CNN.com Thursday, November 15, 2007

A British court ruled today that radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri can be extradited to the United States, a member of al-Masri's defense team confirmed to CNN. Al-Masri's followers include failed "shoe bomber" Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person to be charged in the United States in connection with the 9/11 attacks.

Democratic presidential hopefuls face off in a Las Vegas debate Thursday as new poll numbers show primary front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton in a dead heat with Republican Rudy Giuliani in a hypothetical matchup in Nevada.

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Investigators carrying bomb-making equipment passed through U.S. airport security checkpoints without detection, the Government Accountability Office said Wednesday. It added devices built from the smuggled ingredients could have caused "severe damage to an airplane and threatened the safety of passengers."

Thousands of Chileans were homeless Thursday after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake a day earlier killed at least two people, injured dozens and destroyed hundreds of homes.

Rejecting international pressure, Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, gave no indication he will lift his emergency declaration before upcoming parliamentary elections, telling reporters, "I don't take any ultimatums from anyone."

Powerful Tropical cyclone Sidr churned north through the Bay of Bengal Thursday, setting its eye on an expected landfall late in the day near the India-Bangladesh border, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported.

The nation's two political parties have done a pretty good job over the years of keeping voters in line by deciding the order in which states will vote on their presidential candidates.

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When actor Forest Whitaker's grandmother was diagnosed with brain cancer in the late 1990s, she was told her tumor was inoperable and that she had only months to live.