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Workboats operate near the Transocean Development Drilling Rig II at the site of the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico. The wellhead has been capped and BP is continuing to test the integrity of the well before resuming production. (Photo by Dave Martin / AP)

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Menthol: Mystery ingredient in cigarettes enters the spotlight

A panel of experts is mulling over menthol and trying to come up with some advice for the FDA on whether menthol should be forbidden as an additive.

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NPR

Alliance Defense Fund demands U of I reinstate professor

The Alliance Defense Fund asked the University of Illinois to reinstate a professor fired amid complaints he engaged in “hate speech” by teaching Catholic beliefs on homosexuality.

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CSN

BP says capped oil well not leaking

BP says there are no signs of leakage from its ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, after the flow was stopped for the first time since April.

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BBC

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Timeline: BP oil spill

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BBC

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BP, Obama watch to see if oil cap works

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Incarcerated pregnant women laboring and delivering in shackles

Across the U.S., there are stories of pregnant women going from jails or prisons to hospitals, where they labor and sometimes even deliver while restrained with handcuffs, leg shackles or both.

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NPR

Apple sets up cots for engineers working ‘butts off’ on iPhone

CEO Steve Jobs said that employees started a round-the-clock effort to improve the iPhone 4's antenna reception amid complaints since the device’s debut.

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Bloomberg

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Apple's iPhone fix

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NATION

'I Write Like' site erupts online

For anyone who has ever thought Charles Dickens was inside his or her prose, a new website claims it can find your inner author.

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NPR

$251 million Medicare fraud crackdown in metro Detroit

Dozens of people, including several from metro Detroit, were arrested in what federal authorities described as the nation's biggest Medicare fraud crackdown.

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Detroit Free Press

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Medicare fraud arrests

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CBS News

POLITICS

Former Bush official: CIA broke the law

Jay Bybee, head of the Office of Legal Counsel under former president George W. Bush, has testified to Congress that certain controversial interrogation techniques the CIA used were not authorized.

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Sydney Morning Herald

Ex-governor aide tapped for Byrd seat

West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is tapping his former chief counsel and a member of a prominent West Virginia family, Carte Goodwin, to succeed the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, Democratic officials said.

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Charleston Gazette

NM to host border governors meeting

New Mexico will host a meeting of U.S. and Mexican border governors, providing a new venue for a conference that was scrapped in Arizona because of a dispute over its new immigration enforcement law.

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1st lawsuit heard against Ariz. immigration law

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Associated Press

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Techies reject coasts for 'Silicon Prairie'

Midwestern tech is coming into its own. Jeff Slobotski produces an event called Big Omaha that includes more than 500 of the region's workers.

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CNN

Scientists fret over oil well's low pressure

Engineers struggled to make sense of puzzling pressure readings from the bottom of the sea, trying to determine whether BP's capped oil well was holding tight or in danger of springing a new leak.

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CBS News

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Florida: BP's next big mess

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ENVIRONMENT

Sea-level rise will be worse for some, we just don’t know who

The Seychelles could see up to 10 percent more sea-level rise than the global average. Or the sea level around the islands could drop. It depends on who you ask.

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Wired

Photos 'show Himalayan glaciers receding'

"The melt rate in this region of central and eastern Himalaya is extreme and is devastating," mountaineer David Breashears said at New York's Asia Society.

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The Age

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Ala. man remembers going over Niagara Falls as boy

Fifty years ago, Roger Woodward earned bragging rights as one of the few people to survive a plunge over Niagara Falls.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Carlos Santana back at Woodstock

Carlos Santana returns to the site of the fabled 1969 Woodstock festival for a concert just yards from the stage where he played during the "three days of peace and music" that helped define the 1960s.

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San Francisco Chronicle

EDUCATION

Changes urged for Mass. schools

The state’s commissioner of elementary and secondary education recommended replacing its academic standards for English and math with a uniform set of national standards.

