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It's a Saturday morning, and entrepreneurs Semaj Rashad, Chris Pollock and Noble Okeke are dressed in suits and ties for their weekly meeting.

Months of honing college essays, meeting application deadlines, filling out financial aid forms, all on top of a full class load that included Advanced Placement English literature, have led James Watkins to this moment.

Teachers of core subjects who do not meet state qualifications in their chosen fields will be replaced at 21 Prince George's County schools under a set of school improvement plans.

AP - The nation's spy court approved a record number of requests to search or eavesdrop on suspected terrorists and spies last year, the Justice Department said Wednesday.

The most revered and beloved Chinese volleyball player at this summer's Olympics might be found sitting on the U.S. sidelines.

Reuters - Wiretaps approved by a secret U.S. court overseeing foreign intelligence rose last year, even as Congress was debating a Bush administration request for more authority to fight terrorism.

AP - A former professor who pleaded guilty to conspiring to aid a Palestinian terrorist group but has refused to testify in a related investigation has ended a nearly two-month hunger strike, his supporters said Wednesday.

AP - A House committee approved legislation Wednesday that would require the Bush administration to certify that North Korea had dismantled its nuclear weapons program before it could be removed from the State Department's list of terror-exporting countries.

The rising cost of oil and other commodities is making life harder for consumers in the West, but many emerging nations get richer.

AFP - The West faces its "greatest terrorist threat" from a revamped Al-Qaeda movement using a new safe haven in Pakistan to increase attacks there and elsewhere, the US government warned Wednesday.