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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, stands with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit during a news conference in Luxor, Egypt. Rice is conducting a tour of the Mideast with talks aimed at breathing new life into stalled peace efforts. (Photo by Goran Tomasevic / AP)

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Rice lobbies Arab allies

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Sec. of State Rice arranges three-way Mideast summit

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Pakistan army destroys al-Qaida hideouts

Pakistan's army destroyed suspected al-Qaida hideouts in an airstrike near the Afghan border, killing 10 people, officials said.

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Doctor denies report of Castro's condition

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Twin bombing kills 60 in Baghdad

A car bomb and a suicide bomber killed 60 people and wounded 110 more, including many students blown up as they waited for cars to take them home at the entrance to a university in Baghdad, police said.

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U.N.: 34,452 Iraq civilians killed in '06

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Obama takes first step in White House bid

In an announcement weighted with history, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., who less than three years ago was serving in the Illinois state senate, declared his intention to run for president.

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Chicago Tribune

Storm spreads its icy misery to Northeast

A winter storm that slathered the Midwest and Plains under a thick coat of ice crashed into the Northeast.

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U.S. News & World Report

California cold snap devastates growers

Freezing temperatures hit California's citrus fruit hard over the last three days, ruining as much as 70 percent of the crop, the state's top agriculture official said.

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San Francisco Chronicle

NATION

Japan confirms bird flu outbreak

Officials in Japan have confirmed that a recent outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm was the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus.

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BBC

Somali government lifts ban, media back on the air

The Somali government relaxed a ban on four major media outlets it had closed, accusing them of biased coverage during the Horn of Africa nation's recent war.

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Scientists launch bid to save species on the edge of extinction

Scientists launched a bid to save some of the world’s rarest and most neglected creatures from extinction.

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BUSINESS

Report: Pfizer set to cut thousands of jobs

Pfizer Inc. is likely to announce several thousand job cuts as part of a strategy that reshapes the way the drugs giant develops, makes and markets medicines.

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Forbes

XM and Sirius consider merger

The two big U.S. satellite-radio companies, XM and Sirius, agree that a merger would result in substantial cost savings and might even pass muster with U.S. regulators.

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Navy halts Lockheed work on warship

The Navy told a contractor that production on two combat ships is significantly overrunning expected costs.

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POLITICS

Jury selection begins in Scooter Libby leak trial

Jury selection has started in the perjury and obstruction trial of former White House aide "Scooter" Libby.

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Bush: Honor King's legacy by helping all

President Bush helped spruce up a high school and tried to draw attention to a broader point - the value of community service on a day honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

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Biden wants Confederate flag off grounds

Democratic presidential hopeful Joseph Biden said he thinks the Confederate flag should be kept off South Carolina's Statehouse grounds.

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SPORTS

Willis, Marlins agree to $6.45M deal

Newlywed Dontrelle Willis expects to become a first-time father in May, and saving for his daughter's college tuition should be no problem.

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At 72, Hylton plans Daytona 500 comeback

The 1966 Rookie of the Year, 72-year-old James Hylton, is attempting a comeback of epic proportions as he chases his long-shot dream of qualifying for next month's Daytona 500.

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EDUCATION

Calls revived for national education standards

The No Child Left Behind law was supposed to level the playing field. From state to state, however, huge differences remain in what students are expected to know.

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Buffalo News

School tells youth to drop sword

A 17-year-old U.S. student who enjoys re-enacting medieval battles has been banned from wielding his favorite sword in his graduation yearbook.

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GOOD NEWS

Hiker lost for five weeks found alive

A faint sound made Albert and Peter Kottke stop and look around as they hiked out of the Gila Wilderness area at the end of backpacking trip.

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Denver Post

Churches cross longstanding racial divide

Instead of traditional hymns or contemporary praise songs every Sunday, there might be Japanese drums one week, American folk music the next, and Senegalese drums after that.

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NATION

Embryo, saved after Hurricane Katrina, is born

The parents of an embryo rescued from a flooded and sweltering hospital during the tumultuous weeks after Hurricane Katrina have welcomed Noah Markham.

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King papers exhibit opens on national holiday

As the Atlanta History Center opened for the first public exhibition of Martin Luther King Jr.’s papers since they were returned, crowds filed past King’s sermons, notes and books.

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More states are using 5-1-1 for the 4-1-1 on traffic

In 28 states, commuters, truckers and leisure drivers eager to elude bumper-to-bumper traffic have a new weapon: dialing or clicking on 5-1-1.

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ENVIRONMENT

Miss New Jersey USA resigns over pregnancy

Another Miss USA tiara is changing heads. Ashley Harder, Miss New Jersey USA, has resigned because she is pregnant.

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'Lost' producers discuss series' end

Makers of the tropical island drama "Lost" say they're talking with ABC executives about setting an end date for the series.

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Experts see bird flu challenge to U.S. health system

A bird flu pandemic remains a threat that the U.S. health care system must take seriously, despite the absence so far of human cases in the United States, experts warned.

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Reuters

Hope over 'obesity-busting gum'

Scientists are looking at whether an appetite-suppressing chewing gum could be used to tackle obesity.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Environmental rules waived for border fence

In a move activists call "a historic travesty," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff waived environmental rules to clear the way for construction of a fence along the Mexican border.

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Exxon meets green groups as climate focus surges

Exxon Mobil Corp. met with U.S. environmental groups last month to discuss how to respond to global warming.

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Environmental News Network

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Common chemical in question

A chemical compound used in everyday products causes chromosomal damage in mice that spans generations, according to new research.

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USA Today

New 'hobbit' galaxies discovered around Milky Way

A recent sky survey has turned up a new class of ultra-faint "hobbit" galaxies and what might be the smallest galaxy ever discovered.

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Space.com

SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION

The many faces of American Muslims

Author Paul Barrett deftly upends the stereotypes that Westerners harbor about Muslims -- and shows why militant Islamism is less likely to take root here than in other countries.

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Salon

New group at Penn studies the science behind spirituality

Religion and science can combine to create some thorny questions: Does God exist outside the human mind, or is God a creation of our brains?

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Examiner

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Music festival returns to New Orleans

The Essence Music Festival, relocated to Houston after Hurricane Katrina, is on its way back to New Orleans.

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Russia's Marat Safin throws his racket in frustration during his first-round match against Germany's Benjamin Becker at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. (Photo by Rick Stevens / AP)

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