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President Bush hugs students Megan Parks, 17, left, and Sarah Carroll, 17, right, as he tours tornado damage at Enterprise High School in Enterprise, Ala. Thursday's tornado killed eight students from the school. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

Anti-Kremlin protesters beaten by police

Police clubbed protesters and dragged them into waiting buses in response to a defiant demonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President Vladimir Putin's hometown.

CNN

Iran ready for strike in Gulf states

The Age

Obama, Clinton mark infamous civil rights clash

The top two Democratic presidential contenders fought for the support of African-American voters in a place infamous for a bloody clash between voting rights protesters and police.

CNN

Battling back for black votes

Newsday

Afghan, U.S. reports on firefight differ

An explosives-rigged minivan crashed into a convoy of Marines that U.S. officials said also came under fire from militant gunmen. Up to 10 people were killed and 34 wounded as the convoy made a frenzied escape.

Yahoo! News

Two British soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Times

U.S. troops enter Shiite stronghold of Sadr City

Hundreds of U.S. soldiers entered the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in the first major push into the area since an American-led security sweep began last month around Baghdad.

MSNBC

Maliki warns insurgents of wider crackdown

Reuters

Sects slice up Iraq as U.S. troops 'surge' misfires

Observer

Beijing increases defense spending

International Herald Tribune

Suspect in dismemberment slaying arrested

A man suspected of killing and dismembering his wife was captured as he fled searchers, running through snow in northern Michigan, police said.

MSNBC

NATION

Report: Five seized with Britons are found

Several Ethiopians who were kidnapped along with five Britons touring the African country's remote northeast have been found, state media reported.

Examiner

Copenhagen rioting subsides

Copenhagen saw a third straight night of unrest as small groups of protesters threw rocks at the police and set fire to trash bins and barricades, but the clashes were not as violent as on two previous nights.

International Herald Tribune

Iran women arrested over protest

Iran's authorities have arrested more than 32 women activists protesting outside a courthouse in Tehran.

BBC

POLITICS

Former Senator Thomas Eagleton dies

Retired U.S. Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton -- a towering figure in national and state politics for half a century -- has died. He was 77.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A mass firing puts Justice on the hot seat

The firings of eight U.S. attorneys has put the heat on top Justice Department officials — and some GOP members of Congress.

Newsweek

Coulter under fire for anti-gay slur

Prominent politicians from both parties and a gay-rights group condemned right-wing commentator Ann Coulter for her reference to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as a "faggot."

CNN

SPORTS

Jackson, Pippen talk about possible comeback

Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson says he has talked to 41-year-old Scottie Pippen about making a comeback with the team.

MSNBC

Lawyer: Matthews Jr. broke no laws, set to cooperate

Gary Matthews Jr.'s lawyer says the Angels' outfielder hasn't violated any laws or major league rules even though his name surfaced in a widespread steroids investigation.

ESPN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Google moves YouTube ahead

Five months after a $1.65 billion merger, Google and YouTube have been quietly trying to make the merger successful, even while wrangling with several critical issues.

San Francisco Chronicle

Atlantis heads back to hangar for repair

Space shuttle Atlantis was removed from its seaside launch pad for repairs after a freak hailstorm battered the spaceship's fuel tank last week.

Reuters

HEALTH

Experts weigh giving up on killing polio

Nearly 20 years ago, the World Health Organization and its partners launched an ambitious program to eradicate polio by the end of the millennium, but polio still strikes about 2,000 people a year, mostly children.

Examiner

New insight into brain disorders

The function of an enzyme in the brain - strongly linked to a number of major brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder - has been identified for the first time by researchers in the UK.

Medical News Today

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Stolen Rockwell found in Spielberg collection

Norman Rockwell paintings often resonate because of their depictions of everyday life, but the life of one of his paintings has been anything but mundane.

CNN

Comedy fest names Colbert person of year

Stephen Colbert, a faux conservative who often honors himself on his Comedy Central show, was lauded by the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival as their "Person of the Year."

USA Today

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GOOD NEWS

Heart transplant patient conquers Andes climb

Kelly Perkins, a 45-year-old Californian who had a heart transplant more than a decade ago, has added a dangerous free climb in the Andes to a string of mountaineering feats.

MSNBC

Rancher digs new dinosaur species name

Not every Alberta rancher has a large reptile that roamed the earth 78 million years ago named for him. Then again, not every rancher has a new dinosaur species discovered near his home.

Calgary Sun

NATION

NAACP president quits after 19 months

NAACP President Bruce S. Gordon is quitting the civil rights organization, after just 19 months at the helm, citing growing strain with board members over the group's management style and future.

USA Today

Georgia: No plans to change signs at site of deadly crash

CBS News

Cherokees vote out slaves' descendants

Cherokee Nation members voted to revoke the tribal citizenship of an estimated 2,800 descendants of the people the Cherokee once owned as slaves.

ABC News

BUSINESS

Employment growth slowed in February: U.S. economy preview

U.S. employers hired fewer workers in February than a month earlier as the economy struggled to overcome declines in housing and manufacturing, economists say a government report will show.

Bloomberg

Paulson optimistic on U.S. economy

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says the economy is healthy, inflation seems under control and the U.S. should not perceive China as an economic enemy.

CNBC

ENVIRONMENT

U.S. projects 19 percent emissions rise

By 2020, the United States will emit almost one-fifth more gases suspected to contribute to global warming than it did in 2000, increasing the risks of drought and scarce water supplies.

Examiner

EPA proposes new regulations for trains, marine vessels

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to impose new regulations to control emission of particulates as a result of burning diesel in locomotives and marine vessels.

Earth Times

EDUCATION

The measure of learning

Can you test what colleges teach? Academics are appalled that the government wants to try.

U.S. News & World Report

Bush prods Congress on education law

President Bush, who wants his legacy engraved with his education policy, lobbied Congress to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind law — and do it this year.

Yahoo! News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Religious surge in once-atheist China surprises leaders

Chinese experts say the growing popularity of religious belief has been driven by social crises involving corruption and the expanding gap between rich and poor.

International Herald Tribune

The Gospel of Prothero

A Boston University professor argues that Americans, though 'spiritual,' are woefully ignorant about religion.

Newsweek

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