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West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, at podium, asks for a moment of silence to honor the 29 miners killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine during a memorial service in Charleston, W.Va. (Photo by Bob Bird / AP)

Consumer Reports warns of Lexus SUV rollover risk

Consumer Reports has issued a safety warning on Toyota's 2010 Lexus GX 460 SUV because of an increased rollover risk while turning.

CNNMoney

America's new kinder, gentler militia

Although the Michigan volunteer militias are still big on gun rights, and wary of Washington, they aren't necessarily violent.

NPR

The future of your medical data

Digitizing medical data has been touted as one way to help the already burdened system manage the surge in patients. But putting people's information online will do more than simply reduce redundancies.

Scientific American

Anonymizing patient records for genomics

Nature

Last bodies recovered from coal mine

The last of the bodies of 29 men killed in a coal mine explosion have been removed from the mine, officials say.

CNN

Deficit slashed, economy rebounds?

The federal deficit is running significantly lower than it did last year. But by suggesting the deficit may have peaked, administration officials are taking a political gamble.

MSNBC

Nation's deficit calls for painful choices

USA TODAY

Economy survey: a look at the recovery

YouTube

China to make its own call on yuan

President Hu Jintao said China would not be pushed by external pressure and would instead base any decision on the yuan on its own economic needs.

Reuters

China to work with US on Iran sanctions

Guardian

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ABC News

IEA says world oil demand to hit record high this year

Global oil demand will hit a record high this year, the International Energy Agency said, revising up consumption estimates as the world economy recovers from recession.

Reuters

NATION

Va. paper wins Pulitzer Prize

The Bristol Herald Courier, a small paper in the coalfields of Appalachia, beat out journalism's powerhouses to win the Pulitzer Prize for public service for uncovering a gas royalties scam.

ABC News

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New York Times

New arrest in NYC terror probe

A fourth suspect in a disrupted plot to bomb New York City subways has been arrested in Pakistan. The principal suspect, Najibullah Zazi, has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with investigators.

TIME

Foiled NYC subway terror plot

MSNBC

US to urge Russia to keep allowing adoptions after boy's return

Top U.S. officials plan to travel to Moscow to push Russia to allow adoptions by U.S. families to continue after a U.S. family sparked outrage by sending an adopted 7-year-old boy back to Russia alone.

CNN

POLITICS

Unemployment package clears key vote

Democrats in the Senate won an initial skirmish to restore unemployment benefits to hundreds of thousands of jobless people despite Republican criticism that it would add $9 billion to the nation's debt.

CBS News

Democrats eager to take on Wall Street

Liberal Democrats see an opportunity to reassert their power in the Senate this spring on the Wall Street reform bill, after being forced to compromise on everything from health care reform to jobs legislation.

Politico

HEALTH

Americans asking: 'How will health reform help me?'

The queries are part of an avalanche of questions aimed at government officials, physicians and nonprofit groups as Americans struggle to understand the complexities of the new law.

NPR

Mass. court rejects health insurers' bid to raise premiums

Christian Science Monitor

Hallucinogens have doctors and scientists tuning in again

Scientists have won permission to once again study hallucinogens' potential for treating mental problems.

New York Times

EDUCATION

Cyber high school program reaches at-risk Wayne County teens

Students learn by doing projects, a method that makes this school unique. The projects must show students have learned the same concepts as students in traditional classes.

Detroit Free Press

Calif. bill to cap fees for college students

The legislation would establish a baseline student fee for the next academic year at each of California's three public higher education systems and would cap fee increases at five percent annually.

BusinessWeek

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Leader seeks new Muslim in Europe

Yassmine el Ksaihi doesn't see herself as a feminist rebel. She covers her head and wears modest clothing. She learned to read the Quran at age 5 and promotes traditional Muslim values.

San Francisco Chronicle

US Jews claim Holocaust-era property

Israel’s official Holocaust Victims Assets Restitution Company is launching a campaign in the United States in search of the heirs to tens of thousands of Israel-based assets belonging to victims.

