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Former Vice President Al Gore is photographed on Capitol Hill in Washington before testifying before a Senate Environment Committee hearing on global climate change. (Photo by Susan Walsh / AP)

House OKs subpoenas for top Bush aides

A House panel approved subpoenas for President Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove, and other top White House aides, setting up a constitutional showdown over the firings of eight federal prosecutors.

Forbes

Gore takes global warming to Congress

Al Gore told Congress that the world faces “a true planetary emergency” unless it dramatically and immediately reduces emissions that most scientists tie to global warming.

MSNBC

Fierce fighting erupts in Somali capital

USA Today

Iraq bombers blow up two children used as decoys

Insurgents detonated a bomb in a car with two children in it after using the children as decoys to get through a military checkpoint in Baghdad, an American general said.

International Herald Tribune

U.S. forces say destroy bomb factory in Iraq, kill 5

Reuters

‘Ghost troops’ still help fill Iraq’s lacking ranks

MSNBC

Iran may undertake 'illegal' atomic work, leader says

Iran may do atomic work outside of international regulations if the U.N. Security Council insists that the Islamic Republic cease uranium enrichment, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said.

Bloomberg

Fiery threat: Firefighting triggers heart attacks

They race into burning buildings, risking their lives to save others. Yet, our nation's firefighters are succumbing at an alarming rate to a common and preventable ailment: coronary heart disease.

Newsweek

Congress moves to ban genetic discrimination

Congress is on the verge of breaking a 12-year impasse over legislation that would ban the use of genetic information by employers and health insurers.

NPR

NATION

Britons killed in nuclear submarine accident

Two British sailors were killed and another was injured this morning in an accident on board the nuclear submarine HMS Tireless, the Ministry of Defence said.

Telegraph

Death toll hits 70 in Pakistan clashes

Fighting between local and Uzbek militants escalated in northwestern Pakistan, and the death toll from three days of clashes rose to at least 70, officials said.

Yahoo! News

Search for miners as Russia mourns

Hopes of saving three missing men faded on as rescuers struggled to reach them in a Russian coal mine where 107 died in one of the the country's worst mine disasters.

CNN

POLITICS

Source behind Internet attack on Clinton revealed

The mystery behind who produced an elaborate Internet ad slamming Sen. Hillary Clinton and promoting Sen. Barack Obama has been solved.

CNN

Blog:

I made the 'Vote Different' ad

Huffington Post

Blog:

Hillary on anti-Hillary video (and the new anti-Obama video...)

Nation

U.S. eases diplomatic boycott of Palestinians

A senior U.S. diplomat met Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayyad, denting Israel's drive to maintain a boycott of the Palestinian unity government.

Epoch Times

Bolton says force may be needed against Iran

President Bush’s former envoy to the United Nations says using military force against Iran would be preferable to allowing the country to acquire nuclear weapons.

MSNBC

BUSINESS

Fed gives Dow best day of the year

Stocks and bonds rallied as investors read the latest Federal Reserve policy statement as implying that the central bank is more likely to cut rates than raise them anytime soon.

CNN

West Virginia mine where 12 died is idled

The owner of the Sago Mine, where 12 men died after an explosion last year, said it is idling the coal operation because of high production costs and weak prices.

MSNBC

Israeli general strike ends, flights to resume

Israel's powerful Histadrut labor union called off a one-day nationwide strike that had stopped international flights and public services after a deal was reached with the state on unpaid employees.

Reuters

SPORTS

Sweet 16 teams have issues

It's virtually impossible for a team to have lasted this long in the NCAA Tournament without playing some special basketball, but the coaches of the remaining 16 only can wish their teams were perfect.

Sporting News

Police: Death of Pakistan cricket coach 'suspicious'

The death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer is being treated as "suspicious," Jamaica's deputy police commissioner Mark Shields said.

USA Today

HEALTH

Women with high blood sugar levels face greater cancer risk

Women with raised levels of blood sugar face a significantly increased risk of developing cancer, a European study suggests.

Times Online

Chinese restaurant food unhealthy, study says

The typical Chinese restaurant menu is a sea of nutritional no-nos, a consumer group has found.

MSNBC

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GOOD NEWS

New Zealand Maori moving forward

More Maori have university degrees and jobs earning more money than in previous years, latest census figures show.

New Zealand Herald

GM mosquito bred to destroy malaria

The fight against malaria could eventually be transformed by releasing into disease-ridden areas genetically modified mosquitoes that cannot transmit the infection.

Times

NATION

Prosecutor wants death penalty for boy's slaying

A convicted child molester and his parents were indicted on charges they molested and then murdered a 6-year-old neighbor boy, whose body was found last week in a trash bag dumped by a roadside.

CNN

NIH chief calls for more stem cell research

Elias Zerhouni charges that a ban on federal funding of research on new embryonic stem cell lines hurts science and the nation.

Scientific American

Father: Lost Scout had planned to hitchhike home

A 12-year-old Boy Scout missing for four days in North Carolina's wilderness wandered away from his campsite because he was homesick and planned to hitchhike home, the boy's father said.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Fifteen painless ways to save the World

Most of us are confused about going green and terrified of the financial penalties being threatened if we don't. Here are the 15 easiest ways to reduce your carbon footprint.

Telegraph.co.uk

Turkey launches preparations to host fifth World Water Forum

Leaders preparing for the World Water Forum in 2009 pleaded for rich nations to make universal access to clean water a top priority, calling it one of the world's most pressing challenges.

Environmental News Network

EDUCATION

Harvard gets more expensive, tuition up 3.9 pct

Harvard's undergraduate tuition will rise 3.9 percent next year to $31,456, increasing at a pace nearly double the U.S. rate of inflation, a Harvard statement showed.

CNN

California university system faculty backs strike

California State University faculty, part of the largest state-funded university system in the U.S., authorized leaders of their union to strike should contract talks fail in the coming weeks.

Bloomberg

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

McCartney first artist signed to Starbucks' new label

The world's largest specialty coffee retailer announced earlier this month that it would launch its own Hear Music record label. Sir Paul McCartney has how been introduced as the first artist signed.

Seattle Times

Spears leaves rehab, asks for privacy

Britney Spears has completed a month in rehab and left a luxury Malibu facility with a plea for privacy while she rebuilds her life with her two young children.

Hollywood Reporter

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Some traditional sites, aiming to be hip, end up the opposite

New Web ideas and aspiring trends are often talked up by a chorus of tech bloggers and commentators. But this crowd doesn't always have a good record predicting what the real world will take to.

Wall Street Journal

'Lie group E8' math puzzle solved

An international team of mathematicians says it has cracked a 120-year-old puzzle that researchers say is so complicated that its handwritten solution would cover the island of Manhattan.

CNN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Thai panel backs call for state religion

A standing committee in the National Legislative Assembly threw its weight behind a proposal to declare Buddhism the national religion in the new constitution.

Bangkok Post

Dodgeball and a dose of religion

On certain Friday nights, First Southern Baptist Church on Evansville, Indiana's East Side opens its doors for dodgeball — two hours or more of fast-moving court action, punctuated by a brief devotional.

Indianapolis Star

Photo of the Day

A woman looks at "Trash People" an installation of 1,000 life-size figures made from compressed industrial waste and consumer refuse is seen in Rome's Piazza del Popolo, in Italy. (Photo by Alessandra Tarantino / AP)

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