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US-HOLOCAUST MUSEUM SHOOTING
WASHINGTON _ An 88-year-old gunman with a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past opens fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot himself by other officers, authorities say. By Nafeesa Syeed and David Espo.
WITH: US-HOLOCAUST MUSEUM SHOOTING-SUSPECT, US-HOLOCAUST MUSEUM SHOOTING-GUARD.
UN-NORTH KOREA
UNITED NATIONS _ Western powers have reached agreement with North Korea's key allies on a proposal that would impose tough new sanctions on the reclusive communist nation's weapons exports and financial dealings, and allow inspections of suspect cargo in ports and on the high seas. By Edith M. Lederer.
US-NORTH KOREA-ANALYSIS
WASHINGTON _ The U.N.'s newly toughened penalties on North Korea for its nuclear defiance could hit hardest in an area that worries American officials the most: the North's illicit exports of nuclear and missile technologies. By National Security Writer Robert Burns.
BRAZIL PLANE
RECIFE, Brazil _ French nuclear submarine is scouring the Alantic Ocean, hunting for the black boxes of Air France Flight 447 before the pings of the data and voice recorders fade away. By Marco Sibaja and Emma Vandore.
GUANTANAMO-SUICIDE
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico _ Almost five months before he was found dead at Guantanamo Bay, a detainee volunteered to represent prisoners in talks with the military and left his jailhouse for a meeting with the detention camp's most senior commanders. But he never returned _ from then on, he was held in the prison's psychiatric ward, a former detainee recalled. By Andrew O. Selsky.
PERU-AMAZON PROTESTS
LIMA, Peru _ Peru's Congress indefinitely suspends two key legislative decrees that spurred the Amazon Indian protests that erupted in bloodshed during a government crackdown last week. By Franklin Briceno.
DRUG WAR-MEXICO
MEXICO CITY _ First local police in Monterrey lost their assault rifles after an armed confrontation with federal agents while protesting the arrest of cops for alleged gang ties. Now officers in Mexico's third-largest city will be stripped of cell phones to prevent corrupt officers from tipping off gangs. By Julie Watson.
SWINE FLU-LATIN AMERICA
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina _ Argentines worried they may have swine flu have overwhelmed some emergency medical services at the onset of the South American winter flu season, health officials say. By Vicente L. Panetta.
US-SPACE SHUTTLE
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida _ NASA is aiming to launch the space shuttle on Saturday morning to the international space station for a long, laborious construction job

. When Endeavour pulls up, there will be 13 people at the station _ the most people ever together in space at one time. By Marcia Dunn.
AP Photo KSC102.
US-GUANTANAMO DETAINEE
NEW YORK _ The arrival of the first Guantanamo detainee for a U.S. trial led federal prosecutors to dust off a 150-page indictment that made Osama bin Laden a fugitive and introduced al-Qaida to Americans in the weeks before the 2001 terrorism attacks. By Larry Neumeister.
UN-GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT
UNITED NATIONS _ The next president of the U.N. General Assembly will be a Libyan politician, marking another step for the once-isolated country as it seeks an increasingly larger role in world affairs. By John Heilprin.
AP Photo AJM142.
US-MYANMAR
WASHINGTON _ President Barack Obama's choice as the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia says the United States is interested in considering a possible relaxation of its long-standing policy of isolation against military-run Myanmar. By Foster Klug.


BUSINESS & FINANCE
US-THE NEW CHRYSLER
DETROIT _ Chrysler was reborn Wednesday under a new Italian parent, but it can't shake the shadows of its past: It's not selling enough cars, its fleet is tilted to trucks and sport utility vehicles, and help is more than a year away. By Tom Krisher.
AP Photos NYBZ175, CAPS103, CAPS105, NYBZ181, GFX999. AP Graphic CHRYSLER OWNERSHIP.
US-HONDA-50TH ANNIVERSARY
NEW YORK _ June 11 marks 50 years of Honda Motor Co.'s presence in the U.S. The Japanese automaker got its start in the U.S. by importing affordable, well-built gas sippers like the Civic and the Accord. But the company is likely to face new challenges amid the upheaval in the auto industry, as automakers _ foreign and domestic _ encroach on the small-car market that Honda has long dominated. By Dan Strumpf.
FEATURES
US-SAN ANTONIO RIVER WALK
SAN ANTONIO _ For decades, the channel of the San Antonio River north of the popular restaurants and retail shops downtown was overgrown and blighted _ the kind of place tourists went only if they made a wrong turn. But not anymore. A $72 million overhaul _ essentially doubling the size of the River Walk _ has transformed the dry weed-choked eyesore north of the River Walk into a 1 1/2-mile manicured waterway with whimsical art, benches and fountains that can be passed on foot or by water taxi en route to attractions upriver. By Michelle Roberts. AP Photos NY412-417
US-UNPROVEN REMEDIES-RESEARCH
BETHESDA, Maryland _ Ten years ago the U.S. government set out to test herbal and other alternative health remedies to find the ones that work. After spending $2.5 billion, the disappointing answer seems to be that almost none of them do. Echinacea for colds, ginkgo biloba for memory, glucosamine and chondroitin for arthritis. All proved no better than dummy pills in big government studies. By Marilynn Marchione. AP Photos NY579-582
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