BUSINESS

• Oil companies agree to settle MTBE contamination lawsuits
• Murdoch sees clinching Newsday soon; News Corp. profit jumps
• Oil jumps over $123 on drop in diesel, heating oil supplies
• Treasurys rally as Wall Street worries about oil, recession
• AP Interview: Paulson says credit crisis may be fading
• Worker productivity up at 2.2 percent rate in first quarter
• Consumer borrowing unexpectedly surges in March
• Gold, silver futures slump after dollar gains; oil hits $123
• General Dynamics weighs pick for new CEO
• NAR: US pending home sales drop to new low in March
• As fuel prices rise, some speedometer needles fall
• South Korea may suspend imports of beef from US
• Writers strike hurt, but Disney's 2Q profit still climbs
• Toyota raising prices on some models in US this month
• Company floats ads in 'clouds' shaped like corporate logos
• Ford says it's doubling fuel-efficient 6-speed transmissions
• Total 1Q profit jumps 18 percent on record energy prices
• Hollywood producers suspend talks with Screen Actors Guild
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ENTERTAINMENT

• Man finds check from 1971 after Arkansas tornadoes
• `American Idol' boots another finalist; 3 singers remain
• Leger painting auctioned for more than $39 million in NYC
• Star Jones lashes out at Barbara Walters about memoir
• In `Top Girls,' Caryl Churchill dissects woman and power
• Pa. women robbed of purses show police suspect's photo
• DMX arrested for speeding, reckless driving in Ariz.
• Bust of Frank Zappa to be erected in hometown of Baltimore
• Amy Winehouse arrested on suspicion of drugs possession
• Journalist dishes details about Uma Thurman stalker trial
• Portishead back after 10-year hiatus with 'Third'
• Stare to become St. Louis Symphony resident conductor
• Lennon's `Give Peace a Chance' lyrics to be auctioned
• Broadway's `Glory Days' opens and closes on opening night
• 'Mrs. Garrett' teaches Adam Sandler character facts of life
• Coldplay to help ESPN market European Championship soccer
• Dina Lohan's 'Top Mom' honor brings bad press to mommy group
• New postage stamp honoring Frank Sinatra to go on sale
• Cablevision buys Sundance Channel for almost $500M
• Chinese orchestra performs for Pope Benedict at Vatican
• Gunn, Shafer head cast of Carnegie Hall's `Show Boat'
• R. Kelly pornography trial set to begin in Chicago
• Sonny Rollins to headline this year's Newport jazz festival
• Cleveland Orchestra will tour Austria, Switzerland, Italy
• `Dancing With the Stars' eliminates another celebrity
• Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling wins privacy case appeal
• `Crocodile Hunter' widow settles lawsuit with debt collector
• Word of Madonna film reaches village of David Banda's father
• 'Dancing With the Stars' eliminates another celebrity
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HEALTH

• Chantix recommended to quit smoking despite safety concerns
• Too much, too little sleep tied to ill health in CDC study
• China steps up fight against virus sickening young kids
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POLITICS

• Clinton vows to press on as time, options running out
• US pressing to deliver aid to 'paranoid' Myanmar
• Obama picks up superdelegates; undecideds moving his way
• Mich. Dems settle on delegate-seating plan to bring to DNC
• Conflict over housing crisis threatens rescue package
• Protests from GOP, moderate Democrats delay war funding vote
• McCain jokes about reputation for temper
• Navy releases McCain's military record
• Web site flap prompts Alaska Democrat to give up House race
• Special counsel butted heads with staff over inquiries
• 5 nations may present new Iran offer in person
• Farm bill negotiators say they have agreement
• McCain jokes about rivals with comedian Jon Stewart
• Quotes from AP Interview with Paulson
• Analysis: Democrats quietly send word to Clinton it's over
• Senate rejects federal wind damage coverage
• Homeland Security wins control over foot-and-mouth research
• Senate Democrats seek to tax oil companies
• History of corruption clouds primary in northern Indiana
• Bush criticizes new Cuban leadership
• Today on the presidential campaign trail
• Congresswoman corrects House panel on GOP convention city
• Major provisions of housing rescue package
• Obama gains superdelegates, Clinton vows to stay in race
• Highlights of proposed Iraq war funding bill
• Post office $700 million in the red
• Former Ind. congresswoman wins gov. primary after tight race
• Bush faults Democrats on housing crisis, energy and taxes
• White House: Time not right for three-way Mideast meeting
• Hillary, Barack, want my vote? Just $20 million, please
• Obama wins most delegates in Tuesday's primaries
• GOP senators question quick action on judicial nominee
• AP IMPACT: An islands tax haven for US defense contractor
• Hillary Clinton says she'll stay in the presidential race
• Clinton, Obama encounter a bygone America in West Virginia
• Scalise sworn in
• Obama weighs next moves, maps out general election strategy
• Iraq's Industry minister opens door to reimbursing US
• New prosecutor jobs to target online predators
• McGovern, former Clinton backer, endorses Obama
• Clinton lends her struggling campaign $6.4 million
• Analysis: Clinton fails to get needed game-changer
• Indiana's primary turnout high, despite photo ID law
• Exit polls: Race key in N.C., Ind. but Wright's impact mixed
• IN, NC exit poll highlights
• Indiana's Lake County has tradition of late vote tallies
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SCITECH

