Dean: One should quit...oil soars anew...Vietnam adoptions ending

Washington (AP) Democrat Party Chairman Howard Dean says the party needs unity to win back the White House in November. And to achieve it, he says either Hillary Rodham CLinton or Barack Obama must drop out of the presidential race in June. Dean isn't saying which candidate should quit, but predicts that he or she won't need to be pushed.

DETROIT (AP) Barack Obama's former pastor says he isn't a politician, but he's trying to set the record straight about who he is and what he stands for. At an NAACP dinner last night, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright said he's not trying to be divisive, but to "describe the conditions in this country."


VIENNA, Austria (AP) Supply concerns are pushing oil prices to new highs. After a weekend refinery strike in Scotland closed a pipeline that delivers a third of Britain's North Sea oil, prices rose to nearly $120 a barrel today.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) The military says U.S. and Afghan troops fought off coordinated insurgent attacks on five military outposts in eastern Afghanistan yesterday. A dozen militants were killed in the fighting and a dozen more wounded. No U.S. or Afghan soldiers were hurt. It happened in a mountainous area where attacks on U.S. bases have been coming nearly daily.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) Accusations of baby-selling and corruption are prompting Vietnam to end its child adoption agreement with the United States. Vietnam says it will stop taking applications from American families after July 1, but will follow through on those that were filed before.

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