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Chertoff says al-Qaida not posing pre-Sept. 11 threat

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the threat to the United States from al-Qaida has not returned to levels seen just before the Sept. 11 attacks nearly six years ago.

Reuters

U.S. security czar Chertoff under fire for threat hunch

canada.com

Flight diverted over passenger scare

A flight from Los Angeles to London was diverted to New York because of a security scare.

Yahoo! News

Undercover agents got easy access to dirty bomb tools

Congressional investigators set up a bogus company and got a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to buy enough material for a "dirty bomb."

Seattle Times

House votes to bring home troops in '08

The House voted 223-201 to require most U.S. troops to leave Iraq by April 1, 2008. President Bush vetoed a bill with a similar withdrawal date in May.

CNN

Bush upbeat despite Iraq woes

BBC

Iraq progress report shows mixed results

CNN

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MSNBC

Bush tells Miers not to attend hearing

President Bush ordered former counsel Harriet Miers to defy a congressional summons, even as a former aide appeared before a Senate panel earlier this week.

Arizona Republic

Former Bush aide testifies

CBS News

Probe: FAA covers up controller errors

The FAA has covered up mistakes and created dangerous conditions such as letting planes fly too close at one of the nation's busiest airports, according to a government investigator.

Houston Chronicle

Overworked air traffic controllers

ABC News

NATION

S. Korea sends oil aid to N. Korea

A shipment of oil headed to North Korea in exchange for the expected shutdown of the communist nation's only working nuclear reactor.

Yahoo! News

Lebanon launches assault on militants

The Lebanese army pounded a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon with heavy artillery in what one high-ranking Lebanese security source described as a final bid to oust the Islamist militants.

CNN

Lebanon army shells camp

BBC

Mosque crisis may strengthen Musharraf with mainstream

President Pervez Musharraf's decision to have the army storm the Red Mosque may strengthen the leader's hand among Pakistanis dismayed at how Islamic militants used the holy site as a fortress.

International Herald Tribune

Inside battle scarred mosque

BBC

POLITICS

Dems get warm receptions from NAACP

Delegates at the NAACP's annual meeting warmly welcomed all eight Democratic contenders who came because of things they said.

USA Today

Dems vie for black vote

CBS News

McCain loses 2 Iowa strategists

Two veteran Republican strategists are abandoning John McCain's campaign in Iowa, dealing another blow to his struggling presidential bid.

Guardian

Surgeon General nominee will undergo rigorous questioning

A Senate committee will consider President Bush's nomination for the next surgeon general. But there are questions about both the job, and the candidate.

NPR

BUSINESS

U.S. stocks rally, Dow average rises

U.S. stocks rallied as Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s better-than-forecast sales and a surge in exports swept the Dow Jones industrial average to its biggest gain since 2003.

Bloomberg

Gas prices spike again

Just when you were getting used to $3 gas again, prices at most area pumps saw another spike. Though $3 gas still could be found at a few pumps, most were flashing prices between $3.05 and $3.15.

Kansas City Star

Gas prices rise, as average hits $3 a gallon

NPR

SPORTS

Becks takes over Galaxy but fall to earth threatens mission

No one man can be bigger than his team, or so the maxim goes, but David Beckham does not so much outshine the Los Angeles Galaxy as eclipse them.

Sydney Morning Herald

Suzuki secures All-Star MVP award

Ichiro Suzuki clinched the Most Valuable Player Award with a feat never achieved in 77 previous editions of Major League Baseball's All-Star Game: a home run that didn't leave the ballpark.

Bloomberg

Ichiro's All-Star inside the park

ESPN

EDUCATION

House OKs bill to cut student loan rates

Legislation to lower interest rates on student loans and increase aid to poor people who want to go to college won House approval.

Guardian

Physics students gird for a global battle

Five of America's top young physics minds are scheduled to touch down in Iran in four days, and they're training up to the bitter end.

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

World's tallest man marries, sweeps bride off feet

Yahoo! News

Baby mammoth astounds scientists

Lyuba was only about four months old when she died on a full stomach. Ten thousand odd years later she is set to become world famous.

Moscow Times

10,000-year-old baby mammoth

Reuters

NATION

Ex-mayor of Newark indicted

A federal grand jury indicted former Newark Mayor Sharpe James on corruption charges. James, 71, was charged with using city-issued credit cards to spend extravagantly on himself.

USA Today

NYPD shooting suspect captured

The third suspect in a shooting that left a New York City police officer paralyzed and his partner wounded was captured in the Pennsylvania woods.

Yahoo! News

ENVIRONMENT

EPA probes possible radioactive waste at Camp Lejeune

The Environmental Protection Agency is investigating whether cancer-causing radioactive material was buried in the 1980s near a rifle range at Camp Lejeune.

Environmental News Network

U.S. seeks foothold as melting Arctic invites conflict

No longer the preserve of dramatic adventure and heroic rescues, the frozen Arctic is shedding its isolation and image as a place too harsh for ship passages and a military presence.

Earth Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Poll: Few fans think Harry Potter will die

Harry Potter can breathe a sigh of relief. Only one in five adult fans think the boy wizard will die in the final book of J.K. Rowling's hit series, according to an opinion poll.

Reuters

Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix trailer

YouTube

BBC apologizes over Queen clips

The BBC has apologized to Queen Elizabeth for wrongly implying she walked out of a portrait session with photographer Annie Leibovitz during a documentary.

BBC

Star tenor Jerry Hadley on life support

Celebrated tenor Jerry Hadley remained hospitalized for a gunshot wound police said was self-inflicted.

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Water found on distant planets

Researchers now have the first conclusive evidence of water on a planet outside our solar system, according to a paper in the journal Nature.

TIME

Team sail off to rewrite history

A team of explorers and a 10-ton reed boat aim to rewrite the history books by sailing from America to Europe to prove that trans-Atlantic trade links existed as long ago as the Stone Age.

IOL

HEALTH

Dangerous lead levels found in some garden hoses

It's about as uncomplicated as it gets — rip off the package, screw the fitting onto a spigot and your new garden hose is good to go. But some garden hoses may contain dangerous levels of lead.

Health News Digest

Lurking danger in garden hoses

ABC News

Test warns of dangerous 'deep belly' fat

A protein in blood points to rising amounts of a particularly lethal form of body fat around organs, scientists say.

Health Day

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Vatican downplays churches row

The Vatican sought to downplay a document claiming the Catholic Church was the "one true Church of Christ" after it provoked outrage among other Christian faiths.

Melbourne Herald Sun

Christian group urges sanctions on Iran

A prominent evangelical Christian organization in Israel has launched a worldwide petition urging the U.N. to take stronger measures to confront Iran's nuclear program.

Jerusalem Post

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