• Gates: Microsoft going 'independent' way
• Apple inks Latin American deal for iPhone
• Studios win $111 million judgment against TorrentSpy.com
• Hackers' posts on epilepsy forum cause migraines, seizures
• Clearwire, Sprint Nextel to form $14.55B wireless company
• Joint Sprint, Clearwire network could boost consumer power
• AP sources give inside look at Microsoft's raised Yahoo bid
• Comcast mulling Net usage cap to discourage 'excessive' use
• Review: Mint shows me the money, and that's half the battle
• Research firm cuts into Sony claims for super-thin TV
• GAMES REVIEW: 'Iron Man' video game clunky
• Broadband service over power lines in Texas to shut down
• Take-Two's 'Grand Theft Auto IV' tops $500M in week 1 sales
• Google looking golden again after challenging stretch
• DirecTV profit rises 10 pct on US subscriber growth
• Australia's Koalas at risk from climate change
• South Korea's Hynix hopeful after WTO ruling on Japan tariff
• Flying saucers, tiny helicopters compete in British war game
• HP labs director seeks more help from academia
• France Telecom posts revenue growth, eyes acquisitions
• Cisco 3Q profit beats views, shares rise
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U.S.

• Sharpton arrested as hundreds protest NYC police shooting
• Philly officers taken off street after videotaped beating
• Feds penetrated drug culture easily at San Diego State
• $5 million lottery winner found slain; ex-boyfriend charged
• Woman extradited to Michigan after 32 years as fugitive
• Massey subsidiary cited for violations in W.Va. mine death
• Giant sinkhole swallows oil equipment in southeastern Texas
• Attorney: Marine's sentence for killing Iraqi cut 4 years
• Once-missing NH candidate agrees to electronic monitoring
• Handcuffed Colo. inmate hurt in jump from courtroom window
• Humane Society releases new video of mistreated livestock
• Ohio AG himself could be the one to appoint investigator
• Agreement reached on safety at Texas juvenile prison
• Body of missing Montana woman found in Yellowstone River
• System uses sound to find whales, avoid ship strikes
• Obituaries in the news
• Bailiffs fatally shoot armed man inside Florida courthouse
• Mich. high court says gay partners can't get health benefits
• FBI withdraws digital library's national security letter
• La. frat suspended after pledges allegedly burned in hazing
• Tenn. gov. to offer buyouts to more than 2,000 state workers
• Ohio woman gets at least 30 years for children's fire deaths
• Group's lawsuit challenges NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy
• Army OKs $248M in barracks repairs, but housing still aging
• Howard University names Ohio school president as new leader
• Officials now say sea lions weren't shot to death in Oregon
• Idaho student says teacher tossed his Mexican flag in trash
• New Orleans mayor pushing residents to leave FEMA trailers
• Burmese Americans try to help, but have few options
• 8 officers who died of post-9/11 illness on NYPD memorial
• Beyond the family ranch, Texas town makes Bush wedding plans
• Survey shows US honey bee deaths increased over last year
• Giuliani to advise Ukrainian mayoral candidate
• Texas mayor's colorful past called into question
• Editorial Roundup
• 15 Philly officers being taken off street after videotaped beating
• Truck, school bus crash in Ohio, about 4 children injured
• Exemption to 40-year-old billboard ban in Vt. worries some
• APNewsBreak: Sniper Muhammad seeks to halt death-row appeal
• Ga. man executed, ending 7-month moratorium
• Farmer pioneers green energy practices in Ohio
• More than $11.5M awarded to Florida residents in citrus case
• Vallejo to become largest Calif. city to file for bankruptcy
• Firefighters gain on 2 wildfires burning in New Mexico
• Minnesota couple claims $180 million Powerball jackpot
• Kansas high court limits grand jury's power in abortion case
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WORLD

