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CIA's destruction of tapes will likely spur lawsuits

The Central Intelligence Agency's admission that it destroyed at least two videotapes of harsh interrogations of terror suspects has caused an uproar and seems almost certain to lead to legal challenges.

Christian Science Monitor

Congress calls for hearings about CIA tapes

NPR

CIA, interrogation and videotape

Reuters

State Dep. inspector general resigns

State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard submitted his resignation, forced out for allegedly impeding ongoing criminal investigations into the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and Blackwater.

McClatchy Newspapers

Counties try to cut greenhouse gases

USA Today

Storm spares California

A Pacific Northwest storm blew through southern California without causing much damage or delivering the feared mudslides, but dropped up to two feet of snow in Nevada and Colorado.

CBS News

Special section:

Ski report

Denver Post

Gunman's suicide note, images released

Investigators released surveillance footage showing the prelude to Robert Hawkins' pre-suicide assault on holiday shoppers at an Omaha mall. Eight people were fatally shot before Hawkins committed suicide.

ABC News

Victims of Omaha shootings mourned

MSNBC

Gates: Persian Gulf countries must work together to counter Iranian threat

Persian Gulf nations must demand that Iran come clean about its past nuclear ambitions and openly vow to not develop such weapons in the future, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.

Globeandmail.com

EU and African leaders accused of ignoring Darfur crisis

EU and African leaders arriving for a summit in Lisbon, Portugal, were accused by parliamentarians and human rights groups of trying to sweep human rights issues under the carpet.

Guardian

Special section:

EU-Africa: the key issues

BBC

NATION

Chrysler recalls 600,000 trucks and vans

Chrysler LLC said it is recalling nearly 600,000 Dodge trucks and vans to address concerns that the vehicles could shift out of park without the key in the ignition.

CBS News

Neighbors shun MySpace hoax family

The suicide of a teenage girl, and allegations she had been tormented by a neighbor over the Internet, have brought a reaction that is old in its nature.

CNN

Threat of mudslides, flooding in Calif.

A Pacific Northwest storm blew through Southern California without causing much damage, but officials warned that the threat of mudslides and flooding continued.

Guardian

POLITICS

Romney says his White House bid not defined by Mormon faith

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivered a passionate speech in defense of his Mormon and religious values.

San Francisco Chronicle

Obama counts on voters to tune in as Winfrey hits campaign trail

Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, usually the home of the University of South Carolina football team, is getting ready for Oprah Winfrey and Sen. Barack Obama.

CNN

House, Senate negotiators propose ban on waterboarding by CIA

CIA agents would be banned from simulating drowning, or waterboarding, in questioning suspected terrorists under legislation agreed to by House and Senate negotiators, lawmakers said.

Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Ex-Microsoft domain manager accused of stealing $1 million

Carolyn Gudmundson, who was responsible for managing and registering Microsoft's Internet domain names, has been indicted on allegations of stealing more than $1 million from Microsoft and Expedia.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Macrovision to buy Gemstar-TV Guide; shares fall

Macrovision Inc., a maker of technology to protect against unauthorized copying of entertainment content, said it would buy Gemstar-TV Guide Inc. for $2.8 billion in cash and stock.

MarketWatch

Bush's bad mortgage medicine

The Bush administration's plan to rescue the housing market and keep the economy from slipping into recession has risks: It could deepen and lengthen the credit crisis.

Forbes

SPORTS

Torn knee ligament could force Bush out for season

New Orleans Saints tailback Reggie Bush will not require surgery to repair a partially torn ligament in his left knee, but he is likely to miss the rest of the season.

ESPN

Ex-prosecutors predict jail time for Bonds

Barry Bonds has walked more times than any batter in baseball history. Walking away from his legal troubles figures to be a much tougher task.

USA Today

Barry Bonds pleads not guilty

CBS News

Tebow wins Maxwell and Davey O'Brien

Tim Tebow stopped off in central Florida on the way to the Heisman Trophy presentation and picked up the Maxwell and Davey O'Brien awards.

