Short Takes

An explosion in a mine in China has killed a number of people.

It's working -- a consensus of economists say the stimulus is showing signs of success.

Eye on the middle -- the conservative Democrats hold the future of the healthcare bill.

If you can't be good, be loud: the only thing the GOP has to offer in the healthcare debate is a lot of noise.

We'll take them: Thomson, Illinois, seems to like the idea of being the new Gitmo.

The more we learn about Maj. Nidal Hasan, the more we wonder why the military didn't do something.

A former State Department official and his wife confess to thirty years of spying for Cuba.

Four of the Liberty City Six "terror" cell get sentenced.