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In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force former American hostage Keith Stansell, third from right, steps off the ramp of a C-17 Globemaster III onto U.S. soil at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. (Photo by Lance Cheung / U.S. Air Force / AP)

5 face trial in Concorde crash that killed 113 in France

A prosecutor said that Continental Airlines and two of its employees would stand trial on involuntary manslaughter charges related to the 2000 crash of a Concorde airliner near Paris in which 113 people died.

International Herald Tribune

Feds weigh profiling-based investigations

The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims and Arabs.

CBS News

Bentancourt reunites with children

Associated Press

Betancourt: Rescue is a 'miracle'

CNN

Juan Forero discusses what rescue means for FARC

NPR

Inflation: global economy's biggest worry

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said inflation is now the top priority for a number of global economies as soaring food and fuel prices continue to inflate on the cost of living.

Times Online

US is in no shape to give advice, Medvedev says

International Herald Tribune

Mongolian capital sweeps up after riots

Smoke hung in the air as people swept up in Mongolia's capital on the second day of a state of emergency called after at least five people died in rioting sparked by allegations of election fraud.

ABC News

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Young girls watch a diving boy in an open air bath in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany. (Photo by Frank Augstein / AP)	Lion cubs at the Riverbanks Zoo are shown to the public in the Bird Conservation Center in Columbia, S.C. (Photo by Mary Ann Chastain / AP)	Chinese soldiers remove blue green algae from a beach in Qingdao, eastern China. (Photo by Ng Han Guan / AP)

NATION

Calif. wildfire nears homes in Santa Barbara County

Santa Barbara County officials proclaimed a local state of emergency, hoping it will bring more resources to help battle a 1,200-acre wildfire that's threatening homes in the Los Padres National Forest.

San Jose Mercury News

Calif. Governor: There is no fire season anymore

Yahoo! News

Archaeologists say they've found traces from Washington's youth

After a century of speculation and seven years of digging in the Virginia dirt, archaeologists believe they have finally found traces of George Washington's boyhood home.

Baltimore Sun

Los Angeles Airport terminal reopens following threat

A Los Angeles International Airport terminal was temporarily closed and a man was taken into custody while security officials investigated a bomb threat.

Bloomberg

POLITICS

Waxman: State Dept. ‘misleading’ on Hunt Oil deal

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., accused the State Department of issuing “misleading” denials regarding its involvement in Hunt Oil’s contract with Kurdistan's government.

The Hill

Obama opposes ban on gay marriage

Gay rights moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign after Sen. Barack Obama's announcement that he opposes a November ballot measure that would ban same-sex marriage in California.

San Francisco Chronicle

McCain shakes up staff amid concern about 'unforced errors'

Sen. McCain's campaign announced a shakeup at the top, in the wake of growing Republican concern about its ability to compete against Sen. Obama.

CNN

Top aides take on new roles

CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

Bureau reverses moratorium on solar-energy projects

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has reversed its recent moratorium on new applications for solar-energy projects on public land, allowing companies to keep submitting proposals for new solar projects.

Grist

Georgia judge yanks coal power permit on climate concerns

Fulton County Superior Court judge issued a decision that blocks construction of the first coal-burning power plant proposed in Georgia in more than 20 years.

Environment News Service

Peak Oil survivalists

YouTube

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Sikhs protest hair cutting school attack

Over 300 members of the Sikh community marched in Queens, N.Y., protesting what they see as an upswing in hate crimes in public schools.

Queens Courier

Obama says he will expand Bush’s faith-based program

Sen. Barack Obama said he would expand President Bush's initiative to fund religious charities and community ministries and make it central to his administration.

Religion News Service

EDUCATION

Education Department releases guide for evaluating online learning

The Department of Education released its guide to the evaluation of online-learning programs in K-12 education, designed to help school leaders gauge the effectiveness of online education.

Education Week

New drive to ban race preferences

The American Civil Rights Institute is pushing the initiatives, which would prohibit preferences based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public realms.

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft to sell Office for $70 a year

Microsoft plans to introduce a new way to sell its Office software suite, offering customers a subscription model instead of the traditional one-time license fee.

CNET News

100 more labs join FDA effort to test beyond tomatoes

The Food and Drug Administration activated its Food Emergency Response Network in an attempt to trace the salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 800.

USA Today

Salmonella outbreak still unclear

ABC News

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GOOD NEWS

We can do it, Climate Action Now

Women and children recently gathered in London under the banner of Climate Action Now, to call for decisive political action on the issues of climate change, and fast.

Positive News

Doctor says Angelina Jolie doing well

Pregnant Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie is doing well in a French Riviera hospital and is expected to give birth to twins in "the coming weeks," her doctor said.

Reuters

WORLD

US admiral urges caution on Iran

America's top military officer has said opening up a third front in the Middle East through a strike on Iran would be "extremely stressful" for U.S. forces.

BBC

New White House battle plans?