Sporting News

HEALTH

Autism linked to brain protein

New autism research shows that a certain brain protein may affect brain development, and possibly nudge the brain toward autism.

WebMD

Ban on students without mumps shots

The University of Southern Maine began notifying more than 400 students that they're being banned from campus for failing to meet the latest vaccination requirements for mumps.

Yahoo! News

The season for sickness

ABC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Cuba apologizes for police raid on church

Cuban officials have apologized to the Roman Catholic Church for a police raid on a parish church in eastern Cuba to arrest dissidents, the Archbishop of Santiago said.

Reuters

Televangelist refuses to turn over more financial documents

Georgia televangelist Creflo Dollar is refusing to turn over any more financial documents to the Senate Finance Committee, even though they are overdue.

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Boy wins $10,000 for toy roller coaster

Ian Culhane won $10,000 for designing a 7-foot-tall toy roller coaster. Not bad for a 10-year-old boy. His creation was on display at the Toys R Us store in Times Square, where he accepted the prize.

Denver Post

WORLD

Kosovo talks end without a deal

Mediators in talks between Kosovo and Serbia have concluded that no agreement can be reached on Kosovo's final status ahead of a U.N. deadline.

BBC

Kosovo: a divided land

Times Online

Tons of oil spill into Yellow Sea

Thousands of tons of oil spilled into the Yellow Sea off the western coast of South Korea after an oil tanker collided with a barge carrying a crane, the Maritime Ministry of Korea reported.

CNN

Raw footage of Korean oil spill

Yahoo! News

Russia unconvinced on Iran sanctions

Russia ignored Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's calls for new U.N. sanctions to be imposed on Iran over its nuclear program.

Associated Press

ENVIRONMENT

Brazil deforestation slows again

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest fell by 20 percent between August 2006 and July 2007, according to interim figures released by the Brazilian government.

BBC

Indigenous water frogs under threat

Indigenous water frogs can be crowded out by immigrant or imported species. This is the finding of a Franco-German study.

Science Daily

Senate rejects far-reaching energy bill

There's still hope the nation may get a nice green-energy law for Christmas, but not the one environmentalists wanted. Yet, a slimmed-down version that includes fuel economy and biofuel provisions.

Christian Science Monitor

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Led Zeppelin ready for reunion concert

When the diviners of rock 'n' roll classics reunite for their first full concert in almost three decades, the question on everyone's mind is: How many more times?

Baltimore Sun

Michelangelo 'last sketch' found

A sketch by Michelangelo for the dome of St. Peter's Basilica has been discovered in the Vatican archives, the Vatican newspaper says.

BBC

Walters dubs Rowling most fascinating person of 2007

Barbara Walters has unveiled her annual “Most Fascinating Person” list and “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling has been crowned the winner.

MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Hackers launch cyberattack on US labs

A "sophisticated cyberattack" has been detected at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee over the last several weeks, and authorities suspect the hackers are based in China.

ABC News

Dwarf hippo fossils found

A collapsed cave filled with the fossilized remains of extinct dwarf hippopotamuses may hold clues about early human activity on the island of Cyprus, according to Cypriot and Greek scientists.

National Geographic

New fabric resists bomb blasts

Zetix is a remarkable fabric from Auxetix Ltd. It can resist multiple bomb blasts without tearing. It is a member of a class of fabrics called auxetics that actually become thicker when stretched out.

LiveScience

EDUCATION

Teacher charged with offering to trace body part

Prosecutors say a California high school history teacher is facing misdemeanor charges for allegedly offering to trace his penis on a piece of paper for two 15-year-old female students.

San Jose Mercury News

Bronx charter school spent thousands on staff retreats, audit shows

A Bronx charter school spent nearly $68,000 on "staff development" retreats in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic, a scathing new audit shows.

NY Daily News

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