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In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), people gather amidst smoke and debris at the scene of a plane crash near the village of Jannatabad, outside the city of Qazvin, around 75 miles northwest of Tehran in Iran. (Photo by Sina Shiri / ISNA / AP)

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Iran plane black boxes damaged

Damaged black boxes have been recovered from a Caspian Airlines plane that crashed in north Iran with the loss of all 168 people on board, say officials.

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BBC

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Plane crash in Iran

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CBS News

Consumer prices jump 0.7 percent

Consumer prices shot up by the largest amount in 11 months, reflecting the biggest jump in gasoline prices in nearly five years.

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Forbes

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Factories beginning recovery, inflation tames

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CNBC

Sotomayor grilled on abortion, gun rights

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor declined to respond to senators' questions asking her to explain her personal views on hot button social issues such as abortion and gun rights hearings.

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ABC News

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Sotomayor keeps her cool

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TIME

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Sotomayor defends controversial comment

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MSNBC

Senate panel passes health reform bill

A Senate committee became the first congressional panel to advance health care reform legislation this year.

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The Hill

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Health care plan overhaul

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KXAN Austin News

Midnight hour strikes a record $22M for 'Harry Potter'

Setting a new all-time record for midnight box office, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" rung up an estimated $22.2 million from 3,003 midnight performances.

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Hollywood Reporter

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Review: the best of the franchise

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San Jose Mercury News

NATION

Light-rail trains run in Seattle

Passenger service on the new Link system will end the city's dubious status as one of the nation's largest without a dedicated rail transit system.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

California budget held captive by prisons

California is a mess financially, and one of its huge burdens is its prisons. The state spends $10 billion annually on prisons.

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NPR

Grandma's house: the new summer camp

The lingering recession is forcing cash-strapped parents to cancel camp for the kids. Instead, they're being packed off to their grandparents.

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CBS News

POLITICS

Steele pitches GOP to NAACP

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele stopped by the NAACP convention to press the civil rights organization to consider his party an ally.

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Vote delay keeps F-22 alive, for now

Opponents hoped to strip spending for the fighter plane, which has strong political supporters, from the military spending bill.

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BusinessWeek

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Robert Redford weds German girlfriend

Robert Redford married artist Sibylle Szaggars at the luxury Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany, in front of 30 friends and family members.

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People

Cursing makes you feel better

The next time you stub your toe or bang your shin into a table, cursing may be the best medicine, according to a new study.

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HEALTH

Study opens door to identifying people at higher risk of sudden cardiac death

A study of Frenchmen suggests there may be a simple way to establish if apparently healthy people have an elevated risk of sudden cardiac death.

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Medical News Today

Spouse has dementia? You're at risk, too

Researchers followed more than 1,200 couples for 10 years. They found that wives who cared for husbands with dementia were nearly four times more likely to develop the same condition.

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WebMD

EDUCATION

Obama pushes for more aid to colleges

Cash-strapped community colleges may be an essential tool for preparing Americans to find jobs and help the economy recover. The White House has noticed. Has anyone else?

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TIME

Math gap in Colorado thins

Colorado is one of just four states where black students have gained ground on their white peers on eighth-grade math tests over the past two decades, according to a U.S. Department of Education report.

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Denver Post

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Witness: Evangelist had total control

A woman whose parents and grandparents followed evangelist Tony Alamo testified at his sex-crime trial that "Papa Tony" segregated children by gender to prevent "hanky-panky."

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Beliefnet

Episcopal vote on gay clergy widens Anglican split

A global schism in the worldwide Anglican Communion looked set to widen after its U.S. branch, the Episcopal Church, approved a resolution to ordain gay and lesbian clergy.

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Reuters

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What will follow Episcopalian vote for gay clergy?

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Leave smoking perk alone

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USA TODAY

How to curb soldiers' smoking

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USA TODAY

Still thinking about the Sotomayor shift

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Slate

GM pays ex-CEO $8.6 million

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Truthdig

The gray in 'green jobs'

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (Robert Reich):

Goldman Sachs is back. Be worried.

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Salon.com

Column (Sharon Begley):

Link between attractiveness and grades

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Newsweek

Column (Christopher Beam):

Obama as community college organizer

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Slate

Venezuelan land redistribution backfires

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NPR

Palin is still party's leader

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Times Online

Foiling terrorism

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DC Examiner

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GOOD NEWS

New water desalination system helps cut costs, time in producing clean water

Scientists have developed a water desalination and filtration system that cuts costs and time in producing clean water, with possible applications in emergency situations and developing nations.

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Yahoo! News

Memory test and PET scans detect early signs of Alzheimer's

A study of patients with mild cognitive impairment revealed that results from cognitive tests and brain scans can work as an early warning system for the development of Alzheimer's disease.

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ScienceDaily

WORLD

Britain prepares to open Supreme Court

Britain's most senior judges are preparing to leave the House of Lords entirely, moving from Parliament's upper chamber to a dedicated Supreme Court in a major upheaval of Britain's constitution.

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San Jose Mercury News

Major quake strikes off New Zealand

A major earthquake struck off the coast of New Zealand's South Island, rattling residents and prompting a tsunami warning that was later canceled.

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CNN

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Australian east coast on tsunami alert

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BUSINESS

Stocks higher, led by technology shares

Technology stocks led U.S. stocks higher following an upbeat outlook from Intel, which many traders view as a bellwether for spending on computers and other electronics throughout the economy.

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MarketWatch

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Stocks rise on upbeat earnings reports

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BusinessWeek

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Is the recession over?

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MSNBC

CIT will not receive further assistance

CIT Group Inc. announced that it is unlikely to receive additional government support in the near future.

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ABC News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Americans spend most time on Facebook

Americans spend more time on Facebook than on any other Web site, according to new research.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Apple software update stops Palm Pre from working with iTunes

Natalie Kerns, a spokeswoman for Apple, said the new update disables devices “falsely pretending to be iPods, including the Palm Pre.”

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Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

Florida plans to hunt Burmese pythons

The python posse is coming to the Everglades. Florida wildlife managers are poised to unleash a team of trained hunters to track and kill these giant snakes on state lands.

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McClatchy

Global warming: Scientists' best predictions may be wrong

A recently published study found that climate models explain only about half of the heating that occurred during a well-documented period of rapid global warming in Earth's ancient past.

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ScienceDaily

SPORTS

Obama joins All-Star festivities

President Barack Obama threw the first pitch of the All-Star Game in St. Louis. Commissioner Bud Selig said the invitation to appear as a salute to 30 community volunteers had been quickly accepted.

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Philadelphia Daily News

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Watch the Obama 1st pitch

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YouTube

Selig wants suspension defect changed

Eyebrows rose when Manny Ramirez, suspended for use of performance-enhancing drugs, played in the minor league. Commissioner Bud Selig has now come out against this loophole.

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Newsday

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Staying slim helps the planet

According to two researchers, staying slim is good for the planet because food production has a big impact on global warming.

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Medical News Today

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Palestinian construction workers labor on the roof of a building as the sun sets in Kalandia, between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP)

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