http://www.kidk.com/news/national RSS Feed for KIDK - News - National & World en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:40:01 GMT http://www.kidk.com/news/national/70646627.html Four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to the drug Tamiflu and may show signs the virus may be mutating. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/70622067.html On an Internet site, 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante listed her hobbies as "killing people" and "cutting." It may have sounded like a teenage exaggeration, but authorities say she fulfilled her words. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/70621677.html Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the Democrats' newly minted health care legislation Thursday as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/70621447.html The two-story structure - a former riding school for the rich - is allegedly where the CIA held suspected Al-Qaida prisoners five years ago. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/70621362.html A police officer who used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl after he said her mother gave him permission has been suspended - not for using the Taser but for not having a video camera attached when he used it. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/70621342.html A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of spying for China suffers from narcissistic personality disorder, expert witnesses for the prosecution and the defense testified in federal court Thursday. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/70583637.html A man already accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old North Carolina girl faces new charges that he raped and asphyxiated her, police said Thursday. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/70593447.html A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged Thursday, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics. Medical experts expressed skepticism that a major market for fat might exist. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/70573727.html The White House and Senate Democrats have turned to a proposal to tax breast implants, tummy tucks, wrinkle-smoothing injections and other procedures as they search for ways to pay for costly health care overhaul plans. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/70576967.html They translate writings and sermons once largely out of reach of English readers and often feature charismatic clerics like Anwar al-Awlaki, who exchanged dozens of e-mails with the Army psychiatrist accused of the Fort Hood shootings.