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Poll: Tragedy Hasn't Changed Views On Guns

CBS News

(AP) The nation is profoundly split along gender, racial and other lines over gun violence and what the government should do to control it, despite near-universal sorrow over the Virginia Tech shootings, an AP-Ipsos poll has found. Women and minorities are far likelier than men and whites to view gun violence as a major problem, to worry about being shot, and to want stricter firearms laws, said the survey, which was taken after the killings.

Rutgers team skips Clinton meeting

Newsday.com

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton finally dropped by Rutgers to meet with the school's women's basketball coach -- but the players themselves skipped the half-hour meeting, citing their studies and Imus fatigue. Clinton had been scheduled to meet with Scarlet Knight coach C. Vivian Stringer and an assistant, and possibly some of the players, Monday to talk with them about Don Imus's "nappy-headed ho" comments. But that sit-down was postponed due to weather and because the story seemed far less significant after the Virginia Tech killings.

Man Kills Hostage, Self at NASA Building

Associated Press

HOUSTON (AP) - A NASA contract worker took a handgun inside an office building Friday at the Johnson Space Center and fatally shot a hostage before killing himself, police said. A second hostage escaped with minor injuries. The gunman was able to take a snub-nosed revolver past NASA security and barricade himself in the building, which houses communications and tracking systems for the space shuttle, authorities said. NASA and police identified him as 60-year-old William Phillips. He had apparently had a dispute with the slain hostage, police said.

Gunman Barricaded Inside NASA Building

ABC News

April 20, 2007— Houston police say that a white male who had barricaded himself with a weapon inside Building 44 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, killed himself and one other hostage. A female hostage was also discovered duct taped at the scene, she is receiving medical attention, but is believed to be alright. ABC News local affiliate KTRK repors that the suspect is 60-year old William Phillips Jr.

Common Ground on Gun Control?

Time

The revelation that Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui's brief stay in a Virginia psychiatric facility did not prevent him from legally buying handguns has prompted outrage from gun control advocates. But at a time when any real gun control legislation is close to a political impossibility, even some Second Amendment activists agree that the criteria used to deem someone mentally unfit to purchase a firearm may need to be reformed. The first significant federal gun control law, passed back in 1968 in reaction to the Kennedy assassination five years earlier, prohibited anyone involuntarily committed to a mental institution from buying firearms. Forty years later, that still remains the standard for most federal and state gun buying restrictions. The problem is that involuntary commitment was the norm four decades ago; family members, doctors and law enforcement could easily commit troubled souls to psychiatric hospitals with scant paperwork and little concern for individual or privacy rights. When Cho agreed to a voluntary committal to a psychiatric facility in 2005, he was benefiting from the advocacy of civil libertarians who had worked to give mental health patients a say in their treatment.

Don Imus' Longtime Producer Fired

FoxNews.com

NEW YORK — The longtime producer for Don Imus' syndicated radio show joined his boss on the unemployment line one week after the disgraced broadcaster was booted from the airwaves for racist and sexist comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team. Bernard McGuirk, who joined the "Imus in the Morning Show" as producer in 1987, was let go late Thursday by WFAN-AM for his role in the ugly incident, CBS Radio spokeswoman Karen Mateo said Friday. CBS Inc. (CBS), the parent company for WFAN, pulled Imus off the air on April 12.

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Dow ends week with record 3-peat

CNN.com

Blue-chip gauge sets all-time high again, nears 13,000 thanks to slew of stronger-than-expected earnings reports; other major gauges at multi-year highs too. By Alexandra Twin, CNNMoney.com senior writer April 20 2007: 5:35 PM EDT NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The Dow industrials surged to a record close Friday, hitting that peak for the third session in a row, after a bevy of strong earnings reports that also propelled the broader stock market. The Dow Jones industrial average (up 153.35 to 12,961.98, Charts) jumped more than 150 points or 1.2 percent, to 12,961.98, a new closing high. Shortly before the close, the Dow hit a new intraday high of 12,966.29. The Dow finished the week up about 2.8 percent.

Gunman Sends NBC Final Message

Time

Between his first and second bursts of gunfire, the Virginia Tech gunman mailed a package to NBC headquarters in New York containing photos of him brandishing guns and video of him delivering an angry, profanity-laced tirade about rich kids and hedonism. "You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today," 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui says in a harsh monotone, in an excerpt shown on "NBC Nightly News." "But you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off."

