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Deseret News (Salt Lake City) By Betsy Taylor, Associated Press
WINFIELD, Mo. -- A makeshift barrier holding back the Mississippi River failed early Saturday, swamping the low-lying part of the small community of Winfield and ending a valiant but ultimately doomed battle against the surging river.
About 300 National Guard soldiers worked nearly 20 hours to build a levee around a cluster of 100 homes in the flood plain after the river ripped through another levee there early Friday. Officials hoped the barrier would keep the water at bay long enough for it to recede.
It didn't. Still, those in the town of 720 people said they won't forget the heroic effort to try saving the neighborhood.
"I figured it was a long shot," said ...
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City) By Betsy Taylor, Associated Press
WINFIELD, Mo. -- A makeshift barrier holding back the Mississippi River failed early Saturday, swamping the low-lying part of the small community of Winfield and ending a valiant bu...
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Several Airlines Likely to Fail; Affordable, Frequent Air Travel and Jobs at Risk.
WASHINGTON and RADNOR, Pa. -- At current oil prices, several large and small U.S. airlines will default on their obligations to creditors beginning at th...
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USA TODAY: By Alan Gomez, Marisol Bello and Judy Keen
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Marie Welton figures her daughter will have to bulldoze her flooded home here. She worries about the survival of her own business, a children's hair salon, as people recover...
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By Georgina Gustin, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS -- Area grocery stores have pulled some fresh tomatoes from their shelves after learning that a salmonella outbreak traced to certain tomato varieties has sickened 145 people in 16 states.
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Canadian Press - BOSTON: Banner No. 17 is halfway to the rafters. The Celtics are two wins from another NBA championship.
And maybe a little lucky to be there.
Paul Pierce, darting around the parquet floor with ease, scored 28 points, Boston'...
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The Independent (UK) - By Rupert Cornwell
After an epic five-month battle that has rewritten US politics, Barack Obama last night stood poised to secure the 2008 Democratic nomination, with a very real chance of becoming the first African American ...
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Knight Ridder Washington Bureau
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Hillary Clinton coasted to victory Sunday in Puerto Rico's presidential primary, a win she hoped would give her a desperately needed boost-but probably would not.
The New York senator was b...
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 By David Jackson and Richard Wolf
WASHINGTON -- It's not unusual for a former White House official to write a book -- but it is w...
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Fury at Plight of Burmese Under-Fives.
Daily Record; Glasgow (UK) By Stephen White
MORE than 30,000 kids under five will die of hunger in Burma in days unless their brutal rulers let the world help them.
That was the warning yesterday...
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 Civil and Human Rights Groups Hail Landmark Decision As Latest Step Toward Full Equality.
WASHINGTON — The California S...
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International Herald Tribune - From news reports Fierce clashes raged Thursday in Beirut after the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah said the U.S.-supported Lebanese government had declared war by targeting its military telecommunications network.
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 PHILADELPHIA - The primaries in North Carolina and Indiana today offer Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton one more chance to tr...
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By Bronwen Roberts.
Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, where Britain's Prince Harry has been combating the Taliban, is a harsh battleground where extremists have teamed up with powerful opium lords.
It has also proven to be dead...
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The Philadelphia Inquirer - By Thomas Fitzgerald
Stitching together a coalition of blue-collar workers, white men and women, Sen. H...
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USA TODAY - By Jill Lawrence and Kathy Kiely
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton scoured Pennsylvania for votes Monday amid si...
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 USA TODAY - By Joan Biskupic and Kevin Johnson
WASHINGTON -- Several states are poised to resume executions after the Supreme Court o...
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By Stephen Magagnini, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.
Worldwide protest over China's human rights record and actions in Tibet blocked the path of the Olympic torch's worldwide run this week, just before its trek through San Francisco.
The torch was ...
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 USA TODAY, By Richard Wolf
KIEV, Ukraine -- When the United States and 25 other members of the NATO alliance meet in Bucharest this...
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Virginian - Pilot. By Jim Yardley, The New York Times BEIJING - Thousands of Buddhist monks and other Tibetans clashed with riot police in a second Chinese city on Saturday, while the authorities said they had regained control of the Tibetan capit...
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By Rupert Cornwell - The top US commander for the Middle East resigned yesterday, a step that seems to bear out reports of sharp policy differences on Iran between a hawkish White House and a uniformed military leadership opposed to military action. ...
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 Presidential hopeful Barack Obama won the Wyoming Democratic caucuses Saturday, beating rival Hillary Clinton.
Although there were ju...
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Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was the projected winner Tuesday over Barack Obama in the Texas Democratic primary, media repor...
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 By Joe Vardon, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio
CINCINNATI -- A right-wing talk show host three times invoked Sen. Barack Obama's middle name w...
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By David Espo Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused presidential rival Sen. Barack Obama of politic...
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 By Ishtiaq Mahsud and Robert H. Reid Associated Press
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Taliban militants declared a cease- fire Wedn...
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 By Barry Wilner, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GLENDALE, Ariz. - With the Super Bowl on the line, look who had the perfection thing down Pat: Eli...
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By Tom Raum and Nedra Pickler, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton sparred, for the ...
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MIAMI - John McCain won Florida's Republican primary with the help of the state's wildly popular governor, his own war-hero biography an...
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Salt Lake City, Utah - The man 13 million Mormons consider to be a prophet of God and who served them as president of more
By Thomas Fitzgerald, The Philadelphia Inquirer
S.C. -- Sen. Barack Obama crushed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday in the South ...
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It was a kinder, gentler GOP debate Thursday night.
Unlike prior gatherings, in which John McCain and Mike Huckabee attacked Mitt Romn...
