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What are the challenges associated with creating a large-scale water recycling facility in San Diego? We speak to Marsi Stierer, with the San Diego Public Utilities Department, about what the city is doing to explore the possibility of expanding its water reclamation program in the future. We also talk to Bruce Reznik, with San Diego Coastkeeper, about why he thinks we'll need to use more recycled water in the future. And, we talk to Mike Markus, from the Orange County Water District, about why their groundwater replenishment system is unique.

A House committee has voted to condemn the killing of more than 1 million Armenians in Turkey in World War I, explicitly calling the event "genocide." The Turkish government opposes the resolution — as does the Bush administration, which warns that relations with a key ally could be damaged.

New studies show that Gardisil, Merck's new vaccine against human papilloma virus, is highly effective for women who've never been exposed to HPV. The drug protects against the viruses that cause 70 percent of cervical cancer cases.

The U.S. Senate ended debate on an offshore drilling bill yesterday. The bill would open up a vast area of the Gulf of Mexico to new drilling leases. Democratic California Senators Barbara Boxer and D

The six foreign-born men accused of a plot to attack the Army base at Fort Dix, N.J., led seemingly ordinary American lives in Cherry Hill, N.J., the FBI says. But a copy of a video shows them firing assault weapons and praising jihad.

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President Bush announces late Friday he is using his recess appointment power to name Alabama Attorney General William Pryor to a federal appeals court, circumventing the opposition to Pryor by Democrats in the U.S. Senate. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

The cancellation of Pfizer's drug torcetrapib highlights the difficulties facing an industry that has been extraordinarily successful over the past decade. A slew of blockbusters are losing patent protection, pipelines for new drugs are empty and the companies are struggling to refill them.

A federal appeals court upholds the government's national "do not call" registry banning telemarketing calls to some 57 million phone numbers. The court decision rejects arguments from telemarketing companies that the list violates free-speech rights. Hear NPR's Chris Arnold.

The jury in Zacarias Moussaoui's sentencing trial decides that he is eligible for the death penalty. Moussaoui was defiant in the face of the ruling, yelling out in court, "You will never get my blood." In the next phase of the proceedings, the jury will hear more testimony and decide whether Moussaoui should receive the death penalty or life in prison.