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Danny McFadden, of Phoenix, a driver for AZ Iceman, loads up a pallet of bagged ice outside the company warehouse as temperatures were predicted to hit 115 during a continuing heat wave. (Photo by Ross D. Franklin / AP)

West to bake in heatwave

The heat wave in the West is showing no signs of letting up. It may hit 116 in Las Vegas, which would tie a record set in 1985. Many communities across the western U.S. are expected to eclipse 116.

ABC News

White House responds to Clinton's comments

The White House made fun of former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for criticizing President Bush's decision to erase the prison sentence of former aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

San Francisco Chronicle

Easy commute

TIME

British girl kidnapped in Nigeria

Kidnappers snatched a 3-year-old British girl as she was being taken to school in Nigeria's southern oil region, officials said.

USA Today

A look at some recent developments in Nigeria's restive oil region

International Herald Tribune

Surrender call ignored at Pakistan mosque

canada.com

Pakistan forces blow holes in mosque walls

Reuters

Special section:

Profile: Islamabad's Red Mosque

BBC

Israel kills 7 militants in Gaza raid

Israeli troops and armor crossed into the central Gaza Strip, killing seven Palestinian militants, including six from the Islamist Hamas group that controls the coastal territory.

Reuters

Sharp rise in number of applications for U.S. citizenship

The number of legal immigrants seeking citizenship is surging, due to imminent increases in application fees, citizenship drives and feelings of insecurity among immigrants.

International Herald Tribune

Desperate to migrate

MSNBC

60 feared killed in Mexico as buried bus is unearthed

Rescuers have pulled more bodies, including children, from the wreckage of a bus swallowed by a landslide in Mexico which may have killed up to 60 people, local authorities said.

The Australian

NATION

London Tube train derails

A subway train derailed in east London during rush hour. One person was injured in the accident, which police said was not terror-related.

ABC News

Special section:

Passengers tell their story of the London Tube derailment horror

East London Advertiser

Australia 'has Iraq oil interest'

Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has admitted that securing oil supplies is a key factor behind the presence of Australian troops in Iraq.

BBC

South Korean search engine beats Yahoo! and Google

Tapping a South Korean inclination to help one another on the Web, Naver.com has become the undisputed leader of Internet searching in the country.

International Herald Tribune

POLITICS

Obama rains on Clintons' parade

Bill Clinton crowed that Hillary Clinton has emerged from his shadow as a new leader for America, but Barack and Michelle Obama intimated both the ex-President and former First Lady belong to the past.

NY Daily News

Bloomberg bid hurts Giuliani, not Clinton, in New Jersey

A presidential bid by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg would take more support from the city's former mayor, Republican Rudy Giuliani, than from Senator Hillary Clinton, a Democrat.

Bloomberg

Special section:

Mike Bloomberg 101

MarketWatch

BUSINESS

Boeing on track for record year

Boeing Co. booked orders for 228 planes in the second quarter, bringing its tally to 544 for the year so far, putting the U.S. planemaker on track to break last year's record.

Reuters

Euro falls from record versus Yen as ECB leaves rate unchanged

The euro fell from an all-time high against the yen after the European Central Bank kept borrowing costs unchanged.

Bloomberg

Wall Street slips, yields overshadow M&A

Stocks slipped as worries about rising bond yields overshadowed strong economic data and news of a $20 billion buyout of Hilton Hotels Corp.

Reuters

SPORTS

Grant Hill leaving Orlando Magic for Suns

Grant Hill has decided to sign with the Phoenix Suns to hopefully hitch a ride to an NBA title, leaving the Orlando Magic after seven injury-racked, mostly unfulfilled seasons.

Orlando Sentinel

Resurgent Venus into semi-finals

Venus Williams answered fifth seed Kuznetsova's power game with some crushing returns and broke at 3-1 before serving out the first set at Wimbledon.

