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California Attorney General Jerry Brown talks with reporters after commenting on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that affects global warming at a news conference in San Francisco. The court ordered the federal government to take a fresh look at regulating carbon dioxide emissions from cars. (Photo by Eric Risberg / AP)

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Stricter emission limits get a boost

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has authority to regulate vehicle emissions that cause global warming.

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USA Today

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SCOTUS rebukes Bush on auto emissions

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CBS News

Book: Kissinger kept Nixon in the dark

Newly released documents show that former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger delayed telling President Richard Nixon about the start of the 1973 Yom Kippur War to keep him from interfering.

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Reuters

Florida wins second straight college basketball title

The Gators were too much to handle once again, keeping their stranglehold on the college basketball world with an 84-75 victory over Ohio State for their second straight national championship.

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Sports Illustrated

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NCAA college basketball championships

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Solomon Islands tsunami death toll rising

Survivors sought food and water in towns hammered by a tsunami on the Solomon Islands' west coast, while officials said the death toll was 28 and would rise as they struggled to reach remote communities.

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CNN

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Humanitarian crisis threatens tsunami-hit Solomons

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Reuters

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New images released of seized Britons

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CNN

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Iran's president to talk about British sailors

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Reuters

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ABC: Iran nuclear bomb could be possible by 2009

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ABC News

Ukraine leader calls early election

Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved Ukraine’s parliament and called early elections. But parliament refused to acknowledge the order and vowed to continue meeting.

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Ireland On-line

Shiite cleric rejects proposal to allow Baathists to return to government

The most powerful Shiite cleric in Iraq has rejected an American-backed proposal to allow thousands of former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party to return to government service.

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International Herald Tribune

NATION

National strike begins in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean police and troops fanned out through impoverished townships on the first day of a two-day national strike called to protest deepening economic hardships blamed on the government.

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CNN

Huge hailstones kill 13 in China

Seven people were killed and one was injured when a bus was hit in a landslide triggered by hailstorms in a mountainous region of Sichuan Province. The other six were killed by falling roofs and lightning.

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FDA blocks Chinese wheat gluten

The U.S. is blocking imports of wheat gluten from a company in China, acting after an investigation implicated the contaminated ingredient in the recent pet-food deaths of cats and dogs.

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Houston Chronicle

POLITICS

Reid says he'll try to cut off war funds

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he wants to cut off money for the Iraq war next year, making clear for the first time that Democrats are willing to pull out all the stops to end U.S. involvement.

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AOL News

Pelosi shrugs off White House criticism of trip

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shrugged off White House criticism of her impending visit to Damascus, saying she had “great hope” for reviving U.S. relations with Syria and changing its behavior.

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White House effort aims at Syrian leader

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Kansas City Star

The presidential dollar derby

Hillary and Obama and McCain and Romney are all rolling in it. But how much does big money matter in the nomination fight?

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Salon

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Giuliani raises $15 million for campaign

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Reuters

BUSINESS

Brussels accuses Apple over iTunes

Apple is facing a European Commission antitrust probe after Brussels issued formal charges alleging that the deals that underpin the sale of music through iTunes violate competition rules.

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Financial Times

New Century files for bankruptcy as mortgages default

New Century Financial Corp. became the biggest subprime mortgage company to go bankrupt in the past year after the lender was overwhelmed by customer defaults.

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Bloomberg

Tribune accepts $8.2B offer from Zell

Tribune Co. is going private in a deal engineered by Chicago real estate tycoon Sam Zell that will give shareholders $34 a share in a two-stage transaction, the media giant announced.

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Editor & Publisher

SPORTS

Pressel enters history books, wins Kraft Nabisco

As Suzann Pettersen collapsed under a blistering sun, Morgan Pressel kept cool and made history.

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USA Today

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Final round at the Kraft Nabisco

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Sports Illustrated

Beilein offered Michigan job

West Virginia University men's basketball coach John Beilein has been offered the head coach's job at the University of Michigan, two Detroit newspapers are reporting.

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Sports Illustrated

HEALTH

New mammography guidelines issued for women 40-49

New mammography guidelines for women 40 to 49 years old suggest that any decision to undergo the exam should be based on a discussion between a woman and her doctor.

