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Pro-bin Laden supporters pray outside the U.S. Embassy in London during a protest against the killing of Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden by the U.S.’s special forces in Pakistan. (Photo by Sang Tan / AP)

Mother’s Day flowers war

Mother’s Day flowers: Those words have been typed into search engines by countless Americans lately. What few realize is that an online war is being waged by the country’s largest flower sellers.

New York Times

Blog:

Mother’s Day: what moms really want

Huffington Post

‘Do not track’ legislation is on the move

A draft bill would amend the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to tack on an additional “do not track” clause designed to protect the personal information of children.

PC Magazine

Osama bin Laden’s agents: Who are they?

Pakistani officials say the Obama administration has demanded the identities of some of their top intelligence operatives as the U.S. tries to determine whether they had contact with Osama bin Laden.

MSNBC

Anwar al-Awlaki targeted by US drones

CNN

President Obama talks to FDNY firefighters

NY Daily News

Toughest economic woes in US

Which economic problems should President Barack Obama tackle first, and how should he go about it? Economists and other experts give their take.

ABC News

Blog:

Sticking to clean energy

(USA TODAY)

The Oval

Malaria mosquitoes accurately find their way to smelly feet

African malaria mosquitoes use their olfactory organs to search for their hosts. However, at a certain point the mosquitoes are diverted toward the feet, their preferred place to bite.

ScienceDaily

NATION

Residents brace for more flooding as Mississippi River swells

As the Mississippi River gushes downstream with no clear boundaries, flooding continues to deluge parts of Tennessee as residents farther south brace for what will come.

CNN

DEA event collects 188 tons of unwanted prescription drugs

The Drug Enforcement Administration says that Americans turned in more than 188 tons of old or unwanted medicines in a second daylong, nationwide effort aimed at reducing prescription drug abuse.

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Democrats, Republicans edge closer on debt deal

The outlines of a deal that would allow the U.S. to avert a debt default emerged as top Republican and Democratic lawmakers held their first meeting aimed at cutting the bloated deficit.

Reuters

Nation’s largest union asks members to back Obama’s reelection

The National Education Association has asked its members to support President Obama’s campaign for a second term in the White House.

The Hill

DEATH OF BIN LADEN

After Osama bin Laden

What the death of the movement’s figurehead means for al-Qaeda, Pakistan, Afghanistan — and the West.

Economist

Osama bin Laden raid: 4 fresh twists

Christian Science Monitor

Osama bin Laden dead: CIA next door

ABC News

Obama to meet SEALs team that killed bin Laden as terror plot revealed

President Barack Obama was scheduled to meet the men responsible for collecting the intelligence during a raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound.

CNN

Obama to meet with elite SEAL team

MSNBC

The real housewife of Abbottabad

The U.S. Navy SEAL team that killed Osama bin-Laden may have left behind another vital source of intelligence — bin-Laden’s wife, Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah.

TIME

Hands-on mastermind

YouTube

BUSINESS

In business or philanthropy, the key is treating people as valued ‘clients’

Selling inexpensive products in the developing world is one way to lift living standards. But whether it‘s capitalism or philanthropy you’ve got to listen to and involve your customer.

Christian Science Monitor

The world’s top-earning models

The economic recovery has been good for the world’s top-earning models. With consumers cautiously spending on luxury goods, the 10 top-earning female models on the planet made a combined $112 million.

Forbes

The coming millionaire boom

Despite the Great Recession, which wiped out $15.5 trillion in household wealth in the United States alone, the number of millionaires in this country and abroad will grow rapidly over the next decade.

CNNMoney

ENVIRONMENT

Moon microbe mystery finally solved

There has been a long-lived bit of Apollo moon landing folklore that now finally appears to be a dead-end affair: microbes on the moon.

Space

Chimps are self-aware

According to a study, Chimpanzees are self-aware and can anticipate the impact of their actions on the environment around them, an ability once thought to be uniquely human.

Environmental News Network

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Making peace in America’s cities

The Dalai Lama inspires a new generation of urban activists who know that inner and outer peace are one. Barry Boyce on two cities where they’re making a difference.

Shambhala Sun

Faith unshaken by tornado

The sound of someone playing a piano emanated from the Alberta Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa, Ala., two days after a devastating tornado ripped a deadly gash through this Southern town.

