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Residents run for their cars in a parking lot behind the Oakwood Apartments as a wildfire burns in the Hollywood hills section of Los Angeles. Flames roared up brush-covered ridges, giving the city a major wildfire scare. (Photo by Mike Meadows / AP)

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2 Illinois youths held in Hollywood fire

Flames allegedly ignited by two youths roared up brush-covered ridges in the Hollywood Hills, giving the city a major scare but leaving nearby neighborhoods unharmed.

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Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

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Not a movie: fire in Hollywood

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ABC News

Report faults Pentagon on buying problems

The Defense Department has doubled its planned investment in new weapons from $750 billion in 2001 to $1.5 trillion, but it is not getting enough bang for its buck, congressional investigators said.

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Reuters

Iraqi justice minister resigns

Iraq's justice minister says that he has offered his resignation to the prime minister as a series of bombings left at least 14 people dead across Iraq.

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Al Jazeera

Official: British sailors may be tried

The British sailors and marines seized by Iran in the Gulf over a week ago may face trial, Tehran's ambassador to Moscow was quoted as saying, suggesting legal action had already started.

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Reuters

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Iran TV: Brits admit incursion

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Reuters

Pelosi to lead mission to Syria

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Syria during her fact-finding trip to the Middle East, defying a White House objection.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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White house slams Pelosi visit

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CNN

Mixed reactions to Hicks' sentence

There have been mixed reactions to David Hicks sentence of seven years in Guantanamo Bay. He'll serve nine months.

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Sydney Morning Herald

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Nine months in jail for Hicks

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BBC

New toxin suspected in pet deaths

The Food and Drug Administration said it could not confirm that rat poison was to blame for the deaths of cats and dogs. Instead, the agency pointed to melamine, as the possible culprit.

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Chicago Tribune

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FDA tests reveal new chemical in pet food

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Yahoo! News

NATION

EU refuses to back Britain over Iran exports

European foreign ministers failed to back Britain in a threat to freeze the €14 billion trade in exports to Iran, as the hostage crisis descended into a propaganda circus.

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Times

Artillery rocks Mogadishu on third day of fighting

Artillery fire rocked Mogadishu for a third day as Ethiopian and Somali troops backed by helicopter gunships resumed a major offensive against Islamist insurgents and clan militiamen.

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Mail & Guardian

German company pays Jewish family for Nazi-era confiscation

Settling the last big property restitution case from the Nazi era, Germany's largest retailer agreed to pay the heirs of a once-Jewish-owned department store nearly $120 million.

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International Herald Tribune

POLITICS

Bush chides Dems on pork in Iraq bill

President Bush, seeking to one-up Congress' Democratic majority, suggested that lawmakers should be ashamed that they added non-war items to an Iraq spending bill.

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MLive.com

Giuliani acknowledges mistake over Kerik

Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani acknowledged that he made a mistake when he recommended Bernard Kerik to be homeland security chief.

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Forbes

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Giuliani: Wife won't be cabinet member

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CBS News

Gonzales admits 'confusion' in firings

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales acknowledged there is confusion about of his role in firing U.S. attorneys and said he doesn't “recall being involved in deliberations” over which would be ousted.

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San Diego Union-Tribune

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Attorney flap has GOP annoyed

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Los Angeles Daily News

BUSINESS

China calls U.S. paper duties 'unacceptable,' may respond

China's commerce ministry said U.S. tariffs on imports of coated paper from the nation are unacceptable and it reserves the right to take "necessary'' action, signaling the dispute may escalate.

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Bloomberg

U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement deadline extended

The U.S. and South Korea have extended free trade talks by a day, with the aim of overcoming stumbling blocks that remain in the long-sought deal, U.S. trade officials said.

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Bangkok Post

S.F. gas prices hit records; expected to rise more

Gas prices in San Francisco have reached a record high, with one gasoline station in downtown charging $4.18 a gallon for premium.

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CBS 5

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Cheap gas: only a memory

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ABC News

SPORTS

Oden-mania grips Final Four; young center unfazed

At 1:30 p.m., the doors to Ohio State's Georgia Dome locker room opened, and a not-so-small army of reporters and cameramen immediately bolted to a particular 7-foot center.

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Sports Illustrated

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Analysis: Oden vs. Hibbert

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Phelps grabs sixth gold medal at World Championships

Michael Phelps continued his incredible run in Australia, winning the 100-meter butterfly final to capture his sixth gold medal at the 2007 World Championships.

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Another world record for Phelps

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ESPN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Abuse, threats quiet bloggers' keyboards

Kathy Sierra's blog, Creating Passionate Users, is filled with musings on software design. Not the kind of thing you'd expect to draw death threats.

