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Edgar Millan Gomez, Mexico's acting chief of the federal police, was shot dead outside his home in Mexico City Thursday. Coordinator of anti-drug operations within the Mexican military, he was the third police official killed in the past week.

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Host Renee Montagne has a remembrance of singer Eddy Arnold. He died Thursday, days short of his 90th birthday. One of his most famous songs is Make the World Go Away.

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Tanks and missiles rolled across Red Square for the first time since the end of communism during the annual Victory Day parade Friday. Despite the show, experts say the Russian military is in a dreadful state, crippled by widespread corruption, brutal beating of conscripts and a lack of equipment.

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The U.S. House passed a huge homeowner rescue package Thursday to provide cheaper, government-backed mortgages to a half-million debt-ridden borrowers.

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