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    Calif. lawmakers weigh chemical ban in baby items (AP)
    AP - Responding to growing consumer anxiety, California lawmakers are considering enacting what could be the first statewide restrictions on a chemical found in plastic baby bottles and infant formula cans. -- read full article
    Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:25:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Bring on the French! Phelps set for next showdown (AP)

    United States' Michael Phelps reacts after a men's 200-meter freestyle heat during the swimming competitions in the National Aquatics Center at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)AP - Michael Phelps left Ryan Lochte in his wake.


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    Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:00:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Ivins remembered for intelligence, compassion (AP)

    Mourners enter St. John's Catholic church for a memorial service for Dr. Bruce Ivins, the Army scientist suspected in the anthrax attacks, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008 in Frederick, Md. Ivins, 62, died of an apparent suicide late last month after being informed by the FBI that charges likely were being brought against him in connection with the 2001 attacks. (AP Photo/Gail Burton).AP - The Army scientist suspected in the anthrax attacks was remembered for his humor, intelligence and compassion at a memorial service Saturday.


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    Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:02:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Hawaii teacher's cure clears way for a new saint (AP)

    Audrey Toguchi talks at her home in Aiea, Hawaii, on July 8, 2008, about how after she prayed to Father Damien her cancer went away. Pope Benedict XVI has approved the case as Damien's second miracle, opening the way for the 19th century priest to be declared a saint. (AP Photo/Hugh E. Gentry)AP - When cancer spread into her lungs, doctors told Audrey Toguchi she had six months to live, at best, and suggested chemotherapy as the only option.


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    Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:34:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Edwards' affair his most costly political risk (AP)

    In this image taken from video and released by ABC News, Bob Woodruff interviews John Edwards Friday, Aug. 8, 2008 in Chapel Hill, N.C. The former North Carolina senator, who was the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2004, confessed to ABC News that he had lied repeatedly about the affair with 43-year-old Rielle Hunter. (AP Photo/ABC News)AP - Backed by his friendly Southern drawl, the practiced charm of a courtroom warrior and a smile bright enough to blind the camera's eye, John Edwards never lacked the confidence to take the big risk.


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    Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:44:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Lincoln's hometown marks 100th anniversary of riot (AP)

    In this 1908 file photo released by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, one of 40-black-owned homes destroyed by rioters burns in Springfield, Ill. The riot and lynching in Springfield helped inspire the creation of the NAACP.  (AP Photo/Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library)AP - Two days of terror. Black men tortured and hanged. A baby dead of exposure. Four white rioters shot by black defenders.


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    Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:02:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Cloned puppies may have exposed 31-year mystery (AP)

    In this Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, file photo, Bernann McKinney of the U.S. holds one of five cloned pitbull pupies during her first meeting with them at the Seoul National University Hospital for Animals in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)AP - A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She's the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave.


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    Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:15:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Actor, comedian and exasperated dad Mac dies at 50 (AP)

    Cast member Bernie Mac smiles at the premiere of AP - Bernie Mac blended style, authority and a touch of self-aware bluster to make audiences laugh as well as connect with him. For Mac, who died Saturday at age 50, it was a winning mix, delivering him from a poor childhood to stardom as a standup comedian, in films including the casino heist caper "Ocean's Eleven" and his acclaimed sitcom "The Bernie Mac Show."


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    Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:10:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    911 callers told of carnage in Texas bus wreck (AP)

    April and Brian McCandless of Haltom City, Texas,  place flowers at the bridge in Sherman, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008, where a bus  carrying a Vietnamese Catholic group to an annual pilgrimage crashed early Friday. Another person has died  bringing the death toll to 16. (AP Photo/Ron Heflin)AP - Witnesses who called 911 after the crash of a charter bus that killed at least 17 people described a chaotic scene, telling emergency workers of bloody passengers crushed beneath the smoking wreckage, according to calls released Saturday by police.


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    Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:57:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    More Nebraska Beef recalled despite assurances (AP)

    In this Wednesday, July 2, 2008, file photo, the Nebraska Beef plant is seen in Omaha, Neb. Nebraska Beef Ltd. is recalling 1.2 million pounds of beef because the products may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria. Neither the company's spokesman nor Department of Agriculture officials immediately responded to calls about the recall after a news release was issued late Friday night, Aug. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)AP - Federal authorities last month assured consumers that a meat plant linked to nearly 50 illnesses caused by tainted ground beef had made enough changes after a recall to ensure that its products were safe. Less than a month later, the same processor has recalled 1.2 million pounds of other beef products that might have sickened more than 30 people.


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    Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:47:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Pentagon Papers defendant Anthony Russo dies at 71 (AP)
    AP - Anthony J. Russo, a researcher who helped leak the Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers to the media and prompted wider public questioning of the war, has died, police said. -- read full article
    Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:00:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Edwards' ex-mistress rules out paternity test (AP)

    In this undated image rendered from video and provided by Extra, Rielle Hunter is shown during an interview. Edwards' political action committee paid $100,000 in a four-month span to a newly formed firm run by Rielle Hunter, who directed the production of four Web videos. (AP Photo/Extra)AP - The ex-mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards said Saturday she will not participate in DNA testing to establish the paternity of her daughter.


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    Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:53:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Father of former Olympian killed in Beijing (AP)

    A Chinese security guard locks the gate at the historic Drum Tower where a US citizen was murdered in Beijing. An American relative of a US Olympic coach was killed and another injured in a stabbing attack in Beijing, raising security fears as the Games got into full swing.(AFP/Mark Ralston)AP - The fatal stabbing of the father of a former Olympian at a Beijing landmark cast a sad shadow over the first full day of Olympic competition Saturday, just hours after China's jubilant opening of the Summer Games.


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    Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:55:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Osteen's wife denies assaulting flight attendant (AP)

    Victoria Osteen, wife of superstar evangelist Joel Osteen, testifies Friday, Aug. 8, 2008  in Houston. Osteen is being sued by Continental flight attendant Sharon Brown for assault. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - The wife of megachurch evangelist Joel Osteen told jurors Friday she was "dumbfounded" and "shook up" after a flight attendant accused her of assaulting her over a spill on a first-class seat. Victoria Osteen, in court because the flight attendant is suing her, said she pushed no one and even ended up cleaning the spill that sparked the incident herself.


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    Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:42:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Microbiologist says anthrax suspect was stalker (AP)

    This undated image attached to an email sent Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2001 by Bruce Ivins shows Ivins handling 'cultures of the now infamous 'Ames' strain of Bacillus anthracis' at his lab according to the text of the message. Ivins, an Army scientist, died on July 29, 2008 from suicide as federal authorities prepared to charge him with killing five people by sending anthrax spores in the mail. (AP Photo)AP - A microbiologist claims she was stalked for decades by Bruce Ivins, the suspect in the deadly anthrax mailings of 2001 who, according to court documents, was obsessed with the sorority she joined in college.


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    Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:12:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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