Pastor Robert Henderson

China: Quake has killed thousands
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24573168/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/080512/080512-quake-hmed-6a.thumb.jpg" alt="Rescuers search the rubble of the collapsed Juyuan middle school where six children died in Dujiangyan, in southwest China Sichuan province on May 12, 2008 after an earthquake measuring 7.8 rocked the province. At least 107 people have been confirmed killed by a powerful earthquake that struck southwestern China, as the tremor, centered 92 kms northwest of Chengdu, was felt as far away as Beijing and Shanghai and the Thai capital Bangkok, where office buildings swayed with the impact. AFP PHOTO/XINHUA (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and a chemical plant Monday in central China, killing more than 8,700 people and trapping untold numbers in the worst quake in three decades. 

Severe storms kill at least 23
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24558648/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/080511/080511-tornado-wide-10a.thumb.jpg" alt="Michael Richardson, center, and his mother, Betty Lawson, right, carry a crib from Richardson's home in Picher, Okla., Sunday, May 11, 2008, as his sister, Corissa Lawson, looks on at left. Richardson's home was destroyed by a tornado Saturday. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Crews and search dogs hunted for survivors or bodies in piles of debris Monday after tornadoes and storms rumbled across the region over the weekend and killed at least 23 people in three states. 

NYT: Shift in battle over voter IDs
The battle over voting rights will expand this week as lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote.

Dems gain ground in the Deep South
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24556600/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/080511/080511-cazayoux-hmed-12p.thumb.jpg" alt="**FILE**6th U.S. Congressional District candidate state Rep. Don Cazayoux, D-New Roads, calls supporters in this April 30, 2008 file photo. Cazayoux won a special congressional election Saturday, bolstering his party's majority status on Capitol Hill by taking a seat Republicans have held since 1974. (AP Photo/Tim Mueller, file)" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>As the House Democrats' 'big tent' expands, it is getting more Southern. How much influence can conservative Southern Democrats such as Rep. Don Cazayoux have on a House leadership headed by liberal Speaker Nancy Pelosi? 

First U.S. aid plane lands in Myanmar
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24572715/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/080512/080512-usaid-hlrg-4a.thumb.jpg" alt="A US Air Force plane is seen on the tarmac of Yangon airport on May 12, 2008. The United States delivered its first aid flight to Myanmar, but the UN warned that bottlenecks meant relief supplies were not reaching most of the 1.5 million survivors of a massive cyclone. AFP PHOTO /HLA HLA HTAY (Photo credit should read HLA HLA HTAY/AFP/Getty Images)" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>The first U.S. relief airlift arrived in Myanmar on Monday after prolonged negotiations with the country’s isolationist junta, which considers Washington its enemy. 

Clinton eyes W. Va.; Obama shifts focus
Democratic presidential contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton were preparing for Tuesday's primary in West Virginia, a contest that Clinton is heavily favored to win but which likely won't dent Obama's almost insurmountable lead in the delegate count.

Polygamy sect parents fight for kids
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24576081/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Video/080512/tdy_teague_polygamy_080512.thumb.jpg" alt="May 12: Couples from a polygamist group speak to TODAY's Meredith Vieira about their struggle to have their children returned. (Today Show)" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>More than a month since their children were removed from an FLDS compound in Texas, two sets of parents and a representative for the families alleged that the state has deliberately scattered and isolated the children. 

Spread of nuclear capability feared
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24572974/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/080512/080512-Baradei-vmed-1230a.thumb.jpg" alt="International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohammed ElBaradei arrives on March 3, 2008 to open the board of governors meeting at agency headquarters in Vienna. The UN atomic watchdog is holding its traditional March meeting, with Iran topping the agenda as the UN Security Council in New York prepared to slap further sanctions on the Islamic Republic. AFP PHOTO / Samuel Kubani (Photo credit should read SAMUEL KUBANI/AFP/Getty Images)" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>At least 40 developing countries from the Persian Guld region to Latin America have recently approached U.N. officials here to signal interest in starting nuclear power programs, a trend that concerned proliferation experts say could provide the building blocks of nuclear arsenals in some of those nations. 

