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NM salt beds could become nuclear dump

The government is looking for a place to put thousands of tons of spent fuel from reactors — salt beds could be the place. New Mexicans, however, are faced with becoming the nation's nuclear waste dump.

NPR

Special section:

Nuclear waste

New York Times

House and Senate do battle over earmarks added to war funding bill

The bill to fund the war in Afghanistan has set up a clash between the chambers over earmarks, as leaders in the House are trying to crack down on the practice and their Senate colleagues resist.

The Hill

LA to boycott Ariz. over immigration law

Los Angeles officials approved a ban on future business with Arizona in protest against its crackdown on illegal immigrants, becoming the largest U.S. city to impose such an economic boycott.

Reuters

Ariz. bans ethnic studies in public schools

CNN

Over 60 percent back law

MSNBC

US home seizures reach record in sign recovery is delayed

U.S. home repossessions set a record in April while foreclosure filing dropped for the first time in four years, a sign lenders may delay new defaults as they seize properties.

Bloomberg

Researchers take a close look at behavior in social networks

Research scientists Cameron Marlow and D.J. Patil have unprecedented windows into the social interactions of people around the world.

San Francisco Chronicle

Amid backlash, Facebook tries to save face

CNET News

NATION

Budget deficit in US widened

The excess of spending over revenue rose to $82.7 billion compared with a $20.9 billion gap in April 2009, the Treasury Department said in Washington.

Bloomberg

2nd container reaches Gulf seafloor

A second, smaller container has reached the seafloor, but it hasn't yet been placed over the well that's spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, a BP official said.

CBS News

Special section:

Deepwater oil rig disaster

Scientific American

Offshore oil drilling hearing

CNN

NRA convention could draw 70,000 in Charlotte, NC

Since President Barack Obama was elected, the National Rifle Association has seen membership jump from 3 million to 4 million.

Charlotte Observer

POLITICS

Top Senate Republican challenges Kagan

The top Republican in the Senate demanded assurances that President Barack Obama's solicitor general and friend, Elena Kagan, would be free of White House influence if confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.

Reuters

How many votes can Kagan woo?

TIME

Both parties bitten by voter's anti-establishment mood

The anti-establishment political tide that ousted a three-term GOP senator in Utah has spread well beyond the tea party and threatens to topple many incumbents.

ABC News

BUSINESS

Morgan Stanley probed, shares fall

Shares fell following reports that federal prosecutors are looking into whether Morgan Stanley misled investors about complex mortgage derivatives it designed.

CNNMoney

AstraZeneca case rewards repeat whistleblowers with $45 million

Blowing the whistle on drugmakers is becoming a habit for a salesman and a psychiatrist splitting a $45 million award after AstraZeneca settled claims of illegally marketing a schizophrenia drug.

BusinessWeek

Let taxpayers cover your mortgage

Unemployed? Owe more on your mortgage than your home is worth? Your state might pay your mortgage one day.

CNNMoney

EDUCATION

White House event boosts science, math

The invitation-only summit was part of President Barack Obama's $500 million "Educate to Innovate" campaign, aimed at getting American students motivated about science, engineering and mathematics.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Young gardeners learn about World War II victory gardens

The kids in the Junior Master Gardener program in Jefferson County, Colorado learn about gardening and sustainable lifestyles from master gardeners.

Denver Post

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Most high-school students cheat

Many high-school students have a skewed view of what constitutes cheating and the vast majority have cheated themselves, according to a new study out of one Midwestern school.

LiveScience

Bad charity? All I got was this lousy T-shirt!

Jason Sadler just wanted to help. Instead he stumbled into a debate raging in the aid world about the best and worst ways to deliver charity, or whether to give at all.

TIME

HEALTH

Vision cells help set the body's clock

If you’re reading this at night, beware: You may be affecting your body’s internal clock. Humans, like other animals, rely on light cues to set their body's daily cycle of activity, or circadian rhythm.

Science

Genetic test kits to hit stores

Coming soon to a drugstore near you will be the promise of answers to some of life's most personal mysteries: Am I at risk for Alzheimer's disease? Or breast cancer?

Hartford Courant

Quick and easy assessment of health risks

ABC News

Chemicals not on label found in perfumes

Toronto Star

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GOOD NEWS

A mom’s voice is powerful medicine

A mother's voice has the power to settle jangled nerves and maybe even reach through the fog of a coma to bring a brain-injured patient back to consciousness, according to new experiments.

MSNBC

International Welcome School provides safe learning for refugee children

Children who attend the International Welcome School in St. Louis, MO, come from refugee camps or villages destroyed by war or disaster.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

Obama, Karzai pledge partnership

U.S. President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai presented a united front in a bid to show they had patched over differences at a pivotal time in the nearly nine-year-old war.

Reuters

Obama, Karzai commit to fewer casualties

CNN

Libyan jet crashes; boy sole survivor

A Libyan plane carrying 104 people crashed while trying to land at the Tripoli International Airport. A 10-year-old Dutch boy was the only known survivor.

Palm Beach Post

Plane crashes in Libya

ABC News

Dutch boy is the sole survivor

MSNBC

New cabinet posts dealt out in UK

Britain's first coalition government since 1945 set to work with new Prime Minister David Cameron handing out cabinet positions to Conservative allies and new Liberal Democrat coalition partners.

Guardian

Special section:

UK election '10

Times Online

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Researchers use islands to test 'survival of the fittest'

By using entire islands as experimental laboratories, two Dartmouth biologists have performed one of the largest manipulations of natural selection ever conducted in a wild animal population.

ScienceDaily

Runaway star zooms away from nursery

A massive runaway star has been spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope racing away from its stellar nursery after being kicked out by some of its much heftier stellar siblings.

MSNBC

Ancient city of galaxies looks oddly modern

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

ENVIRONMENT

Seafloor fish nearly wiped out off UK

Over the last century or so, trawlers have gotten more powerful engines, fish-detecting radar, lighter nets, and vast onboard freezers. What the fleets might really need, though, is a time machine.

National Geographic

Canada goose thrives while Earth’s species dwindle

Some eight years after world leaders pledged to reverse an alarming decline in biodiversity by 2010, the losses keep mounting across the globe.

Toronto Star

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Fishing banned on the Sea of Galilee

The Sea of Galilee has for centuries provided a healthy living for hundreds of fishermen, but now an unprecedented fishing ban is being enforced on the sea because of chronic over-fishing.

BBC

As pill turns 50, a push within Islam for family planning

Fifty years after the introduction of “the pill” in the mass market, a number of international development specialists are trying to enlist Muslim clerics to support a culture of responsible family planning.

Religion News Service

SPORTS

Astros' hitting keeps winning streak

Astros lefthander Wandy Rodriguez entered a game against the Cardinals the prime victim of what, despite very recent efforts to refute the fact, remains the worst offense in baseball.

Houston Chronicle

Bracket options for March Madness?

The next chapter in NCAA men's basketball tournament expansion begins in Indianapolis when the Division I basketball committee starts mulling over options to bracket a 68-team field, up from 65.

USA TODAY

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