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U.S. President George Bush greets people in the crowd during an arrival ceremony in Nevsky Square in Sofia, Bulgaria. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP)

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Heat wave kills 74 in India

Most parts of the country continue to be in the grip of a severe heat wave with a total of 74 deaths being reported so far across north and central India.

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Flooding, landslides kill dozens in China

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MSNBC

Shuttle successfully docks with International Space Station

The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis ended a two-day journey to the International Space Station, slipping into a berthing port to deliver more solar-powered panels and a new crewmember to the orbital outpost.

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Scientific American

Talking of peace, preparing for war

Israel and Syria are issuing contradictory signals about the Golan Heights, hinting at compromise while readying their troops for battle.

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Guardian

Bush vows immigration bill will be signed

Turning from adulation in the Balkans to difficulties back home, President Bush said his stalled immigration overhaul would be revived and his attorney general would not fall under a Senate no-confidence vote.

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MSNBC

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Immigration judges' GOP ties trump experience, records show

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No-confidence vote

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Yahoo! News

3 U.S. soldiers die in bridge blast

Three U.S. soldiers were killed and six wounded when a suicide bomb blast caused a highway overpass to collapse on them near Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

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CNN

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Bridge attack kills 3 U.S. soldiers in Iraq

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Yahoo! News

Putin wants new economic 'architecture'

President Vladimir Putin sought to reassure the world that Russia remained committed to free trade and investment for businesses, in spite of a chill in political relations with the West.

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International Herald Tribune

Iran detains fourth Iranian-American

Iran's detention of a fourth Iranian-American, a California peace activist, seems certain to rile relations between the two countries, already tense over Iran's nuclear program.

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CNN

NATION

Violence as Egyptians go to polls

One person has been killed in violence outside a polling station in Egypt's northern Nile Delta region, as Egyptians go to the polls in parliamentary elections.

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Al Jazeera

Karzai survives assassination attempt

Taliban guerrillas made a failed attempt to kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai with a rocket attack, narrowly missing a building where he was giving a speech, Taliban and the government said.

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Financial Times

French center-right looks set for solid majority in Parliament

President Nicolas Sarkozy's center-right camp appears assured of winning a majority in parliamentary elections. The only question is how big that majority will be and what he will do with it.

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International Herald Tribune

POLITICS

Lieberman: 'Bomb Iran if insurgent support doesn't stop'

The United States should launch military strikes against Iran if the government in Tehran does not stop supplying anti-American forces in Iraq, Sen. Joe Lieberman said.

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CBS News

It's the year of the flip-flop in U.S. politics

In what has become the year of the flip-flop, U.S. presidential candidates have been accusing each other of switching positions on policy issues as often as they change their clothes.

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Reuters

BUSINESS

Blackstone co-founders to make $2.3 billion from IPO

Blackstone co-founders Pete Peterson and Steve Schwarzman will receive a combined $2.3 billion pay-day from the U.S. private equity group's initial public offering.

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MSNBC

Gas prices post first drop in months

Gas prices are down for the first time since January, according to a national survey, with the average price for a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline down more than 7 cents in the past three weeks.

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Gas profits 'not getting to us,' station owner says

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USA Today

SPORTS

Spurs ease past Cavs, take 2-0 lead

Tony Parker scored 30 points, Manu Ginobili had 25 and Tim Duncan added 23 as the Spurs schooled the Cleveland Cavaliers 103-92 in Game 2 to take a 2-0 lead in the NBA finals.

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Sports Illustrated

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Inside the playoff mind

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NBA.com

Pettersen wins LPGA Championship

Suzann Pettersen won her first major by edging out Karrie Webb at the McDonald's LPGA Championship, atoning for her collapse at the first major of the season, the Kraft Nabisco Championship in April.

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Final round at the LPGA Championship

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Sports Illustrated

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Rebuilding Rome as a virtual city

Ancient Rome was reborn — as a virtual city — when a team of American and Italian academics unveiled a real-time 3-D computer reconstruction that allows visitors to navigate the ancient city.

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Newsweek

Apple enables Safari for Windows

Apple Inc. launched a version of its Safari Web browser for Windows-based PCs, pitting it against Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox.