BBC

Wimbledon

Reuters

Sochi hosts 2014 Winter Olympics

The Russian resort of Sochi has been chosen to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, beating South Korea's Pyeongchang.

BBC

Sochi win hailed as sign of Russia's revival

Yahoo! News

HEALTH

Brazil gets cut-price AIDS drug

Brazil has accepted an offer from a manufacturer of an important anti-Aids drug to cut its price by around 30 percent.

BBC

Racism tied to breast cancer risk

Black women who feel they've been victims of racial discrimination are more likely than their peers to develop breast cancer, a large study suggests.

Scientific American

The sooner the better

Researchers say they have successfully identified autism in children as young as 14 months — the earliest the disorder has ever been diagnosed.

Newsweek

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GOOD NEWS

Man walking across nation for charity approaching Denver

Jim Armbruster will soon walk through the Denver region as part of his 2,200-mile journey to California to raise money for Marklund, a nonprofit providing full-life care for the developmentally disabled.

Positive News

Memorial scholarship fund gives record number of awards

The Vantagepoint Public Employee Memorial Scholarship Fund will award scholarships for the 2007-08 school year to 44 surviving children and spouses of public safety workers.

Positive News

NATION

Fourth of July fireworks inspire awe

The nation's festivities and patriotic observances took place under heightened security in the aftermath of the attempted car bombings in Britain.

CNN

The downside of fireworks

Fireworks were blamed for several injuries and fires around the region, including a spectacular blaze that nearly destroyed two homes under construction in West Seattle.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

U.S. gasoline stockpiles grow

U.S. stockpiles of gasoline rose last week as refineries ramped up output, the Energy Department reported.

Houston Chronicle

A new scourge strikes Florida: big, airborne fish

Florida's season of "sturgeon strikes" - the law enforcement term for collisions between the state's largest freshwater fish and hapless boaters - is well under way.

International Herald Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

Hawaii becomes second state to curb greenhouse gases

Hawaii has become the second state in the nation, after California, to pass a statewide cap on greenhouse gas emissions believed responsible for the planet's rising temperature.

Environment News Service

Is this the global-warming generation?

Live Earth concerts in eight countries hope to inspire action. Will it work?

Christian Science Monitor

Live Earth more than just hot air?

Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Why the American Revolution was 'almost a miracle'

The American victory was achieved by the narrowest of margins, argues historian John Ferling in his book, "Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence."

Christian Science Monitor

Hot dog king: hometown dud

What’s more American than celebrating the young man who brought the Mustard Belt back home on Independence Day? Hometown pride over him. But that is not the case for Joey Chestnut of San Jose.

New York Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

IPhone fanciers going to camp

Exactly one week after the debut of the iPhone, hundreds of developers and enthusiasts plan to huddle to work on and play with their new favorite toy.

San Francisco Chronicle

Video gamers try to bust lazy boy image

Matt Ringel, the commissioner of the World Series of Video Games, is eager to dispel the notion of gamers as soda-swilling, junk food-eating slackers.

MSNBC

China finds pyramid-shaped room in ancient tomb

Chinese researchers say they have found a strange pyramid-shaped chamber while surveying the massive underground tomb of China's first emperor and theorize it was built as a passageway for his soul.

Sci-Tech Today

EDUCATION

Failing to fight fat

The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on nutrition education, but an Associated Press review of scientific studies examining 57 such programs found mostly failure.

NY Daily News

Parents don't need lawyers to fight for special-ed help

New Supreme Court ruling strengthens the rights of parents with special-needs children: they can fight their own cases without lawyers.

Houston Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Shunned from society, widows flock to city to die

Ostracized by society, India's widows flock to the holy city of Vrindavan waiting to die. Currently, there are an estimated 40 million widows in India.

CNN

African bishops ready to boycott conference in row over gay clergy

The head of the Anglican Church in Nigeria says that his 120-plus bishops will boycott next year’s Lambeth Conference unless the U.S. Church halts its liberal agenda.

Times Online

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