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In this file photo Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., shakes hands with Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., during a forum in Grantham, Pa. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster / AP)

Approval is near for bill to help US homeowners from foreclosure

Congress is poised to approve legislation, including a refinancing program to rescue homeowners in danger of foreclosure and the most sweeping government overhaul of mortgage financing since the New Deal.

International Herald Tribune

Mortgage applications fall to 6-1/2-year low; rates drop

USA Today

Poughkeepsie woes signal spreading foreclosures

MSNBC

African leaders seek Zimbabwe plan

An emergency meeting of southern African leaders is seeking to address the Zimbabwe crisis, as pressure grows to isolate President Robert Mugabe.

BBC

Crisis in Zimbabwe

CBS News

Obama asks contributors to help Clinton with debt

Sen. Barack Obama has asked top contributors to help his former rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton, retire her debt, an Obama campaign source said.

CNN

Bill Clinton backs Obama, but through spokesman

Reuters

Supreme Court rejects death penalty for raping children

The Supreme Court outlawed executions of people convicted of raping a child, saying it violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Baltimore Sun

Supreme Court overturns Exxon Valdez ruling

MSNBC

Bernanke may halt rate cuts, shift focus to inflation

The Federal Reserve may signal that inflation is starting to replace a recession and the credit crunch as the biggest risk facing the economy.

Bloomberg

DEA seeks new restrictions on illicit Internet pharmacies

Illicit Internet pharmacies are helping abusers obtain controlled drugs, the Drug Enforcement Administration told a House subcommittee.

McClatchy Newspapers

NATION

6 dead in Kentucky factory shooting

A factory worker with a reputation for not getting along with co-workers went on a shooting spree at a Kentucky plastics plant after getting into an argument with his supervisor, police said.

ABC News

Feds sued over alleged mining of immigrants' data

The U.S. government secretly gathered personal data on more than 130,000 immigrants in the run-up to the war in Iraq, according to a purported FBI document attached to a lawsuit filed.

Houston Chronicle

Florida gains Everglades land from US Sugar Corp.

Florida is buying 187,000 acres of South Florida land from U.S. Sugar Corp., a move that will boost efforts to restore the Everglades, state officials said.

NPR

US Sugar to close Everglades operations

MSNBC

POLITICS

Hillary Clinton returns to Senate

Sen. Hillary Clinton returned, amid the cheers of colleagues and staff, to the U.S. Senate for the first time since ending her bid for the White House.

Bloomberg

Clinton back on Capitol Hill

YouTube

Evangelical leader blasts Obama speech

A top evangelical leader, James Dobson, is accusing Sen. Barack Obama of deliberately distorting the Bible and taking a "fruitcake interpretation" of the U.S. Constitution.

CNN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Carlin may be gone, but the flap isn't

For all the changes in the world since 1978, when the Supreme Court fined a radio for broadcasting George Carlin's "Seven Words" routine, several of those words still make readers fire off smoking letters.

McClatchy Newspapers

Remembering George Carlin

NPR

Love and marriage times 11

Bonnie Ashley, 53, penned the revealing book "Ex-Husband in Freezer" about her 11 marriages to seven different men.

Baltimore Sun

HEALTH

House votes cut for Medicare insurers

The House passed legislation to block a cut in fees for Medicare doctors by reducing payments instead to private insurers in the U.S. health-care program.

Bloomberg

Radio-wave devices may play havoc with medical equipment

Scientists found that radio frequency identification devices, which are increasingly used in medicine, may potentially cause problems with some medical tools.

Forbes

EDUCATION

Report: Racial gap narrows, but what did 'No Child' law do?

Math and reading test scores are up in most states since the No Child Left Behind law took effect in 2002, but it's impossible to know how much credit the law deserves, a new report says.

USA Today

Across US, schools feel budget pinch

Slashed funding and rising costs are forcing school districts across the U.S. to cut back, even close down.

Christian Science Monitor

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

King Abdullah seeks stability by reaching out on religion

In an effort to open the dialogue between Christians, Muslims and Jews, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah first seeks to mend the divisions between Shia and Sunni within Islamic communities.

Financial Times

Survey: More have dropped dogma for spirituality in US

A new survey finds U.S. adults believe overwhelmingly in God. But the study also reveals a "stunning" lack of alignment between people's beliefs or practices and their professed faiths.

USA Today

Leap-of-faith healing

Globeandmail.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Biofuels put bucks over ducks

Christian Science Monitor

Column:

7 families pay for landlord's alleged condo scheme

Chicago Sun-Times

Column:

A new honor for an old wrestler

Baltimore Sun

Blog (Jay Newton-Small):

Pelosi on Clinton

TIME

Column (Megan Mcardle):

CEOs hedged in

Atlantic Online

Column (Arthur Brooks):

Does money make you happy?

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Allan Lichtman):

Splintered conservatives hurt McCain

Politico

Column (Amy Sullivan):

Will abortion rights women back McCain?

TIME

Editorial:

Iowa's new health plan still out of reach

Des Moines Register

Column:

For every Britney, there's a Cyrano

San Francisco Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Goats rescue N.Y. bog turtles

An invasive weed is drying up the swamps that house the last of New York's endangered bog turtles. But the turtles have an unlikely savior: goats and cattle brought in to eat the weed.

NPR

Bush pledges typhoon aid to Philippines

President George W. Bush pledged U.S. help to Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the aftermath of a typhoon, saying he was sending an aircraft carrier to aid in the relief effort.

Reuters

WORLD

Israel prodding US to attack Iran

Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen is on a planned trip to Israel, but officials say it also comes as Israelis press the White House to strike Iran's nuclear complex.

CBS News

Sadr City bombing reveals new dangers