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bailouts -- a victory for Spain and Italy, both of which they have done much already to clean up their economies, though they insist they don't want bailouts. The move is also a sign that Germany may be easing in its insistence on brutal austerity measures in exchange for loans.
• Leaders of the full 27-member European Union, which includes non-euro countries such as Britain and Poland, also agreed to a long-term plan for a tighter budgetary and political union.
• The scale of the moves were unexpected and provided investors a reason for optimism, even as analysts cast doubt on the plans' feasibility and noted that other fundamental problems with the common currency remain.
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• COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- After waiting for two days, Rebekah and Byron Largent learned from lists distributed by authorities that their home was among the hundreds that burned to the ground in the most destructive wildfire ever to rage across Colorado.
• It was especially hurtful as their house was destroyed on their daughter Emma's first birthday.
• "Our minds just started sifting through all the memories of that house that we lost that can't be replaced," Rebekah Largent said Thursday night. She remembered her wedding dress, a grandmother's china, the rocking chair where the couple would sit

with Emma.
• "Our little girl, our 1-year-old daughter, that's the house that she's lived in the longest. It's just really hard to have lost a lot of the memories connected to that, you know? They just burned," she said.
• Officials said the Waldo Canyon fire that forced tens of thousands to flee this city 60 miles south of Denver destroyed an estimated 346 homes and left at least one person dead.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- After being derided as a "do-nothing" Congress, the House and Senate were poised to vote on a massive legislative package that over

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