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Boston Globe

University of California considers online bachelor's degree

The University of California hopes to become the country's first top-tier research institution to offer an online bachelor’s degree that is comparable in quality to its campus program.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Stanford ushers in the age of bookless libraries

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Census sets off a battle to redraw voter districts — and power in Congress

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (Larry Kudlow):

Business knows more than Team Obama

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RealClearPolitics

Column (Brian Goldsmith):

Defending the 'bailout'

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The Atlantic

Blog (Daniel Gross):

Goldman's best trade ever

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Moneybox

Racist brew leaves bad taste

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Paul Krugman):

Redo that voodoo

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Column (Ezra Klein):

5 problems financial reform doesn’t fix

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Newsweek

Unproved theory: Obama was going to make scientists happier

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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GOOD NEWS

Government to ban dangerous cribs

Members of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission voted in favor of tougher safety standards for cribs. The proposal needs some more work and another vote before it becomes final.

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Shots

Volunteer work provides 'lifeline' to city

Jim McNally works about 700 hours per year for the Aurora Police Department. In return, he gets to learn new skills and work with people — a reimbursement he says is greater than any monetary value.

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Aurora Sentinel

WORLD

Iran accuses US and UK of supporting group behind mosque attacks

General Hossein Salami, deputy commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, claimed that the victims "were martyred by the hands of mercenaries of the U.S. and U.K."

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Guardian

New Australian PM to call for elections

In a procedural move, Gillard met with Governor-General Quentin Bryce amid widespread news media reports that she will seek his approval for the election, the office confirmed.

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CNN

International police force to conduct inquiry in Kyrgyzstan

Roza Otunbayeva, Kyrgyzstan's president, has agreed to an independent, international inquiry into the explosion of violence between ethnic Uzbeks and ethnic Kygyz that claimed up to 2,000 lives.

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Telegraph.co.uk

BUSINESS

Apple to give free bumper case to every iPhone 4 owner

Apple will give all iPhone 4 owners free bumper cases that will prevent reception problems plaguing the new smartphone, Apple's CEO Steve Jobs said.

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ABC News

Goldman Sachs handed record $550 million fine over Abacus transaction

U.S. regulators fined Goldman Sachs for $550 million and warned that "half truths and deception" would not be tolerated.

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Guardian

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Settlement sends Goldman shares higher

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Forbes

HEALTH

Researchers discover novel therapeutic for chronic pain

Columbia scientists working to combat injury-related depression, substance abuse and suicide due to persistent pain may have discovered a new way of treating that pain.

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Medical News Today

1 in 5 tots exceed TV recs

Nearly a fifth of two-year-old children spend at least two hours per day watching television, CDC researchers say.

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Does teen drug rehab cure addiction?

Substance-abuse experts are finding that teen drug treatment tends to strengthen dysfunctional behavior by concentrating it, thus doing more harm than good.

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TIME

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

1st woman Lutheran bishop resigns

The first woman ever elected as a Lutheran bishop has resigned from her post in northern Germany amid allegations she failed to thoroughly investigate reports of a sexually abusive pastor.

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India's 'lost' Jews seek a place in Israel

For the Bnei Menashe community of India, who believe they are descendents of one of the 10 lost tribes of Israel, the road has been long and fraught with difficulty.

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NPR

SPORTS

Packers offer Lambeau Field as site for Big 10 title game

The Green Bay Packers are interested in hosting a potential Big Ten conference championship game at Lambeau Field.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Carlos Beltran's return spoiled by both the Giants and the Mets

En route to two straight Cy Youngs, Lincecum had beaten every National League team but the Reds and the Mets.

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NBC New York

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Beltran singles for 1st hit of season

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

4 days in 'cooling bag' saves baby's life

A 16-week-old baby who was born with an undiagnosed heart defect is warming his parents' hearts after surviving an unconventional surgery. The infant was "frozen" for four days to repair his heart.

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ABC News

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Lightning strikes the Antelope Valley near Pearblossom, Calif. (Photo by Mike Meadows)

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