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Vinyl albums are on display at a Fred Meyer store in Portland, Ore. In these days of digital recordings, some mainstream retailers are giving vinyl records a spin, hoping to cash in on growing interest in LPs. (Photo by Don Ryan / AP)

1-day record-store revival

The fourth annual Record Store Day brings limited-edition releases by an eclectic array of artists to independently owned record stores across the country.

Wall Street Journal

Record Store Day limited-edition covers

Guardian

Death toll has risen to 16 as storms slam Miss., Ala.

A storm system that killed nine people in Oklahoma and Arkansas has moved into Mississippi and Alabama, where seven more people were reported dead.

MSNBC

Special section:

Tracking severe storms

The Weather Channel

House passes huge GOP budget cuts

In a prelude to a summer showdown with President Barack Obama, Republicans controlling the House pushed to passage on a bold but politically dangerous budget blueprint.

Houston Chronicle

Obama signs 2011 budget deal into law

CNN

GOP draws battle lines with budget passage

MSNBC

Internet poker companies indicted for fraud, money laundering

The owners and founders of the three largest online gambling sites in the United States have been indicted and charged with bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling offenses.

ABC News

Inside Ivory Coast‘s palace, ’an armory, a powder keg’

Not much has been heard about the condition of the Ivory Coast presidential palace, the symbol of authority where Gbagbo worked — and where a veritable armory was uncovered.

NPR

NATION

Is gold the new black? States look to bring gold standard back

Utah became the first U.S. state to recognize gold and silver coins minted by the federal government as legal tender.

ABC News

Gas spike feeds inflation pain

The Consumer Price Index, government’s key inflation measure, rose 2.7 percent over year-earlier levels, according to the Labor Department.

CNNMoney

Dial 911 for-profit — just don’t tell a firehouse in cash-short counties

For-profit ambulance companies present American communities with an offer that’s hard to refuse these days. They will take over 911 emergency rescue service at little or no charge to cash-short counties.

Reuters

POLITICS

Georgia approves tough immigration bill modeled after Arizona’s

The Georgia legislature jumped into the fray over illegal immigration, approving a comprehensive “papers, please” immigration law like the one in Arizona.

Christian Science Monitor

Arizona passes birth certificate legislation

BBC

Lawmakers approve civil unions bill

Delaware lawmakers approved a measure legalizing civil unions, sending the bill to the governor who has said that he will sign it.

CNN

HEALTH

Snoozing VP, sleeping air traffic controllers suggest we’re sleep deprived

Recent involuntary siestas among holders of high-profile and high-stakes jobs suggest the nation might have a problem. At least a third of the U.S. population is sleep deprived.

ABC News

‘Brain rattler’ schedule among big problems for air-traffic controllers

YouTube

What’s lurking in your meat and poultry? Probably staph

Researchers were surprised to find that nearly half of samples of beef, pork and poultry tested from popular grocery stores were contaminated with Staphylococcus Aureus.

TIME

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

What happened to the anti-war movement in America?

Whenever America has gotten involved in combat on foreign soil, crowds of peace-promoting citizens have protested against those wars in Washington and other cities. But now, the streets seem protester-free.

NPR

Food allergy risk poorly grasped in restaurants, study finds

People with food allergies need to be vigilant when dining out because few restaurant workers are knowledgeable about the risks, a study finds.

CBC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Rome’s station churches revive tradition

During the 40 days of Lent, a band of worshippers walk in the footsteps of early Christians, visiting some of the world’s oldest churches in preparation for the most solemn week on the calendar.

USA TODAY

Belgium urges harsh punishment for sex abuse bishop

Belgium’s justice minister urged the Vatican to impose stiff punishment on a disgraced Catholic bishop who denies being a pedophile despite admitting to sexually abusing two of his own nephews.

Reuters

Is hell dead?

Pastor Rob Bell suggests that the redemptive work of Jesus may be universal — meaning that “every person who ever lived” could have a place in heaven, whatever that turns out to be.

TIME

ENVIRONMENT

Zero emission taxis to be tested for Olympics 2012

A consortium of innovative companies have created a pair of prototype zero emission London taxis. They are to be part of a fleet of 15 which will ferry Olympians around London during the 2012 Olympics.

