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Norma Andrade, mother of one of the women killed in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, carries an image of her daughter during a protest marking the International Women‘s Day in Mexico City. (Photo by Marco Ugarte / AP)

World marks International Women’s Day

A day that began as a tribute to striking garment workers in New York City more than a century ago has evolved into an annual worldwide celebration of women.

NY Daily News

International Women’s Day around the globe

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

International Women’s Day

Guardian

NAACP to challenge state voting laws before UN panel

The NAACP will go before a United Nations panel to argue that new voting laws approved by some U.S. states violate civil and human rights by suppressing votes.

McClatchy Newspapers

Senate rejects GOP attempt to advance Keystone oil pipeline

The Senate rejected Republican proposals to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline and expand offshore drilling off both the west and east coast of the United States.

San Francisco Chronicle

Senate sends message to Obama on Keystone

Politico

Not under ranchers’ backyards

BusinessWeek

US report: More is needed to stop youth tobacco use

More work needs to be done to keep young Americans from using tobacco, including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes on tobacco products, the U.S. Surgeon General’s office reports.

Indianapolis Star

Youth smoking is focus of new report

CNN

A year on, Japan looks to the road ahead

A year after suffering the worst nuclear accident in its history, Japan is still struggling to understand what happened at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

NPR

Art after Fukushima: how the nuclear disaster roused Japan’s artists

The Economist

NATION

Closure of US post offices threatens small-town America

The debt-riddled U.S. Postal Service is threatening to close 3,200 post offices, putting the identities of rural communities at risk.

Guardian

Obama returns fire at Republicans over gas prices

For the second time in less than a week, President Barack Obama railed against “phony” quick fixes to the nation’s energy challenges as he visited the election battleground state of North Carolina.

Reuters

How much do you know about gas prices?

Christian Science Monitor

Speeding enforcement falls through cracks with budget cuts

With limited funds for road safety promotion and education, the issue simply falls through the cracks, says Barbara Harsha, executive director of the Governors Highway Safety Association.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Romney encourages rivals to fold; no way, they say

With his delegate lead growing, Mitt Romney gently nudged his rivals toward the sidelines, saying he was on track to wrap up the presidential nomination before the party convention next summer.

CBS News

Mitt Romney versus Rick Santorum: 7 lessons from Ohio voters

Christian Science Monitor

House passes bipartisan bill that is aimed at small businesses

In a rare moment of bipartisanship, the House overwhelmingly passed a bill aimed at making it easier for small companies to grow and go public.

CNNMoney

BUSINESS

Apple and publishers targeted for e-book price fixing

The Justice Department has warned Apple and five major publishers that it plans to sue them, accusing them of colluding to raise the prices of electronic books while blocking rivals and hurting consumers.

Reuters

Older workers are exiting fast, shrinking the labor force

Economist Dean Maki argued that the U.S. workforce is shrinking as aging baby boomers hit retirement age. This — not missing workers from the labor force — may be knocking down the jobless rate.

McClatchy Newspapers

US unemployment applications hover near lowest levels in 4 years

Chicago Sun-Times

EDUCATION

US public schools sell empty classroom seats abroad

Enrollment is dropping at many rural schools. Fewer students means less state funding and a slow extinction. Across the U.S., public high schools are putting their empty classroom seats up for sale.

Reuters

Ohio voters were sympathetic to schools’ levy requests

Ohio voters approved 75 percent of the tax requests for schools in the state’s primary, which marks the highest passage rate in nearly 12 years.

Columbus Dispatch

HEALTH

Making up for lost daylight saving time

Several studies have established a link between the loss of sleep caused by daylight savings and a jump in car accidents, heart attacks and injuries.

Baltimore Sun

What really makes us fat?

Research reveals a more complex equation for weight gain that not only places some blame on calorie intake but also looks at organic pollutants.

The Atlantic

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Unprecedented map pieces together Titanic’s wreck

Researchers have pieced together what’s believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire three-by-five-mile Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about the wreck.

NPR

1st map of Titanic wreck site sheds new light on disaster

History.com

‘Social discovery’ is hot trend at this year’s South By Southwest festival

Austin‘s annual South By Southwest festival (SXSW) is where users started tweeting long before it became mainstream. However, this year’s hot bets are about making offline connections.

