Recent Votes

• Attacks on Students Worry Young Iraqis

  By Kim Gamel

  Ali Jassim's parents begged him to take a month off from school after his friend was gunned down as the two men left their university in Baghdad. He refused, saying it's important not to let the insurgents win an apparent campaign against students, with at least 36 killed since April.

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• DOJ Seeks Info on Calif. Newspaper Deals

  By Associated Press

  McClatchy Co. said Wednesday it has received antitrust clearance for the sale of two Philadelphia newspapers as part of its acquisition of Knight Ridder Inc. But it also said federal regulators are seeking more information about a separate deal involving the sale of two California papers.

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• Google Puts Picasa Photos on the Web

  Seeded by Jason Coleman (Source: news.com.com)

  Google is set to launch late Tuesday a new feature in its Picasa photo management application that will let people organize and share photos over the Web.

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• Bush on Elections: Republicans Will Win

  By Associated Press

  President Bush predicted on Wednesday that Republicans will maintain majority control of the House and Senate this November despite polls showing voters favor putting Democrats in charge.

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• Probe Says U.S. Emergency Care in Trouble

  By Lauran Neergaard

  Half a million times a year — about once every minute — an ambulance carrying a sick patient is turned away from a full emergency room and sent to another one farther away. It's a sobering symptom of how the nation's emergency-care system is overcrowded and overwhelmed, "at its breaking point," concludes a major investigation by the influential Institute of Medicine.

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