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Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig, left, stands next to his wife Suzanne as he reads a statement to the media in Boise, Idaho. (Photo by Troy Maben / AP)

Iran denies U.S. accusations on Iraq

Reuters

Bush threatens to confront Iran over alleged support for Iraqi insurgents

Guardian

Judge approves Manuel Noriega's extradition to France

Panama's former dictator, Manuel Noriega, can be extradited to France for a money laundering trial after he completes a lengthy jail sentence in Miami, a judge ruled.

Guardian

The return of Manuel Noriega

NPR

NATION

Poverty rate falls, but more Americans lack health insurance

The Census Bureau reported that 36.5 million Americans, or 12.3 percent — were living in poverty last year. That's down from 12.6 percent in 2005.

Houston Chronicle

Army turns to guards for recruits

The U.S. Army, struggling to meet recruitment goals in the midst of a long and unpopular war in Iraq, is turning to the National Guard for help in signing up would-be soldiers across America.

TIME

Ex-astronaut who confronted romantic rival plans to use insanity defense

A former NASA astronaut was suffering from a laundry list of mental afflictions when she confronted her romantic rival in February, according to court documents filed by her attorney.

Florida Today

POLITICS

Battle lines drawn over Alberto Gonzales successor

With 16 months left in the White House, George Bush can nominate a new and uncontroversial attorney general who would win swift Senate confirmation, but that's not the president's style.

Guardian

Special section:

Who replaces Gonzales?

Forbes

Rev. Jesse Jackson leads protest against gun violence

Reverend Jesse Jackson led a protest outside a gun manufacturing plant in Lake Barrington, Ill. About 150 marchers went with him, carrying a mock casket symbolizing gunshot victims.

WLS-TV

BUSINESS

New Orleans: a startup laboratory

In a fifth-floor penthouse office in the central business district, developers craft an online trading system to let companies sell their accounts receivable at a discount for cash.

BusinessWeek

After Katrina: voices from the Gulf Coast

NPR

IAEA urges OPEC to increase output

Demand for oil is likely to remain strong, in spite of the recent turbulence in financial markets, and OPEC should increase its production to ease oil price pressure, according to the IAEA.

Financial Times

SPORTS

Vick cancels appearance on radio show

Vick canceled his appearance on Tom Joyner's morning radio show. Joyner said Vick's advisors suggested that the football player shouldn't talk at this time.

NBC4

Investigators want Vick to hand over info.

WSB

Bears' Briggs charged with leaving scene of crashed Lamborghini

Chicago Bears linebacker Lance Briggs was charged with leaving the scene of an accident after police found his $350,000 Lamborghini crashed into a light pole on the city's North Side, the team said.

Bloomberg

Sevilla star dies after collapse

Sevilla midfielder Antonio Puerta, one of Spain's most promising young players, died three days after collapsing during a Primera Liga match.

CNN

HEALTH

Calcium pills reduce bone breaks: study

Taking calcium tablets can cut an older person's chance of breaking a bone by up to a quarter, an Australian study has found.

The Age

Calcium reduces bones fractures

Insider Medicine

Study: Hypnosis eases pain of breast cancer surgery

Instead of pills and needles, hypnosis may ease the pain of surgery - both during and after the procedure, a new study shows.

HealthDay

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Lesbian priest among nominees for Episcopal bishop

The Episcopal Diocese of Chicago included an openly lesbian priest among five nominees for bishop, as fellow Anglicans demand that the church bar gay bishops.

CNN

Israeli anger over holy site work

A group of Israeli archaeologists is protesting about fresh excavations at Jerusalem's holiest religious shrine, saying it threatens priceless relics.

BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Job satisfaction increases with age

Most Americans are happy with their jobs and work satisfaction increases with age, according to a new study.

Reuters

'Dead-end' Austrian town blossoms with green energy

For decades, the Austrian town of Güssing was a forgotten outpost not far from the rusting barbed-wire border of the Iron Curtain. Now it's at the edge of a greener frontier: alternative energy.

International Herald Tribune

Genetically-altered lettuce may be key to treating diabetes

The key to curing a disease that affects 21 million people in the U.S. could be found on your dinner table nearly every night.

WKYC

Professor invents insulin producing lettuce

MSNBC

WORLD

Greek gov't faces criticism over fires that killed 60

Greece struggled to control devastating forest fires for a fifth day as the government faced a storm of criticism for its handling of a disaster that has claimed more than 60 lives.

NEWS.com.au

Wildfires rage in Greece

BBC

Gul elected as Turkey's president

Former Islamist Abdullah Gul has been elected president of Turkey following a contest that has split the nation and drawn opposition from the army.

CNN

U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon banking on new plan for Darfur

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon pushed a three-point action plan to end the ethnic conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, starting with a 26,000-strong peacekeeping operation.

London Independent

ENVIRONMENT

Antarctic ozone hole early in 2007

A hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has appeared earlier than usual in 2007, the United Nations weather agency said.

Reuters

As predicted, global warming fuels more tropical rainfall

Scientists had predicted that global warming ought to increase rainfall in the tropics. Now NASA researchers say it has.

LiveScience

As Alps warm, ice melts and mountains crumble

NPR

Australian jellyfish invade U.S. waters

Invasive Australian jellyfish are appearing in large numbers this summer in waters off the southeastern United States. Swarms of the creatures have been reported from east Texas to Florida.

National Geographic

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Cormac McCarthy wins U.K. book award

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy won Britain's oldest literary honor, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

RTE

Oprah chooses 'The Road' for her book club

Oprah.com

'South Park' guys get $75 million deal

An animated series is redrawing the lines of television mega-deals. The eye-popping $75 million pact has been made by Comedy Central and the creators of "South Park."

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

L.A. in 1,000-year earthquake lull

The Los Angeles Basin and the Mojave Desert might be seismically linked, and that could explain why the urban region has experienced a 1,000-year lull in quakes, a new study claims.

LiveScience

The Voyager's amazing journey

Voyager 2 launched on Aug. 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 followed on Sept. 5, 1977, for what was originally a five-year mission to study Jupiter and Saturn.

CNET News

EarthLink restructures, cuts 900 jobs

Amid declining subscribers for its Internet services, EarthLink unveiled a restructuring that will shutter a handful of locations and eliminate 900 jobs.

ZDNet

EDUCATION

Judge drops charges in hazing death

A judge dismissed aggravated hazing charges against two Rider University officials in a case involving the drinking death of a fraternity pledge from Long Beach.

San Jose Mercury News

SAT scores lower across the nation

San Francisco students, as well as those elsewhere in California and across the nation, scored slightly lower in the 2007 SAT college entrance exam.

San Francisco Chronicle

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