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Spc. Daniel Collier, from Portland, Ore., secures the area at a check point during a routine patrol at Salman Pak city about 30 miles south of Baghdad. (Photo by Petros Giannakouris / AP)

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13 dead as flooding follows severe storm from Texas to Ohio

Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and evacuated after a foot of rain pushed rivers and creeks out of their banks in the nation's midsection.

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Severe storms hit North Texas

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USA Today

FBI subprime mortgage probe expands

Criminal investigations have been launched against 17 companies in the fallout of the subprime mortgage collapse, the FBI disclosed.

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Terrorists on Wall Street

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Huffington Post

President Bush: Iraq War must go on

Five years after launching the U.S. invasion of Iraq, President Bush is making some of his most expansive claims of success in the fighting there.

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TIME

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Protests in US cities to mark Iraq war anniversary

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Poll: Most Americans say war not worth it

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CBS News

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Five years in Iraq

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TIME

Protesters 'surrender in Tibet'

More than 100 people have turned themselves in to police following anti-China riots in Tibet's main city, Lhasa, Chinese state media have said.

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BBC

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Pictures: Tibet rioters face Chinese military

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US backs Egyptian effort to mediate Israel-Hamas cease-fire

The Bush administration is using Egypt as an intermediary to open a channel between Israel and representatives of Hamas, in what some diplomats say could be a softening of the U.S. stance.

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International Herald Tribune

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The Galapagos tortoise Nigrita watches her hatchling in the zoo of Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Walter Bieri / AP)	A sparrow perches among magnolia blossoms in the Rose Garden at the White House. (Photo by Ron Edmonds / AP)	A Zanu PF supporter listens to President Robert Mugabe at a rally in Gweru, Zimbabwe. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi / AP)

NATION

Cheney again links Iraq invasion to 9/11

Vice President Dick Cheney defended the toppling of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as part of the struggle against terrorism following the 9/11 attacks.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Detroit Council asks Mayor to reisgn

The Detroit City Council called for the resignation of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is being investigated over an alleged affair he swore under oath he did not have. He quickly rejected the request.

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Associated Press

POLITICS

Clinton tries to keep revote plan alive

Sen. Clinton’s hopes of new contests in Florida and Michigan grew dim as Florida officially scuttled plans for a new vote and Michigan lawmakers appeared far from a deal.

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Plan for new Michigan Democratic primary falters

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Reuters

Obama denounces preacher and urges race healing

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama criticized his preacher's racially charged sermons, but said he could not disown him in a speech urging Americans to move past their "racial stalemate."

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Obama Confronts Racial Division

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Associated Press

White House e-mail battle heats up

The White House has to explain why it shouldn't be required to copy its computer hard drives to ensure no further e-mails are lost, a federal judge ordered.

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BUSINESS

Wanted in stores: your tax rebate money

The government's tax rebate stimulus is weeks away. But retailers worried about a consumer slowdown are already planning several ways for you to spend that windfall in their stores.

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CNNMoney

Fed cuts rates by 0.75 points

Stopping short of giving the market everything it wanted, the Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate by three quarters of one percentage point.

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MarketWatch

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Stocks Rally Amid Rate Cut

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CBS News

Delta offers to buy out 30,000 workers

Delta Air Lines said it will offer voluntary severance payouts to roughly 30,000 employees and cut domestic capacity by an extra 5 percent this year in an attempt to deal with soaring fuel prices.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Tail 'key' for gecko acrobatics

A gecko's tail is as crucial to the animal's acrobatic ability as its sticky feet, scientists report.

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BBC

Microsoft releases Vista SP1

After many rumors as to when Windows Vista would get its much-anticipated first service pack looked improbable, Microsoft has finally dropped SP1 on the masses.

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HEALTH

Stem-cell therapy in China draws foreign patients with incurable conditions

China is gaining popularity among a new breed of travelers: patients with incurable conditions who are visiting the country to receive experimental stem-cell treatments not offered in the United States.

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NPR

Internet addiction could be classified as mental illness

The American Journal of Psychiatry says Internet addiction is a common compulsive-impulsive disorder, and that it should be added to psychiatry's official guidebook of mental disorders.

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AOL News

EDUCATION

Why good students don't reach college

Support during the complex application process is key, a new Chicago study finds.

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Christian Science Monitor

Paper examines Michigan athletes and their academic educations

A seven-month-long investigation by the Ann Arbor News now raises serious questions about the education Wolverine athletes are receiving.

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GOOD NEWS

Phone message recovered from man's late wife

An 80-year-old man can hear his late wife's voice again, any time he wants. Verizon has recovered a lost message recorded by Charles Whiting's wife, Catherine, before her death in 2005.

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USA Today

Injured vet comes home — to a new house

Sgt. Brian Fountaine, a double amputee, comes home to a new life and a new home thanks to a special organization.

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Christian Science Monitor

Trumpeter to help New Orleans libraries

Jazz trumpeter Irvin Mayfield intends to unveil a plan for a multimillion-dollar library system that reflects the city's identity. It would include a jazz-themed branch housing early recordings.

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Associated Press

WORLD

Canadian says US interrogators threatened him with rape

In a document from the Guantánamo war court files, Canadian captive Omar Khadr alleges that he was repeatedly threatened with rape as an interrogation technique.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Airbus A380 makes UK debut

The world's largest passenger aircraft landed at Heathrow on its first commercial flight into Europe and was greeted by a water cannon salute from fire crews.

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Big bird: Airbus A380

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ENVIRONMENT

The all-electric Subaru R1e to be tested in New York City

The all-electric Subaru R1e will be on display at the New York International Auto Show, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.

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Environmental News Network

States to kill sea lions to save salmon

Washington and Oregon can start killing sea lions that feed on migrating salmon to help preserve dwindling U.S. Pacific Northwest salmon populations, a federal agency said.

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Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Most expensive champagne in the world

Champagne producer Perrier-Jouët, the world's fourth largest producer with about 2 million bottles produced a year, will soon launch the first tailor-made champagne in history, called "By and For."

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ABC News

Author Arthur C. Clarke dies

Author Arthur C. Clarke, whose science fiction and non-fiction works ranged from the script for "2001: A Space Odyssey" to an early proposal for communications satellites, has died at age 90.

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CNN

Q&A: Steve Van Zandt

The favorite sideman of Bruce Springsteen and Tony Soprano talks about touring, his favorite songs and why he’ll probably never do another solo album

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SPORTS

UConn wins NCAA women's top seed

Tennessee, Connecticut, Maryland and North Carolina are all familiar powerhouses and are all anchors in the NCAA women's tournament bracket.

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Sports Illustrated

Growth hormone no benefit to athletes

People who take human growth hormone in the hope of boosting athletic performance are breaking the law, risking their health and are likely not even achieving their objective.

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Reuters

RELIGION

Christians, Muslims move ahead on global talks

Religious leaders plan to meet this year in the United States, Britain and at the Vatican to defuse tensions.

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Christian Science Monitor

Actor quits big break on rabbis' orders

Abraham Karpen, 25, was cast as Natalie Portman's husband in the film "New York I Love You." When his rabbis found out, they ordered him to withdraw from the film or face punishment.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Big Brother gets bigger, says international privacy study

According to a new international privacy report, governments around the world are increasingly monitoring citizens with surveillance, identification systems and archiving private data.

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BITS AND PIECES

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A Pakistani man rides his bicycle next to poster of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto at the spot where she was assassinated in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti / AP)

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