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A KBR site in Houston, Texas, is seen in this file photo. The Kuwait company building the U.S. embassy in Baghdad had been accused of agreeing to pay $200,000 in kickbacks in exchange for two Army contracts from a subsidiary of Halliburton Co. (Photo by Pat Sullivan / AP)

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Pentagon contractor hit by ex-worker's rape charges

Major Pentagon contractor KBR Inc. and former parent Halliburton Co. are facing rising political heat from a lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was gang-raped by fellow employees of a KBR unit in Iraq.

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Reuters

New Orleans approves demolitions

New Orleans City Council has voted to demolish 4,500 public housing units despite violent protests against the development project.

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BBC

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New Orleans police, protesters clash

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MSNBC

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Violent clashes in New Orleans

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CBS News

Bush says Congress wasting time, money

President Bush, successful in forcing the Democratic Congress to bend to his will, complained that lawmakers had wasted time and taxpayers' money.

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Ventura Country Star

Congress subpoenas ex-CIA official

The House Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena for Jose Rodriguez, the former CIA official who directed that secret interrogation videotapes of two suspected terrorists be destroyed.

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The man behind CIA tapes disposal

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Jury deliberates case of Internet hoax that led to deadly shooting

The tragic story that began with a sick joke on the Internet is coming to a close as a Riverhead, New York, jury deliberates the fate of 53-year-old John White, on trial for killing a friend of his son.

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CNN

Europe's border-free zone expands

Celebrations have been held to mark nine new states joining a European border-free zone.

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BBC

NATION

Explosions, fires at Florida chemical plant kills 4

Explosions and fires at a chemical plant killed four people, injured at least 14 and sent debris flying several stories into the air, fire officials and witnesses said.

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Congress approves Virginia Tech-inspired gun bill

Congress passed a long-stalled bill inspired by the Virginia Tech shootings that would more easily flag prospective gun buyers who have documented mental health problems.

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Yahoo! News

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Teenager who planned Columbine-style plot is sentenced

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POLITICS

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In charity, Clinton donors overlap

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International Herald Tribune

Georgia's ousted lawmaker McKinney to run for president

Former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who was ousted from office last year after a headline-grabbing scuffle with a Capitol Hill police officer, has decided to seek the presidency as a Green Party candidate.

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CNN

Giuliani in hospital with flu-like symptoms

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani was admitted to a hospital while campaigning in Missouri after experiencing flu-like symptoms, the Associated Press reported, citing his campaign spokeswoman.

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Bloomberg

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Giuliani plummets in latest NBC/WSJ poll

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BUSINESS

Bear Stearns reports first loss after mortgage writedowns

Bear Stearns Cos. reported its first loss as a public company after writedowns for home loan-related holdings and declines in the firm's three largest divisions.

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Bloomberg

General Motors and Navistar enter agreement for truck lines

General Motors Corp., aiming to focus on its core light-vehicle making business and raise liquidity, will sell the business, including the related service parts business, to Navistar International Corp.

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CNNMoney

SPORTS

Parcells to join Dolphins

Bill Parcells' day began with reports he would rebuild the Atlanta Falcons. It ended with him on the cusp of taking the same job with the Miami Dolphins.

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Sports Illustrated

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Why did Parcells choose Miami over Atlanta?

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ESPN

Record 30-game suspension for N.Y. Islanders' Chris Simon

Chris Simon, a forward for the New York Islanders, was hit with a 30-game suspension, surpassing the mark of 25 he was given in March in a ban that stretched into this season.

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HEALTH

Christmas trees: source of indoor mold?

Live Christmas trees may bring more than the fresh pine scent of the holiday season into homes, according to a new study.

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WebMD

Doctors should defer booster shots of vaccine CDC

Doctors should defer giving booster shots of a widely used childhood vaccine in the wake of a voluntary recall last week of 1.2 million doses by Merck & Co. Inc., U.S. health authorities said.

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Reuters

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No big problems after vaccine recall

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Akron Beacon Journal

RELIGION

Can religion improve peace prospects in the Middle East?

For 60 years, attempts to craft a lasting peace for the holy land have fallen woefully short. As new talks get under way, leaders are insisting that it's time to include a religious dimension in the peace process.

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Christian Science Monitor

Undercover team inspects churches

Churches across the Midlands are being checked by "mystery worshippers." Normally paid to inspect stores while posing as ordinary shoppers, they now report on sermons and the warmth of welcome.

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BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Man reunites with birth mother at work

Steve Flaig wasn't sure how to approach his co-worker with his big news. It would seem brash to walk up and say, "Hi, I'm Steve, your son."

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Panda born at 1.8 ounces, healthy

A 16-month-old giant panda born at half the weight of most newborn pandas is growing into a normal, healthy animal in southwest China, state media reported.

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LiveScience

WORLD

Russia signs central Asian pipeline deal

Desperate to meet growing domestic and European demand, Russia signed a major deal with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to build a natural gas pipeline along the Caspian Sea.

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International Herald Tribune

'Enough evidence' to charge Zuma

South Africa's top prosecutor says there is enough evidence to charge the new leader of the governing party, Jacob Zuma, with corruption, a case that could derail his election as the country's next president.

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BBC

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Zuma calls for unity

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ABC News

Mao and the art of management

Who is the role model for the under-performing, over-compensated chief executive fighting to survive independent shareholders and ambitious vice-presidents? An obvious candidate is Mao.

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Economist

ENVIRONMENT

EPA denies 18 states the right to fight global warming

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stunned the nation by denying California and 17 other states the right to proceed with regulations that would reduce global warming pollution from new automobiles.

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Environmental News Network

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California will not get US waiver on emissions

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Forbes

Missing link between whales and land animals was size of a raccoon

A new study suggests that the missing evolutionary link between whales and land animals is an odd raccoon-sized animal that looks like a long-tailed deer without antlers, or an overgrown long-legged rat.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Captain uses his fat to race

New Zealander Pete Bethune is using his fat as fuel to power his Earthrace motorboat around the world in an attempt to break a world record.

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iTWire

Monkeys, college kids score about the same on math test

Monkeys can add, and they're not half bad at it, researchers announced, saying two monkeys scored about as well as college students on the same basic-addition test.

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National Geographic

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Nick considering teen pregnancy special

Nickelodeon is considering a special for its young audience about sex and love following the news that 16-year-old "Zoey 101" star Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant.

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Hollywood Reporter

Divorced parents do a good job

New research overturns a commonly held belief that families fractured by divorced parents become inferior havens for children compared with stable homes.

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LiveScience

America's first 'Me Generation'

Did Emerson and the American transcendentalists transform society or merely sow the seeds of American individualism?

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Salon.com

EDUCATION

7 school officials fired after administering shocks to students

Seven school officials at a Massachusetts special-needs school have been fired after mistakenly administering electric shock therapy treatment to two students.

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ABC News

Woman abandons home to escape the public school system

A Utah woman who was ordered by a juvenile court judge to enroll her children in public school or lose custody of them has abandoned her home, furniture and other possessions to escape the order.

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World Net Daily

US strictures prompt Arabs to study elsewhere, Australia now first choice

A generation of Arab men who once attended college in the United States, and returned home to become leaders in the Middle East, increasingly are sending the next generation to schools elsewhere.

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EducationNews.org

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Mexico: Best place in the world to retire

Mexico was named as the best place in the world to retire by an annual retirement index, replacing last year's winner Panama, where real estate prices have soared.

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Reuters

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Sybille Gogol feeds a seagull with bread at the Baltic Sea beach of Warnemuende, northern Germany. (Photo by Frank Hormann / AP)

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