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Bush links optimism for Mideast reform to democratic Israel (AP)

AP - President Bush said Wednesday that 60 years of democracy in Israel is cause for optimism for democratic change throughout the Middle East. "What happened here is possible everywhere," Bush said in a trip where he'll make a new push for Israeli-Palestinian peace.



Clinton's W.Va. victory does little to slow Obama (AP)

AP - Hours after being routed by Hillary Rodham Clinton in West Virginia, Barack Obama picked up two more superdelegates, offering fresh recognition from Democratic leaders of his inevitable nomination.



China says troops rush to plug dangerous cracks in dam (AP)

AP - Chinese state media says troops are rushing to plug "extremely dangerous" cracks in a dam upriver from an earthquake-hit city.



Inflation pressures ease despite food price jump (AP)
AP - Inflation pressures eased a bit in April despite the biggest jump in food prices in 18 years.
More Americans are taking prescription medications (AP)
AP - For the first time, it appears that more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription medicines regularly for chronic health problems, a study shows.
New storm head toward cyclone-devastated Myanmar (AP)

AP - Another powerful storm headed toward Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta on Wednesday and the U.N. warned that inadequate relief efforts could lead to a second wave of deaths among the estimated 2 million survivors.



3 in 10 get all or most calls on cell phones (AP)

AP - For nearly three in 10 households, don't even bother trying to call them on a landline phone. They either only have a cell phone or seldom if ever take calls on their traditional phone.



`Christine,' `How I Met Your Mother' back on CBS (AP)

AP - CBS has given a new lease on life to Julia Louis-Dreyfus' comedy "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and, perhaps thanks to Britney Spears, the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother."



'Darth Vader' spared jail in Jedi church attacks (AP)
AP - A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence Tuesday.
New indictment against Barry Bonds unsealed (AP)

AP - Federal prosecutors have unveiled a revamped indictment against Barry Bonds, but the career home run leader's lawyers say nothing has changed.




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