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Aerial view of the freeway interchange that funnels traffic off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge that authorities said collapsed onto another highway ramp in Oakland, Calif., after a gasoline tanker truck overturned and caught fire. (Photo by Paul Sakuma / AP)

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Section of Bay Area freeway collapses after truck explosion

The heat of a dramatic gasoline tanker fire destroyed an overpass and closed two major roadways in the MacArthur Maze at the East Bay access to the Bay Bridge.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Chopper flies over collapse

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NBC11

Boy killed after Muslims protest in Thailand

Suspected separatists shot dead a three-year-old boy in Thailand's restive south, police said, hours after hundreds of Muslims gathered to protest the killing of a retired teacher.

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Independent Online

Sri Lanka panic at rebel air raids

The Sri Lankan capital was enveloped in panic as Tamil Tiger air attacks forced World Cup cricket fans to flee parties for safety.

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The Age

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Tamil raid on Colombo

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Reuters

More than 80 inmates cleared but still held at Guantanamo

More than a fifth of the approximately 385 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been cleared for release but may have to wait months or years for their freedom, according to defense lawyers.

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MSNBC

Major problems in Iraqi rebuilding effort

Inspectors for a federal oversight agency found that in a sampling of eight projects the U.S. declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed.

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International Herald Tribune

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Iraq: another new way forward

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CBS News

Iran to attend key meeting focusing on stabilizing Iraq

Iran will attend a meeting of key powers including the United States this week that will focus on stabilizing Iraq, a meeting Baghdad said might be a turning point for regional cooperation in easing violence.

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Reuters

Ninth Ward residents demand aid

The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Mayor Ray Nagin led hundreds of marchers to the crumbling houses in the Lower 9th Ward to draw attention to the area’s slow recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

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MSNBC

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U.S. didn’t accept most foreign Katrina aid

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NATION

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Afghans protest after U.S. raid

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Guardian

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U.S. troops come under attack

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Yahoo! News

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London protesters: end Darfur crisis

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canada.com

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Actors help highlight Darfur

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BBC

Iranian tip-off may have led Americans to al-Qaeda leader

British diplomats are checking secret reports that elements within Iran, normally hostile to the West, helped the American secret services to capture a senior al-Qaeda militant.

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Observer

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Saudi plot may show vital al-Qaeda

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POLITICS

Defense in D.C. prostitution case makes power brokers uneasy

Randall Tobias, the top foreign aid adviser in the State Department, became the most prominent person on Deborah Jeane Palfrey's client list to be publicly identified when he resigned.

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International Herald Tribune

Gonzales heckled at Harvard reunion

A small group of student protesters heckled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as he posed with old classmates during their 25-year Harvard Law School reunion.

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ABC13

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Gonzales heckled at Harvard reunion

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WBZ

Ex-senator injured in Chicago mugging

Former U.S. senator and presidential candidate Carol Moseley Braun suffered a broken wrist when a mugger tried to steal her purse, authorities said.

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Forbes

POLITICS

Why this slump is different

Foreclosures are rising fast, investors are sweating, and lenders are now bending over backwards to keep bad loans alive.

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BusinessWeek

AT&T CEO Whitacre says he will retire

Edward Whitacre Jr., the blunt-talking Texan who led AT&T Inc.'s growth from the smallest of the Baby Bells into the nation's largest telecommunications company, announced he will retire in June.

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Houston Chronicle

SPORTS

Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock killed in car crash

Josh Hancock, a key member of the bullpen that helped the St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series last season, was killed in a car crash.

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CBS4

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Cardinals' Hancock dies in accident

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ESPN

Raiders send unhappy Moss to Pats for fourth-round pick

The Oakland Raiders cut ties with Randy Moss after two unproductive seasons, sending the former Pro Bowl receiver to the New England Patriots for a fourth-round draft pick.

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Sports Illustrated

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Randy Moss traded to the Patriots

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ESPN

HEALTH

Scientists restore lost memory in Alzheimer's-like mice

In a new study, mice bioengineered to mimic the fading memory of Alzheimer's patients got their memories restored, either by being placed in stimulating environments or receiving a drug.

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Health Day

Abstinence program info slammed

Each of these assertions turns up in federally funded abstinence-only sex education programs: Condoms fail to prevent HIV infection 31 percent of the time during heterosexual sex.

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Cincinnati Post

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope Benedict to visit New York

Pope Benedict XVI agreed to visit New York City for a trip to the United Nations headquarters, after being invited by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

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GOOD NEWS

Missing Oregon hiker rescued

Rescuers say a man who fell down a cliff on the popular Eagle Creek Trail has been recovered and is responsive after falling an estimated 60 feet.

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KGW

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Oregon hiker found alive

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Yahoo! News

Woman to be world's oldest college graduate at 95

Nola Ochs is distinguished from her from fellow students at Fort Hays State University. She's 95, and is believed to be the world's oldest person getting a college degree.

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San Francisco Chronicle

NATION

Ga. wildfires devour 100 square miles

Wildfires continue to threaten a large area in southern Georgia. Eyewitnesses are telling local reporters that they're frustrated and concerned.

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USA Today

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Worst wildfire season to come?

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CBS News

Memorial honors Native American victims of massacre

More than 142 years after a band of state militia volunteers massacred 150 sleeping Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, a memorial to the event was officially dedicated.

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AOL News

Oklahoma oil refinery blows its top

Flames and smoke poured into the sky over an oil refinery where lightning set off a fire and an explosion that was felt miles away, authorities said.

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WPVI

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Smoke, flames pour from oil refinery

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CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Algae blamed for seal, dolphin deaths

Hundreds of seals, dolphins and marine birds have been killed in recent weeks by an upsurge in a sea toxin linked to overfishing, the destruction of wetlands and pollution.

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Earth Times

Canada to ban inefficient light bulbs

Canada plans to develop national standards for energy efficient lighting by the end of the year and ban inefficient bulbs by 2012, officials said.

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Montreal Gazette

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Canada to ban some light bulbs

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Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Elvis on 'Idol': how it was done

Those who say Elvis Presley is dead must have missed the latest "American Idol."

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ABC News

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Celine performs with Elvis

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Yahoo! News

Russia buries cellist and campaigner Rostropovich near Yeltsin

Cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich was buried close to late President Boris Yeltsin as Russia bade farewell to a musical genius and lover of freedom.

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Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft goes open source?

Microsoft is expected to show a new friendliness to the open-source community by unveiling plans to release the source code to a part of its Silverlight technology at MIX 07, according to sources.

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PC World

Sex fattens female ticks to 100 times normal size

Sex can be fattening if you’re a female tick. After mating, one species of female tick balloons to a body-bursting 100 times its original size.

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Live Science

EDUCATION

Utah allows concealed weapons at colleges

As states and colleges nationwide review their gun policies in light of the Virginia Tech tragedy, many in Utah are proud to have the nation's only state law allowing concealed weapons at public colleges.

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Chicago Sun-Times

34 Duke students facing stiff penalties for cheating

Nearly three dozen graduate students in Duke University's business school face steep penalties for cheating on an exam, school officials said.

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WRAL

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

iPods help doctors find heart problems

Doctors can greatly improve their stethoscope skills and therefore their ability to diagnose heart problems by listening repeatedly to heartbeats on their iPods.

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An Israel Bedouin Arab reacts as he finishes a race during a local festival in the Negev Desert near the city of Arad, southern, Israel. Bedouins were by tradition nomadic tribes, who for the most part have settled since the creation of modern borders. (Photo by Kevin Frayer / AP)

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