CNN

SPORTS

Golf legend Seve Ballesteros dies of cancer at age 54

Severiano “Seve” Ballesteros, the dashing, charismatic Spaniard who left his mark on the golf world with one wondrous golf shot after another, has died at the age of 54.

USA TODAY

Dirk Nowitzki, Mavericks push Lakers to brink of elimination

Just when they were about to make things interesting, Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers blew it. They were unable to stop Dirk Nowitzki and fell 98-92 to the Dallas Mavericks.

USA TODAY

Kentucky Derby 2011 might be tougher to handicap than ever

The Derby inevitably is the year’s most difficult race to predict, and this year is particularly indecipherable. Horses, many lightly raced, are converging from across the U.S., and even Ireland.

Courier-Journal

A brief history of the Kentucky Derby

TIME

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Michael Signer):

Is Donald Trump a demagogue? He doesn’t have the chops.

The New Republic

Editorial:

Driven to distraction by Trump

Indianapolis Star

Column (Pat Reber):

Bin Laden death boosts Obama, but budget headaches loom

Monsters and Critics

Column (P G Bhaskar):

A pain in the neck is actually truly painful

Khaleej Times

Column (Bonnie Rochman):

In defense of motherhood: why we keep having kids

TIME

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Bad driver

Indianapolis Star

Column (D.J. Tice):

Health care’s ugliest truth

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

Reasonable initiatives to curb childhood obesity deserve better than a fat chance

Houston Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Marine gets a hero’s welcome

To his friends and family, U.S. Marine Cpl. Hunter McGuinness is a true American hero, as he returned home after spending seven months in one of the most dangerous regions of Afghanistan.

newstimes.com

Woman awarded for giving meals to hungry kids

When a second grade boy complained to Elisa Perez that his stomach hurt, the after-school site director asked him if he needed to use the bathroom. Blinking back tears, Perez took action.

San Jose Mercury News

On 100th birthday, he married the woman of his dreams

Rose Pollard Lunsway and Forrest Lunsway have been making headlines because they just got around to tying the knot — on Forrest’s 100th birthday.

MSNBC

WORLD

Taliban launch assault on Kandahar

Militants staged attacks on government buildings in the restive southern Afghan city of Kandahar, in a brazen Taliban onslaught designed to seize or kill the provincial governor.

CNN

Syrian tanks enter ‘protest hub’ Baniyas

Syrian troops backed by tanks swept into Baniyas, a hub of anti-regime protests, as residents formed human chains in a bid to halt the military operation, according to human rights activists.

Al Jazeera

Thousands protest in Syria

Reuters

EDUCATION

Chicago study finds mixed results for AVID program

Individual interventions intended to improve academic skills, such as the popular Advancement Via Individual Determination program, or AVID, may not secure a student’s path to graduation.

Education Week

Picking a fight

To “level the playing field,” the National Association of College Stores, has picked a fight with Amazon — the world’s largest bookseller — over advertising claims made by the Internet giant.

Inside Higher Ed

HEALTH

Dozens of questionable deaths seen in assisted care

Florida is a case study for how U.S. protects its most vulnerable citizens. One case in particular is that of Aurora Navas, whose death exposes the failings of assisted care living.

NPR

Happiness linked to a gene

In work that gives cranky teenagers another reason to blame their parents for all life’s woes, researchers have uncovered a link to happiness.

Guardian

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Industry troubles? Free comic books to the rescue!

For comic book fans around the world, the first Saturday of May marks an annual holiday — Free Comic Book Day. Started by a small shop in California, the event has spread around the world.

NPR

Blog:

Free Comic Book Day is bigger than ever

(CNN)

Geek Out

Daring, defiant and free

A new generation of superclimbers is pushing the limits in Yosemite, Calif. Today you are likely to meet climbers from all walks of life be it a divorce attorney from Delaware or a wild-haired dirtbag.

National Geographic

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Express sees deep fractures on Mars

Images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express show a system of fractures around a giant basin.

ScienceDaily

Computer scientists induce schizophrenia in a neural network

Researchers testing mental illness figured out how to induce schizophrenic symptoms in a computer, causing it to place itself at the center of crazy delusions.

It is possible that Facebook and Google are separately weighing partnerships with Skype, the popular Web video telephony service used by millions around the globe for communication.

Reuters

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