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| _______________ | 2 | | Clinton reaches for Pa. win; Obama predicts close vote (AP) | AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton invoked Pearl Harbor, the Berlin Wall and Osama bin Laden as she reached for a victory in Pennsylvania's Democratic presidential primary to recharge her comeback effort.
| | Monday, 21 April 2008 | | |
| _______________ | 4 | | Iraqi leader calls for Arab support as militia threats grow (AP) | AP - Iraq's prime minister appealed Monday for support from his Arab neighbors, urging them to open embassies and forgive Iraqi debts as his government tries to crack down on Shiite militias in a crucial power struggle.
| | Monday, 21 April 2008 | |
| _______________ | 5 | | Pennsylvania Democrats cast White House votes (Reuters) | Reuters - Democrats in Pennsylvania make their
choice on Tuesday in the presidential nominating race between
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, with Clinton aiming for a big
win to keep her flickering White House hopes alive.
| | Monday, 21 April 2008 | |
| _______________ | 6 | | With gas hitting record highs, drivers feeling squeezed (AP) | AP - Cabbies here complain their take-home pay is thinner than it used to be. Trucking companies across the country are making drivers slow down to conserve fuel. Filling station owners plead that really, really, the skyrocketing prices aren't their fault.
| | Monday, 21 April 2008 | |
| _______________ | 7 | | Pennsylvania to vote in must-win for Clinton (AFP) | AFP - Hillary Clinton must win Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary, but she needs to do more than simply scrape past rival Barack Obama to rescue her trailing White House bid.
| | Monday, 21 April 2008 | |
| _______________ | 8 | | 36 shootings, 9 homicides reported in Chicago over weekend (AP) | | AP - An outburst of gunfire rattled the city during the weekend, with at least nine people killed in 36 separate acts of violence. The shootings were reported from Friday until Monday morning, police spokeswoman Monique Bond said Monday. They included gang shootings, drive-by attacks, and even one case in which someone used an AK-47 to shoot up a plumbing supply store. | | Monday, 21 April 2008 | |
| _______________ | 9 | | DNA samples taken from polygamists' kids (AP) | AP - Using cotton swabs and cameras, lab technicians began taking DNA samples Monday from hundreds of children and mothers — wearing long, pioneer-style dresses — in hopes of sorting out the tangled family relationships within the West Texas polygamist sect.
| | Monday, 21 April 2008 | |
| _______________ | 10 | | Feds want to require visitors' fingerprints when leaving US (AP) | AP - The Bush administration would require commercial airlines and cruise-line operators to collect information such as fingerprints from international travelers and send the information to the Homeland Security Department soon after the travelers leave the country, according to a proposed rule.
| | Monday, 21 April 2008 | |