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US admits soldiers killed innocent Iraqis

The U.S. military admitted that American soldiers killed innocent civilians after opening fire on a car last month on the heavily secured Baghdad airport road.

Google News

Obama, McCain accuse each other of shifting on Iraq

With just 100 days until the election, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama are accusing each other of shifting their positions when it comes to Iraq.

CNN

Obama, McCain talk timetables

Politico

Obama on the Iraqi surge

MSNBC

Sudanese find refuge, jobs in Anchorage

The word is spreading on the grapevine in the Lower 48 that Anchorage is a place where the refugees can find work.

McClatchy Newspapers

Bombs kill 16 in residential Istanbul neighborhood

Two bombs exploded minutes apart in a packed Istanbul square, killing 16 and injuring more than 150 in the deadliest attack against civilians in Turkey in almost five years.

Star Tribune

Explosions in Istanbul kill 16

USA Today

Beijing's haze thickens even with pollution controls in place

McClatchy Newspapers

China Olympic village opens

BBC

Iowans attempt to arrest Karl Rove

Four charged by police after trying citizen's arrest of ex-White House aide for election fraud.

CBS News

Poor economy is likely driving growing popularity of online college classes

The seven-mile, 40-minute drive during season from Natlee Valego’s home to Hodges University was the primary reason why she started taking online courses.

Naples Daily News

NATION

Black soldiers get apology over riot, lynching convictions

The Army formally apologized for the wrongful conviction of 28 black soldiers accused of rioting and lynching an Italian prisoner of war in Seattle more than six decades ago.

MSNBC

More drownings, missing swimmers in NYC area

The toll of swimmers caught up in treacherous ocean currents in the NYC area grew to at least nine as one man drowned and a 10-year-old girl disappeared.

Newsday

Iowans to Congressmen: stop immigration raids

An immigration raid that arrested nearly 400 people in northeastern Iowa scarred a small town and tore families apart, residents said.

ABC News

New hires bring new problems to Postville

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Des Moines Register

POLITICS

Senate blocks bill to help poor pay winter heating bills

The Senate voted against moving forward with legislation that would boost funding for a federal program that helps low-income families pay their cooling and heating bills.

Reuters

Senate goes into overtime

ABC News

Hagel: McCain attack ads treading on very thin ground

Sen. Chuck Hagel, who accompanied Sen. Barack Obama on his trip to South Asia and Iraq, criticized the McCain campaign for its latest television ad attacking the Democratic candidate.

CBS News

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McCain questions Obama's decision to cancel troop visit

ABC News

Three incumbents get outraised in Kansas, Missouri

Two incumbents in Kansas and one in Missouri were outraised over the last three and a half months, as three of the biggest House races in the country took form before their early August primaries.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Chrysler lending unit to end auto leases

Chrysler LLC, hurt by plunging prices for used sport-utility vehicles, said its finance unit will stop offering leases to customers on Aug. 1.

Bloomberg

UBS suspends US head of fixed income

Swiss bank UBS AG suspended David Shulman, the firm's head of fixed income in the U.S. and global head of municipal securities, according to a published report.

MarketWatch

Why do sick people go to work? Unhealthy fear

A lot of people come to work sick, according to a new poll conducted by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health.

NPR

HEALTH

Soy foods 'reduce sperm numbers'

A regular diet of even modest amounts of food containing soy may halve sperm concentrations, suggest scientists.

BBC

More than 1,000 died in painkiller overdoses

At least 1,013 people died of overdoses in several U.S. cities from 2005 to 2007 after illegally injecting the highly potent painkiller fentanyl.

Reuters

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Google counts more than 1 trillion unique Web URLs

In a discovery that would probably send the Dr. Evil character of the "Austin Powers" movies into cardiac arrest, Google recently detected more than a trillion unique URLs on the Web.

PC World

Special delivery: World's first 'test tube baby turns 30

Louise Brown, the first child conceived by in vitro fertilization, entered her 30s. Her 1978 birth, just outside of Manchester, England, caused a stir throughout the world.

Scientific American

No fuelin': cheap gas

There is a magic fuel for your car. Burning it instead of gasoline cuts greenhouse emissions up to 30 percent. But what is this magic fuel?

Denver Post

EDUCATION

Students get hired to capture the breeze

Community colleges in North Dakota and other states are jumping at the chance to help fill that need and develop a niche for themselves at the same time through wind tech programs.

San Francisco Chronicle

Science labs in elementary school?

Traditionally, elementary school means the three Rs: reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic. But, that may be about to change.

education.com

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GOOD NEWS

Day care operator plunges into burning school building to save 4-year-old

After fire broke out at her day-care center, she broke in a window, crawled back into the building and inched through the smoke and flames to find a 4-year-old boy who was still inside.

MSNBC

9-year-old toy philanthropist still going strong

Encouraged by her dad and her mom, Ashlee Smith, provided comfort to children who lost toys in Nevada and California wildfires as well as standard house fires.

Nevada Appeal

WORLD

Group takes credit for India blasts

A group calling itself the Indian Mujahedeen claimed responsibility for the attack but offered few other details in e-mails sent to several television news stations, the CNN-IBN station reported.

CBS News

The Ahmedabad blast

BBC

India on alert as death toll from bombs rises

CNN

China buys the silence of grieving parents

Free ‘life insurance’ has been offered to families of children who were killed when schools collapsed in the earthquake.

Times Online

Mahdi army weakened, but waiting

The militia that was once the biggest defender of poor Shiites in Iraq, the Mahdi army, has been weakened in a number of neighborhoods across Baghdad in an important moment for stability in Iraq.

International Herald Tribune

7 pilgrims killed in attack in Iraq

CNN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Museum celebrates the Harley-Davidson

There are probably few cars that you'd recognize just by hearing them come down the street. But the throaty rumble of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle engine is unmistakable.

NPR

SAG's national board holds meeting

Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild have been meeting over the contract stalemate with majors, amid muted expectations that SAG will soon take any action.

Variety

Beers with more alcohol catch on

High-alcohol brews are among many craft beers that are grabbing a growing market share in the U.S. from their mass-produced and heavily advertised counterparts.

TIME

SPORTS

Johnson overcomes tire debacle en route to Brickyard win

Johnson survived tire troubles that made the race a caution-filled debacle because the Goodyear product was not durable enough to withstand the lack of downforce on NASCAR's new car.

ESPN

Are you kidding? Super Bowl champs still feel disrespected

On the first morning of the first day of their first training camp, the New York Giants seized upon a familiar and yet strangely incongruous role: That of an disrespected underdog.

Sports Illustrated

ENVIRONMENT

2,000 homes threatened by wildfire near Yosemite

Fueled by dry timber that hasn't burned in a century, a wildfire in central California grew to more than 16,000 acres and is threatening more than 2,000 homes near Yosemite National Park, a fire official said.

CNN

California crusade to abolish plastic bags gaining support

Ocean activists have declared war on disposable plastics because of the threat they pose to marine life. A growing number of politicians are starting to jump aboard the bag-ban bandwagon.

San Diego Union Tribune

For hotels, going green pays

Hotel managers as well as travelers are eager to find their way to lodging that is designated as being green.

Marco Eagle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

1 dead, six injured by gunfire in church

One person was killed and at least six others were injured when a man opened fire inside a church in West Knoxville, according to NBC affiliate WBIR-TV.

MSNBC

Mass shooting at church in Knoxville, Tennessee

Yahoo! News

Radical Islam gains ground in British campuses

Almost a third of Muslim students on Britain's campuses believe killing in the name of religion can be justified, according to a controversial survey.

Guardian

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