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  • Snighda Nadipati of San Diego wins National Spelling Bee

    Jacquelyn Martin / AP

    Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego is embraced by her brother Sujan Nandipati, after winning the National Spelling Bee on Thursday night.

    AP report: Snigdha Nandipati is the National Spelling Bee champion. The 14-year-old from San Diego spelled guetapens, a French-derived word that means ambush, snare or trap. Calm and collected throughout, she beat out eight other finalists in the nerve-wracking, brain-busting competition.

     Nandipati is an avid reader and coin collector who aspires to become a psychiatrist or neurosurgeon. She plays violin and is fluent in Telugu. She's the 5th consecutive Indian-American winner and 10th in the last 14 years. Read the full story.

    Alex Brandon / AP

    Smart young people from across the nation compete to become the next National Spelling Bee champion.

     

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  • SpaceX's Dragon capsule shows effects of atmospheric re-entry after splashdown

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    Handout image provided by SpaceX on Thursday shows the SpaceX 'Dragon' commercial cargo craft after it was recovered in the Pacific Ocean several hundred miles off the coast of Southern California. The Dragon spacecraft returned to earth after becoming the first private craft ever to reach the orbiting International Space Station.

    Alan Boyle reported in Cosmic Log that the capsule touched down within a mile of its target, according to SpaceX founder Elon Musk:

    When he saw the first pictures of the craft bobbing in the Pacific, he said his reaction was, "Welcome home, baby. ... It's like seeing your kid come home."

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    The private space capsule Dragon returned to Earth from the International Space Station, capping off its historic mission with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. NBC's Mark Barger reports.

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  • Venezuelan soldiers set off explosions to destroy airstrip used by drug traffickers

    Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters

    An aerial view shows a clandestine airstrip used for drug smuggling after it was destroyed in a military operation, approximately 22 miles from the border with Colombia, in the state of Apure on Thursday.

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    A clandestine airstrip used for drug smuggling is destroyed.

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    Venezuelan Interior Minister Tarek El aissami (C) watches the debris of an aircraft during an operation to destroy clandestine airstrip used by drug traffickers in Apure on Thursday. In the frame of the operation "Boquete" (Hole) launched May 26, two presumed traffickers were arrested and 36 clandestine airstrips and 11 aircrafts destroyed.

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  • California environmentalists say logging a burned forest near Tahoe threatens rare woodpecker

    Rich Pedroncelli / AP

    A rare male black-backed woodpecker near its nest in a dead tree on the edge of where the Angora fire burned near South Lake Tahoe, Calif.

    AP reports that conservationists are pressing the US Forest Service to postpone cutting until after nesting season in August:

    “There are some other unlogged areas they could fly to as long as the nest core area was protected, but if that’s gone, the chicks would just starve to death,” said Rachel Fazio, a lawyer for the group who argued their case last May 14 before a three-judge panel at the federal appellate court in San Francisco.

    Fazio said it is ironic that the Forest Service and the Tahoe Institute for Natural Science are co-hosting the third annual Lake Tahoe Bird Festival on Saturday at the Taylor Creek Visitor Center just a few miles from the woodpeckers’ nest.

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    Rich Pedroncelli / AP

    A sign warns hikers they are entering an area that is being cleared of dead trees burned in the 2007 Angora fire near South Lake Tahoe, Calif. Rare woodpecker chicks in burned forest stands at Lake Tahoe won't survive if the U.S. Forest Service proceeds with a contentious post-fire logging project, according to conservationists pressing the agency to postpone cutting around the trees until after the nesting season in August.

    Rich Pedroncelli / AP

    In this photo taken Monday, May 28, 2012, trees that have been cleared as part of a post-fire logging project are seen stacked for removal at the site of the 2007 Angora fire near South Lake Tahoe.

    Rich Pedroncelli / AP

    Chad Hanson, executive director of the John Muir Project, marks a tree, slated to be removed, that holds the nest and chicks of the rare black-backed woodpecker, at the site of the 2007 Angora fire near South Lake Tahoe.

  • Seized shark fins burned in Honduras

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    Some 120 shark dorsal fins seized to fishermen by the navy in the Caribbean Sea are incinerated in Tegucigalpa, on Thursday. Honduras created the first shark sanctuary one year ago.

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    Some 120 shark dorsal fins seized from fishermen by the navy before their incineration in Tegucigalpa.

