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Law enforcement personnel stop a car at the main gate of Delaware State University in Dover, Del. Two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, at Delaware State University and the campus was locked down as police searched for a gunman. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster / AP)

Columbia won't call off speech by Iran's president

Columbia University said it does not plan to call off a speech by Iran's president despite pressure from critics including the City Council speaker, who called it a forum for "hate-mongering vitriol."

Houston Chronicle

Iran's president not welcome at WTC

CBS News

Court: 'Jena 6' defendant to stay in jail

CNN

With scars that will never heal, one woman fights human trafficking

Thousands of women from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe looking for work in the West have found that organizations they used for travel arrangements had criminal intentions in mind.

International Herald Tribune

Police questioning student in shooting

CNN

Columbine memorial set for dedication

KCNC

1 million Chinese-made cribs recalled

About 1 million Simplicity and Graco cribs are being recalled after three children became entrapped in their cribs and died of suffocation, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said.

CBS News

Crib deaths prompt massive recall

MSNBC

Court urges Sudan war crimes arrest

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court urged world leaders to press Sudan to arrest one of its ministers for alleged war crimes.

Al Jazeera

U.N. calls for arrests in Sudan

BBC

Plane crashes on busy interstate

A small plane crashed on the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 between Commercial Boulevard and Cypress Creek Road.

Local10.com

Plane crashes into N.C. restaurant; 1 killed

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NATION

MIT student arrested for fake bomb at Logan airport

An MIT student who walked into Logan International Airport allegedly wearing a fake bomb strapped to chest was arrested at gunpoint, officials said.

WBZ

Tornado strikes central Florida

Severe weather, including a possible tornado, damaged about 50 homes, shearing the entire second story off one home, authorities said.

Canadian Press

Tornado tragedy: frustration and sorrow

WCBS

War’s at-home impact falls hard on relative few

Scores of readers of msnbc.com’s Gut Check America project wrote of loved ones who repeatedly deployed to the combat zone or languished there months after their deployments were to have ended.

MSNBC

POLITICS

Elizabeth Edwards bashes Hillary's healthcare plan

Elizabeth Edwards accused Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton of copying the health care plan outlined more than seven months ago by her husband, John.

Associated Press

Democrats' toughest out-of-Iraq plan defeated in Senate

A Democratic antiwar proposal that would have cut off funding for combat in Iraq by next June was blocked 70-28 in the Senate.

McClatchy Newspapers

BUSINESS

Wall Street set for gains

Wall Street stocks were set for a higher start, buoyed by some upbeat earnings results, while bond yields were steady and the dollar remained under pressure.

Financial Times

Bernanke says Fed will develop new loan rules this year

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke told lawmakers that the central bank is "actively working" to avoid a repeat of the subprime-mortgage rout.

Bloomberg

Wage wars

Workers — from truck drivers to stockbrokers — are winning huge overtime lawsuits, raising fundamental questions about the modern workplace.

BusinessWeek

HEALTH

Merck's experimental AIDS vaccine fails

A promising experimental AIDS virus vaccine has failed in a crucial experiment, with volunteers becoming infected with HIV anyway, leading the drug developer to halt the study.

ABC News

Congress acts to improve drug safety

Congress overhauled the government's drug-safety system, giving the Food and Drug Administration sweeping new powers to better protect patients from harm caused by drugs such as Vioxx.

Baltimore Sun

Bush challenges Democrats over kids' health bill

President Bush vowed to veto a reported deal in Congress to expand a children's health-care program, accusing Democrats of wanting to send him the legislation to score "political points in Washington."

CNN

SPORTS

Landis fallout: Pereiro named '06 Tour de France champ

Cycling's governing body, declared Spanish cyclist Oscar Pereiro the winner of the 2006 Tour de France, after arbitrators upheld test results showing that Floyd Landis used synthetic testosterone.

USA Today

New team, new sponsors, new number for Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Next season Dale Earnhardt Jr. will drive a Chevy with the No. 88 and Mountain Dew, Amp Energy and the Army National Guard on the side.

New York Daily News

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GOOD NEWS

Fund awards $300,000 in grants for work on sustainable rebuilding

The Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health has announced grant awards totaling $300,000 to 27 community-based organizations across the Gulf Coast region.

PNN

Mexico named as best place to retire

Mexico was named as the best place in the world to retire by an annual retirement index, replacing last year's winner, Panama, where real estate prices have soared.

Reuters

11-year-old bullfighter takes life by horns

KCAL

WORLD

Fujimori to be extradited

Chile's supreme court has ruled that Alberto Fujimori, the former president of Peru, will be extradited to face charges of embezzlement and human rights abuses.

Al Jazeera

A legal danger zone for Blackwater

Blackwater and other U.S. firms working in Iraq could be subject to prosecution from several quarters.

Christian Science Monitor

Burma military junta refuses to crack down on monks

Around 1,500 Buddhist monks took to the streets of Burma today for a fourth day of protests, continuing the most sustained challenge to the military junta in more than a decade.

Guardian

Mounting discontent in Burma

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Record sea ice melt this summer larger than Texas and Alaska

The Arctic sea ice shrank 1 million square miles more this summer than the average melt over 25 years, an area larger than Alaska and Texas combined, according to NASA satellite data.

San Francisco Chronicle

Cholera outbreak in Iraqi Kurdistan blamed on dirty water

The Kurdistan Regional Government's health minister has warned that cholera outbreaks in the north could spread if the government does not improve its water supply.

Environment News Service

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Dan Rather making a stand with lawsuit

A day after he filed a $70 million lawsuit against CBS for violating his contract, veteran newsman Dan Rather said that he would "absolutely not" settle purely for money.

Reuters

Broadway strike a possibility

Broadway might come to a halt this fall once talks between the Broadway stagehands' union and the producers' union hit a producers-appointed deadline at the end of the month.

Variety

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

'Jurassic Park' raptors had feathers, fossil suggests

Bumps on the forearm bone of a velociraptor fossil suggest the predators were adorned with fluffy feathers, a new study says.

National Geographic

Why stuff stinks: secret sniffed out

Our noses can quickly distinguish a pleasant smell and a stench, but until now the chemical cues that help us make such decisions had not been understood.

LiveScience

EDUCATION

Bomb threats disrupt schools around Jersey and in N.Y.

Schools are back in session, and so are the bomb scares that have become almost daily events in one school or another across the state.

The Star-Ledger

Hooked on mnemonics: a new way to conquer foreign languages?

Taking pleasure in exploring the intricacies of another tongue is hard to imagine. Unless, apparently, you stumble across the Linkword Method.

Christian Science Monitor

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

The polygamy paradox

The trial of Warren Jeffs pits the state's interest in protecting children against his claim to religious freedom.

TIME

Critics right and left protest book removals from prisons

The federal Bureau of Prisons is under pressure from members of Congress and religious groups to reverse its decision to purge the shelves of prison chapel libraries.

Ledger

Photo of the Day

An Israeli couple sit in the middle of an empty street during Yom Kippur. Many residents enjoy the streets as no traffic is permitted on the roads. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti / AP)

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