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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at a campaign event in Huron, S.D., in anticipation of the state's June 3 presidential primary election. (Photo by Elise Amendola / AP)

Army suicides rose during most violent year yet, Pentagon says

The number of Army suicides increased again last year, Pentagon officials said. The suicides happened during the most violent year yet in both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

MSNBC

McClellan: Valerie Plame leak case was turning point

McClellan said that it wasn't until he realized he may have been led to deliver false information regarding Valerie Plame's CIA outing that he knew he would someday have to tell his story.

MSNBC

McClellan: Bush embraced political 'game' too often

NPR

World food prices will dip but stay high

Food prices will remain high over the next decade even if they fall from current records, meaning millions more risk further hardship or hunger, the OECD and the UN's FAO food agency said in a report.

Reuters

Obama, Clinton fight for Florida, Michigan delegates

ABC News

Pelosi vows to prevent fight at Dem convention

San Francisco Chronicle

Convention disaster ahead?

MSNBC

Iran in secret talks with al Qaeda, US officials say

Senior U.S. officials tell ABC News that in recent months there have been secret contacts between the Iranian government and the leadership of al Qaeda.

ABC News

National Human Genome Research Institute head to step down

National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) director Francis Collins said he plans to step down from his position after leading the organization for more than 15 years.

Scientific American

Gay marriage advances in the states of California, New York

Barring a stay of a historic California Supreme Court ruling, gay couples will be able to wed in the state beginning June 17, and those nuptials may soon be fully recognized in New York.

CBS News

San Francisco mayor rides high after gay marriage ruling

NPR

NATION

Helicopter crashes, burns at hospital

A pilot and a passenger escaped serious injury, when the helicopter they were in crashed atop the Spectrum Health Center at downtown Grand Rapids, Mich., and burst into flames, authorities said.

Detroit Free Press

2 customs officers arrested at JFK

Federal agents arrested two Customs and Border Protection officers from Long Island and others yesterday and charged them with being part of a Kennedy Airport bribery and drug ring.

Newsday

FEMA closing trailer parks as hurricane season nears

The government has reasons to move families out of Katrina trailers: the start of a new hurricane season, concerns about toxic fumes and the need for residents to find permanent homes.

Houston Chronicle

POLITICS

Obama expects general election campaign to start next week

Sen. Barack Obama said that Democrats will know their presidential nominee after the final two primary states vote next week -- and in his view, the general election campaign officially will begin.

CNN

Female VP hopefuls contrast with Clinton

Yahoo! News

Bob Barr is new piece in electoral puzzle

Newly Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr may not be a household name, but he's caught the attention of the GOP's most passionate wing: libertarian-leaning supporters of Rep. Ron Paul.

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Have terminals, need LNG

The cost of a gallon of gasoline gets all the headlines, but the price of natural gas that will heat many U.S. homes next winter is skyrocketing as the nation falls behind in a global race to secure the gas.

International Herald Tribune

Netflix, Blockbuster mixing it up a little

Like two movies going head to head on opening weekend, Netflix and Blockbuster made rival presentations to investors as each DVD rental company vies to stay competitive in a converging marketplace.

The Gazette

United, US Airways CEOs may meet

The CEOs of United Airlines and US Airways are scheduled to meet as talks aimed at combining the carriers progress despite concerns that threaten to scuttle the deal.

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

'Eye-opening' US report looks at impact of climate change

Climate change is increasing the risk of U.S. crop failures, depleting the nation's water resources and contributing to outbreaks of invasive species and insects, according to a federal report.

MSNBC

Warming climate changing US forests

Environment News Service

Markey to release aggressive global warming bill

The Hill

Global warming to deplete Great Lakes even more

Global warming will likely drain more water from the Great Lakes and pose added pollution threats to the region's vulnerable ecosystem, environmental groups said.

Reuters

Green tours' main challenge: the fans

As even the best-intentioned bands are learning, launching a major environmentally responsible tour is virtually impossible.

