Arizona Wildfire Triggers New Evacuation Orders

More than 2,000 firefighters from several states battled a 287-square-mile wildfire in eastern Arizona that forced the evacuation of mountain communities and the closure of roads and a key highway as it burned its way through dry timber and brush.

Fire officials said late Sunday night that the blaze expanded by several thousand acres during the day and had reached 184,000 acres, the third largest in the state's history.

About 2,300 firefighters are in the scene, including many from several western states and as far away as New York, fire information officer Peter Frenzen said.

Crews have been converging on the fire site, 160 miles east of Phoenix, since it erupted nine days ago but so far there is zero containment.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/06/06/136997122/arizona-wildfire-triggers-new-evacuation-orders?ft=1&f=1003

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Obama Has a Losing Re-Election Strategy

Conn Carroll, DC ExaminerIt was supposed to be a celebration. President Obama visited an Ohio Chrysler factory Friday where he planned to tout the end of government ownership in the auto company and the success of his economic record generally. But facts got in the way of both.Hours before Obama touched down in Toledo, the Department of Labor released its monthly jobs report, showing that the economy created an anemic 54,000 jobs in May, sending the nation's unemployment rate up to 9.1 percent.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/06/06/obama_has_a_losing_re-election_strategy_256772.html

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Al-Qaida Commander's Death Increasingly Certain

A Pakistani security official said Sunday that the weekend reports of Ilyas Kashmiri's death were "95 percent confirmed," as authorities have checked with various sources. It's unlikely authorities will ever find the body to reach 100 percent certainty; militants usually quickly dispose of colleagues' corpses.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/06/05/136973195/al-qaida-commanders-death-increasingly-certain?ft=1&f=1004

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Charting the Local Universe

Astronomers speaking at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society have released the most complete 3-D map of our local universe to date, charting the location of galaxies out to 380 million light-years away. Karen Masters of the University of Portsmouth describes the 2MASS Redshift Survey project and its goals.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/06/03/136925549/charting-the-local-universe?ft=1&f=1007

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