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Streets are shown underwater in Danville, W.Va., after overnight storms flooded many out of their homes in southern West Virginia. A powerful nor'easter pounded the East with wind and pouring rain, grounding airlines and threatening to create some of the worst coastal flooding in 14 years. (Photo by Bob Bird / AP)

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Conservatives to Bush: Fire Alberto Gonzales

In what could prove embarrassing for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales before his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, a group of longtime Bush supporters called for his resignation.

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TIME

Global warming rallies held across the U.S.

Americans worried about climate change gathered on ski slopes and in cities for a nationwide day of demonstrations aimed at drawing attention to global warming.

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MSNBC

'War on terror' phrase unhelpful: U.K.

The international development secretary, Hilary Benn, will reinforce Britain's opposition to the phrase "war on terror", saying it can actually strengthen insurgent groups.

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Guardian

Huge storm rips across East Coast

One of the nastiest spring nor'easters in years roared over the East Coast early Monday, bringing umbrella-breaking wind and relentless rain that forced evacuations from New Jersey to West Virginia.

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CNN

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Violent Weather Hits East Coast

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FOX News

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Sadr bloc quits Iraqi government

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Al Jazeera

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Dozens killed, many wounded in bombings across Iraq

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CNN

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Car bombers claim more lives

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Yahoo! News

NASA paid more than $26 million to shuttle Columbia families

NASA paid $26.6 million to the families of seven astronauts who died aboard the space shuttle Columbia, a settlement that has been kept secret for more than 2 1/2 years.

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Orlando Sentinel

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U.S. antiterror tactics crimp terror case

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Christian Science Monitor

NATION

Trauma severe for Iraqi children

About 70 percent of primary school students in a Baghdad neighborhood suffer symptoms of trauma-related stress such as bed-wetting or stuttering, according to a survey by the Iraqi Ministry of Health.

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USA Today

ElBaradei backs calls for no-nukes Middle East

UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei called on Iran and Israel to join a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East and urged other countries not to resort to military action against Tehran.

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Daily Star

Saving Khartoum's abandoned babies

In Sudan, a society that shuns unwed mothers, the tide is turning in favor of survival for hundreds of the infants formerly left to die in the streets or at a 'baby dump' in the capital.

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Toronto Star

POLITICS

Multibillion dollar textbook scandal reaches Congress

A slow-motion scandal surrounding a federal multibillion-dollar reading program has its first congressional hearing this week.

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USA Today

Gonzales concedes missteps in attorney firings

Embattled U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says he mishandled the dismissals of eight attorneys last year in one of several controversies swirling around President George W. Bush.

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Globeandmail.com

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Gonzales senate testimony could be his last chance

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Wall Street Journal

The showdown over Iraq war funding

In the great showdown between the White House and congressional Democrats over war funding, it may be all over but the shouting.

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Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Wal-Mart regains 'Fortune' top spot

The Fortune 500 ranking of the biggest U.S. companies is out. But the story this year isn't the size of companies, which is based on revenue.

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USA Today

Google-Yahoo battle persists

Yahoo, no longer the Internet's top-visited site, is facing increased pressure from longtime rival Google.

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USA Today

SPORTS

Jackie: The legacy of No. 42

On this day in 1947, before what the New York Herald Tribune described as a "solemn crowd" of 25,623 at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, Jackie Robinson tore down the color line in major-league baseball.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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The breakthrough

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Sports Illustrated

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Did the DA in Duke case commit a crime?

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Slate

HEALTH

Study adds data that vegetables reduce cancer risk

New research is strengthening evidence that following mom's admonition to eat your vegetables may be some of the best health advice around.

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Reuters

Supreme Court will hear suit on home care workers' wage

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that could affect hundreds of thousands of home care workers and their elderly and disabled clients.

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EDUCATION

Private lenders have an edge in U.S. student loan market

Private banks and lenders have waged a successful campaign to limit a federal program intended to make borrowing less costly.

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International Herald Tribune

Is cursive writing cursed?

Under pressure to meet testing standards, teachers are devoting less time to penmanship practice.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Mixed message on children

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New Republic

Reads the signals in Iraq

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International Herald Tribune

Blog (Scott Horton):

The new nomenklatura

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Harper's Magazine

Rising tax burden threatens revenues

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San Diego Union-Tribune

Imus dead

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Real Clear Politics

The power of green

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Real Clear Politics

Whose job is it, anyway?

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International Herald Tribune

NFL codes of conduct in the entertainment age

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Christian Science Monitor

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Debate is between mitigating or adapting

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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GOOD NEWS

Botox to the rescue for ailing pianist

Next to slicing off a finger in the kitchen, it was the scariest experience a concert pianist could have.

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Dallas Morning News

Solar power comes of age

It may have taken 30 years to become fashionable in the U.S., now 85 percent of new home solar power systems in the country are installed on roofs in California.

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San Francisco Chronicle

NATION

Short on storage, FEMA let millions of meals spoil in 2006

The Federal Emergency Management Agency more than doubled its estimate of the number of prepared meals lost during the 2006 hurricane season due to storage problems from 6 million to 13.4 million.

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Star Tribune

Fluid removed from Corzine's lung area

Gov. Jon Corzine underwent a procedure to remove fluid that had collected outside his left lung.

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Newark Star-Ledger

Military disputes Marines' version of suicide attack

A preliminary U.S. military investigation indicates that more than 40 Afghans killed or wounded by Marines after a suicide bombing in a village near Jalalabad last month were civilians.

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ENVIRONMENT

Feds ask for national climate service

Federal officials want to establish a National Climate Service to focus on things such as long-term weather patterns, seasonal drought forecasts and future warming trends.

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Denver Post

Study: China's Yangtze river extensively polluted

China's Three Gorges Dam reservoir has been fouled by pesticides, fertilizers and sewage, and more than 600 kilometers of the Yangtze river are critically polluted, Xinhua news agency said.

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Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Leave William and Kate alone, says Blair

The Prime Minister appealed for Prince William and Kate Middleton to be left alone after a barrage of weekend media speculation about why the couple had broken up after five years.

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Telegraph.co.uk

With Imus ousted, will other shows clean up their acts?

Click on talk radio or cable news. Do you expect the chatter to be any less crass now that CBS Radio gave Don Imus the boot for his comment about the Rutgers' women's basketball team?

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San Jose Mercury News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Documents: Millions to shuttle survivors

NASA paid $26.6 million to family members of the astronauts who died on the space shuttle Columbia in 2003, a newspaper reported, citing recently released documents.

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ABC News

Chimps knocked off top of the IQ tree

Orangutans have been named as the world’s most intelligent animal in a study that places them above chimpanzees and gorillas, the species traditionally considered closest to humans.

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Sunday Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

More Hispanics in U.S. abandon religion

A wave of research shows that increasing percentages of Hispanics are abandoning church, suggesting that along with assimilation comes a measure of secularization.

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Ledger

Brazil, world's biggest Catholic country, to get its first native-born saint

The canonization of Antonio de Sant'Anna Galvaoan, an 18th-century Franciscan monk and Brazil's first native-born saint, will be the centerpiece event when Pope Benedict XVI visits Brazil next month.

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McClatchy Newspapers

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

DNA clue to presidential puzzle

DNA tests carried out on two British men have shed light on a mystery surrounding the ancestry of Thomas Jefferson, America's third president.

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BBC

Photo of the Day

Participants holding flags are seen at a remembrance day event to mark the 62nd anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, eastern Germany. (Photo by Gordon Schmidt / AP)

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