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Apple to let outsiders create programs for iPhone

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Reuters

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Prisons ban religious books

Inmates at the federal prison camp in Otisville, N.Y., were stunned by what they saw at the chapel library on Memorial Day — hundreds of books had disappeared from the shelves.

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Houston Chronicle

In U.S., Mormons are in the spotlight

After more than a century on the fringe of America's consciousness, Mormons are riding a wave of media attention and public scrutiny — and say they welcome the chance to set a few things straight.

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Monsters and Critics

Columns And Op-Ed

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The puppet master

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St. Petersburg Times

Focus energy bill on conservation, research

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Des Moines Register

Democracy and freedom rhetoric is richer than its policies

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Daily Star

Column (Johann Hari):

What makes us think we can entrust the future of the human race to these people?

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London Independent

Column (Bruce Fuller):

No Child Left Behind lowers the bar on school reform

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San Francisco Chronicle

Latinos are baseball's bargain

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Detroit News

Et tu, Congress?

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Time's a wastin' for senators to get immigration bill going

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San Jose Mercury News

'Price is Right' was on money

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Houston Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

81-year-old bicyclist begins 2,000-mile charity trek

An 81-year-old man has set off on a 2,000-mile bicycle ride around Arizona's perimeter.

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CNN

Ex-Spur Robinson plans on investing with his heart

Former San Antonio Spurs All-Star David Robinson plans to start a $250 million private-equity fund with a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. investment banker, taking stakes in "socially conscious" companies.

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Charlotte Observer

NATION

Virginia Tech families 'ostracized' from government probe

Relatives of the Virginia Tech shooting victims are demanding representation on a gubernatorial panel studying the killings, saying they feel "ostracized."

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MSNBC

Appeals court rules against 'enemy combatant' detention

A federal appeals court ruled that the Pentagon may not continue to detain a man being held in the United States as an "enemy combatant."

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International Herald Tribune

Army's influence in top posts is waning

At a time when the Army's soldiers are doing most of the fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, the service's influence in key decision-making positions is waning.

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Guardian

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Army misses recruiting goal in May

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Army Times

ENVIRONMENT

EU streamlines environment requirements for farmers

Europe's farmers should soon have to waste less time with painstaking EU inspections that aim to check whether they are meeting a series of environment laws to qualify for subsidies, officials said.

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Reuters

Lawmakers pledge to make Capitol complex carbon neutral

Congress says it will join the war on global warming by cleaning up its own backyard, cluttered with a coal-burning power plant, a fleet of inefficient vehicles and old-fashioned lights.

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Environmental News Network

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

'Sopranos' signoff marks end of an era

When HBO introduced Tony Soprano to audiences in 1999, he was mashing a cigar between his thin lips and gazing intently at a family of ducks that had taken up residence in his swimming pool.

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Reuters

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Soprano's landmarks

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Yahoo! News

'Ocean's Thirteen' steals no. 1 spot

Johnny Depp and his pirate pals were no match for George Clooney and his con men colleagues as "Ocean's Thirteen" easily swiped the top spot at the box office.

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USA Today

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Ocean's Thirteen photos

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IMDB

HEALTH

Autism-vaccine debate goes to court

The battle over the alleged link between autism and vaccination will move from the ivory tower to the courts, as families take on the medical establishment.

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San Francisco Chronicle

No license to overindulge

Restaurant chains are removing trans fats from their menus, but at what cost to your health? What replaces those trans fats may be almost as bad for you.

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U.S. News & World Report

One hundred million may have Alzheimer's by 2050

Currently, 26.6 million people worldwide have Alzheimer's disease and that number could grow to more than 100 million people by 2050, a new analysis shows.

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Health Day

EDUCATION

Controversial professor denied tenure

For a man who has just lost his job after a highly public battle, DePaul University assistant political science Professor Norman Finkelstein is calm and accepting.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Gender gap in sciences narrows in California universities

The gap between women and men receiving doctorates in science and math from California universities is narrowing, state data shows.

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Napa Valley Register

State school standards vary dramatically, report says

The federal government's first-ever comparison of how states test for student progress in school shows big variations across the nation.

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CNN

Photo of the Day

After arriving from Chicago in the early morning and having the rest of the morning to settle in at the quarantine pool, Qannik, a 6-year-old beluga whale, enjoys an afternoon meal at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Wash. (Photo by Janet Jensen / The News Tribune/AP)

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