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    Utah announces 'major dinosaur fossil discovery' (AP)
    AP - A newly discovered batch of well-preserved dinosaur bones, petrified trees and even freshwater clams in southeastern Utah could provide new clues about life in the region some 150 million years ago. -- read full article
    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:30:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Cyrus says he was surprised by controversial Vanity Fair photo (AP)

    In this April 14, 2008 file photo, Miley Cyrus and her father Billy Ray Cyrus pose in the press room at the 2008 CMT Awards in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)AP - Billy Ray Cyrus says he wasn't around when Annie Leibovitz photographed his 15-year-old daughter, Miley, wrapped in a sheet with her back exposed, for the June issue of Vanity Fair magazine.


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    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:29:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    McCain hits Obama on windfall profits tax (AP)

    Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain points to the audience as he arrives to speak before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington, June 2, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)AP - Republican Sen. John McCain criticized Sen. Barack Obama's call for a windfall profits tax on the oil industry on Tuesday, despite leaving the door open to the same idea last month.


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    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:19:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Economy struggles with rising prices, plodding growth (AP)
    AP - Wholesale prices barreled ahead while housing and industrial activity faltered — a blend of high-costs and slow growth that ensures the Federal Reserve's most likely move on interest rates next week will be no move whatsoever. -- read full article
    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:50:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Car bomb kills more than 50 people in Baghdad (AP)

    A member of a U.S.-allied awakening group is treated for his wounds after a suicide bombing in northern Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, June 17, 2008. A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck their checkpoint at about 10 a.m., killing one and wounding four, officials said, in the latest attack targeting Sunni groups that have turned against al-Qaida in Iraq. Members of so-called awakening councils  have joined forces with the U.S. to fight al-Qaida and other insurgent groups. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)AP - A car bomb tore through a market area in a mainly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing more than 50 people and wounding dozens, officials said, the deadliest such attack in more than three months.


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    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:15:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Helicopter saves sandbaggers from Midwest flooding (AP)

    A pig who somehow floated or swam several miles from the flooded hog barns near Oakville, Iowa, rests on the Mississippi River side of a sandbagged levee near Kingston, Iowa, Tuesday, June 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP - The rising Mississippi River interrupted travel on two bridges between Iowa and Illinois and forced the helicopter rescue of more than a dozen people sandbagging a levee before it broke, threatening to deluge thousands of acres.


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    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:57:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Military judge dismisses charges in Haditha case (AP)

    Marine Corps Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, right, hugs his wife Alissa Chessani, after charges against him were dismissed without prejudice at a hearing at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in San Diego County Tuesday, June 17, 2008. Chessani is the highest ranking officer to be tried in the case stemming from the shooting deaths of 24 men, women and children in the Iraqi town of Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005.   (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)AP - A military judge dismissed charges Tuesday against a Marine officer accused of failing to investigate the killings of 24 Iraqis.


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    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:16:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Hamas says it's reached cease-fire with Israel (AP)

    Palestinians gather around the wreckage of a car carrying Palestinian militants that was hit in an Israeli missile strike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip,Tuesday, June 17, 2008. Palestinian officials say five militants were killed and two wounded in  the strike by Israelli aircraft. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)AP - Gaza's Hamas rulers on Tuesday said they have reached a long-awaited cease-fire with Israel meant to end months of Palestinian assaults on Israeli border towns and bruising Israeli retaliation.


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    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:41:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Gay couples rush to get married in California (AP)

    Del Martin, 87, center left, and Phyllis Lyon, 84, center right, are married by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom , center, in a special ceremony at City Hall in San Francisco, Monday, June 16, 2008.  Also pictured are the couple's witnesses, Roberta Achtenberg, left, and Donna Hitchens. Lyon and Martin became the first officially married same sex couple after California's Supreme Court declared gay marriage legal. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, Pool)AP - County clerk offices opened their doors Tuesday to hundreds of gay and lesbian couples with appointments to secure marriage licenses and exchange vows on the first full day same-sex nuptials were legal throughout California.


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    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:01:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Japan executes notorious cannibal killer (AFP)

    File photo shows prison guards checking cells at a prison in Tokyo. Japan has executed a serial killer convicted of murdering girls in the late 1980s and eating some of their bodies, news reports said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura)AFP - Japan on Tuesday executed three people including notorious serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki, a fetishist convicted of murdering four young girls and eating some of their bodies, officials said.


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    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:38:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Tight security as Olympic flame starts Xinjiang leg (AFP)

    A paramilitary guard keeps lookout amid heightened security on a closed-off People's Square on June 16 in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Police imposed a security lockdown as the Olympic torch Tuesday started its run through China's mainly Muslim region of Xinjiang, seen as one of the most sensitive legs on its nationwide journey.


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    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:09:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Powerful South Korean labor group calls strike (Reuters)

    South Korea's President Lee Myung-Bak delivers a speech during the 2008 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Ministerial Meeting in Seoul June 17, 2008. (Jung Yeon-je/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - A powerful South Korean labor group on Tuesday announced a one-day strike next month to protest against President Lee Myung-bak's economic reform plans, adding pressure on the embattled leader facing calls for his ouster.


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    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:30:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Silk Road city locked down ahead of torch relay (Reuters)

    A soldier watches the audience during a ceremony for the start of the Xinjiang leg of the Olympic torch relay at the Peoples Square in Urumqi, Xinjiang province, June 17, 2008. (Reinhard Krause/Reuters)Reuters - China locked down the far-western former Silk Road city of Kashgar on Tuesday in preparation for the passage of the Olympic torch relay through the sensitive region populated by ethnic-minority Muslim Uighurs.


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    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:39:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Scores flee amid fear of battle in Afghan south (Reuters)

    An Afghan family flee from the Arghandab district of Kandahar, south of Afghanistan, June 17, 2008. (Ismail Sameem/Reuters)Reuters - Scores of families fled their homes in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday as foreign and Afghan forces prepare to drive out Taliban insurgents who have overrun several villages, officials and witnesses said.


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    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:35:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Turkey "neutralizes" PKK group in northern Iraq (Reuters)

    A villager transports wood on his donkey while Turkish soldiers patrol a road in the southeastern Turkish province of Sirnak, bordering Iraq, February 29, 2008. (Fatih Saribas/Reuters)Reuters - The Turkish military said on Tuesday it had opened fire on 21 Kurdish PKK fighters trying to enter Turkey from northern Iraq.


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    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:46:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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