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Saturday, July 4, 2009

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Powerful sedative found in Michael Jackson's home

The powerful sedative Diprivan was found in Michael Jackson's home, a law enforcement official said Friday as the city planned for a massive crowd at the singer's memorial service. (Updated: 07/03/09 6:41 PM )

SKorea says NKorea fires 4 missiles off east coast

North Korea fired four missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, South Korea said, in what was likely to be seen as a message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Day holiday. (Updated: 07/04/09 1:45 AM )

States set to ring in Independence Day sans budget

Several states are facing the prospect of government shutdowns and program cuts as they enter the first weekend of the fiscal year and July Fourth holiday without a budget in place. (Updated: 07/03/09 7:31 AM )

Iranian hardliner calls opposition leader US agent

A top aide of Iran's supreme leader called the country's main opposition figure a U.S. agent and accused him of committing crimes against the nation in an editorial Saturday. (Updated: 07/04/09 4:05 AM )

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Russia-US summit a chance to jumpstart ties

Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev will likely sign a stack of agreements during their Moscow summit, but their chief goal may be for the United States and Russia to stop acting like adversaries - even if they can't be friends. (Updated: 07/03/09 12:35 PM )

Ex-Nixon aide Herbert Klein dies at 91 in Calif.

Herbert G. Klein, Richard Nixon's ex-White House director of communications and a former editor for Copley Newspapers, has died. He was 91. (Updated: 07/03/09 1:10 AM )

Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard

Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States. (Updated: 07/03/09 4:11 AM )

Officials say 16 killed in clashes in NW Pakistan

Clashes between tribesmen and Taliban militants left 16 people dead in Pakistan's northwest on Saturday, officials said, in the latest violence between pro-government tribal militias and insurgents. (Updated: 07/04/09 4:30 AM )

Prosecutors: Demjanjuk fit to stand trial

John Demjanjuk moved one step closer to another trial after German prosecutors said Friday that doctors had deemed the 89-year-old fit to go to court on charges of being accessory to murder at the Sobibor Nazi death camp. (Updated: 07/03/09 12:35 PM )

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