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Julie White Freeman, left, formerly of China, raises her hand during the swearing-in of the 46th annual Independence Day celebration and naturalization ceremony at Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson, in Charlottesville, Va. (Photo by Evan Vucci / AP)

Cool, damp air offers hope for battling Big Sur blaze

A marine layer moved in to Big Sur, blanketing the fire-evacuated community with cool air and humidity that firefighters hope will help them battle the blaze.

San Francisco Chronicle

+4Wildfire chases July 4th visitors from Big Sur

ABC News

California fires threaten Big Sur, Santa Barbara County

CNN

Salmonella signs point to peppers

Investigators are seeing more signs that the salmonella outbreak blamed on tomatoes might have been caused by tainted jalapeno peppers, according to health officials.

Baltimore Sun

Bush salutes new US citizens at naturalization ceremony

President George W. Bush invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson in welcoming new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony, saying "I'll be proud to call you a fellow American."

International Herald Tribune

President Bush in his own words

MSNBC

Iran gives 'constructive' reply to incentives package

Iran has given a "constructive'' response to an incentives package from world powers intended to persuade the nation to suspend uranium enrichment, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator said.

Bloomberg

'I am president,' Mugabe insists

Zimbabwe’s political crisis deepened when Robert Mugabe said there could be no dialogue with the opposition unless it accepted his victory in last week’s presidential run-off election.

Financial Times

Report blames biofuels for food crisis

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75 percent, far more than previously estimated.

ABC News

The World in Photos .........................................................................
UFOetry performs at the Roswell Convention and Civic Center. (Photo by Mark Wilson / Roswell Daily Record / AP)	Ground crew members try to steady a 53-foot-tall American flag hot air balloon in the wind as it is inflated at Dobbelaar baseball field in Hoboken, N.J. (Photo by Mel Evans / AP)	Five-time Wimbledon-singles champion, Sweden's Bjorn Borg, is pictured by a poster featuring him during his playing days at Wimbledon. (Photo by Kevin Lamarque / AP)

NATION

Former Sen. Jesse Helms dies

Former U.S. Republican Senator, Jesse Helms from North Carolina, is dead at the age of 86.

CNN

Jesse Helms

Yahoo! News

Phishers using Google calendar for new e-mail scams

By now everyone knows to watch out for and ignore shady e-mails with bad grammar (right?), but what about e-mails that appear to be sent from your Google Calendar account?

AOL News

Passport record system open to abuse, IG finds

A State Department passport record system that holds personal data on more than 120 million Americans is wide open to abuse and unable to prevent or detect unauthorized access, investigators said.

McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS

Obama remarks on flip-flop charge

Sen. John McCain's campaign again called Sen. Barack Obama a flip-flopper after the Democratic candidate held a do-over news conference to clarify his remarks on the Iraq war.

CNN

Barack Obama: from childhood to political service

MSNBC

McCain campaign seeks new strategy to attack Obama

International Herald Tribune

A legacy of service

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Vague land ownership a key factor in Amazon deforestation

A “fragile” land tenure system and “a scarce presence” by the state government were identified as key factors in rising Amazon deforestation.

Environmental News Network

African, Latin American settlers drawn to nature preserve borders

Increasing numbers of settlers in Africa and Latin America are moving to the borders of nature preserves, thereby causing an impact on biodiversity.

San Francisco Chronicle

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Who is the average American?

Kevin O'Keefe's book, "The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation's Most Ordinary Citizen," is a collection of facts from credible sources that reveal who the average American is.

Houston Chronicle

US defends July 4th hot dog title

The lowly hot dog, symbol of U.S. Independence Day picnics, again moved to the center of an annual competition, with the winner forced to endure an eat-off to break a tie.

Monsters and Critics

Hot dog eating contest

Baltimore Sun

EDUCATION

Chef proves school lunch can be healthy and cheap

Chef Dominique Valadier once worked in the glamorous world of Riviera restaurants. He says he left that life for something more meaningful. He's now creating fresh and healthy school lunches.

NPR

Give four-year-olds sex education, say 2 leading UK charities

Two leading sexual health charities are calling for children as young as four to be given compulsory sex education.

Guardian

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Schedule for Pope's visit to Lourdes

The Vatican has released the full schedule for the trip by Pope Benedict XVI to France, to join in the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Virgin Mary's appearances at Lourdes.

