Reuters - Big Brown's path to the Triple Crown got much easier when biggest rival Casino Drive was scratched from Saturday's Belmont Stakes with a bruised hoof.

Reuters - Hillary Clinton ended her historic presidential bid and endorsed Barack Obama on Saturday, urging her supporters to unite behind Obama and help recapture the White House for Democrats in November.

AP - OK, Big Brown. It's time for the big date with history. All the obstacles in the colt's spectacular bid for the first Triple Crown in 30 years are fading faster than the pack in his Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes victories.

AP - Jim McKay, the venerable and eloquent sportscaster thrust into the role of telling Americans about the tragedy at the 1972 Munich Olympics, has died. He was 86.

AP - Drew Snyder and William Ballentine had a commitment ceremony with all the trimmings four years ago, the closest they could get to a wedding at the time.

AP - Astronauts tried out the international space station's newest piece of equipment Saturday, but it was a very limited test.

AP - A wildfire that has burned 30,000 acres in eastern North Carolina may smolder for months as it burns decayed vegetation that makes up the soil in the area, North Carolina Forest Service spokesman Bill Swartley said Saturday.

AP - Leading energy-consuming nations urged oil producers Saturday to boost their output to counter soaring prices threatening the world economy, while they pledged to develop clean energy technologies and improve efficiency.

AP - A suicide car bomb and another car packed with explosives targeted Iraqi police patrols Saturday on opposite sides of Baghdad, killing at least six people, police said.

AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton ended her historic campaign for the presidency on Saturday and told supporters to unite behind rival Barack Obama, closing out a race that was as grueling as it was groundbreaking.

AFP - Police forced Zimbabwe opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday to halt his campaign to topple Robert Mugabe at a run-off poll, his party said after he was detained for the second time in a week.

AFP - A dam blocking a dangerously swollen "quake lake" which is threatening to engulf 1.3 million people in southwest China, is in no danger of imminent collapse, state media said Saturday, as workers began to drain the water.