Lebanon army deploys to halt mountain clashes
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24576379/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/080511/080511-beirut-hmed-10p.thumb.jpg" alt="Angry Sunnis destroy the shop of a Shiite man, who opened fire on a funeral procession Saturday and killed two, after they burned his shop Saturday, in a Sunni neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday May 11, 2008. Clashes between pro-government supporters of Druse leader Walid Jumblatt and Shiite gunmen started in Aytat involving exchanges of rocket and machine gun fire which rockets and heavy machine gun fire were used. The clashes came a day after Hezbollah accused Jumblatt's followers of killing two of their supporters and kidnapping a third. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Soldiers deployed throughout the mountains overlooking the capital Monday after at least 11 people were killed in clashes between government supporters and opponents in the area. 

Oil prices retreat from record high
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12400801/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Video/080512/tdy_costello_transit_080512.thumb.jpg" alt="May 12: Rising gas prices are sending a surge of riders to take mass transit -- and systems are benefiting from the extra revenue. NBC's Tom Costello reports. (Today Show)" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Oil prices briefly spiked to a new record above $126 a barrel but later ended lower as investors cashed in profits and a quake in China raised the possibility of a drop in demand. 

Cablevision to buy Newsday for $650 million
Cablevision Systems Corp. is buying the Long Island-based newspaper Newsday from Tribune Co. for $650 million, the companies announced Monday.

Answer Desk: U.S. in recession — yes or no?
This week readers are looking for a straight answer to what seems like a simple question. Is the U.S. in recession or not? Yes. It is simple question. After that things get a little more complicated. The Answer Desk.

Olmert investigation widens
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24580032/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/ArtAndPhoto-Fronts/WORLD_NEWS/080104/g-newft-080103-ehud-olmert-6p.thumb.jpg" alt="Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem Sunday, Dec. 30, 2007. Israeli Cabinet ministers will consider on Sunday easing the terms for releasing some of the 9.000 Palestinian prisoners Israel holds, in an effort to win freedom for an Israeli soldier captured by Gaza militants. (AP Photo/Uriel Sinai, Pool)" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Israeli police raided Jerusalem's city hall and seized documents Monday as part of a widening corruption investigation against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, police said. 

U.S.: Clashes mar Baghdad truce
American soldiers killed three Shiite extremists who attacked them with small arms and rocket launchers in Baghdad’s Shiite slum, despite a reported cease-fire, the U.S. military said Monday.

Polish Holocaust hero dies at 98
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24574531/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/080512/080512-irena-sindler-vmed-3a.thumb.jpg" alt="(FILES) A file photo taken on April 11, 2007 in Warsaw shows Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation in World War II. Sendler died on May 12, 2008 in Warsaw at the age of 98. A social worker, Sendler worked with Warsaw's poor Jewish families prior to the war. After Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, she took grave risks to help Polish Jews trapped by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto. At the end of 1942, Sendler joined the Zegota anti-Nazi resistance movement of Poles helping Jews. It was then that she began the extremely difficult of smuggling Jewish infants and children out of ghetto and escaping almost certain death. She managed to save a total 2,500 children. AFP PHOTO / STEFAN MASZEWSKI (Photo credit should read STEFAN MASZEWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Irena Sendler — a Polish social worker who helped save some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false identities — has died at age 98. 

Are bite-sized games the next big thing?
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24567406/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/080511/brill-lostwinds.thumb.jpg" alt="" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>On Monday, Nintendo launches WiiWare, a service that allows gamers to download games straight to their Wiis. Are the growing number of games-on-demand services and the sometimes unusual bite-sized games they offer the wave of the future? Indie developers — and big console makers — are betting on it. 

