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U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, left, shakes hands with his South Korean counterpart, Chun Young-woo, after their press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul. Hill said that North Korea is prepared to promptly close down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor in line with an agreement reached earlier this year (Photo by Ahn Young-joon / AP)

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White House near decision to close Guantanamo facility

The Bush administration may close the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility and move the terror suspects there to military prisons elsewhere, the Associated Press has learned.

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Yahoo! News

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Gen. Pace: Use politics to measure Iraq offensive

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Reuters

Long procession honors S.C. firefighters

A long procession of fire trucks wound through streets lined with mourners, passing firehouses and a gutted furniture store on its way to a memorial service for nine firefighters who died.

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ABC News

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911 tapes: S.C. fire began behind store

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Guardian

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Hero firefighters remembered

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ABC News

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Images may show new Pakistan reactor

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Houston Chronicle

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Last days: nuclear war

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ABC News

North Korea ready to shut reactor, U.S. envoy says

The top U.S. nuclear envoy returned from North Korea, saying that Pyongyang was ready to promptly disable its nuclear reactor and live up to pledges it made in a February disarmament agreement.

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Reuters

CIA to reveal 'skeletons'

The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of long-secret records detailing some of the intelligence agency's worst illegal abuses, CIA Director Michael Hayden said.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Lebanese refugee camp militants defeated, minister claims

Islamist militants involved in fierce battles with the Lebanese army at a refugee camp have been defeated, the country's defense minister has claimed.

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Guardian

Weather delays space shuttle landing

The space shuttle Atlantis will stay in orbit another day. Mission managers called off both landing opportunities because of rain showers near the runway.

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New Zealand Herald

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Space station construction

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Space.com

NATION

WTO talks collapse in acrimony

Talks between trade powers to salvage world trade talks collapsed, throwing the future of the World Trade Organization's round into doubt.

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Sydney Morning Herald

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World trade talks collapse

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BBC

Aides: Abbas considering early elections

In his bitter wrangling with Hamas over legitimacy, Mahmoud Abbas won the backing of the PLO, and a top aide said he is considering calling presidential and legislative elections.

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USA Today

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U.N. expects humanitarian situation in Gaza to worsen

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Monsters and Critics

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U.S. is urging Blair to be lead Mideast envoy

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International Herald Tribune

Alcohol banned in Aboriginal areas

Australia is to ban alcohol and pornography in Aboriginal areas in the Northern Territory in a bid to curb child sex abuse.

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BBC

POLITICS

White House contempt

House Judiciary Committee Democrats said they would pursue a contempt of Congress motion if the White House fails to respond to subpoenas for testimony and documents related to the firings of U.S. attorneys.

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The Hill

Candidate Bloomberg may face anti-New York bias

He's from New York, an independent and Jewish. If Mayor Michael Bloomberg runs for president, he will face those three issues, any one of which could sink a presidential campaign, experts say.

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Reuters

BUSINESS

Cuomo corrals more student lenders

New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has reached agreement with three more lenders resulting from his ongoing investigation of the student loan industry.

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Consumer Affairs

Retail lost $41.6 billion in '06

Retail loss from theft remains a challenge, according to the latest National Retail Security Survey. Theft accounted for losses of $41.6 billion in 2006, or 1.61 percent of sales.

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Playthings

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U.S. retail theft on the rise

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SPORTS

Rice, N.C. facing off for chance to play Oregon State for title

Relaxed and confident, Oregon State paved its way to the title round as it did last year, but this time without all the tension, beating Irvine 7-1.

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Supreme Court upholds limits on high school recruiting

State athletic associations can restrict recruiting of high school students without violating coaches' free-speech rights, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in a decade-old case from Tennessee.

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USA Today

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Study: Firstborn kids are smarter

Researchers have found that firstborn children are smarter than their siblings — and the reason is not genetics but how their parents treat them, according to a study.

