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The California Air Resources Board announces its plan to reduce air pollution at the state's ports. Nationwide, ports account for a large and growing proportion of a dangerous kind of air pollution: soot from diesel engines. California is leading the way in trying to reduce the problem.

Thomas Barrack, who chaired the former president's inauguration committee, has been arrested on federal charges that he acted as an agent of a foreign government.

The federal government is expected to pay $24 billion in farm subsidies this year. Critics, including quite a few farmers, say taxpayers shouldn't pay for corn or cotton surpluses. Instead, they say the funds should go toward things that benefit the public, such as cleaner water and a healthier environment.

Israel's Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resigns from his post in protest of Israel's planned pullout from the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appointed Vice Premier Ehud Olmert to replace Netanyahu.

A new anthology of fiction was published on World AIDS Day in response to the global epidemic. Conceived and edited by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Nadine Gordimer, Telling Talesfeatures stories from 21 distinguished authors. All profits will go to medical and advocacy programs on AIDS. NPR's Jennifer Ludden speaks with Gordimer.

A kindergarten class in Stone Harbor, N.J., recently set free 18 orphaned turtles it raised from eggs. They're part of a program that has saved thousands of diamond terrapin turtles over 20 years.

The Senate’s bill has been updated to give Tribes more time to plan out pilot projects and will now head to the House.

The famed New York opera house said Thursday that the soprano will not appear there this season or next, after she declined to distance herself from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out," the South Carolina Republican said. Democrats and Republicans denounced the suggestion.

For the crowds that have streamed across the border at the Medyka border crossing into Poland, they leave behind the air raid sirens and the sounds of war and are welcomed by musician Davide Martello.