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Family and friends of a tornado victim clean-up and sort through debris at a mobile home where one death occurred during a tornado in Chickasha, Okla. More than a dozen people died in the latest round of violent weather. (Photo by Sue Ogrocki / AP)

The optimism bias

We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. But both neuroscience and social science suggest that we are more optimistic than realistic.

TIME

Court backs Ariz. business immigration law

The Supreme Court on upheld an Ariz. law that allows the state to shut down businesses that hire illegal immigrants, a ruling arising from the fierce national debate on immigration policy.

Reuters

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Supreme Court backs Ariz. business immigration law

(MSNBC)

First Read

Storms to hit from Gulf Coast to Northeast

Severe thunderstorms are expected to pound large swathes of the United States, stretching from the Gulf Coast to New England, forecasters warned.

CNN

Joplin residents, volunteers are waiting

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri tornado’s youngest victims

San Jose Mercury News

Tornadoes batter US heartland

YouTube

Using ultralight planes to drop drugs

They’ve used tunnels and boats, and now Mexican drug traffickers are getting more creative. Smugglers are using ultralight airplanes to drop a few hundred pounds of marijuana at a time into the U.S.

NPR

Is the US entering a population slump?

The population of the United States is still growing — but not the way it once was. And it isn’t booming like populations in some other countries in the world.

CNN

NATION

Civil war looms as big blasts rock Yemen capital of Sanaa

The U.S. State Department ordered nonessential U.S. diplomats to depart Yemen and urged all Americans living there to leave.

MSNBC

Sheriff’s deputy, 2 others arrested in Ariz. human trafficking bust

Authorities in Ariz. have arrested three employees of a sheriff’s office known for its tough stand on illegal immigration, accusing them of aiding cross-border human traffickers and drug smugglers.

CNN

US government promotes citizenship in ad campaign

Houston Chronicle

Loughner found incompetent for trial over Ariz. shootings

Jared Lee Loughner, accused of killing six people and trying to assassinate a member of Congress in a shooting spree in Tucson, Ariz., isn’t competent to stand trial.

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Budget tactics divide Senate GOP

Senate Republicans are scrambling to regain the political edge in the budget debate, with internal divisions surfacing over policy and tactics.

Politico

Republicans to hone Medicare pitch after New York election loss

Bloomberg

Clash escalates over sentence reductions for inmates

Majority Democrats had “mischaracterized” a bill they pushed through over Republican objections to establish a “risk-reduction” program for prison inmates, said House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero.

Hartford Courant

How yoga can help California’s prisons

TIME

BUSINESS

Fed gave banks crisis gains on secretive loans

Goldman Sachs and Royal Bank of Scotland each borrowed at least $30 billion in 2008 from a Federal Reserve emergency lending program, details of which weren’t revealed to shareholders, Congress or the public.

Bloomberg

Exxon ad makes gas drilling seem simpler — and safer — than it really is

Exxon Mobil Corp. has run a series of ads aimed at assuring people that shale gas drilling is safe. The ad implies that these layers of protection extend all the way down the well. But usually they do not.

ProPublica

Greenlight’s Einhorn says Microsoft should replace Ballmer

Greenlight Capital Inc. President David Einhorn called for Microsoft Corp.’s board to replace Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, saying the software maker suffers from “Charlie Brown management.”

BusinessWeek

SPORTS

Gay sports community buoyed by unprecedented support

This year might turn out to be a watershed year for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in athletics, some sports experts say.

ABC News

Dallas finishes off Thunder 100-96, heads to finals

Dirk Nowitzki hit a three-pointer and Shawn Marion followed with a three-point play in the final 1:14 as Dallas rallied again to eliminate Oklahoma City 100-96 in the Western Conference finals.

Kansas City Star

Fleet Week kicks off in New York

The 24th annual Fleet Week festivities got under way with a parade of military vessels sailing up the Hudson River in New York.

Marine Corps Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Freedom Riders reunite after 50 years

Fifty years after the so-called Freedom Riders risked their lives to break desegregation laws on the U.S. transport system, the veteran activists have reunited to inspire a new generation.

BBC

How Oprah Winfrey changed life in America

Oprah Winfrey revolutionized the talk show genre. Her grand personality, multiplatform business plan and relentless messages of positivity and self-improvement infiltrated American life from all angles.

