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Childhood home of George Washington finally found
WASHINGTON – The archaeologists were delighted to at last find the remains of George Washington's boyhood home but got stumped when they looked for evidence of the cherry tree and rusty hatchet.
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Jolie birth not imminent
Are the Brangelina twins boys or girls? Will they be delivered naturally or by Caesarean? In Nice, France, Angelina Jolie's obstetrician, Michel Sussmann, declined to answer several burning questions about the highly anticipated birth to Hollywood's hottest couple, but he did make one thing clear during a five-minute news conference yesterday: “She is a patient like any other.
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Three killed in attack by Palestinian
JERUSALEM – A Palestinian laborer driving a construction vehicle rammed into packed buses, tossed cars into the air and rolled over pedestrians in a rampage yesterday that killed three people and wounded dozens in Jerusalem.
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Big Sur residents ordered to leave as fire jumps line
BIG SUR – Authorities ordered the remaining residents of the scenic coastal community of Big Sur to leave yesterday because an out-of-control wildfire, one of hundreds in California, had jumped a fire line and was threatening more homes.
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- Appeals court rules in favor of abortion foes
SAN FRANCISCO – Police were wrong to briefly detain and then run off abortion protesters driving a truck bearing large photographs of aborted fetuses around a middle school right before the morning bell, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.
- Newsom, mayor of San Francisco, weighs run for California governor
SAN FRANCISCO – Mayor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat best known for his aggressive support of same-sex marriage, launched an exploratory committee this week to consider a 2010 run for governor.
- REGION UPDATE
Plane crash kills 1 in Ventura County
PIRU – A single-engine plane crashed yesterday afternoon into a hillside orchard near the town of Piru in Ventura County, killing one person, authorities said. County fire officials couldn't confirm how many passengers the plane was carrying.
- Bush says more U.S. forces bound for Afghanistan
WASHINGTON – Grappling with a record death toll in an overshadowed war, President Bush promised yesterday to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan by year's end. He conceded that June was a “tough month” in the nearly seven-year-old war.
- McCain shakes up campaign staff, chooses third operative in a year
WASHINGTON – Facing growing dissatisfaction both inside and outside his presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain ordered a shake-up of his team yesterday, reducing the role of campaign manager Rick Davis and vesting political adviser Steve Schmidt with “full operational control” of his bid for the presidency.
- State of nation's levees raises alarm
For millions of Americans living in flood-prone places, all that stands between the waters of mayhem and safety is a pile of dirt.
- NATION UPDATE
Feds pull plug on solar moratorium
WASHINGTON – The government said yesterday that it is calling off a recently announced moratorium on applications to build solar plants on public lands.
- Thousands feared infected by salmonella in Denmark
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Danish health officials fear more than 4,000 people may be infected with salmonella and are checking refrigerators and credit card receipts to find the source of what may be the worst outbreak in 15 years.
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French anti-terror laws called too broad
PARIS – A Human Rights Watch report released yesterday said France's legal framework for prosecuting terror suspects is too broad, resulting in too many arrests based on minimal evidence and too many convictions based on circumstantial evidence.
- Security deal with U.S. called unlikely for '08
BAGHDAD – Declaring that there will not be “another colonization of Iraq,” the country's foreign minister raised the possibility yesterday that a full security agreement with the United States might not be reached this year, and that if one was, it would be short-term.
- Three supporters of cleric arrested during crackdown of Shiite militias
BAGHDAD – Iraqi security forces arrested three locally prominent supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr yesterday as part of a crackdown on Shiite militias in the southern city of Amara, police said.
- Jordanian, Turkish leaders expected to visit Iraq
BAGHDAD – Iraq is expecting visits soon from Jordan's King Abdullah II and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, easing its regional diplomatic isolation, the foreign minister said yesterday.
- Daily developments
The U.S. military acknowledged that two Iraqi civilians were killed and nine wounded in southern Baghdad early yesterday when a 4th Infantry Division, 1st Brigade combat unit returned fire after insurgents launched rockets at U.S. forces from the West Rashid district.
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