Catholic World News

Vatican clears way for canonization for Father Damien

The Vatican has cleared the way for the canonization of Blessed Damien of Molokai and the beatification of the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux.

Catholic World News

Cool Video And Audio

Redneck fireworks

YouTube

Video shows daring Colombian raid

BBC

Reading the Declaration of Independence

NPR

Monster lobster tops 23 pounds

ABC News

Woman driver hits parking barrier

Bore Me

The world's smallest republic, Molossia

YouTube

Columns And Op-Ed

Live Chats All times are E.T.

Colombia hostages: Peter DeShazo July 3 at 11 am

Washington Post

Baseball: Dave Sheinin July 3 at 11 am

Washington Post

China: Philip Pan July 3 at noon

Washington Post

Estates: Sharon Siegel July 3 at 10 pm

Lawyers.com

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GOOD NEWS

French give Betancourt hero's welcome

Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt has arrived in France to a hero's welcome after six years in the captivity of leftist rebels in the Colombian jungle.

Associated Press

From a US hostage in the Colombian jungle, a marriage proposal

While his Colombian girlfriend and twin sons waited, American captive Keith Stansell reached out.

Christian Science Monitor

US army says freed American hostages in "good condition"

Reuters

Single shot: O say, can you see how great living alone can be?

The joys of living alone reveal that every day is a celebration of independence for singles.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

WORLD

July 4th is all business for many troops

This is Staff Sgt. Edgar Covarrubias's second Fourth of July in Iraq. No family barbecue, no fireworks for the kids, but Covarrubias says he plans to call his mom, wife and kids to share the day anyway.

International Herald Tribune

Poland rejects US missile shield offer

Poland spurned as insufficient a U.S. offer to boost its air defenses in return for basing anti-missile interceptors on its soil but said it remained open to talks with Washington.

Reuters

Historic China-Taiwan flights begin

The first regular charter flights between China's mainland and Taiwan began in a sign of warming relations between Beijing and Taipei.

CNN

BUSINESS

BCE, Ontario teachers reach final agreement on sale

BCE Inc. signed a final agreement with a group led by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan to complete the world's largest leveraged buyout after agreeing to scrap its quarterly dividend.

Bloomberg

Viacom vs. YouTube: beyond privacy

Viacom was granted access to what people watch on YouTube, which raises concerns of privacy violations if Viacom uses it to track down users who watch copyrighted videos on YouTube.

BusinessWeek

Rate rise signals European Central Bank serious about inflation

The European Central Bank's interest rate rise sends a signal that it is serious about combating inflation, policymakers said as they staged a public relations offensive to justify the increase.

Reuters

SPORTS

Federer beats Safin to reach sixth Wimbledon final

Roger Federer of Switzerland advanced to his sixth consecutive Wimbledon tennis final by beating Marat Safin of Russia in straight sets.

Bloomberg

Blog:

Federer - King Of Grass Court

BBC

Frustrated Damon does some pretty good postgame hitting, too

Manager Joe Girardi held a closed-door meeting with his team after the ugly defeat, and they did not open the clubhouse doors until 31 minutes after the final out.

Newsday

HEALTH

On Independence Day, think fireworks safety first

Fireworks can be breathtaking spectacles but experts say leave the July 4 celebrations to the pros.

HealthDay

Summer skin hazards

WebMD

New docs on the block

According to medical lore, July is the worst time to be hospitalized because that's when inexperienced med students start clinical training.

Newsweek

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

YouTube order: a threat to your privacy?

A federal judge in New York has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a database linking users of YouTube, the Web's largest video site by far, with every clip they have watched there.

San Jose Mercury News

New Mercury images show volcanoes, magnetic field, more

Mercury is full of volcanoes and other surprises, reveals initial data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.

National Geographic

BITS AND PIECES

Champlain offends French-language group

CBC

Google snubs Canada Day

National Post

Man pays dearly for fiery romantic gesture

stuff.co.nz

Errant groundhog captured in pantry

Pocono Record

The future of competitive eating injuries

Slate

Tweens indulge their virtual clotheshorses

Houston Chronicle

Photo of the Day

Young revelers learn to run in front of toy bulls, simulating the famous running of the bulls, two days before the start of the festival of San Fermín in Pamplona, northern Spain. (Photo by Alvaro Barrientos / AP)