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    Democrats try to settle Florida, Michigan dispute (Reuters)

    Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama shakes hands with a student after speaking at a town hall meeting at the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts in Thornton, Colorado May 28, 2008. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)Reuters - The Democratic Party will search for a compromise over disputed convention delegates from Florida and Michigan on Saturday in what could be Hillary Clinton's last chance to gain ground on presidential rival Barack Obama.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 05:14:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    No. 3 for 'Two and a Half Men' star Charlie Sheen (AP)

    Actor Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller arrive at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Charlie Sheen tied the knot with fiancée Brooke Mueller Friday night May 30, 2008, said publicist Stan Rosenfield, who declined to give more details.  (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)AP - The star of "Two and a Half Men" has moved on to marriage No. 3.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 08:11:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Pierce, Celtics beat Pistons to reach NBA finals (AP)

    Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce (34) hugs coach Doc Rivers after the Celtics defeated the Detroit Pistons 89-81 to win the NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals in Auburn Hills, Mich., Friday, May 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - The Boston Celtics got past an old nemesis to set up an NBA finals matchup with another rival — the Los Angeles Lakers.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 08:10:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Gates: Obstructed efforts in Myanmar cost lives (AP)

    U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks at the annual Shangri-la conference on international security Saturday, May 31, 2008 in Singapore. Myanmar's obstruction of international efforts to help cyclone victims cost 'tens of thousands of lives,' he said, reflecting the widespread frustration with the military government there. Gates said the U.S. has not had problems helping other countries in natural disasters while still respecting their sovereignty. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates condemned Myanmar's military government Saturday for being "deaf and dumb" to global offers of aid to its thousands of cyclone victims, but said the U.S. will not force assistance on the country.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 08:04:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Indiana boy spells 'guerdon' to win national bee (AP)

    Sameer Mishra, from West Lafayette, Ind., reacts to spelling his word to win the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Friday, May 30, 2008, in Washington. The 13-year-old boy from West Lafayette, Ind., aced 'guerdon' to win the 81st edition of the bee, held in the nation's capital. Sameer will receive $35,000 in cash plus more than $5,000 in other prizes. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - After watching his sister try three times to win the Scripps Nationals Spelling Bee, Sameer Mishra put himself on a mission. "I told my mom I was going to do the bee," Sameer said. "And if I was going to do it, I was going to win it one day. And I guess it happened."


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 07:37:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    UN nuclear agency report puts Iran on defensive (AP)

    Iranian former top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, left, who is newly elected as a lawmaker, listens to Saeed Jalili, top nuclear negotiator, during the opening ceremony of Iran's new parliament, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, May 27, 2008.  In an internal faction meeting on Sunday, conservatives who won the majority of seats in the March 14 parliamentary elections overwhelmingly voted for Ali Larijani for the post of speaker for the new parliament.  Larijani is seen as a rival to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - Growing pressure on Iran to explain what could be secret nuclear weapons work has left Tehran increasingly defensive — and the U.S. and its allies hopeful they can exploit the situation to wrest concessions from Tehran. But it may be too late for that.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 07:43:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Analysis: US terrorism list also a political tool (AP)

    In this April 25, 2007 file image made from television, missiles are carried during a massive military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea has fired three short-range missiles into the West Sea in an apparent routine test Friday, May 30, 2008, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Saturday. (AP Photo/APTN, File)AP - North Korea has not been linked to a terrorist attack in more than two decades, but it is still on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. Now, it may be on the verge of its coveted goal of getting removed — for reasons having little to do with terrorism.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 08:00:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Calif. clerk hopes to have 1st legal gay marriage (AP)

    Decorations depicting scenes of marriage are seen in the office of Contra Costa County Clerk Recorder Stephen Weir in Martinez, Calif., Wednesday, May 28, 2008.  Weir has been in charge of the office that hands out marriage licenses in California's ninth-largest county. And for just as long, he has been unable to get a license himself because the love of his life is a man. Weir and his partner John Hemm want to be first at the counter on June 17, when same-sex couples will be able to legally wed in California. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - For 18 years, Stephen Weir has been in charge of the office that hands out marriage licenses in California's ninth-largest county. And for just as long, Weir has been unable to get a license himself because the love of his life is a man.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 07:13:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Chertoff downplays terrorist nuclear threat (AP)

    U.S. Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff attends the First International Security Forum of Ministers of the Interior and Homeland Security, in Jerusalem Thursday, May 29, 2008. Chertoff said Thursday that progress is being made in the battle for hearts and minds against terrorism in Muslim countries, but 'sources of cynicism' in the West, need to be convinced as well.(AP Photo/Dan Balilty)AP - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is downplaying the idea of a nuclear attack by terrorists after recent postings on al-Qaida-affiliated Web sites exhorted militants to pursue weapons of mass destruction for use against the U.S.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 07:39:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    China says 200,000 evacuated because of flood risk (AP)

    The earthquake in southwestern China has blocked all vehicle access to the worst-hit areas, leaving survivors to scramble on foot in search of lost family members. Duration: 01:56(AFPTV)AP - Chinese authorities had evacuated nearly 200,000 people by early Saturday and warned more than 1 million others to be ready to leave quickly as a lake formed by a devastating earthquake threatened to breach its dam.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 08:24:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Democratic panel considers delegate plans (AP)

    In this April 2, 2007, file photo Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigns at a barbecue in Fort Madison, Iowa. Over a year later the end of the presidential primaries is in sight, and by June 3, 2008, people in Puerto Rico, South Dakota and Montana will have voted. (AP Photo/Kevin Sanders, File)AP - The fate of nearly 2.3 million Democratic presidential primary votes belongs to 30 party activists.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 07:57:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    One killed, two badly hurt in New York crane collapse: mayor (AFP)

    New York City Fire Department firefighters work on the scene of a crane collapse on Manhattan's Upper East Side at 91st Street and 1st Avenue in New York. A construction crane crashed onto a building in New York City Friday causing damage and at least one death, AFP confirmed, the second deadly crane accident here in less than three months.(AFP/Getty Images/Anthony Behar)AFP - A crane crashed onto a building in New York city Friday killing one person and seriously injuring two others, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, describing the incident as "unacceptable and intolerable."


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 16:44:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    China rushes to clear radioactive materials below quake lake (AFP)

    A gerenal view of the earthquake-hit city of Beichuan following the massive May 12 earthquake in China's southwestern province of Sichuan on May 27. A local government spokesman and residents in China's quake zone said there had been no order for a mass evacuation over fears a lake may burst its banks.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - China rushed Friday to remove radioactive and chemical materials sitting downstream from a "quake lake" that threatens to burst and send torrents of water into heavily populated areas.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 12:44:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Austrian abductee Kampusch turns TV chat show host (Reuters)

    Kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch leaves a civil court after testifying in Graz May 15, 2008. (Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters)Reuters - Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian who spent eight years locked in a windowless cell after being abducted in Vienna, turns TV chat show host on Sunday when her debut program airs on national television.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 18:28:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Bahamian drug kingpin gets 35 years in U.S. prison (Reuters)
    Reuters - A Bahamian designated by the White House as an international drug kingpin was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Friday by a federal court judge. -- read full article
    Fri, 30 May 2008 18:27:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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