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Blind people have superior memory skills

Blind people are whizzes at remembering things in the right order, scientists now find.

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LiveScience

Users can't be choosers with downloads

The DVD became the most popular way to view movies for good reasons. So why would anyone want to watch movies any other way?

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International Herald Tribune

EDUCATION

College could cause women to earn less

Research shows that once they graduate from college and enter the workforce, men earn more money than women. Part of the reason for that wage gap could in fact be the decisions women make in college.

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U.S. News & World Report

Thousands of failing schools face major No Child Left Behind overhaul

Nationwide, about 2,300 schools are either in restructuring or are a year away and planning for such drastic action as firing the principal and moving many of the teachers.

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CNN

'Brown v. Board' school may be spared

The Topeka City Council gave preliminary approval to begin destruction of the former all-white school that was at the center of the Brown v. Board of Education case.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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GOOD NEWS

MTV and Fulbright join forces overseas

Aaron Shneyer, who organized a Jewish-Arab band and falafel dinners to help Israeli and Palestinian students find common ground, is going to Jerusalem to promote peace with pop and hip-hop.

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CBS News

Stonehenge revelers celebrate the longest day of the year

Druids, drummers, pagans and partygoers gathered at Stonehenge to cheer the dawn of the longest day of the year, the summer solstice.

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NATION

Senate votes to raise car fuel standards

The Senate voted to require average fuel economy of 35 miles per gallon for new cars, pickup trucks and SUVs by 2020, raising standards that have not changed significantly for nearly two decades.

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BusinessWeek

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Fuel-efficient cars for all

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CBS News

Crews search mine area for missing pregnant mother

Officials said search crews found freshly dug earth near a strip mine about four miles from the home of a missing pregnant mom, Jessie Davis, who has been missing for more than a week.

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Thousands hunt for missing mom

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ENVIRONMENT

EPA proposes tougher smog standards

Pollution standards are too weak to protect people from the air they breathe, the EPA's chief declared. He recommended tougher limits on the smog that makes children cough and asthmatics wheeze.

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Centre Daily Times

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Smog causes asthma in kids

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CBS News

Bush touts proposal to cut back on gas

President Bush touted his approach for cutting gasoline consumption, highlighting differences with Democrats as the Senate debated their proposals.

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Guardian

Missing: large lake in Chile

A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole.

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News24

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Chilean lake disappears

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BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Diana's son turns 25, grows richer

Britain's Prince William turned 25, giving him access to a reported $500,000 a year of his late mother Princess Diana's multi-million pound fortune.

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CNN

Filmmaker joins health care workers for rally, march

Filmmaker Michael Moore led members of a broad coalition of Chicagoland nurses and health care activists in a rally demanding guaranteed health care for all patients.

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NBC5

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'Sicko' provokes health care debate

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Reuters

HEALTH

The doc's in, but it'll be a while

Despite spending lots more per capita on health care, the U.S. is often as bad or worse than other industrialized nations in wait times.

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BusinessWeek

Gene therapy offers hope to sufferers of Parkinson's disease

The first gene-therapy trial for treating Parkinson's disease has resulted in a significant improvement in all the patients who took part, with none suffering any side-effects.

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The Independent

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Parkinson's linked to pesticides and head injury

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Insider Medicine

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

UCC celebrates 50th anniversary

The United Church of Christ is celebrating its 50th anniversary at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Conn.

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Clarion News

American Muslims denouncing terrorism

Since the tragedy of 9/11, Muslims have remained under intense scrutiny, and more than a few Americans have called the religion "evil." People still wonder: Is Islam really a religion of violence?

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Beliefnet

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Schwarzenegger: Make climate hip

The environmental movement must become "hip and sexy" if it is to succeed, California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has said.

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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez waves to supporters as he arrives in a helicopter to inaugurate a new bridge that links the country's capital city with its main international airport and seaport, in Caracas. (Photo by Gregorio Marrero / AP)

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