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Funeral service vehicles leave the IFEMA exhibition hall after delivering the bodies of victims of a Spanish airliner crash in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Daniel Ochoa de Olza / AP)

Tricky Tropical Storm Fay to drop even more rain on Florida

Tropical Storm Fay stalled over Florida's Space Coast, dumping torrential rains that flooded hundreds of homes. The erratic tempest then crept north toward Jacksonville.

USA Today

Jacksonville area shelters, stores ready for storm

Florida Times-Union

Fay not done with Florida yet

ABC News

When it comes to trust-busting, John McCain is no Roosevelt

John McCain broadcasts his affection for Theodore Roosevelt, but his opposition to regulating the local telephone industry suggests that he may not share the former president's trust-busting passion.

McClatchy Newspapers

Jobless claims fall 2nd straight week

The government says workers seeking unemployment fell more than expected, the second straight weekly drop from a six-year high.

Forbes

14 bodies identified as Spain mourns jet crash

Spain began three days of mourning for the 153 people who died when a jetliner crashed shortly after takeoff in the nation's worst air disaster in nearly 25 years.

MSNBC

Witnesses describe crash aftermath

BBC

Rice in Iraq to push withdrawal agreement for American troops

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew to Baghdad to set details with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for withdrawal of American troops.

CBS News

Iraqi figures back US view on low spending for reconstruction

International Herald Tribune

At least 40 killed in attack on Pakistan arms factory

At least 40 people were killed in twin suicide bomb explosions at a weapons factory near Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, police said. This is the second bomb attack in the country in three days.

Bloomberg

Bad news should wake up Obama as convention approaches

Democrats watching Barack Obama say his campaign should have gotten a wake-up call with an unimpressive TV appearance and weakening poll numbers.

San Francisco Chronicle

Democratic platform calls for ethics, health care, ending the Iraq war

NY Daily News

NATION

Bush sees post-Katrina progress

President George W. Bush is to speak about "hopeful signs" of progress in New Orleans three years after massive destruction and displacement of thousands of people from Hurricane Katrina.

BBC

Ohio Congresswoman dies of aneurysm

Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress and chair of the House Ethics Committee, died of a brain hemorrhage. She was 58.

TIME

Census: Women having fewer babies

In the last 30 years, the number of women age 40 to 44 with no children has doubled, from 10 percent to 20 percent. Mothers have an average of 1.9 children each.

Time

POLITICS

McCain won't ask GOP to change its opposition to abortion

John McCain's campaign is backing away from his previously stated goal of changing the GOP’s platform on abortion.

ABC News

DNC calls for probe of McCain public funds withdrawal

The Hill

McCain and Obama - a tale of five (well, four) polls

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

The VP picks: good and bad

NPR

Rudy Giuliani will give keynote address at GOP convention

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani will give the keynote address at the Republican National Convention next month.

San Francisco Chronicle

BUSINESS

Microsoft launches 3D photo program

Photosynth is a free service for people to upload their own photos to create "synths" — scenes that automatically position groups of images as they would appear in real life.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Five financial costs of American obesity

The obese are more susceptible to an array of health problems, but poor health isn't the only way Americans pay for all that extra weight, there's also a hefty financial price attached.

Newsweek

Companies try part-time layoffs

Employers are laying people off for part of the workweek to retain experienced workers for when business pick back up again.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Marine turtle Indian Ocean conservation moves into high gear

An innovative regional agreement in Bali and Bangkok is beginning to turn the tide for the "ancient mariners" of the world's oceans.

Environmental News Network

Catalyst produces higher yield hydrogen from biofuels

A new catalyst makes hydrogen from ethanol with 90 percent yield, at a workable temperature using inexpensive ingredients.

Environmental News Network

EDUCATION

Student shot, killed in Knoxville, Tenn. high school

A law enforcement official says a 16-year-old student has died after a shooting in a Knoxville, Tennessee, high school cafeteria.

CNN

Paddling in schools

Houston Chronicle

Lower drinking age proposal criticized

As college students gear up to go back to school, a group of university presidents across the country are pushing for a national debate over whether the drinking age should be lowered from 21 to 18.

MSNBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column:

The falling oil price is a lull in the storm

Financial Times

Column:

Read the label ... then be very skeptical

MSNBC

Editorial:

Should we lower the legal drinking age?

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

McCain wants to reinstitute the draft

AlterNet

Column:

How anti-intellectualism is destroying America

AlterNet

Column:

Why I hate beauty

Psychology Today

Column:

John McCain's summer of slime

Salon.com

Column:

The education of John McCain

International Herald Tribune

Column:

The real China threat

Newsweek

Column:

Sayonara, superdelegates

Salon.com

Editorial:

No end in sight

New York Times

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GOOD NEWS

Amputee inspires in Olympic debut

Hoping to contend for a medal, a 24-year-old South African amputee fell off the pace toward the end of the grueling 6.2-mile race and finished 16th in the first open-water race in Olympic history.

MSNBC

Motorcycles designed to run on air

We may be driving on air in the next few years. That is, we may be driving vehicles powered by compressed air, instead of gasoline or diesel fuel.

Discovery

WORLD

Russia will go 'beyond diplomatic protests' over US-Poland missile deal

Russia's foreign ministry threatened to go beyond diplomatic protests over a U.S.-Polish deal to base American missiles in Poland, which borders part of Russia.

ABC News

NATO: Russia not honoring cease-fire