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U.S. Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, looks on, as French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, speaks during a press conference following their meeting at the Elysee Palace, in Paris. (Photo by Remy de la Mauviniere / AP)

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McCain: bin Laden could face Nuremberg-like justice

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CNN

McCain gains ground in Michigan, several other states

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Detroit Free Press

What makes northern lights dance?

Scientists have unraveled what causes the northern lights to brighten suddenly from shimmering green to flaming curtains of red and yellow.

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San Francisco Chronicle

US narrows salmonella warning to Mexican jalapenos

Health officials urged consumers to avoid only raw jalapeno peppers from Mexico, narrowing an earlier warning against eating any fresh jalapenos.

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Reuters

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From field to fork: Food-tracing system needed

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Barack Obama urges Iran to accept EU nuke proposal

Sen. Barack Obama said that Iran should accept an international call to freeze its uranium enrichment program and not wait for the next U.S. president.

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Europe crucial to anti-terror efforts, Obama says

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Obama camp pins scrubbed troop visit on Pentagon

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ABC News

Obama, Sarkozy meet les medias

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Real Clear Politics

Sudanese warning on peacekeepers

Sudan has again warned it cannot guarantee the safety of UN and African Union peacekeepers in Darfur if its president is indicted for war crimes.

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BBC

NATION

Tarantulas, snakes and fire ants lurk in Texas floodwaters

Texans eager to salvage items from waterlogged homes struck by Hurricane Dolly have another problem: The floodwaters are laced with stinging fire ants, snakes and tarantulas.

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Google News

Two barges allowed into Mississippi's oil-spill waters

Two fuel barges were cleared to enter Mississippi River waters that have been off-limits since a massive oil spill from a barge that collided with a tanker, a U.S. Coast Guard spokeswoman said.

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CNN

POLITICS

Congress deadlocked on ways to lower gas prices

With a gallon of gas hovering at $4 a gallon and energy prices the No. 1 issue on voters' minds, congressional leaders are increasingly deadlocked over what to do.

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Christian Science Monitor

Congressional hearing from legislators considers Bush impeachment

A congressional hearing heard from legislators calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush.

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Monsters and Critics

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McCain may act soon on VP pick

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BUSINESS

Wireless still strong for Verizon, but not for Motorola

Verizon Communications Inc. and Motorola Inc., two members of the wireless industry's royalty, are set to unveil quarterly results next week, but only one is likely to be crowned a success.

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MarketWatch

Stocks advance on new home sale reports

Upbeat economic data lifted stocks, placating a market pummeled a day earlier by concerns about housing and the financial sector.

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Forbes

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Housing rescue on track to pass Senate

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Newsweek

ENVIRONMENT

Mexican mangroves 'vital for fishing industry and economy'

Researchers have shown that the abundance of Mexican mangroves has a direct effect on the health of the fishing industry and the local economy.

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Environmental News Network

Oil spills onto ice and rougher seas among Arctic risks

Companies seeking oil in the Arctic will need better technology to clean up spills onto ice and could new face hazards such as rougher seas caused by climate change, experts say.

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Environmental News Network

China says air clearing for Games despite hazy skies

China's efforts to clear the skies over its polluted capital are having an effect, officials said, insisting that Beijing's air would be safe for Olympic athletes despite persistent smog over the city.

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Environmental News Network

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope speaks to Iraqi leader on religious freedom for Christian minority

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki met with Pope Benedict XVI at the papal summer residence. Pope Benedict underscored his concern about the Christian minority in Iraq during the conversation.

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Catholic World News

Catholic critics ask Pope to lift contraception ban

More than 50 dissident Catholic groups published an unusually frank open letter to Pope Benedict saying the Church's ban on contraception has been "catastrophic" and urging him to lift it.

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ABC News

HEALTH

The soy-sperm connection

Calling all men who want to become fathers! Soy products may reduce a man's sperm count.

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HealthDay

Web site demystifies lab tests

For many Americans, the meanings of various lab tests have long been the Bermuda Triangle of health care: poorly explained and often mysterious.

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HealthDay

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GOOD NEWS

Schwarzenegger terminates trans fat

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has made it official: California will be the first trans fat free state in the nation.

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ABC News

Saving lives, one rent check at a time

Keith Taylor's Web site, "Modest Needs," is open to anyone who wants to help strangers with short-term money needs. The average grant is for $560 and can help pay someone's rent or fix a car.

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Forbes

WORLD

Passenger terror after Quantas 747 fuselage rupture

The 300 travelers on the 747, flying from London to Melbourne, have told of their terror as a jet plunged 19,000 feet after the fuselage ruptured.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Huge hole in Qantas plane

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CNN

UN: up to 25 percent of Myanmar cyclone aid lost

As much as 25 percent of cyclone relief aid in Myanmar is being lost because of the military government's foreign exchange system, a United Nations official said.

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MSNBC

Karadzic appeal deadline passes

A deadline has passed for Bosnian Serb ex-leader Radovan Karadzic to appeal against extradition to the Netherlands on genocide and war crimes charges.

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BBC

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Times Online

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Prof whose 'Last Lecture' became sensation dies

Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "Last Lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, has died. He was 47.

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Associated Press

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Randy Pausch and family

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'The Last Lecture'

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YouTube

'The X-Files' reopen

The agenda of the second 'X-Files' movie is right there in its subtitle: 'I Want to Believe.' Still, the nature of this project — kept top secret by its creators — should come as a surprise to most everyone.

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San Jose Mercury News

SPORTS

Favre will petition for reinstatement, report to camp

An NFL source confirmed reports that Brett Favre has told the Green Bay Packers he will petition commissioner Roger Goodell for reinstatement so that he can report to training camp with the team.

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USA Today

Danica not apologetic about confrontation with Milka

A week after a confrontation with fellow driver Milka Duno that quickly became a popular YouTube video, Danica Patrick said her only regret is not thinking about how public it would be.

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MSNBC

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Google counts more than 1 trillion unique Web URLs

Google recently detected more than a trillion unique URLs on the Web. This milestone awed Google search engineers, who are seeing the Web growing by several billion individual pages every day.

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PC World

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China has 253 million Internet users, tops US

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iTWire

Private aviation on a budget

They're fast, they're dinky, and soon they'll be coming to an airport near you. They are called personal jets.

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LiveScience

EDUCATION

Math scores show no gap for girls

A study paid for by the National Science Foundation has found that girls perform as well as boys on standardized math tests.

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EducationNews.org

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Shoppers saving the planet, one reusable bag at a time

Nowadays, so many good-looking reusable market bags are available these days that shoppers can buy them and use them as a fashion accessory — and help save the world.

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A private security guard passes by a painted blast wall in Baghdad, Iraq. The art ornaments life with murals of soothing landscapes covering the blast walls that are now as much a part of Baghdad's cityscape as date palms and desert dust. (Photo by Marko Drobnjakovic / AP)

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