    The Tico Times reports that environment officials from Costa Rica and Honduras proposed protections for hammerhead sharks:

    Scalloped hammerheads are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). They are in high demand for shark fin soup and account for about 4 percent of all shark fins in international trade.

    Government delegates from the 175 CITES member countries will vote on the hammerhead and other possible shark protection proposals at next year’s meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which will take place March 3-15 in Thailand.

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  • Former President George W. Bush and family join President Obama for portrait unveiling at White House

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    US President Barack Obama, former US president George W. Bush with First Lady Michelle Obama and former First Lady Laura Bush arrive for the unveiling of the Bush's portraits on Thursday in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC.

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    Former President George W. Bush unveils his portrait in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday.

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    Former US president George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush speak during the unveiling of their portraits on Thursday in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC.

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    Former US President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara arrive for the portrait unveiling of former US president George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC.

    Charles Dharapak / AP

    President George W. Bush's daughters Jenna and Barbara have their photo taken in the East Room at the White House in Washington on Thursday prior to the unveiling of President Bush's official portrait.

    President and Mrs. Obama host former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush for the official unveiling of their portraits, which will will hang in the White House.

    This report from NBC's Shawna Thomas includes some of the humor the two presidents shared at the event:

    “When the British burned the White House ... in 1814, Dolly Madison famously saved this portrait of the first George W. Now Michelle, if anything happens, there's your man,” Bush joked. (During her speech, First Lady Michelle Obama promised she’d go straight for his portrait.)

    And former President Bush didn’t spare the current president: “I am also pleased, Mr. President, that when you are wandering these halls as you wrestle with tough decisions, you will now be able to gaze at this portrait and ask: What would George do?

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  • Train derails in India, killing at least five

    Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP

    Officials and locals gather around the fallen compartments of Doon Express, a passenger train which derailed in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh state, India on Thursday. According to news reports at least five people were killed and about fifty others injured after the passenger train which was traveling from Howrah station, near Calcutta city, to Dehradun in the state of Uttarakhand derailed.

    Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP

    A volunteer extends a helping hand to a trapped passenger, who's hand can be seen, inside a fallen compartment of Doon Express, a passenger train which derailed.

    Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP

    Officials inspect the wreckage of the Doon Express.

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  • Large crowds welcome Suu Kyi as she travels Thailand during world tour

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    A supporter of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi holds a portrait of her father and independence hero General Aung San ahead of her arrival at the Bangkok National Verification Centre in Samut Sakhon on the outskirts of Bangkok on May 31. Suu Kyi is on her first trip abroad in 24 years by telling an ecstatic crowd of Myanmar migrants in Thailand she would do all she could to help them.

    Wason Wanichakorn / AP

    Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at a national verification center for Myanmar migrant workers in Samut Sakhon Province, Thailand on May 31.

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    Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is greeted by supporters during a visit to an immigration center in the migrant workers community outside of Bangkok on May 31, in Mahachai, Thailand. Suu Kyi hopes to help improve the rights of Myanmar nationals living in Thailand. The Thailand trip is her first trip outside of Burma in 24 years as she attends the World Economic Forum on East Asia. Previously she was either under house arrest or too fearful to leave her home country incase the government didn't allow her return.

    Sakchai Lalit / AP

    Myanmar migrant workers take pictures with their mobile phones when Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi leaves a center following her visit in Samut Sakhon Province, Thailand on May 31.

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  • Israel returns remains of 91 Palestinian militants

    Mohammed Ballas / AP

    Members of the Palestinian security forces arrange Palestinian flags on coffins containing the remains of bodies of 91 militants transferred from Israel to the Palestinian Authority, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on May 31. Israel transferred the bodies in an effort to induce Palestinian President Mehmoud Abbas to renew negotiations. Palestinian officials said all were killed either while carrying out suicide bombings or other attacks on Israeli targets.

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    Palestinian women mourn during the funeral of 91 Palestinians whose remains were returned by Israel at the Palestinian headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 31. Israel handed over the remains of scores of Palestinian militants killed in attacks against Israel, a Palestinian official said.

    Reuters reports -- The remains of 91 Palestinian militants whose attacks killed hundreds of Israelis over the past 35 years were returned to the West Bank and Gaza on Thursday in a gesture Israel said it hoped could help revive peace efforts. Palestinian leaders, however, signaled no shift in their refusal to negotiate as long as Israel continues building settlements on land where they hope to establish a state.

    The boxed remains of 80 militants were transferred to coffins draped in the Palestinian flag for a solemn ceremony at the official compound in Ramallah of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

    Read the full story: Palestinians honor dead returned by Israel.

    Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters

    Palestinians carry a flag-covered coffin containing the remains of a Palestinian militant outside a hospital morgue in Gaza City on May 31. The remains of 91 Palestinian militants whose attacks killed hundreds of Israelis were returned to the West Bank and Gaza on Thursday in a gesture Israel said it hoped could help revive peace efforts.

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    A Palestinian flag is draped over one of the coffins as Israel returns the corpses of 91 militants, in the Police camp on May 31, in Ramallah, West Bank. The militants, killed during anti-Israeli attacks, were returned despite objections raised by Almagor, a group representing Israeli victims of Palestinian attack. According to officials, some of the militants were killed over 40 years ago. Twelve of the bodies were returned to Gaza.

     

  • In Myanmar, stigma and neglect add to HIV misery

    Damir Sagolj / Reuters

    Ma Jam, a 42 year-old AIDS patient hold hands with 2 year-old HIV positive Kanama at the HIV/AIDS hospice founded by a member of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party in the suburbs of Yangon May 26, 2012. Their plight demonstrates the painful limits of democracy in Myanmar. While the government is pursuing reforms that promise to overhaul its health ministry and other institutions, the process is too slow to bring change to its most destitute. There are few better examples than AIDS sufferers, who due to a combination of poor education, social stigma and bureaucratic mismanagement are isolated in clinics, cut off from society.

    Damir Sagolj / Reuters

    A volunteer measures the blood pressure of HIV-positive patients at the HIV/AIDS hospice founded by a member of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party in the suburbs of Yangon on May 26.

    Damir Sagolj / Reuters

    HIV-positive Eiphyu Khine, whose husband died of AIDS, rests under a mosquito net on May 26.

    Reuters reports -- The mother and child who touch hands in an overcrowded Yangon hospice are not family, but their tragic history begins in the blood. Jam, 42, a mother of six, and Kanama, aged 2, are both HIV positive. Abandoned by their families, they must now find comfort in each other, although Jam still yearns for her husband to return to the private HIV hospice in the suburbs of Myanmar's biggest city.

    "He promised to come back but I'm afraid he never will," said the woman as she burst into tears. She is known in the hospice by her nickname, Jam.

    The hospice is home to 182 HIV patients, whose plight demonstrates the painful limits of Myanmar's new democracy. A reform-minded government has vowed to overhaul a decrepit health system, but little change is likely for HIV/AIDS sufferers, who thanks to social stigma and medical neglect, are shut off in hospices that bring to mind leper colonies.

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    Damir Sagolj / Reuters

    27 year-old HIV-positive Zinmar Nwe, whose husband died of AIDS, bathes at the HIV/AIDS hospice, founded by a member of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party in the suburbs of Yangon on May 26.

    Damir Sagolj / Reuters

    HIV-positive Ei Ei Phyu, who lives at the hospice with his HIV-positive mother, sleeps in a hammock at the HIV/AIDS hospice founded by a member of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party in the suburbs of Yangon on May 26.

  • Vivek Prakash / Reuters

    Demonstrators shout slogans while blocking railway tracks during a protest against the hike in petrol prices in Mumbai, India on May 31, 2012. A nationwide strike forced businesses, public transport, government offices and colleges to shut down in most of India's 28 states.

    Indians protest fuel prices as growth slumps

    Reuters reportsIndia's economic growth slumped to its lowest level in nine years in the first three months of 2012, marking a dramatic slide in the fortunes of a country whose economy was boasting nearly double-digit growth before the global recession.

    The data, which showed that the economy grew 5.3 percent from a year earlier, was released as the rupee plunged to yet another record low and protesters took to the streets across India to demand the scrapping of a steep petrol price hike announced last week. Read the full story.

  • Penguins and politicians: Baltic leaders have a whale of a time at summit

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    The members of the Council of the Baltic Sea States sit under a model of a whale at the Ozeaneum sea museum as they attend the plenary session of the summit on May 31, 2012 in Stralsund, northeastern Germany.

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    German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the summit opening.

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel and heads of government from 11 countries on the Baltic Sea met at the Ozeaneum sea museum in Stralsund, northeastern Germany on Thursday for the second day of a regional summit. 

    See more of our favorite pictures of diplomatic wrangling on PhotoBlog.

