http://www.newsmeat.com/NEWSMEAT publishes daily news and Americas most popular campaign donor search engine.Copyright 2007 Polity Mediaen-ushttp://www.newsmeat.com/images/nmlogo.gifhttp://www.newsmeat.com/Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:45:06 -0500HeadlinesSuitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886657&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281David EspoFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:39 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886657&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee said Friday.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886656&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Pamela Hess and Anne GearanFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:39 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886656&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886642&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Ariel DavidFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886642&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei’s corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886641&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281StaffFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886641&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Republicans are seizing on this week’s recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama’s proposed health care overhaul.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886640&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Laurie KellmanFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886640&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Police say thieves shot to death five Arkansas family members and burned their bodies for a set of wheel rims and some flat-screen televisions.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886635&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Jon GambrellFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:37 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886635&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 University of Connecticut officials say a plan to merge the UConn Health Center in Farmington with Hartford Hospital is unlikely to win official approval.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886636&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281StaffFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:37 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886636&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Former Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier told a jury Friday he made mistakes in his troubled bid to turn the French water company into a global media giant, but he never misled shareholders about the risks.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886594&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Jennifer PeltzFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:36 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886594&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 A Brazilian transsexual involved in an Italian political scandal is believed to have burned to deathhttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886587&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Reuters VideoFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:31 GMTReuters News Videohttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886587&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Michael Jackson’s doctor bought a powerful anesthetic in Nevada and had it shipped to California, where it was found at the pop singer’s bedside after he died, court documents released Friday show.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886553&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Ken RitterFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:31 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886553&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Monsanto Co. is installing a water management system at an Idaho phosphate mine the company depends on to make its Roundup weedkiller to stop the leakage of selenium and heavy metals into a tributary of the Blackfoot River.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886296&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281John MillerFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:28 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886296&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying, according to the warrant. Authorities embarked on a nearly weeklong search that ended when the girl’s body was found dumped off a rural road.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886223&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Alysia PattersonFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:28 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886223&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886208&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Matt ApuzzoFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:27 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886208&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 After going on a shooting rampage that left a trail of victims on the Pacific resort island of Saipan, the gunman drove to a scenic, rocky cliff where untold numbers of Japanese men, women and children plunged to their deaths to avoid capture during World War II, according to police and witness accounts.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886139&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Gemma CasasFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:27 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886139&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 The publisher of the East Valley Tribune in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa says a buyer has made an offer that would keep the paper and its Web site in business.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886022&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281StaffFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:26 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63886022&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 The collapse of a Bend real estate development company has resulted in charges against 13 people in what prosecutors say is the largest Oregon fraud case to emerge from the national real estate boom and bust.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63885043&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281William McCallFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:16 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63885043&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Moody’s Investors Service downgraded ratings for Liberty Media Corp. subsidiary Liberty Media LLC on Friday. The changes come shortly after shareholders approved the formation of a new company out of DirecTV Group Inc. and some of Liberty’s entertainment businesses.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63884772&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281StaffFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:14 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63884772&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Cable television newsman Dominic Carter, an influential reporter on New York politics, was convicted Friday of an attempted assault on his wife.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63884773&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Jim FitzgeraldFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:14 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63884773&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 England midfielder David Beckham has a bone bruise in his right ankle, but he still expects to play for his US club Los Angeles Galaxy in the Major League Soccer championship match Sunday.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63884446&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281AfpFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:10 GMTAFP European Editionhttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63884446&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 The army psychiatrist accused of a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood military base in Texas will have his first pre-trial court hearing Saturday in his hospital room, his lawyer’s office told AFP.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63884445&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281AfpFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:10 GMTAFP American Editionhttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63884445&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 A Canadian court Friday ordered the country’s refugee board to review the rejected asylum application of a lesbian US soldier who claimed her sexual orientation had prompted death threats.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63884440&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281AfpFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:10 GMTAFP American Editionhttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63884440&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63884210&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Caryn Rousseau and Ryan NakashimaFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:07 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63884210&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 The mother of recently separated conjoined Bangladeshi twins does not want custody of the daughters she gave up for adoption and wants them to have new lives in Australia, newspapers reported Saturday.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882859&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281StaffFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:53 GMTAP Featureshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882859&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 "Going Rogue" is going big.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882822&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281StaffFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:49 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882822&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 The Federal Aviation Administration is blaming an equipment outage this week for delaying 819 flights.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882811&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Joan LowyFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:48 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882811&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 North Carolina’s state treasurer has unveiled rules banning employees from taking gifts from companies that do substantial business with the agency.