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Mission specialist Alvin Drew Jr., left, mission specialist Barbara Morgan, center, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Dave Williams, right, wave as the STS-118 crew leaves the Operations and Checkout Building on their way to Launch Pad 39A and Space Shuttle Endeavour. (Photo by Alan Diaz / AP)

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Mine owner says contact with miners in 2 days

Six miners trapped 1,500 feet underground in a collapsed mine in Utah should be reached in two days with holes drilled to provide air, communication and water, mine co-owner Robert Murray said.

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Reuters

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Drill moving toward miners

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CNN

U.S. military: Baghdad air strikes kill 30

U.S. air strikes killed what the U.S. military said were 30 militants suspected of involvement in transporting deadly roadside bombs from Iran.

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Reuters

Space shuttle Endeavour rockets into orbit

The 11-day mission will deliver 5,000 pounds of cargo, spare parts and hardware to the Space Station. The spaceflight may also be extended pending the success of a new station-to-shuttle power transfer system.

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Space.com

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NASA prepares for launch, remembers Challenger

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NPR

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First look: teacher in space

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CBS News

U.S. sweating from Midwest to East Coast

Much of the nation continued to sweat under oppressive heat, made worse by high humidity, that stretched from the Midwest to the East Coast.

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ABC News

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Summer scorcher USA

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CBS News

Musharraf pulls out of peace council

Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf pulled out from a council of hundreds of Pakistani and Afghan tribal leaders aimed at reining in militant violence.

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TIME

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Pakistan's Musharraf bows out of Afghanistan talks

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NATION

Hunger, disease stalk children hit by South Asia floods

Millions of malnourished Indian children are vulnerable to disease after South Asia's worst floods in years, officials and aid groups said, calling for urgent assistance.

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Reuters

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Fears for South Asia flood victims

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BBC

Abbas rules out talks with Hamas until Gaza returned

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas insisted there would be no dialogue with Hamas until the Islamists return Gaza to his legitimate authority after seizing the territory in June.

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Daily Star

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Gaza 'isolated' from Hamas

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BBC

Powerful earthquake hits Indonesia

A powerful earthquake under the Java Sea shook Indonesia's capital, violently shaking tall buildings and panicking residents.

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Guardian

POLITICS

Bush treated for Lyme disease last year

Doctors treated President Bush last August for a rash that was "consistent with early, localized Lyme disease," according to a medical summary the White House just released.

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USA Today

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Bush declared 'fit for duty'

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MSNBC

Unions move slowly in backing a Democrat

In a campaign that has started earlier than ever, one powerful group trying not to get swept up in the heat of the moment is organized labor.

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Yahoo! News

BUSINESS

Oil seesaws on drop in crude supplies

Oil prices seesawed after government said supplies of crude showed a big decrease, refining activity fell, and gasoline stocks slid unexpectedly.

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CNNMoney

Former Brocade chief convicted for backdating

The conviction of Gregory Reyes, the former chief executive of Brocade Communications Systems, in America's first stock options backdating trial sends a powerful signal to other executives.

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Times Online

SPORTS

Behind the bamboo curtain

One year from the start of the 2008 Olympics, there's a China they want you to see... and one that they don't.

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ESPN

Lucky New Yorker winds up with Bonds' 756th homer

Matt Murphy, a 21-year-old college student, emerged from a mad scramble at AT&T Park with a bloodied face and the city's most-prized souvenir: the ball from Barry Bonds' record 756th home run.

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Sports Illustrated

HEALTH

Once-promising stroke drug fails in trial

An experimental, emergency-use stroke drug that gave patients a modest but definite benefit in one trial has shown no effect at all in a new trial.

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Health Day

Seeking 'thinspiration'

Pro-anorexia websites offering tips on extreme dieting are nothing new, but their growth on social networking sites is a disturbing new twist and brings them within reach of a wider audience.

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BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Mitt Romney: proudly, quietly Mormon

The highlights of Mitt Romney's résumé are well known. But there's a fourth point that he does not advertise: 12 years in top leadership positions in the Boston-area Mormon community.

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Christian Science Monitor

Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney drops school fidelity vows

The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney has withdrawn plans to have 167 school officials commit publicly to a "vow of fidelity" by adhering to church teaching on homosexuality and birth control.

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Sydney Morning Herald

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GOOD NEWS

Supermarket to offer free antibiotics

Seven popular antibiotics will be available for free from Publix supermarkets for people with prescriptions, the company and Gov. Charlie Crist said.

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BusinessWeek

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Free antibiotics at Publix

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WJZ

Purple Heart hall marks anniversary

Gen. George Washington created a heart-shaped award made from purple fabric as his battle-weary troops camped here 225 years ago.

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Newsday

NATION

Official: suspect ID Near in N.J. Deaths

Police used the help of the lone survivor of the execution-style killings of three college students to get close to identifying at least one suspect, city officials said.

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Guardian

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Authorities searching for witnesses in N.J. murders

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KYW

Angry men get ahead while angry women penalized: study

A man who gets angry at work may well be admired for it but a woman who shows anger in the workplace is liable to be seen as "out of control" and incompetent, according to a new study.

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Reuters

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Women condemned for anger at work

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NPR

What some airlines are doing to reduce record delays

JetBlue has extended its flying day to allow flight schedules time to recover from delays. Southwest Airlines has created a new early-warning system to detect holdups.

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Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

Requiem for a freshwater dolphin

During six weeks of searching the Yangtze River, scientists did not spot the creature. The animal is officially extinct because, even if some are still alive, there are not enough to perpetuate the species.

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Scientific American

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Chinese dolphin 'now extinct'

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BBC

Study shows pollution closes record number of U.S. beaches

The number of U.S. beaches declared unsafe for swimming reached a record last year, with more than 25,000 cases where shorelines were closed, an environmental group reported.

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Environmental News Network

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

French teen detained over Harry Potter

A determined French 16-year-old accomplished a mystifying feat in translating all 759 pages of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" within days of its July 21 release and posting it online.

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Yahoo! News

Van Halen reunion tour planned; Roth on board to perform

The on-again, off-again relationship between David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen is apparently on again. Billboard Magazine says Van Halen will have a reunion tour.

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ABC7

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Van Halen to reunite

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Is the 'out of Africa' theory out?

An examination of more than 5,000 teeth from early human ancestors shows that many of the first Europeans probably came from Asia.

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Scientific American

4th-generation pig cloned in Japan

A Japanese geneticist said his research team created the world's first fourth-generation cloned pig, an achievement that could help scientists in medical and other research.

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Guardian

EDUCATION

Ex-boyfriend admits to killing NYU student

The boyfriend of a New York University student found dead in her apartment is in custody after apparently trying to kill himself and implicating himself in the murder, police said.

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Newsday

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Suspect in NYU student murder attempts suicide

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WCBS

Calif. schools must provide help for students with diabetes

The state Department of Education will inform school districts across California that they must have staff to help students with insulin shots and other needs associated with students with diabetes.

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San Jose Mercury News

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Iraqi kindergarten: smiles, vows to fight

A report issued by UNICEF, the United Nations' children organization, says Iraq's children are "caught up in a rapidly worsening humanitarian tragedy."

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Children swim on a flooded street, in suburban Makati, south of Manila, Philippines, as residents continue with their daily chores. Heavy downpour caused by Tropical Storm Pabuk and a new storm brewing off the country's northeast, flooded many streets in the metropolis, forcing schools to close and leaving commuters stranded. (Photo by Pat Roque / AP)

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