Hundreds of lightning-sparked wildfires have turned the air of Northern California into an unhealthy stew of smoke and ash, forcing the cancellation of athletic events and other outdoor activities.

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Death is inevitable, but federal income taxes aren't for an increased number of high-income earners. New IRS statistics show 7,389 federal tax returns with $200,000 or more in adjusted gross income reported no federal income taxes in 2005.

A further batch of secret Government files have been found on a train. The Independent on Sunday newspaper said that the papers - which were handed in to it - covered Britain's policies on fighting global terrorist funding, drugs trafficking and money

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki raised the possibility that his country won't sign a status of forces of agreement with the United States and will ask U.S. troops to go home when their U.N. mandate to be in Iraq expires at the end of the year.

The Associated Press has filed 7 Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown requests against a site called Drudge Retort. The site is a largely user-generated blog that features headlines, excerpts from news articles, links, and discussion...

The U.S. space shuttle Discovery landed at its home port on Saturday, wrapping up a mission that gave Japan a permanent toehold in space and setting NASA up for its next mission -- a high-profile servicing call to the Hubble Space Telescope.

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What the Internet is doing to our brains

That is precisely what I said when I was just a very few minutes into plurking.