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    Severe storms kill at least 21

    Michael Richardson, center, and his mother, Betty Lawson, right, carry a crib from Richardson's home in Picher, Okla., Sunday, May 11, 2008, as his sister, Corissa Lawson, looks on at left. Richardson's home was destroyed by a tornado Saturday. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)At least 21 people have died in severe weather in Missouri, Oklahoma and Georgia.


    Boat carrying Myanmar aid sinks

    A Cyclone Nargis survivor walks at a damaged school which has been turned into a makeshift refugee centre in the village town of Labutta in Irrawaddy Division, May 10, 2008. Despairing survivors in Myanmar awaited emergency relief on Friday, a week after 100,000 people were feared killed as the cyclone roared across the farms and villages of the low-lying Irrawaddy delta region. The storm is the most devastating one to hit Asia since 1991, when 143,000 people were killed in neighbouring Bangladesh. REUTERS/Stringeer (MYANMAR)A cargo ship carrying relief supplies for more than 1,000 cyclone victims in Myanmar sank, a International Red Cross spokesman said on Sunday.


    NYT: Obama, McCain look to November

    Senators John McCain and Barack Obama are already drawing up strategies for taking each other on in the general election, focusing on the same groups, campaign aides said.

    President's daughter Jenna married

    Henry Hager and Jenna Bush exchange vows at the altar Saturday, May 10, 2008, at Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas.  Proceeding over the wedding ceremony is the Rev. Kirbyjohn Caldwell.  White House photo by Shealah CraigheadPresident Bush called the wedding "spectacular," saying that his daughter and new son-in-law exchanged vows just as the sun set at the Texas ranch.


    Uneasy peace after Hezbollah pullout

    An ambulance arrives at the site of a shooting, as people try to help the injured in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Unknown gunmen opened fire on a funeral procession Saturday in a Sunni neighborhood of Beirut killing two and wounding six, a day after Shiite gunmen swept through the Lebanese capital's Muslim sector, police said. (AP Photo)Lebanese troops patrolled Beirut on Sunday after Hezbollah fighters pulled back from areas they had seized in gun battles with supporters of the U.S.-backed government.


    Growing deficits threaten pensions

    The funds that pay pension and health benefits to police officers, teachers and millions of other public employees across the country are facing a shortfall that could soon run into trillions of dollars.

    3 die in medical helicopter crash

    A medical helicopter on a return flight after dropping off a patient crashed after takeoff, killing the surgeon, nurse and pilot aboard, officials said Sunday.

    Taxpayers with foreign spouses miss rebates

    Ranjeet Kumar and wife, Minanshu Jha, holds a copy of their tax forms at their home in San Jose, Calif., Friday, May 9, 2008.  Over a million legal immigrants and Americans who married foreigners will be missing out, cut off by a provision meant to prevent illegal immigrants from getting their economic stimulus checks. Kumar is a software engineer who has been working in California for eight years and his wife has been in the United States legally since 2005, but her immigration status doesn't allow her to work or to apply for Social Security number. They file taxes jointly, which means they won't get the $1,200 that other qualifying married couples like them would get. When Maulit Shelat heard about the Bush administration's plan to pump up the economy by sending out stimulus checks, he sat down with his wife and drew up a list of priorities: first up, remodeling the bathroom.


    U.S. farmers profit little from high rice prices

    ** ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, MAY 12 ** Juan Vasquez levels out rice seed stored at the DePue Warehouse Co. near Maxwell, Calif., Tuesday, April 22, 2008.  The DePue Warehouse Co., stores rice seed for area farmers until need for planting. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)Dipping its left wing, a canary-yellow biplane makes a sharp turn and dives over a flooded field, showering rice on the shallow water fifteen feet below.


    Student leader is potent Chavez foe

    Law student Yon Goicoechea gestures during an interview in Caracas, Thursday, May 1, 2008.  Goicoechea, 23, was awarded the Cato Institute's Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, worth $500,000. Goicoechea first drew attention last year, when he led protests against Venezuela's government's decision that forced an opposition TV channel off the air. (AP Photo/Gregorio Marrero)For his outspoken opposition to President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's best-known college student has been called a U.S. collaborator and has had his nose broken in a scuffle.


    Sudan cuts ties with Chad

    Sudan severed relations with Chad on Sunday, accusing it of supporting fighters who assaulted the capital the night before, and warned that a top Darfur rebel leader was hiding somewhere in the city.

    Scientists probe recent coyote attacks

    A coyote roams past a house in Alterra Park in Chino Hills, Calif. on Thursday, May 8, 2008. Last week, a nanny pulled a 2-year-old girl from the jaws of a coyote in this San Bernardino County community about 30 miles east of Los Angeles. Coyotes normally avoid contact with humans and hunt rabbits and rodents. But scientist said some that live near suburban developments are becoming bolder, raiding garbage or even attacking pets and humans. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)The coyote was limping as it approached a girl in a sand box at a public park — but it was still dangerous. It snapped its jaws on the girl's buttocks and her nanny had to pry the toddler from the wild animal.


    Supreme Court avoiding 5-4 decisions

    In this June 15, 2006 file photo,  Associate Justice John Paul Stevens smiles as he chats with Chief Justice John G. Roberts, right, just before the start of a memorial for the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist at the Supreme Court in Washington.  This could be the Supreme Court term, one court watcher joked recently, that Justice John Paul Stevens remembers that he is a Republican. This could be the Supreme Court term, one court watcher joked recently, that Justice John Paul Stevens remembers he is a Republican.


    Ex-cop accused of rape to go on trial

    Four times between the winters of 2002 and 2005, a blue-eyed man wearing a ski mask and dark clothes crept quietly into the bedrooms of women in Bloomington, Ill., and raped them.

    High-ranking officer killed in Mexico

    The No. 2 police officer in a Mexican border city across from Texas was shot dead Saturday, the latest high-ranking official killed in an onslaught of attacks blamed on gangs resisting a crackdown.

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