Discovery News

Oprah stands alone on stage to give goodbye, thank you to fans

NY Daily News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Court denies Ill. diocese’s appeal in priest sex abuse case

The Illinois Supreme Court denied a request to hear an appeal by the Diocese of Belleville involving a $5 million civil jury award in a sexual abuse case against a Roman Catholic priest.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

German Catholics call for reform, many are leaving

German intellectuals and faithful alike are turning their backs on the church, calling for change or simply leaving the congregation in light of recent scandals.

San Jose Mercury News

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Erick Wong):

‘Dirt 3,’ ‘MotorStorm Apocalypse’

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Maya Angelou):

Humanity shines in time of disaster

CNN

Editorial:

Cutting good prison programs increases crime rate

Kansas City Star

Editorial:

Senate approaches another Patriot Act rush job

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog (Steve Kornacki):

Bill Clinton, Mitt Romney and why 1992 matters for 2012

(Salon)

War Room

Column (David Rockower):

Middle schoolers’ compassion takes flight

Centre Daily Times

Cartoon (David Horsey):

In the Middle East, liberty may not be for everyone

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Blog (Susan Orlean):

Why ‘mom jeans’?

(The New Yorker)

Free Range

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GOOD NEWS

Fighting hunger in remote parts of Haiti

There’s a little more hope for the hungry children of Haiti due to the efforts of the Baptist Haiti Mission, which tracks down hungry children in remote areas of the country and feeds them.

Telegram & Gazette

Texas boy wins National Geographic Bee

A 13-year-old boy from Texas won the National Geographic Bee by correctly identifying the country that is home to the Tungurahua volcano.

MSNBC

Innovative teacher finds ways to entice students to discover books

The survival skill children learn when they gather beneath the tent in Chelsea Matthews’ class is one that will one day prove more useful in society than in the wilderness. That skill is reading.

Florida Times-Union

WORLD

G-8 leaders gather in France, eyes on Arabs, IMF head

The leading industrial nations of the Group of Eight began gathering in France to endorse aid to new Arab democracies, but wrangling among over who runs the IMF may take precedence.

Reuters

Egypt to ‘permanently’ open border on the Gaza Strip

Egypt will permanently open its Rafah border crossing, the country’s official news agency reported, easing a four-year blockade on the Gaza Strip.

Al Jazeera

Egypt’s Mubarak to stand trial for murder

Christian Science Monitor

Japan’s Fukushima plant considered for nuclear graveyard

Japan’s atomic energy specialists are discussing a plan to make the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant a storage site for radioactive waste from the crippled station run by Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Bloomberg

HEALTH

Obesity epidemic fuelled by decrease In workplace physical activity

Decrease in physical activity in many occupations over the last 50 years, and not just a change in calorie consumption, has contributed significantly to the obesity epidemic in the United States.

Medical News Today

Special section:

Healthy eating: true or false?

Jerusalem Post

Hypertension in young adults a ‘sleeping epidemic,’ scientists say

Nearly one in five is the proportion of young adults who have high blood pressure, aka hypertension, according to a new study from scientists at the University of North Carolina.

(CBS News)

health pop

ENVIRONMENT

Prozac killing E. coli in the Great Lakes

Scientists in Erie, Pa., have found that minute concentrations of fluoxetine, the active ingredient in Prozac, are killing off microbial populations in the Great Lakes.

National Geographic

China crisis over Yangtze River drought forces drastic dam measures

The Yangtze — Asia’s biggest river — is experiencing its worst drought in 50 years, forcing an unprecedented release of water from the Three Gorges reservoir.

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The great cosmic-ray sniffer reaches orbit, on the hunt for dark matter

The particle detector on the space shuttle Endeavour will try to unravel questions about antimatter and the mysterious dark matter that makes up a quarter of the known universe.

TIME

Will smartphone-friendly mileage stickers help car buyers?

New fuel-efficiency labels will appear on 2013 vehicle models, which feature a host of new comparison points on mileage and will even enable smartphone users to scan labels and compare multiple vehicles.

Christian Science Monitor

NASA picks deep-space astronaut ship

NASA said that the vehicle it will use to send astronauts to places like asteroids will be based on its Orion capsule concept.

BBC

EDUCATION

Report shows education choices expanding across US

When it comes to education choices — from kindergarten up through college — the decision is no longer simple. Children often choose between public school and the charter school across town.

Modesto Bee

Athletic programs hit at historically black universities and colleges

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has banned a record eight teams from postseason play because of their athletes’ poor academic performance.

Inside Higher Ed

States: Stimulus aid sparked progress on education goals

After spending $44 billion in one-time federal education aid, states report they’ve made progress in improving school data systems and distributing highly qualified teachers across all schools.

Education Week

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