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A close, contentious California primary race was finally decided early Wednesday morning. State Treasurer Phil Angelides won the Democratic nomination for governor, narrowly beating out Controller Steve Westly. Angelides will run against Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in the fall.

Biden said Thursday he was sending paperwork to Congress to ratify Finland and Sweden's application to join NATO. The ratification process is expected to pass with bipartisan support.

Four Republican senators are at odds with the White House over proposed legislation on terrorism suspects. The White House does not like a version of the bill passed by the GOP-controlled Senate Armed Services Committee. The Bush administration's goal of signing a measure into law before mid-term elections now seems in doubt.

A pair of 21-year-old twin Brazilian violinists are working their way out of poverty by playing classical music. Wagner and Walter Caldas grew up in a poor neighborhood near Rio de Janeiro. The brothers make their American debut this week, performing with their orchestra for the Brazil Foundation in New York City.

The deadliest Hezbollah rocket attack since fighting began on July 12 left ten Israelis dead Sunday morning. The victims, soldiers from a reserve unit, were hit on the parking lot of a communal farm in northeastern Israel. Israel today also continued ground and air attacks on Lebanon, killing at least 17 people.

President Bush faced an unexpected rebellion from some of his fellow Republicans in the Senate on Thursday. Members of the Armed Services committee passed a bill creating military courts for suspected terrorists, in a move that is significantly different from the legislation the Bush administration proposed.

At 26, Liang Wang is new on the job as principal oboe with the New York Philharmonic. He makes his own reeds, spending hours each day hand-crafting the essential equipment with incredible precision.

Over the past three years, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had emerged as the most feared figure in Iraq. The man reported killed in an air raid Wednesday was the suspected mastermind behind many of the kidnappings, beheadings and bombings that followed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

July's presidential election left the nation almost equally divided between a leftist who wants to renegotiate NAFTA to protect farmers, and a conservative who wants to encourage more free trade deals. But treaties alone aren't the only source of Mexico's economic woes.

Voters across the West will consider initiatives this November to bar state governments from seizing private property through eminent domain. But opponents are most concerned about the initiatives' "regulatory takings" provision, which would allow compensation for the lost value of land affected by environmental regulations.