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Jose Lechuga is interviewed in his store in Hazleton, Pa., June 15, 2006, in the heart of the Hispanic business district. Lechuga and his wife Rosa are plaintiffs in a federal trial opening in nearby Scranton that will determine whether Hazleton has the right to make life difficult for illegal immigrants by penalizing landlords who rent to them and businesses that give them jobs. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster, File / AP)

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Pa. city to defend illegal immigrant law

Nearly a year after the city of Hazleton began a high-profile campaign to rid itself of illegal immigrants, opponents of the crackdown are getting their day in court.

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ABC News

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Immigration raids split families

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Bush, first lady visit Guatemalan town

President and Mrs. Bush are going to Santa Cruz Balanya, a town of about 10,000 mostly indigenous Guatemalans, to stress the need for social justice and equality.

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Examiner

Years of strife scar lives of young Palestinians

The current generation of young Palestinians, many say, is the most radical, the most accepting of violence and the most despairing.

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SPIEGEL

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Army surgeon forced to retire amid scandal

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Forbes

Bush Sr. hospitalized for dehydration

Former President H.W. Bush, 82, was released from a hospital after being treated for dehydration and held overnight for observation at the Eisenhower Medical Center in California.

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Fmr. President Bush hospitalized

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ABC News

Report: U.S. military plans Iraq fallback strategy

U.S. military planners have begun work on a fallback strategy in case the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq fails, including a gradual pullout of U.S. forces and more emphasis on training Iraqi forces.

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Yahoo! News

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U.S. military buildup may require multiple tours of duty

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Houston Chronicle

Propane cars explode on freight train

Several freight train cars containing propane exploded into flames in Oneida, N.Y., forcing residents from their homes within a mile of the blaze, authorities said.

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AOL News

NATION

Zimbabwean opposition tortured by police

Top opposition leaders were assaulted and tortured by police who broke up a prayer meeting planned to protest government policies, colleagues of the activists said.

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CNN

Sudan orchestrated Darfur crimes, U.N. mission says

A U.N. human rights mission accused Sudan's government of orchestrating and taking part in war crimes in Darfur and called for urgent international action to protect civilians there.

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Reuters

Pro-Kremlin parties win Russian regional polls

Russian regional elections seen as a dress rehearsal for next year's presidential vote handed the Kremlin's supporters a hefty majority and squeezed out its most outspoken opponents, results showed.

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Reuters

POLITICS

Immigration bill could get jump-start

After years of deadlock, Congress seems to have all the ingredients to revamp a broken immigration system and devise a way to handle up to 12 million undocumented immigrants while tightening border security.

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San Jose Mercury News

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States, feds at odds over stricter Medicaid rules

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

White House says Rove relayed complaints about prosecutors

The White House acknowledged that presidential adviser Karl Rove served as a conduit for complaints to the Justice Department about federal prosecutors who were later fired.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Democrats call for resignation of Gonzales

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should resign following disclosures of mass firings of federal prosecutors and a report the FBI improperly obtained information, top Democratic senators said.

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MSNBC

SPORTS

Big 12 coaches favor expanding NCAA tournament

Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim has plenty of support from Big 12 coaches for expanding the NCAA tournament. Boeheim was surprised when the Orange were snubbed by the selection committee.

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Sport Illustrated

Ex-Cowboys great Smith joins ESPN as NFL analyst

Former Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith was hired by ESPN as a studio analyst for its NFL pregame coverage.

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ESPN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Wikipedia enacts credential reform

Following revelations that a high-ranking member of Wikipedia's bureaucracy lied about being a professor of religion, the free Internet encyclopedia plans to ask contributors to identify themselves.

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San Jose Mercury News

Tracking of killer asteroids runs low on cash, time

NASA can find and track most of the nearby asteroids that could hit and damage the Earth, but there is not enough money in its budget to finish the project within a 15-year deadline.

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CNET News

HEALTH

Cocoa boosts "good" cholesterol

Drinking cocoa each day may boost levels of HDL ("good") cholesterol, Japanese researchers report.

