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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

Tornado touches down in Virginia

The Weather Channel

Colonial Heights flyover

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Saddam Hussein's deputy PM faces trial

The trial of Tariq Aziz, one of the best-known faces of Saddam Hussein's former regime in Iraq, and several other former officials is scheduled to begin.

CNN

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

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.

San Francisco Chronicle

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51 Pasadena homes evacuated

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

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

The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, is setting up a task force to tackle the global food crisis.

BBC

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.

Reuters

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.

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.

Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Here come the summer movies

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

CNN

'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."

Guardian

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.

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.

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.

Guardian

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.

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.

HealthDay

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