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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, right, talks across the table to Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit , left, at the Iraq conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. (Photo by Nasser Nuri / AP)

L.A. police to review use of force in protest

A day of mostly calm immigration rallies around the nation ended with a clash between police and demonstrators in L.A.

KQCA

LAPD takes a beating

Los Angeles Daily News

Excessive force in L.A.?

ABC News

Republicans prepare for first '08 debate

Ten Republican White House contenders, led by early favorites Rudolph Giuliani and John McCain, will crowd the stage for their first debate in the 2008 presidential campaign.

Reuters

Republican contenders ponder what to say about Bush

International Herald Tribune

Schwarzenegger looks to be presidential player

Concord Monitor

U.S. policy shift as Rice meets with Syria

Telegraph.co.uk

Experts: No safe way for U.S. to leave Iraq

CNN

4,000 U.S. soldiers to Baghdad for crackdown

MSNBC

GM profits plunge 90 percent

General Motors Corp. said first-quarter profit plunged 90 percent, dragged down by bad loans at the GMAC LLC finance unit and continued automotive losses.

Bloomberg

President Bush off 'Most Influential' list

TIME's list of the 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world did not include President Bush.

TIME

NATO looks to cut Afghan civilian toll

NATO forces in Afghanistan vowed to improve coordination with Afghan authorities to avoid civilian casualties, after a warning from President Karzai.

Khaleej Times

NATION

Australia wades into nuclear row

Australia has weighed into an international stoush over nuclear power, in a fierce debate expected to dominate the final night of a major climate change summit.

The Age

Sudan 'will defy Darfur warrants'

Sudan's government has dismissed the warrants of arrest issued by The International Criminal Court for two men suspected of war crimes in Darfur.

BBC

China’s labor law raises U.S. concerns

An issue gathering steam in the U.S. is a new law that seeks to boost the employment rights of Chinese workers and give trade unions more influence.

Financial Times

Excerpts from Reagan's diaries released

After he was seriously wounded in a 1981 assassination attempt, Ronald Reagan described the experience simply in one of his presidential diaries: "Getting shot hurts."

Houston Chronicle

Sounding like Reagan not easy for GOP

CBS News

Senate subpoenas Gonzales on Rove e-mail in U.S. Attorney firings

Senators subpoenaed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, ordering him to provide all e-mails related to presidential adviser Karl Rove and the firings of eight federal prosecutors.

Kansas City Star

POLITICS

Why Murdoch wants Dow Jones

Economist

Gas prices could hit record highs soon

American drivers nationwide could face record gas prices at the end of this month, just in time for Memorial Day weekend travel.

Seattle Times

Vonage wants retrial of patent case

Vonage has asked for a retrial in the patent case which the phone company lost to Verizon. The company wants the trial reheard in the light of a new Supreme Court ruling on patent law.

The Age

Ernst & Young audits faulted in report

Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP appears to have signed off on some public-company audits without having sufficient evidence to support its opinion, according to a 2006 inspection report.

BusinessWeek

SPORTS

Report: NBA refs have racial bias

An academic study of NBA officiating found that white referees called fouls at a greater rate against black players than against white players, The New York Times reported.

Sports Illustrated

Reaction to NBA officiating

ESPN

Nadal outlasts Federer on half-clay, half-grass court

Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (10) in an exhibition on a half-grass, half-clay court when the top-ranked Swiss failed to reach a forehand that took a funny bounce across the green side.

Sports Illustrated

'Battle of the surfaces'

MSNBC

HEALTH

FDA regulators look to widen antidepressant drug warnings

U.S. health officials recommended that warnings about antidepressants and suicidal thoughts and behaviors be expanded to young adults up to 24 years of age.

Health Day

Tainted food moves beyond pets

Chemically tainted pet-food ingredients from China, believed to have sickened or killed thousands of American pets, entered the U.S. human food chain, the Food and Drug Administration said.

Kansas City Star

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GOOD NEWS

Music mystery of Da Vinci Code chapel cracked

A Scottish church featured in The Da Vinci Code is embroiled in a fresh mystery of secret codes and heretical knowledge - but this one could be more than mere fiction.

Telegraph.co.uk

Da Vinci code's music mystery

CBS News

Wallet returned 56 years after theft

Val Gregoire lost his wallet — and his pants — during a Boston mugging in 1951. Now, 56 years later, the wallet has been returned by a demolition worker who found it inside a Paramount Theatre wall.

USA Today

NATION

Texas bill would require sonograms for abortion-seekers

Women seeking to terminate their pregnancies would have to undergo a sonogram before the procedure could be performed under legislation tentatively approved by the Texas Senate.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Train carrying shuttle rockets derails

A train carrying reusable solid rocket booster segments for the space shuttle derailed in western Alabama, leaving at least two people injured, a NASA spokeswoman said.

CNN

Another setback for NASA

CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

EU calls for action on global warming

Developing countries should stop blaming rich nations for the Earth's changing climate and take immediate action to avert the catastrophic effects of global warming, the European Union said.

Sci-Tech Today

Highway fire raises nuclear concern

A long-lasting inferno on a California highway raised concerns over nuclear waste shipped by truck, and the threat to public safety.

Earth Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

TV journalist gets jail for 'fabricating' torture scenes

An Egyptian court handed a six month prison sentence to an Al-Jazeera journalist convicted of fabricating torture scenes for a documentary, court officials said.

Sydney Morning Herald

'OK!' triumphs in battle of the Zeta Jones wedding snaps

The celebrity magazine OK! has won a long-running court battle with its glossy rival Hello! after a row over pictures of the wedding of Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas.

The Independent

Courts back OK! in Zeta Jones case

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Source of earthquakes found beneath U.S. heartland

Scientists have finally figured out what might have caused a series of devastating earthquakes that struck the Midwest nearly 200 years ago at a set of faults that has confused geologists.

LiveScience

Internet radio gets a break on royalties

Internet radio broadcasters caught a break in their struggle against higher music royalties as a deadline for paying fees under the new system was postponed by two months, to July 15.

BusinessWeek

EDUCATION

Bono gives weight to proposed U.S. education bill

Rock singer Bono threw his weight behind proposed U.S. legislation that would boost funding for free basic education for some of the world's poorest children.

Reuters

Chess goes to school

In January of 1958, a 14-year-old boy from Brooklyn made headlines: Bobby Fischer became the youngest U.S. champion in a cerebral sport long associated with genius

Slate

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholics detail Irish sex abuses

The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has revealed figures showing the extent to which priests in its largest archdiocese may have abused children.

BBC

Religion gets an 'A' at U.S. colleges

Peter Gomes has been at Harvard for 37 years and remembers when religious people on campus felt under siege. No more, as campus religious activism is reaching new heights.

International Herald Tribune

Photo of the Day

A crew member of the USA BMW Oracle yacht works as the Oracle prepares to cross the topmark, during the flight 3 of the second round-robin stage of the Louis Vuitton Cup off the coast of Valencia, Spain. (Photo by Fernando Bustamante / AP)

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