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State Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus presides in the bail hearing of International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn in New York Supreme Court. Obus set bail at $1 million. (Photo by Richard Drew / Pool / AP)

Job creation limps along after recession

Nearly two years after the economic recovery officially began, job creation continues to stagger at the slowest post-recession rate since the Great Depression.

USA TODAY

Jobless claims fall more than forecast

Bloomberg

Many US nuclear plants ill-prepared to handle simultaneous threats

The U.S. government finds that many U.S. nuclear plants would fail to face multiple challenges at the same time as happened at Fukushima Daiichi.

Scientific American

Judge weighs Strauss-Kahn bid for bail

A New York judge weighed whether to release on bail former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who has been charged with sexually assaulting a maid at a luxury Manhattan hotel.

Reuters

Strauss-Kahn resigns from IMF; Lawyers seek bail on rape charges

ABC News

Former IMF leader indicted in case, gets bail

YouTube

Photos of Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Spiegel International

President presses for reform

In a speech, President Barack Obama said the future of the U.S. was bound to the Middle East by forces of economics, security, history and fate.

BBC

Blog:

Deciphering Obama’s Middle East speech

(Washington Post)

The Fact Checker

Obama delivers speech on Middle East policy

MSNBC

Hard financial lessons learned in college

Many college students, like those at the University of New England, are learning how to live on a strict budget. They’re trying to avoid falling into too much debt.

NPR

NATION

Study of US troops in wartime: Morale droops and ‘acute stress’ rises

Morale among American troops underwent a “significant decline” between 2005 and 2009, according to a study by the U.S. military.

Christian Science Monitor

Floodwaters carve deadly trail

The overflowing Mississippi River reached a historic height at Vicksburg, Miss., sending backwater up the Yazoo River, which has swallowed a home owned by the governor and claimed the life of a 69-year-old man.

CNN

Blog:

Farm runoff in Mississippi River floodwater fuels dead zone in Gulf

(PBS)

The Rundown

Giffords ‘recovering well’ after surgery to seal skull

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was doing well after a surgery that replaced part of her skull to help her recover from a head-shot wound left by an assassination attempt.

Arizona Republic

High-tech fix to improve Giffords’ life

YouTube

POLITICS

Senate panel holds hearing to examine US intelligence gathering

The Senate Homeland Security Committee held its second hearing examining the intelligence community 10 years after the 9/11 attacks.

C-Span

Senate blocks a GOP bid to speed offshore oil drilling

A GOP bid to expand and hasten offshore oil drilling in the face of $4-a-gallon gasoline prices suffered an overwhelming defeat in the Senate.

NPR

Geithner: Republicans will be responsible if US defaults

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said if Republicans insist on passage of their budget as a condition for approving an increase in the nation’s borrowing limit, they will be responsible for the consequences.

MSNBC

Blog:

Lawmakers mull selling land, gold to pay off government debt

(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

BUSINESS

In tight times, Los Angeles relies on volunteer police

Amid the buget cuts that can take away $100 million from the L.A. city’s police department, officials are saving money through the use of volunteers.

NPR

Japan is back in recession as earthquake cuts consumption

Japan’s economy, the world’s third largest, has slid back into recession after the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami.

BBC

EDUCATION

What they are really typing

For years, researchers have conducted studies in hopes of answering whether having laptops in class undermines student learning. In the avalanche of literature, one can find data pointing each way.

Inside Higher Ed

Specialists weigh common social studies standards in schools

Subject-matter specialists in social studies from more than a dozen states are meeting to brainstorm ways to improve academic standards in that subject.

Education Week

ENVIRONMENT

An invasion of the orchid snatchers

Scientists say the illegal collection of orchids can have dire results for biodiversity. Some species are available on the black market before they can even be formally named.

BBC

Are extinctions overestimated?

Global extinction rates may have been overestimated by as much as 160 percent, according to a new analysis.

National Geographic

SPORTS

NFLPA head: NFL lockout isn‘t about ‘shut up and play’

The executive director of the NFL Players Association gave a graduation speech that compared the players’ lockout fight against the owners to the detractors the students will face in their future lives.

Sports Illustrated

Built to push for titles, Heat push back biggest challenge yet

The pressure has pushed down on the Miami Heat ever since opening night in Boston seven months ago, and this was another wave.

CBSSports

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GOOD NEWS

Barefoot Power brings solar lighting to off-the-grid areas in East Africa

Barefoot Power, a for-profit social enterprise operating across East Africa, has built a network of “solar entrepreneurs” who offer solar lighting to towns and villages all across Uganda.

Christian Science Monitor

Gay dads from Phoenix raise 12 adopted children

Steve Ham and his partner, Roger Ham, make TV’s “Brady Bunch” look like amateurs. They are raising 12 adopted children, and they don’t think they’re doing anything extraordinary.

ABC News

A driving effort to monitor your diabetes

People with diabetes and their caregivers know that careful and constant monitoring of their blood sugar levels is critical to managing the disease. But what about while driving?

Star Tribune

WORLD

US turns up pressure on Assad

Widespread demonstrations in Syria is a possible indication that the opposition is encouraged by mounting international pressure on President Bashar al-Assad after the recent financial sanctions.

Boston Globe

Syria remains torn between reform and Assad

Al Jazeera

Al-Qaida releases posthumous bin Laden audio recording

Al-Qaida has released a posthumous audio recording by Osama bin Laden in which the group’s late leader praised revolutions sweeping the Arab world.

Al Jazeera

A peaceful city? Scratching beneath the surface in Abbottabad

Spiegel International

HEALTH

Want to be happy? Stop trying

While the pursuit of happiness may seem like a reasonable aim, new research shows that making happiness a personal goal will only stand in the way of your achieving it.

LiveScience

Bearing through it: How caregivers of mentally ill kin can cope

A new study from Concordia University, AMI-Quebec and the University of British Columbia has found family caregivers of the mentally ill can experience high levels of stress and depressive symptoms.

Medical News Today

Study: Flame retardant found in foam baby products

A national study of 101 foam baby products, including 18 from Michigan, found flame retardants in 80 of them — with many of the retardants containing chemical compounds.

Detroit Free Press

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Why we love juicy gossip magazines

If your eyes are drawn to the covers of the latest gossip magazines and the juicy details of which starlet backstabbed another, you can blame our ancestors.

LiveScience

Can classical music change the world?

Symphonies affected social change in Beethoven’s day — can they make the same impact in the 21st century?

The Atlantic

Blog:

How is baseball like classical music?

(CBC News)

Radio 2

The race to replace ‘Oprah’

The daytime television landscape is about to look very different after the talk show queen Oprah Winfrey leaves. The move has resulted in speculation over who, if anyone, can fill the void.

CNN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Noah’s Ark park being built in Ky.

A state hoping to land a biblical theme park, which will include a full-size replica of Noah’s Ark, approved tax incentives to help pay for it.

MSNBC

Argentinian Jewish group gets Google to nix hate ads

The Google search engine “suggest” options had been directing people to anti-Semitic websites which violated incitement to violence laws.

Jerusalem Post

Forgeries in the Bible’s New Testament?

A provocative new book charges the New Testament with forgery, claiming that the Apostle Paul authored only a fraction of letters attributed to him, and the Apostle Peter wrote nothing.

Discovery News

Blog:

All hail the king

(The New Yorker)

The Book Bench

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Dark energy is driving universe apart

A survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our universe apart at accelerating speeds.

ScienceDaily

Protein flaws responsible for complex life, study says

Tiny structural errors in proteins may have been responsible for changes that sparked complex life, researchers say.

BBC

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