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They cover the country, and drive to do it. So where do The Times’s national correspondents (and their editor) like to hit the road? Here are some of their favorite stretches.

ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - At least 22 al Qaeda-linked militants and 12 Yemeni soldiers were killed in clashes and air strikes overnight during a U.S.-backed offensive against insurgents in the south of the country, officials said on Saturday.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A car bomb killed nine people at a Syrian military post in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday, an attack the government said was the latest proof that an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad was a foreign plot.

The engines on a private cargo rocket bound for the International Space Station had ignited, but computers detected a discrepancy and shut them down.

The emergence of a new, more extreme insurgent faction could trouble any efforts to restart the peace process.

An explosion in front of a southern Italian school killed a 16-year-old student, bringing to mind the terrorists that kept the country under siege in the 1970s and 1980s.

Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal advocate whose escape from house arrest jolted relations between the United States and China, left Beijing on Saturday.

CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - World leaders backed keeping Greece in the euro zone on Saturday and vowed to take all steps necessary to combat financial turmoil while revitalizing a global economy increasingly threatened by Europe's debt crisis.

The terror suspects were plotting to attack President Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters, the Chicago mayor's home and police stations, police said.

Trans-Atlantic tension in JPMorgan Chase’s chief investment office in 2010 and 2011 contributed to the unit’s giant losing trades in 2012, current and former bankers said.

There is one hospital in Kabul that treats anyone, from any side, no questions asked. The horrors of the war blow through its doors every day.

Three men were planning to attack the campaign headquarters of President Obama and the house of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, among other targets in Chicago, prosecutors said Saturday.

CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of Eight major economies raised the pressure on Iran on Saturday, signaling their readiness to tap into emergency oil stockpiles quickly this summer if tougher new sanctions on Tehran threaten to strain supplies.

A Dan Girardi power-play goal and Henrik Lundqvist’s 36 saves helped the Rangers take a 2-1 lead over the Devils in their playoff series.

(Reuters) - Google said on Saturday that Chinese authorities have approved its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings, the last regulatory hurdle to a deal that would allow the world's No. 1 Internet search engine to develop its own line of smart phones.

Mary Kennedy, the wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was remembered in Bedford, N.Y., as a woman who had almost boundless gifts even as she struggled with demons.

That's Dorothy Cooper, who you've met before. She's 96 years old and almost wasn't going to be able to vote this year because stringent new voter identification laws passed in her state, Tennessee, intended to, well, keep people from her like voting. Because her story made news, she got some attention and help from a powerful source.

Obama for America volunteers helped secure Mrs. Cooper's identification and is featuring her in GottaVote.org, a new tool developed by the Obama campaign designed to help residents in every state navigate the increasingly complicated voter registration process. In an email announcing the new site, the campaign writes:

GottaVote.org is a one-stop shop for getting the facts on voting, reminders for key dates and deadlines, and alerts on the status of voting rights in your state. It’s available in both English and Spanish (www.gottavote.org/es) because different languages shouldn’t keep Americans from voting. The portal provides voters detailed state-by-state information on how and when to register. By providing a phone number and email address, you can get reminders of when to register. Additionally, it gives volunteer attorneys a convenient way to become "victory counsels" to help voter protection efforts across the country. It also has a Tumblr where voters can ask process questions.

It took Mrs. Cooper five pieces of documentation, and the assistance of willing volunteers, but she secured her vote for November. There could be as many as five million Dorothy Coopers in America, citizens who will be denied the vote in the relentless Republican campaign to cheat another election.

Congressional Democrats have gotten in on the action, too. This week they introduced the Voter Empowerment Act, comprehensive legislation that would extend voting rights for all Americans. It would:

modernize our voter registration system, ensure equal access to the ballot box for all Americans and prohibit voter caging and other deceptive practices that keep people from exercising their constitutional right to vote. The bill will protect voters from restrictive voting measures that have been enacted in states across the country over the last year. These measures make it harder for millions of eligible voters to register or vote, and disproportionally affect our service members, the disabled, minorities, young people, seniors, and low-income Americans. There are few more compelling reasons to work to get Nancy Pelosi back in the speaker's chair and to keep the Senate and White House next year than seeing this law enacted.

For more of the week's news, make the jump below the fold.

Leaders of the Group of 8 nations, convened at Camp David, banded together on Saturday to press Germany to back more pro-growth policies to halt Europe’s deepening debt crisis.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Cuban first daughter Mariela Castro is planning to meet with San Francisco's lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual community during a U.S. visit next week that is being opposed by some Cuban-American politicians.

The San Francisco LGBT Center said Friday that it would host the meeting Wednesday night, the day before Castro is scheduled to lead a panel at a conference organized by the Latin American Studies Association.

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