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Shuttle Discovery crew glad to be back

The space shuttle Discovery and its crew returned to Earth and capped a successful expansion job at the international space station.

Yahoo! News

Shuttle begins descent toward Earth

MSNBC

3 dead, 10 missing as quake strikes Japan

A powerful earthquake tore up hills, fields and roads in northern Japan, killing at least three people, injuring around 100 more and trapping guests at a leveled resort hotel.

AFP

Powerful earthquake hits Japan

BBC

Maliki raises possibility that Iraq might ask US to leave

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki raised the possibility that his country won't sign a status of forces agreement with the United States and will ask U.S. troops to go home when their U.N. mandate expires.

McClatchy Newspapers

Al-Sadr forms elite wing to fight US forces

Moqtada al-Sadr, the virulently anti-American militia leader, announced that he was forming a new, exclusive wing of his al-Mahdi Army to fight U.S. forces.

Times Online

River slowly dropping, but Iowa town still flooded

Associated Press

Towns scramble to stop floods

CBS News

Images: Midwest storms

Times Online

Is digital nature as soothing as the real deal?

New study by the Universty of Washington finds that nature trumps technology when it comes to de-stressing.

Popular Science

Energy prices boost inflation

Soaring energy prices punished ordinary Americans in May, triggering the highest run-up in inflation in six months and exceeding the expectations of economic forecasters, the government reported.

McClatchy Newspapers

Desperate hunt for 1,100 who fled Afghan jail in Taliban raid

A desperate hunt is under way for more than 1,100 prisoners who escaped a jail in southern Afghanistan when Taliban rebels blasted it open, killing 15 guards.

AFP

Compromise in Muslim dispute not working out in Indonesia

Indonesia is bracing for renewed religious violence as a government attempt to be even-handed in a dispute between radical and moderate Muslims has only served to inflame passions.

Vancouver Sun

NATION

Newsman Tim Russert dies at 58

Tim Russert, who became one of America's leading political journalists as the host of NBC's "Meet the Press," is dead. He was 58.

CNN

Clampdown on public buses could jeopardize school ride

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is clamping down on transit bus routes that were created to shuttle schoolchildren.

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Obama's, McCain's sniping over each others' advisers continues

Sen. John McCain's and Sen. Barack Obama's camps continued to snipe at each other over advisers, despite promises from both presidential candidates to engage in civil, issue-based campaigns.

CNN

Obama proposes applying Social Security tax to higher incomes

Sen. Barack Obama told a group of senior citizens that repairing the Social Security system will require applying the payroll tax to incomes above $250,000 a year.

Bloomberg

SPORTS

Braves' Smoltz hopes to pitch again after shoulder surgery

Atlanta Braves righthander John Smoltz, 41, who said doctors found damage in his right shoulder during a surgery, says he hopes to pitch again following the operation.

Houston Chronicle

Woods trails Appleby by 1 at US Open

Tiger Woods pulled within one shot of the lead while Phil Mickelson had a hard time keeping up. It seems the much-hyped pairing of the world's top-ranked golfers won't go far in the U.S. Open.

Sports Network

Second round of the U.S. Open

Golf.com

HEALTH

Water, water everywhere, so let's all have a drink

With a recent government study projecting that at least 36 states will face water shortages within the next five years, some states are looking to tap our oceans for freshwater needs.

Discover

Tomato salmonella cases on the rise

Sixty-one new cases in six more states have been added to the list of people sickened by a salmonella outbreak in tomatoes, federal officials say.

WebMD

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Ultraviolet glow betrays impending supernova

In the latest in a series of supernova firsts, scientists report that they pinpointed a star that flared in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum for several hours.

Scientific American

NASA puzzled by strange shuttle debris

NASA engineers were trying to identify an object that floated away from Discovery and were analyzing a protrusion found on its rudder a day before the space shuttle was scheduled to land.

ABC News

Special section:

The history of the shuttle program

CBS News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The Hulk returns to the big screen

"The Incredible Hulk," complete with digitally enhanced biceps and some anger management issues, returns to theaters.

BBC

Cooper skyjacking cash sells for $37,000 at Dallas auction

Fifteen tattered $20 bills recovered from the legendary 1971 D.B. Cooper skyjacking sold for more than 120 times their face value at a Dallas auction.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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GOOD NEWS

A soft way to fight hard battles

A mother-and-daughter team sells exotic pillows made by village craftwomen via Pillow Dreams Project, its home-based business, and donates half of the profits to two international nonprofits.

Denver Post

WORLD

Interview:

Dealing in justice

Newsweek

Protesters support Pakistani judges

Several thousand protesters gathered outside Pakistan's parliament for the climax of a rally by lawyers and activists demanding the reinstatement of judges fired by President Pervez Musharraf.

Reuters

Army boosts Mugabe campaign

State security forces reportedly deployed countrywide have taken an increasingly active role in a bid to block opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai from succeeding as the next president of Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe Independent

Zimbabwe high court orders police to produce aide to opposition leader

International Herald Tribune

BUSINESS

US foreclosure filings up 48 percent

Soaring foreclosures are continuing to raise questions about the mortgage industry's claims that it is making a dent in the housing crisis.

TIME

Minneapolis lures buyers for foreclosed homes

NPR

Saudis plan to raise oil output

International Herald Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

90 percent of pandas in jeopardy after China earthquake

Chinese officials have announced that the last 1,590 pandas living in the wild face a very uncertain future after the earthquake.

Times Online

California governor declares water emergency in farm area

Following his declaration last week of a drought in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaimed a state of emergency in nine counties in the state's farm-rich Central Valley.

Environmental News Network

EU to ban bluefin tuna fishing

European Union fisheries regulators have banned bluefin tuna fishing in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean in order to halt further overfishing.

Reuters

EDUCATION

UW approves College of Environment

The University of Washington Board of Regents voted to create a new College of Environment, leaving the president and provost with the task of persuading faculty to join the new college.

Seattle Times

NCATE revising standards on child-development preparation

An expert panel is drafting recommendations for how teacher colleges can craft courses and curricula so that future educators have a stronger understanding of how children develop.

Education Week

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Christian theologians prepare for extraterrestrial life

Little green men might shock the secular public, but Catholics would welcome them as brothers. That's what Vatican chief astronomer and papal science adviser Gabriel Funes explained in a newsletter.

Wired

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