• Former colonel gets 54-year term for massacre in Colombia
• Japanese and Chinese leaders pledge warmer ties
• Mexican rebel group rejects government's proposal for talks
• N.M. Gov. Richardson calls US-Mexico Border more secure
• Specially designed torch lit on top of Mount Everest
• US: Former Gitmo prisoner carries out recent attack in Iraq
• Guatemalan held in illegal adoption case
• Cuban blogger receives Spanish award - in absentia
• 2 Japanese women freed after being kidnapped in Yemen
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,073
• Jordan queen urges Arab oil states to spend on social causes
• Berlusconi forms new Italian government in 3rd stint as PM
• Guantanamo inmate files lawsuit seeking papers from UK
• Israel's Arab minority ambivalent about Independence Day
• US envoy says toll from Myanmar cyclone might reach 100,000
• By ship and plane, Myanmar aid picks up pace
• Colombia extradites warlord to US to face charges
• Sirens wailing, Israel comes to a halt to mark Memorial Day
• Cyclone survivors: journey from horror to misery in Myanmar
• Glitches mar debut of Gitmo courthouse
• Israel at 60: Proud but facing an uncertain future
• Nigeria lifts tax on rice in bid to head off food crisis
• Earthquake 100 miles away wakes up residents of Tokyo
• Aid groups: Humanitarian woes grow in Baghdad's Sadr City
• Clashes erupt in Lebanon as Hezbollah stages labor strike
• UN chief urges Myanmar to allow quick arrival of aid
• Death toll in Amazon ferryboat sinking rises to 41
• Cowen elected new Irish premier
• Medvedev sworn in as Russia's president, but will he rule?
• Former Bangladesh prime minister is charged with corruption
• Olympic torch enjoying a smooth relay in China
• China unleashes new round of verbal attacks on Dalai Lama
• 2 police killed in roadside blast in eastern Afghanistan
• Nepal's king to keep royal rights at Indian Hindu temple
• Power shortages spark outrage in northern India
• Cyclone has devastated Myanmar's rice region, experts say
• New Russian President Medvedev nominates Putin as premier
• Myanmar approves UN aid flight
• Chinese editor in limbo over Tibet piece
• 6 Vietnamese suspected of trying to sell babies arrested
• India successfully test-fires nuclear-capable missile
• China accuses US of shoddy probe into tainted heparin
• Thousands ordered deported from Canada are unaccounted for
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BASEBALL

• Rockies rally past Cardinals
• Polanco's broken-bat RBI single lifts Tigs over Red Sox 10-9
• Carlos Lee's RBI single in 9th lifts Astros over Nats 4-3
• DeJesus, Gordon each homer to power Royals past Angels 9-4
• Marcum strikes out 9, Rolen homers as Jays defeat Rays 6-2
• Former Gov.: Agency hopes to keep Wrigley name on ballpark
• Lee tops Wang in duel of perfect pitchers; Tribe blank Yanks
• Maine pitches into 9th, has 2 RBIs to lead Mets over Dodgers
• Marlins rookie Badenhop tops Brewers in 1st major league win
• Nady homers to ruin Zito's return, lead Pirates past Giants
• Norton's pinch-hit single sparks Braves past Padres 5-2
• Ellis blasts solo homer in 10th to lift A's over Orioles 6-5
• Reds hit 4 homers in inning off Lieber and crush Cubs 9-0
• Floyd flirts with no-hitter before falling short again
• Big Unit ties Robin Roberts with 286th win
• Rangers clobber sinking Mariners 10-1
• Drew's 3-run homer helps Big Unit pick up 286th career win
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BASKETBALL

• Kobe Bryant receives MVP trophy prior to Game 2 against Jazz
• Lewis scores 33 as Magic rout Pistons, trim deficit to 2-1
• Postseason NBA Schedule
• Billups leaves Pistons-Magic game early in 1st with injury
• Hawks GM to step down despite helping to end playoff drought
• Jazz hope to ruin newly-minted MVP Kobe Bryant's celebration
• Carmelo Anthony cited for speeding 3 weeks after DUI arrest
• Celtics hold James to 12 points to edge Cavs 76-72 in Game 1
• Celtics hold off LeBron James and beat Cavaliers 76-72
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FOOTBALL

• Running back Dominic Rhodes signs deal to return to Colts
• Walsh sends NFL 8 tapes that don't include Rams' walkthrough
• Haynesworth working on his own, won't be at Titans minicamp
• Eagles coach's son smuggled drugs into jail; faces 2 years
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GOLF

• Sawgrass a course for all players _ except absentee Tiger
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HOCKEY

• Postseason NHL Schedule
• Switzerland beats Sweden 4-2 at hockey worlds
• West finals: Red Wings have everything to lose _ Stars don't
• Paul Maurice fired after failing to get Leafs into playoffs
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MORE SPORTS

• Big Brown begins Preakness prep with Churchhill Downs stroll
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TENNIS

• Nadal falls in Rome, only his 2nd loss on clay in 3 years
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