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A U.S. soldier reacts after a suicide car bomb explosion, which occurred near the main gate of NATO's headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Saurabh Das / AP)

Bomb kills 7, wounds 91 near NATO’s Afghan headquarters

After a huge car bomb exploded in the center of the capital, killing seven people and wounding 91, President Hamid Karzai said Afghans would not be deterred from voting in national elections.

New York Times

Taliban threaten to chop off voters' fingers in Afghan election

Telegraph.co.uk

Taliban claim responsibility for car bomb attack

YouTube

Spotting lies: listen, don't look

A movement is emerging with some experts trying to convince law enforcement that encounters with suspects are opportunities to get information, not just a moment to elicit a confession.

NPR

Health debate fails to ignite Obama’s Web

At her home on Tom Sawyer Road, Bonnie Adkins agreed to begin spreading the word that President Barack Obama’s embattled health care plan needs help.

MSNBC

Health care around the world

BBC

Obama: Time to work together on health care

YouTube

NY celebrates Woodstock

Celebrations of the 40th anniversary of Woodstock are taking place all weekend, and some musicians who played the legendary music festival are performing on the site of the original concert.

Newsday

Figuring out the magic of Woodstock

CNN

1,300 still trapped after Taiwan typhoon

More than 1,300 people are still trapped in remote villages in southern Taiwan, victims of Typhoon Morakot.

CNN

Hopes fading for Taiwan survivors

BBC

NATION

Firefighters continue to battle blazes across California

Gusty and unpredictable winds continue to vex California firefighters trying to protect hundreds of homes from a raging wildfire in Santa Cruz County.

Christian Science Monitor

Agency: Air traffic controller may have been distracted

In a rare move, the agency investigating the Hudson River midair collision that killed nine people suggested a distracted air traffic controller may have played a role in the crash.

Newsday

POLITICS

Obama takes on insurers, ‘death panels’

President Barack Obama used his weekly radio address to take on the health insurance industry and charges that “death panels” will be set up under health care reform legislation.

The Hill

The 'death panel' rumor that won't die

CNN

Palin continues Facebook attacks on health care

The Hill

Party leaders prepare liberals to accept a health care reform deal

After the toughest week yet for health reform, leading Democrats are warning that the party likely will have to accept major compromises to get a bill passed this year.

Politico

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Guitar legend Les Paul dead at 94

Musicians worldwide pay tribute to Les Paul, whose solid-body electric guitar paved the way for rock and roll.

Google News

Video tribute to Les Paul

YouTube

Bryan Singer onboard for Battlestar Galactica film

The "X-Men" and "Superman Returns" director had previously developed a sequel to the original 1978 Glen Larson TV series, but it was shelved after 9/11.

Guardian

HEALTH

New HIV guidelines push 'adherence to care' for patients

Doctors caring for people with HIV need to ensure that their patients adhere not only to medications but also to the wider spectrum of care.

MedPage Today

Some obsessions, compulsions not part of obessive-compulsive disorder

Psychologists are debating where OCD belongs in relation to other psychiatric disorders, and whether certain symptoms are actually part of other conditions.

CNN

Need less sleep? Thank your genes

Some people have a rare genetic mutation that allows them to get less than eight hours of sleep without feeling groggy.

NY Daily News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Mars meteorite at least 3 billion years old

Opportunity, the Mars rover trekking across a Martian plain in search of small meteorite fragments called cobbles, has come upon a really big one — a curious blue-tinted rock larger than a watermelon.

San Francisco Chronicle

First tunable electromagnetic gateway

Books like Pullman's "Dark Materials" and JK Rowling's Harry Potter series are steps closer to reality now that researchers in China have created the first ever tunable electromagnetic gateway.

ScienceDaily

Is your Palm Pre spying on you?

A Linux programmer asserts on his personal blog that data on the location and app used on the Palm's Pre smartphone is being sent to Palm.

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Wobbling earth triggers climate change

Regular wobbles in the Earth's tilt were responsible for the global warming episodes that interspersed prehistoric ice ages, according to new evidence.

Environmental News Network

China's carbon emissions to fall by 2050

China's carbon emissions will start to fall by 2050, its top climate change policymaker said, the first time the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases has given a timeframe for a decline.

Khaleej Times

Time running short for new climate-change deal

Poor countries stepped up demands to keep the Earth from overheating, amid warnings that negotiations are moving too slowly to meet a December deadline.

Seattle Times

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GOOD NEWS

Cave complex beneath Giza Pyramids?

An enormous system of caves, chambers and tunnels lies hidden beneath the Pyramids of Giza, according to a British explorer who claims to have found the lost underworld of the pharaohs.

redOrbit.com

Kid TV reporter interviews Obama

Palm Beach County kid TV reporter Damon Weaver has interviewed President Barack Obama, fulfilling the Pahokee sixth-grader's dream. And Damon asked the president to be his... homeboy.

Miami Herald

WORLD

Senator Webb wins release of US prisoner in Myanmar

U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., won the release of an American prisoner convicted in Myanmar and sentenced to seven years in prison, the senator's office said.

Denver Post

US senator meets jailed democracy icon