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In this file photo, President Bush, right, walks with White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, left, after McClellan announced that he was stepping down as White House press secretary. (Photo by Ron Edmonds / AP)

Parents' grief turns to rage, protests

Bereaved parents whose children were crushed to death in their classrooms have turned mourning ceremonies into protests, forcing officials to address repercussions over shoddy construction of schools.

International Herald Tribune

Quake lake mass evacuation

Yahoo! News

New aftershocks bring terror to quake-hit China

Epoch Times

Sex abuse by peacekeepers still a problem, says report

Children in Haiti, South Sudan and Ivory Coast who spoke to Save The Children reported cases of being coerced into sex, often in return for the very food or protection they were to receive.

Christian Science Monitor

Ex-spokesman McClellan blasts Bush administration

In his new book, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan offers a blistering review of the administration and concludes that his longtime boss misled the nation into an unnecessary war.

USA Today

White House: McClellan is 'disgruntled'

MSNBC

Olmert should step down amid police probe, Barak says

Prime minister Ehud Olmert should step down while police conduct an investigation into the Israeli leader's finances, defense minister Ehud Barak said.

Bloomberg

US businessman testifies he gave Olmert $150,000 over 13 years

International Herald Tribune

CIA: Killing Bin Laden won't end al Qaeda

The United States is making "a big and continual push" to capture or kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, but his demise will not end the organization's menace, CIA Director Michael Hayden said.

CBS News

Germany unveils memorial to gay victims of Holocaust

Germany unveiled a memorial to the long-ignored gay victims of the Nazi regime, a monument that also confronts visitors with an image of a same-sex couple kissing.

International Herald Tribune

NATION

Halted adoptions leave parents in limbo

Thousands of prospective U.S. parents, eager to adopt children from abroad, are in an emotional legal limbo since two of the most popular countries for international adoptions halted their programs.

CNN

Boy Scouts sue Philadephia to stay in HQ

The Boy Scouts of America's Philadelphia chapter has sued the City of Philadelphia in federal court to block the city's deadline for the scouts to open membership to gays and atheists, or vacate their headquarters.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Iowa town torn apart by deadly twister

A tornado that leveled half a town in northeast Iowa and killed seven people was the strongest to hit the state in 32 years, the National Weather Service said.

MSNBC

Scientists: Why So Many Tornadoes?

TIME

POLITICS

Candidates’ earmarkers

Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have taken stands against earmarks, but they have also relied on fundraisers and advisers who have fueled the explosion in special spending projects.

The Hill

McCain proposes trip to Iraq with Obama

Republican John McCain sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for not having been to Iraq since 2006, and said they should visit the war zone together.

CBS News

McCain campaigns with Bush, seeing pluses, minuses

Google News

Obama has turned his attention to McCain

International Herald Tribune

BUSINESS

Cable firms and Sony act to eliminate set-top boxes

Consumers will be able to buy digital televisions that allow them to receive cable service without a set-top box under an agreement announced between Sony Corp. and six of the biggest U.S. cable operators.

MarketWatch

Dow to raise prices up to 20 percent as energy costs surge

Dow Chemical Co., the largest U.S. chemical maker, will raise prices on all of its products as much as 20 percent, because of surging costs for energy and raw materials.

Bloomberg

Consumer confidence worst since '92

Conference Board's measure falls more than expected amid concerns about a weak labor market and poor business conditions.

CNNMoney

Special section:

Extreme consumerism

MSNBC

Glut of houses on the market as banks grow stricter

Financial Times

ENVIRONMENT

Hot life-forms found a mile under seafloor

Life-forms have been found a mile beneath the seafloor, doubling the maximum known depth for organisms under the ocean bottom. The discovery encourages the search for life on other planets.

National Geographic

Senate to take up climate change debate

The international fight to control climate change heads to a new arena when the Senate is to debate a bill that could cut total U.S. global warming emissions by 66 percent by 2050.

Environmental News Network

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

First-ever majority favors gay marriage

For the first time ever, a statewide survey reports a majority of Calif. voters favor gay marriage, a finding that pollsters describe as a milestone driven by younger people.

San Jose Mercury News

Networks team up to battle cancer

The big three broadcast networks will set aside an hour of prime-time to raise money for cancer research. A telethon, "Stand Up to Cancer" will air on ABC, NBC and CBS.

NY Daily News

Who gets custody of the dog is complicated, 'hotly contested'

When couples split up these days, a matter every bit as intense as who keeps the house or TV is: Who gets the pets?

USA Today

HEALTH

Kentucky university to study diet-pollution link

The University of Kentucky announced that it has received a $10 million grant to study links between the pollution and the health problems.

McClatchy Newspapers

PTSD soars among troops

Nearly 14,000 U.S. service members who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan were newly diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder, according to new statistics just made available.

Telegraph.co.uk

US soldiers' fight persists post-war

BBC

Terminally ill patients want access to experimental drugs

In an unusual alliance, Republican Sen. Sam Brownback and Democratic Rep. Diane Watson introduced legislation that would force the government to speed up its drug-approval process.

McClatchy Newspapers

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column:

Gay-rights foes may be in the minority before long

Columbus Dispatch

Column:

Weak trade week

Real Clear Politics

Column (Dean Ornish):

A plan for overweight kids

Newsweek

Column (Bernadine Healy):

How consumers can force health reform

U.S. News & World Report

Column (Jacob Weisberg):

McCain best at rock bottom

Slate

Column (Jane Lampman):

The race has religion. Is that good?

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Stephanie Zacharek):

Remembering Sydney Pollack

Salon.com

Editorial:

Mars, air, fire and water

Economist

Column (Carlos Montaner):

Will voters go for the one like them?

Real Clear Politics

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GOOD NEWS

California resident pens first novel at 98

Osmond Molarsky has been writing all his life. But it wasn't until last year that the 98-year-old California resident wrote his first novel, a contemporary political satire called "The Noah Hour."

San Francisco Chronicle

Japan to double development assistance to Africa by 2012

Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda vowed to provide agricultural assistance to African nations with an aim to double the rice production in the region by 2012.

Monsters and Critics

Obesity battle among US children may have peaked

The percentage of American children who are overweight appears to have leveled off after a 25-year increase, according to new figures that offer a glimmer of hope in an otherwise dismal battle.

Newsweek

WORLD

Calls for action as fuel prices skyrocket