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First Lady Laura Bush, center, wipes her eye during a funeral service for former first lady Lady Bird Johnson, in Austin, Texas. Johnson the widow of former President Lyndon B. Johnson died Wednesday of natural causes. (Photo by David J. Phillip / AP, pool)

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N. Korea claims to have shut down nuclear reactor

North Korea, the secretive, nuclear-armed “hermit kingdom,” claimed that it had shut down the atomic reactor in Yongbyon where it produced plutonium for use in weapons.

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Times Online

Ga. judge: no stay on Davis execution

A judge rejected Troy Anthony Davis' 11th-hour appeal of his murder conviction in the death of Mark Allen MacPhail.

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Savannah Morning News

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Will Georgia kill an innocent man?

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TIME

Bin Laden praises martyrdom in new video

Osama bin Laden praised martyrdom in a new videotape posted on a militant Web site by al-Qaida's media production wing.

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New message from al Qaeda No. 17

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ABC News

U.S. Air Force builds up presence in Iraq

Away from the headlines and debate over the "surge" in U.S. ground troops, the Air Force has quietly built up its hardware inside Iraq, including sharply stepped up bombing.

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CBS11

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Families teaming up to free loved ones held in Iraq

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WCCO

Meeting in Libya seeks to unify Darfur peace jumble

The United Nations and African Union will host a meeting in Tripoli to evaluate the troubled peace process in Sudan's war-torn Darfur, until now bedevilled by fragmented rebel groups.

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IOL

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Libya hosts Darfur talks

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BBC

NATION

Spanish police arrest 66 for child porn

Spanish police investigating a child pornography ring have arrested 66 people and seized computer hard drives containing 48 million photographs and video images, officials said.

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MSNBC

Peres, 83, to be sworn in as Israeli president

Israel's elder statesman and Nobel peace laureate Shimon Peres is to be sworn in as president, crowning an unparalleled career stretching back more than half a century.

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NEWS.com.au

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Shimon Peres to become president

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Reuters

France stages European Bastille Day festivities

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has led a parade for Bastille Day that was joined for the first time by military contingents from all 27 countries of the European Union.

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Sydney Morning Herald

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French celebrate Bastille Day

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Yahoo! News

POLITICS

White House threatens children's health insurance veto

The Bush administration said senior advisers would recommend the president veto Senate legislation that would substantially increase funds for children's health insurance.

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Houston Chronicle

Iraq's leader says U.S. can leave any time it likes

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shrugged off U.S. doubts of his government's military and political progress, saying Iraqi forces are capable and American troops can leave "any time they want."

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Sen. Reed: Petraeus is ready for changed Iraq course

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The Hill

McCain still steadfast in backing of war

Appealing for patience with the war in Iraq, Sen. John McCain argued that a hasty withdrawal from the 4-year-old effort would lead to greater dangers for the U.S. in years to come.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

BUSINESS

Ford weighs sale of Volvo

Ford Motor is considering the sale of its Swedish-based Volvo car division, a move that would mark the final dismemberment of its luxury car business outside North America.

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Financial Times

A reprieve for Web radio

Web radio will keep playing, rather than play dead. The music industry won't impose higher royalty rates, which were to take effect Sunday, but the good news for Webcasters may prove fleeting.

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BusinessWeek

SPORTS

Venus Williams beats Petrova, ties Fed Cup between U.S., Russia 1-1

Venus Williams overcame a terrible second set to beat Nadia Petrova 7-6, 0-6, 6-4 and give the United States a split of the opening singles in its Fed Cup semifinal against Russia.

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International Herald Tribune

Rasmussen wins eighth stage, takes overall lead from Gerdemann

Michael Rasmussen of Denmark won the eighth stage of the Tour de France to take the overall lead after a second day of grueling climbs in the Alps.

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HEALTH

Trimming the waist may trim diabetes, heart risks

People who manage to reduce their waistlines may also lower their risk for diabetes and heart disease, a study suggests.

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Reuters

A drug-resistant bacteria breakthrough?

Several common antibiotics are no longer useful in treating some very bad infections. But scientists in North Carolina say they may have at least a partial solution.

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CBS News

EDUCATION

California's students get into college, but not always out

For most of history, higher education has been reserved for a tiny elite. For a glimpse of a future where college is open to all, visit California — the place that now comes closest to that ideal.

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USA Today

200,000 Mexicans learn to read with Cuban method

At least 25 of the 113 municipalities of Michoacan State in Mexico have been declared free of illiteracy through the Cuban teaching method "Yo Si Puedo (Yes I Can)."

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GOOD NEWS

'Good cholesterol' may help Alzheimer's

Boosting your levels of good cholesterol might help protect you from Alzheimer's disease, according to a landmark study of older Australians.

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Herald Sun

Twins separated at birth reunite

A chance meeting has reunited identical twin sisters who were separated at birth nearly 15 years ago — and touched off a legal dispute over how two doctors adopted one of the girls.

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MSNBC

NATION

Praising the poise of Lady Bird Johnson

At Lady Bird Johnson's funeral at the Riverbend Centre church, representatives of first families stretching back half a century came to pay their condolences.

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San Jose Mercury News

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Yahoo! News

Blood found in accused serial killer's truck

Blood was found throughout 56-year-old truck driver Bruce Mendenhall's truck when Metro police questioned him during a murder investigation of a Tennessee woman.

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WTVF

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Family says slain woman tried to rehab life

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WSMV

New York reviving idea to limit cars

New York's mayor remains hopeful he can create congestion pricing to reduce the number of people driving in Manhattan.

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Danbury News Times

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Can a driver outsmart a traffic jam?

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ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Governor signs Florida greenhouse gas reduction plan

The Republican governors of California and Florida gave the Bush administration the cold shoulder as they charged ahead on plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Reuters

USDA buzzing with new plan to fight collapse of bee colonies

Agriculture Department scientists are mobilizing to fight the puzzling and potentially catastrophic collapse of the nation's honey bee colonies.

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McClatchy Newspapers

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Burns adds to war documentary

In the world of PBS, Ken Burns is like a god, so it must have been a shock to the system when Latinos complained that his upcoming World War II opus overlooks their contributions to the war effort.

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San Jose Mercury News

Rapper arrested on murder charge

Grammy-nominated rap star Remy Ma has been arrested on charges of attempted murder, police in New York have said.

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BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

View from E3: lines drawn between Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo

This week's video-game convention in Santa Monica, the invitation-only E3 Media and Business Summit, showed the differences between Nintendo and its rivals, Sony and Microsoft.

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San Jose Mercury News

Cows get along fine with robot

At a Harford County dairy, an automated system has taken over the time-consuming job of milking.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Last Rites in the Holy Land?

According to the World Council of Churches, the Middle East's Christian population has plunged from 12 million to 2 million in the past 10 years.

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Newsweek

L.A. archdiocese to pay $600M to victims

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles will settle its clergy abuse cases for at least $600 million, the largest payout to date in the church's sexual abuse scandal.

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USA Today

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

U.S. allows radioactive materials in ordinary landfills

Radioactive materials from nuclear weapons facilities are being released to regular landfills and could get into commercial recycling streams, a report just issued by the nonprofit NIRS says.

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About 1,500 knighthood tradition fans from various European countries took part in the re-enactment of the Battle of Grunwald, in which the Teutonic knights were defeated by Polish and Lithuanian united forces in 1410, in Grunwald, Poland. (Photo by Alik Keplicz / AP)

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