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Pebbles, a 7-year-old Yorkshire terrier who is battling kidney failure after eating dog food that was later recalled, is cared for at Collett Veterinary Clinic in the Sylmar area of Los Angeles. (Photo by Reed Saxon / AP)

Rat poison found in pet food, official says

Rodent poison has been found in pet food blamed for the deaths of at least 16 cats and dogs, a spokeswoman for the NY State Department of Agriculture said.

CNN

Doctors caution thousands more pet deaths

ABC News

Senate panel OKs subpoenas for key aides

A Senate panel has authorized subpoenas for White House political adviser Karl Rove and other top aides involved in the firing of federal prosecutors.

Yahoo! News

How subpoenas work

NPR

Wife's illness won't idle John Edwards ’08 campaign

The wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards has a recurrence of her cancer, but her husband's campaign for the presidency will go on.

MSNBC

A personal cancer struggle -- in the public eye

Since arriving in the office this morning and learning of Elizabeth Edwards' breast cancer recurrence, I have been trying to piece together the story of what happened and what the impact may be on Sen. John Edwards' presidential campaign.

ABC News

Iran seizes 15 British Navy personnel

Iranian forces seized 15 British Royal Navy personnel who had searched a merchant ship, Britain said, triggering a diplomatic crisis at a time of heightened tensions over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

Reuters

Iran nabs British sailors in Iraq waters

Yahoo! News

Iraqi deputy prime minister hurt in assassination attempt

Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Salam Zubaie was wounded in a suicide bombing inside his Baghdad compound, security officials and witnesses say. The blast killed at least 7 people.

CNN

Major powers submit final Iran draft

Guardian

Democrats more confident of Iraq vote

On the eve of a critical vote, Democrats in the House of Representatives labored to lock down a majority behind a Sept. 1, 2008, date for U.S. combat troops to be pulled out of Iraq.

MSNBC

Liberals relent on Iraq war funding

Washington Post

U.S. struggles to avert Turkish intervention in northern Iraq

Guardian

NATION

Negotiators expect North Korea nuclear talks to resume soon

The North Korea nuclear talks stalled this week, but the chief U.S. envoy says he and his counterparts may be back at the table soon.

VOA

N. Korea leaves talks in dispute over funds

Negotiations on halting North Korea's nuclear program broke down abruptly, with the country's chief envoy to the talks flying home over a dispute over money frozen in a Macau bank.

Chicago Tribune

Fear and anger over Taliban kidnap deal

Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo has returned home to a hero's welcome after two weeks as a captive of the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.

BBC

Iraq’s Kurds to go it alone on oil deals

The Kurdistan regional government plans to triple the number of foreign oil companies operating in its region regardless of whether Iraq’s parliament passes a politically sensitive hydrocarbon law.

Financial Times

POLITICS

Lawmakers demand that the Army improve soldiers' care

Wounded soldiers at the Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington state say the Army is pushing them into the Veterans Affairs medical system, and they face retaliation if they complain.

McClatchy Newspapers

FEC deadlocked over '04 presidential ads

Democratic members of the Federal Election Commission say the Republican Party in 2004 improperly paid more than $40 million in ads that benefited President Bush's campaign.

Guardian

Lawmakers slam OSHA over lax inspections

Federal lawmakers skewered the OSHA, lambasting the agency's infrequent inspections at BP's Texas City refinery before an explosion there killed 15 people more than two years ago.

Houston Chronicle

BUSINESS

Greenspan blamed for subprime crisis

Members of Congress are pointing angry fingers at Alan Greenspan and other U.S. bank regulators for fostering a mortgage market "on steroids" and failing to thwart a predictable subprime meltdown.

Toronto Globe and Mail

Booking losses

Books sales are flat, discount super-centers like Wal-Mart have gobbled up half the best sellers and no one touches Amazon online. So where does that leave Barnes & Noble and Borders?

Forbes

Women want shorter work days

Twice as many women as men want to cut back on work hours, even at the sacrifice of pay, according to a new analysis of labor statistics.

