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President Bush makes a statement on the war in Iraq in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, accompanied by Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the multinational force in Iraq. Congress is expected to pass legislation this week that contains a nonbinding timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by spring of 2008. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP)

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Reid: Bush in 'denial' on Iraq

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U.S. military: Suicide bomb kills 9 U.S. soldiers in Iraq

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Iraqi PM calls for halt to Baghdad wall

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Guardian

Thousands gather to mourn Yeltsin

Hundreds of people have gathered to pay their respects at a Moscow church where the body of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin is lying in state.

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Boris Yeltsin: the timeline

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Daily Telegraph

Va. Tech classes resume with talks, hugs

Chemistry professor Joe Merola tried to give a lecture, but looking out at 100 Virginia Tech students' faces — and the sweatshirt he'd placed on the seat of a wounded student — he couldn't do it.

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A campus in mourning

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Professor fired for talk on shooting

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CNN

Probe: Contracts show FEMA errors

FEMA exposed taxpayers to waste—and possibly violated the law—by awarding $3.6 billion of Hurricane Katrina contracts to companies with poor credit histories and paperwork, investigators say.

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USA Today

Sudanese want action on Darfur

Diplomatic maneuvering over Darfur reached a crescendo in the past week as the international community keeps up pressure to allow in U.N. peacekeepers.

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Christian Science Monitor

U.S. sees 200th DNA conviction reversal

A man convicted of rape in 1982 was exonerated based on DNA evidence, the 200th time in the United States that such technology has reversed a conviction, lawyers who worked for the man said.

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Reuters

NATION

6 held under U.K. anti-terrorism law

Anti-terrorism officers arrested six Muslim men in London in dawn raids, on suspicion of inciting terrorism overseas and raising funds for terrorists.

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Reuters

Hamas armed wing ends truce, fires rockets at Israel

Hamas's armed wing declared an end to a five-month-old ceasefire, firing rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip after Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians over the weekend.

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Reuters

Ruling party candidate wins 'flawed' Nigerian election

Nigeria's ruling party presidential candidate, Umaru Yar'Adua, was declared the winner of the weekend's fraud-tainted election that the EU described as "not credible" and Washington called "deeply troubling".

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Nigeria's future

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POLITICS

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Bush reiterates support for Gonzales

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Reuters

Huckabee calls Gonzales a distraction

Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee called Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a "major distraction" for President Bush and the GOP.

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MSNBC

Specter, Schumer call for gun law reform

Sens. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that federal gun control laws should be changed to increase coordination between state and federal databases.

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The Hill

Democrats craft new tax rules, new image

House Democrats, aiming to seize taxes as a political issue, have come up with a plan to shift the burden of the hated alternative minimum tax onto the shoulders of the nation's richest households.

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BUSINESS

Social Security, Medicare: 'problematic'

The projected dates for when the Social Security and Medicare trust funds will be exhausted have been pushed back one year, according to the programs' trustees in their 2007 annual report released.

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BUSINESS

Stocks struggle after record

Stocks were mixed as investors took tentative steps one session after the Dow industrials closed at an all-time high.

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Riding the Wall Street roller coaster

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ABC News

Microsoft meets deadline on EU charges

Microsoft met a deadline for responding to European Union charges in its antitrust dispute, the company said, and called for regulators to clarify what it can charge rivals for Windows server information.

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BusinessWeek

SPORTS

A-Rod's lucky No. 13 — and 14 — unlucky for Yanks

Two more homers by Alex Rodriguez couldn't stop the struggling New York Yankees from stumbling again.

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ESPN

Climbing legend Hillary hospitalized

Mountaineering legend Sir Edmund Hillary, best known for the being the first man to scale Mount Everest, is in a New Zealand hospital.

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USA Today

Report: Landis' follow-up tests positive

Follow-up tests on backup urine samples by Tour de France champion Floyd Landis found traces of synthetic testosterone, the French sports newspaper L'Equipe reported.

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Landis objects to testing procedures and leak of results

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VeloNews

HEALTH

Sheep reveal 'body clock' clues

Researchers are studying the habits of sheep to better understand how the seasons affect human beings.