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Los Angeles Times

Humans can see race and sex even in simple outlines

Adult minds are so keen at spotting race, gender and age that we can correctly guess those features from nothing more than a black-and-white silhouette, new experiments show.

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LiveScience

Columns And Op-Ed

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Don't weaken Endangered Species Act

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Is Rudy the next Steve Forbes?

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Slate

Ehud Olmert's moment

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TIME

The lever to oust Mugabe

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Boston Globe

How the U.S. funds Hamas

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Real Clear Politics

Reconstructing the mammal family tree

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Los Angeles Times

NCAA's gambling madness

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Christian Science Monitor

What must Iran make of this free woman?

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Times

The Saudis flex their muscles

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Newsweek

How Bush's Justice Department has 'blown it'

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Salon

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GOOD NEWS

Puget Sound orcas spotted with new baby

Puget Sound‘s endangered killer whales have been spotted with a new calf, bringing the number of orcas to 86 as the whales feed on salmon along the California coast, scientists said.

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Ely Times

'Kid for Kerry' in demand

Ilana Wexler has a dilemma. The Hillary Clinton for President campaign wants her to chair its Students for Hillary committee. Her friends are stumping for Barack Obama and want her to join their team.

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San Francisco Chronicle

NATION

Storm system spawns twisters, floods

Another wave of storms swept through Texas and Oklahoma, spawning at least three tornadoes in central Texas, dumping rain into swollen rivers and forcing an evacuation at an assisted living center.

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AOL News

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Storms flood Texas

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USA Today

Lawsuits filed in Miami in Brazil crash

A group of lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages were filed in federal court on behalf of family members of some of the 154 people killed in Brazil‘s worst air disaster.

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Jordan Falls News

Ohio team plays ball to move past tragedy

Last month, on the way to spring training, five of Bluffton University's players died in a bus crash. Despite the tragedy, the team decided to play the season and finished its first game.

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WANE

ENVIRONMENT

Sydney dims lights to protest emissions

Australia's largest city plunged itself into near-darkness for an hour when city officials, thousands of businesses and many more residents cut the lights for energy conservation.

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Helena Independent Record

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Lights off in Sydney

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ITN

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51 ways to save the environment

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TIME

World oil production close to peak

In a worst-case scenario, global oil production may reach its peak next year, before starting to decline. In a best-case scenario, this peak would not be reached until 2018.

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EDUCATION

Chile police battle rock-throwing students in capital

Chilean police used tear gas and a water cannon to disperse hundreds of rock-throwing high school students who repeatedly blocked traffic on the capital's main avenue.

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canada.com

College Board targeting AP

The College Board, the publisher of college-prep exams, is asking teachers of Advanced Placement courses to furnish written proof by June 1 that the courses they teach are worthy of the brand.

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Honolulu Advertiser

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Iraq unites behind singing 'Idol'

Charismatic Iraqi singer Shada Hassoon shot to stardom in her war-torn homeland as a symbol of unity after winning an Arab version of "American Idol" in a glitzy Beirut final.

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France 24

Miss America homeless again

Cable network CMT announced that it is opting not to televise the Miss America Pageant next year, leaving it homeless for the second time in three years.

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E! Online

HEALTH

Fish help statins protect the heart

People taking cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins who also consume omega-3 fatty acids have a better chance of avoiding heart problems than patients who take statins alone.

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Health Day

Tai chi may boost immune system

Tai chi, a traditional Chinese martial art, may give older adults' immune system a boost. That news comes from experts at UCLA and the University of California, San Diego.

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WebMD

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Nun says dead pope cured her Parkinson's

Smiling broadly, a French nun said she had been inexplicably and suddenly "cured" of Parkinson's disease - a case that could prompt the Catholic Church to beatify pope John Paul II.

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NEWS.com.au

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French nun: I am cured

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CNN

Catholics upset about Easter unveiling of chocolate Jesus

The Easter season unveiling of an anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ has infuriated Catholics preparing to observe some of their holiest days of the year.

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Chicago Sun-Times

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Strange religious sightings

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WCBS

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Report: U.S. sustains 3,000th fatality in Iraq

The Pentagon announced the death of a Texas soldier, raising the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq to at least 3,000 since the war began, according to an Associated Press count.

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MSNBC

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Veiled female students of an Islamic seminary "Jamia Hafsa" hold bamboos as they chant slogans during a protest demanding the release of their teachers in Islamabad, Pakistan. Authorities have arrested four of the seminary's teachers in connection with the abduction. (Photo by AP)

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