Live Science

SPORTS

Schaub's new deal with Texans finalizes trade

ESPN

Woolmer death treated as murder

Pakistan's cricket coach Bob Woolmer was murdered in his hotel room after the team's World Cup loss to Ireland, police said.

BBC

HEALTH

Spinal disc transplant shows promise against back pain

Chinese surgeons are reporting long-term success with the first use of transplanted spinal discs to relieve back pain.

Health Day

Exercise may ease menopause symptoms

Menopausal women who exercise regularly appear to have a better quality of life than women who don’t, a new study shows.

WebMD

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column:

Will '08 become the YouTube election?

Forbes

Column:

The attorneys hubbub

Wall Street Journal

Column:

Cancer and the campaign

Newsweek

Column:

"Gentle Ben, stocks' best friend."

Real Clear Politics

Column:

Why is Rudy smiling?

TIME

Column (Joe Conason):

Rove, proven liar

Salon

Column (B.L. Ochman):

Wikipedia's not the net police

BusinessWeek

Editorial:

Facts, please, on attorneys' firings

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial:

Stand up for your rights

Economist

Editorial:

Accountability and money crucial to schools' success

San Jose Mercury News

Column (Cal Thomas):

Character matters

USA Today

Column (Edward Mortimer):

The politics of peaceful change

International Herald Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Mansions for the homeless

Dorie-Ann Kahale moved from a shelter to a mansion, courtesy of a Japanese real estate mogul who is handing over eight of his multimillion-dollar homes to low-income Native Hawaiian families.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Europe of 2057: A big future is seen

The Europe of 2057 is a larger place, its borders stretched eastward to encompass Turkey and, probably, Russia. It is a greener place, where wind and sun power have supplanted fossil fuels.

International Herald Tribune

NATION

Drones could defend airports

The Homeland Security Department and the military will test whether drones flying 65,000 feet above the nation's busiest airports could be used to protect planes from being shot down by terrorists.

USA Today

Abortion law requiring ultrasounds advances in S.C.

A measure requiring women seeking abortions to first review ultrasound images of their fetuses advanced in the South Carolina Legislature.

San Diego Union-Tribune

Houdini's body to be tested for poison

For all his death-defying stunts, Harry Houdini couldn't escape the Grim Reaper: He died on Halloween 1926, apparently from a punch to the stomach that ruptured his appendix.

Baltimore Sun

ENVIRONMENT

Grizzlies off endangered list

Grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park no longer need Endangered Species Act protection, the federal government said.

Detroit Free Press

California, environmentalists sue Navy over sonar

California coastal regulators and environmentalists sued the U.S. Navy on Thursday saying that it has planned training exercises that could endanger whales.

Reuters

EDUCATION

New worries for foreign students

When the "Open Doors" study on international enrollments was released, many thought the worst of America's ability to attract top foreign talent was over. A new study finds otherwise.

Inside Higher Ed

High-crime label not working

A panel of safety experts advising the U.S. Department of Education says the federal law requiring schools with high-crime levels to be labeled "persistently dangerous" needs to be overhauled.

Honolulu Advertiser

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Vivica A. Fox nabbed for DUI

Vivica A. Fox, 42, was busted for drunk driving after the California Highway Patrol pulled her over for speeding.

E! Online

Dating site asks 'are you hot enough?'

Jason Pellegrino says the problem with Internet dating services is not enough really hot-looking people. So he and a business partner have created HotEnough.org.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Apple TV hits the market

Apple Inc. has announced it will start shipping its Apple TV, a long-awaited set-top box that can wirelessly play or download iTunes content to a HD TV.

Playfuls

Mice learn to see in color

A human gene was introduced into mice eyes to give them color vision, similar to that enjoyed by people. The experiment provides hope to blind people.

Telegraph

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

As alcoholics recover, spirituality increases

Researchers at the University of Michigan Addiction Research Center say new studies show that many measures of spirituality tend to increase during alcohol recovery.

Medical News Today

Britain: Schools have right to ban veils

Schools have the right to ban students from wearing Muslim veils if teachers believe the garments affect safety or pupils' learning, the government said.

Newsday

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