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Water diverted from the Mississippi River spills through a bay in the Morganza Spillway in Morganza, La. A steel floodgate was raised for the first time in nearly four decades, unleashing water from the Mississippi River, away from heavily populated areas downstream. (Photo by Patrick Semansky / AP)

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Obama administration aims to increase domestic US oil production

The Obama administration plans to stimulate domestic oil production to blunt rising gasoline prices with measures including giving oil companies more time to comply with safety regulations.

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Bloomberg

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Obama calls for more Alaskan oil drilling

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Guinness awards gaming records to iPhone 4, App Store

The Guinness Book of World Records has bestowed the honor of fastest-growing gaming system upon Apple’s iPhone 4, as well as noting that the App Store itself has also set records.

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PC World

Mississippi floods: Louisiana gates open

U.S. army engineers have opened floodgates in Louisiana that will inundate up to three million acres of land in a bid to protect cities along the Mississippi River.

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BBC

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NASA watches the Mississippi from space

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The Atlantic

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Floodgate opens on swollen Mississippi

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Floods send swamp creatures scrambling

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Pakistan condemns raid

Pakistani MPs are demanding there must be no repeat of the U.S. commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden and say drone strikes targeting terrorists near the border with Afghanistan must end.

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Sydney Morning Herald

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Security tight after Pakistan blasts

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Yahoo! News

Atomic clocks with amazing accuracy

A team of physicists from the U.S. and Russia announced that it has developed a means for computing, with unprecedented accuracy, a tiny, temperature-dependent source of error in atomic clocks.

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ScienceDaily

NATION

Army investigation caused damage, say Muslim soldiers

Five Muslims who joined the Army to work as military translators say their lives and careers were ruined after they were falsely accused of trying to poison their fellow soldiers.

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ABC News

JetBlue flight struck by birds, returns safely to JFK

A JetBlue plane headed from New York to Aruba turned around shortly after takeoff after the pilot reported a bird strike, JetBlue officials told NBC New York.

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NBC New York

Glitch forces repeat of US visa lottery

Thousands of foreigners may lose their chance to immigrate after the U.S. State Department said a computer problem invalidated the annual visa lottery.

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UPI

POLITICS

Mike Huckabee: ‘My heart says no’ to GOP presidential bid

Count former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee out of the 2012 presidential race. “My answer is clear and firm, I will not seek the Republican nomination for president this year,” Huckabee said.

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Huckabee says he won’t run for president

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Reform Social Security now? Demographics of electorate say yes

Social Security is in bad shape financially, and federal efforts to reform the program seem to be on a slow track — or no track at all. Those two facts have emerged recently in separate quarters.

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Christian Science Monitor

Bipartisan House group seeks to bolster nation’s police forces with COPS bill

As more and more local governments are laying off police officers to balance strung-out budgets, a bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced legislation to reverse the trend.

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The Hill

DEATH OF BIN LADEN

Suit filed to see bin Laden death photos

A government watchdog group sued the federal government to release Osama bin Laden death photos and videos.

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Pakistan may cut NATO’s Afghan supply line after Osama bin Laden killing

Senior politicians vow to review ties to America after discord over drone attacks and assassination of al-Qaida leader

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Guardian

BUSINESS

Health insurers making record profits

The nation’s major health insurers are barreling into a third year of record profits, enriched by a lingering recessionary mind-set among Americans who are postponing or forgoing medical care.

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Eight things to know about Medicare and Social Security trust funds

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Star Tribune

Special section:

History of healthcare timeline

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PBS

Everyone thinks Raj will run

If the attendees at the Skybridge Alternative Investments conference agree on one thing it is this: convicted insider trader Raj Rajaratnam will attempt to flee before he is jailed.

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CNBC

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Prosecutors don’t let up after conviction

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NPR

A storm gathers over equities markets

Declines in oil and metals prices are being seen by an increasing number of fund managers and strategists as a signal to get out of riskier areas of the equity market.

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Business Day

ENVIRONMENT

Historic climate change deal with legal powers agreed by Cabinet in UK

Cabinet ministers have agreed a far-reaching, legally binding “green deal” that will commit the U.K. to two decades of drastic cuts in carbon emissions.

