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Soldiers rescue a child from a quake affected building in Beichuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Photo by Xinhua, Chen Xie / AP)

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McCain breaks with Bush administration on global warming

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Knoxville News Sentinel

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How green Is John McCain?

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TIME

Wildfires rage in Florida, residents flee

Firefighters from Marion County joined the battle to try to push back the flames that have destroyed homes and forced hundreds to flee.

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Ocala.com

China forms company to build its own jets, challenges Boeing, Airbus

China has set up a company to build large jets, challenging the dominance of Boeing and Airbus in the market for planes with 150 seats.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Death toll from China quake nears 12,000

Tens of thousands of people across southwest China remained buried beneath rubble as rescue workers struggled to reach areas cut off by a powerful earthquake that has left thousands dead.

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International Herald Tribune

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Chinese-Americans try to reach kin, friends

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San Francisco Chronicle

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China battles to free survivors

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BBC

Shiite gunmen in Baghdad ignore truce

A deal aimed at ending fighting in the Baghdad bastion of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was on the verge of collapse after gunmen launched a spate of attacks on U.S. troops.

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Reuters

Candidates play up 'clean coal'

Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are talking more about "clean coal" and less about global warming as they woo voters in West Virginia and Kentucky — the heart of the nation's coal economy.

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WV Voters Ready for Primary

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Clinton Asks West Virginians for `Big Vote' in Primary Race

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Bloomberg

Stage set for move on Detroit mayor

The Detroit City Council has crafted a path to ousting Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick by scheduling votes to launch the process of removing Kilpatrick while also asking Gov. Jennifer Granholm to expel him.

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Detroit Free Press

NATION

US drops charges against alleged '20th hijacker' in September 11 attacks

The United States has dropped charges against the alleged "20th hijacker" in the September 11th, 2001, terror attacks on the United States.

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Voice of America

Arizona police hunting for a serial predator

Police are searching for a serial predator who's been linked to four attacks on women in Phoenix and Mesa, including two unsolved killings.

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USA Today

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In pictures: US tornadoes

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BBC

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Spectacular Tornado footage taken 5/8/08 in Western Kansas

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LiveLeak

Arizona police hunting for a serial predator, kiler

Police are searching for a serial predator who's been linked to four attacks on women in Phoenix and Mesa, including two unsolved killings.

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USA Today

POLITICS

Vets have advice for Congress about fat cats (dogs, too)

Future pet food labels that indicate the number of calories per serving could help obese animals shed the extra pounds, a veterinarians' association recommended to the Food and Drug Administration.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Obama takes superdelegate lead

Sen. Barack Obama took the lead in the race for superdelegates on the eve of a contest that's expected to fall easily into Sen. Hillary Clinton's column.

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CNN

Group pushing Clinton as VP choice has ties to her campaign

A group called VoteBoth has been leading the charge for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up on the Democratic ticket.

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McClatchy Newspapers

EDUCATION

Schools say inflation puts them at risk

The school funding approved by Texas lawmakers provides no new money to cover rising costs like fuel, utilities and health insurance. Officials warn inflation could push school districts into bankruptcy.

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Houston Chronicle

State funding helps fuel preschool boom

The most recent federal statistics show that more than 1 million children were enrolled in public programs in 2005, up 63% from 1995. The rise far outpaces that of public school enrollment, up 10%.

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USA Today

Texas Tech freezes tuition

Parents and lawmakers welcomed news last week that Texas Tech University would become the first Texas school in at least five years not to raise tuition rates.

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SPORTS

Suspects in Taylor murder case won't face capital punishment

Prosecutors said they will not seek the death penalty against four people charged with murdering Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor because the accused shooter was a minor at the time of the crime.

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FOX Sports

Other priorities taking precedence to golf for Sorenstam

It is a game that most retire to, not from. Perhaps that is the surprise in Annika Sorenstam's announcement. She set a firm finish line, a time and date at which she will walk outside the ropes, never to return.

