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Iraqi firefighters extinguish flames on burning vehicles after a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq. Three civilians were killed and two others injured when the bomb detonated in a parking lot. (Photo by Hadi Mizban / AP)

300 passengers rescued from grounded cruise ship

Coast Guard and civilian vessels banded together to rescue more than 300 people from a Seattle-based cruise ship that ran aground in Alaska.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Cruise ship runs aground

Yahoo! News

FBI, security officials warn of growing threat from Islamic extremists 'next door'

Plots by American-based Islamic terrorists with no direct ties to international terror networks form a large and growing threat to the American homeland, FBI and other security officials say.

USA Today

Iraqi insurgents: Stop search for U.S. troops

The Islamic State of Iraq — a Sunni insurgent coalition that includes al-Qaeda in Iraq — issued a statement warning the U.S. military to call off its search for three missing American soldiers.

CNN

U.S. intensifies search for 3 missing soldiers

International Herald Tribune

Search for missing troops

Yahoo! News

Iraq is not war on terror, say Americans

Angus Reid Global Monitor

Strike takes hold across Pakistan

Shop owners across Pakistan shuttered their doors in answer to a call for a nationwide strike by opposition parties opposed to the dismissal of the country's chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry.

CNN

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Timeline: Pakistan legal crisis

BBC

Most ill nuclear weapons workers denied compensation

More than 60 percent of the 72,000 cases of worker illnesses processed by the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program have been denied since the program's inception in 2000.

St. Petersburg Times

Size, shape matters with new postal rates

The postal rate increase is shaping up to be a big headache for many businesses.

CNN

NATION

Minister quits as fresh violence shatters Gaza ceasefire

Two Palestinian gunmen died in Gaza as fighting flared between Hamas and Fatah, just one day after both factions announced a ceasefire brokered by Egyptian mediators.

Guardian

Cheney meets with Jordan’s king

Vice President Dick Cheney wrapped up a weeklong tour of the Middle East, meeting privately with King Abdullah of Jordan, a longtime U.S. ally in the region.

MSNBC

U.S. and Iran to hold talks on Iraq

Reuters

Disappeared without a trace: more than 10,000 Iraqis

Since 2003, as sectarian kidnappings and killings have gripped Iraq and U.S. forces have arrested untold numbers in order to pacify the country, tens of thousands of Iraqis have vanished, often mysteriously.

McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS

Hagel considering independent White House bid

Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel hinted at the possibility of running for the White House as an independent, saying a credible third party ticket would be beneficial to the country.

The Hill

Thompson apologizes for gay comment

Guardian

Walking a fine line online

Laboring to produce an Iraq bill that will pick up some Republican support, congressional Democrats must also worry about backing from online activists who are becoming the voice of their party's base.

U.S. News & World Report

On the campaign trail with Obama

Yahoo! News

See you in September, they say

Progress by September. That, in three words, is the latest mandate from some nervous Republicans to President Bush over the war in Iraq.

New York Times

POLITICS

Cerberus buys Chrysler for $7.4B

DaimlerChrysler announced it will sell an 80 percent stake in its U.S. brand for $7.4 billion to Cerberus Capital, a private equity investment firm.

CNNMoney

Mylan wins Merck Generics at $6.7 billion

Mylan Laboratories Inc., the Pittsburgh pharmaceutical producer, agreed to pay 4.9 billion euros, or about $6.7 billion, for the generic-drug operations of Merck KGaA of Germany, the companies said.

MarketWatch

U.S. poised to ease regulatory burden

U.S. Treasury secretary Hank Paulson is set to unveil the first stage of a plan to sweep away regulatory and legal impediments to the competitiveness of U.S. capital markets.

Financial Times

SPORTS

Phil Mickelson wraps up Players Championship victory

In his third week with a new coach, Phil Mickelson suddenly looks as good as ever -- he added a mini-major to his collection by winning The Players Championship.

Sports Illustrated

Final round at the Players

Sports Illustrated

Report: frustrated Favre demands trade

A report says Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre was so incensed over the team's failure to obtain wide receiver Randy Moss, he told his agent to ask for a trade.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Canada beat Finland 4-2 to win world gold

Rick Nash scored a pair of goals as Canada returned to ice hockey's summit, edging Finland 4-2 to capture a record 24th world title.

Reuters Canada

EDUCATION

Lawsuit filed over ‘Brokeback’ showing

A girl and her grandparents have sued the Chicago Board of Education, alleging that a substitute teacher showed the R-rated film “Brokeback Mountain” in class.

MSNBC

U.S. offers education for young Afghans

U.S. Forces in Afghanistan are building madrassas in an attempt to persuade parents not to send their children across the border to Pakistan for instruction at hard-line religious schools.

Sydney Morning Herald

Clinton promotes affordable tuition

Hillary Rodham Clinton used a commencement address at a historically black university to single out racial progress and promote affordable higher education options.

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Kirstie Alley returns to Kansas to help tornado victims

Kirstie Alley is paying for truckloads of supplies to help residents and their animals recover from the tornado that nearly destroyed this south-central Kansas town.

Houston Chronicle

NATION

Minnesota wildfire continues to rage, causes evacuations in Canada

A fire along the Gunflint Trail that began last weekend has scorched nearly 83 square miles in Minnesota and Ontario, and forecasters predict a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms later in the day.

FOX News

Dense smoke blankets parts of Florida, Georgia

KWTX.com

Texas voters welcome ban on illegal immigrant leases

By a decisive margin, voters in the north Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch approved an ordinance prohibiting landlords from renting apartments to most illegal immigrants.

Houston Chronicle

U.S. trying to weaken G-8 climate pledge

Negotiators from the U.S. are trying to weaken the language of a climate-change declaration set to be unveiled at next month's G-8 summit of the world's leading industrial powers, according to documents.

Seattle Times

U.S. spies 'must look at global warming'

America's top intelligence official says the nation's spy agencies should assess the "geopolitical and security implications" of global warming.

Telegraph.co.uk

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Hollywood downloads a dilemma

The U.S. video download market is on track to triple in size to $279 million this year, but that may be about as big as it gets, according to a new study by Forrester.

Variety

American ratings body to cautiously butt into screen smoking

The Motion Picture Association of America, the body that rates movies in the United States, said its ratings board will consider depictions of smoking among the criteria for assigning movie ratings.

Toronto Star

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Early Moon photos revealed more than was known

Reprocessed images of the Moon's far side taken by Soviet spacecraft more than 40 years ago may have confirmed that the Moon's biggest impact scar was glimpsed far earlier than previously thought.

LiveScience

Scientists create 'plastic' blood

Scientists have developed an artificial plastic blood which could act as a substitute in emergencies.

BBC

HEALTH

A step forward? The cost of drugs

The battle between Big Pharma and poor AIDS victims is heating up, but the outcome is far from certain.

Newsweek

Chemotherapy more effective before breast cancer surgery

Giving chemotherapy to breast cancer patients before surgery helps physicians pin down the best treatment regimen and can reduce the extent of surgery, according to a new systematic review.

Medical News Today

(Rethinking) gender

A growing number of Americans are taking their private struggles with their identities into the public realm. Those who believe they were born with the wrong bodies are forcing us to re-examine what it means.

Newsweek

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope decries gap between rich and poor in Latin America

Pope Benedict XVI decried the growing gap between rich and poor in Latin America but said priests must stay out of politics even as they fight for social justice.

Reuters

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