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A young unidentified boy watches the girl next to him as her hair is blown up by President Barack Obama's helicopter as it took off at the White House in Washington, as the president left for a trip to Raleigh, N.C. to speak on health care. (Photo by Ron Edmonds / AP)

Northwest heat wave sets records

Brutal temperatures are predicted for the Seattle area as a record heat wave afflicting the Pacific Northwest continues, according to the National Weather Service.

CBS News

Heat wave puts pressure on forecasters

Seattle Times

Water danger escalates as temperatures soar

KING5

Gates: Iraq withdrawal could speed up

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that he sees "some chance of a modest acceleration" in the pace of U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq.

CBS News

Microsoft, Yahoo agree on search deal

Microsoft has finally roped Yahoo into an Internet search partnership, capping a convoluted pursuit that dragged on for years and finally setting the stage for the rivals to challenge Google's dominance.

CNBC

Boo hoo for Yahoo!

Forbes

Special section:

Tech: Gearing up for a comeback

CNNMoney

Car bomb in Spain injures 60

A powerful car bomb that authorities blamed on the violent Basque separatist group ETA exploded outside a police barracks in the northern Spanish city of Burgos, injuring dozens.

New York Times

ETA blamed for massive blast

MSNBC

Pregnancy raises swine flu death risk

Pregnant women, even if they are healthy, are at high risk of hospitalization and death from H1N1 swine flu, the CDC reports.

WebMD

H1N1 pregnancy death risk

YouTube

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The "Yamato - The Drummers of Japan" ensemble performs in Cologne, Germany. (Photo by Hermann J. Knippertz / AP)	A bumblebee sits in the middle of a sunflower in Bornheim near Bonn, Germany. (Photo by Roberto Pfeil / AP)	Ceramics artist Heidi Sowa holds one of her creations at her Portland, Ore., studio. (Photo by Don Ryan / AP)

NATION

Home price declines slow

Local and national home price declines slowed for the fourth straight month in May, further evidence that the real estate sector may be finding its footing.

San Francisco Chronicle

Housing hope

Reuters

Mount Rushmore to get laser treatment

Crews from Scotland and California will shoot laser beams at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial as part of a project to create a digital three-dimensional model of the iconic mountain carving from all angles.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Backlash: Democratic dangers mount

Democrats confront a perilous 2010 signaled by troublesome signs of President Obama’s political mortality, the plunging popularity of many governors and rising disquiet among many House Democrats.

Politico

NPR poll finds tough sledding for Obama

NPR

Senators to introduce nationwide ban on texting while driving

Democratic senators will introduce legislation to impose a nationwide ban on sending text messages while driving.

The Hill

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

13 books make Man Booker longlist

Thirteen books have made it onto the longlist for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, up from the usual 12, in what judges described as one of the strongest fields in recent years.

Reuters

$20 million holiday home suits Barack Obama to a tee

The First Family are planning to spend their summer break on a $20 million retreat on the wealthy playground island off Cape Cod and seem undeterred that the property is owned by a Republican.

Times Online

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft, Yahoo agree on partnership

Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. agreed to an online search and advertising partnership in an attempt to rival Google.

Reuters

Genome engineering goes high speed

A new genetic engineering technique could make it as easy to rewrite a genome as it is to read it.

Wired

EDUCATION

'Race to top' guidelines stress test data

The Department of Education’s proposed guidelines provide that any state hoping to land a grant must allow student test scores to be used in decisions about teacher compensation and evaluation.

Education Week

Feds contributed little to schools in 2007

EducationNews.org

Sallie Mae suffers revenue losses from economy and federal loan reforms

Sallie Mae, the largest private funding source for student loans, is under fire both from the recession and political reforms in student lending.

Diverse

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Women police officers issued hijab

British police have begun to equip female officers with a uniform issue hijab to wear when they enter a mosque.

Times Online

Texas curriculum review sparks debate about religion

The religious-based social studies debate in Texas has dominated a broader discussion about the schools' curriculum, now under review by officials hoping to improve the nation's second-largest school system.

ABC News

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Hostages freed in Nigerian city

Nigerian police have freed about 100 women and children being held by a radical Islamist sect in a building in the northern city of Maiduguri.

BBC

Young adults fueled spike in volunteers

Led by teens and young adults accounting for almost half the increase, about a million more people volunteered last year, according to an annual report on volunteering in the United States.

NonProfit Times

WORLD

Chávez freezes ties with Colombia

Venezuela recalls ambassador and freezes relations in protest at claims it supplied arms to Farc rebels

Guardian

US and China vow closer ties