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Scouts and their families hug outside the West Harrison High School in Mondamin, Iowa, where they were reunited with their relatives after a tornado touched down. (Photo by Nati Harnik / AP)

Six killed by tornadoes ripping through US Midwest

Reuters

Scout camp tornado victims' names released

Des Moines Register

Only seconds before tornado

CNN

Flood-ravaged Iowa hit by more heavy rain

MSNBC

Military 'runs Mugabe campaign'

The BBC has obtained documents suggesting that Zimbabwe's military is actively involved in running Robert Mugabe's re-election campaign.

BBC

Zimbabwe: citizens' secret lives

Guardian

Gitmo detainees have rights in court

The Supreme Court ruled that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.

ABC News

Lawyer: US destroyed Gitmo torture notes

CBS News

Bush faces Rome anti-war protests

Anti-war activists and hundreds of other demonstrators marched through the Italian capital as President Bush arrived for a visit that was to include meetings with Italian Premier Berlusconi and the pope.

TIME

Sticker shock at the supermarket

With food prices up 6 percent from last year and gasoline prices up by more than a dollar since 2006, the receipts are adding up, causing a "dramatic" shift in kitchen-table decisions.

Christian Science Monitor

Inflation reasserts itself in economic plans

NPR

Fate of the confusing EU treaty hangs on Irish referendum

The treaty has the support of every government in Europe as well as most of the Irish establishment, but an eleventh-hour surge of opposition has proved unexpectedly persuasive.

International Herald Tribune

NATION

Northern Calif. wildfires forces hundreds to flee homes

Firefighters struggled to gain control of a series of wind-driven wildfires burning across Northern California, including a raging forest fire that forced hundreds to flee their homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Baltimore Sun

Judge in hot water over Web site photos

Judge Alex Kozinski is on the hot seat after it was disclosed that a Web site of his contained numerous sexual photos and videos while he was preparing to preside over an obscenity trial in Los Angeles.

San Francisco Chronicle

6 die during 4-day heat wave

The New York City medical examiner's office says six people have died of heat-related causes after scorching temperatures.

Newsday

POLITICS

Key member of Obama's V.P. committee steps aside

A key member of Sen. Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, Jim Johnson, is stepping down after criticism over a mortgage he received, the Obama campaign said.

CNN

Post-primary bump for Obama

MSNBC

Blog:

Obama's answer on the Johnson conundrum

ABC News

House Republicans block extension of jobless benefits

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives blocked an effort by Democrats to quickly pass an extension of jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed.

Reuters

Obama takes on credit industry, McCain

Sen. Obama held a roundtable to discuss credit card debt and predatory lending, an event he had planned to hold in neighboring Iowa but which he was forced to cancel due to flooding in the region.

MSNBC

SPORTS

US Open: Dream pairing generates interest, crowd control issues

Tiger Woods, No. 1 in the world, Phil Mickelson, No. 2, and Adam Scott, No. 3, will play the first 36 holes of the course together. It is a dream threesome that's likely to create crowd control issues.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

NBA ref: 2002 Lakers-Kings game fixed

Disgraced ex-referee Tim Donaghy alleged that the controversial Game 6 of the Lakers-Kings playoff series in 2002 was impacted by the actions of two of the three referees who worked the game.

ESPN

Yankees may seek more public financing for new stadium

New York City officials confirmed that the New York Yankees may be interested in seeking more public financing to build their new stadium, pending a regulation change by the IRS.

San Jose Mercury News

HEALTH

New-style bird flu vaccine shows promise

A new-style bird flu vaccine made using monkey cells instead of chicken eggs appears to be safe and effective, corporate researchers reported.

Reuters

Treatments your doctor won't tell you

There are many reasons doctors don't suggest certain treatments for various ailments, but new treatments can offer help and hope to patients.

MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

GM's alternative fuel technology research wins award

General Motors Corp. has been known for gas-guzzlers like the Hummer, but chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner says the biggest U.S. automaker has spent years developing new fuel-efficient technologies.

Kansas City Star

Lawmakers say Chinese hacked data

Two congressional critics of human-rights abuses in China said their government computers were attacked by hackers from inside the communist country.

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Pluto now called a Plutoid

The International Astronomical Union has decided on the term "plutoid" as a name for Pluto and other objects that just two years ago were redefined as "dwarf planets."

LiveScience

EDUCATION

Apartheid inequalities linger in South African schools

Public education is critical to the success of South Africa's young democracy. The country's school system, however, seems to be getting a failing grade.

NPR

Camden, NJ school officials apologize for making students eat lunch on floor

School officials apologized for the vice principal who punished students by making them eat lunch for two weeks while sitting on the gym floor.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Spelling bees, long a domain of kids, now attract seniors

The AARP national championship will feature dozens of contestants who have spent the past year studying words in the car, on the treadmill and in the dentist's chair.

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

US life expectancy tops 78 as top diseases decline

For the first time, U.S. life expectancy has surpassed 78 years, the government reported, although the United States continues to lag behind about 30 other countries in estimated life span.

ABC News

Canada apology for native schools

Canada has apologized for forcing more than 100,000 aboriginal children to attend state-funded Christian boarding schools aimed at assimilating them.

BBC

WORLD

Desperate Brown scrapes through

A desperate Gordon Brown won his battle to let police hold terrorist suspects for 42 days without charge, but was forced to rely on support to save the vote, and possibly his premiership.

Guardian

Commuter finds secret al-Qa'ida report on train