WASHINGTON — A first-of-a-kind prostate cancer treatment that uses the body’s immune system to fight the disease received federal approval Thursday, offering an important alternative to more taxing treatments like chemotherapy. Dendreon Corp.’s Provenge vaccine trains the immune system to fight tumors. It’s called a “vaccine†even though it treats disease rather than prevents it. [...]
WASHINGTON — Recognizing his debt to her quiet perseverance, an emotional President Barack Obama eulogized Dorothy Height as a humble champion of civil rights who deserved a seat of honor in American history. Though Height devoted decades to pursuing “a righteous cause,†Obama said she never cared about getting credit and often worked behind the [...]
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday approved legislation that could set in motion changes in Puerto Rico’s 112-year relationship with the United States, including a transition to statehood or independence. The House bill would give the 4 million residents of the island commonwealth a two-step path to expressing how they envision their political future. It [...]
VENICE, La. — An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control and drifted inexorably toward the Gulf Coast on Thursday as fishermen rushed to scoop up shrimp and crews spread floating barriers around marshes. The spill was both bigger and closer than imagined — five times larger [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — Federal authorities investigating an alleged tomato price-fixing plot involving some of the nation’s biggest food chains broadened their case against the former owner of a California company Thursday with five more felony counts. The new charges, which add to seven counts pending from an earlier indictment, allege that Frederick Scott Salyer violated [...]
LOS ANGELES — Anthem Blue Cross on Thursday withdrew plans to raise health insurance rates for California customers by as much as 39 percent, citing errors in its earlier calculations. The Woodland Hills-based company said it will revise the rate requests it had filed with the California Department of Insurance and the Department of Managed [...]
PHOENIX — Anger mounted Thursday over an Arizona measure cracking down on illegal immigration as a police officer sued to challenge it, governors in Texas and Colorado weighed in to oppose such a law in their own states, and activists in Chicago chanted for a boycott outside an Arizona Diamondbacks game. The lawsuit from 15-year [...]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday interviewed federal appeals court Judge Sidney Thomas of Montana for an opening on the Supreme Court, a person familiar with the conversation told The Associated Press. The roughly hour-long session at the White House was the first known formal interview that Obama has conducted for the upcoming vacancy [...]
SAN DIEGO — A man who pleaded guilty to raping and murdering two San Diego area teenage girls says he hates himself for what he did. John Gardner said in an interview aired Thursday on KFMB-TV that he was aware of what he was doing but could not stop himself. Gardner said his lawyers pushed [...]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Tiger Woods delivered a few memorable shots of his own Thursday at Quail Hollow on a pleasant day that produced birdies and eagles and plenty of excitement. It’s just not what he had in mind. He hit a tee shot into the water on the par-3 17th that produced little reaction except [...]
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The U.S. military’s ban on women serving on submarines passed quietly into history Thursday morning. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates notified lawmakers in mid-February that the Navy would be lifting the ban, unless Congress took some action against it. And Navy spokesman Lt. Justin Cole said Thursday morning that the [...]
SACRAMENTO — Tyreke Evans has won hundreds of trophies in his young basketball career and many of them seem to have lost an arm, a basketball or some other piece in his mother’s care. Bonita Evans will have to wait to get the NBA Rookie of the Year trophy Evans won Thursday until some safeguards [...]
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