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Eavesdropping rule becomes law

President Bush signed a bill that overhauls rules about government eavesdropping and grants immunity to telecommunications companies.

ABC News

Bush signs wiretapping bill

MSNBC

Calif. National Guard joins firefighting effort to help contain blazes

California's wildfire season has become so severe so swiftly that for the first time in more than 30 years, National Guard troops have been deployed to fight the flames on the ground.

ABC News

Israel 'ready to act' if threatened by Iran

Israel's defense minister has warned of his country's readiness to act against Iran if it feels threatened.

BBC

Head of OPEC warns against military conflict with Iran

International Herald Tribune

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Iran's missile range

CNN

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Iran appears to fake missile photo

MSNBC

McCain criticizes adviser's 'a nation of whiners' remark

John McCain sharply broke from an economic adviser who dubbed the United States "a nation of whiners" in a "mental recession."

MSNBC

Gramm: We need more leadership, less whining

CNN

Autism breakthrough in study

Times Online

NATION

Rove ignores congressional subpoena, refuses to testify

Former White House adviser Karl Rove defied a congressional subpoena to testify about allegations of political pressure at the Justice Department.

ABC News

Rove's claim of executive previlege denied by house committee

MSNBC

Senate OKs promotion of Iraq commander

The Senate has confirmed Gen. David Petraeus as the top commander in the Middle East and Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno to replace Petraeus as the chief military officer in Iraq.

Monsters and Critics

POLITICS

Clinton and Obama woo donors

It was not quite a screwball comedy at the New York Hilton and Towers, but Senators Clinton and Obama put on a bit of a show before hundreds of donors at a political breakfast.

International Herald Tribune

Obama and Clinton: unity or debt?

Reuters

Kennedy in dramatic Senate return

Veteran U.S. politician Edward Kennedy, recently operated on for a cancerous brain tumor, has returned to the Senate to cast a vital vote.

BBC

How the candidates' speaking styles play

McCain is unscripted. Obama is soaring. In these times, both styles have their advantages.

Christian Science Monitor

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Around the world on 80 couches

The phenomenon of couch surfing has moved into the 21st century with a website, a mission statement, referral and vetting procedures.

Christian Science Monitor

Clients bank on her intuition

The difference between a psychotic and a psychic, says Laura Day, is that a psychic's information is right. And companies pay Day $10,000 a month to be correct.

CNN

HEALTH

New fatal CJD-like dementia discovered in America

A new dementia has been discovered in America, affecting 16 people, 10 of whom have died after gradually losing their mental and motor functions and being unable to think, speak or move.

Medical News Today

30 percent of Americans do not get fluoridated water

Water systems serving about 30 percent of Americans are not giving them fluoridated water, six decades after fluoridation was started as a public health measure to prevent tooth decay, officials said.

Reuters

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Vatican budget shows deficit for 2007

The Vatican reported a budget deficit of $14.3 million for 2007, breaking a string of 3 straight years of surpluses.

Catholic World News

Pope Benedict 'rock star' of World Youth Day in Sydney

Pope Benedict will arrives in Sydney as the headline "rock star" act in the Catholic Church's World Youth Day — five days of peace, love and Christianity.

Reuters

EDUCATION

California will require eighth-graders to take Algebra I test

California education officials set a high bar: All eighth-grade students will be tested in algebra. The decision means that an intense ramp-up period is about to begin.

San Jose Mercury News

School cafeterias struggling to keep food on the table

Rising costs for food are forcing school cafeterias nationwide to raise prices, cut jobs and, in some cases, dip into "rainy day" funds to put food on trays.

USA Today

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog:

It's time for Jackson to retire from politics

Detroit Free Press

Column (Steve LeVine):

Saudi oil: a crude awakening

BusinessWeek

Column (Brooke Williams):

Why not help this mom at the airport?

Christian Science Monitor

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Iran's sabre-rattling renews war jitters

Economist

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The virtue of flip-flopping

Bloomberg

Editorial:

McCain's problems with the economy

Economist

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FISA bill is an outrage

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Robert Samuelson):

Campaign 2008: the sounds of silence

Real Clear Politics

Column (DeWayne Wickham):

Helms subtly carried racist torch

USA Today

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GOOD NEWS

Vehicle theft continuing to decline

Once again, the 1995 Honda Civic was the most stolen car in America, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but auto theft appears to have declined dramatically for the fourth year in a row.

Yahoo! News

Urban farming tackling hunger crisis

Could growing vegetables help save crumbling inner cities around the world and tackle hunger? That is the aim of a charity called Urban Farming.

BBC

WORLD

US-India nuke deal in jeopardy

Even with India's last-minute revival of a languishing civil nuclear accord with the United States, it may be too late for an election-year Congress to ratify the deal.

TIME

China says 82 suspected terrorists detained in Olympic plots

China has detained 82 suspected terrorists in the first half of the year on allegations that they were plotting attacks against the Olympic games, according to state media reports.

Sports Illustrated

BUSINESS

Washington struggles to avoid a federal bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Top officials struggled to reassure the markets about the financial health of the nation's two largest mortgage finance companies as their stock prices plunged to their lowest levels in 17 years.

International Herald Tribune

Sales of gas-saving gadgets rise

With fuel prices soaring, sales of products designed to boost gas mileage are also rising, even though the government says they're not worth the money.

CNN

$4 gas may help rural towns as shoppers stay local

Newsweek

CBO: Americans use less gas, hurt highway trust fund

Americans are inadvertently hurting the country's highway trust fund as they buy less gasoline in the face of increasingly rising prices.

Reuters

SPORTS

Jones faces felony drug charge, suspected of cocaine possession

Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Matt Jones faces a felony drug charge in his former college town after police say officers found him cutting up cocaine with a credit card.

ESPN

Gibbs Racing agrees to release Stewart from contract after '08

From his seat in the orange No. 20, Tony Stewart spent a decade driving his way to stardom while helping Joe Gibbs Racing become one of NASCAR's top teams.

Sports Illustrated

ENVIRONMENT

Scientists investigate Gulf's dead zone

The Black Sea has the largest dead zone in the world. The second largest is right off Louisiana's coast. Experts said it's growing every year, but Louisiana scientists are trying to decrease it.

CNN

LCD chemical found to have 17,000 times the climate impact of CO2

Dubbed the "missing greenhouse gas," nitrogen trifluoride was found by a recent study to have a global climate impact 17,000 times greater than carbon dioxide.

Environmental News Network

Are some people mosquito magnets?

Why do some people wind up covered in mosquito welts and others bite-free? Body chemistry may be the key.

Newsweek

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

More efficient solar energy collectors attach to windows

A new, compact way to collect sunlight from windows and focus it to generate more electricity could make those multiple expensive rooftop solar panels a thing of the past.

LiveScience

Yahoo opens its search technology to third parties

Yahoo said it would release the beta version of an API (application programming interface) that Web sites can use to build services based on its search infrastructure and algorithms.

PC World

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