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A watch tower of the famous Golden Dome Shiite shrine stands alone after insurgents blew up the two minarets in Samarra. The Askariya shrine's dome was destroyed in a Feb. 2006 bombing blamed on Sunni Muslim militants. (Photo by Hameed Rasheed / AP)

U.S. official: Samarra attack may have been inside job

Authorities have evidence that the bombing of the Askariya Mosque in Samarra was an inside job, a U.S. military official said.

CNN

Iraq holds its breath

TIME

Decades of military families drank highly toxic water

Marine families who lived at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina over three decades drank water contaminated with toxins as much as 40 times over today's safety standard, federal health investigators said.

NBC11

Blog:

Politics as usual

ABC News

U.S. adds 7 nations to trafficking blacklist

The Bush administration added seven nations, including several key U.S. allies in the Middle East, to its human trafficking blacklist. Countries going on this list are subject to possible sanctions.

TIME

Child sex slave industry defies ban in India

ABC News

Pressure mounts in Gaza battles

Hamas Islamist fighters and forces loyal to Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas battled for control of the Gaza Strip in an escalating Palestinian supremacy struggle he described as "madness."

Reuters

Gaza battles raise fear of full civil war

Independent Online

Major suspected terrorist leader arrested in Indonesia

The Indonesian police confirmed that Abu Dujana, suspected of being a military leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist group, had been arrested and was in custody in central Java.

International Herald Tribune

Capture of Indonesia's most-wanted

Yahoo! News

NATION

Sudan agrees to joint force in Darfur

Sudan accepted the deployment of a hybrid African Union-United Nations force for Darfur, in a move to end the violence and bring humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged region.

Melbourne Herald Sun

Special section:

Factbox: the conflict in Darfur

Reuters

Police: Coach Woolmer not murdered

Pakistan World Cup cricket coach Bob Woolmer died from natural causes, Jamaican Police said. Commissioner Lucius Thomas said Woolmer was not strangled as police had earlier concluded.

Guardian

Khan calls for Woolmer legal action

ITN

Blair defends legacy, rounds on media

British Prime Minister Tony Blair defended his legacy, including the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and rounded on the media for acting like a "feral beast," ripping reputations apart.

Herald Sun

POLITICS

Bush asks U.S. senators to push forward on immigration legislation

President Bush was to test the limits of his fading clout, urging GOP senators at a policy luncheon to breathe new life into the compromise immigration bill that stalled last week.

U.S. News & World Report

House set to pass post-Va. Tech gun bill

Spurred by the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, the Democratic-led House of Representatives is expected to approve a bill to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, lawmakers said.

Reuters

Prosecutor wants Libby to be sent to prison immediately

The prosecutor in the case of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is asking a judge to deny a request by Libby to remain free on bond pending the appeal of his conviction.

MSNBC

BUSINESS

Ford working with advisers on Jaguar, Land Rover

Ford Motor Co. said it is working with financial advisers on the best options for its European luxury brands Jaguar and Land Rover.

Reuters

At home on the job

Increasing numbers of employers and workers say such flexibility of working at home pays big dividends.

New York Daily News

SPORTS

Duke prosecutor admits doubts from start

The lead investigator in the botched rape case against three Duke University lacrosse players softly told a disciplinary panel that he knew all along that the woman who made the accusations was lying.

Newsday

U.S. should coast into quarterfinals

The U.S. soccer team was just getting warmed up in winning twice in less than a 48-hour period, the start of an odyssey which will continue into South America with the Copa America at the end of June.

ESPN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA extends space shuttle mission

NASA's shuttle Atlantis will spend two extra days in orbit to allow its astronaut crew to repair minor heat shield damage and perform an extra spacewalk at the International Space Station.

Space.com

NASA adds fourth space walk

Reuters

Apple is offering a browser for Windows-based PCs

Apple will make its Safari Web browser available for Windows-based PCs, opening a new front in its rivalry with Microsoft.

International Herald Tribune

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column:

Bipartisan betrayal

Real Clear Politics

Column:

Justice for Lebanon

USA Today

Column:

The speech that brought down a wall

TIME

Column (Christopher Hitchens):

Gloating as Paris falls

The Age

Editorial:

Protecting incompetence

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial:

Still dying in Congo

International Herald Tribune

Column (Howard Fineman):

Prescription for outrage

Newsweek

Column (Peter Birkenhead):

Better to be Hamlet than President George

Salon.com

Column (Rosa Brooks):

What's unlawful about these enemy combatants?

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

What have the Democrats achieved?

Economist

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GOOD NEWS

Injured hiker rescued in Colorado

A Kansas man was rescued after spending the night on a rocky crag high in Clear Creek Canyon, west of Golden, Colorado. The man was identified as David Seals, 34, of Topeka, Kan.

Denver Post

Crews rescue injured hiker

KCNC

Italian police discover ancient temple

Italian police have taken possession of a newly discovered ancient Greek temple in southern Italy after uncovering a developer's plot to build over the 2,000-year-old ruins.

CBC

NATION

Soldier missing in Texas found dead

Army investigators were trying to piece together how an experienced soldier died after disappearing during a training exercise and remaining missing for four days.

CBS News

Deadly $2 heroin aimed at young teens

A cheap, highly addictive drug known as "cheese heroin" has killed 21 teenagers in the Dallas area over the past two years, and authorities say they hope to stop the fad before it spreads across the nation.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Wildcatters see gushers of green

Researchers have high hopes that a tropical grass known as a 'superweed' will one day replace crude oil in the years to come.

San Francisco Chronicle

Sawfish protected by trade restrictions

Trade restrictions were approved for sawfish — large rays related to sharks, found off the East Coast of the United States and other places — according to World Wildlife Fund and TRAFFIC.

Earth Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Hilton expected to remain in jail's medical ward

Paris Hilton, sent back to jail for violating probation in a drunken-driving case, will finish her sentence at the medical ward where she ended up after a day of house arrest, TMZ.com reported.

Hollywood Reporter

Mom and dad visit Paris in jail

CBS News

Capitol Hill's most feared blogger

Mike Rogers has outed so many closeted gay politicos, he's starting to make Capitol Hill look like Brokeback Mountain.

Yahoo! News

HEALTH

FDA concerned about obesity drug

U.S. regulators said Sanofi-Aventis' obesity treatment Acomplia may trigger suicidal behavior and other psychological side effects in some patients.

BusinessWeek

New diet drug

CBS News

Concern over asthma and antibiotics link

Infants who receive antibiotics in their first year of life are more likely to develop asthma by age 7, and multiple courses of the drugs boost the risk more, a Canadian study suggests.

WebMD

EDUCATION

FBI warns colleges to watch for spies

The head of the FBI's Boston office is warning the region's top universities to be on the lookout for foreign spies or potential terrorists who might be trying to steal unclassified, yet sensitive, research.

Yahoo! News

The cruel fate for a boy named Osama

The parents of a New York teen named Osama have sued the school system claiming their son was constantly harassed by teachers.

CBS News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

An old religion says no to billboards

Some might see the towering billboards that rise out of a centuries-old Mumbai funeral ground as a message from beyond the grave.

BusinessWeek

Study finds 20 million atheists, agnostics in U.S.

A new study on America's atheists and agnostics compared the no-faith audience to those who actively participate in the Christian faith.

Christian Post

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