Senate Democrats reject an amendment proposed by Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., that would have stopped $42 billion in cuts over the next 10 years to agencies that provide home health to seniors under Medicare. The proposal is the third amendment offered by Republicans regarding cuts to projected Medicare spending in the health care bill.

A fire tears through a barn at a county fairgrounds in Lebanon, Ohio, killing two people and 43 horses. The cause of the blaze is not immediately clear. "This is a horseman's nightmare," a horse owner tells the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Los Angeles' Episcopal Diocese elects Rev. Mary Glasspool, a lesbian, to serve as assistant bishop. If Glasspool is confirmed she will be the second openly gay bishop in the global Anglican fellowship. When the church consecrated the first gay bishop in 2003, an uproar ensued.

The British military closes its UFO hot line after nearly a half-century of investigations into possible sightings. The Defense Ministry says the measure will save $73,000 a year, but critics claim closing the hot line will threaten national security. "Who's to say there is nothing out there?" says one Briton. "If there is, it's a bit scary that there is no one to call to inform them of what you've seen."

Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat, defends nominating former staffer Melodee Hanes, who is also his girlfriend, for the U.S. attorney position in Montana earlier this year. Baucus says Hanes is a highly qualified prosecutor, but in the end Hanes withdrew her name and took a position with the Justice Department.

The nearly 80 students at a Pennsylvania college who received e-mails saying they would be required to take a fitness course to graduate, won't be now. Lincoln University drops the proposed move aimed at obese students amid uproar about the so-called "fat course."