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WebMD

Link between rheumatoid arthritis and cancer

Inflammatory arthritis may increase the risk of dying from cancer but not developing it, suggests long-term community-based study.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Regis to undergo bypass

Television icon Regis Philbin will undergo heart bypass surgery. He told viewers he began feeling chest pains and shortness of breath while in Los Angeles last week.

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Canada.com

Comedian commits apparent suicide

Richard Jeni, a standup comedian who played to sold-out crowds, was a regular on the "Tonight Show" and appeared in movies, died of a gunshot wound in an apparent suicide, police said.

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GOOD NEWS

Houston twins find 2.5-carat diamond

When 8-year-old twins Grace and Garrett Duncan poured out what they had picked up in a half-day of digging, a sharp-eyed parks worker quickly spotted their find — a 2.5-carat light-brown diamond.

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Houston Chronicle

Violence against intimate partners at record low

Criminal violence against intimate partners fell by nearly two-thirds in recent years and has reached a record low, according to preliminary government figures.

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McClatchy Newspapers

NATION

Secret hearings for 9/11 suspects start

Secret hearings for two suspected masterminds of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and a third terror suspect were held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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CBS News

Firefighters snuffing Orange County blaze after 2,000-acre rampage

Encouraged by cooler temperatures and calmer winds, firefighters battled a wind-whipped blaze that earlier chewed through thousands of acres of parched hillside.

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CNN

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Fire in the hills

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MSNBC

Kidnapped newborn reunited with mother

A newborn girl was reunited with her mother at a Lubbock, Texas, hospital where the baby was abducted the day before, a hospital official told CNN.

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CNN

BUSINESS

Halliburton's Dubai move sparks outcry

U.S. oil services firm Halliburton Co. is shifting its corporate headquarters and chief executive from Houston to Dubai in a move that immediately sparked criticism from U.S. members of Congress.

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CBS News

Oil falls below $59 on signs OPEC won't cut output

Crude oil fell below $59 a barrel in New York on signs that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries won't reduce output at a meeting in Vienna this week.

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Bloomberg

Giver's remorse

It is a sign of poor relations between donor and charity when the donor's heir takes a hacksaw to the charity's filing cabinets.

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CNN Money

ENVIRONMENT

Anglers prepare for end of bottomfishing off northwestern Hawaii

In a marine area nearly the size of California, stretching northwest from the main Hawaiian islands, a handful of anglers still ply the waters. But their way of life will end in just over four years.

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Environmental News Network

13 new corals found in Gulf of Mannar

Thirteen new species of corals were discovered in the Gulf of Mannar's Marine National Park during a survey conducted by a research institute in Tuticorin.

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Earth Times

EDUCATION

Private education in China is at cusp of a boom

Wang Yuean made an inspired decision when he, along with three other investors, bought sugarcane fields in Dongguan, China and constructed a school.

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Bloomberg

Police arrest 40 students on theft charges

A scavenger hunt turned sour for 40 high school students when police in Laredo learned of it and arrested them on felony charges of theft and engaging in organized criminal activity.

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Court TV

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

TV anchor: I was sexually abused by Catholic priest

Thomas Roberts, a Headline News anchor since 2001, discusses being abused by a Catholic priest as a teenager in a CNN Behind the Scenes story.

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CNN

Call for halt on Muslim immigration in Australia

The NSW election campaign has become entangled in a debate over Muslim immigration after the leader of the Christian Democratic Party called for an immediate halt to Islamic immigrants.

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Melbourne Herald Sun

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

'Hobbit'-like skeleton is a new species

New scientific evidence supports the theory that an 18,000-year old Hobbit-like skeleton unearthed in Indonesia is a new species closely related to Homo sapiens

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Women pray during the funeral for the 10 victims of a house fire in the Bronx borough of New York. Hundreds of mourners prayed over small, simple caskets at a tear-filled funeral. (Photo by Diane Bondareff / AP)

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