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In this picture released by U.S. Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, right, greets an unidentified U.S. soldier during his visit to Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by U.S. Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan, HO / AP)

Can bottom be seen for US housing?

International Herald Tribune

Fannie and Freddie's woes no big threat to money market funds

San Francisco Chronicle

Tropical storm Cristobal rumbles off the Carolina coast

Tropical storm Cristobal, the first tropical storm to menace the Southeast seaboard this hurricane season and was expected to dump several inches in some areas of the drought-stricken state.

Google News

Tropical storm Cristobal forms off southeast coast

YouTube

Obama meets Afghan President Karzai in Kabul

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, the second day of a visit to Afghanistan that is meant to bolster the senator's foreign policy credentials.

Reuters

Raw video: Obama visits with troops

YouTube

Misunderstanding leaves 9 dead in Afghan airstrike

CNN

Iran has two weeks to answer nuclear issue question

Iran is facing a two-week deadline to give a final answer to world powers seeking a breakthrough in the nuclear crisis, after talks with the EU foreign policy chief ended in stalemate.

Google News

Iran nuclear program freeze?

CBS News

Mandela celebrates 90th birthday

Nelson Mandela, the man credited with ending apartheid in South Africa, has marked his 90th birthday by calling for the rich to do more for the poor.

BBC

Nelson Mandela at 90

Guardian

NATION

As wars drag on, toll on military families mounts

Far from the combat zones, the strains and separations of no-end-in-sight wars are taking an ever-growing toll on military families despite the armed services' earnest efforts to help.

Charleston Post and Courier

Library search warrant highlights privacy dilemma

Children's librarian Judith Flint demanded a search warrant, touching off a confrontation that pitted the privacy rights of library patrons against the rights of police on official business, in Randolph, Vt.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Gas prices may revive cities, kill suburbs

Sprawl — that scourge of urban designers who prize a tightly packaged city and walkable neighborhoods — may have finally met its match.

U.S. News & World Report

POLITICS

Dream of gas tax holiday falters over job losses

The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to go up if they go anywhere.

Newsweek

VP search by McCain, Obama take diverse paths

For all the lengths Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain have gone to in keeping their hunt for a vice president under wraps, their deliberations are in some ways being conducted in plain sight.

Houston Chronicle

McCain's age: handicap or asset? Voters differ

Columbus Dispatch

Gore: No plans to serve in Obama WH

Politico

Anger on left: Obama shifts to the center

Just as Obama mastered Internet politics as he swept toward the nomination, now activists and bloggers are using some of the same tools to bring pressure to bear on the candidate.

San Jose Mercury News

BUSINESS

Republic rejects Waste Management unsolicited bid

The nation's third largest trash hauler, Republic Services, rejected a $6.19 billion cash unsolicited bid from rival company Waste Management.

BusinessWeek

Freddie's finally a regulated guy

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that government-backed mortgage lender Freddie Mac has finally registered with the agency, 38 years after the publicly traded firm was created.

Forbes

SPORTS

Sandlot ball going the way of wooden bats

Sandlot baseball, a slice of American life enjoyed for decades by boys from coast to coast, appears on the verge of extinction.

MSNBC

EDUCATION

College-bound vets say campus needs often unmet

As veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq return to campus, many are finding that schools are only beginning to figure out how to help soldiers, sailors and others transition back to civilian life.

USA Today

Texas schools get OK for Bible course

Texas school districts got a green light to offer high school students an elective Bible course without the specific state standards that some contend are necessary to guide well-intentioned teachers.

Houston Chronicle

Chinese schools now top source of doctoral students for US universities

The pipeline into America's PhD programs used to flow from Berkeley. Now the most students pour in from China's Tsinghua and Beijing universities.

San Jose Mercury News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Blood vessels made from human adult stem cells grown in mice

Stem cells drawn from the blood system of adult humans or the umbilical cord blood of newborns, injected into mice, formed vessels that may one day deliver oxygen-rich blood to damaged organs.

Bloomberg

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GOOD NEWS

Guilt-free luxury travel

Buying travel packages or event tickets through charity auctions is not a new trend, but it can be a useful tool for conscientious travelers who like the idea of combining a vacation with altruism.

Forbes

WORLD

Thanks to Olympics, Beijing gets its Eiffel Tower, of sorts

Paris has the Eiffel Tower, San Francisco has the Golden Gate Bridge and now Beijing has an iconic structure that's likely to identify the city forever.

McClatchy Newspapers

Iraqi Sunni bloc rejoins government

The National Accordance Front, Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political bloc, rejoined the parliament after it approved six Sunni officials to fill Cabinet vacancies.

Toronto Star

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT