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Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., center, listens to the concerns of the crowd as she sits with veteran Bill Doyle, left, and Keith Gwinn at the American Legion in Huntington, W. Va. (Photo by Mark Webb / AP)

Clinton facing narrower path to presidential nomination

Hillary Clinton needs three breaks to wrest the Democratic presidential nomination from Barack Obama in the view of her advisers. The odds of her getting them are a little longer after recent events.

International Herald Tribune

Clinton's challenge

ABC News

Slide show: a political life

MSNBC

Cheney tells Karzai US urges more NATO soldiers in Afghanistan

Vice President Dick Cheney, assessing the security situation during a surprise visit to Afghanistan, said the United States will press NATO allies to step up their military engagement in the country.

Bloomberg

What Dick Cheney thinks of what you ...

ABC News

Record flooding in Midwest

Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and evacuated as a foot of rain pushed rivers over their banks in the nation's midsection.

CNN

Deadly storms and flooding head east

AOL News

Deadly floods from Texas to Pa.

ABC News

New Bin Laden message threatens EU

A jihadist Web site posted a message from Osama bin Laden chiding the European Union for allowing newspapers to republish cartoons insulting the prophet Muhammad.

ABC News

Supreme Court bars use of racial discrimination in picking juries

The Supreme Court has upheld a 1986 precedent that bars racial discrimination in jury selection in a 7-to-2 ruling reversing the capital-murder conviction of a black Louisiana death-row inmate.

Christian Science Monitor

Dollar gains as oil and gold tumble

The dollar firmed against the euro and came near one-month highs, underpinned by sliding gold and oil prices and falling stocks.

Epoch Times

NATION

Bush touts Iraq progress; protesters converge on D.C.

As protesters converged on Washington, D.C., to mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, President Bush touted the "hard-fought" progress that has been made in the country.

The Hill

Justices lean toward individual right to bear arms

Though many Supreme Court justices appeared to lean in favor of an individual right to have a handgun, they diverged over whether such a decision would still allow D.C.'s law to stay in place.

U.S. News & World Report

Heparin linked to 21 deaths was modified

The main ingredient in recalled Heparin was modified to yield the contaminant linked to as many as 21 deaths among users of the popular blood thinner, the Food and Drug Administration said.

Baltimore Sun

POLITICS

Obama plays to a packed crowd in Charlotte, NC

Speaking to what he called a "rowdy" crowd in Charlotte, N.C., Barack Obama pledged to end the war in Iraq, but acknowledged that "we're not going to be able to solve all these problems quickly."

McClatchy Newspapers

Webb urges McCain to sign onto GI bill

Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., is calling on Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to sign on as a co-sponsor to his GI bill, which would improve educational benefits to veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Hill

McCain corrects himself on Iran

Yahoo! News

BUSINESS

Bear Stearns bigshots lost company money, reaped big paydays

Bear Stearns' Chairman Jimmy Cayne and C.E.O. Alan Schwartz lost a lot of wealth on paper, but over their tenures at the company, were compensated with millions in bonuses.

MSNBC

Fed housing regulator takes new steps to ease home-loan crisis

McClatchy Newspapers

Bear Stearns sale impact on credit market

Yahoo! News

Tough times force airlines to scale back

With rising fuel costs and a recession in the wings, airlines are cutting jobs and hiking prices.

Christian Science Monitor

Lenders to pump $200 billion into markets

Two U.S. home financing heavyweights won government approval to pump $200 billion more into troubled U.S. mortgage markets, the latest step to stabilize credit markets and avert a deep recession.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Methane found on distant world

A carbon-containing molecule has been detected for the first time on a planet outside our solar system.

BBC

Apple considering unlimited music device

Apple may be considering allowing consumers to download unlimited music from a limited catalog for an extra fee.

Wired

Are humans meant to be monogamous?

News of politicians' extramarital affairs seems to be in no short supply lately, but if humans were cut from exactly the same cloth as other mammals, a faithful spouse would be an unusual phenomenon.

LiveScience

HEALTH

Things you didn't know about your penis

Medical experts reveal interesting facts that men and women will find educational — and surprising.

WebMD

10 million baby boomers face Alzheimer's, report predicts

An estimated 10 million American baby boomers will develop Alzheimer's disease in their lifetime, placing enormous strains on the U.S. health-care system, a new report predicts.

LiveScience

Transfusions of 'older' blood do not work as well

Heart-surgery patients who get transfusions of blood that has been stored for more than 14 days do worse than those who get newer blood, a new study shows.

U.S. News & World Report

EDUCATION

States to get leeway on school sanctions

The Bush administration is trying to address one of the complaints about No Child Left Behind: It treats schools the same, regardless of whether they fail to meet annual benchmarks.

USA Today

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GOOD NEWS

For amputees, an unlikely painkiller: simple mirrors

Dr. Jack Tsao, a Navy neurologist, was searching for a treatment for amputees suffering "phantom limb pain," when he tried an unusual approach using a simple $20 mirror.

CNN

Educator's charter schools help revive New Orleans

James Meza is doing rescue work, but he's not a first responder. Meza is saving the children of New Orleans from the miserable education system they had before Hurricane Katrina.

NPR

Database key in restoring New Orleans

NPR

Veterans tell their stories in patchwork

Ten quilts, averaging 42 squares each, line the hallway of the PTSD inpatient ward at the Seattle VA medical center. The vets have made each square to represent their thoughts and pain.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

WORLD

US backs Egyptian effort to mediate Israel-Hamas cease-fire

The Bush administration is using Egypt as an intermediary to open a channel between Israel and representatives of Hamas, in what some diplomats say could be a softening of the U.S. stance.

International Herald Tribune

Polish parliament to examine Poland's participation at Beijing Olympics

A total boycott is not the only way to voice a country's displeasure towards an Olympic host, said Polish parliamentarian Karol Karsk.

Epoch Times

ENVIRONMENT

Global warming hastens springtime

The fingerprints of man-made climate change are evident in seasonal timing changes for thousands of species on Earth, according to studies and a report by the Nobel Prize-winning scientists.

MSNBC

Collared greens: how to green your pet

Can we lighten the eco-pawprint of our pets? Today's marketplace offers everything from eco-friendly kibbles, collars and chew toys to beds, leashes and kitty litter.

Grist

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Oscar-winning actor Scofield dies

Paul Scofield, one of Britain's greatest Shakespearean actors and an Academy Award winner, has died at the age of 86, his agent has said.

BBC

Scofield biography

Yahoo! News

Buffett drawn back to soap opera intrigue

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, recently ranked as the world's richest man, will be drawn into a fictional insider-trading scandal on the TV soap opera "All My Children."

Reuters

SPORTS

Dance the day away

The NCAA tournament tips off with 32 games over the next two days. Here are the best (and worst) scenarios for all 64 teams.

ESPN

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The list: top 10 Cinderella stories

Sporting News

A dented dynasty? Not so fast

Rick Hendrick will spend the first off weekend of NASCAR's Sprint Cup season facing a tough decision on reeling in stiff competition.

USA Today

BoSox end threatened boycott

The Boston Red Sox ended a threatened boycott of their final spring training game in Florida, resolving a dispute over paying coaches for the season-opening trip to Japan.

Sports Illustrated

RELIGION

Where angels no longer fear to tread

Science and religion have often been at loggerheads. Now the former has decided to resolve the problem by trying to explain the existence of the latter.

Economist

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