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A firefighter sprays water on a house to protect it from a wind driven brush fire in the foothills of Sierra Madre, Calif. A flare up caused the fire to push towards and threaten numerous homes in the town of Sierra Madre. (Photo by Dan Steinberg / AP)

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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.

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Virginian-Pilot

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Tornado touches down in Virginia

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The Weather Channel

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Colonial Heights flyover

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Richmond Times-Dispatch

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.

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Newsweek

Firefighters battle stubborn Southern California wildfire

A wildfire burned dangerously close to homes at the foot of the rugged San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California, but firefighters stood their ground and turned the flames back.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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51 Pasadena homes evacuated

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Pasadena Star-News

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Fire update

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MSNBC

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.

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TIME

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

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Chicago Sun-Times

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.

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Bloomberg

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.

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ABC News

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

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Houston Chronicle

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.

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Comcast

Supreme Court rejects voter I.D. challenge

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NPR

Burgeoning ranks of centenarians could strain budgets

About 95,000 Americans are now 100 or older, census estimates show, and their closely watched numbers are predicted to more than quadruple by 2030, reaching 1.15 million by 2050.

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Raleigh News-Observer

POLITICS

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Group files complaint over McCain’s London fundraiser

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The Hill

Party leaders fear racial tensions may divide Democrats

Tensions between the campaigns of rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are so uncomfortable some party leaders are openly concerned Democratic voters will not unify after a nominee is chosen.

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ABC News

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Dean: Either Clinton or Obama must drop out in June

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Do Americans factor race in their votes

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MSNBC

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.

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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.

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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.

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San Jose Mercury News

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Continental ends talks with United

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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."

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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.

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ESPN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

'Grand Theft Auto' launches to queues, rave reviews

"Grand Theft Auto 4" went on sale, with fans lining up to grab the first copies of the action game hailed as a brutal and satirical masterpiece equal to "The Godfather."

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Guardian

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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McClatchy Newspapers

WORLD

EU to sign Serbia pact

European Union countries will sign a pact on closer ties with Serbia after overcoming internal differences, days before a crucial parliamentary election in Belgrade.

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Reuters

China train wreck kills at least 70

A high-speed passenger train jumped its tracks and slammed into another train in eastern China, killing at least 70 people and injuring more than 400.

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TIME

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Deadly train wreck in China

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Yahoo! News

EU: Europe faces 'inflationary shock'

Europe is facing a "very strong inflationary shock" as a result of rising energy and food costs, the top European Union official for economic affairs said as the price of oil neared $120 a barrel.

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International Herald Tribune

3 children imprisoned with daughter had never seen daylight

Three children freed from a cellar in which their mother had been imprisoned and raped by her own father for 24 years had never seen daylight, police in Austria have confirmed.

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CNN

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Profile: Josef Fritzl

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BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Ethanol part of food crisis, says Durbin

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said that U.S. ethanol policies may be partly to blame for a global food crisis threatening to leave millions hungry.

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The Hill

Amazon seen as food solution

More of the Amazon rain forest should be cut down to make way for farmland to help ease the global food crisis, the governor of a big Brazilian farming state was quoted as saying.

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Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Urban miners find precious metals in cell phones

Before you throw out your old cell phone consider mining it for gold, silver and other metals — many of which are enjoying near-record prices.

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Reuters

Here come the summer movies

Studio executives hope they've trained their audience well as the season of summer blockbusters arrives.

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CNN

Coldplay offers free download of new 'Violet Hill' single

Coldplay will make the first single from their new album available as a free download to fans who visit the English band's Web site.

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San Francisco Chronicle

EDUCATION

Schools use cash as an incentive to boost attendance and scores

Baltimore public schools experiment in capitalism-meets-education. Students manage their own stock portfolio while earning money in the hope that it will improve their attendance and grades.

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Christian Science Monitor

New study suggests boys might do better in single-sex classrooms

Boys at primary school perform "significantly" better on English tests if they are taught in classes with fewer girls, a new study claims.

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Guardian

Studies: SAT writing portion good predictor of grades

The controversial new writing portion of the SAT is actually a better predictor of grades for freshmen college students than the older, more-established, critical reading and mathematics portions.

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USA Today

HEALTH

Study: artificial blood products boost risks of heart attack, death

The products — designed to have a long shelf life, not need refrigeration and not cause infection — have tripled the chance of having a heart attack and raised the risk of death by almost one-third.

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USA Today

New worries over blockbuster meds Avandia, Fosamax

Avandia, a diabetes drug, and Fosamax, used to prevent fractures in women with osteoporosis, are widely prescribed drugs that show further evidence of being linked to adverse events.

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HealthDay

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Michelangelo's 'last sketch' found

A sketch by Michelangelo for the dome of St. Peter's Basilica has been discovered in the Vatican archives, the Vatican newspaper says.

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BBC

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A bride crosses a lake as she rides a horse during a set of photo shoot, in Shidu, southwest of Beijing. A company is running group tours to the area for soon-to-be-married couples, to shoot their wedding photos in spectacular settings. (Photo by Oded Balilty / AP)

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