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U.S. army soldiers secure an area after a roadside bomb blast in Baghdad. A roadside bomb went off, killing five people near a shelter used as a police recruiting center in the Shiite-dominated neighborhood of Binouk, police said. (Photo by Hadi Mizban / AP)

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Noel becomes hurricane, moves away from Bahamas

Tropical Storm Noel, whose rains have killed at least 108 people in the Caribbean, strengthened into a hurricane in the Atlantic as it moved away from the Bahamas.

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Reuters

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Noel takes aim at South Florida

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The Weather Channel

Mob case dismissed

Prosecutors have dropped charges against an ex-FBI agent, Lindley DeVecchio, accused of helping a mobster pull off four murders.

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ABC News

Official: Saudis could have helped prevent 9/11

Saudi Arabia could have helped the U.S. prevent al-Qaida's 2001 attacks if American officials had consulted Saudi authorities in a "credible" way, an ex-Saudi ambassador said.

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Chrysler to cut up to 12,000 jobs

Chrysler LLC said it plans to cut up to 12,000 jobs, or up to 15 percent of its workforce, as part of an effort to slash costs.

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International Herald Tribune

President Bush defends attorney general candidate Mukasey

President Bush, seeking to salvage the nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general, defended the former judge's refusal to say whether he considers waterboarding as illegal torture.

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San Jose Mercury News

Invention of the year: the iPhone

The iPhone is more than just a gadget. It's a genuine handheld computer, the first device that really deserves the name.

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TIME

NATION

Alarming trend: Nationally and locally, criminals aim at police

The cold-blooded shooting of a Philadelphia police officer is a part of a national trend in which criminals are demonstrating an increasing fearlessness of taking aim at law enforcement officers.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

As gaming grows, many tribes worry

Potential competition from three proposed casinos in Massachusetts is pushing the Indian-run casino to upgrade its facilities even more.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Gambling addiction in America

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CBS News

Anti-gay church to pay $10.9 milliion for funeral protest

A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals in the belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality.

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POLITICS

Immigration: from talking point to sore point for Sen. Clinton

Like the debate over Iraq, the exchanges over granting licenses to illegal immigrants underscored the tensions for Sen. Hillary Clinton as she seeks to court various interest groups.

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MSNBC

Senate considers SCHIP for third time

More than 20 states will run out of money for the State Children's Health Insurance Program, unless Congress and the White House can resolve a dispute over funding for the measure, a new study shows.

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NPR

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BUSINESS

Prisoners of debt

In a financial version of "Night of the Living Dead," debts forgiven by bankruptcy courts are springing back to life to haunt consumers.

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BusinessWeek

Foreclosures up 30 percent

As Congress and the White House continue to work toward solutions to help embattled homeowners, home foreclosure filings took a big jump in the third quarter, according to data from real estate Web site RealtyTrac.

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Fed cuts interest rates

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HEALTH

Heart disease drops among adult diabetics

From 1997 to 2005, the percentage of U.S. diabetics 35 years of age or older with self-reported heart disease decreased by 11 percent, according to a new report.

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MSNBC

Be thin to cut cancer, study says

Even those who are not overweight should slim down if they want to cut their risk of cancer, a major study has claimed.

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BBC

SPORTS

Hingis admits positive drug test

Martina Hingis has retired from tennis after revealing she tested positive for cocaine at this year's Wimbledon.

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BBC

Dodgers general manager talking with Torre, no deal yet

While general manager Ned Colletti insisted they had not agreed on a contract, he indicated the former New York Yankees manager was the leading candidate to replace Grady Little, who resigned.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholic bishops weigh political statement

The nation's bishops will vote next month on a political roadmap for Roman Catholics headed into the 2008 election that gives top billing to abortion, but also spotlights a wide range of issues.

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Beliefnet

African fishermen find way of conservation in the Quran

An experiment in Tanzania is emerging as an Islamic model for spreading environmental ideals.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Quick guide: Islam

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BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Widowed at 25, cancer at 31, woman looks for love

Cancer survivor, Cathy Bueti, found that maintaining a social and romantic life throughout her treatment helped her uphold the mental strength that it takes to beat cancer.

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CNN

More active U.S. parents

U.S. parents are reading more to their children and placing more restrictions on their television viewing than they did 10 years earlier.

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Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

Japan pulls out of Afghanistan coalition

Japan's government has ordered its navy to end its mission in support of coalition forces in Afghanistan after failing to win opposition backing to renew the deployment.

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Guardian

Turkey tightens screw on Kurdish rebels

Turkey tightened the screw on Kurdish rebels by pushing ahead with planned economic measures designed to halt fighting on its border with Iraq, according to Turkish officials.

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Times Online

Kenyan slum saves trees, cleans streets with big trash oven

A new U.N.-sponsored program is placing giant, garbage-burning ovens in one of Africa's biggest shantytowns.

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Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

Monkey sighting raises climate fears

The discovery in Kenya of a new population of monkeys far from their normal habitat is a sign of how climate change may already be changing Africa's ecology, a leading conservationist said.

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Environmental News Network

Norway to protect Amazon rainforest

The Norway government will grant $24 million towards the protection of the Amazon rainforest.

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Forbes

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Naomi Campbell joins Hugo Chavez at political rally

Supermodel Naomi Campbell left the glitz and bright lights of the fashion world behind and joined Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at a political rally and toured government-funded housing projects.

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USA Today

How a man grows a 1,600-pound pumpkin

Don Young uses manure, seaweed and a special "compost tea" to produce a massive squash that missed the world record by only 27 pounds.

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Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Fossil jellyfish discovered in Utah

They didn't have any bones to leave behind, but 10 fossilized jellyfish recently discovered in Utah have made an impression in more ways than one.

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National Geographic

Cat's eye view of DNA sheds light on human disease

The first full genetic map of a cat, a pedigreed Abyssinian, is already shedding light on a common cause of blindness in humans and may offer insights into AIDS, researchers reported.

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Reuters

New spin on how stars are born

Invisible magnetic field lines twisted like long ropes of DNA help stars spiral into life, according to a new model.

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LiveScience

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Patterns in nature: star trails

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National Geographic

EDUCATION

19 colleges pledge support for low-income students

The heads of 19 state university systems are joining to make sure their policies match their rhetoric about more diversity and better learning.

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Christian Science Monitor

Poll: most OK birth control for schools

People decisively favor letting their public schools provide birth control to students. They also voice misgivings that divide them along generational, income and racial lines, a poll showed.

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Yahoo! News

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

U.S. launches ‘MySpace for spies’

America’s intelligence agencies are preparing to launch “A-Space,” an internal communications tool modelled on the popular social networking sites, Facebook and MySpace.

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Financial Times

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An Afghan woman, center, carries a sack on her head as she walks down a street as the sun sets in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool / AP)

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