Results tagged “swineflu”

• President Obama’s China agenda
• Obama’s China Town Hall: Smiley faces and happy thoughts?
• Free Aung San Suu Kyi, Obama tells Myanmar PM

• 16 Americans dead in Afghanistan helicopter crash
• NY Times: Iraqi blast toll worse than feared
• 800,000,000,000,000 pennies in those healthcare couch cushions?

• Trash Dance: The Forklift Danceworks’ Trash Project performance attracts over 700 people to a “trash truck ballet.”
• The New York Times visits our Guadalupe Mountains, falls into a West Texas cactus.
• Even with the start of this $135 million Texas beach enrichment plan, Austin’s own Okkervil River will still be singing “Lost Coastlines.”

Last week may have set a record for the number of college football stories that included the word "vomit". It had nothing to do with ESPN showing Kenny Chesney singing at nearly every commercial break, though: Swine flu is taking its toll on athletes across the country.

• Government says we should expect "a big influx" of swine flu cases this fall
• 14 people were killed in Indonesia after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Wednesday
• Two American television reporters say they were "violently dragged" into North Korea

• Two men were executed under false arson convictions in Texas, a new report shows.
• Not even the Federal Reserve Chairman is safe from identity theft.
• AIG's new CEO spends his first month on the job on vacation.

A 49-year-old man from Pflugerville has died after contracting the H1N1 flu virus, becoming Travis County's first death from the pandemic. Statewide, Texas has at least 2,802 confirmed cases of H1N1 and 14 total fatalities, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Travis County has 127 confirmed cases as of the last update on June 24th. [News 8 Austin]

Protests continue in Iran; the Web watches. Breaking: Iran's Guardian Council says it will recount votes. Gay marriage: DC may be next. Obama pitches health care to the AMA. British Airways wants a free ride. Study says swine flu proves we're all connected. Bruce Willis gets remarried, celebrates in interesting ways.

• Pandemic! Run!
• The Holocaust Museum shooting yesterday has us wondering, what is wrong with people!?
• Seriously. "The responsible white separatist community condemns this"?

Low turnout for early voting so far. Firefighters talk about yesterday's apartment fire. DPS director resigns amid allegations of touching women in his office inappropriately and other unprofessional behavior. Bill up before state legislature would require sex offenders to register online. Hill Country Galleria files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. UT student may have swine flu. Do you know how much your school district superintendent makes?

Murtha's nephew got $$ in contracts. Torture critics remind us: it rarely happens like it does on TV. Swine flu: stay out of our swine. Mutiny in Tbilsi has been put down. Obama to National Academy of Sciences: Help kids make, not just buy. US soldiers out to convert Afghans? Janet's boob is still in court.

U.S. Guantanamo request fires up German political debate The latest iPhone app: Swine flu tracker Flu economics, part two Journalist group: US reporter hospitalized in Iran Australian court grants teen breast removal Potential porn star politico launches "Listening Tour" across Louisiana Google Earth reveals Japanese secrets Obama all in on health care reform

• Noooooes! More chunks breaking away from Antarctic ice shelf.
• Car hits crowd at Dutch Queen parade.
• Don't mess with a nerd and her marching band baton.

• Gov. Perry issues disaster declaration for the state as swine flu cases increase in number (to 16).
• State lawmakers were warned 14 months ago that Texas was ill-equipped to deal with a flu outbreak.
• Possible swine flu case leads to closing of AISD's Lucy Read Pre-K (til May 11).

• First US swine flu death was a Mexican toddler being treated in a Houston hospital
• Specter's switch likely to have limited impact on energy, climate bills
• Time magazine offers a day-by-day look at Obama's first 100 days in office

• Swine flu in Israel, New Zealand; UN says no use trying to stop it.
• Four-year-old swine flu Patient Zero is really cute.
• Still want the job, Sibelius?

• More drugs, please! Texas requests additional pharmaceutical weapons to fight swine flu.
• Deer Park, represent! House declares today Ron White Day. He's the dude from the “Blue Collar Comedy Tour” who is clutching the cigar and the scotch.
• If your house gets burgled in the middle of the night this week, your detective might be yawning. APD is switching some detectives to the night shift.

• Mexican swine flu spreads to U.S., Europe
• ZOMG, we're doomed part 2: Swine flu dampens hopes for economy
• Obama health team hampered as flu hits