11/24/09: The Philippine president has declared an emergency in two provinces after dozens were gunned down in an election-related massacre. Police and soldiers found 22 bodies in a hillside mass grave Tuesday, after 24 were found Monday.
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11/24/09: Canadian doctors have been advised not to use a batch of 170,000 swine flu vaccines after six reports of serious allergic reactions among recipients.
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11/24/09: South Carolina legislators upset with Gov. Mark Sanford’s summer disappearance to see his lover in Argentina on Tuesday began debating a measure that ultimately would remove him from office. The Republican also faces 37 ethics charges.
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11/24/09: President Barack Obama says he plans to "finish the job" in Afghanistan but its people "ultimately have to provide for their own security." The president plans to announce his decision on how many additional troops to deploy after Thanksgiv
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11/24/09: Police in San Fernando, California, are searching for a man they say attacked a nun, stole her purse, and then fled the scene. Police say the man had approached the nuns asking them for money.
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11/23/09: A federal judge is sentencing a man who firebombed a mosque in Tennessee to 14 years in prison. Michael Golden and 2 other men pleaded guilty to burning the Islamic Center of Columbia last year. The city is about 40 miles south of Nashville
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11/24/09: The White House is bracing for a tough sell of President Barack Obama’s long-awaited decision on whether to commit tens of thousands of new U.S. forces to the stalemated war in Afghanistan.
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11/24/09: A speedboat racer was hospitalized after his vessel went airborne and broke apart upon hitting the water this weekend during a race in Arizona.
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11/24/09: Toys should bring kids joy, but sometimes they bring injury. That’s why U.S. PIRG, an advocate for the public interest is releasing it's 24th annual Trouble in Toyland safety report.
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11/24/09: A Belgian man, thought to be in a vegetative state for 23 years, says he was alert but unable to communicate. The doctor who discovered Rom Houben’s normal brain activity said Tuesday that he will scan other purported coma cases.
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11/24/09: An Alabama district attorney is considering charging a 14-year-old girl with helping arrange the gang rape of her ninth-grade classmate, after conflicting statements she made in a TV interview.
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11/24/09: China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday, the only two people sentenced to death in a scheme to water down infant formula with an industrial chemical that left at least six children dead and sickened more than 300,000.
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