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200 injured but no deaths in Va. tornado

A powerful twister tore through southeast Virginia, destroying homes and businesses, flipping cars, mangling power lines, and injuring some 200 people — but it was not blamed for any deaths.

Virginian-Pilot

A look at Va. tornado damage

Baltimore Sun

Virginia city 'pulls together'

CNN

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NATION

Officials say 31 teen sect girls are pregnant or had baby

Texas child welfare officials say almost 60 percent of the underage girls taken in a raid on a polygamist compound in west Texas either have children or are pregnant.

ABC News

Donations overflowing for polygamist sect children

Houston Chronicle

Q-and-A: sect's children facing legal maze

Houston Chronicle

Fire containment nearly tripled

Favorable weather conditions helped more than 1,000 firefighters contain the eastern and southern edges of the Santa Anita fire.

Pasadena Star-News

Supreme Court says states can demand photo ID for voting

States can require voters to have photo identification, the Supreme Court ruled, upholding a Republican-inspired law that Democrats say will keep some poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots.

Comcast

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Supreme Court rejects voter I.D. challenge

NPR

POLITICS

Jeremiah Wright goes to war

Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered what can only be described as a controversial message with passion, anger, even humor to a captivated sell-out crowd at the NAACP's Freedom Fund dinner.

TIME

Blog:

Obama distances himself from Wright: "He does not speak for me."

Chicago Sun-Times

Clinton pitches gas tax break

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed a "holiday" from the federal gas tax as she campaigns in North Carolina.

News & Record

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Obama says McCain has "gall" for criticisms over gas tax holiday

ABC News

McCain would 'put families in charge' of health care

Though emphasizing his difference to other Republicans, John McCain's plan for health care are more aligned with President Bush and other Republicans.

USA Today

Group files complaint over McCain’s London fundraiser

The Hill

BUSINESS

Mars, Buffett to buy Wrigley for $23 billion

Mars Inc., backed by billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., reached an agreement to buy 117-year-old chewing gum pioneer Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. for about $23 billion.

MarketWatch

Rebates might be too little, too late

Tax rebates are starting to arrive in bank accounts. But many economists doubt that they will keep the economy from recession.

CNNMoney

United, US Airways reportedly in 'very advanced' merger talks

A person close to the negotiations says United Airlines and US Airways are in very advanced talks with the expectation of announcing within two weeks that they are combining.

San Jose Mercury News

Continental ends talks with United

International Herald Tribune

SPORTS

Flyers seize the high ground

Philadelphia Flyers' Coach John Stevens in the second-round series against the Montreal Canadiens, called Tom Kostopoulos' sucker slap on defenseman Kimmo Timonen a "cowardly act."

Sports Illustrated

Force 1st woman to win Funny Car race

Ashley Force beat her father John in the NHRA Southern Nationals to become the first female driver to win a national Funny Car event.

ESPN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Up close with a colossal squid

A team of scientists outside Wellington, New Zealand, examine the thawing carcass of a 900-pound colossal squid and try to figure out the best way to preserve it for display at the Museum of New Zealand.

Newsweek

Want a plug-in hybrid? Login and line up for a battery

A123 Systems has created a Web site where Toyota Prius owners can pre-order a battery to convert their cars to plug-in hybrids capable of more than 100 miles per gallon.

CNET News

RELIGION

Religion a figment of human imagination

Humans alone practice religion because they're the only creatures to have evolved imagination. That's the argument of anthropologist Maurice Bloch of the London School of Economics.

ABC News

Atheist claims harassment in military

A short and soft-spoken specialist is at the center of a legal controversy. He has filed a lawsuit alleging he's been harassed and his constitutional rights have been violated because he doesn't believe in God.

AOL News

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GOOD NEWS

Gene therapy 'aids youth's sight'

An 18-year-old whose sight was failing has had his vision improved in a pioneering operation carried out by doctors at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

BBC

Iraqi museum celebrates artifact return

The Iraqi National Museum celebrated the return of some 700 artifacts that were looted following the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

McClatchy Newspapers

WORLD

Ban Ki-Moon to chair UN task force on food crisis

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will chair a new U.N. task force to counter the effects of soaring food prices.

Bloomberg

UN sets up food crisis task force