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California wildfires strain state's resources
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AP - A wildfire threatening hundreds of homes in Southern California spread slowly through scenic canyonlands Saturday, straining resources as crews struggled to contain hundreds of other blazes around the state.
Obama: Response to Iraq remarks overblown
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AP - Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.
Rescue video shows duped rebels, elated hostages
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AP - Military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a film crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap.
Iran indicates it has no plans to halt enrichment
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AP - Iran indicated Saturday that it has no plans to meet a key Western demand that it stop enriching uranium, a day after Tehran sent the European Union a response to an international offer of incentives for halting enrichment.
Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robot
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AP - The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.
Public tipsters help foil fugitive murder suspect
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AP - The television image of fugitive murder suspect Nicholas Sheley's mug shot was fresh in Samantha Butler's mind as she ventured out to get dinner for the family, warning her relatives to lock the door behind her.
Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong right now'
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AP - Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days.
Man flying lawn chair lifted by helium balloons
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AP - Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch took off Saturday in a third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho.
Crikey! 'Crocodile Hunter' daughter gets own doll
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AP - The Emmy-winning daughter of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin is getting her own doll.
Venus tops Serena to capture 5th Wimbledon title
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AP - Thrilled as she was to win her fifth Wimbledon singles championship, Venus Williams dialed down her celebration. No hopping in place and skipping to the net after match point, the way she's done so often on that Centre Court lawn. No giddy laughter and whoops of joy, as she's let out in the past.