AP - The Senate began what is expected to be a weeklong, contentious debate Monday over legislation to combat global warming by mandatory reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
AP - NASA's newest spacecraft got down and dirty on Mars, taking its first practice scoop of Martian soil ahead of the actual dig expected later this week, scientists said Monday.
AP - Shuttle Discovery's astronauts geared up for the first spacewalk of their mission Tuesday and the installation of Japan's giant lab to the international space station.
AP - A western Maryland dairy farmer whose investment in cloned cattle led to financial ruin has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty for underfeeding his cows, including two that starved to death. -- read full article
AFP - US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson assured Gulf investors on Monday that the United States will remain open to sovereign wealth funds and urged oil producers to open their energy sectors to foreign investment.
AP - A shark ripped off the right hand of a teenager swimming along the coast of northeastern Brazil, fire department officials said Monday. -- read full article
Reuters - Space shuttle Discovery
slipped into a parking spot at the International Space Station
on Monday after a two-day voyage to deliver Japan's first
orbital laboratory.
AP - Clear skies were forecast Monday across most of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, although a lingering cold front was expected to cause more showers and thunderstorms in the Southeast.
LiveScience.com - Humans can see into the future, says a cognitive scientist. It's nothing like the alleged predictive powers of Nostradamus, but we do get a glimpse of events one-tenth of a second before they occur. -- read full article
AP - NASA's new robot on Mars has reached out and touched the soil for the first time, leaving behind a striking footprint-like impression, scientists said Sunday.
AP - Targeted brain surgery like that planned Monday morning for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is a delicate balance — removing as much tumor as possible improves cancer control, but there's also the risk of harming healthy brain tissue that lets patients walk and talk.
AP - Space shuttle Discovery performed a slow back flip and then docked at the international space station on Monday, delivering a mammoth lab and two new occupants: a NASA astronaut and Buzz Lightyear.
SPACE.com - HOUSTON — The modified fuel tank flown by the space shuttle
Discovery performed well based on preliminary examinations, NASA officials said
Sunday. -- read full article
AP - Tropical Storm Arthur weakened to a dissipating depression Sunday after soaking the Yucatan Peninsula. But heavy rains still threatened to cause dangerous flooding and mudslides in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala.
