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The Lakers' Kobe Bryant celebrates after the Lakers beat the Orlando Magic 99-86 in Game 5 to win the NBA basketball finals in Orlando. (Photo by John Raoux / AP)

Iran's supreme leader endorses vote outcome

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has given his support to the outcome of the country's highly contested presidential election.

CNN

Inside Iran

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Hearing for nominee poses challenges

Senate Republicans are in a quandary over the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, aiming to raise pointed questions about her record without angering increasingly influential Hispanics.

Reuters

Lakers put away Magic for 15th title

Kobe and Phil get their statement championship. The Lakers beat the Magic 99-86 for their 15th title, giving Phil Jackson his tenth ring while Kobe Bryant wins his first without Shaquille O'Neal.

CBS SportsLine

NBA Title ratings

ESPN

Kobe wins 4th MVP trophy

NBA.com

Netanyahu accepts Palestinian state

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu called for creation of a limited Palestinian state for the first time, saying it would have to be disarmed before recognition.

MSNBC

Netanyahu: 'demilitarized Palestinian state'

Jerusalem Post

Israel PM makes peace plea

BBC

Obama eyes tighter controls of banks

President Barack Obama is ready to roll out an overhaul of the rules and systems that govern America's troubled financial institutions, proposing the most ambitious revision since the Great Depression.

Associated Press

NATION

Judge: Padilla can sue over memos

A convicted terrorist can sue a former Bush administration lawyer for drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged torture, ruled a federal judge, "trying to balance war and personal freedoms."

USA TODAY

Ex-Bush lawyer can be sued over torture

San Francisco Chronicle

FDA gets tobacco regulatory authority, Phillip Morris cheers

The Senate voted 79-17 to give the Food and Drug Administration regulatory authority over tobacco, a product that kills 440,000 Americans annually.

Forbes

POLITICS

CIA chief believes Cheney wants US to be attacked to validate interrogations

CIA director Leon Panetta says it's almost as if former Vice President Dick Cheney would like to see another attack on the U.S. to prove he is right on the use of "harsh interrogation" of terrorism suspects.

Reuters

State redistricting looms over 2010 election landscape

Though two years in the future, the prospect of the next round of redistricting is already rearing its ugly head for many actual and aspiring members of Congress.

The Hill

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Supervolcano may be brewing beneath Mount St Helens

Is a supervolcano brewing beneath Mount St. Helens? Peering under the volcano has revealed what may be an extraordinarily large zone of semi-molten rock capable of feeding a giant eruption.

New Scientist

Getting drinking water from air humidity

Researchers are proposing the creation of a new class of structures that would directly synthesize water from the humidity of the air and could help dry and desert areas.

Softpedia

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

How the recession is reshaping the American family

Although economic shifts always affect the American family, this downturn, because of its depth, is adjusting roles and relationships at home perhaps more than at anytime since the Great Depression.

Christian Science Monitor

Celebs pay final respects to Carradine

In the midst of the tumultuous investigation surrounding his death, David Carradine has been laid to rest in Los Angeles.

E! Online

EDUCATION

Schwarzenegger is for digital textbooks

By the fall, Governor Schwarzenegger intends to make free digital textbooks available for high school math and science classes throughout California, a move that he says will help reduce costs.

ABC News

Student barred from graduation cheers classmates' success

Barred from participating in her graduation ceremony, foster youth Taylor nevertheless woke at dawn, went to school, and climbed the bleachers to honor her classmates.

San Jose Mercury News

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Monument endorses religion, violates Constitution, court rules

A federal appeals court panel has ruled that a Ten Commandments display outside a county courthouse is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.

Ada Evening News

AU asks IRS to investigate Virginia church

Americans United for Separation of Church and State asked the IRS to investigate whether Fifth Street Baptist Church violated the rules of its tax exemption by engaging in electioneering.

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GOOD NEWS

Central Park Zoo visitors go wild for new snow leopards

Two snow leopards made their debut at the Central Park Zoo and visitors are already going wild for them.

NY Daily News

Tokyo fights burglars with flowers

A Tokyo district plagued with burglaries has turned to planting flowers to beautify its streets and help stamp out crime.

Global Good News

WORLD

Yemen says it has arrested top Saudi financier of al-Qaida

Yemen has arrested a man described as al-Qaida's top financier in the Yemen and Saudi Arabia region.

Reuters

Slain Sunni leader laid to rest in Iraq

NPR

Pakistan targets Taliban leader

Pakistan has ordered its military to carry out an offensive against the Pakistani Taliban leader in the northwest of the country, an official says.

BBC

BUSINESS

Projection: years to recover job losses

Unlike the labor market collapse that killed millions of U.S. jobs in a matter of months, the nation's return to peak employment will not be nearly as uniform nor as swift.

McClatchy Newspapers

Special section:

In depth: global recession

BBC

Boston Globe, Boston Newspaper Guild to meet on 23 percent pay cut

The Boston Newspaper Guild will meet with managers at The Boston Globe and the National Labor Relations Board as it tries to block a 23 percent pay cut imposed by the newspaper.

Boston Herald

ENVIRONMENT

Rat Island is now almost rat free

Alaska's Rat Island is finally rat-free, after a Japanese shipwreck spilled rampaging rodents onto the island 229 years ago, decimating the local bird population.

RedOrbit

Rare yellow lobster found

This lobster will catch your eye, but not because you're imagining its tail dipped in butter. "Fiona" is bright orange, even though she's never been near a boiling pot.

FOX News

HEALTH

High noon for health care reform

President Obama and Democrats will try to do what no Congress or president has done: reform the U.S. health care system.

San Francisco Chronicle

Renegade Dems buck Barack Obama

Politico

Blog:

What are the options?

The Atlantic

Too fat? Read your e-mail

According to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, simple e-mail reminders to eat more healthfully had a significant effect on the recipients' behavior.

TIME

SPORTS

Peugeot ends Audi run

Peugeot has finally brought an end to Audi's domination of the race dubbed the "hardest in the world" with a commanding one-two on home soil at La Sarthe.

Crash.net

Red Sox pull a fast one

Jacoby Ellsbury got the ball rolling in the first inning with his legs and finished things off in the ninth to lead the Red Sox to an 11-6 win over the Phillies.

Boston Herald

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