A dish of stir-fried pig’s liver served at a dinner party in Guangzhou, China, poisoned 14 people with what authorities think was an animal feed additive, a Chinese state-run news agency reported. Investigators made 52 arrests in overnight raids in California, Minnesota and Maryland, increasing to more than 750 the number of suspects detained in the coast-to-coast operation to disrupt the Sinaloa cartel, Holder said.
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Arrests ‘crushing blow’ to Mexican drug cartel, U.S. officials say
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House says ‘no’ to pet primates
In the wake of a highly publicized chimpanzee attack, the U.S. House made its first official move to ban humans from owning primates as pets
Clooney returns from Darfur, on a quest for peace
On Monday night, CNN’s Larry King had an exclusive interview with actor George Clooney, who returned from the strife-torn Darfur region of Sudan and just finished meeting with Vice President Joe Biden.
iPod Safety: Preventing Hearing Loss in Teens
If you’re one of the 173 million iPod users out there, you’re probably reading this with your headphones on. Take them out
Mexico’s Drug War Takes to the Barricades
Masked teenagers lob bricks at police shields, middle-aged women wave banners and chant slogans against repression, while police tanks fire water cannons into rowdy crowds. These images may evoke anti-globalization protests at some high-powered economic summit, but in northern Mexico, they’re the latest flash point in the nation’s incessant drug war
Why Chimps Attack
The ferocious attack by a chimpanzee of a woman in Stamford, Conn., on Feb.
NTSB: Identical aircraft landed 27 minutes behind fatal flight
Trailing what would become a fatal flight by some 27 minutes, the same kind of aircraft operated by the same airline traveled the same route last week and landed safely, the NTSB said Monday.
Recovering bodies from plane crash may take days, NTSB says
Recovering all the bodies from Thursday’s deadly passenger plane crash may take four days as investigators work through freezing temperatures and piles of wreckage, a federal transportation official said Saturday.
2 would-be passengers feel relief, sadness: ‘It could have been me’
One person credits bad weather and the other a long line. Those are the reasons two would-be passengers did not fly on Continental Connection Flight 3407, which crashed Thursday outside Buffalo, killing all 49 people aboard and one on the ground.