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DeGeneres, de Rossi plan to marry, AP is told
(AP)
 AP - Ellen DeGeneres is putting the California Supreme Court ruling in favor of gay marriage into action she and Portia de Rossi plan to wed, DeGeneres announced during a taping of her talk show.
A Toxic Mother-Daughter Relationship and a Diary
(Dear Margo)
Dear Margo - DEAR MARGO: A friend of mine is struggling with her teenage daughter.
Brrr! Mars Colder Than Expected
(SPACE.com)
 SPACE.com - Peering
beneath the ice at the north pole of Mars has now revealed the red planet may
be surprisingly colder than was thought.
Florida, Michigan delegates cannot save Clinton
(AP)
 AP - Sorry, Sen. Clinton. Michigan and Florida can't save your campaign. Interviews with those considering how to handle the two states' banished convention delegates found little interest in the former first lady's best-case scenario.
Did You Ever See a Wart Walking?
(Dear Margo)
Dear Margo - DEAR MARGO: I've had a very good girlfriend for about four years.
Bin Laden: Palestinian cause fuels war
(AP)
 AP - Osama bin Laden said in a new audio recording released Friday that al-Qaida will continue its holy war against Israel and its allies until it liberates Palestine.
Country star Shania Twain, husband splitting up
(AP)
 AP - Shania Twain and husband-producer Robert "Mutt" Lange are splitting up after 14 years of marriage. The 42-year-old Canadian country superstar and 59-year-old Lange married in 1993 and have a 6-year-old son named Eja. Her publicist provided no further details Thursday about the couple's breakup.
Gay marriage opponents vow to fight Calif. ruling
(AP)
 AP - Even as same-sex couples across California begin making plans to tie the knot, opponents are redoubling their efforts to make sure wedding bells never ring for gay couples in the nation's most populous state.
Woman indicted in Missouri MySpace suicide case
(AP)
 AP - A Missouri woman was indicted Thursday for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide.
Astronomers baffled by weird, fast-spinning pulsar
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Astronomers are baffled after
finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently
locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun --
an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects.
Aftershocks spark landslides at quake epicenter
(AP)
 AP - A strong aftershock sparked landslides near the epicenter of this week's powerful earthquake Friday, burying vehicles and again cutting off ravaged areas of central China.
Losing racehorses in Puerto Rico condemned to die
(AP)
 AP - For thoroughbred racehorses in Puerto Rico, success can be a matter of life and death. Many losers don't make it off the racetrack grounds alive.
SoCal fisherman who stabbed sea lion gets probation
(AP)
AP - A fisherman who admitted stabbing a sea lion that apparently took bait from his fishing line was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation.
Amid clamor to drop out, Clinton campaigns on
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Sitting on board Sen.
Hillary Clinton's campaign plane are the remnants of a colorful
balloon replica of the candidate, once nearly life-size but now
almost deflated and shriveled.
Bush in Saudi Arabia to discuss oil
(AP)
 AP - President Bush, on a one-day visit to Saudi Arabia, is taking a second stab on Friday at getting the oil-rich nation to increase production and drive down soaring gasoline prices hurting U.S. consumers.
Robotic suit could usher in super soldier era
(AP)
 AP - Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds that is, until he steps into an "exoskeleton" of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times.
Michigan Girl Scout sells 17,328 boxes of cookies
(AP)
AP - A Girl Scout sold 17,328 boxes of the group's signature cookies this year by setting up shop on a street corner, shattering her troop's old mark and probably setting a national record.
"Sex and the City" girls flabby on big screen
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Big is not necessarily
better for the highly anticipated "Sex and the City" movie,
which reaches theaters on May 30.
Obama warns Republicans about critical ads
(AP)
 AP - Perhaps no one took greater comfort in the Republican Party's third straight loss of a long-held House seat this week than Barack Obama, who says the results point to clear limits in the effectiveness of attack ads he expects this fall.
Taylor Hicks to play Teen Angel in Broadway's `Grease'
(AP)
 AP - Taylor Hicks is going from "Idol" to "Angel."
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