Rolling Stone

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Book review: 'Devil May Care' and 'The Lazarus Project'

It's the big day: the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ian Fleming. Without Fleming, who died in 1964 at 56, we would never have had the debonair company of James Bond.

International Herald Tribune

The dumbest generation? Don’t be dumb

In Mark Bauerlein's, provocative new book "The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future," he offers the usual indicators, grand and slight.

Newsweek

HEALTH

Doctors' house calls on the rise

Once considered on the verge of extinction, the annual number of house calls increased 43 percent from 1998 to 2004, to just over 2 million, according to a new study.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

FDA takes another look at drug warnings

FDA officials proposed streamlining drug warnings for women who are pregnant or nursing, to make it easier for physicians and patients to determine whether it's safe to take the medicines.

Baltimore Sun

C-sections tied to rise in preterm births

One in eight U.S. babies is born prematurely. A dramatic increase in C-section deliveries in the United States is largely responsible for an equally dramatic rise in preterm births.

WebMD

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GOOD NEWS

Student's perfect attendance results in a new car

Andria Baker somehow made it to class for every day of 13 years of school, despite colds and sports injuries. Why? If she kept it up, her father promised her a car.

MSNBC

Monkeys with brain-wired bionic arms give hope to disabled

Monkeys with tiny sensors wired to their brains learned to reach, grip and eat using a robotic arm, an advance that foreshadows bionic limbs that could restore motion for people with disabilities.

Bloomberg

Monkey uses robotic arm to eat

YouTube

US climber scales Everest for 10th time

An American climber has scaled Mount Everest for the 10th time, becoming the first non-Nepalese to achieve the feat, mountaineering officials said.

Associated Press

WORLD

Cluster bomb ban treaty approved

More than 100 nations have reached an agreement on a treaty which would ban current designs of cluster bombs.

BBC

Lawmakers in Nepal abolish monarchy after 239 years

The world's last Hindu kingdom became its newest secular republic as its lawmakers, led by former communist insurgents, abolished the monarchy that had reigned for 239 years.

ABC News

Nepal republic celebrations

CNN

Israel's Olmert resists calls for resignation, 2 aides say

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will fight for his political life, resisting calls to resign amid a police probe of allegations he took money illegally, a political aide and the finance minister said.

Bloomberg

SPORTS

Penguins cut series deficit to 2-1 with win vs. Red Wings

Sidney Crosby scored Pittsburgh Penguins' first two goals of the Stanley Cup finals, and the Penguins made this a series with a 3-2 victory.

ESPN

Sharapova struggles to win in Paris, Nadal advances

Women's top seed Maria Sharapova struggled past Evgeniya Rodina in her opening-round match at tennis's French Open. Defending men's champion Rafael Nadal advanced in straight sets.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Creepy or cute? Robot creature allows scientists to study touch

Steve Yohanan, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, has crafted a robotic creature to figure out how humans communicate through touch.

CNN

Ancient 'snowball Earth' melted fast due to methane

A massive release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, may have triggered rapid melting of the last "snowball Earth" about 635 million years ago.

National Geographic

EDUCATION

US experts bemoan nation's loss of stature in science

Some of the nation's leading scientists sharply criticized the diminished role of science in the United States.

EducationNews.org

Rollback set in schooling of the gifted

The New York City Department of Education is rolling back part of an ambitious plan to expand its identification of gifted children by giving all kindergartners a screening test.

EducationNews.org

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Iraqis claim Marines are pushing Christianity in Fallujah

Residents of Fallujah said some Marines have been passing out coins with a Bible verse on one side, in what they call an attempt to convert them to Christianity.

McClatchy Newspapers

Welcome to the Hindu temple in a spare room beside the sea

The small room in the house of Dhirajlal and Sushila Karia, of Clacton-on-Sea in the U.K., has attracted an estimated 50,000 worshippers since it was inaugurated as a Hindu Temple in 1979.

Times Online

Efforts to lure Jews to New Orleans start to pay off

New Orleans Jews recently fashioned a five-year "strategic plan" as part of a $24 million blueprint to revitalize a small but sturdy community that had been shrinking even before Katrina made landfall.

Religion News Service

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