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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez before the opening session of the 5th Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (Photo by Marianna Kambon / AP)

Work at CIA prisons denounced

The role of health professionals as described in newly released papers has prompted an outcry from ethicists who say the conduct violated basic professional standards.

MSNBC

Bush officials defend interrogation abuse

Guardian

Iranian leader: No one dares threaten us

"Today our nation is one of the strongest in the region and a great part of the world," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly said at Iran's Army Day celebration. "And no country dares to threaten it."

CNN

NIH may clear embryos for research

The National Institutes of Health announced that it will provide federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, if the cells are no longer needed for reproduction.

NPR

Obama offers Cuba a 'new beginning'

President Barack Obama has said the U.S. seeks a "new beginning" with Cuba and an "equal partnership" with all the nations of the Americas.

BBC

At Americas summit, Obama reaches out

CBS News

EPA declares fossil fuel emissions a health threat

The Environmental Protection Agency has declared that the heating of the earth's climate from fossil fuel use threatens human health and the environment.

McClatchy Newspapers

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EPA’s climate prompts variety of reactions

Grist

Gloom subsides, enough to lift the economy?

Positive signs, such as April’s surprising consumer confidence figures, indicate that the worst of the recession may be over. But even optimistic forecasts hold that recovery won’t begin until, perhaps, July.

Christian Science Monitor

Bernanke: damage likely to be long-lasting

Bloomberg

US bank failures match total for entire 2008

Reuters

US wants hackers to protect cyberspace

Buffeted by millions of digital attacks each day, federal authorities are looking for hackers — not to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the nation's networks.

Forbes

NATION

Captured pirate to face trial in New York

The pirate captured by the U.S. Navy — one of four who held American captain Richard Phillips hostage off the coast of Somalia — will be brought to New York to face charges.

CBS News

Local changes seen as key to food safety

Efforts to overhaul the U.S. food safety system could suffer unless major gaps in state and local programs are repaired and integrated with changes taking place in Washington, experts said.

Reuters

POLITICS

Obama to ask agency heads for cuts

President Barack Obama said he will ask all of his agency heads for specific proposals for cutting their budgets as he searches for ways to streamline government spending.

San Francisco Chronicle

Head of Obama auto task force under fire

Authorities are looking at an investment firm co-founded by President Obama's auto task force head as part of an investigation into an alleged "pay to play" scheme to secure New York pension business.

ABC News

HEALTH

'Phase 0' trials aim to speed cancer drug

The new model, called the "phase 0" clinical trial, promises to streamline drug development, in order to deliver good drugs to people who need them more quickly.

HealthDay

Laughter healthy for diabetes patients

A recent study finds that watching a funny video for 30 minutes per day may help high-risk type 2 diabetes patients improve their heart health.

WebMD

ENVIRONMENT

Forests could become source of warming

The world's forests are at risk of becoming a source of warming emissions instead of soaking them up unless greenhouse gases are controlled, scientists said.

Reuters

Plan to increase popularity of electric cars stalls over subsidy snag

No electric car that is available now, or for at least the next two years, will qualify for the government grants of more than $7,300 announced recently.

Times Online

EDUCATION

New drive for education standards

Representatives from 41 states convened in what organizers hope will be a first, concrete step toward common guidelines in mathematics and English-language arts.

Education Week

Half of high schoolers have been hazed

Authors of an ambitious survey of hazing in colleges and universities have turned their attention to high schools and discovered that many freshmen arrive with experience.

USA Today

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

British singing sensation, Susan Boyle, a huge YouTube star

Hollywood agents and talk-show bookers are jostling for a few minutes with Susan Boyle, a stocky, beetle-browed woman they would not ordinarily have given a second glance on the street.

Newsday

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Should Susan Boyle have a makeover?

Guardian

Can Harry Potter's magic hold for yet another film?

The makers of the sixth film in the franchise "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" are convinced the boy wizard remains a draw.

USA Today

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Vatican decries reaction to pope's condom remarks

Critics are trying to intimidate Pope Benedict XVI into silence, the Vatican charged, responding to attacks on the pope's AIDS and condom use remarks.

Beliefnet

US monks put faith in wrinkle-cream to raise funds

A few years ago, members of the Teresian Carmelites monastery had nearly run out of ways to raise money for their charitable work. Now, the religious community has started selling a high-end skin cream online.

USA Today

Columns And Op-Ed

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Charge the large

Slate

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Obama's too cool on gun restrictions

Christian Science Monitor

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Chrysler negotiations going nowhere

Atlantic Online

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Investing still the path to security

Fayetteville Observer

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Obama's truth and reconciliation

Times Online

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The power of India's regions

Guardian

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Bad ideas worth thinking about

Arizona Republic

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Behind the rise of Emilio Bonifacio

ESPN

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Obama's back door to Iran ties

Christian Science Monitor

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Tea and cacophony

Houston Chronicle

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High speed rail

UrbanPlaceandSpaces

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GOOD NEWS

9 colleges get nearly $45 million In mystery donations

At least nine universities have received gifts totaling nearly $45 million, and the schools had to promise not to try to find out the giver's identity.

NPR

Philly firm replacing stolen money

The accounting firm Parente Rudolph said it will replace the money stolen at an upscale shopping center, the Shops at Liberty Place, located in the building's lobby.

Philly.com

WORLD

International donors pledge $5 billion to stabilize Pakistan, fight terrorism

International donors led by the U.S. and Japan pledged more than $5 billion to stabilize Pakistan's troubled economy and fight the spread of terrorism in the Islamic nation and neighboring Afghanistan.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Pakistan’s political journey in pictures

MSNBC

Pakistan militants in spotlight

Yahoo! News

China hauls US to WTO over poultry

China has lodged a complaint against the United States at the World Trade Organization over "discriminatory" U.S. legislation written against many Chinese poultry imports.

Channel NewsAsia

BUSINESS

Time Warner drops Internet metering

Time Warner Cable's decision to back off from a usage-based pricing change for high-speed Internet subscribers in four cities demonstrates how volatile Internet access and pricing can be.

Computerworld

GM weighs bankruptcy option

General Motors Corp. Chief Executive Fritz Henderson says bankruptcy isn't the company's preferred option, but it's still probable given the restructuring goals GM must meet to get more government loans.

Financial Times

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

YouTube to show more movies and television shows

More Americans reportedly are canceling cable TV and maybe even Netflix and getting their entertainment online for nothing via Hulu, Joost or network Web sites — now YouTube will join in.

LiveScience

Iron will to live for Antarctic microbes

A recent study shows that microbes have long survived under glaciers in Antarctica making do with nothing but sulfates and iron from the bedrock.

Scientific American

Iron-breathing microbes

CNN

SPORTS

Hamilton retires after positive dope test

Tyler Hamilton has announced his immediate retirement from professional cycling after failing an out-of-competition drug test.

Cycling Weekly

Jonas Hiller shines with 35 saves as Ducks win opener

A 35-save performance by goaltender Jonas Hiller in his NHL playoff debut backstopped the Ducks to a 2-0 victory over San Jose in Game 1 of an opening-round series at HP Pavilion.

Boston Herald

Ducks at Sharks

NHL.com

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