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Israel pounds Hamas militant targets in Gaza

Associated Press

Islamic militants, security forces battle in northern Lebanon

CNN

Fierce fighting in Lebanese town

Reuters

Top Republican says Gonzales may resign

Reuters

15 U.S. troops die in weekend Iraq attacks

CNN

Bush gets ready for Iraq U-turn by Britain

Daily Telegraph

Blasts hit Green Zone during Blair visit

ABC News

Meeting energy demand and stopping global warming both possible, WWF says

Sustainable energy and technology can curb climate change and meet growing demand for energy but only if key decisions are made soon, the WWF says.

Science Daily

Watching and waiting on immigration

Orange County Register

Complex immigration agreement could alter dynamics of national economy

San Francisco Chronicle

Overhauling immigration is big business, too

NPR

Iraq a 'big moneymaker' for al-Qaida

U.S. officials said al-Qaida's command base in Pakistan increasingly is being funded by cash from Iraq.

Seattle Times

NATION

Pakistan bloodshed opens new fault lines

In the massive port city of Karachi, home to 14 million and Pakistan's commercial center, the fissures that split the nation are magnified.

Guardian

Australian al-Qaida supporter repatriated

An Australian man convicted of supporting terrorism has arrived home from Guantanamo Bay, after spending more than five years at the U.S. detention center.

Sky News

Sarkozy names diverse cabinet

Nicolas Sarkozy, France's new right-wing President, appointed a Socialist as Foreign Minister; gave women nearly half the cabinet's seats, and appointed the country's first minister of African descent.

Globe and Mail

POLITICS

Talks on war funding quickly break down

President Bush had better prepare his veto pen because breakdowns in White House-congressional talks over an Iraq spending bill means he'll probably get another bill with some restrictions.

San Francisco Chronicle

Top court, abortion seen as big issues

The next U.S. president could reshape the Supreme Court, where the two oldest members are liberals and volatile decisions like abortion now hinge on a single swing vote.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Microsoft chases Google with $6 billion purchase of internet ad broker

Microsoft is spending $6 billion on its biggest acquisition in a desperate attempt to keep up with Google in the market for online advertising.

London Independent

GM plant in New York braces for closing

General Motors is shutting down another factory in a small town in northern New York. The area will lose nearly 500 jobs, dealing another blow to its battered rural economy.

NPR

SPORTS

Federer ends skid, Nadal's clay streak at Hamburg

Roger Federer had the perfect response to questions about his status as the world's top-ranked player — he ended Rafael Nadal's 81-match winning streak on clay.

Sports Illustrated

Operation Grand Slam: ‘007 Federer’s golden year?

Tennis.com

Bonds is chasing and being chased

As Barry Bonds races toward baseball immortality and the title of Home Run King, he can't escape another sobriquet: Poster Child of the Steroids Era.

San Jose Mercury News

Curlin wins Preakness

Curlin nipped Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense on the final stride and won the Preakness Stakes in a riveting finish Saturday, ending a chance of a Triple Crown for this racing season.

Sports Illustrated

Preakness Stakes

Yahoo! News

EDUCATION

Louisiana school district sued over Bibles in school

The American Civil Liberties Union filed its fifth religion-related lawsuit against an eastern Louisiana school district, this time alleging a principal improperly allowed people to distribute Bibles to students.

CNN

Higher education sees rise in dishonesty

There were historic breakthroughs, and there was tragedy. But if the academic year now winding down had a theme, it was a more subtle one: dishonesty.

Yahoo! News

HEALTH

Agent Orange raises Vietnam vets' risk of recurrent prostate cancer

Exposure four decades ago to Agent Orange in the Vietnam War appears to boost veterans' risk for a recurrence of prostate cancer even after the organ is surgically removed, a new study shows.

Health Day

Too few get best migraine drugs

Too many patients get potentially addictive, under-effective drugs for migraine — and too few get the most effective migraine drugs, a new survey shows.

WebMD

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Les Payne):

Wolfowitz was a bankrupt banker

Newsday

Editorial:

What's that again?

Baltimore Sun

Editorial:

The U.S. immigration deal

International Herald Tribune

Column (Nimer Sultany):

Natives, not immigrants

Guardian

Column (Saleh Machnouk):

Only a realistic, long-term deal can end Palestinian infighting

Daily Star

Column:

Immigration bill offers confusing options

Real Clear Politics

Blog (Bonnie Erbe):

A peek into our diverse future

U.S. News & World Report

Editorial:

As Pakistan goes, so goes a war

Christian Science Monitor

Column:

More Gonzales grief

Real Clear Politics

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GOOD NEWS

Gates charity gives $9.7M to fight AIDS

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give a $9.7 million grant to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation to study ways to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission to children via breast milk.

USA Today

Long Beach teen among the youngest to reach Mount Everest summit

An 18-year-old Long Beach, Calif., woman has reached the summit of Mount Everest, becoming what is believed to be the youngest person to scale the highest peaks on each of the seven continents.

San Jose Mercury News

NATION

Guantanamo lawyer faces jail term

A U.S. Navy lawyer faces six months in prison and dismissal from service for sending a human rights lawyer the names of 550 Guantanamo Bay detainees.

BBC

Two people found dead inside Idaho church after shootings

Two bodies were found inside the First Presbyterian Church in downtown Moscow, Idaho, and a semi-automatic rifle was next to one of the bodies, police said.

Bloomberg

One dead in airshow crash

A Canadian Snowbirds jet crashed during practice maneuvers at a Montana air base, killing the pilot.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Summit 'a clear wake-up call'

World mayors, who wrapped up a three-day summit on climate change, were falling all over one another all week to show they're the ones leading the way on global warming.

Toronto Star

Combating climate change: building better, wasting less

Drafty buildings, inefficient appliances and mountains of waste will all need to be transformed to control global warming.

Scientific American

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

American Idol: Voyeuristic, occasionally nasty, and it works

The people have spoken and the formula has triumphed. This week, Melinda Doolittle, a 29-year-old woman with one of the best singing voices to ever grace American Idol, was voted off the show.

Globeandmail.com

Partners in paranoia

In a new double biography, one of our most prominent presidential historians argues that Nixon was tied into knots by his rivalry with Henry Kissinger.

Christian Science Monitor

Michael Moore makes triumphant Cannes return with 'Sicko'

"Sicko," Michael Moore's ferocious and funny attack on the U.S. health care system, got a warm welcome at the Cannes Film festival. At home, it has started a firestorm.

International Herald Tribune

Special section:

Reporter's log: Cannes Film Festival

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA probes sinkhole as proxy for icy moon

NASA is testing an underwater robot in one of Earth's deepest sinkholes in a first step toward searching for life on Jupiter's icy moon, Europa.

CNET News

Diamonds tell tale of comet that killed off the cavemen

Scientists will outline dramatic evidence this week that suggests a comet exploded over the Earth nearly 13,000 years ago, creating a hail of fireballs that set fire to most of the northern hemisphere.

Observer

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Churches to provide immigrants sanctuary

Churches in five big U.S. cities plan to protect illegal immigrants from deportation, as they pressure lawmakers to create a path to citizenship for the nation's illegal immigrants.

USA Today

Long Island diocese loses abuse lawsuit

A jury found the nation's sixth-largest Roman Catholic diocese and a church parish negligent in a case involving a youth minister who repeatedly raped and sodomized teenagers in his care.

Houston Chronicle

Photo of the Day

Festival goers carry portable shrines, marching through the court yard of the Asakusa Sensoji temple during the annual Sanja Festival in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Itsuo Inouye / AP)

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