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Vice President Dick Cheney pins the Bronze Star Medal on Spc. Joshua Sullivan of Company C, 1st Batallion 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, during a medal ceremony and troop rally at Camp Speicher, Iraq. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP)

Firefighters make progress as blaze torches resort island

Firefighters struggled to protect a resort island's main city from a wildfire that forced hundreds of residents to flee on ferries as ash rained down "like snow," by one resident's account.

CNN

Va. Tech seniors prepare for transition

It will be a graduation unlike any other because no university has suffered as Virginia Tech has suffered.

ABC News

Solemn commencement

CNN

Oxfam: G8 broke pledges on poverty, millions dying

Industrialized nations have broken promises to alleviate poverty and provide better health and education, leading to the deaths of millions of people in poorer nations, Oxfam International said.

Mail & Guardian

Oxfam poverty warning

BBC

House passes Iraq funds bill Bush would veto

Reuters

Bush: no 'piecemeal' war funding

CNN

U.S. troops kill 4 gunmen in raids on car bomb cells

U.S. troops killed four militants suspected of involvement in car bomb networks, including one believed to have links to senior al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders, the U.S. military said.

Reuters

JetBlue shares up as CEO steps down

The end of David Neeleman's reign as CEO of JetBlue came as welcome news to investors, who seemed relieved that the airline decided to shake up management.

Forbes

JetBlue replaces its CEO

CBS News

NASA: Climate change will bring scorching summers in coming decades

NASA scientists predict average summer temperatures in the eastern U.S. will rise by up to five degrees Celsius by the 2080s due to global warming from greenhouse gases.

CBC

Special section:

Interactive: global warming

CBS News

NATION

Protests in Germany over raids

Thousands of people staged spontaneous demonstrations in German cities, after raids against anti-globalization activists suspected of plotting to disrupt next month's Group of Eight summit.

Guardian

German G8 'militants' raids

BBC

Euro is currency of choice for Latin-American cocaine traffickers

The euro has become the currency of choice for Latin American cocaine traffickers as the drug's popularity among Europeans has soared and the value of the currency against the dollar has risen.

International Herald Tribune

POLITICS

Cheney defends extended deployments

Vice President Dick Cheney told U.S. troops in Iraq that he knows they're suffering hardships from extended deployments but the longer stays are "vital to the mission."

San Francisco Chronicle

Second stop for Cheney in Mideast

ABC News

McCain says President Bush's numbers hurt Republicans

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said he believes President Bush's low approval ratings are hurting the GOP. Still, he doesn't think they will affect the party's 2008 nominee.

AOL News

Gonzales tells panel he doesn't recall any more details

Democrats pressed for more answers on the firings of U.S. attorneys even as Attorney General Alberto Gonzales insisted he doesn't remember any new details and Republicans called for the probe to end.

CNN

POLITICS

Company recalls 45,000 infant car seats

Evenflo Company Inc. announced a recall of about 450,000 infant car seats after reports that the handle of the seat can unexpectedly release when it's used as an infant carrier.

WCBS

Greenspan says odds against U.S. recession are 2 to 1

Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan believes that the odds against a recession in the United States are now 2 to 1, according to participants at a closed-door investor forum.

CNBC

Homebuilders in a hole

The downturn in the housing market has caught the nation's homebuilders by surprise, leaving many overextended with costly land they can't develop and unfinished homes they can't sell.

BusinessWeek

SPORTS

Ravens' McNair arrested on DUI charge

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Steve McNair was arrested on a DUI charge after allowing his brother-in-law, Jamie Cartwright, to drive his vehicle while allegedly intoxicated.

Sports Network

Earnhardt Jr. to leave father's company

Dale Earnhardt Jr. will leave the company founded by his late father at the end of the year in a shake-up certain to ignite a bidding war for NASCAR's most popular driver.

Sports Illustrated

HEALTH

OxyContin maker fined $634 million

The maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin and three executives pleaded guilty to misleading the public about the drug's risk of addiction, a federal prosecutor and the company said.

