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U.S. President George Bush waves shortly before boarding the Air Force One at Kiev's Borispil airport, Ukraine. (Photo by Sergei Chuzavkov / AP)

Bush prods NATO for Afghan help

President Bush renewed calls for NATO nations to allow Ukraine and Georgia to start the admission process and to counter Osama bin Laden's latest threats by stepping up efforts in Afghanistan.

MSNBC

'The transatlantic alliance is shifting east'

Guardian

Congress hits big oil companies

Top executives of the biggest U.S. oil companies were pressed to explain soaring fuel prices amid huge industry profits and why they were not investing to develop renewable energy sources.

CBS News

Clinton, Obama take on Big Oil

CNN

Bernanke sees risk of economic downturn

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the U.S. economy could shrink in the first half of the year — the closest that the nation's central bank chief has yet come to proclaiming a recession.

CNNMoney

Recession is possible

Reuters

Ben Bernanke

Yahoo! News

Mugabe loses control of parliament, Tsvangirai triumphs

Zimbabwe’s opposition party declared its leader Morgan Tsvangirai the rightful winner of the presidential election as official results showed Robert Mugabe’s party had lost control of the parliament.

Times Online

Bush to finish border fence

The Bush administration plans to use its authority to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest U.S. border.

CBS News

Where US-Mexico border fence is tall, border crossings fall

Christian Science Monitor

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Ice is still present in Burlington, Vt., shown here blocking the harbor. (Photo by Toby Talbot / AP)	BJ the Clown, left, paints a clown face on Sarah Burdette, 7, from Lakeland, Fla., during Kids Week activities. (Photo by Phil Coale / AP)	Ducks float on a lake during sunset on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus. (Photo by Sergei Grits / AP)

NATION

Breakthrough on housing

Senate Democrats and Republicans are edging closer to a bipartisan housing bill after a surprise breakthrough on the top issue facing Congress.

The Hill

Truckers clog New Jersey Turnpike in price protest

Truckers clogged the New Jersey Turnpike and other highways, slowing traffic to as low as 20 mph as part of a nationwide protest against surging diesel fuel prices.

Bloomberg

Man who packed D.B. Cooper's parachutes dismisses find

The man who packed four parachutes for D.B. Cooper says a chute found recently dates to World War II and is "absolutely, for sure" not one the infamous skyjacker used in his legendary 1971 getaway.

USA Today

FBI says parachute does not belong to D.B. Cooper

Yahoo! News

POLITICS

Pentagon releases 2003 'torture memo' justifying harsh interrogation tactics

The Pentagon has released a declassified 2003 Justice Department memo that claimed the president's wartime authority trumps any international ban on torture.

Fox News

Top Dems seek nominee deal by July 1

Democratics in Congress, fearing a messy fight at the convention, are coalescing around the idea that uncommitted superdelegates should announce which candidate they support early this summer.

The Hill

McCain the 'punk' goes back to school

John McCain is a punk. At least that's what the editors of his high school yearbook thought.

ABC News

Polls: McCain strong in key Dem states

USA Today

SPORTS

NFL approves helmet headsets for defensive players

National Football League owners approved communications devices for defensive players.

Sports Network

Indiana dismisses two starters

Indiana University dismissed starting guards Armon Bassett and Jamarcus Ellis. No reason was given for the dismissal.

The Sports Network

Source: Indiana near agreement to make Crean next coach

ESPN

HEALTH

Autism still a mystery

April is Autism Awareness Month, when doctors make us aware of how little they know about autism. They can't define it, can't say what causes it, and can't even determine if the rates are truly climbing.

LiveScience

Mom wins fight for autism insurance

Most medical insurance policies generally don't cover autism treatment. One lawyer-mom whose son has autism decided to fight for coverage.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

'First sex' found in Australian fossils?

A new study suggests that nature's first sexual encounter took place among tubular invertebrates called Funisia dorothea, which lived about 565 million years ago.

National Geographic

After yearlong battle, Microsoft open document format wins

Microsoft won an international standards designation for its open document format, ending a divisive yearlong battle with some of its software rivals before a global standards-setting organization.

International Herald Tribune

EDUCATION

A subprime schooling

Add another group to those feeling the impact of the U.S. subprime mortgage meltdown: students and educators.

Forbes

Hard-working Ind. students ‘C’ red over grade glitch

A computer malfunction wiped out a month’s worth of grades at three high schools and a middle school, causing both sighs of relief and moans of frustation.

Boston Herald

Big cities battle dismal graduation rates

Seventeen of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland.

CBS News

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