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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales during this week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo by Susan Walsh / AP)

Study: 1 in 3 Native American women will be raped

Native American women are two and a half times more likely to be sexually assaulted than other women, and a Justice Department study found that one in three will be raped in her lifetime.

NPR

FBI director contradicts Gonzales' testimony

The head of the FBI contradicted Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' sworn testimony and Senate Democrats requested a perjury investigation in a fresh barrage against President Bush's embattled friend and aide.

Yahoo! News

Senators call for Gonzales perjury probe

NPR

Army to punish officers in Tillman case

ABC News has learned that seven Army officers will receive career-ending administrative punishments for mishandling the Pat Tillman case.

ABC News

South Korean hostage pleads for help

A South Korean woman held hostage along with 21 fellow aid workers by Taliban militants in Afghanistan begged for help during a phone interview, CBS television said.

France24

Taliban's new leader promises more kidnappings

Telegraph.co.uk

Reports of sabotage, drinking hit NASA

NASA was shaken by two startling, but unrelated, reports: one of sabotage of a space station computer, and another of astronauts getting drunk before blasting off into space.

CTV

NASA reviews astronaut health

CBS News

Car bomb kills 25, wounds 115 others in central Baghdad

A parked car bomb killed 25 people and wounded 115 when it exploded near an intersection in central Baghdad and police said the toll was likely to rise as many bodies were still buried under rubble.

Reuters

Crisis warning on Iraq refugees

BBC

British PM's first meeting with Bush holds promise and risks

When Gordon Brown visits the Camp David presidential retreat, both sides are expected to shelve their differences in service of the larger relationship.

International Herald Tribune

NATION

BBC exposes Bulgarian baby trade

Babies are being illegally offered for sale in Bulgaria with the promise of smuggling them abroad, an undercover BBC News team has discovered.

BBC

Thailand threatens state of emergency if protests escalate

Thailand's defense minister warned that the military-backed government could impose a state of emergency in Bangkok if more violence breaks out at anti-coup protests.

Forbes

Thai coup protest leaders detained on court order

Reuters

POLITICS

Clinton, Obama in war of words over 'rogue leaders'

The bid for the White House between leading Democratic hopefuls Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Hillary Clinton, D-New York is turning ugly.

CNN

Obama says Clinton has foreign policy like Bush's

Reuters

McCain's media team quits his campaign

Sen. John McCain's advertising consultants have resigned from his presidential campaign, the latest in a rash of staff shake-ups in recent weeks.

Yahoo! News

Romney, McCain lash out at Democrats

MLive.com

BUSINESS

Devil of a day for the Dow

A tidal wave of worry about housing and credit markets swept over Wall Street, sending the Dow industrials tumbling 311 points in its second-biggest point loss of the year.

CNNMoney

Depressed housing market

CBS News

Google and eBay fight phone companies

Internet companies are lobbying the FCC to open up wireless networks to new applications and devices. If they win, we could all have cheaper, better, more wonderful cellphones.

Salon.com

SPORTS

Michael Vick pleads not guilty in dogfighting case

NFL star Michael Vick and three co-defendants all pleaded not guilty to federal charges stemming from an alleged dog fighting operation.

USA Today

Vick's attorney: 'These are mere allegations'

MSNBC

Rasmussen thrown off Tour de France

Michael Rasmussen, leader of the Tour de France, was withdrawn from the race and dismissed by his sponsor, Rabobank, when doubts over his ethical credibility peaked with accusations he lied to his team.

Times Online

HEALTH

China shuts plants that produced tainted medicine, pet food

Ahead of high-level visits by U.S. and European officials, China moved to sharpen its product safety image, shutting down a chemical plant linked to dozens of deaths in Panama and North America.

CNN

Tainted medicine in Panema

CNN

Officials seek airline passengers in new tuberculosis scare

A Taiwanese man with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis took two flights to reach China last week, prompting a hunt for passengers who traveled with him, officials said.

International Herald Tribune

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Egypt's religious advisor says Muslims can choose own religion

Egypt's official religious advisor ruled that Muslims are free to change their faith as it is a matter between an individual and God, in a move which could have far-reaching implications for Christians.

Africasia

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GOOD NEWS

Boy sells lemonade to get service dog

Mark Rinkel is spending his summer selling lemonade to raise money for his 9-year-old brother, who has Type I diabetes. He is in line for a service dog that would alert him if his sugar levels drop.

WSBTV

Treasure trove 'found by octopus'

An octopus with a porcelain plate stuck to its suckers has led to the discovery of a hoard of ancient pottery, South Korean scientists say.

BBC

NATION

'A frightening time'

Detroit's July 1967 race riots burned more than just cities. They seared disquieting memories into the psyches of those who experienced the era.

MLive.com

Remembering the riots: Detroit 40 years later

NPR

Nifong admits: no crime in lacrosse case

Former prosecutor Mike Nifong acknowledged there is "no credible evidence" that the three Duke lacrosse players committed any crimes, offering, for the first time, a complete apology.

Yahoo! News

Judge: FBI framed 4 men for murder

A federal judge ordered the government to pay more than $101 million in the case of four men who spent decades in prison for a 1965 murder after the FBI withheld evidence of their innocence.

WRAL

ENVIRONMENT

Can 'green chic' save the planet?

Ecofriendly buying choices alone can't sustain America's lifestyle, experts warn, unless "looking green" becomes "voting green."

Christian Science Monitor

A green living

MSNBC

Worst of hurricane season still to come

Nearly eight weeks have passed since the last tropical storm, but banish any notion the 2007 hurricane season has been unusually slow and beware the coming months, experts say.

AOL News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Career crisis for Lohan and Spears after new disgraces

Two of Hollywood’s notoriously hard-living bad girls have crashed and burned once again, this time raising questions whether their careers will ever recover.

Belfast Telegraph

Experts: Lohan, Spears making mockery of rehab

CNN

Who can save Lindsay Lohan?

Yahoo! News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

ConnectU gets little encouragement from Facebook case judge

ConnectU's court case against rival social networking site Facebook doesn't seem to be going too well, with the judge noting a paucity of evidence.

iTWire

Mapmaking for the masses, online

With the help of simple tools from Internet companies, millions of people are reshaping mapmaking and creating a new kind of atlas.

International Herald Tribune

MySpace deletes more sex offenders

The website MySpace – popular with teens but feared by parents – says it has deleted 29,000 members it found to be convicted sex offenders.

Consumer Affairs

EDUCATION

‘Noor’ — an ode to religious tolerance

Renowned contemporary Islam scholar Akbar Ahmed’s first theatrical drama, “Noor,” was part of Theater J’s “Voices From a Changing Middle East” series in Washington DC.

Daily Times

Rise in student debt is driving action on the Hill

The Senate voted 95-0 to boost the amount of federal aid that a low-income student can receive, as well as eliminate some conflicts of interest for the student-loan industry.

Christian Science Monitor

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