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Vice President Dick Cheney, left, accompanied by USS John C. Stennis Strike Group Commander Rear Adm. Kevin Quinn, speaks to sailors and Marines during a rally aboard the aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP)

Cheney sends warning shot to Iran from Persian Gulf carrier

Vice President Dick Cheney issued a warning to Iran while aboard an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, saying the United States would join allies to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons.

MSNBC

Fire spares romantic city on island off coast of LA

Firefighters who halted soaring flames at Catalina Island's edge saved a throwback resort of cobblestone walkways and brightly painted homes ringing a palm-fringed crescent harbor.

San Francisco Chronicle

Catalina blaze

NBC11

Iraq's own Pentagon (news)papers

Before the Iraq invasion, the Pentagon planned to create a "Rapid Reaction Media Team" designed to ensure control over Iraqi media while providing an Iraqi "face" for its efforts, a report obtained by the NSA says.

Asia Times

General wants more troops for bloody Iraq province

The U.S. military commander in charge of northern Iraqi operations said more troops are needed to stem rising insurgent violence in Diyala province.

CNN

Iraq leader: U.S. troops needed for 2 more years

MSNBC

Republicans warn Bush he risks being deserted

Telegraph

Looming veto

Yahoo! Video

U.S. officials: no new threat in Germany

U.S. and German officials said there was no new security threat in Germany after ABC News reported that officials believed terrorists were planning an attack on U.S. military personnel or tourists in Germany.

Reuters

Giuliani clarifies abortion position, attempts broad GOP appeal

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani sought to clarify his support for abortion rights while fending off attacks from conservative wings of his own party.

FOX News

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

NATION

Israelis plan to build more homes on occupied land

Jerusalem's city council plans to build three new Jewish settlements on land it occupied in 1967, in contravention of international law.

Guardian

Blair puts 'tricky' EU issues on Sarkozy

The world – including the British prime minister – beat a path to the door of Nicolas Sarkozy as France's president-elect set about forming his government and formulating his European policy.

MSNBC

EU welcomes deal blocking Serbian radicals from power

Under pressure from Western powers, rival Serbian parties sealed a deal for a reformist government that will block from power extreme nationalists who finished first in January elections.

Deutsche Welle

POLITICS

White House and Democrats in trade policy deal

The White House reached a deal with leading Democrats to move forward with George W. Bush’s trade agenda in a significant boost to his weakened presidency, according to officials.

Financial Times

Pentagon restricting who can testify before Congress

The Pentagon has placed unprecedented restrictions on who can testify before Congress, according to Defense Department documents.

San Francisco Chronicle

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

POLITICS

Allstate to stop insuring Calif. homes

Allstate Corp. will stop writing new homeowners policies in California beginning in July, the company said.

MSNBC

The poverty business

Greater access to credit has put cars, computers, credit cards, and even homes within reach for many more of the working poor. But this remaking of the marketplace for low-income consumers has a dark side.

BusinessWeek

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

SPORTS

Landis says USADA offered deal for dirt on Armstrong

Tour de France champion Floyd Landis says a U.S. Anti-Doping Agency official offered his attorney "the lightest possible sentence" if he would provide incriminating information about Lance Armstrong.

USA Today

Mickelson leads Players Championships

Phil Mickelson has a one-stroke lead over Nathan Green during the second round of golf's Players Championship at a renovated TPC at Sawgrass course, while Tiger Woods is nine shots back.

Bloomberg

Mickelson leads Players Championships

Sports Illustrated

HEALTH

Daily aspirin may gradually reduce colon cancer risk

A daily dose of 300 milligrams of aspirin taken for 10 years can cut colon cancer risk by as much as 74 percent, a new British study suggests.

Health Day

Young women don't spot heart symptoms

Many women in the U.S. die from heart attacks each year, yet younger women often fail to recognize their risk, a new study suggests.

WebMD

EDUCATION

Ivy League women rise to top

When Drew Gilpin Faust, the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, takes over at Harvard on July 1, half of the Ivy League's eight schools will be led by women.

Honolulu Advertiser

Enforcement of Title IX survey scrutinized

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will hold a meeting to examine the model survey that schools can — but apparently don't — use to comply with the participation requirements of Title IX.

USA Today

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

A warning to drug companies

Denver Post

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The Blair legacy: Poodle or prodigy?

San Francisco Chronicle

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Vietnam syndrome

Houston Chronicle

Column:

What did Sharpton really mean?

Salon.com

Editorial:

Old foes, all smiles in Belfast

International Herald Tribune

Column (Victor Hanson):

Your war, not mine

Real Clear Politics

Editorial:

Matter of shame

Khaleej Times

Editorial:

Blair's compass went awry in Iraq

Toronto Star

Editorial:

A leg up for minorities on campus

Christian Science Monitor

Column (William Dalrymple):

Delhi, 1857: A bloody warning to today's imperial occupiers

Guardian

Editorial:

George W. Bush, alone

International Herald Tribune

Column (Joe Conason):

The GOP's Reaganesque tall tales

Truthdig

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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

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

Divorce rate drops, lowest since 1970

Despite the common notion that America is suffering a divorce epidemic, the nation's per capita divorce rate has declined steadily since its peak in 1981 and is at its lowest level since 1970.

Baltimore Sun

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

Weird gravity in Canada blamed on hefty glaciers

A mysterious dip in gravity over Canada has been a weighty topic for scientists. Now satellite data show that a thick ice sheet once cloaking the region partially resolves this gravitational anomaly.

LiveScience

Shrinking the cost for solar power

Experts say solar power systems can be built in ways that would make them competitive with conventional power plants.

CNET News

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

Puffing away that PG rating

In a significant change to its movie ratings system, the Motion Picture Association of America said portrayals of smoking would be considered alongside sex and violence in assessing the suitability of movies.

Ledger

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Brains reflect sex differences

According to research published in the online open access journal BMC Biology, brain structures have developed due to different pressures on males and females to keep up.

Science Daily

New space telescope will greatly outdistance Hubble

Unlike Hubble, which sits right next to Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is going to be sent to a spot nearly a million miles away.

NPR

First decoded marsupial genome reveals 'junk DNA' surprise

A tiny opossum is revealing big potential for understanding human evolution, treating cancer, and learning how to repair damaged spinal cords.

National Geographic

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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