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Health Day

Pregnancy weight linked to heavy kids

Mothers-to-be who follow widely accepted recommendations for weight gain during pregnancy may still be putting their babies at risk for becoming overweight early in life.

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WebMD

Technique to convert blood types could end shortages

Scientists have developed a simple method of converting blood from one group to another. The breakthrough could potentially mean the end of blood shortages.

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London Independent

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GOOD NEWS

Because of boy's spirit, doctor's dream comes true

On the wall of Dr. Alan Wong's office is a framed check for $10,000 signed by Jan-Willem Knapen, one of his patients. A small note is pasted on it like an affirmation: "The check that started it all."

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San Jose Mercury News

USAID extends Pakistan HIV/AIDS project

USAID is extending its HIV/AIDS prevention and care project in Pakistan by awarding grants to three organizations working to combat the disease among high-risk groups.

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Medical News Today

NATION

Little redress in U.S. courts for detainees

A sharply divided Supreme Court has declined to decide whether detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are entitled to federal court hearings to challenge their open-ended detention.

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Christian Science Monitor

Mom offers 7-year-old daughter for sex

A 33-year-old woman was jailed after she was charged with offering to let an undercover investigator take pornographic photos of one of her children and have sex with the 7-year-old.

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Mom offers daughter for sex

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CNN

2 brothers missing since November found dead in Minn.

The tiny bodies of two young brothers who disappeared while playing outside their home were found encased in ice, four months after the search for them began.

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San Diego Union-Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

Seafood poisoning on the rise as oceans become warmer, more polluted

Bowls of piping hot barracuda soup were the much-anticipated treat when the Roa family gathered for a casual and relaxing meal. Within hours, all six fell deathly ill.

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Environmental News Network

Tuscan countryside yields 4-million-year old whale skeleton

The skeleton of a 10-meter-long (33-foot) prehistoric whale in the Tuscan countryside found by Italian researchers could shed light on the ancient environment of the sea, officials said.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

'Blades of Glory' debuts atop U.S., Canada box office

The Will Ferrell figure-skating comedy "Blades of Glory'' opened as the top film in U.S. and Canadian theaters this weekend, taking in $33 million in ticket sales for Paramount Pictures.

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Bloomberg

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Why is Will Ferrell funny?

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Slate

Australia becoming a land of singletons

The United States got there first, but Australia is a close second with demographers expecting the next census to show that just over half of all women in the country are unmarried.

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Monsters and Critics

EDUCATION

British schools drop Holocaust lessons

Schools have avoided teaching the Holocaust and the Crusades in history lessons because they are concerned about causing offense to Muslim pupils, government research has found.

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Guardian

M.I.T. education in China, minus the degree

When M.I.T. introduced its OpenCourseWare project six years ago, the project was intended to make virtually all of the institute’s course materials available online for free.

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Ledger

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Katrina's scars will be restored on Google Earth

Accused by lawmakers of "airbrushing history" for altering Google Earth to show pre-Hurricane Katrina imagery of New Orleans, Google plans to include pictures that better reflect reality.

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InformationWeek

Apple iTunes to sell EMI catalogue without DRM controls

Apple said EMI Music has agreed to allow its entire digital music catalog to be sold free of digital rights management controls on Apple's iTunes music store.

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InformationWeek

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As tech stocks slip, Apple rises after EMI deal

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MarketWatch

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

City of David claim reinforced by find

A recently found wall from the first Jewish temple in Jerusalem has given strength to a claim of where King David's palace existed, an archaeologist says.

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Playfuls

U.S. Orthodox, Reform at odds over Iraq

Agudath Israel of America and the Reform movement are at odds over what Jewish values say about U.S. military involvement in Iraq.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Iraq war's statistics prove fleeting

The U.S. war in Iraq is entering its fifth year. That, and 3,197 U.S. military deaths reported by the Pentagon, are among the few certainties in a war characterized by confusion and misuse of key data.

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MSNBC

Photo of the Day

Relatives of Oleg Bondaronok, a crew member of a Belarussian cargo plane, mourn during a farewell ceremony in Minsk. The downing of the plane after it had delivered equipment for Ugandan peacekeepers in Mogadishu, came at the end of a particularly violent week in the Somali capital. (Photo by Sergei Grits / AP)

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