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AP - Lindsay Lohan's father is due in court to answer a charge that he kicked and threatened to kill his former fiancee.

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AP - The floodwaters that have ravaged Pakistan will not recede fully until the end of August, the country's top meteorologist said Wednesday, a grim forecast for the more than 20 million people living homeless or otherwise affected by the deluge.

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AP - An official says a school building has collapsed in heavy rains in northern India, killing at least 17 children.

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AP - Average scores on the ACT college entrance exam inched downward this year, yet slightly more students who took the test proved to be prepared for college, according to a report released Wednesday.

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AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday offered Pakistan support in dealing with catastrophic floods as he hosted the leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan for talks on efforts to stabilize the region.

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AP - They were close. After three weeks of respectful but increasingly tense deliberations, 11 jurors were ready to convict Rod Blagojevich of what prosecutors called a "political corruption crime spree" that would have sent yet another former Illinois governor to prison.

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AP - Democratic Sen. Patty Murray and her Republican challenger dove right into their fall matchup after winning the primary in a high-stakes election that could determine the balance of power in the nation's capital.

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AP - President Barack Obama earned his lowest marks ever on his handling of the economy in a new Associated Press-GfK poll, which also found that an overwhelming majority of Americans now describe the nation's financial outlook as poor.

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AP - "Freedom" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28), by Jonathan Franzen: When Jonathan Franzen published "The Corrections" in 2001, he gained a measure of celebrity unusual for a literary novelist when he was invited to discuss his book on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" — then was disinvited when he publicly expressed reservations about having a Winfrey logo stamped on his book's dust jacket.

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AP - Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the talk show host who recently apologized for saying the N-word 11 times to a caller on the air, said Tuesday she plans to give up her radio show when her contract is up at the end of this year.

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