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SPACE CENTER, Houston -- After three days of uncertainty, NASA said Monday a piece of broken wing found last week was from space shuttle Columbia's left side -- where all the problems appear to have begun in the final minutes of the doomed flight. Nation in brief: Budget raises rents for poor WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is proposing to increase rents charged to thousands of poor people who receive federal housing aid. Susan Taylor Martin: Hussein, big threat? Look around Since Sept. 10, 2001, here's the number of Americans known to have been killed by Pakistanis: three. U.S. asks theologian to speak up for war ROME -- In an unusual effort to counter increasingly fierce criticism by the Vatican against a war in Iraq, the U.S. government hosted a theologian here Monday who argued that a military strike against Saddam Hussein would meet the definition of a "just war" in Catholic doctrine. Fighting terror: Charity chief's plea deal avoids terror link WASHINGTON -- The leader of one of American's biggest Muslim charities, depicted by federal prosecutors as one of Osama bin Laden's principal financiers, struck an 11th-hour plea agreement on Monday without admitting any ties to al-Qaida or terrorism. America counts its pets, too WASHINGTON -- Here's the truth about cats and dogs: Canines rule in American households, though just barely. Winter, global tensions driving up energy costs WASHINGTON -- Prices for heating oil and gasoline are soaring and likely to keep rising as energy markets cope with a colder than expected winter, the loss of Venezuela's production and worries about war with Iraq. Digestive disease called surprisingly common CHICAGO -- Celiac disease, a severe digestive disorder triggered by gluten in wheat and other grains, is more common among Americans than previously thought, affecting more than 1.5-million people, a study suggests. National headlines World headlines Science headlines
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