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FROM TODAY'S BOSTON GLOBE
(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)Illinois Senate dumps
Blagojevich as governor
The Illinois Senate removed Governor Rod R. Blagojevich (above, addressing the state Senate yesterday) from office, convicting him on an article of impeachment that alleged a pattern of abuse of power. (By Malcolm Gay and Susan Saulny, Boston Globe)
Stimulus bill would give state $11 billion
Massachusetts would receive at least $6.5 billion in federal aid during the next two years - and residents would receive nearly $5 billion more in tax relief, unemployment checks, food stamps, and other benefits - under the economic stimulus bill passed this week by the US House, analysts said yesterday. (Boston Globe)
Guantanamo judge refuses
Obama's request for delay
The chief judge for the Guantanamo war crimes court yesterday refused President Obama's request to delay proceedings against a prisoner charged with plotting an attack that killed 17 US sailors. (Boston Globe)
Mother of octuplets has 6 other
children, CBS reports
The California woman who astonished doctors earlier this week by giving birth to octuplets at a suburban Los Angeles hospital already has six other children, CBS News reported yesterday. (Boston Globe)
Alaska volcano prompts warnings
Mount Redoubt, a volcano 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, is rumbling and simmering, prompting geologists to warn that an eruption may be imminent. (Boston Globe)
Frostbitten woman alleges 3
friends abandoned her in cold
A 19-year-old woman who thought she was going to a party was instead driven to a rural wooded area and abandoned in 8-degree weather in a long-planned attack by three friends angry with her over an insurance claim, police said yesterday. (Boston Globe)
Man killed wife, children, self, police say
A family of four was found shot to death in their suburban Columbus home, victims of an apparent murder-suicide committed by the father, police said yesterday. (Boston Globe)
Army says suicides among soldiers
at highest level in decades
Suicides among US soldiers rose last year to the highest level in decades, the Army announced yesterday. (Boston Globe)
Breast cancer mutation raises
prostate risks in men
The so-called breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 can raise the risk that a man who develops prostate cancer will get an aggressive form of the disease, US researchers reported yesterday. (Boston Globe)
LA cardinal 'mystified' by probe
Cardinal Roger M. Mahony said yesterday that he is "mystified and puzzled" by a federal grand jury investigation into the handling of alleged clergy child molestation cases by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. (Boston Globe)
Inaugural fund-raising exceeds $53 million
President Obama's inaugural committee raised far more than its fund-raising goal, taking in well over $53 million, much of it from 458 elite donors who kicked in $50,000 apiece. (Boston Globe)
Special guest witnesses
equal-pay bill signing
President Obama signed an equal-pay bill into law yesterday before cheering labor and women's rights leaders who fought hard for it, as well as the woman whose history-making lawsuit gave impetus to the cause. (Boston Globe)
Wall Street executives' bonuses
'shameful,' Obama says
President Obama yesterday scolded Wall Street bankers who received millions of dollars in bonuses last year, calling the payouts "shameful" while some of the firms received taxpayer bailouts, and chiding the executives for a lack of personal responsibility at a precarious time for the nation's economy. (Boston Globe)
Aide who labeled Clinton 'monster'
will work closely with her
Harvard professor Samantha Power, who left Barack Obama's presidential campaign after calling Hillary Clinton a "monster," is taking a senior foreign policy job in the White House that requires close contact and potential travel with Clinton, who is now secretary of state. (Boston Globe)
Democrats say N.H.'s Gregg
being weighed for top Commerce post
President Obama is considering choosing US Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire as his commerce secretary, the Associated Press reported last night, citing senior Democratic sources. (Boston Globe)
LATEST NATIONAL NEWS
FROM AP AND REUTERS
Republicans seek new chairman to lead revival
Republicans are looking for a national party chairman to lead a GOP rebirth after losing control of Congress and the White House in back-to-back elections. (Associated Press Writer, 7:52 a.m.)
Many without food, water rush to shelters' warmth
Residents displaced by a winter storm rested in every corner of a university theater, about 100 of them sprawled in aisles, propped in chairs, curled up on the stage. Some watched a movie while others settled in -- but all could sleep soundly with the heat blasting, the assurance of food and water nearby. (Associated Press Writer, 7:52 a.m.)
Air Force to train combat docs to use acupuncture
Chief Warrant Officer James Brad Smith broke five ribs, punctured a lung and shattered bones in his hand and thigh after falling more than 20 feet from a Black Hawk helicopter in Baghdad last month. (Associated Press Writer, 7:22 a.m.)
Boy's birthday present is Dad back from Iraq
Gabriel Hurles' sixth birthday party wasn't a surprise but his present sure was. The kindergartner was so engrossed in the cupcakes his mother brought to his class on Wednesday that he didn't notice the enormous wrapped box off to the side. (AP, 7:02 a.m.)
Ask AP: Road salt and health, an in-flight birth
A baby's citizenship usually has something to do with the country where she's born, or the one where her parents are citizens. But what if she begins life on a trans-Atlantic flight, thousands of feet in the air? (AP, 6:51 a.m.)
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