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    Freed US hostage denounces Colombian rebels (AP)

    Rescued Colombia US hostage Marc D. Gonsalves, left, stands on stage with unidentified members of his family at a 'Yellow Ribbon Ceremony' during which each of the returnees, including Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell, was able to speak briefly to the press, Monday July 7, 2008, at Fort Sam Houston's Brooke Army Medical Center, in San Antonio, Texas.  (AP Photo/Darren Abate)AP - Among the smiles and hugs shared by three American hostages freed last week from rebels in Colombia and their families, one of the men on Monday angrily denounced their captors as "terrorists with a capital 'T.'"


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    Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:37:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Hot, drier weather developing on Calif. firelines (AP)

    Firefighters are surrounded by morning fog mixed with haze from a wildfire at an airstrip in Big Sur, Calif., Monday, July 7, 2008. Firefighters continue to fight the Basin Complex Fire in the Los Padres National Forest near Big Sur Monday, but the situation may get worse since temperatures are expected to rise.  (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - As some residents whose homes were threatened by a vast Southern California wildfire were allowed to return home on Monday, forecasters warned that the cooler, damper conditions that have aided recent firefighting efforts would soon turn in favor of the flames.


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    Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:07:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Proposal to euthanize wild horses spurs debate (AP)
    AP - Animal rights activists and ranchers are clashing over a federal proposal to euthanize wild horses as a way to deal with their surplus numbers. -- read full article
    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:48:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Officials predict longer and stronger fire season (AP)

    Firefighter Brian Britton, of Ojai, Calif., throws flares unto a hillside during a backburn operation along Highway 1 in Big Sur, Calif., Sunday, July 6, 2008. Firefighters continue to fight the Basin Complex Fire in the Los Padres National Forest near Big Sur Sunday. Fires have burned more than 800 square miles of land and destroyed at least 69 homes throughout California in the past two weeks.  (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - In the past few years, Rich Nieto's work has started earlier and lasted longer.


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    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:10:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Park Service seeks to reach changing population (AP)

    Joquetta Johnson, a school teacher from Baltimore,  enjoys the overlook of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers in Harpers Ferry, W.Va. Saturday, June 21, 2008.  The park lies in a tri-state area with a hour drive from Washington D.C. and Baltimore. (AP Photo/Martin B. Cherry)AP - She'd spent a lifetime less than an hour's drive away, but it had never crossed Joquetta Johnson's mind to visit Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. What, she wondered when a friend suggested it, could a park in rural, lily-white West Virginia hold for a black teacher from Baltimore?


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    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:45:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Drinking games prove deadly to college students (AP)
    AP - On the morning after the house party on Johnson Street, Jenna Foellmi and several other twentysomethings lay sprawled on the beds and couches. When a friend reached out to wake her, Foellmi was cold to the touch. -- read full article
    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:07:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    A-Rod's wife alleges infidelity in divorce papers (AP)

    New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, right, and his wife, Cynthia, arrive to the 12th annual GQ 'Men of the Year' party at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles. The wife of Alex Rodriguez has filed for divorce in a Miami court. A lawyer for Cynthia Rodriguez filed the papers on Monday July 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)AP - Alex Rodriguez's wife filed for divorce Monday, calling her husband an adulterer who "emotionally abandoned his wife and children."


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    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:37:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Bertha becomes 1st hurricane of Atlantic season (AP)

    This  satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Bertha collected at 6:45 a.m. EDT Monday July 7, 2008. As of 5 a.m. EDT Monday, Hurricane Bertha was about 845 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center say it is too early to say if or where the storm will hit land. Maximum sustained winds have increased to speeds of 75 mph with higher gusts. Some strengthening is expected during the next couple of days. (AP Photo/NOAA)AP - Hurricane Bertha continues to strengthen as it moves over the central Atlantic Ocean.


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    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:36:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Bush: Russia's new president is 'smart guy' (AP)

    U.S. President George W. Bush, right, meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during a bilateral meeting at the G-8 summit Monday, July 7, 2008 in the lakeside resort of Toyako on Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - President Bush and new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stood united Monday on issues like Iran and North Korea. But for all their handshakes and smiles, it is clear that thorny issues like missile defense are in a holding pattern until a new U.S. president takes office.


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    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:18:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Bird watchers as far as Britain flock to Alaska (AP)

    A pair of murrs sit on the cliff  on St. Paul Island  on Wednesday June 4, 2008. These are just two of the many sea birds bird watchers come to the Bering Sea island to see .  (AP Photo/Al Grillo)AP - British birder Annie Andreae bristles at being called a "twitcher" — friendly slang in England for someone who will drop everything at the drop of a hat to get a glimpse at a must-see bird.


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    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:36:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Noise inescapable in some flagship national parks (AP)

    In an Aug. 10, 2001 file photo, a tour helicopter lifts off inside the Grand Canyon in Arizona. There can be hundreds of flights per day, which has sparked controversy due to the air traffic and noise. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta, File)AP - A few times a year, Bryson Garbett loads up his family and heads to a national park, often one in southern Utah.


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    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:32:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Black students helped end 'Massive Resistance' (AP)
    AP - The "Norfolk 17" were honored Sunday at the church that educated them 50 years ago when six of the city's all-white public schools closed under Virginia's defiant response to court-ordered desegregation. -- read full article
    Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:57:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Congresswoman calls for inquiry into Texas county (AP)

    In his first media interview, Joe Horn talks Tuesday, July 1,  2008, in Houston, at the home of his attorney,  after the Harris County Grand Jury cleared him in the deaths of two men who were shot and killed by Horn, as they broke into his neighbor's home in November 2007. (AP Photo/Karen Warren / Chronicle )AP - U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has called for a congressional inquiry into the state's most populous county, saying recent events show that its legal system "has been tarnished."


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    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:00:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Focus on elk as disease persists near Yellowstone (AP)

    A herd of elk graze in the meadows of Yellowstone National Park with the background Mt. Holmes, left, and Mt. Dome, Aug. 15, 1997, in Wyoming.  Government agencies killed more than 6,000 wild bison leaving Yellowstone National Park over the last two decades — the grisly result of efforts to contain a serious livestock disease carried by the animals. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)AP - Federal officials are considering a tentative proposal that calls for capturing or killing infected elk in Yellowstone National Park to eliminate a serious livestock disease carried by animals in the area.


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    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:25:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Weather helps crews battling California wildfires (AP)

    Firefighters monitor a burning redwood tree along Highway 1 in Big Sur, Calif., Saturday, July 5, 2008. Cooler temperatures and marine fog allowed firefighters here to gain some ground early Saturday on an obstinate wildfire that wiped out this world-famous coastal retreat's holiday tourist trade.  (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - Firefighters took advantage of cooler temperatures and higher humidity overnight to make progress containing a blaze burning through the mountains in Santa Barbara County before hotter, drier conditions return.


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    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:47:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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