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Hi, I want to change my recent stories section on the upper right side of the home page to only show links to recent stories in one section/category, e.g. latest news. The current code I have is:

<ul >
		<?php query_posts('showposts=7'); ?>
		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
			<li class="whitenews" style="padding:4.2px 0px;"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
		<?php endwhile; ?>
		</ul>

And this brings up the latest stories entered into the site. How can I change this to just show the most recent stories in one category? Thank you.