegated to their homes, quietly pushed aside for their dissent under President Hugo Chávez, according to former military commanders and a watchdog group.
- N. Korean nuclear tower's fall spurs 'sadness'
SEOUL, South Korea – There hasn't yet been any official North Korean reaction to the destruction of the most visible symbol of its nuclear program, but a U.S. diplomat who witnessed it said yesterday that the big blast saddened government officials there.
- Fresh hope on menu in Baghdad
BAGHDAD – In late 2005, a suicide bomber stepped inside Qadori, a renowned restaurant nestled alongside the Tigris River, and detonated his explosives-rigged belt. The blast killed seven employees and 22 customers and shattered a totem of Baghdad life.
- Al-Qaeda-linked group says it is behind blast that killed three Marines
BAGHDAD – An al-Qaeda front organization claimed responsibility yesterday for a suicide bombing that killed more than 20 people – including three Marines – as the U.S. military stepped up pressure on extremists in northern Iraq.
- U.S. staged raid that killed al-Maliki kin, Iraqis contend
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Senior Iraqi government officials said yesterday that a U.S. special-forces counterterrorism unit conducted the raid that killed a relative of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, touching off a high-stakes diplomatic crisis between the United States and Iraq.
- Daily developments
Army deaths: Spc. Joshua L. Plocica, 20, of Clarksville, Tenn., was killed Wednesday in Baghdad by an explosive. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.
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