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(Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

1.	Republican pundits open fire on Sarah Palin
2.	As the Hollywood machine abandons L.A., its supporting workers struggle
3.	Lance Armstrong rides again? Maybe so
4.	The end of Obamania
5.	Marking the 50th anniversary of the first U.S. nuclear meltdown

Thursday: The day in photos

Running with the bulls in Pamplona

Remembering Michael Jackson

Military operation in Afghanistan's Helmand province

Fans mourn Michael Jackson

Marines in an Afghan province

Gola Akar lifts his native shalwar kameez at the demand of an Afghan interpreter to ensure that he is not carrying weapons or wearing a suicide vest before surrounding Marines enter his compound to assess damage done during a month of fighting between Taliban forces and the Marines in the largely rural area of Garmser in Afghanistan's Helmand province.