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Tony Snow smiles as he is introduced by President Bush as his new Press Secretary in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington in this file photo. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP)

Former Bush press secretary dies

Tony Snow, a conservative writer and commentator who sparred with reporters in the White House briefing room as President Bush's press secretary, died of cancer.

ABC News

2007: The public personal battle of Tony Snow

MSNBC

NATO air base gets expansion

Six years after remnants of the Taliban regime fought against U.S. and Afghan forces at the airport in Kandahar, the airport has grown into a vital NATO air base.

NPR

US shows off new Raptor jet

BBC

UN troops brace for Sudan attacks as al-Bashir faces genocide indictment

International peacekeepers in Sudan were bracing themselves for revenge attacks as diplomats announced that the country’s president would soon be charged with genocide and crimes against humanity.

Times Online

IndyMac Bancorp seized by regulators

IndyMac Bancorp Inc. became the second- biggest federally insured financial company to be seized by U.S. regulators after a run by depositors left the California mortgage lender short on cash.

Bloomberg

Fed faces US housing crisis

CBS News

Cash pours in for McCain as campaign gathers strength

The U.S. Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, is attracting millions more dollars in funding than expected, which could allow him to match the vaunted Obama donation machine.

Guardian

Glow fading for Obama?

Newsweek

North Korea nuclear deal agreed

The six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program reached a "principled consensus" on how to verify the information in Pyongyang's nuclear declaration submitted last month.

CNN

South Korean tourist shot by soldier in North

Guardian

55-mph speed limit may have found its Washington patron

Congress has shown no movement toward resurrecting the 55-mph speed limit, but one of the Senate's senior members says it's time to start the conversation about an energy-saving national speed limit.

McClatchy Newspapers

NATION

Amtrak expands random security sweeps

Rail passengers from coast to coast will be subject to random security checks and may have their luggage scanned for explosives beginning this fall, according to announcements made by Amtrak officials.

USA Today

Food prices eat up school lunch

Students at about three-quarters of American schools can expect to find higher prices in their cafeterias. Skyrocketing costs for nearly every basic food item schools rely on for meals.

TIME

Bodies of 2 missing US soldiers identified in Iraq

The U.S. military has identified the remains of two soldiers who were kidnapped in Iraq in May 2007 after their patrol came under attack south of Baghdad, the Pentagon said.

Reuters

Grim task: Notifying fallen soldiers' families

ABC News

POLITICS

House Dems to spend millions on ads

House Democrats have reserved millions of dollars worth of television advertising in 31 congressional races across the country.

TIME

McCain adviser attempts to clarify Viagra vs. birth control comments

The McCain campaign tried to disentangle itself from embarrassing comments made by surrogates stumping for the Republican presidential candidate.

ABC News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Food fight in Denver continues over 'no fry zone'?

The heated debate in Denver is not about Obama versus McCain. Rather, it is about old fashioned Southern fried food versus lean and green lighter offerings.

ABC News

'Madden Football' marks 20 years with new offerings

With the "John Madden Football" videogame franchise nearing its 20th anniversary, publisher Electronic Arts is pulling out all the stops to celebrate the occasion.

Reuters

Best-selling videogames

Newsweek

'Hellboy II' is a devil of a film

"Hellboy II: The Golden Army" melds the original Hellboy's kibitzy humor and crushing action with the darkest fairy-tale imaginings of "Pan's Labyrinth," the director's last film.

Houston Chronicle

Review: 'Hellboy II'

Variety

'Journey to the Center of the Earth' is wholesome family entertainment

San Francisco Chronicle

HEALTH

Famous cardiovascular surgeon DeBakey dead at 99

Dr. Michael DeBakey, the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, has died in Houston.

Google News

US to list retailers in meat, poultry recalls

Months after the biggest meat recall in U.S. history, the Agriculture Department said it will begin making public the names of retail stores that receive tainted products.

Reuters

New no-calorie sweetener Truvia debuts

Truvia, a new, natural, zero-calorie sweetener made from the stevia plant, is making its debut online and in certain supermarkets in New York.

WebMD

ENVIRONMENT

Court overturns EPA air pollution rule

A federal appeals court unanimously struck down a signature component of President Bush's clean air policies, likely delaying further action until the next administration.

MSNBC

EPA won't regulate greenhouse gases

NPR

Antarctic ice shelf breaking up in winter

New satellite images show that an Antarctic ice shelf continues to disintegrate — and even more surprising is that it's happening during the Southern Hemisphere's winter.

MSNBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope sets off for World Youth Day

Pope Benedict has left the Vatican for the longest foreign trip of his papacy, a 10-day visit to Australia to attend a major Catholic youth festival.

BBC

Mormon Church, media battle over term, 'fundamentalist Mormons'

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon Church, appealed to media to refrain from referring to polygamists as "fundamentalist Mormons."

Reuters

God's all right, it's just the religion bit we don't like

Although two-thirds of Australians profess to be Christians, an international survey reveals that 44 percent consider themselves religious although religion doesn't play a central role in their lives.

Sydney Morning Herald

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GOOD NEWS

Ohio colleges will be free for veterans

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland made a promise to American veterans living around the world: Come to one of Ohio's public colleges and pay nothing.

Columbus Dispatch

Cancer survivors helping others

The Bosom Buddies is a team of breast cancer survivors that got together 10 years ago as dragon boat paddlers. Their goal was to find camaraderie among women going through treatment.

Chronicle-Herald

WORLD

Russian oil to Czechs slows after US radar pact

Three days after the United States signed an agreement with the Czech Republic to host a tracking radar for a missile shield that Russia opposes, Prague's flow of Russian oil was dwindling.

International Herald Tribune

Lebanon announces unity government