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Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Peter Pace, brief the media at the Pentagon in Washington. Gates announced that, beginning immediately, all active-duty Army soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will serve 15-month tours, three months longer than the usual standard. (Photo by Lawrence Jackson / AP)

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MSNBC drops simulcast of Don Imus show because of slur

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MSNBC

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Advertisers pull sponsorship of Imus' show

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CNN

Al-Qaida bombs in Algeria kill 23

Al-Qaida's new wing in North Africa claimed responsibility for suicide bombings that ripped through the prime minister's office and a police station in Algeria, killing at least 24 people.

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Houston Chronicle

Ex-Bangladesh PM charged with murder

Police in Bangladesh filed murder charges against former Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, saying she masterminded the killings of four supporters of a rival political party.

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BBC

Gates announces longer tours in Iraq

Beginning immediately, all active-duty Army soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will serve 15-month tours — three months longer than the usual standard, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.

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Houston Chronicle

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Yahoo! News

Iran may be helping Iraqis build bombs

Iranian intelligence operatives have been training Iraqi fighters inside Iran on how to use and assemble deadly roadside bombs known as EFPs, a U.S. military spokesman said.

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Forbes

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U.S.: Iran training Iraqi bombers

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CBS News

Fred Thompson says he has cancer

Fred Thompson, the potential presidential candidate better known as television's gruff "Law & Order" district attorney, said he was diagnosed with lymphoma more than two years ago.

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Newsday

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Former senator has lymphoma

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CBS News

U.S. says 14 gunmen killed in Baghdad battle

At least 14 suspected gunmen were killed and four U.S. attack helicopters hit in a fierce day-long battle between U.S. and Iraqi troops and gunmen in central Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

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Reuters

NATION

Report: Egypt is a torture center

Human rights group Amnesty International has released a highly critical report on Egypt's record on torture and illegal detention.

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BBC

How a U.S. inquiry held up the N. Korea peace talks

It was one of the most elaborate smuggling investigations ever. When it was over, it produced hard evidence that Chinese gangs had smuggled counterfeit U.S. currency made in North Korea into the U.S.

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International Herald Tribune

POLITICS

McCain assails Democrats on war in Iraq

Republican presidential contender John McCain called the four-year Iraq conflict "necessary and just'' and accused anti-war Democrats of recklessness.

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Guardian

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McCain at Baghdad market

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Yahoo! News

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Congress follows e-mail trail

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Wall Street Journal

Some in G.O.P. express worry over holding White House in '08

Republican leaders across the country say they are growing increasingly anxious about their party’s chances of holding the White House.

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Real Clear Politics

BUSINESS

NYC comptroller wants Wal-Mart spy probe

New York City's comptroller has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department to investigate whether Wal-Mart illegally spied on some of its shareholders.

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BusinessWeek

Subprime 'debacle' will delay U.S. housing recovery

The subprime loan "debacle'' will make it more difficult for borrowers to get mortgages and will cause U.S. home prices to fall, the National Association of Realtors said.

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Bloomberg

IMF: U.S. malaise unlikely to slow growth worldwide

The global economy should continue to enjoy its best run of buoyant growth for more than 40 years during this year and next, despite a sharp slowdown in the United States, the IMF forecast.

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Times

SPORTS

Veteran goaltending coach dead at 73

Warren Strelow, a pioneering goaltending coach and assistant for the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, has died. He was 73.

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Sports Illustrated

Amaker to become lone black Harvard head coach

Harvard hired former Michigan coach Tommy Amaker as its next men's basketball coach. He was let go at Michigan last month after six seasons.

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ESPN

HEALTH

Diabetics cured by stem-cell treatment

Diabetics using stem-cell therapy have been able to stop taking insulin injections for the first time, after their bodies started to produce the hormone naturally again.

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Times Online

Discovery of gene mutation could improve treatment of eczema

New discoveries in a gene linked to eczema could speed up new treatments for the condition, researchers believe.