Jerusalem Post

The Holocaust can happen again, warns top anti-Semitism scholar

Haaretz

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Roman-era mummy found in Egypt

Egyptian archaeologists discovered a newly uncovered complex of tombs at a remote desert oasis in Egypt.

San Francisco Chronicle

Spanking leads to aggressive behavior

Researchers provide evidence against the use of spanking: Of the nearly 2,500 youngsters in the study, those who were spanked more frequently at age 3 were more likely to be aggressive by age 5.

TIME

Swirling dust shocks physicists

Scientists have explained how lightning can occur even in the driest deserts. A new theory describes how neutral dust can gain an electrical life of its own.

Nature

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GOOD NEWS

A Zimbabwe native helps refugees from her country in South Africa

Terry Hodson, who now lives in South Africa, delivers food and offers comfort and advice to refugees from the troubles in neighboring Zimbabwe.

Christian Science Monitor

Stories of grit and love get runners to finish line

Thousands of participants celebrated on the sunny lawn next to Soldiers Memorial after completing the St. Louis half-marathon and marathon events. They snapped pictures, hugged and cried.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

President Bakiyev's immunity lifted

The interim government of Kyrgyzstan has said President Kurmanbek Bakiyev no longer has presidential immunity and has called on him to surrender.

BBC

Ousted Kyrgyz president gathers support

YouTube

Poland to fill key positions after crash

Poland moved to fill key positions in the state administration after a plane crash in western Russia killed President Lech Kaczynski and many other top officials.

Reuters

Kaczynski tributes at Warsaw palace

BBC

Vatican makes clear bishops must report sex abuse

The Vatican responded to allegations that it had concealed years of clerical sex abuse by making it clear that bishops and other high-ranking clerics should report such crimes to police if required by law.

WCPO

Churches take action to protect children

CBS News

BUSINESS

Dow ends at 11,000; 1st time in months

Stocks managed gains, with the Dow industrials closing above 11,000 for the first time in 18 months, after European leaders made loans available to Greece.

CNNMoney

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How meaningful is Dow 11,000?

CNBC

Dow 11K: Here to stay?

MSNBC

Microsoft debuts 'social' phone

Microsoft has launched a phone called the Kin aimed at younger users and geared towards social networking. The launch is designed to counter rivals such as Apple, Google and Blackberry.

BBC

Apple tightens reins on app developers

Apple is tightening its already firm grip on what software can run on the iPhone and its other mobile devices, as shown by its recent changes to the rules that outside programmers must follow.

New York Times

SPORTS

Twins unveil new outdoor ballpark, beat Red Sox

The Twins broke in Target Field by beating the Boston Red Sox 5-2 behind hometown star Joe Mauer in the first regular-season game at their new ballpark.

CBS SportsLine

Shaq cleared, could play with LeBron in season finale

Shaquille O'Neal has been cleared by team doctors and could play in Cleveland's regular-season finale at Atlanta.

NBCSports.com

ENVIRONMENT

Europe finds clean energy in trash

Denmark now regards garbage as a clean alternative fuel rather than a smelly, unsightly problem. And the incinerators, known as waste-to-energy plants, are in demand as communities want them built.

New York Times

Taipei's plastic brick pavilion

A Taiwan company has built a three-story exhibition hall using 1.5 million plastic bottles instead of bricks to raise interest in recycling, creating what the builder described as a world-first.

Scientific American

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Conan O'Brien heading to TBS

Comedian Conan O'Brien is joining cable television network TBS to host a late-night talk show, expected to start in November, in a surprise move following his bitter departure from NBC's "The Tonight Show."

Reuters

Career for life? For a lucky few, it exists

There was a time when people like Richard Keshishian, who has been an employee at Prudential for nearly three decades, had to whisper the number of years they spent with one company.

MSNBC

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