A.P.--Congress responded speedily to voters' angst over rising grocery prices and $4-a-gallon gasoline Thursday, bucking President Bush's veto threats with lopsided votes to boost food stamps and farm subsidies. [Read more]
Washington Post--The Bush administration is on the verge of implementing new air quality rules that will make it easier to build power plants near national parks and wilderness areas, according to agency scientists who oppose the plan. [Read more]
Bloomberg News--The Geron Corporation announced Wednesday that its plans to begin the first clinical trial using embryonic stem cells had been delayed by federal regulators. [Read more]
Reuters--A bill that would renew billions of dollars in tax breaks for solar, wind, biomass and other renewable energy sources and extend a proposed new tax credit for non-corn ethanol fuels advanced in the U.S. House of Representatives. [Read more]
Washington Post--A psychologist who helps lead the PTSD program at a medical facility for veterans in Texas told staff members to refrain from diagnosing PTSD because so many veterans were seeking government disability payments. [Read more]
SPACE.com--NASA is expecting delays for the first tests of the rocket that will replace its aging space shuttles after they retire in 2010, agency officials said Thursday. [Read more]
Silicon Valley.com--Clean-energy and tech executives are leaning hard on Congress to break a deadlock and approve a series of tax credits for the solar and wind industries. [Read more]
Washington Post--A federal judge rejected a proposed agreement between Washington, D.C. and the Justice Department to establish programs and deadlines intended to improve health care for the developmentally disabled. [Read more]
L.A. Times--The initiative would punish water wasters and limit such activities as watering lawns and washing vehicles. And it would revive a controversial effort to recycle sewage water. [Read more]
L.A. Times--The deaths of six sea lions found in traps on the Columbia River earlier this month were likely caused by the heat, the National Marine Fisheries Service says. [Read more]
L.A. Times--A wolf shot to death in northwest Wyoming is the first known illegal killing in the state since the animals lost federal protection. [Read more]
AFP--The world's wildlife populations have reduced by around a quarter since the 1970s, according to a major report published Friday by the WWF conservation organization. [Read more]
A.P.--While carbon dioxide has been getting lots of publicity in climate change, reactive forms of nitrogen are also building up in the environment, scientists warn. [Read more]
Reuters--Retired U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor made a rare public appearance on Wednesday with emotional testimony in Congress on Alzheimer's. [Read more]
L.A. Times--Patients with deficient levels at the time of diagnosis are more likely to have their cancer metastasize and turn deadly, researchers say. [Read more]
N.Y. Times--New techniques for detecting breast cancer may be leading more women to have their entire breast removed, researchers said Thursday. [Read more]
N.Y. Times-- A television advertisement for a heart stent may deceive the public and should be reviewed by regulators, according to an op-ed article published by a leading medical journal. [Read more]
L.A. Times--The finding is based on radar images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which show seven distinct layers of ice and dust. [Read more]
Discovery--The cleanup of a polluted Washington lake appears to have driven evolution backwards for the threespined stickleback fish living there. [Read more]
N.Y. Times--Microsoft and the computing and education project One Laptop Per Child said that they had reached an agreement to offer Windows on the organization’s computers. [Read more]
A.P.--A Japanese man who developed the world's smallest helicopter will take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci in tribute to the Renaissance genius' original idea. [Read more]
Washington Post- The United Way is announcing that it will direct its resources toward 10-year goals that would cut the high school dropout rate in half. [Read more]
AP- Actor Dennis Quaid told Congress that taking away theright to sue pharmaceutical companies would turn consumers into "uninformed and uncompensated lab rats." [Read more]