• Overriding child health veto unlikely

• Pentagon to alert 8 Guard units for duty

• Senators want answers from Mukasey

International

• Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan

• Putin criticizes U.S. campaign in Iraq

ODD & extraordinary

• Man, 70, accused of daily gas thefts

• Skull lifted from anthropology class

• Woman pleads not guilty in ashes theft

• NYC woman finds python in the toilet

• Lawyer says man sorry for beheading duck

Politics

• Obama: What, me worry?

• Giuliani's conservative support tenuous

Science

• Program helps protect Alaskan humpbacks

• Russia launches ballistic missile

Other

• Pentagon to resolve Minn. benefits case

• Blackwater likely to be out of Iraq

• Chief of terror-fighting center steps down

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