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    From left: Valentina Pivnenko, chairwoman of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference, Danish Prime MInister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Iceland's Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, Lithuania's Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius and Finland's Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen feed penguins at the Oceaneum during the summit in Stralsund.

    Guido Bergmann / Pool - Bundesregierung via Reuters

    Merkel, Barroso and other leaders visit one of the oldest harbor pubs in Europe after a dinner at the start of their summit in Stralsund, May 30, 2012.

     

  • Jason Reed / Reuters

    Police officers tackle a fan who invaded the field as Brazil played the U.S. in an international friendly soccer match in Landover, Maryland, on May 30, 2012.

    Fan invades pitch, tries to evade cops as US soccer team struggles against Brazil

    U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann said his team had to get "nastier" after they were defeated 4-1 by Brazil in a friendly match in Landover Wednesday night.

    Read a report on the game at NBCSports.com and see more great sports images in The Week in Sports Pictures slideshow.

    Previously on PhotoBlog: Dutch soccer match abandoned after goalie retaliates against pitch invader.

  • Fly me to the moon

    Patrick Pleul / EPA

    A long lens further enhances the seemingly close juxtaposition of plane and  moon over Falkenhagen, Germany on late Tuesday, May 29, 2012.

  • U.S. marathon runner trains at high altitude for London Olympics

    Lucy Nicholson / Reuters

    U.S. marathon runner Meb Keflezighi trains for the London 2012 Olympics in Mammoth Lakes, Calif. on Wednesday, May 30.

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    U.S. marathon runner Meb Keflezighi trains for the London 2012 Olympics.

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    U.S. marathon runner Meb Keflezighi.

    Olympic silver medalist Meb Keflezighi, 37, is the oldest American ever to qualify for the Olympic marathon. He trains at an altitude of around 9,000 feet in Mammoth to increase his red blood cells and boost his endurance.

  • Oslo catches Bieber Fever

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    Fans use small boats to chase after Justin Bieber in the harbor after his performance at the Norwegian Opera House on May 30, in Oslo, Norway.

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    Fans gather in the harbor prior to Justin Bieber's performance at the Norwegian Opera House on May 30, in Oslo.

    Vegard Groett / AP

    Hordes of young fans gather by the Norwegian Opera waiting for Justin Bieber to hold a outdoor free concert on May 30.

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    Justin Bieber performs live at the Norwegian Opera House.

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    Justin Bieber fans gather at the Norwegian Opera House.

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  • San Diego kisses 'Unconditional Surrender' goodbye

    Gregory Bull / AP

    Sean Farrell, 1, of San Diego, tries to sit on a section of the statue called, "Unconditional Surrender," as the artwork is dismantled from its' spot alongside the USS Midway aircraft carrier museum on May 30, in San Diego.

    Gregory Bull / AP

    A worker approaches the legs of the statue called, "Unconditional Surrender," as the artwork is dismantled from its spot alongside the USS Midway in San Diego.

    "Unconditional Surrender," a 25-foot statue resembling the famous Alfred Eisenstaedt photo of an American sailor kissing a woman in a white dress on V-J Day in Time Square is leaving the San Diego waterfront for restoration in New Jersey.

  • Cubs' Darwin Barney hits ninth inning homer to sweep Padres

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    Darwin Barney of the Chicago Cubs gets ice water dumped on him by Matt Garza after hitting a walk off two run homer in the ninth inning against the San Diego Padres on May 30. The Cubs defeated the San Diego Padres 8-6.

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    Darwin Barney of the Chicago Cubs hits a walk off two run homer in the ninth inning against the San Diego Padres on May 30.

    Darwin Barney hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth to give the Chicago Cubs an 8-6 win over the San Diego Padres on Wednesday.

    Barney launched an offering from Dale Thayer (0-1) into the left-center field bleachers to give the Cubs a three-game sweep.

    --The Associated Press

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  • Seattle police hunt for gunman in fatal shooting near University of Washington

    Elaine Thompson / AP

    Police surround a house in the University district in Seattle near a cafe where a gunman killed several people. The shooting took place about 11 a.m. at Cafe Racer, a restaurant and music venue north of the University of Washington.

    Ted S. Warren / AP

    A gunman opened fire at the Café Racer, a restaurant and music venue in a commercial district near the sprawling University of Washington campus.

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    A picture taken by a surveillance camera shows the suspect in Wednesday's Seattle cafe shooting, according to police.