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BBC

Social, health care factors make colon cancer deadlier for blacks

Social, economic and health care inequalities—not genes—are probably to blame for black Americans' higher rate of colorectal cancer death compared to whites, a new study finds.

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Health Day

FDA knew for years of potential problems with spinach, peanut butter

The Food and Drug Administration has known for years about contamination problems at a Georgia peanut-butter plant and on California spinach farms that led to disease outbreaks that killed three people.

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GOOD NEWS

11-year-old stops sick mom's van

An 11-year-old girl stopped a van that went out of control when her diabetic mother became ill, police said.

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CNN

Trust unveils nature preserve in Illinois

About 430 acres at the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers will become a scenic nature area that preservationists say will be a haven for endangered or threatened species.

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Forbes

NATION

Wiccan symbol on military headstones to be permitted

The Wiccan pentacle has been added to the list of emblems allowed in national cemeteries and on government-issued headstones of fallen soldiers, according to a settlement announced.

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MSNBC

Coast Guard hauls in 20 tons of cocaine in record bust

The U.S. Coast Guard unloaded nearly 20 tons of cocaine with a retail street value of $600 million at a California port following what they called the largest drug bust at sea.

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Coke bust photos

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San Francisco Chronicle

S.F. mayor: no help for Feds with raids

Mayor Gavin Newsom vowed this week to maintain San Francisco as a sanctuary for immigrants and do everything he can to discourage federal authorities from conducting immigration raids.

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San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Singer calls for limit on toilet paper

Singer Sheryl Crow has said a ban on using too much toilet paper should be introduced to help the environment.

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BBC

Scientists forecast 1 in 3 chance of record low sea ice in 2007

University of Colorado at Boulder researchers are forecasting a one in three chance that the 2007 minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic region will set an all-time record low.

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Gecko pollinators help 'save' rare flower

On the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, a brilliant green lizard and a palmlike shrub are helping to save a rare flowering plant from extinction.

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National Geographic

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Author David Halberstam killed in crash

Pulitzer Prize winning author and journalist David Halberstam was killed in a three-car accident in the Bay Area of Northern California, officials said.

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San Jose Mercury News

In memoriam: David Halberstam

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CNN

It's curtains for 'The Producers'

It was an emotional, highly charged matinee at the St. James Theatre as the show's current Max (John Treacy Egan) and Leo (Hunter Foster) led the company of "The Producers" through the show.

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Showbuzz

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Got a question for Obama or Clinton? Join the online debate

Yahoo, Slate and HuffingtonPost.com announced plans to host two online-only U.S. presidential debates this fall, giving voters a chance to directly query and evaluate candidates in real time.

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CNET News

AttenTV turns Web surfing into eerie spectator sport

Someone peering over your shoulder as you browse the Internet would probably make you uncomfortable. But what if the situation were reversed?

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CNET News

EDUCATION

The unkindest cut

A new report contends that fewer and fewer college English majors are being required to study Shakespeare.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

More grads means it's harder than ever to get into top colleges

The U.S. Education Department estimates that a record 3.2 million seniors will graduate from public and private high schools this year—a 24 percent increase from 10 years ago.

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Rocky Mountain News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholic Church collects signatures for Mexico City abortion bill

The Roman Catholic Church has gathered about 32,000 of the 36,900 signatures needed to request a referendum on a Mexico City bill that would allow pregnant women to obtain a legal abortion.

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Medical News Today

Dissatisfaction, yearning make churchgoers switch

The faithful are restless, a new study of Protestant churchgoers suggests. They're switching from church to church, feeling a mix of dissatisfaction and yearning, the study by LifeWay Research says.

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USA Today

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Florida community sues to kick toddler out of community

Kimberly Boffman, 3 1/2, lives with her grandparents. But their 55-plus Largo, Fla., community forbids permanent residents under age 18. So it's filed a lawsuit to force the child out.

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The American Falls are bathed in maroon and orange light, in honor of the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting, as seen from Niagara Falls State Park in Niagara Falls, N.Y. (Photo by Don Heupel / AP)

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