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Cars leaving South Padre Island crowd the outgoing side of the bridge as Tropical Storm Dolly approaches the South Texas coast. (Photo by David J. Phillip / AP)

Radovan Karadzic 'will defend himself' at Hague war crimes trial

Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb genocide suspect, has decided to defend himself before the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, his lawyer said.

Times Online

Serbia pressed to capture Mladic

BBC

EU hails Karadzic arrest

YouTube

Salmonella strain found in jalapeño grown in Mexico, stored in Texas

A pepper grown in Mexico and stored in a Texas warehouse has tested positive for the same rare strain of salmonella that has confounded federal disease investigators for nearly two months.

San Francisco Chronicle

58 years later, records unsealed in Rosenberg spy case

After 58 years, historians will finally have an opportunity to examine the grand jury testimony of witnesses in the espionage case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

CNN

Hurricane Dolly strengthens near Texas-Mexico border

Hurricane Dolly strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico as it approached the Texas-Mexico border and may grow into a Category 2 storm before making landfall, U.S. forecasters said.

Bloomberg

Hurricane Dolly nears landfall

The Weather Channel

Rice holds North Korea nuclear talks

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has held talks with her North Korean counterpart, the first such meeting for the Bush administration in four years.

BBC

India's government survives vote

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh easily won a vote of confidence in the Indian Parliament after a day of bruising attacks.

TIME

India’s Government accused of buying votes

Times Online

Loan giants problems raise rates

Mortgage rates are rising in the United States because of the troubles at the loan finance giants, threatening to deal another blow to a faltering American housing market that is rocking the global economy.

International Herald Tribune

NATION

Polygamist sect leader Jeffs, 5 others indicted with sexual assault charges

Months after a Texas raid, a West Texas grand jury indicted six members of a polygamist sect, five of them — including jailed sect leader Warren Jeffs — with sexual assault of a child.

Houston Chronicle

Special section:

Timeline: Warren Jeffs and FLDS

CNN

Terror trial openings describe al-Qaida

The U.S. government opened its first war crimes prosecution with a narrative of Osama bin Laden's driver overhearing his boss offer an eerie post-mortem in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

McClatchy Newspapers

Ex-cop may be charged in case of man Tasered to death

A police officer shocked a handcuffed Baron "Scooter" Pikes nine times with a Taser after arresting him on a cocaine charge. Now the officer, since fired, could end up facing criminal charges.

CNN

POLITICS

White House drops veto threat on housing bill

The White House announced that it will not veto housing legislation offering help to mortgage holders and the troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The Hill

Fannie and Freddie rescue could cost up to $25 billion

CBS News

McCain camp talks of a VP announcement

Sources in John McCain's campaign confirm to Dana Bash and Gloria Borger that there have been recent discussions high in the campaign about the imminent possibility of naming a running mate.

CNN

Blog:

McCain camp targets media "love" for Obama

Politico

Obama meets with Israelis, Palestinians

Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama toured Israel's Holocaust memorial, laying a wreath in memory of the 6 million Jews who died and saying, "Ultimately, this is a place of hope."

AOL News

Does Obama owe a debt to blacks In sports?

NPR

BUSINESS

Oil falls to 6-week low as storm may miss fields, dollar rises

Crude oil fell more than $3 a barrel on forecasts a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico will miss oil installations and the dollar rebounded against the euro, reducing the appeal of commodities.

Bloomberg

Yahoo second-quarter profit drops as spending rises

Yahoo! Inc., the Internet company that added activist investor Carl Icahn to its board, posted an 18 percent drop in second-quarter profit after spending more on developing new projects.

Bloomberg

VCs pin hopes on green-tech 'exits'

Venture capital investors have high hopes for green-tech companies.

CNET News

Nuclear power a thorny issue for candidates

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Fueled by sun, car wins 2,400 mile race

Fifteen solar cars raced to the finish line of the 2008 North American Solar Challenge as an estimated 10,000 spectators lined the streets at the University of Calgary to greet the sleek, low-slung vehicles.

Environment News Service

Border produce scam may spark harmful ripple effect

Three U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors were recently charged with allowing truckloads of vegetables and flowers infested with harmful pests into the U.S. from Mexico without proper fumigation.

Houston Chronicle

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The promise of next-gen hybrids

Collaboration between General Motors and the utilities industry could speed up the introduction of plug-in hybrid vehicles.

NPR

Future is nearly now for plug-in hybrids

San Jose Mercury News

GM works with utilities on plug-Ins

NPR

TiVo pairs with Amazon.com

TiVo said it has partnered with Amazon.com to make it possible for subscribers to use their remote control to buy products seen on TV shows.

InformationWeek

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Group ordains 3 women Catholic priests

A group known as Roman Catholic Womenpriests ordained three women, hoping to put pressure on the Roman Catholic Church to drop its prohibition against women priests.

Associated Press

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GOOD NEWS

World's oldest Bible goes online

The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again, online.

MSNBC

How one vet's persistence paid off

Iraq vet Paul Weaver started a chain of events that have lead to improvements in the local San Diego VA system, benefiting thousands of others.

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

Zimbabwe rivals set for talks

Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) are set to begin negotiations on a power-sharing deal aimed at ending the country's crisis.

Al Jazeera

Bulldozer driver shot dead in Jerusalem after ramming cars