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A rabbi from Israel checks the land at what Jewish leaders say is a mass grave of Jews slaughtered in Ukraine during World War II, in the village of Gvozdavka-1, Ukraine. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky / AP)

Court ruling deals blow to Bush

The Bush administration cannot legally detain a U.S. resident it believes is an al-Qaeda sleeper agent without charging him, a divided federal appeals court ruled.

The Age

Bush gets terror setback

CBS News

Tribunal convicts former Croatian Serb leader Milan Martic

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted a wartime leader of rebel Serbs of a brutal ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs in Croatia.

International Herald Tribune

Floods kill nearly 100 in Bangladesh

Floods and mudslides have killed nearly 100 people in Bangladesh, mostly in the port city of Chittagong where dozens of hillside homes were buried after monsoon rains, officials and rescuers said.

Reuters

Bangladesh floods

BBC

Bombings target 3 key bridges in Iraq

Yahoo! News

Iraq makes slow progress on meeting U.S. targets

Reuters

U.S. strike kills 7 Afghan police

Afghan police mistook U.S. troops on a nighttime mission for Taliban fighters and opened fire on them, leading U.S. forces to return fire and call in attack aircraft, killing seven Afghan police, officials said.

CNN

Suicide risk double among male veterans

The risk of suicide among male U.S. veterans is double that of the general population, a study shows. Researchers followed more than 104,000 veterans who served between 1917 and 1994.

CNN

Pentagon confirms it sought to build a 'gay bomb'

KCAL

Child labor scandal hits Olympics

Beijing Olympics organizers vowed to come down hard on any cases of children being used to produce merchandise for the Games, after a report accused factories of "gross exploitation."

TVNZ

Olympics child labor claim

BBC

NATION

Gunfire sends Palestinian Cabinet fleeing

Ministers were forced to flee as the Palestinian government headquarters came under fire while the Cabinet was meeting, deepening an especially brutal wave of factional violence.

Arab News

Hamas-Fatah truce breaks down

Al Jazeera

Kenya bombing kills 1, injures 31

An explosion destroyed a hotel shop in Kenya's capital of Nairobi, killing one person and injuring at least 31 others, officials said.

Melbourne Herald Sun

Explosion rocks Kenya's capital

BBC

British man found guilty of 'honor' killing

A Kurdish man was convicted in a London court of murdering his 20-year-old daughter in a so-called "honor killing" after she left her husband and fell in love with another man.

News24

Daughter slain in 'honor' killing

CNN

POLITICS

GOP stops Gonzales no-confidence vote

Republicans blocked the Senate's no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, rejecting a symbolic Democratic effort to prod him from office, despite criticism from both parties.

Houston Chronicle

Romney puts Mormons in spotlight

Mitt Romney's bid to become president of the United States is both a proud sign of progress and a cause of trepidation.

International Herald Tribune

A hoosier farmer calls for reform

Every five or so years, whenever Washington takes up the convoluted set of laws governing U.S. farming, Republican Sen. Richard Lugar has embarked on something of a quixotic mission.

U.S. News & World Report

BUSINESS

Qwest CEO Notebaert to retire

Qwest Communications International Inc. said Chief Executive Officer Richard Notebaert, who rescued the company from the brink of bankruptcy, will retire as soon as he finds a successor.

Bloomberg

USA Today, ABC News to share 2008 election content

In a partnership both news organizations call "unprecedented," Gannett Co. flagship USA Today and ABC News announced they will share content about the 2008 election on each other's Web sites.

Editor & Publisher

Blackstone co-founders to make $2.3 billion from IPO

Blackstone co-founders Pete Peterson and Steve Schwarzman will receive a combined $2.3 billion pay-day from the U.S. private equity group's initial public offering.

MSNBC

SPORTS

Spurs ease past Cavs, take 2-0 lead

Tony Parker scored 30 points, Manu Ginobili had 25 and Tim Duncan added 23 as the Spurs schooled the Cleveland Cavaliers 103-92 in Game 2 to take a 2-0 lead in the NBA finals.

Sports Illustrated

Inside the playoff mind

NBA.com

Pettersen wins LPGA Championship

Suzann Pettersen won her first major by edging out Karrie Webb at the McDonald's LPGA Championship, atoning for her collapse at the first major of the season, the Kraft Nabisco Championship in April.

Sports Network

Final round at the LPGA Championship

Sports Illustrated

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Astronauts go on space walk

A pair of high-tech construction workers have ventured outside the International Space Station to hook up electrical connections on a massive girder that holds new solar panels needed to boost power.

Sydney Morning Herald

Shuttle flight, in pictures

ABC News

Rebuilding Rome as a virtual city

Ancient Rome was reborn — as a virtual city — when a team of American and Italian academics unveiled a real-time 3-D computer reconstruction that allows visitors to navigate the ancient city.

Newsweek

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Mexico clears church of mixing in politics

Mexico's Roman Catholic Church has been cleared of accusations that its opposition to abortion violated a law banning priests from mixing in politics.

Examiner

Prisons ban religious books

Inmates at the federal prison camp in Otisville, N.Y., were stunned by what they saw at the chapel library on Memorial Day — hundreds of books had disappeared from the shelves.

Houston Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Yoga may help treat depression, anxiety

Yoga's postures, controlled breathing and meditation may work together to help ease brains plagued by anxiety or depression, a new study shows.

Health Day

Despite Down syndrome, sons compete and win

Teri Russo is a firm believer in trying your best. That's the message she imparts to her four adopted sons, all of whom were born with a developmental disability.

USA Today

NATION

Deadly $2 heroin aimed at young teens

A cheap, highly addictive drug known as "cheese heroin" has killed 21 teenagers in the Dallas area over the past two years, and authorities say they hope to stop the fad before it spreads across the nation.

CNN

GA judge voids teen sex sentence

A judge has ordered that Genarlow Wilson be freed from prison, where he has spent more than two years for receiving consensual oral sex from a 15-year-old girl when he was 17.

Atlanta-Journal Constitution

Wilson to be released

CBS News

Army's influence in top posts is waning

At a time when the Army's soldiers are doing most of the fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, the service's influence in key decision-making positions is waning.

Guardian

Army misses recruiting goal in May

Army Times

ENVIRONMENT

EU streamlines environment requirements for farmers

Europe's farmers should soon have to waste less time with painstaking EU inspections that aim to check whether they are meeting a series of environment laws to qualify for subsidies, officials said.

Reuters

Lawmakers pledge to make Capitol complex carbon neutral

Congress says it will join the war on global warming by cleaning up its own backyard, cluttered with a coal-burning power plant, a fleet of inefficient vehicles and old-fashioned lights.

Environmental News Network

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

'Coast of Utopia' and 'Spring Awakening' sweep Tony Awards

The 61st annual Tony Awards were dominated by two shows drawn from the 19th century: "Spring Awakening" and "The Coast of Utopia."

International Herald Tribune

'Sopranos' whack the competition, if not each other

According to early estimates from Nielsen Media Research, "The Sopranos" finale pulled in at least 8 million viewers, beating out even the 61st Annual Tony Awards on CBS.

E! Online

HEALTH

Diabetes cuts 8 years off life

A diagnosis of diabetes means losing an average of eight years from your expected life span, new research shows. In addition, diabetics are more likely to develop heart disease earlier.

Health Day

Glucose control

CNN

Breakthrough in treating heart condition

Researchers at the University of Leeds have found a mechanism to prevent a potentially fatal heart condition that can strike without warning.

Medical News Today

Autism-vaccine debate goes to court

The battle over the alleged link between autism and vaccination will move from the ivory tower to the courts, as families take on the medical establishment.

San Francisco Chronicle

EDUCATION

The cruel fate for a boy named Osama

The parents of a New York teen named Osama have sued the school system claiming their son was constantly harassed by teachers.

CBS News

Hamas dominates in Palestinian schools

Children spend more of the school day studying Islam, critical jobs in public education are filled by Islamic stalwarts and a once-banned textbook, filled with hard-line rhetoric, is back in classrooms.

ABC News

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