NEW YORK — Rosie O’Donnell plans an “uplifting” new television talk show for launch next year that aims squarely at the audience Oprah Winfrey is leaving behind when her show ends.
CHICAGO — Rev up the treadmill: Sobering new research spells out just how much exercise women need to keep the flab off as they age – and it’s a lot. At least an hour of moderate activity a day is needed for older women at a healthy weight who aren’t dieting.
WASHINGTON — A broadly smiling President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a historic $938 billion health care overhaul that guarantees coverage for 32 million uninsured Americans and will touch nearly every citizen’s life, presiding over the biggest shift in U.S. domestic policy since the 1960s and capping a divisive, yearlong debate that could define the November elections.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin says he talks to Ben Roethlisberger daily while the star quarterback is being investigated for an alleged sexual assault. Tomlin says they talk “about football, about personal life; that’s the nature of our relationship.” Roethlisberger is accused of assaulting a 20-year-old college student in a Georgia nightclub on March 5.
BEIJING — Google Inc.’s partial withdrawal from the China market brought swift condemnation from the government Tuesday while leaving Chinese Web surfers to wonder whether they would be able to access a new offshore search engine site or be blocked by censors.
LOS ANGELES — As Michael Jackson lay dying in his bedroom in a rented mansion, his doctor stopped CPR on him and delayed calling paramedics so he could collect drug vials at the scene, according to an employee of the pop star who called 911.
The FCC is looking into allegations that the children’s game show “Our Little Genius” was rigged.
Tiger Woods’ 13 1/2-minute apology has been chopped up and reconfigured online, spreading in music and video through YouTube, social network sites and on the radio.
SOMERVILLE, N.J. — Former NBA star Jayson Williams was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for fatally shooting a hired limo driver in 2002, ending an eight-year legal odyssey by tearfully apologizing to the victim’s family. He will be eligible for parole in 18 months. Williams pleaded guilty last month to aggravated assault in the death of Costas Christofi on Feb. 14, 2002, and paid Christofi’s family more than $2 million in 2003 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit.
