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Violent, property crime declined in 2007

The FBI reported that both violent and property crime declined in 2007 by 1.4 percent from 2006.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Chinese quake lake still rising

The water level in an earthquake-formed lake in China is still rising, despite the creation of a drainage channel.

BBC

Gasoline prices take bigger bite of budgets in rural US

International Herald Tribune

Why it’s worse than you think

Newsweek

Fatal floods in Midwest, horrendous heat in East

Parts of the Midwest are bracing for another round of wet weather today while still recovering from a weekend of severe storms, tornadoes and floods. Meanwhile, the East Coast baked in a heat wave.

ABC News

Tornado

CNN

Rain, floods pound Midwest, heat bakes East Coast

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

US, German lawyers seek extraditions of CIA agents

German and U.S. civil rights attorneys filed a suit against the German government to mandate the extradition of 13 CIA agents.

USA Today

Twenty three miners found alive in Ukraine, being brought to safety

Rescue workers found 23 miners missing underground after a gas explosion at a Ukrainian colliery and were bringing them to safety through a narrow ventilation shaft.

Reuters

Bush leaves for farewell european summit

President Bush is on his way to Europe on a farewell trip to major capitals, expressing both concern and long-term confidence in the U.S. economy.

ABC News

NATION

War bill helps Iraqis, but may ignore Katrina victims

Herman Moore sat outside a tent in a downtown New Orleans homeless camp, trying to make sense of a proposal that helps Iraqi war refugees but will likely exclude Hurricane Katrina victims.

Yahoo! News

Eyewitness: Sept. 11 trial opens

The trial of the five so-called high-value detainees accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks was held at the now notorious Guantanamo Bay amid suffocating military security.

BBC

Sept. 11 families' differing views of justice

CBS News

POLITICS

McCain reaches out but evangelicals still wary of him

One of John McCain’s biggest challenges is a continued wariness toward him among evangelicals and other Christian conservatives, a critical voting bloc for Republicans.

MSNBC

Millions racked up in campaign debt

Candidates may have lost the race to the White House but they still must make good.

ABC News

Clinton supporters react

Reuters

A new electoral map emerging?

The red and blue map is about to be turned upside down as both John McCain and Barack Obama plot a path to the presidency featuring a new electoral map.

ABC News

Electorate split between Obama, McCain

CNN

SPORTS

Celtics survive Lakers' late rally, take 2-0 series lead

Trailing Boston by 24 points with less than 8 minutes left, the Lakers got within two before losing 108-102 to the Celtics, who are heading out West feeling a little lucky to have a 2-0 lead in the NBA finals.

Sports Illustrated

Game highlights

ESPN

Tseng's 1st tour win is major feat

Rookie Yani Tseng of Taiwan beat Swedish veteran Maria Hjorth to win the LPGA Championship. Tseng, 19, became the second-youngest player in LPGA history to win a major.

Baltimore Sun

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Third largest rainforest vanishing fast

Satellite images show Papua New Guinea's Gulf Province rain forest intact in 1988 and laid bare by logging in 2002. The images were released as part of a new study.

National Geographic

Why men have breasts

The age-old question that anthropologists have been answering for centuries: Why do men have breasts and nipples?

LiveScience

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Paul Newman is ailing

Paul Newman reportedly has lung cancer. The "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" actor has been suffering from the potentially fatal disease for several months.

Monsters and Critics

Poll says debt stress tears at body

An Associated Press-AOL Health poll reveals that debt-related stress is causing major health problems for millions of Americans.

Denver Post

Slash your grocery bill

CNN

The death of the necktie

Once a staple in the workplace and the quintessential Father's Day gift, the necktie has seen its popularity wane.

ABC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

US bishops urge author of abuse book to steer clear

Four of California's leading Catholic bishops have taken the extraordinary step of urging an Australian bishop to cancel a tour of the United States to promote his book about clergy sexual abuse.

San Jose Mercury News

Gay US bishop and long-term partner in civil union ceremony

The gay U.S. Episcopal bishop at the center of the Anglican church's global battle over homosexuality has entered into a civil union with his long-term partner at a private ceremony.

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Verizon matches employee donations dollar for dollar to aid disaster victims

The Verizon Foundation has started a 1-to-1 match for every dollar donated by Verizon employees to aid victims of the cyclones in Myanmar and the earthquake in the Sichuan province of China.

PNN

What credit crisis? Super-rich can still spare $50m for charity

More than 1,100 people in London paid $20,000 per person for a ticket to a charity dinner for Absolute Return for Kids.

London Independent

Art, and hope, from Hiroshima ashes

On Aug. 6, 1945, an atomic bomb shattered Hiroshima, killing more than 90,000. Of those who survived, one man, Ikuo Hirayama, would go on to turn the devastation into art.

NPR

WORLD

Sudan rivals agree on Abyei plan

Rival Sudanese leaders have signed a "road map" to defuse a conflict over oil-rich Abyei region, agreeing for the first time to international arbitration to draw borders.

Al Jazeera

In Myanmar, how many cyclone orphans?

Aid groups are trying to curb child labor and reconnect families – without surnames.

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

The job market's big slump

The month of May had the sharpest increase in the U.S. unemployment rate in 22 years.

Christian Science Monitor

Employers toughen on workplace gossip

In workplaces everywhere, gossip remains a daily fact of life. Around water coolers and behind closed doors employees whisper about everything from office romances to rumored mergers and layoffs.

ABC News

HEALTH

Blood cancer drug shows promise

Velcade, a drug used to treat myeloma, a cancer of the white blood cells, may also be an effective treatment to prolong the lives of those with lupus.

HealthDay

Sleep: a necessity, not a luxury

An estimated 40 million Americans don't get a good night's rest.

HealthDay

Myths - and facts - about sleep

National Sleep Foundation

ENVIRONMENT

G-8 to fight oil prices with efficiency, green technology

Energy ministers from the Group of Eight countries along with China, India, and South Korea, vowed to invest more in energy efficiency and green technologies, and urged an increase in oil production.

Associated Press

Dozens of dolphins die in mystery stranding on British coast

As many as 20 dolphins have died and 80 more are in danger in the greatest stranding of marine life on Britain's coast for nearly 30 years.

Times Online

Humpback whales bounce back due to global conservation

Humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean have recovered swimmingly since the start of worldwide conservation programs in the 1960s and '70s.

National Geographic

EDUCATION

School devoted to traditional teaching, strong values

The founding parents of the Classical Academy, a K-12 public charter school in Colorado Springs, wanted to create a close-knit program focused on strong values as well as high academic standards.

NPR

Uniform allergy plans sought for schools

The nonprofit Food Allergies & Anaphylaxis Network is pushing for a federal law to create uniform guidelines for schools to follow to protect the estimated 2 million school-age children with food allergies.

USA Today

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