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First Lady Laura Bush, center, wipes her eye during a funeral service for former first lady Lady Bird Johnson, in Austin, Texas. Johnson the widow of former President Lyndon B. Johnson died Wednesday of natural causes. (Photo by David J. Phillip / AP, pool)

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N. Korea claims to have shut down nuclear reactor

North Korea, the secretive, nuclear-armed “hermit kingdom,” claimed that it had shut down the atomic reactor in Yongbyon where it produced plutonium for use in weapons.

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Times Online

Ga. judge: no stay on Davis execution

A judge rejected Troy Anthony Davis' 11th-hour appeal of his murder conviction in the death of Mark Allen MacPhail.

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Savannah Morning News

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Will Georgia kill an innocent man?

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TIME

Bin Laden praises martyrdom in new video

Osama bin Laden praised martyrdom in a new videotape posted on a militant Web site by al-Qaida's media production wing.

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New message from al Qaeda No. 17

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U.S. Air Force builds up presence in Iraq

Away from the headlines and debate over the "surge" in U.S. ground troops, the Air Force has quietly built up its hardware inside Iraq, including sharply stepped up bombing.

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CBS11

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Families teaming up to free loved ones held in Iraq

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WCCO

Meeting in Libya seeks to unify Darfur peace jumble

The United Nations and African Union will host a meeting in Tripoli to evaluate the troubled peace process in Sudan's war-torn Darfur, until now bedevilled by fragmented rebel groups.

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IOL

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Libya hosts Darfur talks

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BBC

NATION

Spanish police arrest 66 for child porn

Spanish police investigating a child pornography ring have arrested 66 people and seized computer hard drives containing 48 million photographs and video images, officials said.

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MSNBC

Peres, 83, to be sworn in as Israeli president

Israel's elder statesman and Nobel peace laureate Shimon Peres is to be sworn in as president, crowning an unparalleled career stretching back more than half a century.

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NEWS.com.au

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Shimon Peres to become president

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Reuters

France stages European Bastille Day festivities

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has led a parade for Bastille Day that was joined for the first time by military contingents from all 27 countries of the European Union.

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Sydney Morning Herald

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French celebrate Bastille Day

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POLITICS

Obama says U.S. less safe because of Bush's war decisions

President Bush's war-fighting policies have left the United States at greater risk from terrorists, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said.

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International Herald Tribune

Giuliani has more to spend than Romney, filings show

Rudy Giuliani entered the second half of 2007 with $3 million more to spend than former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, according to reports filed with the U.S. Federal Election Commission.

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Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Another record setting day on Wall Street

Both the Dow industrials and the S&P 500 continued their campaign into record territory, reaching all-time highs for the second straight session, despite mixed economic news.

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CNNMoney

Black insists verdict not a total defeat

Conrad Black, who faces up to 20 years in prison after a jury found him guilty on four felony charges, insists the verdict was not a complete defeat.

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The life and times of Conrad Black

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Edmonton Sun

SPORTS

Copa America final preview: Brazil-Argentina

It’s being billed as the grudge match of the year, and not without reason. The last time the nations met with a Copa America up for grabs Brazil won, dashing Argentine hopes of ending an 11-year trophy drought.

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Goal.com

Mock terrorist attack staged on Beijing Olympic venue

Hundreds of police officers staged a mock terrorist attack on the Beijing Olympics' sailing venue, "hijacking" an oil tanker and trying to break into the facility, state media reported.

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Sports Illustrated

HEALTH

Senators agree on kids' health plan

Lawmakers in a key Senate committee brokered a bipartisan agreement that they said would extend health insurance to an additional 3.3 million low-income children in the U.S.

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Guardian

Food-poisoning reports traced to Taste of Chicago booth triple

City Health Department officials ordered a restaurant to stop serving hummus as the number of people reporting getting ill from the eatery's food tripled to 378.

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Chicago Sun-Times

EDUCATION

200,000 Mexicans learn to read with Cuban method

At least 25 of the 113 municipalities of Michoacan State in Mexico have been declared free of illiteracy through the Cuban teaching method "Yo Si Puedo (Yes I Can)."

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Limelight eludes fired D.C. schools chief

It's been a tough month for former D.C. school superintendent Clifford B. Janey since his abrupt dismissal by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty in a late-night telephone call.

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Washington Post

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Waitress gets $10,000 tip

An Indiana Pizza Hut waitress with dreams of college received a much-needed boost in arriving at that goal: a $10,000 tip.

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Pizza waitress gets $10,000 tip

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BBC

Twins separated at birth reunite

A chance meeting has reunited identical twin sisters who were separated at birth nearly 15 years ago — and touched off a legal dispute over how two doctors adopted one of the girls.

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MSNBC

NATION

L.A. archdiocese to pay $600M to victims

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles will settle its clergy abuse cases for at least $600 million, the largest payout to date in the church's sexual abuse scandal.

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USA Today

Blood found in accused serial killer's truck

Blood was found throughout 56-year-old truck driver Bruce Mendenhall's truck when Metro police questioned him during a murder investigation of a Tennessee woman.

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Family says slain woman tried to rehab life

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WSMV

New York reviving idea to limit cars

New York's mayor remains hopeful he can create congestion pricing to reduce the number of people driving in Manhattan.

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Danbury News Times

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Can a driver outsmart a traffic jam?

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ENVIRONMENT

Want clean water and rich soil? Save more species

A new study reveals that biodiversity plays a key role in ensuring the broadest range of ecosystem services, such as clean water and fertile soil.

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Scientific American

USDA buzzing with new plan to fight collapse of bee colonies

Agriculture Department scientists are mobilizing to fight the puzzling and potentially catastrophic collapse of the nation's honey bee colonies.

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McClatchy Newspapers

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

For Harry Potter fans about to rock, we salute you

A global network of Potter-influenced bands inspired kids like 8-year-old Darius to make their own wizard rock. Will fans keep the music alive?

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Salon.com

Temptation lurks at the book sale

With an excess of books already, the local library's sale still proves too enticing to ignore.

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Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Egypt's royal mummies will now get identity checks

All of Egypt's royal mummies will get identity checks after scientists found one was wrongly identified as a Pharaoh, the chief Egyptian archaeologist said.

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International Herald Tribune

Computer viruses are 25 years old

In the 25 years since the first irksome but relatively benign virus was created, the World Wide Web of computer networks has left nearly everyone with a PC or laptop vulnerable to malicious software.

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Scientific American

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

How the Democrats got religion

In this campaign season, if Clinton and Barack Obama and John Edwards are any measure, there will be nothing unusual in Democrats' talking about God and the beliefs that sustain them.

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Yahoo! News

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

U.S. allows radioactive materials in ordinary landfills

Radioactive materials from nuclear weapons facilities are being released to regular landfills and could get into commercial recycling streams, a report just issued by the nonprofit NIRS says.

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About 1,500 knighthood tradition fans from various European countries took part in the re-enactment of the Battle of Grunwald, in which the Teutonic knights were defeated by Polish and Lithuanian united forces in 1410, in Grunwald, Poland. (Photo by Alik Keplicz / AP)

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