Man pokes shark in eye to survive mauling
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24576106/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Video/2008/a_brown_shark_080512 copy.thumb.jpg" alt="May 12: An Australian man survives a deadly attack by poking a shark in its eye. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports. (MSNBC.com)" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>An Australian swimmer said he survived a mauling by a 16-foot shark by wrestling with the beast, finally getting free by poking it in the eye. 

Scoop: Ray squashes Winfrey feud rumors
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24569633/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/getty/gyi0051851547.thumb.jpg" alt="NEW YORK - APRIL 28: Rachael Ray. Rachael Ray, with special guest President Clinton, open "Pop-Up" restaurant, "Cafe Una Notte" to benefit Yum-o! organization on April 28, 2008 in New York City. Special "Rachael Ray" show dedicated to event airing on May 7th. " style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Are Oprah Winfrey and Rachael Ray feuding? Winfrey’s best friend, Gayle King, appears on the May 12 episode of “The Rachael Ray Show” and sets the record straight. 

Real-life skull tale inspires movie
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24547679/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/080509/080509-crystallskulls-vmed-5p.thumb.jpg" alt="** ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, MAY 12 ** People watch as mayan indian priests participate in a ceremony while one holds up a crystal skull at the Mayan ruins of Palenque, Mexico March 10, 2008. There is a legend that the ancient Maya possessed 13 crystal skulls which, when united, hold the power of saving the Earth, a tale so strange and fantastic that it inspired the latest Indiana Jones movie. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>There is a legend that the ancient Maya possessed 13 crystal skulls which, when united, hold the power of saving the Earth — a tale so strange and fantastic that it inspired the latest Indiana Jones movie. 

Skin cancer can sneak up on the most savvy
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24415128/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/ArtAndPhoto-Fronts/HEALTH/080508/g-080508-hlt-skinCancer-529p.thumb.jpg" alt="EW YORK - MAY 3: A doctor from the American Academy of Dermatology checks Christine Trerotoli for signs of skin cancer May 3, 2004 at Bryant Park in New York City. " style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Could you have skin cancer and not know it? These women did. Reading this could save your skin, even your life. 

Celizic: Does D’Antoni know what a mess he inherited?
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24570446/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/NBCSports/Components/Video/_NEW/s_mdm_mikedantoni_080512_mezzn.thumb.jpg" alt="May 12: Christopher Russo calls out the Suns for getting rid of Mike D'Antoni and calls out D'Antoni for going for the cash in NY. (NBC Sports)" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Celizic: It’s likely new Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni will realize in training camp what an impossible job he has. 

Back to form, Spurs rout Hornets
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24567724/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/ap/3d04e9e0-d3ff-402d-8b7f-20d518393140.thumb.jpg" alt="SAN ANTONIO - MAY 11: Guard Tony Parker #9 of the San Antonio Spurs reacts with Manu Ginobili #20 against the New Orleans Hornets in Game Four of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2008 NBA Playoffs at the AT&T Center on May 11, 2008 in San Antonio, Texas. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. " style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>The San Antonio Spurs looked like champions again Sunday, pounding the New Orleans Hornets to even their Western Conference semifinal series 2-2. 

53 migrants held hostage in Phoenix
Fifty-three illegal immigrants found Sunday had been held against their will in a fortified home by suspected smugglers demanding more money, authorities said.

Cost of veterans' care set to soar
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24566987/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/ap/be393801-9718-4825-b6cb-6c0a830f6045.thumb.jpg" alt="** FILE ** In this Nov. 8, 2007 file photo, Army. Sgt. Brandon Adam, Sandpoint, Idaho, who lost both his legs while serving in Baghdad in May 2007, pauses from exercises while waiting for President Bush to visit the physical therapy lab for wounded soldiers at the Center For The Intrepid at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Increasing numbers of U.S. troops have left the military with damaged bodies and minds, an ever-larger pool of disabled veterans that will cost the nation billions for decades to come — even as the total population of America’s vets shrinks.