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Republican presidential hopeful, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks to his supporters at his primary election night rally in Southfield, Mich. Romney beat McCain to win the Michigan primary. (Photo by Carlos Osorio / AP)

Iraq defense minister sees need for US until 2018

The Iraqi defense minister said his nation would not be able to take full responsibility for its internal security until 2012, nor be able on its own to defend Iraq's borders until 2018.

International Herald Tribune

Rice in Iraq for pep talk

CBS News

Bush talks to Saudi king over oil prices

President Bush nudged OPEC powerhouse Saudi Arabia and other cartel members to produce more oil, recognizing that soaring prices are straining the U.S. economy.

ABC News

How to decorate like an emir

TIME

Romney beats McCain in Michigan vote

Mitt Romney, seizing on his personal ties to a state where his father made his family's political and financial fortune, captured a must-win victory in the Michigan primary.

International Herald Tribune

Black voters snub Clinton

CNN

GOP candidates take on the auto show

Reuters

4 dead as blast hits US Embassy car

An explosion ripped through a U.S. Embassy vehicle as it traveled along a coastal highway north of Beirut, killing four Lebanese civilian bystanders, a U.S. State Department spokesman told CNN.

CNN

Bombing near US Embassy in Lebanon

Yahoo! News

NTSB likely to cite design flaws in Minneapolis bridge collapse

Federal investigators have identified a design flaw as the cause of last year's Interstate 35W Minneapolis bridge collapse that killed 13 people, a congressional official said.

Star Tribune

Plates focus of bridge collapse probe

AOL News

NATION

Cops: Teen gang made girls prostitutes

Several teenage gang members have been arrested on suspicion of forcing girls as young as 12 into a prostitution ring, police said.

San Jose Mercury News

Investigation scrutinized, search continues for killer

Police indicated that the Marine sought in the murder of a pregnant Marine had been allowed to remain free for weeks after she disappeared because of questions regarding the validity of the allegation.

ABC News

POLITICS

Bloomberg urged to run for president

Two veterans of U.S. politics launched a campaign to persuade Michael Bloomberg, New York’s mayor, to run as an independent candidate for president.

Financial Times

For election 08, youth voter turnout swells

Christian Science Monitor

Appropriation seat will be a test of the GOP on spending

House Republicans this month will face a defining moment when they fill an opening on the Appropriations Committee: appoint an anti-earmark lawmaker or risk further alienating grassroots conservatives.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Citigroup suffers $9.8 billion loss

Citigroup Inc. delivered some of the worst quarterly results in its history, reporting a nearly $10 billion loss that was much worse than Wall Street had anticipated.

CNNMoney

Citi gets $12.5 billion in cash

Baltimore Sun

Apple shares volatile ahead of Macworld

Technology shares sold off amid broad market weakness and ahead of a highly anticipated keynote address from Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs.

MarketWatch

SPORTS

Heart problem killed pitcher Joe Kennedy

Major league pitcher Joe Kennedy was afflicted with a condition that caused his heart to suddenly stop beating at his in-laws' home, when he collapsed and later died in November.

AOL News

Clemens may be OK with 'interview'

The NY Daily News reported on its Web site that after a meeting between Clemens' and government attorneys that he would agree to talk without having to be subpoenaed.

Sporting News

Congress to baseball: Play it straight

MSNBC

Hearing on steroids in baseball

Yahoo! News

HEALTH

Minor leg injuries may up clot risk

Even minor leg injuries, such as ankle sprains or pulled muscles, increase the risk of potentially life-threatening blood clots, new research suggests.

CBS News

Trial fails to show drug can lower heart attacks and strokes

A clinical trial of Zetia, a cholesterol-lowering drug prescribed to about 1 million people a week, failed to show that the drug has any medical benefits, Merck and Schering-Plough said.

Salt Lake Tribune

San Francisco General researchers follow strain of drug-resistant bacteria

S.F. General Hospital researchers first isolated a drug-resistant staph called USA300 seven years ago. With every turn, the aggressive and persistent bug keeps getting worse.

San Francisco Chronicle

New MRSA more prevalent among sexually active gay men

Medical News Today

RELIGION

Harry Potter is 'the wrong kind of hero' according to the Vatican

The Vatican condemned J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, describing the teen wizard as "the wrong kind of hero." The Vatican wrote an article in its official newspaper titled, "The double face of Harry Potter."

Daily Mail

Illuminations at Tate Modern: light cast on the power of religion

Of all the issues determining the make-up of modern Britain, one of the most crucial is surely the question of faith. So an exhibition probing the nature of belief is a promising and timely prospect.

Telegraph.co.uk

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GOOD NEWS

First lady honors museums, libraries

First lady Laura Bush paid tribute to 10 cultural institutions for their creativity and public service. She was then surprised to receive an honor for her promotion of the nation's libraries.

Seattle Times

In death, girl serves as a teacher

Last summer young Caitlyn MacKenzie died from an accidental electrocution. Now, family members say they hope her tragic death will help others learn about electrical safety.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

Israel launches lethal raids into Gaza

Israeli forces using tanks and helicopters killed 19 Palestinians in one of the most lethal raids into Gaza since the Islamic faction's takeover of the area.

London Independent

Gaza strike hardens Hamas position

Christian Science Monitor

Australia: Japan to free activists

Japan has agreed to release two activists detained after boarding a whaling ship in Antarctic waters, Australia's foreign minister said.

CNN

Genital mutilation a weapon in Kenya

For two terrifying hours, the woman crouched inside her shop, watching as a gang attacked five men in the street, pulled down their trousers and sliced their genitals with rusty machetes.

USA Today

ENVIRONMENT

Greenland suffers from extreme ice melt

An international team of scientists, led by Edward Hanna at the University of Sheffield, has demonstrated warm summers have caused the most extreme Greenland ice melting in 50 years.

Environmental News Network

Antarctic ice sheet shrinking rapidly

Globeandmail.com

Biofuel crops that destroy forests not green enough for EU

In a sign of growing concern about the impact of supposedly "green" policies, European Union officials will propose a ban on imports of certain biofuels.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

FCC wants to know: Is degrading P2P traffic 'reasonable'?

Federal regulators this week took the first formal step into investigating complaints about how Internet service providers manage peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic on their networks.

CNET News

T. rex, the teen mother of its time

New evidence suggests that dinosaurs had pregnancies as early as age 8. But they had good reason to be frisky. They matured fast and died young, living from 25 to 30 years.

San Jose Mercury News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Actor Brad Renfro dies at 25

Troubled actor Brad Renfro, who first starred opposite Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones in the 1994 film "The Client," died following a night of drinking.

Hollywood Reporter

Small changes in store to better ‘American Idol’

"American Idol" enters its seventh season, coming off of the rockiest year in its history, and changes are in store, although they won't be as dramatic as in previous seasons.

MSNBC

EDUCATION

Parents 'buy essays' for students

British parents are paying hundreds of pounds for degree-course essays for their children studying at university, claims an essay-writing service.

BBC

Youthful record-setter shares joy of flight with school children

Barrington Irving, the youngest pilot and and the first person of African descent to fly solo around the world, has set up a nonprofit learning center aimed at introducing school children to flying.

Christian Science Monitor

2 innovative works take top awards in children's books

Two books taking fresh tacks to storytelling have won the American Library Association's top awards for children's literature.

Houston Chronicle

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