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- PUBLIC EYE
Degeneres, De Rossi wed
Ellen DeGeneres married her longtime partner, actress Portia de Rossi, at their home in Beverly Hills on Saturday, according to People magazine.
- NOW READ THIS
What Fair Play panel prizes most is how they play the Games
BEIJING – In a cheat-plagued sports world, the International Fair Play Committee wants you to keep a sharp eye out for a type of behavior at the Olympics that's harder than ever to detect: athletes willingly giving up a chance to win in order to stop another athlete from, say, drowning.
- This day in history
- As tropical storm advances, Florida Keys batten hatches
KEY WEST, Fla. – Florida Keys officials closed schools, opened shelters and urged visitors to leave as Tropical Storm Fay threatened to strengthen into a hurricane yesterday, but residents and some tourists seemed in no hurry to evacuate.
- Surge in U.S. exports favors commodities
Exports are the bright spot this year in an otherwise bleak economy. But the world suddenly is not snapping up made-in-America goods like aircraft, machinery and staplers. The great attraction is decidedly low-luster commodities like corn, wheat, ore and scrap metal.
- Americans increasing online news consumption
NEW YORK – Fewer Americans are reading newspapers and are instead getting their news online, but television remains the leading source of news in the country, according to a survey released yesterday.
- REGION UPDATE
Assembly spurns tax hike on wealthy
SACRAMENTO – Led by Republican, the state Assembly last night rejected a Democratic proposal for $6.6 billion in tax increases on the wealthy and corporations despite an offer to boost the state's rainy day fund. The vote pushes California's budget impasse into its eighth week with no compromise in sight.
- Leader of palace break-in could not locate throne
HONOLULU – The leader of a Hawaiian pro-sovereignty group that broke into a historic palace once home to royalty said he planned to chain himself to the throne but couldn't find it because he had never been in the palace before.
- NATION UPDATE
Suspect leads police to store clerk's body
DALLAS – A body found in a remote area was been identified as the clerk whose abduction from a store in a small Texas town was recorded by security cameras, authorities said yesterday.
- Tomb of Unknowns gift hits snag
A Colorado man's hope of donating a giant chunk of snow-white marble to the federal government to replace the cracked Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery appears stuck in limbo because it is free.
- Japan to void stipulation of marriage for citizenship
TOKYO – The Japanese government plans to revise the Nationality Law to remove a provision requiring parents to be married for their children to obtain Japanese citizenship, government sources said.
- WORLD UPDATE
10,000 flee bombs at Spanish resorts
MALAGA, Spain – Two small bombs blamed on Basque separatist group ETA exploded at tourist resorts in southern Spain yesterday, authorities said. No injuries were reported, but more than 10,000 people were evacuated from a harbor area.
- THE FIGHT FOR IRAQ
Shiite religious rite ends peacefully
KARBALA, Iraq – Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims streamed home from Iraq's shrine city of Karbala yesterday at the end of an annual holy rite that passed without the factional violence that marred it last year.
- Two planes collide, crash in central England; 5 killed
LONDON – Two small planes collided and crashed in central England yesterday, killing five people, emergency workers said.
- Heavy flooding in East Asia is said to be worst in memory
HANOI, Vietnam – Torrential rains and overflowing rivers have brought some of the worst flooding in decades to Vietnam and its neighbors in the past week, flooding cities and farmlands in five nations.
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