Pelosi's Gets Mini-Thumpin', China Goes Wiki
Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET
LOST IT BY THIS MUCH Murtha • Win some, lose some: Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi got quite the housewarming gift today. Her preferred choice for Majority Leader, Rep. John Murtha, lost to Maryland's amusingly named Steny Hoyer by a 149-86 count.
• Convicted: Former garbageman Christopher McCowen was convicted in the 2002 rape and murder of fashion writer Christa Worthington in Massachusetts. McCowen will serve life in prison without the possibility of parole.
- Tragic One Direction Singer Liam Payne Dead Aged 31 After Horror Hotel Balcony Plunge: Celeb Tributes Pour In as Images Emerge of Smashed Up Hotel Room Strewn With White Powder and 'Drugs Foil'
- Family of Menendez Brothers Beg for Convicted Killers' Freedom in Press Conference Three Decades After Brutal Murders: 'They Were Failed By Their Parents!'
- BREAKING: Jailed 'Sex Beast' Sean 'Diddy' Combs Hit With Another Wave of Horrific Lawsuits — Rapper Accused of Drugging, Raping, Sodomizing and Threatening to Murder Multiple New Victims
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• Opening China—online: The main page of China's Wikipedia page became accessible today after being blocked for more than a year. Pranksters looking to change Mao Zedong to Mao ZeGong will have to wait, though—only apolitical searches are currently allowed.
• Still at risk: Yesterday's reports out of Baghdad that all 150 hostages in the Higher Education Ministry were released unharmed may have been premature: Reports today show that as many as 80 might still be in captivity, and that the 70 already released were tortured.