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Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says that locals in an area about 35 miles north of Baghdad tipped off the government to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's location several weeks ago. That information was then passed along to U.S. officials, who used it to kill Zarqawi and seven associates with an airstrike Wednesday.

Two major shoe companies have much at stake as World Cup soccer play begins. Nike, which made deals with Brazilian stars, is trying to put a dent in Adidas' long-standing dominance of the soccer market.

A commission on American prisons offers a report to the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday. Among the group's findings: Violence is an enormous problem, and health care is a disaster. The panel recommends an end to institutional secrecy that has permitted prisons to evade oversight for decades.

Over the past three years, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had emerged as the most feared figure in Iraq. The man reported killed in an air raid Wednesday was the suspected mastermind behind many of the kidnappings, beheadings and bombings that followed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

A new book skewers today's mindless corporate culture via the e-mails of Martin Lukes, a fictitious, ambitious, forty-something middle manager who works for a company that makes nothing in particular.

Commentator Frank Deford reverses years of criticism about soccer with an appreciation of the game's global popularity. And he ponders the imponderable: A U.S. victory.

Republican Brian Bilbray emerges victorious in the fight for the suburban San Diego House seat once held by jailed Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Bilbray narrowly beat Democrat Francine Busby, a local school board member, in a special election.

President Bush voices support for tightened border security on visits to New Mexico and Texas. But Republicans are resisting the president's call for an immigration bill that would give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship.

Canada is throwing its doors wide open to new immigrants, making it easier and cheaper to enter the country. But the U.S. State Department says relaxed security screening in Canada poses a threat to the United States. One of Canada's top spies agrees.

Congresswoman Jane Harman of the 36th District is one of the best-known Democratic hawks in the country. But that visibility has made her vulnerable to a challenge from antiwar activists in her liberal Southern California district's upcoming primary. Rachael Myrow of member station KPCC in Los Angeles reports.