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President Bush speaks at a White House sponsored conference on energy security and climate change at the State Department in Washington. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

Girl seen on sex tape found safe

A young girl who was seen being sexually assaulted in a homemade videotape has been found and is safe with relatives and sheriff's officials, an investigator said.

ABC News

Police name 'person of interest' in sex tape case

CNN

Blackwater guards killed 16 as U.S. touted progress in Iraq

Blackwater's contractors have killed or wounded at least 43 people in eight days in Baghdad. Its snipers also killed three guards at an Iraqi TV station earlier this year.

McClatchy Newspapers

First images from Blackwater incident

ABC News

GM will kick in $35B to UAW fund; union leaders OK deal

Local union leaders endorsed a tentative agreement between General Motors and the United Auto Workers requiring GM to pay at least $35 billion for retiree health care and promising future work at U.S. plants.

USA Today

Divisions show at start of U.S. climate meeting

President Bush's climate meeting opened with its main problem on full display: The biggest polluters say their economies are more important than global warming.

Akron Beacon Journal

Myanmar crowds taunt troops

Crowds taunted and cursed security forces that barricaded central Yangon to try to prevent more mass protests against Myanmar's 45 years of military rule and deepening economic hardship.

Reuters

Satellite images expose ethnic cleansing in Burma

Times Online

Myanmar breaks up rallies, cuts Internet

Yahoo! News

House cuts transgender people from hate crimes bill

The Senate passed a hate crimes bill sought for a decade by gays and lesbians, yet House Democratic leaders decided to strip transgender people from another long-languishing civil rights bill.

San Francisco Chronicle

World powers hold fire on further sanctions for Iran

Major world powers working to rein in Iran's nuclear ambitions said they would wait for two key reports in November before deciding on whether to push for a third round of U.N. sanctions on Tehran.

AFP

NATION

U.S. offers attorneys to 'high value' Gitmo detainees

Fourteen "high value" terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison have been offered the right to ask for attorneys, the Pentagon said.

USA Today

Special section:

Profile: Key U.S. terror suspects

BBC

Ravine crash case shows difficulty of finding missing adults

Thousands of people are reported missing each year in the United States, and police say searching for adults can be particularly difficult, because it's hard to tell whether the person wants to be found.

CNN

POLITICS

Bush, Clinton, Bush ... Clinton?

Forty percent of Americans have never lived when there wasn't a Bush or a Clinton in the White House. Anyone got a problem with that?

Yahoo! News

For voters, 'tough' now trumps 'nice'

Going into a recent Democratic presidential debate, the big question was whether Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois would get tough on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Why the dollar is a 98-lb. weakling

Does a falling greenback mean the end is near for the U.S.? No, but change is coming, and it won't be pretty.

TIME

Will the Federal Reserve’s cut slash your wallet?

MSNBC

Green IT strategies stifled by inertia

Almost half of IT executives — 42 percent — admit their company does not monitor IT-related energy spending.

CNET News

Consumer spending tops forecasts

Consumer spending stayed strong despite the problems in mortgage and real estate markets that some feared would put a brake on Americans' willingness to open their wallets.

CNNMoney

HEALTH

Report assails FDA oversight of trials

The Food and Drug Administration does very little to ensure the safety of the millions of people who participate in clinical trials, a federal investigator has found.

Ledger

15 percent of women struggle with pregnancy-related depression

One in seven women suffers from depression before, during or after pregnancy, a new study finds.

HealthDay

SPORTS

Howard, Burrell help Phils tie Mets for NL East lead

After 159 games, the Philadelphia Phillies are finally atop the division standings — albeit tied with the free-falling New York Mets.

USA Today

Pujols, Cards send fading Mets to 4th straight loss

ESPN

Bad decisions equal net loss for U.S. women's team

We've come to expect a lot of our women's national soccer team. Victories, grit and — at the very least — competence. We didn't get that in the Women's World Cup semifinal game.

San Jose Mercury News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholic theologians fear loss of intellectual freedom

Some Catholic thinkers worry the Vatican is more concerned with unity than messy debates that can lead to new ideas.

USA Today

Sect leader's conviction unlikely to stifle polygamy

Utah has 37,000 residents living polygamous lifestyles. The state's top lawyer says he won't prosecute them just for having multiple spouses.

Seattle Times

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GOOD NEWS

MDs launch network to treat sickle cell

A network of health care professionals and researchers from more than 30 states is working to improve the sickle cell landscape so it better addresses the needs of adult patients.

CBS News

Bono receives Liberty Medal in Philly

Accepting the Liberty Medal for his humanitarian work in Africa, Bono exhorted Americans to keep working to solve the world's problems and spoke of those who are without freedom.

Associated Press

WORLD

Musharraf cleared to seek re-election

The Pakistani president, General Pervez Musharraf, was cleared by the country's supreme court to stand for re-election next month.

Guardian

Latin America welcomes Ahmadinejad

After a visit to New York, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has embarked on a tour of Latin America where it looks assured he'll receive a much warmer reception.

Christian Science Monitor

Iraqi leader rejects division of nation

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki rejected a U.S. Senate proposal calling for the decentralization of Iraq's government, calling it a "catastrophe."

St. Petersburg Times

Blog:

Congress quietly approves billions more for Iraq war

The Nation

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Arctic thaw may be at 'tipping point'

A record melt of Arctic summer sea ice this month may be a sign that global warming is reaching a critical trigger point that could accelerate the northern thaw, some scientists say.

Reuters

In hot water: ice age defrosted by warming ocean, not rise in CO2

Warmer waters in the deep Pacific triggered the end of the last ice age, preceding the rise in greenhouse gas levels.

Scientific American

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Madonna tops rock hall nominees list

Here’s something Madonna can celebrate: A nomination to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Madge joins John Mellencamp, the Beastie Boys and Donna Summer among the nine nominees for the hall.

MSNBC

The Darjeeling Limited

"Darjeeling Limited," a tale of filial love and family baggage, is Wes Anderson's most heartfelt feature film yet. Its companion short, "Hotel Chevalier," is nearly perfect.

Salon.com

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New wisdom on wisdom teeth

A study in the journal Nature finds these annoying teeth may only exist because of a weakness in a developmental mechanism that allows them to cram their way into the back of the jaw.

LiveScience

Mammoth hair produces DNA bounty

A rapid technique for isolating DNA in hair has yielded a mass of new information about woolly mammoths.

BBC

EDUCATION

The crossroads of history: America's best black colleges

Black colleges today increasingly have to compete with other institutions for prize pupils.

U.S. News & World Report

Schools both scrutinize and promote studying abroad

Concerns over travel 'perks' lead to a clarification of funding behind increasingly popular overseas programs.

Christian Science Monitor

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