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President Barack Obama walks down the stairs of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (Photo by Cliff Owen / AP)

John Paul’s rise toward sainthood: going too fast?

The chants began even as the coffin of Pope John Paul II was carried through St. Peter’s Square: “Sainthood now!” A month later, Pope Benedict XVI launched the process that would do just that.

NPR

Life of Pope John Paul II

Romereports.com

Economy slowed by gas prices, bad weather

High gas prices cut into consumer spending, bad weather delayed construction projects, and the federal government slashed defense spending by the most in six years.

BusinessWeek

Chicago: City of the big gas prices

CNNMoney

In Petraeus, a CIA pick with political heft

With the choice of General David Petraeus as CIA director, President Barack Obama will bolster his national security team with a Republican favorite.

Reuters

New security team’s pluses, minuses

Politico

Obama to signal security shake-up

YouTube

Tornadoes devastate South, over 248 dead

Dozens of tornadoes ripped through the South, flattening homes and businesses and killing at least 248 people in six states in the deadliest outbreak in nearly 40 years.

St. Petersburg Times

In pictures: Deadly US storms

BBC

New checklist could detect signs of autism much earlier

An early screening test for autism, designed to detect signs of the condition in babies as young as 1-year-old, could revolutionize the care of autistic children, experts say.

USA TODAY

NATION

Bernanke sees risks in further steps to spur job growth

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the Fed can’t take additional steps to try to ease high unemployment without escalating inflation.

San Francisco Chronicle

Ben Bernanke goes on record to warn US deficit ‘not sustainable’

Guardian

A year later, Michigan’s smoking ban has mixed impact

Michigan’s tough smoking ban has limited exposure to secondhand smoke. But the ban has also hurt business in bars and drained about $50 million from the state’s cash-strapped budget.

Detroit News

30 percent chance weather will delay shuttle Endeavour launch

Everything is on track for the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, with President Barack Obama, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and as many as 700,000 onlookers on hand to cheer its final mission.

Orlando Sentinel

Giffords’ attendance brings extra attention to shuttle launch

CBS News

POLITICS

Admiral Mullen discusses important US foreign policy

Admiral Mike Mullen spoke at an event sponsored by “Government Executive Magazine” . Admiral Mullen discussed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the NATO-led incursion in Libya.

C-Span

Obama releases birth certificate

President Barack Obama, trying to squelch an escalating controversy, released a long-form birth certificate from 1961 that shows he was born at Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu.

USA TODAY

Oklahoma Senate approves bill targeting illegal immigrants

The Oklahoma Senate approved a bill that would create criminal penalties for undocumented immigrants who work in Oklahoma and those who smuggle them into the state.

Reuters

HEALTH

Happy hour? ‘Wet houses’ allow alcoholics to drink, surprising results

It sounds like an alcoholic’s vision of heaven. But the reality of “wet houses” for homeless alcoholics looks more like hell, even as these programs reduce costs to taxpayers and health care providers.

TIME

Special section:

How alcohol works

Discovery News

Morning heart attacks are much more damaging and dangerous

A heart attack that occurs in the morning tends to leave a much larger area of dead tissue than those that occur at other times of the day, Spanish researchers revealed in the journal “Heart”.

Medical News Today

Armadillos may spread leprosy

People infected with leprosy in the United States often have the same previously unknown strain of the microbe Mycobacterium leprae that is also carried by armadillos.

Science News

EDUCATION

No room for books

While university libraries have taken on numerous functions over the years, one component that has always been central to their mission has been housing books.

Inside Higher Ed

Should Ph.D.s be limited?

In the United States, the government pushes for excellence in the sciences but struggles to create jobs to meet the number of students graduating.

Discovery News

ENVIRONMENT

Adaptable urban birds have bigger brains

City-dwelling birds have larger brains than rural ones relative to their body size, according to scientists.

BBC

Mystery of Grand Canyon’s formation revealed by giant structure

The birth of the Grand Canyon has been a geological mystery. Now a giant structure discovered on the underside of the plateau could shed light on how it was formed.

LiveScience

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Rolling robot was inspired by caterpillar

A robot that mimics one of the caterpillar’s trickiest moves, that of escaping predators by curling into a wheel, has been built by researchers.

Discovery News

Jobs speaks out on iPhone tracking controversy

Apple CEO Steve Jobs and two other top executives said that the company will fix the way it stores location tracking data in its iPhones and iPads, but denied using such data to track customers.

