Iowa CITY, Iowa (AP) Buildings on the University of Iowa's campus have as much as eight feet of water in them, as Iowa City waits for the Iowa River to finally start receding. In Illinois, riverfront towns are bracing for flooding from the Mississippi River later in the week.

Washington (AP) If the two companies agree to some conditions, the head of the Federal Communications Commission is OK with the 5-billion-dollar merger between XM Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio. Among the conditions is a three-year price freeze for their subscribers.

TURLOCK, Calif. (AP) Investigators are trying to establish the relationship between a 27-year-old man and the child he brutally murdered Saturday night in northern California. Police shot and killed the man when he wouldn't stop kicking, punching and stomping the toddler a dark, country road.

NEW YORK (AP) Three people are dead after a suspicious fire tore through a three-story building Sunday in New York. People with clothes and hair on fire jumped out of windows to escape.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) The U.N. says Saudi Arabia's oil minister plans to increase oil production by 200,000 barrels a day next month. Saudi Arabia is concerned that if oil prices stay too high, it would eventually reduce the world's demand, which would hurt the kingdom in the long run.

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