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ESPN

HEALTH

Old herb, new controversy

Ten states have recently passed laws to either criminalize or restrict the sale and possession of salvia, a hallucinogenic drug.

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Newsweek

HIV funding priority shift call

Funding for HIV prevention is being wasted on strategies which have little impact, say U.S. researchers who call for a "dramatic shift" in priorities.

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BBC

Families will make case for a vaccine-autism link in federal court

Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine as they take their case to a federal court.

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Doctor urges organ sales

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GOOD NEWS

Costa Rica plants more trees to become carbon neutral

Costa Rica will plant seven million trees in 2008 to soak up as many greenhouse gas emissions as it produces, in a bid to become the world's first carbon neutral nation, a top official said.

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Yahoo! News

Honest teen returns bag filled with $108K

When Jared Gray found a bag of cash outside the school where he works as a custodian, the 18-year-old says there was no question he would be returning the $108,000 to its rightful owners.

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WORLD

India's Jaipur blasts leave 60 killed, hundreds injured

As many as 60 people were killed and 200 injured as eight bombs exploded in the city of Jaipur, the capital of the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Bloomberg

Hackers shut down Zimbabwe website

Computer hackers have attacked the website of Zimbabwe's state-owned Herald newspaper.

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BBC

BUSINESS

Craigslist fires back at eBay with lawsuit

Among its list of accusations, Craigslist claims that eBay has engaged in unlawful and unfair competition, false advertising, trademark infringement and breaches of fiduciary duty.

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Plastic surgery can boost your career

More Americans go under the knife to move up the corporate ladder — and some say it makes sense.

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U.S. News & World Report

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Google unveils Friend Connect

Google has unveiled a preview of Friend Connect, a way to add social features to a Web site without programming. It's described as "plumbing for the rest of the Web."

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CNET News

Powerset brings the Semantic Web to Wikipedia amid Microsoft speculation

Amid speculation that Microsoft is looking to make an acquisition, Powerset launched a public beta of its Wikipedia search engine.

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CNET News

ENVIRONMENT

Daisetta, Texas sinkhole at risk of further cracking

Geologists are still keeping a close eye on the sinkhole that formed a crater as wide as 900 feet and as deep as 250 feet in Daisetta.

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Houston Chronicle

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Texas sinkhole — two football fields in size

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Drilling for oil … in downtown L.A.

Record prices are prompting oil prospectors to renew interest in drilling in L.A., where urban sprawl and environmental opponents make for one of the world's toughest oil fields.

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ABC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Illinois bill would allow detainees access to religious counselors

Two Sisters of Mercy of the Americas are among the advocates for a bill in the Illinois House of Representatives that would require that detainees have access to visits from religious ministers.

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National Catholic Reporter

The gulf that separates the sexes in Saudi Arabia

The separation between the sexes in Saudi Arabia is so extreme that it is difficult to overstate.

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International Herald Tribune

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Young Saudis ask, 'where is the love?'

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International Herald Tribune

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NBC welcomes Fallon to 'Late Night'

Get ready for "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon." NBC took the wraps off its long-rumored but — until now — confirmed post-Conan O'Brien plans for the show.

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Variety

Former girlfriends dish on Bob Dylan, John Lennon

The year was 1963. And she was Bob Dylan's girlfriend. The image of them together is one of many from a Columbia Records publicity shoot.

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CBS News

'Iron Man' still No. 1 at box office

Iron Man beat Speed Racer to the finish line of the weekend box office, according to studio estimates.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Too much sugar-free gum linked to severe weight loss

Chewing too much sugar-free gum containing the artificial sweetener sorbitol can cause diarrhea leading to potentially dangerous weight loss, German physicians report.

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The Chaiten volcano continues to churn out large amounts of ash and smoke, in a cloud that extends for thousands of miles near Futaleufu, Chile. (Photo by Ferran Majoll / AP)

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