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 Knight Ridder Washington Bureau
JERUSALEM - President Bush began an eight-day Middle East peace mission Wednesday as Israeli leaders w...
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USA TODAY - By Jill Lawrence MANCHESTER, N.H. -- New Hampshire voters make their presidential picks today in an environment trans...
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 Virginian - Pilot: By MATT APUZZO, The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Justice Department opened a full criminal investigation...
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Treacherous Political Situation Takes Another Blow. International Herald Tribune - By Salman Masood and Graham Bowley Graham Bowley reported and David Rohde contributed reporting from New York. The Pakistani opposition leader Bena...
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 Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - By Mark Lavie Associated Press
JERUSALEM -- Israel's prime minister pledged Sunday to continue attac...
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Virginian - Pilot, By Scott Shane - The New York Times
WASHINGTON - The CIA has agreed to make documents related to the destruction of interrogation videotapes available to the House intelligence committee and to allow the agency's top lawyer, Jo...
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City), By Matt Apuzzo Associated Press -
WASHINGTON -- The controversy over destroyed CIA interrogation ...
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 Deseret News (Salt Lake City): By Anne Gearan, Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- North Korea and Iran have a long way to go to get...
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Virginian - Pilot: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A gunman killed two staff members at a missionary training center near Denver early Sunday after being told he couldn't spend the night. About 12 hours later, a gunman fatally shot a person at a megachurch...
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Fear Turns to Joy in Colombian Hostage Rescue Video
BOGOTA, Colombia _ A video of the dramatic Colombian hostage rescue shows 15 captives walking sullenly to a helicopter, believing they were being taken by an international humanitarian group to another camp belonging to the guerrilla group.
Net Result: Another Sister Act
WIMBLEDON, England -- A spot in her seventh Wimbledon final already secured, Venus Williams headed back to Centre Court to catch the end of the next match.
Hostages Tell of Little Food, Deprivations
BOGOTA, Colombia -- A meal was rice and beans.
Larry Harmon, Aka Bozo the Clown, is Dead at 83
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday of congestive heart failure.
Betancourt Flies to Paris After Captivity
French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt sees Paris for the first time in six years, flying to Paris Friday after her release from Colombian captors.
Dementieva Questions Serena and Venus's 'Family Decision'
For a while it was the talk of tennis.
The End of This War is Still Not in Sight
This week's rescue of Colombia's former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages was not merely an operation executed with quite sensational skill.
Prediction: Williams Will Win Wimbledon
And when Thursday's second semifinal ended, Williams stood, smiling and applauding for the woman who won, the woman she will have to beat to earn a fifth championship at the All England Club: her younger sister, Serena.
The Greatest Escape: How Ingrid Betancourt Was Freed From Farc Captors ; After More Than Six Years Held Captive By Colombian Guerrillas, Ingrid Betancourt is Free - Thanks to a Remarkable Rescue Operation. By John Lichfield
On her back was a large rucksack, which, she explained later, contained a dictionary, a sheaf of undelivered letters to her family and "all sorts of rubbish" she had gathered during six years, five months and 10 days in captivity in the Colombian jungle.
Admiring Goya, in All His Moods
There was a little orchestrated flurry of drama here at the Prado a few days ago when the museum staged a news conference to announce what was hardly news: that "Colossus," the famous, much reproduced Goya painting of a giant terrifying a landscape, may not be a Goya after all.
From Roger and Rafael: We're Ready for Battle Wimbledon Tennis
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal were not playing each other on Centre Court - at least not yet - but it certainly seemed as if they were sending each other messages as each took their turn on the grandest stage in tennis.
Dementieva Backtracks After Calling Williams Final a 'Family Decision'
ELENA Dementieva has been forced to clarify a comment that appeared to suggest tomorrow's Wimbledon final between sisters Serena and Venus Williams will be decided by a "family decision."
2,000 Marines Face Longer Afghan Tour
Jul. 4--WASHINGTON -- In a decision reflecting the shortage of available combat troops, more than 2,000 Marines fighting the Taliban will be kept in Afghanistan 30 days beyond their original seven-month tour, the Marine Corps said yesterday.
Williams Sisters to Meet in Wimbledon Final
Jul. 4--WIMBLEDON, England -- Like many tennis-loving Americans, Venus and Serena Williams will wake up Saturday morning and enjoy Breakfast at Wimbledon.
Lawn Tennis: SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES ; WIMBLEDON 2008... Beaten Elena Sparks a Row As She Claims theWilliams Family Will Decide Final Result
ELENA DEMENTIEVA last night launched a blistering volley at the Williams sisters, sensationally claiming they will fix the women's final.
JUNGLE RESCUE HEROES FOOL REBELS WITH CHE T-SHIRTS ; Hostage Agony Ended By Soldiers in Disguise
JUNGLE hostage rescuers disguised themselves in Che Guevara T- shirts to trick dopey Marxist guerrillas into freeing 15 kidnap victims.
Wildfire Rages, but Some Refuse to Evacuate
BIG SUR, Calif. -- An explosive wildfire ravaged the hillsides above this scenic coastal community Thursday, leaving the popular tourist region mostly deserted ahead of the holiday weekend.
Second Bomb Found After Belarus Blast
An unexploded bomb has been found in the Belarusian capital of Minsk near the site of this week's concert bombing, the interior minster said Friday.
Former U.S. Sen. Helms Dead at Age 86
Former arch-conservative U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina died Friday at age 86 after battling cancer and heart disease, hospital officials said.
Privacy of YouTube Users Under Threat
The personal viewing habits and online identities of millions of YouTube users are to be handed over to an American media giant after a court rejected arguments that such a move amounted to a massive invasion of internet privacy.
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