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Unsold 2008 Super Duty pickup trucks sit at a Ford dealership in Littleton, Colo. Ford Motor Co. said it is cutting North American production of pickups and SUVs as car buyers eyeing record gas prices turn toward more fuel-efficient models. (Photo by David Zalubowski / AP)

Evacuations under way as wildfire rages in Santa Cruz Mountains

Firefighters are evacuating residents near a wildfire that is burning out of control in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

San Jose Mercury News

Clinton may take delegate fight to Democratic convention

Sen. Barack Obama criticized Sen. John McCain's reputation as a champion of ethics. Sen. Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, raised the possibility she might carry her fight to the Democratic convention.

Real Clear Politics

Fight for Florida

MSNBC

McCain to meet with potential running mates in Arizona

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is scheduled to meet with presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain, fueling speculation that Jindal is among a small group being considered as running mate.

Times-Picayune

Blog:

McCain's Veepstakes Survivor: 9 Couples, 3 Contenders, 1 Weekend

ABC News

Ford cuts production, moves back goals

Ford Motor Co. says it is cutting North American production for the rest of the year as high gas prices and the weak economy depress its sales.

MSNBC

New fears on long-term oil supplies drive prices higher

International Herald Tribune

China quake: Despair turns into anger

Al Jazeera

China earthquake: 4,000 children orphaned

Telegraph.co.uk

Breastfeeding hero

CNN

Guantánamo ex-detainee reports to Congress of abuse

Murat Kurnaz, who testified in a landmark hearing, says he spent days chained to the ceiling of an airplane hanger. He was determined innocent in 2002, but not released until 2006.

Christian Science Monitor

Agent: FBI 'ill-equipped' for terror threat

The FBI is "ill-equipped" to handle the current terror threat, an agent embroiled in a whistleblower case with the bureau claimed to a congressional committee.

ABC News

NATION

Court to rehear 'don't ask, don't tell'

A decorated Air Force nurse who lost a challenge to the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy and was fired for having a lesbian relationship will get another chance to state her case before a judge.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Last Brown v. Board of Education plaintiff has passed away

Zelma Henderson, the last surviving Topeka plaintiff, died six weeks after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Topeka Capital-Journal

US to allow Americans to send cell phones to Cuba

President George W. Bush announced an easing of restrictions to allow Americans to send cell phones to their families in Cuba, in what he portrayed as a test of the country's economic reforms.

Reuters

POLITICS

Mix-up potentially throws House veto override in doubt

The House overwhelmingly rejected President Bush's veto of a $290 billion farm bill, but what should have been a stinging defeat for the president became an embarrassment for Democrats.

Edwardsville Intelligencer

Bush signs genetics anti-discrimination law

Reuters

Internet key to Obama victories

With Sen. Barack Obama moving close to victory in the Democratic presidential primary campaign, the Internet has proven to be one of the key tools to his success.

BBC

Obama Aims to Assuage Jewish Voters Over His Stance on Israel

Bloomberg

Program to aid illegals may haunt McCain

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain is backing the renewal of a $250 million-a-year program that will pay illegal immigrants’ hospital bills.

The Hill

In California, McCain has few words on gay marriage

San Jose Mercury News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Supernova birth observed for first time

With the observation of a strange, bright, five-minute burst of X-rays, astronomer Alicia Soderberg and her colleague became the first astronomers to catch a star in the act of exploding.

Space.com

Microsoft: We’ll pay you to search

Microsoft unveiled a new business plan for its search engine: shop online using Live Search and it will reward you with cash.

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

American Airlines breaks new ground with bag fee

American Airlines broke new ground by announcing it will, with some exceptions, begin charging passengers for all checked bags and luggages.

Reuters

Oil rises above $135 after unexpected drop in US inventories

Crude oil rose to a record above $135 a barrel in New York on concern that supplies are inadequate after U.S. stockpiles unexpectedly dropped.

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

Should huge college endowments have to pay taxes?

With nine of its colleges boasting endowments above $1 billion, Massachusetts is center stage in the debate over whether wealthy schools do enough to justify their tax-exempt status.

Christian Science Monitor

College dropout rates reflect big challenges for blacks, Latinos

Much of the debate over the achievement gap has focused on helping African-American and Latino students get into college. But the sobering reality is that the gap persists even there.

San Jose Mercury News

HEALTH

Uninsured immigrant patients sent home for care against their will

Sometimes against their will, hundreds of uninsured legal and illegal immigrants in Arizona are being sent back to their home countries for medical treatment.

ABC News

S.F. sues McKesson over drug prices

San Francisco filed a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical wholesaler, McKesson Corp., for conspiring to artifically inflate the prices of hundreds of brand-name drugs.

San Francisco Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope John Paul II 'beatified by 2009'

Monsignor Slawomir Oder said on a visit to the island of Ischia that he hoped the beatification would happen “by the spring of 2009, having already consigned the positio."

Telegraph.co.uk

Anonymous donor saves St. Brigid's Church in New York City

The historic St. Brigid's Church in Manhattan's East Village has been saved by an anonymous $10 million donation, the Archdiocese of New York said.

Newsday

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

For Republicans, rebranding easier said than done

Houston Chronicle

Column (Zachary Meisel):

Prescribing antibiotics patients don't need

Slate

Editorial:

Yes, university, there is a boy problem

USA Today

Column (James Gibney):

Google docs

Atlantic Online

Column:

Sending your child off to war, again

San Jose Mercury News

Column:

For once, let's have a serious election

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Editorial:

Is Clinton still running for president?

Economist

Editorial:

A discomfiting threat to free speech

New York Times

Column:

We may be more alike than we realize

Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Alaskan arctic wilderness lake closed to oil and gas leasing

The Bureau of Land Management said it would not open environmentally sensitive Teshekpuk Lake and its islands to leasing, a possibility that has prompted years of objections from conservationists.

Environment News Service

Lost parrot tells veterinarian, but not police, his address

When Yosuke the parrot flew out of his cage and got lost, he did exactly what he had been taught — recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help.

Associated Press

WORLD

Israel holds peace talks with Syria

Israel and Syria announced that they were engaged in negotiations for a peace treaty through Turkish mediators, a sign that Israel is hoping to halt the growing influence of Iran.

International Herald Tribune

UN secretary general tours damaged areas in Myanmar