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882810&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281StaffFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:48 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882810&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Scientists switched on the world’s largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882783&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Alexander G. HigginsFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:45 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882783&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Southwest Airlines Co. said Friday it will require uncontested candidates for its board of directors to win a majority among shareholder votes cast to be elected, instead of just a plurality.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882716&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281StaffFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:41 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882716&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Atlantis' astronauts anxiously awaited word Friday on the birth of a crewman’s daughter as they moved more supplies into the International Space Station and geared up for another spacewalk.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882714&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Marcia DunnFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:40 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882714&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Major League Baseball has the perfect gift to bust a budget in a recession.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882710&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281StaffFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:39 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882710&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 The state of Wyoming has filed a new federal lawsuit seeking to block the National Park Service from restricting snowmobile numbers in Yellowstone National Park.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882662&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Ben NearyFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:36 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882662&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Sun-Times Media Group, which was recently sold out of bankruptcy to an investor group, said Friday it named John Barron to the newly created group publisher position and as senior vice president of news and editorial operations.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882657&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281StaffFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:35 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882657&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 West Virginia’s Public Service Commission has approved a 5 percent rate increase for Hope Gas Inc.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882487&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281StaffFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:32 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882487&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 The long and bitter debate over healthcare reform faces a crucial test in the Senate Saturday night when the the $849 billion bill faces its first key procedural hurdle.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882477&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Reuters VideoFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:32 GMTReuters News Videohttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882477&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a decades-long plot to spy for Cuba pleaded guilty Friday in a deal that will leave him behind bars for the rest of his life but gives her a chance at freedom in six years.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882340&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Devlin BarrettFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:31 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882340&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina’s Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago — even when they don’t want to know their birth parents.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882214&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Mayra PertossiFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:29 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882214&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 A Louisiana businessman was charged Friday with engaging in a Ponzi scheme to defraud about 160 investors — mostly elderly people — out of roughly $19.5 million and using some of the money to pay for cars, cruises, sports tickets and a house.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882059&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Michael KunzelmanFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:28 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63882059&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 A former kosher slaughterhouse manager convicted of financial fraud has asked for an acquittal or new trial, saying prosecutors unfairly brought in evidence of immigration violations.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63881769&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Nigel DuaraFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:25 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63881769&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Overstock.com Inc. said Friday that it received a listing rule violation letter Thursday from the Nasdaq Stock Market related to the recent filing of its third-quarter report.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63881622&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281StaffFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:24 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63881622&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Raging floods engulfed northern England’s picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63881543&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Scott HeppellFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:23 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63881543&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 A billboard showing President Barack Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver used car dealership that put it up.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63881236&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Kristen WyattFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:21 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63881236&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Investors can’t shake their fears that the economy isn’t keeping up with the stock market.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63881050&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Stephen Bernard and Tim ParadisFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:20 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63881050&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Hershey Co. may make a $17 billion bid for UK candy company Cadbury PLC, topping the recent $16.5 billion hostile offer by Kraft Foods Inc., the Wall Street Journal reports Friday.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63881045&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281StaffFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:20 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63881045&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 An Ohio police chief accused of burgling the home of a woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick abused his authority and tried to "blame it all on being a joke," a prosecutor said Friday in closing arguments of the chief’s trial.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63881042&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281StaffFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:20 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63881042&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 A teenager accused of killing a 9-year-old neighbor should be sent to a psychiatric hospital because she shows signs of severe depression and anxiety, her attorney said.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63880912&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281David A. LiebFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:19 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63880912&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 California is investigating several companies suspected of bilking churches nationwide of hundreds of thousands of dollars through fraudulent computer leasing schemes, authorities said Friday.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63880577&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Robert JablonFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:14 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63880577&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 The death of the mother of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has been ruled a suicide.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63880451&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281StaffFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:13 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63880451&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Florida banking regulators on Friday shut down Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida, marking the 124th U.S. bank to succumb this year to the struggling economy and rising loan defaults.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63880452&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Marcy Gordon and Daniel WagnerFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:13 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63880452&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Three Democratic moderates to decide fate of health bill — for now — in crucial Saturday votehttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63880309&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281StaffFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:12 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63880309&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Arun Kumar was born to disabled parents, beaten by his grandparents, ran away from home, got a job in a garment factory and had all his savings stolen by the police.http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63880276&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281Ravi NessmanFri, 20 Nov 2009 22:12 GMTAP Newshttp://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=63880276&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281