CNN.com Thursday, February 21, 2008

Sen. John McCain is denying assertions in The New York Times that he once had a close relationship with a female lobbyist whose clients had business before his Senate committee. "I'm disappointed in The New York Times piece. It's not true," McCain told reporters in Ohio today.

Pentagon officials think a Navy missile scored a direct hit on the fuel tank of an errant satellite late Wednesday, eliminating a toxic threat to people on Earth. "We have a high degree of confidence we got the tank," Gen. James Cartwright said today.

Texans appear poised to favor Republican front-runner Sen. John McCain over either of the Democratic candidates for president in the general election, a CNN/Opinion Research Poll released Thursday shows.

The family of Madeleine McCann wants to see surveillance video footage from a French diner where a Dutch tourist reported seeing the missing British girl, a family spokesman said Thursday.

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When Mary Ryan's 4-year-old nephew, Nick, landed in the hospital with a serious infection, her brother called her in a panic. Ryan isn't a doctor. She's not a nurse. She's a librarian.

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