Morning Newsdome: Bidding adieux to Hubble
May 18, 2009 at 10:23 am by Alejandro A. Leal in News- H1N1 Killer: Swine Flu virus continues to spread world wide. With the death of a school assistant principal in New York City over the weekend, there’ve been a total of six deaths in the U.S. related to the disease.
- “Silence our guns”: Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka surrender, bringing an end to a 25-year civil war.
- Watch out now: U.S. officials say Pakistan has been stockpiling on nuclear weapons.
- War on drugs, literally: D.E.A. officials believe it’s only a matter of time before drug-related violence spills over the border from Mexico.
- Sad to see them go: Astronauts begin final spacewalk to make repairs to the Hubble space telescope; it’ll be the last time human hands interact with the instrument.
- Funny how this works: House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) implies House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) lied to Congress, and thus broke the law, in the wake of comments she made regarding the CIA and torture.
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