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Sue Hartzell, right, stands with friend Mike Corey of Lake Valley Fire Protection District as she looks, at the remains of her family's home that was burned down in the Angora wildfire in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. (Photo by Jeff Chiu / AP)

Immigration bill passes key senate vote

The Senate voted to jump-start a stalled immigration measure to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants.

San Francisco Chronicle

Second wind

Yahoo! News

Brokers charged in counterfeit scheme

Private brokers licensed by the government to clear commercial imports participated in a scheme to flood the U.S. market with Chinese-made counterfeit products, authorities said.

Newsday

Huge counterfeit smuggling ring busted

MSNBC

Former Interior Dept. official gets prison

A federal judge chastised the Interior Department's former No. 2 official and doubled his proposed prison term to 10 months for lying to senators in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.

Forbes

Jack Abramoff names names

ABC News

Secret records show CIA asked mafia to kill Castro

The CIA worked with two of the country's most-wanted criminals in a botched attempt to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro the 1960s, according to documents released by the CIA.

Sydney Morning Herald

CIA reveals Cold War secrets

CBS News

Boy says Taliban tricked him into wearing bomb

The story of a 6-year-old Afghan boy who says he thwarted an effort by Taliban militants to trick him into being a suicide bomber provoked tears and anger at a meeting of tribal leaders in Afghanistan.

MSNBC

NATION

Searchers find Cambodia plane wreckage

Cambodian officials say searchers have found the crash site of a passenger airplane that disappeared two days earlier with 22 people aboard.

The Age

Rain hits Cambodia plane hunt

BBC

China opens world's longest sea bridge

A 22-mile bridge that its builders claim is the world's longest sea-crossing structure was formally linked up just south of the business hub of Shanghai.

Daily Mail

World's longest sea-crossing bridge

Yahoo! News

POLITICS

Poll: Young voters favor Obama, Clinton

Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the favored presidential candidates of younger Americans, according to a poll conducted by CBS News, The New York Times and MTV.

CBS2

Special section:

Interactive: campaign 2008

CBS News

Brown finally takes PM mantle from Blair

Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as British prime minister, inheriting a government trailing in polls because of Iraq and needing to win back voters if it is to secure a fourth term.

Sydney Morning Herald

Blair tipped for Mideast role

BBC

BUSINESS

Washington vs. Wall Street

The House Financial Services Committee will haul in all five commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission for the first time in at least a decade, an affair being billed as an "oversight" hearing.

Forbes

Murder-suicide suspected in wrestler death

Pro wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife and smothered his son before hanging himself in his weight room, a law enforcement official close to the investigation told The Associated Press.

Sports Illustrated

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Tiny Web radio stations squawk over royalty fees

Internet radio DJs are replacing their eclectic playlists with a "Day of Silence," a protest against new royalty rates they say could decimate the fledgling digital broadcasting industry.

San Francisco Chronicle

Apple, AT&T set 3 price plans for iPhone

Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc. said they will offer three price plans, starting at $59.99 per month, for the widely anticipated iPhone that is set to go on sale this week.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Milestone for black education

For the first time in the South, blacks are as well represented on college campuses as they are in the region's population as a whole -- something not yet true of the country overall.

Chicago Sun-Times

U.S. faces teacher shortage

As hundreds of thousands of baby boomers retire and the No Child Left Behind law raises standards for new teachers, school systems face a scarcity of qualified recruits.

Daily Herald

SPORTS

Police say wrestler strangled wife, smothered son

Disturbing details continue to come out about the apparent double murder-suicide of professional wrestling star Chris Benoit, his wife, and 7-year-old son.

Newsday

Wrestler commits familicide

ABC News

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GOOD NEWS

2 rescued from car on flooded spillway

Teenage sisters had to be rescued from a car stalled in bumper-deep water rushing over a flooded road in a residential area of the city.

WNYT

Oklahoma flood rescue

ABC News

U.S. bald eagle population soaring

Decades after hovering on the brink of extinction, the bald eagle is continuing its historic comeback.

Fort Worth Star Telegram

NATION

Poll shows GOP support for Iraq war beginning to waver

Public support for the war in Iraq has fallen to a new low. Not only that, but Republican support is beginning to waver.

CNN

Fissures appear in GOP war support

MSNBC

Distributor warns about 450,000 Chinese-made tires

A New Jersey tire distributor has contacted the federal government about conducting a voluntary recall of as many as 450,000 tires that it purchased from a Chinese manufacturer and sold in the U.S.

Detroit Free Press

Seller balks at tire recall, despite flaw

CNN

Bus taking family home from reunion crashes; 1 killed, 66 injured

A tour bus carrying members of an extended Alabama family from a reunion in New York veered off a Kentucky highway and slammed into an overpass, killing one and injuring 66 others.

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Green is good, by customer demand

Raffaello Napoleone, chief executive of Pitti Immagine Uomo, believes that in five years both ethical and ecological clothing will be a real part of the market — by public demand.

International Herald Tribune

Asia urged to invest more on clean energy sources

The Asian Development Bank urged countries in the region to boost investments in clean energy sources to sustain its economic growth and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Earth Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Jubilant Paris Hilton out of jail

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton walked out of a Los Angeles-area jail with a big smile on her face after serving 23 days for violating her probation on a reckless driving conviction.

CNN

To jail and back

E! Online

New director brings darker approach to Potter film

Filmmaker David Yates has brought a darker edge to the latest Harry Potter film — he tackles the adolescent boy wizard as he walks a thin line between good and evil.

Reuters

'Potter' stars on growing up, kissing and more

Yahoo! News

HEALTH

Study finds Type 1 diabetes more likely in white children

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has found that race may play a big role in which kids get the type of diabetes that is most common in children.

WRAL

Children and diabetes

WCBS

Fructose: sugar's dark side?

Cane sugar has a dark side, a provocative new study shows. The sweetener we call sugar is actually a double sugar.

WebMD

Study: Omega 3 protects against blindness due to retinopathy

Scientists in the U.S. and Sweden have shown that Omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids stopped mice from getting retinopathy, a condition where the retina deteriorates and results in blindness.

Medical News Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Poll: trust in organized religion at near-record low

Americans trust the military and the police force significantly more than the church and organized religion, a new Gallup Poll says.

Beliefnet

Anglican 'No' vote threatens future gay unions in B.C.

Canada's first Anglican diocese to bless gay unions has become the focus of what is likely to be an impassioned political and theological debate.

CBC

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