Houston Chronicle

Kick the habit with an 'e-cigarette'

It feels like a cigarette and looks like a cigarette, but it isn't bad for your health. A Chinese company marketing the world's first "electronic" cigarette hopes to double sales this year as it expands overseas.

Sydney Morning Herald

E-smoke, to kick the habit

Reuters

Smoky chokehold fuels health woes

Health experts say some people may face breathing problems from the dense smoke of nearly 45,000 acres of wildfire that spread across drought-parched Florida.

Orlando Sentinel

100,000 acres burn in Florida

ABC News

EDUCATION

Spellings vows headway on student loans

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings sparred with the chairman of the House education committee amid allegations that the department's oversight of the student loan industry has been lax.

Forbes

Middle school students revel in Alvin Ailey dance education

A school program shares the choreographer's legacy of learning and expression, with lessons tapping into the life of the famed African-American dancer to bring to light history and social issues.

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Mail carriers to launch largest 1-day food drive in U.S.

Letter carriers will be collecting more than letters on Saturday. They expect to pick up more than three-quarters of a billion pounds of food nationwide during the 15th annual Stamp Out Hunger drive.

Arizona Republic

Letter carriers work to stamp out hunger

Yahoo! News

Technology helps find transplant patient

Police located a 10-year-old boy awaiting a heart transplant by using global-positioning technology to find his mother's cellphone, a technique usually used to locate criminals.

Independent Online

GPS tracks down boy in time for transplant

KDKA

NATION

Man surrenders for civil rights-era killing of protester

A former state trooper surrendered on a murder charge in the 1965 shooting death of a black man during a civil rights protest, a killing that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

TIME

Did informant’s actions aid Fort Dix attack plotters?

He worked against the U.S., helped scout out military installations for attack, offered to introduce his comrades to an arms dealer and gave them a list of weapons he could procure.

MSNBC

Engineer found guilty of trying to leak secrets to China

A former engineer for a Navy contractor in Anaheim faces up to 45 years in prison after a federal jury convicted him of conspiring to export sensitive U.S. defense technology to China.

Orange County Register

ENVIRONMENT

Report: China won't change energy plan

China is unlikely to become less energy-dependent any time soon because the political will to do so just isn't there, according to a study by the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Earth Times

Forests felled in high country in battle against bark beetle

The sound of chainsaws can be heard all over the mountain town of Frisco, Colo., as tree removal companies work to cut down thousands of lodge pole pine killed by bark beetles.

9News

Colorado counties fight pine beetle

CBS 4

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Detroit will be featured in documentary on urban farming

Parts of a documentary on the growth and importance of urban gardens will be shot in Detroit later this month. Urban Farming will shoot the film in conjunction with Atlantic Records.

WDIV

New York tries urban farming

Reuters

Chris Albrecht out at HBO

In the end, what happened in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas. HBO Chairman-CEO Chris Albrecht’s arrest there last weekend for allegedly assaulting a female companion led to his corporate ouster.

BusinessWeek

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Futuristic engine uses much less fuel

Engineers are tinkering with a new-age engine that could reduce fuel consumption and in turn help to squelch greenhouse gas emissions associated with automobiles.

LiveScience

Cabbies slam high-tech rides

To taxi officials, the touch-screen monitors cropping up in cabs help passengers make the most of the 13 New York minutes spent on an average ride. But the plan has angered many drivers.

Newsday

Taxi drivers could strike over new technology

WCBS

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Romney assails Sharpton's comment about Mormon faith

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney denounced the Rev. Al Sharpton's remarks about God and his Mormon faith, saying it could be construed as "a bigoted comment.''

Guardian

Muslim sects in Detroit area sign code of cooperation

Sunni and Shi'ite leaders in Michigan signed a pact affirming their commitment to speak out against conflicts between the two Islamic sects.

Jerusalem Post

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