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President Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, not pictured, participates in a joint press availability outside the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP)

Bush: 'Deep concerns' about human rights and political freedom in China

The day he arrives in Beijing, President Bush will express his "deep concerns" that the communist nation allow more political freedom for its citizens.

USA Today

Olympics: Britons and Americans arrested over Tibet protests

Guardian

Texas officials want custody of 8 children from polygamist group

Child Protective Services, forced two months ago to return children it had swept from polygamist sect families, went to court to ask that eight of them be put back into state custody.

Houston Chronicle

Texas makes new move in polygamist sect case

YouTube

Split verdict on bin Laden's driver at Guantanamo trial

Osama bin Laden's chauffeur was found guilty of supporting terrorism, but innocent of conspiracy in the first verdict by the U.S. war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Times Online

Inside Guantanamo’s walls

MSNBC

Freddie Mac posts 4th loss in a row

Freddie Mac posted its fourth consecutive quarterly loss, set plans to slash its common stock dividend and warned of more difficulty.

International Herald Tribune

Federal prosecutors charge 11 in massive identity theft case

In the U.S. Justice Department's largest identity-theft case, federal prosecutors charged 11 people with stealing and selling 40 million credit-card and debit-card numbers from major U.S. retailers.

CNNMoney

Feds charge 11 in retail hacking case

YouTube

McCain embraces deficit critic Walker as truth teller

John McCain said that if elected president he would tap former U.S. comptroller and deficit hawk David Walker to help balance the federal budget.

Bloomberg

NATION

Texas executes Mexican-born killer

A Mexican-born condemned prisoner was executed for the rape and murder of two teenage girls 15 years ago after a divided U.S. Supreme Court rejected his request for a reprieve.

CBS News

How solid is the anthrax evidence?

While officials claim that new DNA technology linked the anthrax that killed five people in 2001 to anthrax handled by Bruce E. Ivins in his federal lab, the reality is a little more complicated than that.

TIME

Picture emerges of troubled anthrax suspect

NPR

St. Paul police share plans for $50 million in RNC spending

The U.S. Department of Justice has given a $50 million security grant to the St. Paul police in preparation for the Republican National Convention.

Star Tribune

POLITICS

McCain pushes independence from Bush

John McCain emphasized his independent streak and reformer credentials in a new TV commercial as he sought to counter Democratic charges that he's the same as President Bush.

MSNBC

NATION

Economists plumb depths of downturn

Even if the economy continues to deteriorate, economists agree that the U.S. is not heading for another Great Depression.

International Herald Tribune

Fact check on energy policy

ABC News

White House denies fake Iraq letter

Time

BUSINESS

Alaska's waters quietly reopen to drilling

The U.S. Interior Department's Mineral Management Service has completed the first major step toward selling the leasing rights to oil and gas drilling companies.

Forbes

ENVIRONMENT

Kenyan courts consider terminating biofuel plans

The Kenyan courts might halt the first stage of a $370 million biofuel project that aims to replace up to 20,000 hectares of coastal grassland with irrigated fields of sugar cane.

Environmental News Network

Dead penguins found closer to equator than ever before

Experts are struggling to figure out why hundreds of dead or sick Magellanic penguins are washing up along the Brazilian coast — much farther north than usual.

National Geographic

HEALTH

Broccoli may undo diabetes damage

Eating broccoli could reverse the damage caused by diabetes to heart blood vessels, research suggests.

BBC

Do you need a prostate cancer screening?

The latest statement from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force suggests that men aged 75 and above need not be tested for the disease.

MSNBC

Report finds kids' meals too fattening

Nearly every possible combination of children's meals at 13 restaurant chains is too high in calories, says a report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Baltimore Sun

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Report: Religion covered more than race or gender in primaries

Religion rivaled race and gender combined during media coverage of this primary campaign season, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center.

USA Today

Milwaukee archdiocese hires a married priest for the first time

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee has hired a married Roman Catholic priest with children — a first in the archdiocese's history.

Star Tribune

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

Dropping oil price nothing to smile about

Economist

Blog (Clive Crook):

Getting serious about energy policy

Atlantic Online

Column (Timothy Noah):

When 'skinny' means 'black'

Slate

Column (Arianna Huffington):

What does the swing vote tells us?

Huffington Post

Column:

Pakistan and India need to normalize

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

Is the anthrax case closed? Not yet

Denver Post

Editorial:

El Salvador's long recovery from civil war

Houston Chronicle

Column:

Who will wield power: House or Senate?

Politico

Editorial:

Too easy on Fannie and Freddie

Economist

Editorial (E.J. Dionne):

Race: the unavoidable issue

Real Clear Politics

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GOOD NEWS

More than 100,000 endangered gorillas found in Congo swamp

An estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas are living in a swamp in equatorial Africa, researchers reported, double the number of the endangered primates thought to survive worldwide.

CNN

WWII hero dog's tale put in print

It is claimed that Bamse — a St. Bernard — saved the lives of two sailors during World War II. A book has now been written, aiming to separate the fact from the fiction surrounding the canine hero.

BBC

WORLD

France denies Rwanda genocide role

France's foreign ministry has accused Rwanda of making "unacceptable accusations" in a report alleging that French politicians and military played an active role in the 1994 genocide.

Al Jazeera

China toughens security before Olympics start