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    No summer break for McCain, Obama (AP)

    A combination image showing Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (L) and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. (Jim Young - L/Jason Reed - R/Reuters)AP - While many people will work on their tans this summer, or on summer reading lists or on not working too hard, two exceptions — John McCain and Barack Obama — and their underlings will be working.


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    Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:12:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Chicago chef named nation's best at food 'Oscars' (AP)

    Chef Grant Achatz, of Alinea restaurant in Chicago, poses for a photo after being named Outstanding Chef at the 2008 James Beard Foundation Awards, Sunday, June 8, 2008, at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York. The awards recognize culinary professionals for excellence and achievement in their field.  (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)AP - A Chicago chef known for his ethereal cooking — as well as the tongue cancer that nearly ended his life — was named the nation's top chef Sunday by the James Beard Foundation.


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    Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:48:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Astronauts breeze through their final spacewalk (AP)

    In this video image taken from NASA TV, an astronaut is seen during a spacewalk during the STS-124 mission Sunday, June 8, 2008. Spacewalkers were scheduled to perform space station assembly and maintenance. (AP Photo/NASA TV)AP - Shuttle Discovery's astronauts breezed through their third and final spacewalk Sunday, replacing an empty gas tank at the international space station and collecting a sample of dusty debris.


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    Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:18:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    R. Kelly lawyers try to revive tattered defenses (AP)

    In this Monday, June 2, 2008 singer R. Kelly returns to the Cook County Criminal Court Building after a break as his child pornography trial continues in Chicago. After two weeks of prosecution testimony, R&B star R. Kelly's lawyers have a lot of ground to regain in their client's case. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - R. Kelly's attorney guided his electric scooter down a hallway outside the courtroom where his client is on trial for child pornography, exclaiming as he sped past several reporters, "In the morning, we attack!"


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    Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:51:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Ping pong diplomacy to be commemorated in rematch (AP)

    In this April 16, 1971 file photo, members of the United States Table Tennis delegation attend a discussion meeting between the Chinese and U.S. delegations. Americans are second from left, Graham Steenhoven, third left Rufford Harrison, and Connie Sweeris at far right. In June 2008, China and the U.S. will pay homage to the now-famous 'ping pong diplomacy' of 1971 with a three-day event that culminates in a rematch between several of the original - and aging - athletes. (AP Photo)AP - It was an unlikely diplomatic tool amid the escalating rhetoric of the Cold War: a few paddles, a few ping pong balls and nine giddy U.S. table tennis players in a country Americans hadn't seen for decades.


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    Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:40:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Sailor called 'hero' for helping save 5 others (AP)

    This picture provided by his family shows Roger Stone. Stone died after the boat he and five others were sailing capsized during the Regata de Amigos in the Gulf of Mexico. Coast Guard officials said the keel of the overturned vessel was ripped off, indicating the sailboat may have hit something in the water, according to the school. (AP Photo/Family via The Houston Chronicle)AP - A sailor is being praised as a hero for helping get five others to safety at the cost of his own life when a sailboat capsized during a regatta on the Gulf of Mexico.


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    Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:31:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Arson suspected in Texas Governor's Mansion blaze (AP)

    The historic Texas Governor's Mansion is shown early Sunday, June 8, 2008, in Austin, Texas, after a fire swept through it earlier in the morning. The fire left much of the 150-year-old home charred and inflicted damage that state officials described as 'bordering on catastrophic.' No one was inside at the time and the cause of the blaze is unknown. The mansion had been undergoing a $10 million renovation.   (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)AP - Fire investigators are asking for the public's help in identifying who may be to blame for a blaze that badly damaged the historic Texas Governor's Mansion.


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    Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:02:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    It's a first: Gas hits national average of $4 (AP)

    New York resident Austin Rommett fills his scooter with fuel at a gas station in New York on Sunday, June 8, 2008. The average price of regular gas crept up to $4 a gallon for the first time over the weekend, passing the once-unthinkable milestone just in time for the peak summer travel season. Prices at the pump are expected to keep climbing, especially after last week's furious surge in oil prices, which neared $140 a barrel in a record-shattering rally Friday. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)AP - The average price of regular gas crept up to $4 a gallon for the first time over the weekend, passing the once-unthinkable milestone just in time for the peak summer travel season.


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    Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:08:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Severe weather kills 8; water rises in Indiana (AP)

    Water bubbles up through a manhole cover in Racine, Wis., Sunday June 8, 2008, following heavy rains Saturday and Sunday. Government officials said that much more rain fell in Milwaukee, which is why the Root River is so swollen. Weekend storms pounded the U.S. from the Midwest to the East Coast, forcing hundreds of people to flee flooded communities, spawning tornadoes that tore up houses and killing at least five people. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Mark Hertzberg)AP - Wicked weekend storms pounded the country from the Midwest to the East Coast, forcing hundreds of people to flee flooded communities, spawning tornadoes that tore up houses and killing at least eight people.


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    Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:02:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Coast Guard finds 5 missing sailors in Gulf (AP)
    AP - A Coast Guard helicopter crew early Sunday rescued five regatta competitors who had drifted for 26 hours in the Gulf of Mexico after their boat capsized. -- read full article
    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:06:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NH gay bishop, partner joined in civil union (AP)
    AP - The first openly gay Episcopal bishop and his partner of 20 years have been united in a private civil union. -- read full article
    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:45:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Parish still struggling to rebuild from Katrina (AP)
    AP - Nearly three years after Hurricane Katrina, shifting demographics and the loss of community touchstones have rendered tight-knit St. Bernard Parish almost unrecognizable to those who cherished life here before the storm. -- read full article
    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:19:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Fake patients test Vermont medical students (AP)
    AP - The patient talked a mile a minute, hopped off the exam table, paced around and poked through the cupboards when the medical students entered the exam room. -- read full article
    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:46:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NYC festival reminds grown-ups how to play (AP)

    Participants of the 'Fort Amsterdam' game engage in a water balloon fight during the Street Games Festival, Saturday, June 7, 2008 in New York. From massive multi-player scavenger hunts to public play performances, the festival gives players and the public the chance to take part in a variety of different games. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh)AP - Running down a busy Manhattan sidewalk, drawing funny looks from passers-by as his teammates wearing green T-shirts and feather headdresses brought up the rear in their quest for more water balloons, David Abrams felt entirely unlike himself.


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    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:24:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Patient Web sites used for news, support in crisis (AP)
    AP - When he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year, Dave deBronkart needed an easy way to keep his far-flung friends and family updated. So did the president of the American Medical Association when he fell ill months ago. And so did the mother of a soldier wounded in Iraq who later suffered brain damage. -- read full article
    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:27:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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