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A Houston woman who was driving a sport utility vehicle toward her children in an apparent game of "chicken" struck and killed her 3-year-old son, authorities said. Lexus Stagg, 26, was arrested and charged with criminally negligent homicide in the boy's June 11 death, Harris County prosecutors said in a statement Friday. “Cars aren’t toys and playing chicken with your kids isn’t a game,” Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said in the statement. Stagg can be seen on surveillance video reversing a white Lincoln Navigator in an apartment complex parking lot as her three small children run toward the...

White House Council of Economic Ad visers Chairman Austan Goolsbee is warning of cataclysmic results if the new Republican House majority holds back on raising the nation's debt limit. "I don't see why anybody's playing chicken with the debt ceiling," he says. "If we get to the point where we damage the full faith and credit of the United States, that would be the first default in history caused purely by insanity." Blah, blah, blah. Or, taken another way, a collapse is coming -- but what kind of collapse? Not raising the debt ceiling could cause a default. But so,...

Until Wednesday afternoon, when GOP presidential nominee John McCain announced that he was heading to Washington to work with congressional leaders and the Bushies to craft a better bailout bill, both McCain and Democratic candidate Barack Obama clearly had believed that the last place they wanted to be seen was in Washington. More specifically, the last place McCain and Obama wanted to be seen was in the Senate, where they work. You see, the Senate, according to the latest CNN/Opinion Research poll, enjoys (if that's the word) a 22 percent approval rating, 78 percent disapproval. (The numbers for President Bush,...