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Guardian

Coral reef mining to blame when islands sink beneath waves

Two small islands in South Asia’s first marine biosphere reserve have sunk into the sea primarily as a result of coral reef mining, experts say.

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BBC

SPORTS

Autopsy to be scheduled for New York Rangers’ Boogaard

An autopsy is scheduled for New York Rangers enforcer Derek Boogaard, whose body was discovered a day earlier in his Minneapolis apartment, a medical examiner said.

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CNN

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Derek Boogaard found dead

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ESPN

Memphis Grizzlies force Game 7

The Memphis Grizzlies are having not only the best playoff run in franchise history, but they now have won more games this postseason than any other No. 8 seed from the West.

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Houston Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Acalanes seniors take top prize at Intel science fair

Acalanes High School seniors Blake Marrgraff and Matthew Feddersen have taken the top prize at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Los Angeles.

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San Jose Mercury News

Bartender rocks mullet for charity

Business in the front and charity in the back? One Vancouver-area bartender hopes his Tanner Glass-style mullet can raise at least $1,000 for sick children.

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Antiviral drugs stop HIV spreading to sexual partners

An international study has demonstrated conclusively that antiretroviral therapy blocks the spread of HIV from an infected person to their uninfected partner.

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WORLD

Witnesses: Soldiers shell Syrian border town amid refugee flight

The two-month-long tumult across Syria echoed along the Lebanese border as the regime’s troops shelled a town and hundreds of refugees hustled to safety into Lebanon.

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Hundreds flee amid violence in Syria

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Singer ‘Sweet Micky’ takes oath as Haiti’s new president

Michel Martelly, a charismatic singer with no government experience, has been sworn in as Haiti’s president, shouldering a daunting task of reconstruction in his poor, earthquake-battered nation.

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Reuters

EDUCATION

Largest UNLV graduating class ever

UNLV held its 49th spring commencement ceremony at the Thomas & Mack Center, where graduates quietly sat on the arena floor in their robes while family and friends cheered, yelled names and blew air horns.

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Teachers without licences in Ind.

A new state law that allows Indiana to expand the number of charter schools is sparking concerns that some schools will trade traditional teachers for professionals who lack teaching licenses.

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Chicago Tribune

HEALTH

13 cases of salmonella have been confirmed in Illinois

Kane County health officials say 13 people now have been confirmed as having contracted salmonella, with some suspected to have come from a St. Charles restaurant.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Study reveals inborn language sense

Scientists confirm that human beings are born with knowledge of certain syntactical rules that make learning human languages easier.

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ScienceDaily

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Bob Dylan denies China censored his choice of songs

Singer Bob Dylan has hit back at suggestions that he gave in to censorship during a recent series of concerts in China. He was criticised in print and online for ignoring 1960s-era protest songs.

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BBC

Market forces stir upfront ads

As the TV biz enters the feeding frenzy of the upfront advertising market, questions are swirling about prices, targeted messages and even the definition and parameters of TV advertising.

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Variety

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The magma mystery of space cold case

With over 400 active volcanoes, Jupiter’s moon Io remains one of the strangest places in the solar system.

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Herald Sun

Sony to restart Playstation Network

Sony has announced it will begin a phased restoration of its PlayStation Network, more than three weeks since the service had to be shut down because of a security breach.

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CBC News

Sony begins to bring PlayStation Network back online

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Game Hunters

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Sony: Restoration has begun

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Head of Philadelphia priest sex-abuse review panel criticizes church leaders

The head of the panel that reviews clergy sex-abuse cases for the Philadelphia Archdiocese has lashed out at Cardinal Justin Rigali, accusing him of hiding facts about the misdeeds of priests.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Belief in religion is ‘simply a universal part of human nature’

Humans are naturally inclined to believe in gods and an afterlife, according to a major three-year study led by Oxford University.

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Daily Mail

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Held as slaves, now free

They arrived in the U.S. from West Africa, young girls held against their will and forced to work for hours on end. This time, it wasn’t hundreds of years ago.

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CNN

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A woman looks at an ice sculpture at the “Fun Ice World” in the Venetian Macao, a hotel and casino resort in Macau. (Photo by Kin Cheung / AP)

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