  • Italy's earthquakes leave economic scars in addition to death toll

    Roberto Serra / Iguana Press - Getty Images

    Buildings damaged by the earthquake on May 30, in Novi di Modena, Italy. Following a second series of strong earthquakes across the Emilia-Romagna region yesterday the death toll has risen to 17 people with more than 15,000 displaced. A further 50 aftershocks were felt during the night, the strongest of which measured 3.54 on the richter scale.

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    The clock tower of Novi di Modena damaged by the earthquake on May 30, in Novi di Modena, Italy.

    Reuters reports:

    Emilia Romagna, one of Italy' richest and most productive regions, was hit by a deadly magnitude 5.8 earthquake and a series of aftershocks on Tuesday, just over a week after a force 6.0 tremor in the same region.

    "The earthquakes in May, which had very serious effects on people's lives, will also have prolonged consequences for some of the most important industrial regions in Italy and for an area with strong manufacturing activity," business lobby Confindustria said in an economic report. Read more.

    Video:  Quake survivor pulled from rubble in Italy

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    Thousands of mature Grana Padano cheeses are exposed and damaged at Latteria Sociale Tullia Pavesi factory on May 30, in Rolo, Italy.

  • Syrians shot while trying to cross border into Lebanon

    Hussein Malla / AP

    A Syrian woman, cries as she carries her injured son who was shot in his hand by the Syrian border guard when they were crossing a river from Syria to Lebanon, at the northern Lebanese-Syrian border town of Wadi Khaled, in Akkar, north Lebanon, Wednesday, May 30. U.N. observers have discovered 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them apparently shot execution-style, the monitoring mission said Wednesday. The announcement comes days after a massacre in Houla, in the central Homs province, which killed more than 100 people and prompted worldwide condemnation against the regime of President Bashar Assad.

    Hussein Malla / AP

    A Lebanese Red Cross volunteer, left, treats a Syrian injured man who was shot in his leg by the Syrian border guard when he was crossing a river from Syria into Lebanon, is seen on the ground, at the northern Lebanese-Syrian border town of Wadi Khaled, in Akkar, north Lebanon, Wednesday May 30.

    MSNBC's Thomas Roberts speaks with NBC Chief Pentagon Correspondent and Ambassador Marc Ginsberg, former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco, about the mounting pressure on the Obama administration to intervene following the massacre in Syria.

     For the latest news from the conflict in Syria click here.

  • 85th National Spelling Bee contestants test their knowledge in preliminary rounds

    Evan Vucci / AP

    Sam Lowery, of Charlestown, Mass., spells his word in the air during round two of the National Spelling Bee onMay 30, 2012 in National Harbor, Md.

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    Alex Howe, 9, of Victorville, Calif,, right, yawns next to Sam T.E. Nitz, 13, of Costa Mesa, Calif., as they compete in the National Spelling Bee on Wednesday

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    Ann Marie Brown, 14, of Hosford, Fla., competes on Wednesday.

    Jacquelyn Martin / AP

    Smart young people from across the nation compete to become the next National Spelling Bee champion.

     From AP:  NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- The 85th National Spelling Bee is under way. Thirteen-year-old Kevin Lazenby of Opelika, Ala., stepped to the microphone Wednesday morning at a convention center outside Washington and correctly spelled "witticism."

    The 278 participants won local and regional spelling bees to make the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Each gets the opportunity to spell two words during Wednesday's preliminary rounds. Their scores will be combined with scores from a 50-word computer test to determine the field of no more than 50 semifinalists.  Read the latest on the contest here.

     

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  • Miners block road in Spain during protest of cuts

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    Demonstrating miners carry a tree trunk to be used in a barricade to block off the N66 national highway in Campomanes, near Oviedo in northern Spain on May 30. Eight Spanish coal miners are staging a protest underground as part of nationwide strike action by unions opposed to cuts in government subsidies to the sector. General Workers Union mining spokesman Victor Fernandez said some 8,000 workers took part in the third of four strike days this month to protest against subsidy reductions from euros 300 million to euros 110 million.

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    A demonstrating miner gestures after he and others blocked off the N66 national highway in Campomanes, near Oviedo in northern Spain on May 30. Eight Spanish coal miners are staging a protest underground as part of nationwide strike action by unions opposed to cuts in government subsidies to the sector.

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    Spanish Civil Guards move in to disperse demonstrating miners in Campomanes, near Oviedo in northern Spain on May 30. Eight Spanish coal miners are staging a protest underground as part of nationwide strike action by unions opposed to cuts in government subsidies to the sector.

     

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