Multiple Fatalities Reported in Minneapolis Bridge Collapse
MINNEAPOLIS - The entire span of an interstate bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River during evening rush hour Wednesday, sending vehicles, tons of concrete and twisted metal crashing into the water.
An estimated 50 vehicles plunged into the water and onto the land below, the Star-Tribune reported.
A burning truck and a school bus clung to one slanted slab, while at least eight cars and a truck were submerged in the river.
Barack Obama Outlines Plans to Root Out Overseas Terrorists
Fox News
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama took on President Bush, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and his chief Democratic primary rival on Wednesday in a speech billed as major foreign policy statement by the Illinois senator.
“The president would have us believe that every bomb in Baghdad is part of Al Qaeda’s war against us, not an Iraqi civil war.”
Obama also said that as commander in chief he would remove troops from Iraq and put them “on the right battlefield in Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
Opinion:
I won’t think for a moment that President Bush believes “every bomb in Baghdad is part of Al Qaeda’s war against us, (and) not an Iraqi civil war,” if Obama doesn’t try to make us think that every bomb in Baghdad is part of an Iraqi civil war, with absolutely no ordnance coming from Al Qaeda.
As for sending troops into Pakistan, I doubt there will be much support for that from the Democratic base, who were all over Bush for “violating the sanctity of a sovereign nation” in Iraq. But that’s one debate question I’d love to see in the next Democratic YouTube free-for-all.
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McAuliffe’s Backup Ready for Blastoff
Photo: Barbara Morgan, left, and Christa McAuliffe. McAuliffe, chosen to be the first teacher in space, died on the space shuttle Challenger in 1986. Morgan is set for her first space trip next week.
By Traci Watson, USA Today
Next week, Barbara Morgan, now 55, finally gets her chance at some stardust. On Tuesday, she is scheduled to blast off on her first spaceflight – and America’s first effort since Challenger to put a teacher in orbit.
Morgan was at Cape Canaveral when Challenger erupted into a fireball 73 seconds after liftoff that January day in 1986. “What happened with Challenger was wrong,” Morgan said at a news conference last month. “But what the crew … was trying to do was absolutely right, and I’m grateful that we’re continuing that.”
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