| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Taliban: Blast was retaliation for burning | | Authorities say a suicide bomber detonated a car full of explosives Monday near a NATO-led International Security Assistance Force base at Jalalabad airport in eastern Afghanistan, an attack that follows a week of deadly violence spurred by the burning of Qurans at a U.S. base. |
| Rain delays Daytona 500 | | NASCAR will battle the elements again Monday -- a day after rain postponed the Daytona 500 for the first time in its 53-year history. |
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