Earth Times

Endangered gray wolves fall prey to politics as usual

The political tussle over U.S. spending has ensnared an unlikely victim, the gray wolf, whose longtime status as an endangered species will likely be axed due to a late addition to the budget deal.

Discovery News

Texas to install world’s largest wind energy storage system

They like to do things big in Texas, so it’s no surprise that the Lone Star state will launch the world’s largest wind battery storage project.

Grist

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Blog (Michael B. Keegan):

On anti-bullying ‘Day of Silence,’ the religious right cheers on the bullies

Huffington Post

Editorial:

Raise taxes and cut federal spending

Concord Monitor

Video (Shannon Travis):

Explain it to me: birthers

CNN

Column (Steven Metz):

Swan song: Is Libya the end of NATO?

The New Republic

Column (John Hughes):

Despite media yammer, there’s hope for real news

Christian Science Monitor

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Steve Sack editorial

Star Tribune

Editorial:

101 damnations: Missouri lawmakers choose politics over puppies

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Smokers’ rights

Telegram & Gazette

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GOOD NEWS

Vietnam creates reserve for nearly-extinct mammal, the saola

The Vietnam government and local people have approved a Saola Natural Reserve to protect one of the world’s most endangered — and most elusive — mammals.

Environmental News Network

Melanoma Foundation gets teens to pledge not to tan

The Melanoma Foundation of New England launched the initiative in high schools three years ago to raise awareness of the dangers of tanning.

AOL News

The house that helps the children live

Lucy Bruce, co-founder of Harmony House in Delhi, India, started the day shelter for destitute children together with her husband Gaurav Sinha in 2009.

Khaleej Times

WORLD

Japan’s evacuees annoyed at compensation offer

The plant operator’s announcement that it would pay $12,000 in initial compensation to each evacuated household was seen as far too little to repay families for the economic turmoil they have suffered.

MSNBC

Western leaders insist ‘Gadhafi must go’

Leaders of Britain, France and the United States have vowed to continue their military campaign in Libya until Moammar Gadhafi leaves power.

Al Jazeera

Gadhafi forces ‘using cluster bombs in Misrata’

Guardian

Libya: Col. Moammar Gadhafi ‘parades through Tripoli in a jeep’

Telegraph.co.uk

Nigerian President Jonathan likely to win vote as opposition fail to unite

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan heads into election in Africa’s top oil producer as the firm favorite after the opposition failed to unite behind a single candidate to stand against him.

Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Overheating threatens Asia as China, India fail to tame prices

Inflation in China and India accelerated by more than economists forecast as rising commodity costs and inflows of capital threaten to overheat economies across Asia.

BusinessWeek

Cost surge under new Google CEO unnerves Street

Google Inc.’s stunning 54 percent spending surge spooked investors already worried about its new CEO, driving its shares more than five percent lower.

Reuters

E-mails expose BP’s attempts to control research into impact of Gulf oil spill

BP officials tried to take control of a $500-million fund pledged by the oil company for independent research into the consequences of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

Guardian

EDUCATION

Intern nation

The debate over unpaid internships is complex. Students want the experience, but not all can afford it, especially when they’re required to pay for the corresponding academic credit.

Inside Higher Ed

Uncertain about future benefits, many veteran teachers are retiring early

At a time when the Wisconsin governor’s plan is to eliminate collective bargaining for teachers, some school districts are seeing record numbers of senior teachers turn in their retirement paperwork.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Detroit sends layoff notices to public teachers

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Africa the birthplace of human language, analysis suggests

An analysis of languages from around the world suggests that, like our genes, human speech originated in sub-Saharan Africa.

ScienceDaily

Are you embarrassed? Blame your brain

A team of scienctists at the University of California, led by Virginia Sturm, is working to isolate the part of the brain in control of embarrassment.

LiveScience

Humpback whale songs spread eastward like the latest pop tune

At any given time within a population, male humpbacks all sing the same mating tune. But the pattern of the song changes over time, with the new and apparently catchy versions of the song.

ScienceDaily

SPORTS

NCAA committee approves rules changes to football games

College football could have a very different look next fall. Teams will have the option of shaving 10 seconds off the clock for penalties called in the final minute of each half.

San Francisco Examiner

David Stern: Labor proposal due soon

NBA Commissioner David Stern said the league plans to submit to the players’ union a revised proposal for a new collective bargaining agreement within the next couple of weeks.

ESPN

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