President Barack Obama is exhorting a Florida minister to "listen to those better angels" and call off his plan to engage in a Quran-burning protest this weekend. The record high temperatures along with the absence of rain in the area has affected streamflow and groundwater levels throughout the Potomac River Basin. In the last month, precipitation levels are 50 percent below normal. Metro Transit Police arrested 59-year-old Samuel Kinston of Gaithersburg on Sunday. He was charged with a third- and fourth-degree sex offense and second-degree assault of a MetroAccess passenger. D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray says he's asking authorities to investigate allegations that his opponent, Mayor Adrian Fenty, offered jobs to some people if they voted for him. A federal appeals court on Thursday permitted federal funding of stem cell research to proceed temporarily until the court rules on the merits of the Obama administration's position in the case. The government says the number of people dying on the nation's roads has reached its lowest level in six decades. The Saints' first Super Bowl title was so big in New Orleans that Mardi Gras, a revered local institution dating back well more than a century, became popularly known as, "Lombardi Gras." One hundred sixty-three couples in Taiwan were married in a mass ceremony at 9:09 a.m. Thursday, the ninth day of the ninth month of the 99th year since the founding of their republic. | Martin O'Malley was in studio Thursday morning. Whistleblower: Army translators failed exams |
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