Iran warns would-be attackers

CNN.com

TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Iran's army will "cut off the hand" of any attacker and is at the ready to fulfil its defensive duties, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday during an annual military parade. Iran is embroiled in a row with the West over its nuclear ambitions. The United States, which says Iran is trying to build an atomic bomb, has said it wants a diplomatic resolution to the standoff but has not ruled out military action if that fails. "The army stands against any aggressor and will cut off its hand," the president said in a televised address before a parade involving troops, tanks, missiles and other military hardware.

Stem Cells Set To Stamp-Out Infertility

ABC News

LONDON, Apr 18, 2007— The author of a new study on changing human bone marrow stem cells into immature sperm cells is optimistic that his work will eventually allow infertile men and lesbian couples to conceive by producing their own sperm. Dr Karim Nayernia of Newcastle University in England expressed his excitement to ABCNews.com, saying that "this represents a real breakthrough from a biological and medical point of view".

Threats Rattle Schools in 10 States

Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Campus threats forced lock-downs and evacuations at universities, high schools and middle schools in at least 10 states on Tuesday, a day after a Virginia Tech student's shooting rampage killed 33 people. Threats in Louisiana, Montana and Washington state directly mentioned the massacre in Virginia, while others were reports of suspicious activity in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Dakota, South Dakota and Michigan. In Louisiana, parents picked up hundreds of students from Bogalusa's high school and middle school amid reports that a man had been arrested Tuesday morning for threatening a mass killing in a note that alluded to the murders at Virginia Tech.

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U.S. Kills 5 Suspects, Capture 30 in Anbar Province Raid

FoxNews.com

BAGHDAD — Two explosions rocked Baghdad at midday Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 19, police said. Meanwhile, U.S. troops killed five suspects and captured 30 others in a raid in Iraq's western Anbar province, a day after police uncovered 17 decomposing corpses beneath two school yards in the provincial capital. The U.S. military also announced a discovery made nearly a week earlier — 3,000 gallons of nitric acid hidden in a warehouse in downtown Baghdad. U.S. forces found the acid — a key component in fertilizer but also explosives — during a routine search operation last Thursday, the military said.

Shooter showed 'big warning signs,' students say

CNN.com

BLACKSBURG, Virginia (CNN) -- Cho Seung-Hui exhibited warning signs long before his deadly shooting spree on the Virginia Tech campus, fellow students and professors said. As disturbing details emerged about the resident alien from South Korea, students gathered by the thousands in the heart of their campus Tuesday night for a candlelight vigil. Meanwhile, one professor recalled being so concerned about Cho's anger that she took him out of another instructor's creative writing class and taught him one-on-one. The former chairwoman of Virginia Tech's English department, Lucinda Roy, said the anger Cho expressed in the fall 2005 course was palpable if not explicit.

Gay rights bills pass Oregon House

USA Today

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Same-sex couples would receive the same benefits as married couples, and gays and lesbians would be protected against discrimination under bills approved Tuesday by the Oregon House. The Senate is expected to pass the two bills and Gov. Ted Kulongoski plans to sign both. The first bill would enable same-sex couples to enter into contractual relationships that grant them the same benefits offered to married couples under state law. The bill refers to the relationships as "domestic partnerships."

Court backs ban on disputed abortion procedure

USA Today

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench. The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. READ ACT: Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 COURT DOCKET: Gonzales v. Carhart

Who Was the Virginia Gunman?

Time

The day of terror at the Virginia Polytechnic and State University in Blacksburg began at about 7:15 a.m., with the shooting of a woman and a male resident adviser on the fourth floor of a dorm building on campus. Kristen Bensley, a freshman who lived below the floor where the shooting occurred, told TIME, "There were rumors going on about [the assailant] was fighting with his girlfriend or something of that nature." Bensley notes that only residents can get into the building, using a specific "passport," that is, a card that one has to swipe in order to open doors before 10 a.m. If he was an outsider, someone would have had to let him in. Or more likely, he was a resident of the dorm himself. If so, how did he keep so much ammunition unnoticed? Two weapons have reportedly been recovered, one 22 caliber, the other a 9 mm.

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After the VA Tech Tragedy, U.S. Colleges Question How They Cope With Crisis

ABC News

April 17, 2007 — After the massacre at Virginia Tech University — the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history — university officials across the country are looking at their security policies to see if they could handle a crisis of epic proportions. Not all are certain their schools could cope.

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A lot to discuss in wake of Imus

Baltimore Sun

WASHINGTON // And now, as Mick Jagger might say, let's hear a little sympathy for the devil: Don Imus lost his national CBS Radio show after describing the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos." He also stirred up the sort of intriguing national argument that this country has had from time to time about hip-hop, free speech, second chances and how men treat women.

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