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Traffic moves along northbound Interstate 5 through Seattle, Wash. Washington joined two cities, 17 other states and 11 environmental groups in suing the EPA to enforce the Clean Air Act in regards to carbon dioxide release by burning fossil fuels. (Photo by Ralph Radford / AP)

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FAA lax with airlines, whistle-blowers say

Government officials have blocked enforcement of safety rules at major airlines for years because they have a cozy relationship with the companies, according to U.S. inspectors.

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USA Today

Bernanke sees risk of economic downturn

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the U.S. economy could shrink in the first half of the year — the closest that the nation's central bank chief has yet come to proclaiming a recession.

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CNNMoney

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Recession is possible

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Reuters

States suing EPA to move on global warming

A coalition of states is suing the Bush administration to force it to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that rebuked what justices called inaction on global warming.

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MSNBC

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National Geographic

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Life in the 'burbs: heavy costs for families, climate

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NPR

Mugabe loses control of parliament, Tsvangirai triumphs

Zimbabwe’s opposition party declared its leader Morgan Tsvangirai the rightful winner of the presidential election as official results showed Robert Mugabe’s party had lost control of the parliament.

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Times Online

No admission fee for celestial animals

A special treat comes early when, on the evening of April 8, the new moon spends three hours passing across the face of the Pleiades star cluster.

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Houston Chronicle

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Queen's University Belfast astronomers help find planets

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BBC

NATION

Bush to finish border fence

The Bush administration plans to use its authority to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest U.S. border.

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CBS News

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Where US-Mexico border fence is tall, border crossings fall

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Christian Science Monitor

Breakthrough on housing

Senate Democrats and Republicans are edging closer to a bipartisan housing bill after a surprise breakthrough on the top issue facing Congress.

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The Hill

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FBI says parachute does not belong to D.B. Cooper

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Yahoo! News

POLITICS

Congress hits big oil companies

Top executives of the biggest U.S. oil companies were pressed to explain soaring fuel prices amid huge industry profits and why they were not investing to develop renewable energy sources.

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CBS News

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Clinton, Obama take on Big Oil

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CNN

Special section:

Obama's oil spill

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Newsweek

Pentagon releases 2003 'torture memo' justifying harsh interrogation tactics

The Pentagon has released a declassified 2003 Justice Department memo that claimed the president's wartime authority trumps any international ban on torture.

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Fox News

Top Dems seek nominee deal by July 1

Democratics in Congress, fearing a messy fight at the convention, are coalescing around the idea that uncommitted superdelegates should announce which candidate they support early this summer.

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The Hill

BUSINESS

Controversy continues over Air Force and Northrop Grumman contract

The U.S. Air Force surprised many observers by awarding one of the largest procurement contracts in history to Northrop Grumman over its favored rival Boeing.

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Forbes

Dow closes up nearly 400 points

Wall Street began the second quarter with a big rally as investors rushed back into stocks, optimistic that the worst of the credit crisis has passed and that the economy is faring better than expected.

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ABC News

SPORTS

Tigers closing in on Yankees' payroll

The Detroit Tigers opened the season with a payroll of $137.7 million, the largest increase from 2007, according to USA TODAY's 24th annual survey of player salaries.

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USA Today

Special section:

2008 baseball millionaires

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ESPN

NFL approves helmet headsets for defensive players

National Football League owners approved communications devices for defensive players.

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HEALTH

Autism still a mystery

April is Autism Awareness Month, when doctors make us aware of how little they know about autism. They can't define it, can't say what causes it, and can't even determine if the rates are truly climbing.

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LiveScience

Mom wins fight for autism insurance

Most medical insurance policies generally don't cover autism treatment. One lawyer-mom whose son has autism decided to fight for coverage.

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CNN

EDUCATION

A subprime schooling

Add another group to those feeling the impact of the U.S. subprime mortgage meltdown: students and educators.

