5 April 2007: Morning

  • Bush takes the Supreme Court's ruling on greenhouse emissions seriously--but says it's bad for business.
  • The 15 freed British sailors land at Heathrow.
  • Dressed in ill-fitting clothes apparently issued by their captors, the Britons waited in line to meet the president, looking almost as if they were a visiting sports team.
  • Iran asks U.S. if its envoys can visit Iranians captured in January Iraq raid.
  • Gonzales preps for next week's Congressional testimony with practice runs and phone calls to GOP lawmakers.
  • Frightening stats on current New York HIV infection rates prompt the Dept. of Health to begin a circumcision campaign.
  • Ugandan government overturns unequal adultery law--extramarital affairs are now legal.
  • In Virginia, Miami, and Baltimore, three South American military officers were arrested on suspicion of committing war crimes in the '70s and '80s.
  • Judge says elementary school principal who threw feces at student has "already suffered enough."
  • Red meat is an equal-opportunity offender.
  • Honeybees pollinate every third bite of food ingested by Americans--so there's cause for alarm when they start disappearing.
  • Mexican hummingbirds have moved full-time to Texas, and other signs of climatic change.
  • Former political opponents say Obama's nice guy image belies the fact that the man plays hardball.
  • School mistakenly charges student who called school hotline an hour before a bomb threat--they hadn't changed their clocks for Daylight Savings Time.
  • The Brooklyn chef who catches dinner with a home-rigged trap in Ft. Greene.