AP - Two huge international studies show that people who lack certain chunks of DNA run a dramatically higher risk of getting schizophrenia, a finding that could help open new doors to understanding and diagnosing the disease. -- read full article
AP - Stocks gave up their biggest gains but still mostly advanced Wednesday after an upbeat employment report from payroll company ADP made investors cautiously optimistic about the government's upcoming July employment report. A downturn in some financial stocks and a jump in oil prices shaved the market's gains.
AP - The House Judiciary Committee has voted to hold former White House strategist Karl Rove in contempt of Congress for ignoring a subpoena to testify. -- read full article
AP - The U.N. war-crimes tribunal at The Hague finally took custody of Radovan Karadzic on Wednesday — 13 years after the former Bosnian Serb leader went on the run — putting him in a jail where he was free to mingle with dozens of former allies and enemies.
AP - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Wednesday he will resign in September, throwing his country into political turmoil and raising doubts about progress for U.S.-backed Mideast peace efforts.
AP - President Bush, on a campaign to open offshore waters to oil drilling, said Wednesday that the Democratic-run Congress was letting down the American people by refusing to allow votes on the matter.
AP - President Bush on Wednesday signed a massive housing bill intended to provide mortgage relief for 400,000 struggling homeowners and stabilize financial markets.
AFP - Foreign reporters will not have complete access to the Internet during the Beijing Olympics, Games organisers said Wednesday, reversing a pledge to bring down the Chinese firewall of censorship.
AFP - Serbia on Wednesday handed over former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the UN's Yugoslav war crimes court in The Hague to face genocide charges after more than a decade on the run.
Reuters - Massachusetts lawmakers cleared the way
for out-of-state same-sex couples to marry in the state by
voting on Tuesday to repeal a 1913 law that banned marriages
not considered valid in the couples' home states.
Reuters - Florida employers cannot
bar their employees from keeping guns locked in their cars at
work but businesses can stop customers from keeping firearms in
cars while shopping, a U.S. judge has ruled.
Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
holds a three-way meeting with the top Israeli and Palestinian
peace negotiators on Wednesday amid dimming expectations that a
comprehensive deal is possible this year.
Reuters - A top Central Intelligence Agency
official traveled to Islamabad and confronted senior officials
with evidence of ties between Pakistan's spy agency and
militants operating in that country's tribal areas, the New
York Times reported in Wednesday editions.
