Sunday, October 28, 2007

BULLETIN: CEQ Sneak Peek!!!!!

CEQ ARTICLES WEEK 10

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal became the nation's youngest governor and the first nonwhite to hold post in Louisiana since Reconstruction when he carried more than half the vote to defeat 11 opponents. [NATIONAL]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay. [ENTERTAINMENT]

NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Wild monkeys attacked a senior government official who then fell from a balcony at his home and died Sunday, media reported.

New Delhi Deputy Mayor S.S. Bajwa was rushed to a hospital after the attack by a gang of Rhesus macaques, but succumbed to head injuries sustained in his fall, the Press Trust of India news agency and The Times of India reported. [INTERNATIONAL]

BOSTON (AP) -- Three years after ending its 86-year title drought, Boston completed another October comeback by overpowering the Cleveland Indians 11-2 Sunday night in Game 7 of the AL championship series. [SPORTS]

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Dry conditions combined with fierce winds fueled wildfires in at least a dozen areas around Los Angeles and San Diego, threatening homes, forcing evacuations and causing at least one death on Sunday. [NATIONAL]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- Space shuttle Discovery and a crew of seven rocketed into orbit Tuesday in pursuit of the international space station, where a formidable construction job awaits them. [SPACE AND SCIENCE]

SAN DIEGO, California (AP) -- Like Hurricane Katrina evacuees two years earlier in New Orleans, thousands of people rousted by natural disaster fled to the NFL stadium here, waiting out the calamity and worrying about their homes.

The similarities ended there, as an almost festive atmosphere reigned at Qualcomm Stadium. [NATIONAL]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administratin on Monday asked Congress for nearly $46 billion in additional war spending for 2008, calling on U.S. lawmakers to approve the money before adjourning for the holidays. [POLITICS]

SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- Raging wildfires have destroyed 1,300 homes across Southern California and, pushed by fierce Santa Ana winds, threaten 72,000 others, California fire officials reported Tuesday. [NATIONAL]

BEIJING, China (AP) -- China launched its first lunar probe Wednesday, the first step in an ambitious 10-year plan to send a rover to the moon and return it to earth. [INTERNATIONAL]

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) -- Democratic Sen. Barack Obama kicked off a series of local outreach gospel concerts Friday in Charleston, South Carolina, that unexpectedly came back to bite his campaign.

The concerts were meant to boost black voters' support for his presidential nominee bid -- the kind of events that would normally fly under the national radar. [POLITICS]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Angry U.S. law enforcement officials Friday blasted the release by Yemen of one of the leaders of the bombing of the destroyer USS Cole which killed 17 U.S. sailors seven years ago. [NATIONAL]

FORSYTH, Ga. (CNN) -- Genarlow Wilson, imprisoned for more than two years for having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17, was released from prison Friday evening after the Georgia Supreme Court ruled his 10-year sentence amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. [NATIONAL]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new advisory sent to state and local law enforcement urges them to be on the lookout for the possible use of shoes to conceal and smuggle explosive components, a FBI spokesman told CNN Thursday. [NATIONAL]

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A seventh grade student from Brooklyn died Thursday, possibly from the staph infection MRSA, according to the New York City Health Department's Associate Press Secretary, Sheryl Goodwin. [NATIONAL]

...in case you missed it.

-Mr. K

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