http://www.miamiherald.com/889/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/889/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Top AP Stories 60 Tue, 13 May 2008 14:54:54 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530971.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530971.html Tue, 13 May 2008 14:48 EDT The City Council narrowly approved taking the first step Tuesday toward removing Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick over explicit text messages to a former aide, but one council member's possible change of heart could scuttle the measure. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530962.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530962.html Tue, 13 May 2008 14:32 EDT More party leaders swung behind Barack Obama, edging him closer to the Democratic presidential nomination, even as he braced for a loss to Hillary Rodham Clinton in the West Virginia primary Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/531545.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/531545.html Tue, 13 May 2008 14:27 EDT Kuwaiti state television says the country's former emir, Sheik Saad Al Abdullah Al Sabah, has died. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530968.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530968.html Tue, 13 May 2008 14:17 EDT The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China's worst earthquake in three decades. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/531367.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/531367.html Tue, 13 May 2008 14:11 EDT Bombs ripped through crowded parts of an ancient city in western India on Tuesday, killing at least 45 people and wounding 100 others, police and hospital officials said. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530970.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530970.html Tue, 13 May 2008 13:51 EDT The Senate, in a direct challenge to President Bush, voted Tuesday to temporarily halt the shipment of thousands of barrels of oil a day into the government's emergency reserve. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530659.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530659.html Tue, 13 May 2008 13:31 EDT Investigators searched Tuesday for one or more arsonists believed to have started nine wildfires that have destroyed or damaged about 100 homes on Florida's Atlantic coast, and crews continued to battle the blazes. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/531179.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/531179.html Tue, 13 May 2008 12:46 EDT Consumers, battling soaring gasoline prices and a slumping economy, cut back further on their spending in April. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530343.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530343.html Tue, 13 May 2008 12:41 EDT Another round of storms moved Tuesday into tornado-ravaged areas of Missouri, Arkansas and several other states where residents are still picking up from the weekend's killer twisters. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530697.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530697.html Tue, 13 May 2008 12:31 EDT Many cyclone victims are getting spoiled or poor-quality food from Myanmar's junta instead of the enriched supplies being delivered by foreign governments and charities, victims and aid workers said Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530320.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530320.html Tue, 13 May 2008 07:18 EDT Barack Obama's wave of superdelegate endorsements puts him within reach of the Democratic presidential nomination by the end of the primary season on June 3 - even if he loses half of the remaining six contests. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/531076.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/531076.html Tue, 13 May 2008 07:13 EDT A fragile cease-fire failed to stop fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City where the latest clashes between Shiite extremists and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces killed 11 men and wounded 19, Iraqi hospital officials said Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/529980.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/529980.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:19 EDT Veterans groups say it's time to expand college aid for GIs, and Democrats want to use an election year to do it. Their biggest obstacle? The Pentagon. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/529677.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/529677.html Tue, 13 May 2008 02:54 EDT A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing about 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530581.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530581.html Tue, 13 May 2008 01:44 EDT Presumably, she didn't fleece Prince Charles. But a couple of young jet-setters plan to admit in court that other people who crossed their paths unwittingly financed their luxury lifestyle. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/529885.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/529885.html Tue, 13 May 2008 01:39 EDT Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr launched a Libertarian Party presidential bid Monday, saying voters are hungry for an alternative to the status quo who would dramatically cut the federal government. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530178.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530178.html Tue, 13 May 2008 01:34 EDT The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530291.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530291.html Mon, 12 May 2008 20:04 EDT Even by tough, urban-crime standards it was a grisly attack: Up to 15 people chased a man, then kicked and beat him to death on the street. Before police arrived, one attacker urinated on the victim's head. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530426.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/530426.html Mon, 12 May 2008 19:59 EDT A wet, gusty storm that lashed the mid-Atlantic states Monday forced evacuations, flooded roads, fanned the flames of a deadly New Jersey fire and wrecked a research vessel off the Delaware coast, killing a crew member. http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/529753.html http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/529753.html Mon, 12 May 2008 19:48 EDT John McCain broke with the Bush administration and Republican Party orthodoxy Monday as he not only declared global warming real, but reached out to Democrats and independents with a free-market solution that includes capping carbon-fuel emissions.