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President Barack Obama meets New York City police officers in their Real Time Crime Center at their headquarters in New York City. Times Square car-bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad is shown on screen, top left. (Photo by Susan Walsh / AP)

BP to try pipe insertion to stem oil gushing into Gulf

BP will try again to cap a well that has gushed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the energy company said.

CNN

US said to allow drilling without permits

New York Times

Missing data causing rig reconstruction mystery

Houston Chronicle

Is the Internet the secret to happiness?

When it comes to mental health, the Internet gets a bad rap. It turns out that spending time on the Web could be making you happier.

TIME

Times Square suspect was paid for plot

The Times Square terror suspect got $4,000 cash for his warped plot in a clandestine meeting at a Long Island Dunkin' Donuts.

NY Daily News

NY car-bomb inquiry crosses four states

USA TODAY

Pakistan arrests Times Square suspect

CBS News

US arrests over Times Square bomb plot

YouTube

US efforts in Kandahar, barely begun, already are faltering

Although it's just beginning, the U.S.-led effort to pacify the Taliban's spiritual capital in southern Afghanistan already appears to be faltering.

McClatchy Newspapers

Interview:

McChrystal on Afghanistan

PBS

The proof is in the proteins: universal common ancestor for all life

One researcher put the biological assumption of a single common ancestor to the test and found that advanced genetic analysis and sophisticated statistics back up Darwin's proposition.

Scientific American

NATION

US drug war has met none of its goals

After 40 years, the United States' war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread.

Associated Press

Where the jobs are

As the U.S. economy sputters its way back to health, American freelancers increasingly are finding themselves working for companies overseas in what's becoming a type of reverse outsourcing.

Newsweek

Interview:

Young US workers have trouble achieving independence

McClatchy Newspapers

Traffic cameras divide nation's drivers

Along American's streets and highways, one issue mirrors the nation's partisan divide: using cameras to catch drivers who speed or run red lights.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Senate votes to curb debit card fees

The Senate voted for credit card companies to reduce fees for debit card transactions and permit merchants to offer customer discounts based on pay method.

Reuters

Nominee scrutinized for hiring on race

Critics say that Elena Kagan did not create enough racial diversity at Harvard Law School, and that in the absence of any writings or opinions, her hiring practices serve as a clue to her thinking.

New York Times

Clinton, Karzai call US visit a success

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared the leader's visit to the U.S. this week a success, saying it had helped strengthen the partnership.

CNN

BUSINESS

Boeing allies aim to boost EADS' tanker bid price

Twin bills that could help Boeing Co. best Europe's EADS for a potential $50 billion U.S. Air Force contract were introduced in the House of Representatives and Senate by Boeing supporters.

Reuters

Stocks slump on concern about growth; euro, crude oil decline

Stocks fell around the world on concern that Europe’s debt crisis will limit growth and earnings. The euro fell below $1.25, oil retreated for a fourth day and bonds rallied.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

Afghanistan's pistachio forests destroyed for fuelwood

Afghanistan once had more than 1,737 square miles of pistachio trees, covering a broad band across the northern part of the country. Now, 40 percent of these pistachio forests have been destroyed.

Environment News Service

Lizard extinction tied to climate change

One in five lizard species are headed for extinction by 2080, due to global warming, a new study says. But they won't bake; they'll starve.

National Geographic

Special section:

World's endangered species

TIME

EDUCATION

College for all? Not necessarily

The notion that a four-year degree is essential for real success is being challenged by a growing number of economists, analysts and academics.

Seattle Times

San Mateo schools surge in rankings

San Mateo County schools surged in the latest rankings in a California state system that measures educational performance based on student test scores.

San Jose Mercury News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Cannes Film Festival 2010: bigger dresses the better at opening

The new Robin Hood film kicked off the Cannes Film Festival with a bang last night, as Hollywood A-listers pulled out the biggest dresses they could find.

Daily Mail

3-D entering new dimension

With "Avatar" now out of theaters, the industrywide 3-D juggernaut is itself entering another dimension.

San Francisco Chronicle

HEALTH

Health of military families gets a boost

As the Pentagon reels over the surging cost of health care for military vets, the well-being of American troops and their kin is taking top billing among politicians and advocates in the nation's capital this week.

AOL News

Why is breast milk best? It's in the genes

The ability to track which genes are operating in an infant has allowed scientists to compare the early development of breast-fed and formula-fed babies. They say the difference is very real.

ScienceDaily

Columns And Op-Ed

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GOOD NEWS

Stylists running, with scissors, to the Gulf Coast's aid

Like other hairstylists and pet groomers across Colorado and the country, Acosta is shipping hair to the Gulf of Mexico. At some point, donors hope the hair will be tossed in the gulf to sop up spilled oil.

Denver Post

West Bank invention to help blind

Three schoolgirls in the occupied West Bank have developed a life-changing device for the blind. It is an advanced cane called "Stick-tech" — that vibrates when near an obstacle, thus alerting the blind.

Al Jazeera

WORLD

Brazil launches Latin America's largest home-building effort

A new government housing program, "My Home, My Life," is a model for developing countries trying to alleviate the squalor surrounding roughly 1 billion squatters and slum dwellers worldwide.

Baltimore Sun

Bakiyev supporters 'attempt coup'

Supporters of Kyrgyzstan's ousted president have stormed regional government buildings in the country. The president was overthrown last month in an uprising that killed 85 people.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

'Star Wars' meets reality? Military tests lasers

Five decades after the creation of the laser, the technology of the modern era may be ready to serve up that Star Wars science-fiction staple: the laser blaster.

USA TODAY

Facebook gathering protesters over privacy issue

Facebook is facing another round of backlash about its privacy policies. Members are grousing about a new feature that lets websites post the personal views of Facebook users without their consent.

USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope offers hope against suffering at outdoor Mass in Fatima

Hundreds of thousands of people turned out for an outdoor Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI at Fatima, the Catholic shrine that pilgrims visit in search of cures for their ailments.

Baltimore Sun

Goodbye to Haiti, but not the need

Chris Yarboro's church wanted him for a mission trip to West Virginia, but his compass kept pointing south toward Haiti. "It was mission-committee planning, not God planning," Yarboro said.

News Observer

SPORTS

Celtics dump LeBron, Cavs to reach Eastern finals in 6 games

The Boston Celtics sent LeBron James and the Cavaliers back to Cleveland to admire all of their regular-season accomplishments and ponder their future.

USA TODAY

LeBron begins free agency journey

ESPN

Future cloudy for LeBron, Mike Brown

CBS News

Rangers' lender has a warning

The top lender to the Texas Rangers has told Major League Baseball owners in a letter that the lengthy stalemate over the team’s sale could lead to bankruptcy or "costly, distracting and messy" litigation.

New York Times

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