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With California on edge as a heat wave threatened to worsen firefighting efforts, hundreds of people north of the state capital evacuated Tuesday after a fire shifted direction. Full story

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Twister destroys homes, lightning kills boy

Receding floodwaters give up trove of debris

2nd Mount McKinley climber dies in a week

Family, admirers lay Helms to rest

Fire crews try to 'adjust' to longer season

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Justice Breyer among victims in data breach

Hundreds flee shifting Calif. fire

Town split over teacher accused of preaching

Judge to White House: Gitmo gets top priority

Receding floodwaters give up trove of debris

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Town split over teacher accused of preaching

Settlements reached in clergy abuse suits

Patriarch of outlawed church dies

British Muslims feel like 'the Jews of Europe'

Newsweek: Obama's secular faith-based challenge

NYT: Obama courts evangelicals once loyal to Bush

Polygamists offer prairie fashions for sale

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Slide show: Newsmaker Farewells
From Boris Yeltsin to Evel Knievel, a look at newsmakers and top sports figures who died in 2007.

The Year in Pictures 2007

MSNBC.com's top stories of 2007

Interactive: The TODAY show's top stories of 2007

The Year in Video 2007

The Year in Cartoons: Drawn conclusions

The Year in Sports Pictures 2007

Celizic: 2007 the best of years, the worst of years

To see complete Year in Review section, click here

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Baby rescued from dogfight
July 8: Police and a teenage neighbor armed with a baseball bat race to the rescue of a baby trapped inside a room with two fighting dogs in Texas. KPRC-TV's Daniella Guzman reports.

Man paints house neon in protest

Pringles not potatoes, U.K. judge rules

Webster’s newest words

Girls rule the Web

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NBC Field Notes

NBC News correspondents and producers across the U.S. shed light on the news of the day.

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Rising from Ruin
MSNBC.com follows two towns as they rebuild after Katrina. Follow their progress through on-going stories and citizen diaries.

Multimedia: Katrina's lasting damage

MSNBC.com	Southern Louisiana rebuilds Visit areas around New Orleans to compare how they were faring two years after Katrina to the immediate aftermath of the storm.
	Gulf Coast's struggle A lifelong resident revisits areas that had been devastated by the storm, and shares how they looked days after the storm and two years later.

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