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Republican Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou, left, has his picture taken with Marian Crislip of Mililani. Djou won a special election for the 1st congressional district seat representing urban Honolulu, President Barack Obama's hometown. (Photo by Eugene Tanner / AP)

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How did a Republican win in Obama's Hawaii hometown?

Republican Charles Djou won the special election in Hawaii's 1st congressional district — the Honolulu district where President Barack Obama grew up.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Charles Djou wins Hawaii special election

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Celtics rout Magic for 3-0 series lead

With Los Angeles up 2-0 against Phoenix and Boston now up 3-0, the Celtics and Lakers appear headed for the NBA Finals.

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USA TODAY

US strategy rests on Kandahar offensive

The Obama administration's campaign to drive the Taliban out of Afghanistan's second-largest city is a go-for-broke move that its authors are unsure will succeed.

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Britain not setting timetable on Afghan pullout

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Reuters

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Afghanistan: nation at a crossroads

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Dwindling bog habitats support endangered turtle

May 23 is World Turtle Day. Penn State University wetlands biologist Gian Rocco spent most of last June visiting study sites daily, and will do the same this year.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Japanese prime minister: 'No choice' but to accept US base in Okinawa

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama decided to move a U.S. military base within Okinawa, saying security threats from countries such as North Korea trump local sentiment to shift it elsewhere.

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Bloomberg

NATION

Obama moves to take political control of BP Gulf oil spill

President Barack Obama has named a bipartisan commission to investigate the causes of the BP Gulf oil spill, one of the nation's worst environmental disasters, including any government failures.

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Christian Science Monitor

Obama creates commission to prevent spills

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Chicago Sun-Times

Time capsule brings glimpse of 1910

The contents of the century-old time capsule cracked open at Des Moines City Hall showed just how much Iowa's capital city had changed - and stayed the same.

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Des Moines Register

POLITICS

Intel post becomes 'wicked problem' for White House

The difficulties the Obama administration has run into in filling the post are rekindling questions about whether anyone can do the job as it is currently constructed.

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Politico

Clinton courts Chinese people; tough mission nears

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to make the case for cooperation between the two countries as a difficult assignment approached: winning Beijing's support for punishing North Korea.

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Clinton visits Shanghai expo

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Reuters

HEALTH

Protein heart tests

Some experts question the role of CRP and inflammation in heart disease, and worry there's too much emphasis.

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CNN

CDC: 1 in 8 pools may pose infection risk

Researchers examined data from pools in child care facilities, residential complexes, hotels and motels and interactive fountains, finding improper pH levels in the water that lead to transmitting disease-causing germs.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Facebook considers changes to its privacy settings

Facebook is considering simplifying its privacy settings, following a backlash from users. The social network told the BBC that a number of users had complained Facebook had "made things too complex."

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PC World

Historical extinction may have affected oceanic species composition

Modern-day lizards, snakes, frogs and mammals may owe their existence to a mass extinction of ancient fish 360 million years ago that left the oceans relatively barren, paleontologists said.

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Star Tribune

SPORTS

French Open considers move in 2016

Roger Federer and four-time winner Justine Henin may not be in favor of the proposal, but French Open officials are considering a move outside Paris for the clay-court Grand Slam tournament from 2016.

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Sports Illustrated

NY state of (baseball) mind

The New York Yankees finally got a decent start from a pitcher they've been skipping in the rotation, then struggled to score any runs for him.

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ENVIRONMENT

Report into biodiversity crisis reveals price of consuming the planet

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature believes one in five mammals, one in three amphibians and one in seven birds are extinct or in danger, with other species also in peril.

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Guardian

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Reuters

Cruise ship environmental report card

The second annual report card grading cruise lines on their environmental impacts is out from Friends of the Earth, and Disney Cruise Line gets props for "most improved."

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USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Frugal Europe, on foot

It was December 1933, and an 18-year-old Englishman named Patrick Leigh Fermor put on a pair of hobnail boots.

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Everyone else outsources, so why can't the arts?

The recession hit nonprofits hard, and now these organizations have no choice but to become more efficient. So they're handing over the "back office" to the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts.

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NPR

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GOOD NEWS

66 years later, pair of World War II vets get their due

Sixty six years after the fact, the heroics of Lt. Edward Stevens and Walter W. May earned them the prestigious awards of the Silver Star for Gallantry and French Legion of Honor, respectively.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

13-year-old American climbs Everest, calls his mom

The youngest climber to reach the peak of Mount Everest hugged his tearful companions and told them he loved them. Then 13-year-old Jordan Romero took the satellite phone and called his mom.

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San Jose Mercury News

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13-year-old boy climbs Everest

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WORLD

India plane crash kills 158 passengers

Rescue teams worked into the night at the smoldering scene of an Air India plane crash that killed 158 people after the jet overshot a runway in southern India and crashed into a ravine, officials said.

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Plane overshoots runway

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Silence precedes Ethiopia's election

Five years of repression have shut-out members of the opposition from most public venues but they haven't stopped trying to be heard.

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TIME

UK to examine torture claims

Britain will hold an inquiry into whether its agencies colluded in the torture of terrorism suspects overseas, an investigation that could upset ties with allies, including the U.S.

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Sydney Morning Herald

BUSINESS

WaMu amends reorganization plan

Almost a day late and billions of dollars short, Washington Mutual filed its plan of reorganization with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

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MarketWatch

Bold experiment produces few jobs

Four years after Michigan launched the 21st Century Jobs Fund to diversify its economy and create jobs, the first two major initiatives under the 10-year program have generated mixed results.

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Detroit Free Press

Chrysler struts new lineup, revamped Jefferson plant

Chrysler's 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee hasn't gone on sale yet, but CEO Sergio Marchionne said the Jefferson North assembly plant will add 1,080 jobs for a second shift starting in mid-July.

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Detroit Free Press

EDUCATION

Grads reluctantly end a tradition

Missouri's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education called it quits on Wellston's financially strapped district of about 550 students.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Colo. gets $17.4 million grant for data system to track student progress

Colorado's ability to win big-stakes education grants got a boost when the federal government announced the state had been awarded $17.4 million to build a statewide education data system.

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Denver Post

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Maria Longhitano will become Italy's 1st woman priest in Rome church

This weekend in Rome a married teacher will become Italy's first woman priest when she is ordained in a church not far from the Vatican.

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Herald Sun

Frederick Douglass' church on endangered sites list

When plaster began falling from the ceiling of the national cathedral of African Methodism, one of Washington's oldest black congregations nearly had to leave.

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USA TODAY

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Dolphins may help treat diabetes

Bottlenose dolphins can switch diabetes on and off — a trick that might yield a treatment for humans with the condition.

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Guardian

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Indian farmers travel towards their farm to collect watermelons to sell at the markets on the outskirts of Allahabad, India. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)

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