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AP - Citing "overwhelming" evidence that North Korea sank a South Korean warship, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned the communist state Friday of international consequences.

AP - A push by conservatives to revise Texas public schools' social studies curriculum to amend or water down teaching of the civil rights movement, slavery and America's relationship with the U.N. was scheduled for a vote Friday amid a storm of criticism.

AP - For months, National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair has been a dead man walking — and he knew it. So constant and vicious were the leaks from the White House and Congress of his imminent departure that he opened a recent speech on intelligence reform with a joke that his replacement would be Redskins quarterback Donovan McNabb.

AP - The Obama administration said Friday it's offering $1 billion in seed money to small research firms in the hunt for promising medical breakthroughs.

AP - Tax returns from Florida Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio show that his income grew along with his power in the state House.

AP - Indiana Rep. Mark Souder's time as a member of Congress is over after more than 15 years.

Politico - When Kentucky Republicans cast their lot with Rand Paul, they figured they’d found a genuine outsider who wouldn’t kowtow to the old ways of Washington.

Politico - As it became clear that the Wall Street reform bill would pass in the Senate on Thursday, congressional Democratic leaders began turning their attention to reconciling the House and Senate bills and delivering a final product to the president’s desk by the July 4 holiday.

AP - The Internal Revenue Service on Friday released the guidelines that small companies can use to apply for tax credits to spur medical research.

AP - President Barack Obama will make a renewed push for a greener tomorrow.

Reuters - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Friday he was committed to national reconciliation but made no offer of fresh elections, two days after troops quelled the worst political violence in modern Thai history.