AP - Party politics played a role in decisions over whether to take federal control of Louisiana and other areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, former FEMA director Michael Brown said Friday.
AP - An unmanned Russian cargo ship docked with the international space station, a spokesman for Russian mission control said Saturday.
AP - A federal judge on Friday ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service illegally rejected a petition by environmentalists to give protected status to two salamander species that live in old-growth forests in California and Oregon.
AP - Everest conqueror and Antarctic explorer Sir Edmund Hillary has returned to the frozen continent — at age 87 — for what he believes will be his last time.
Reuters - A senior U.S. National Institutes of
Health official said on Friday President George W. Bush's
limits on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell
research have blocked potential medical breakthroughs.
AP - The House rolled back billions of dollars in oil industry subsidies Thursday in what supporters hailed as a new direction in energy policy toward more renewable fuels. Critics said the action would reduce domestic oil production and increase reliance on imports.
AP - At least three dozen sea turtles are getting a little vacation under heat lamps in this spring-break capital after being rescued from an arctic blast that caused the water temperature in an arm of the Gulf of Mexico to plummet 18 degrees in 48 hours.
AP - The death toll of dolphins trapped in a shallow cove has risen to nine and only three weak and hungry members of the group were believed to be alive after a weeklong rescue effort, officials said Friday.
AFP - The US spacecraft New Horizons is expected to pick up added momentum when it passes Jupiter next month, enabling it to hurtle toward the Pluto system for a July 2015 arrival.