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Forbes

Hard-working Ind. students ‘C’ red over grade glitch

A computer malfunction wiped out a month’s worth of grades at three high schools and a middle school, causing both sighs of relief and moans of frustation.

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Big cities battle dismal graduation rates

Seventeen of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland.

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CBS News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Karl Rove):

The Dems' knife fight

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Newsweek

Column (Juan Cole):

Why al-Maliki attacked Basra

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Salon.com

Column (Dahlia Lithwick):

Barack Obama has gotten past affirmative action. Have we?

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Slate

Bush heeds lesson of Sarbanes-Oxley

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San Diego Union-Tribune

Column (DeWayne Wickham):

Why Clinton is right to stay in the race

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USA Today

Column (Brendan O'Neill):

The Chinese burden?

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Guardian

Gathering together a fractured alliance

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International Herald Tribune

Column (Michelle Malkin):

Poisoned campuses

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Plan to fix America’s financial regulation

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Economist

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GOOD NEWS

World views US 'more positively'

A BBC World Service poll suggests a slightly more positive view of the United States around the world.

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BBC

Fasting reduces chemo side-effects

A few days of fasting might help protect patients from some of the unpleasant and dangerous side-effects of cancer chemotherapy, researchers reported.

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Yahoo! News

WORLD

Bush prods NATO for Afghan help

President Bush renewed calls for NATO nations to allow Ukraine and Georgia to start the admission process and to counter Osama bin Laden's latest threats by stepping up efforts in Afghanistan.

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MSNBC

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'The transatlantic alliance is shifting east'

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Guardian

Sadr City mourns its dead, injured

In Baghdad's Shiite Muslim slum of Sadr City, U.S. airstrikes aimed at militants plague the population.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Ahern to resign as Irish premier

Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has announced he is to resign in May.

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BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Japan courts poorer nations in bid to end whaling ban

Anti-whaling countries, led by Australia and New Zealand, say the marine mammals still number too few to make commercial harvesting sustainable.

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National Geographic

New York City Council passes congestion toll plan

City Council members passed an $8 fee for entry to large part of Manhattan to save on emissions and raise mass transit funds.

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Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

'First sex' found in Australian fossils?

A new study suggests that nature's first sexual encounter took place among tubular invertebrates called Funisia dorothea, which lived about 565 million years ago.

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National Geographic

After yearlong battle, Microsoft open document format wins

Microsoft won an international standards designation for its open document format, ending a divisive yearlong battle with some of its software rivals before a global standards-setting organization.

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International Herald Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

LA wants to whitewash graffiti mural

It was a graffiti artist's dream come true: 10,000 square feet of concrete and a permit to paint. Not everyone was pleased, however.

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Kansas City Star

More leave doomsday cult bunker

Fourteen more members of a Russian doomsday cult emerged from the remote underground bunker where they had been holed up for six months awaiting the end of the world.

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AOL News

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Russian cult members emerge

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Yahoo! News

RELIGION

Houston cathedral offers Vietnamese mass as demographics change

The new Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston, Texas, will offer weekly masses in Spanish, Vietnamese and English. The diversity of the congregation offers a glimpse of Catholicism's future.

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Bloomberg

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Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart

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Houston Chronicle

Dutch lawmaker to remove Danish cartoon from anti-Quran film

A Dutch lawmaker whose anti-Quran film drew worldwide condemnations will edit out a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad after complaints of copyright infringement.

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Star Tribune

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Dutch film criticizing Islam, Quran angers Muslims

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NPR

Ted Turner comments on religion

Turner, who once called Christianity a "religion for losers," launched a $200 million partnership with Lutherans and Methodists to fight malaria. Now, he called faith a "bright spot" in the world.

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Rocky Mountain News

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Arctic ice island breaks in half

The giant Ayles Ice Island drifting off Canada's northern shores has broken in two — far earlier than expected.

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BBC

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Workers wash the dirt off the National Aquatics Center, also called the "Water Cube," in Beijing, China. The center will be the venue for swimming and diving events during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. (Photo by Robert F. Bukaty / AP)

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