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- PUBLIC EYE
Walhberg, wife split
Donnie Wahlberg and his wife are calling it quits after nearly nine years of marriage. He and Kim Fey Wahlberg have each filed for divorce in separate counties.
- NOW READ THIS
List helps professors keep freshmen's world in mind
MILWAUKEE – Students entering college this fall have lived their whole lives in a digital world – where GPS has always been available, phones have always had caller ID and tax returns could always be filed online.
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- Russians don't appear to be leaving Georgia
GORI, Georgia – Russia claimed it had begun withdrawing its troops from Georgia yesterday, but there was little evidence of it on the ground: Russian soldiers continued digging in along the highway approaching the capital, Tblisi.
- Fay targeting Florida's Gulf Coast
KEY WEST, Fla. – Two years since a hurricane last lashed at Florida, many residents took a wait-and-see attitude yesterday as a strengthening Tropical Storm Fay swept across the Florida Keys and bore down on the Gulf Coast.
- Church, tribes reach compromise on bingo
SACRAMENTO – The Catholic Church and California's Indian gaming tribes have struck a compromise that would permit a major expansion of conventional bingo while outlawing electronic versions played on machines that look and act a lot like slots.
- Childbirth increasingly coming later, or not at all, for U.S. women, census finds
Women are waiting longer to have children, and more women than ever are choosing to not have children at all, according to a new Census Bureau report.
- Teens to be tried in immigrant's death
POTTSVILLE, Pa. – Three teens were ordered yesterday to stand trial in the beating death of an illegal immigrant from Mexico after a friend of the defendants testified that the victim was sucker-punched and kicked in the head during a late-night, epithet-filled melee.
 2008 VOTE: PRESIDENT
Obama will soon disclose his pick for vice president
CHICAGO – Barack Obama will publicly disclose his vice presidential choice in the coming days, though the Democrat is keeping most aides who are preparing for the announcement in the dark and giving away nothing to voters as he campaigns.
- Navy commits to stealth ship program it planned to scrap
PORTLAND, Maine – The Navy has reversed course and decided to push for construction of a third stealth destroyer, Sen. Susan Collins said yesterday.
- FBI lays out anthrax case against Army scientist who killed himself
WASHINGTON – FBI officials attempted to bolster their case against researcher Bruce Ivins yesterday by presenting experts who said that a lone scientist working for three to seven days with readily available equipment could have produced the lethal spores used in the 2001 anthrax mailings.
- Anti-terror plan for Manhattan tracks vehicles, raises concern
NEW YORK – The New York Police Department is working on a plan to track every vehicle entering Manhattan and screen them for radioactive materials and other terrorism threats.
- NATION UPDATE
Kin of fire victims to get $20 million
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The state of Rhode Island and the town of West Warwick have each agreed to pay $10 million to relatives of victims of a 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people, according to court documents filed yesterday.
- Colleges stir drinking-age debate
College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.
- 77 protest bids, 0 approvals by China
BEIJING – Chinese authorities have not approved any of the 77 applications received from people who wanted to hold protests during the Beijing Olympics, state media reported yesterday.
- THE FIGHT FOR IRAQ
Two provincial election workers die in ambush
BAGHDAD – Masked gunmen ambushed a bus carrying election workers in southern Iraq yesterday, killing two of them. One of them was an official known for resisting interference by Shiite religious extremists, authorities said.
- Suicide bombers attack U.S. military base in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan – A suicide bomber drove a car into a crowd of workers at the gates of a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, killing 12 workers and wounding 22 others, Afghan officials said.
- WORLD UPDATE
Iran rocket launch failed, U.S. says
TEHRAN, Iran – A day after Iran declared it had test fired a new rocket capable of launching a satellite, the country said yesterday that it was prepared to help other Muslim countries send up satellites.
- Russia triumph reveals military shortcomings
MOSCOW – Russia's lightning war against Georgia looks like a military triumph: An armada of Russian tanks easily crushed Georgia's modest army in a show of muscle intended to punish its U.S.-allied neighbor, scare others and reaffirm Moscow's influence on its former Soviet turf.
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