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A man with a rifle opened fire at a festival outside a Southern California church Saturday, wounding three people, one of them critically, police said. The suspect taunted bystanders before he was subdued by an off-duty police officer, CNN affilliate KTLA reported.

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More than 3,000 people were evacuated in Lafayette, Louisiana, on Saturday after two of six derailed train cars containing highly corrosive hydrochloric acid began leaking, authorities said Saturday.

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Sen. Edward Kennedy was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital today after spending less than an hour in the Cape Cod Hospital emergency room, a spokesman for the Cape Cod facility told CNN. A well-informed, prominent Democratic source in Massachusetts told CNN that the 76-year-old senator seemed to have "symptoms of a stroke."

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Six Baha'i leaders in Iran were seized and imprisoned this week, the religious group said. The act prompted condemnation and concern from the movement and a top American religious freedom panel.

The NAACP has chosen Ben Jealous as its new president, members of its board of directors said Saturday.

Zimbabwe's opposition leader has canceled his return to Harare from South Africa after receiving information from a "credible source" about what his party said was a planned assassination.

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Rescuers in China held out hope for finding more survivors from this week's devastating earthquake, buoyed by news Saturday of the rescue of a German tourist. China's official news agency Xinhua also reported that soldiers dug out another man who was buried in ruins for 117 hours.

Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan Tariq Azizudin has been freed three months after he was abducted in the Pakistan's tribal region while traveling to the Afghan capital of Kabul, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said.

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Where do fighter pilots traveling faster than the speed of sound go when they really need to "go"?

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An Iraqi photographer working for Reuters was hospitalized Friday after police beat him at the scene of a bombing, officials told CNN.

After concerns that Myanmar authorities improperly took some previous relief supplies, Myanmar is now allowing U.S. government aid workers to give aid directly to private aid groups.

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"American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest talked with Larry King on Thursday about next week's finale. The show is down to its last two contestants: David Archuleta and David Cook.