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Scotsman

EDUCATION

Sallie Mae to pay $2 million to settle lending probe

SLM Corp. will pay $2 million and adopt a new code of conduct to settle an investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo into deceptive loan practices.

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Bloomberg

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Cuomo: Loan corruption probe could lead to charges

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CNN

Teaching life lessons in dollars and sense

Although college entrance exams test a student's ability to understand algebraic equations, they don't test what many consider the practical side of math.

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CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Columbia University receives $400M gift

Billionaire media entrepreneur John Werner Kluge is giving $400 million to Columbia University for financial aid, one of the largest gifts ever to an American university, the university announced.

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AOL News

50th Monterey festival draws jazz luminaries

The world's longest-running jazz festival turns 50 in September, and the occasion is sure to be the jazz festival genre's event of the year.

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San Jose Mercury News

NATION

All charges against Duke lacrosse players dropped

Three Duke lacrosse players were expected to be cleared of all charges that they assaulted a stripper during a team party, ending a case that widened the fissures of race in North Carolina.

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Los Angeles Times

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Duke player speaks out

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CBS News

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Duke lacrosse case: complete coverage

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ABC News

Military tries to entice soldiers to stay with bonuses

The struggle to entice Army soldiers and Marines to stay in the military, after four years of war in Iraq, has ballooned into a $1 billion campaign, with bonuses soaring nearly sixfold since 2003.

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Army Times

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Paid to stay

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MSNBC

Airlines lose over breast-feeding claim

The state Human Rights Commission refused to dismiss a complaint from a woman who says she was thrown off a flight because she was breast-feeding her baby.

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AOL News

ENVIRONMENT

Buildings can play a key role in combating climate change

Significant gains can be made in efforts to combat global warming by reducing energy use and improving energy efficiency in buildings.

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Bush loses appeal on Columbia River dam plan

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a Bush administration salmon plan for dam operations on the Columbia and lower Snake rivers because it failed to comply with the Endangered Species Act.

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Environment News Service

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Fire engulfs Johnny Cash's home

Johnny Cash's lakeside home in Nashville, Tennessee has been razed by a fire, less than four years after the legendary country musician and his wife spent their last days there.

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iAfrica.com

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Fire destroys Johnny Cash's home

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ABC News

How audience power could shape the future of movie-making

A new genre of filmmaking is coming, where viewers can influence the way movies are made, edit their own versions... and even appear in a Hollywood blockbuster.

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Daily Telegraph

Snoop dogged by drug, weapons charges

County prosecutors charged Snoop Dogg with two felony counts of transporting marijuana and possession of a firearm by a felon, stemming from the rapper's two arrests in Burbank last fall.

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E! Online

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA targets June launch for space shuttle Atlantis

NASA is targeting an early June launch for its space shuttle Atlantis and will complete repairs to the orbiter’s hail-battered external fuel tank.

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Space.com

Scientist: Distant planet may hold water after all

A new analysis suggests a distant planet outside our solar system has water in its atmosphere.

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CBC

Chimps use caves to beat the heat, scientists find

Chimpanzees in the West African nation of Senegal take shelter from the scorching heat in caves, researchers have found.

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National Geographic

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Diocese attorneys threatened with contempt of court

Lawyers for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego are accused of moving to improperly transfer funds in an attempt to shield assets from any settlements with victims of clergy sexual abuse.

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San Jose Mercury News

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Scholars take on Bush over access to presidential papers

Lawmakers and scholars are hoping to lift what they say has been a major obstacle to historical research: a directive issued by the current Bush White House in 2001 that has severely slowed or prevented the release of important presidential papers.

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Supporters of Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych hold posters showing President Viktor Yushchenko and reading "President of Civil War" as they rally on Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine. Yanukovych told a rally of thousands of supporters if early parliamentary elections are held, an early presidential ballot must be held at the same time. (Photo by Sergei Grits / AP)

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