PC Magazine

New evidence on the origin of a supernova explosion

Astronomers may now know the cause of an historic supernova explosion that is an important type of object for investigating dark energy in the universe.

ScienceDaily

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Leslie Marshall):

Americans care about jobs, price of gas over deficit and debt

U.S. News & World Report

Column (Allan Wolper):

Why Helen Thomas no longer has an award named after her

Editor & Publisher

Column (Roland Kupers):

End of the nuclear route

Khaleej Times

Editorial:

Bernanke press conference: a less-reserved Federal Reserve

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Hashmat Moslih):

Afghanistan’s economy: in need of rescue

Al Jazeera

Column (Vivian Diller):

Homogenized beauty goes to China

Huffington Post

Column (Justin Logan):

How Washington changed Barack Obama

Politico

Editorial:

Who’s to blame for rising oil prices?

Christian Science Monitor

Site edited by: Pallavi Sukhia, Nisha Dubey, Jameson O'Neal, Lukas Dregne, Conrad Hain and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

Massive marine protected area created in Costa Rica

A vast new marine protected area has been created around Cocos Island, southwest of the Costa Rican mainland.

Positive News

Sittercity raises $22.6 million to connect families with caregivers

Sittercity has raised $22.6 million in funding. Sittercity goes beyond just connecting families with child care. The site also offers access to caregivers for pet care, eldercare and home care.

TechCrunch

Some silver linings of high gas prices

Instead of feeling totally stressed at the pump, think about the positive aspects of high gas prices — the five ways that life is already improving thanks to $138-per-barrel oil.

Good News Network

WORLD

Morocco: Marrakesh bomb strikes Djemaa el-Fna square

A bomb attack in the main square in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh has killed at least 15 people and injured 20.

BBC

Rio’s shantytowns shrink – on Google maps, at least

Rio de Janeiro has complained for years that Google maps overstates the size of the city’s favelas, or shantytowns. It’s one of many diplomatic disputes worldwide over Google’s online maps.

Christian Science Monitor

600 Air India pilots go on strike

About 600 Air India pilots, who had been with the erstwhile Indian Airlines, have struck work to demand pay parity and better working conditions, an official said.

Khaleej Times

BUSINESS

After Google, China’s Baidu search engine finds new challengers

Like China’s juggernaut economy, Baidu.com, the country’s most popular search engine, is powering ahead, controling some 75 percent of searches in the world’s largest internet market.

BBC

Flint striker reminisces: ‘equal pay, equal conditions’

Olen Ham has seen the decline of organized labor. During the Great Depression, roughly one out of four Americans couldn’t find work. But for those willing to move, it was available.

NPR

UAW wants to deal with Big 3 all at once

Detroit News

FBI: businesses lost $11M over 12 months to China-based phishers

U.S. businesses have lost at least $11 million over the last year thanks to unauthorized wire transfers to China.

Ars Technica

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Royal wedding to be a worldwide event on TV and online

Anglophiles who choose to stay home, and whose families decline to get up with them, won’t have to watch this wedding alone. Social networking will bring the party to the living room.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

These celebrities are already ‘booked’

Being famous isn’t enough anymore. You need to be famous and write a book — or have one written about you.

USA TODAY

Garam masala: a taste worth acquiring

Garam masala — a combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, cardamom, mace, peppercorns, coriander and cumin — has long been the quintessential Indian spice mix.

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Times Square Church founder dies in Texas crash

Rev. David Wilkerson, founding pastor of Times Square Church in New York City and author of the best-selling book, “The Cross and the Switchblade,” has died. He was 79.

USA TODAY

Times Square Church founder, author dies in crash

The Rev. David Wilkerson, founding pastor of Times Square Church in New York City, “The Cross and the Switchblade,” has died in a car crash. He was 79.

TIME

SPORTS

Yankees’ Phil Hughes to learn if he has rare disorder

Phil Hughes, an 18-game winner in the last season could have thoracic outlet syndrome, a rare disorder that affects blood flow.

USA TODAY

Frank McCourt blasts Bud Selig, MLB

Los Angeles Dodgers’ owner Frank McCourt expressed outrage after McCourt said baseball Commissioner Bud Selig vetoed McCourt’s agreed-upon deal with Fox for a regional sports network.

ESPN

NFL, players resume court battle amid final draft preparations

The NFL and its players swapped another set of accusatory court filings, arguing whether the now-lifted lockout should be put back in place even as teams get ready for the most unusual draft in history.

Star Tribune

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