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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., laughs with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., at a campaign event in Unity, N.H. (Photo by Elise Amendola / AP)

North Koreans bring down reactor tower at nuclear plant

North Korea toppled the cooling tower at its nuclear plant, a move showing the North's commitment to a nuclear deal a day after submitting a list of its atomic plans.

The Age

Special section:

North Korean nukes

BBC

Fed aided Wall Street to avert trouble

The Federal Reserve was scrambling to prevent "contagion" from infecting the financial system when it backed a Bear Stearns rescue package and provided emergency loans to big Wall Street firms.

Kansas City Star

Stimulus checks make economic waves

Payments give a huge jolt to after-tax incomes and consumer spending, but boost may not last.

CBS News

Obama and Clinton appear in Unity: Unity, N.H., that is

In the New Hampshire primary, 107 Unity residents voted for Obama and 107 for Clinton. In their first public step toward reconciliation, the former rivals travel to the small town for their first joint rally.

ABC News

Unity is theme for Obama, Clinton

CNN

Massive Calif. wildfire nears Big Sur

With temperatures rising, firefighters dug in for a long battle against flames creeping toward the storied tourist town.

USA Today

California wildfires burn

Reuters

Global AIDS bill stalls

Momentum in the Senate stalled on a long-awaited bill to fight HIV and AIDS, pushing back the White House-backed measure until next month at the earliest.

The Hill

Zimbabweans forced to vote

Zimbabweans voted in a runoff with only one candidate - President Robert Mugabe, saying they were coerced, fearing punishment or death unless they had a red finger as evidence they voted.

International Herald Tribune

Mandela denounces Mugabe

Sydney Morning Herald

Violence and the vote

International Herald Tribune

NATION

Oil Rises to $142 for the first time as investors spurn stocks

Crude oil rose to a record above $142 a barrel in New York and gold advanced as falling stock markets spurred investment in commodities.

Bloomberg

Levee breaks, threatening homes in eastern Missouri

A corner of an earthen levee broke, releasing Mississippi River waters that officials predicted would "ultimately inundate" part of a Lincoln County town.

Associated Press

Government said flooded town didn't need flood insurance

CNN

High court breaks silence, affirms gun rights in historic decision

Silent on gun control for two centuries, the Supreme Court affirmed the right to have guns for self-defense in the home and addressed a constitutional riddle over what it means to keep and bear arms.

ABC News

Special section:

Guns In America

CBS News

POLITICS

For Obama, a shift toward center

Barack Obama has taken a stroll away from traditional liberal political positions, his path toward the political center marked by artful leaps and turns.

MSNBC

Cheney staffer grilled on torture policy

David Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, was questioned in opening to hearings over Bush administration's interrogation policies.

MSNBC

Lawmakers vow to execute child rapists

Angry politicians vowed to keep writing laws that condemn child rapists to death, despite a Supreme Court decision saying such punishment is unconstitutional.

CNN

Mueller: 'We're losing' the child porn war

ABC News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Latest no-shows for Olympics: tourists

China says the welcome mat remains out for tourists who want to attend the Beijing Summer Olympics, but foreigners apparently view the invitation as a little prickly.

McClatchy Newspapers

Manhattan splashes out with public art

Four giant artificial waterfalls cascaded into the water off Manhattan in a public art project the mayor said could generate $55 million in economic activity for New York City.

NPR

HEALTH

How Shelly in 'Second Life' resists vodka

Accelerated Recovery Centers is the first rehabilitation program for alcoholics that combines the virtual reality world of "Second Life" into therapy treatments.

Spiegel International

Senate panel approves health care bill for female vets

The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee approved a measure to improve health care for female veterans.

McClatchy Newspapers

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Politics and religion: a closer walk

Religion likely plays a bigger role in shaping social and political attitudes than people realized, according to the latest report on religion from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

Star Tribune

Romanian groups try to stop abortion

Twenty anti-abortion Christian Orthodox groups in Romania pleaded with a government committee to disallow an 11-year-old girl who was raped by her uncle to travel to Britain for an abortion.

Baltimore Sun

Land protests shut down Kashmir

Life in Indian-controlled Kashmir is at a standstill for the fourth day in a row after more protests over land transfers for a Hindu pilgrimage site.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Joe Conason):

On energy, McCain sounds like Cheney

Salon.com

Column:

Ruling dooms gun bans

Chicago Sun-Times

Column (Garrison Keillor):

Obama can learn from Jesse Ventura

Salon.com

Editorial:

It’s later than you think

Economist

Column (Timothy Noah):

Guns of convenience

Slate

Column (Gary Hart):

America's next chapter

International Herald Tribune

Column:

An innocent abroad?

Weekly Standard

Column:

Don't trust personal technology so much

Christian Science Monitor

Column:

Child rapist escapes death, not justice

USA Today

Editorial:

Justice, decency in the face of horror

International Herald Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

A Christian approach to healthcare

When it comes to health insurance, thousands are counting on the Lord, or at least his faithful, to provide.

U.S. News & World Report

Apes get legal rights in Spain, to surprise of bullfight critics

Spain is to become the first country to extend legal rights to apes, surprising animal rights activists who have long campaigned against bullfighting in the country.

Times Online

WORLD

UN warns of rebel-held drug surge

A surge in the cultivation of opium and coca in rebel-held areas threatens to undermine recent progress in drug control efforts, says a UN report.

BBC

Israeli settlement activity surges

In the months since the diplomatic initiative at Annapolis, Md., Israel has dramatically accelerated the construction of homes on land that's central to any peace deal.

McClatchy Newspapers

Thai PM fights for his political life

Four months into his tenure, Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej is battling for his political life.

TIME

BUSINESS

Bill Gates logs off

Bill Gates logs off after 33 years in day-to-day control of the world's biggest software company.

Guardian

Discover Card's profits rises on higher card useage

The company benefited not from issuing credit, but from milking its third-party payments business - which processes ATM and debit transactions - and selling its British card business.

Newsweek

SPORTS

Spain routs Russia 3-0 to reach Euro final vs. Germany

Superb Spain stormed into their first final in 24 years by rolling over in-form Russia at Euro 2008 in Vienna.

ESPN

Bulls make Rose No. 1 pick

Derrick Rose is going home, and a record crowd of freshmen is following him to the NBA.

Sports Illustrated

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Mars lab finds nutrient minerals plants use for food

The robotic laboratory aboard the Phoenix spacecraft on Mars has stirred up a batch of Martian mud and found some of the chemicals that nourish plants and microbes on Earth, scientists reported.

San Francisco Chronicle

Sony gives PS3 a shot of adrenaline: movies and a twirling globe

Sony's PlayStation 3 hopes to attract more devotees to its gaming console with a slew of new services, including movies and TV shows on demand, as well as global news and weather reports.

TechNewsWorld

EDUCATION

CSUS students offer English lessons to immigrant parents

Nine vocational education majors at California State University at Sacramento offer English language tutorials every Saturday morning to immigrant parents.

Sacramento Bee

Five charged in student loan fraud

Five Seattle-area women have been charged with taking out more than $690,000 in fraudulent private student loans.

U.S. News & World Report

ENVIRONMENT

Plants 'climb' due to global warming

Like people vacationing in the mountains to escape summer heat, plants are "climbing" to higher elevations to cope with global warming, a new study shows.

National Geographic

North Pole could be ice-free for a short time this summer

The North Pole may be briefly ice-free by September as global warming melts away Arctic sea ice, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo.

CNN

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