CNNMoney

Blog:

How to make it to SXSW — and live to tell about it

CNET News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Give parole-eligible prisoners a chance

Star Tribune

Editorial:

Mitt’s mixed record

Detroit News

Column (Phil Richards):

Peyton Manning’s legacy reaches far beyond football field

Indianapolis Star

Editorial:

How the NFL chooses to handle bounties will speak volumes

USA TODAY

Column (Jessica Valenti):

Let us celebrate the US backlash against sexism

Guardian

Editorial:

Banks should not be both judge and jury on credit defaults

Bloomberg

Column (Margery Eagan):

Romney’s weaknesses are Ann’s strengths

Boston Herald

Column (Charlotte Silver):

Palestinian prisoners take reins from faltering leaders

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

1 smart cookie founded Girl Scouts 100 years ago

Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts, was a quirky and strong-willed society woman whose single troop of 18 girls grew into an organization that now boasts 50 million-plus alumnae.

USA TODAY

Summer dreams: the Girl Scouts of today

Detroit Free Press

Franco Majok fled Sudan, returned to build school

Franco Majok says his ability to read a map saved his life. “I feel very strongly that education saved me,” he says. Majok serves as the executive director of Village Help for South Sudan.

Christian Science Monitor

Sign, donations give Detroit soup kitchen a new lease on life

A new sign advertising for Mother Batie’s Kitchen was designed by students at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and funded with donations to promote awareness of the free kitchen.

Detroit Free Press

WORLD

‘Kony 2012’ charity addresses its critics

A 30-minute YouTube film critical of Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony has logged close to 37 million views, but the charity behind the video is suddenly on the defensive, forced to explain its motives.

ABC News

KONY 2012

YouTube

Syrian rebels reject calls from Annan, UN for dialogue

Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, said he would urge President Bashar al-Assad and his foes to stop fighting and seek a political solution, drawing angry rebukes from dissidents.

Baltimore Sun

Special section:

Syria: the war within

Al Jazeera

Greece averts immediate default with bond swap deal success

Greece averted the immediate risk of an uncontrolled default, winning strong acceptance from its private creditors for a bond swap deal, which will eat into its mountainous public debt.

Reuters

Blog:

Debt crisis and Greek bond swap: live

Telegraph.co.uk

ENVIRONMENT

Thoreau’s notes reveal how spring has changed in 150 years

Springtime in Concord, Mass. has changed since the town was home to Henry David Thoreau, and the writer himself has helped scientists to figure out how that is.

LiveScience

Energy-neutral buildings take hold in US

Builders are taking the idea of energy-efficiency one step further: Why construct a building that uses less energy when we can make one that uses no energy at all?

Scientific American

China’s stunning green buildings

Treehugger

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Solar storm less powerful than feared

This year’s most closely watched solar storm is sweeping over our planet. So far, the impact on satellites, power grids and communication networks is not as severe as some had feared.

Msnbc.com

Solar storm may affect communications

euronews (YouTube)

‘Turn off all electronic devices’: And what happens if you don’t?

Although airlines say they will not disclose how many passengers get bounced off planes for refusing to switch off devices, flight attendants say it’s now the most common spark for unruly behavior.

Wall Street Journal

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Faith Mission in fiscal pinch as more non-residents seek meals

A few years ago, Faith Mission cooked primarily for people who bedded down in the shelter at night. Now, more than half of its daily meals are served to people who are not shelter residents.

Columbus Dispatch

Mormon church blocks whistle-blower’s access to baptism data

A crackdown by Mormon leaders has blocked the pre-eminent whistle-blower of controversial proxy baptisms from accessing the Church’s database that chronicles baptisms for the dead.

Salt Lake Tribune

SPORTS

Retweets becoming the digital version of athlete autographs

Forget standing in line for hours, hoping for a scribbled autograph on a wrinkled piece of paper. When it comes to souvenirs from your favorite athlete, the retweet is becoming more popular.

Yahoo! News

No shortage of interest in former Colts quarterback Manning

Peyton Manning’s camp is aiming to make a decision on where he will play next season within the next week. While Manning prefers to stay in the AFC, he is still open to playing for an NFC franchise.

ESPN

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