| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Nurses bring care, escorts carry weapons | | Nurses on Chicago's South Side sometimes hear gunfire as they travel through some of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods to treat patients at home. Trailing a few steps behind them is a security officer with a loaded gun. |
| Brooklyn car crash | | A midnight car crash in New York left two expectant parents dead. But the baby was rescued by cesarean section and is in critical condition, police say. |
| Budget cuts | | In travels this week -- to Boston, Chicago, New York -- friends and strangers alike have said the same thing: They are turned off and tuned out of the sequestration mess in Washington. To a person, they are sick of the antics of those to whom they have entrusted enormous power. |
| 'Rape' shirts | | Twitter users erupted in anger Saturday after discovering shirts listed on Amazon with a slogan that appeared to promote rape and violence against women. |
| Queen Elizabeth II | | Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was hospitalized Sunday after experiencing symptoms of gastroenteritis, a palace spokesman said. |
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