Today
Saturday Sunday
High: 42 High: 42 High: 42
Low: 33 Low: 31 Low: 31
Precip: 90% Precip: 100% Precip: 40%
$12,000
Fine given to a Greek shipping
company for a 2003 Columbia
River oil spill
American soldiers
killed in Iraq on
Thursday
1.3 billion
People are citizens of China after a
highly publicized birth on Thursday
5
million
Of South Africa’s 45 million people
are infected with HIV
$700
million
Made per year in Canada from
mail-order prescription drugs
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IN BRIEF
Congress formally OKs
Bush election decision
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress
certified President Bush’s re-election
Thursday, but only after Democrats
= forced a challenge to the quadrenni
al count of electoral votes for just the
second time since 1877. Bush’s elec
tion day triumph over Sen. John Ker
ry, D-Mass., was never in doubt. Af
ter a nearly four-hour delay to
consider and reject a dispute over
voting in Ohio, lawmakers in joint
session affirmed Bush’s 286-251 elec
toral vote victory — plus a single vote
that a “faithless” Kerry elector cast
for his running mate, former Sen.
John Edwards, D-N.C. A total of 270
votes are needed for victory.
Tsunami death toll may rise
sharply without more aid
JAKARTA, Indonesia — With
health officials warning that the
death toll of more than 140,000 from
last month’s tsunami could jump
sharply without a continual supply of
aid, world leaders struggled Thurs
day to figure out the best way to help
victims and to prevent such a catas
trophe from happening again.
Donors concluded an emergency
one-day summit as relief workers
scrambled to move aid to areas of
Sumatra, the Indonesian island hit
hardest by the earthquake and giant
waves that crashed ashore Dec. 26.
Volunteers hurled sacks of rice and
instant noodles into trucks as U.S.
helicopters loaded with other sup
plies buzzed overhead en route to
isolated communities.
Andrea Yates' murder
conviction overturned
HOUSTON — Andrea Yates’ mur
der conviction for drowning her chil
dren in the bathtub was overturned
by an appeals court Thursday be
cause a psychiatrist for the prosecu
tion gave erroneous testimony that
suggested the Texas mother got the
idea from an episode of “Law & Or
der.” The ruling means Yates is enti
tled to a new trial, though prosecu
tors said they would try to have the
conviction reinstated.
— The Associated Press
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