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Reporters question John Henry Browne, attorney for Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, outside a hotel in Lansing, Kan. Bales is suspected of killing 17 civilians in Afghanistan and Browne says he plans to travel there to collect his own evidence. (Photo by Mike Horine / AP)

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Moving in together before marriage no longer a bad omen?

Nearly half of first marriages break up within 20 years, a new government study finds. With those odds, you might wonder: Would we be better off living together first?

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NPR

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Why marriage makes people happy

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U.S. News & World Report

Coroner: Whitney Houston died by drowning, cocaine use

Whitney Houston’s death was caused by accidental drowning, cocaine ingestion and heart disease, according to a preliminary report issued by the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.

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USA TODAY

Bales faces 17 murder counts in Afghanistan killings

Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage in Kandahar province, Afghanistan will be charged with 17 counts of murder, a U.S. official says.

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Reuters

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Suspect in Afghan shooting rampage is a profile in contradictions

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ABC News

Police chief resigns ‘temporarily’ amid shooting criticism

Sanford, Fla., Police Chief Bill Lee is stepping down “temporarily” amid accusations that his department bungled its investigation into the shooting death of an unarmed teen, Trayvon Martin.

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ABC News

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Trayvon Martin march in New York

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Guardian

Warming with warning

As the mercury rapidly rises, scientists are saying an out-of-whack jet stream — possibly the result of solar flares or melting ice caps — is the reason why New Englanders are stripping down.

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More than 4,000 record highs recorded

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The Weather Channel

NATION

Jobless claims in US fall to their lowest level in 4 years

The number of Americans saying the U.S. economy is getting better rose in March to the highest level since 2004, as a decline in claims for unemployment benefits offered more evidence of a labor-market recovery.

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Bloomberg

Financially troubled Harrisburg bets on unusual auction

Harrisburg, the financially troubled capital of Pennsylvania, is hosting an auction of artifacts this summer in hopes of raising enough money to close the gap between the city’s revenue and operating costs.

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CNNMoney

Does Secret Service trump speech rights? Supreme Court hears case

The Supreme Court heard an appeal that asked the justices to enact a special rule exempting U.S. Secret Service agents from civil liability for arresting someone for the offensive content of their speech.

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Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

At Oklahoma oil hub, Obama pledges to expedite part of pipeline

President Barack Obama pledged to accelerate approval for part of the Keystone XL pipeline, while deflecting criticism that his rejection of the full project resulted in rising gas prices.

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Reuters

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Obama’s speedy Keystone review will not accelerate Cushing pipeline

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Bloomberg

Obama tours 4 states to defend clean energy policy

Against the desert backdrop of the nation’s largest solar energy installation, President Obama assailed Republican critics of his clean energy policies as “the flat earth society.”

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MSNBC

BUSINESS

Kraft, Mondelēz International and the ‘art’ of rebranding a company

Think what you will of Mondelēz International, the new name that Kraft Foods will give to its global snacks business after the company splits this year. At least it is not “Tfark.”

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BusinessWeek

More employers asking job seekers for Facebook passwords

In their efforts to vet applicants, some employers are going beyond merely glancing at a person’s social networking profiles. Instead, they are asking to log in as the user to have a look around.

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MSNBC

When employers log in to dig in

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all tech considered

EDUCATION

Online GED seekers presented with bogus diplomas, lawsuit alleges

Imposters abound online, promising simpler ways to get a GED or a high school diploma. Those who are duped into it are almost always disappointed, as colleges and employers do not accept the degrees.

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MSNBC

Seattle School Board votes to keep Teach For America partnership

The Seattle School Board voted to continue the district’s partnership with Teach For America, an organization that places recent college graduates without teaching credentials in low-performing schools.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

‘Blue Like Jazz’ seeks Christian audience

“We wanted to show that movies about the faith struggle that millions of Americans deal with do not have to be cheesy,” said director Steve Taylor. “They can compete with other films at the box office.”

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Huffington Post

Up in alms over salaries

In the Archdiocese of Boston, the number of church employees earning more than $150,000 has skyrocketed by more than threefold, even as the church has been shuttering parishes.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The new normal adoption: birth parent no longer secret

The secrecy that long shrouded adoption has given way to openness. Only about five percent of infant adoptions in the U.S. do not include some kind of relationship with the birth parents.

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Christian Science Monitor

Could the website Pinterest soon become the next Facebook?

Pinterest — for the uninitiated — is a deceptively simple-sounding, insanely addictive social media website that allows its users to collect and share images with friends on digital pinboards.

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CNNMoney

The copyright question: protecting yourself on Pinterest

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Mashable

Running a marathon with no training

Those limbering up for the London Marathon can be forgiven for feeling galled by Irish pop singers John and Edward Grimes, who claim to have run the Los Angeles marathon on a whim.

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BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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What Barbie could learn from American Girl

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TIME

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Where is white church outrage over Trayvon Martin?

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CNN

Column (Gary Hart):

The new conservatism

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Huffington Post

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Toulouse killings: making political capital out of Mohammed Merah

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Guardian

Column (Leonard Pitts Jr):

‘The Boss’ delivers his state of our union

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McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Joanna Weiss):

Another kind of heroine

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (James Fallows):

An exchange with Jeffrey Goldberg on ‘bluffing,’ Israel and Iran

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The Atlantic

Column (Michael Eisen):

How traditional publishing hurts scientific progress

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Wired

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GOOD NEWS

Music helps children learn math

An innovative curriculum uses rhythm to teach fractions at a California school where students in a music-based program scored higher on math tests than their peers who received regular instruction.

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Telegraph.co.uk

State grant puts Focus: HOPE back in business, aids employment

Focus: HOPE is getting back to the business of putting metro Detroiters to work. The State of Michigan’s Workforce Development Agency is giving it a $2.35 million grant to restore programs.

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Detroit Free Press

Students’ creations offer hope for cause

The half-dozen girls who make up Kids and a Cause — a Pittsburgh group that raises funds for cancer patients and treatment — have raised more than $14,000 in the past five years.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WORLD

Toulouse gunman killed by sniper

A police sniper shot and killed the gunman who carried out a spate of murders in southern France, prosecutors say, after a 32-hour siege in Toulouse.

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BBC

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Jewish community draws solace from France’s response to killings

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Christian Science Monitor

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Gunman dead as siege ends in shoot-out

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YouTube

Chinese firm helps Iran spy on citizens

A Chinese telecommunications company has sold Iran’s largest telecom firm a powerful surveillance system capable of monitoring landline, mobile and Internet communications of Iranian citizens.

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Reuters

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China’s foreign policy is playing catch-up with its new status

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Guardian

Mutiny in Mali: Renegade soldiers seize power after palace attack

Soldiers stormed state television and announced they had seized control of the democratic country, dissolving all of its institutions due to the nation’s mishandling of an insurgency in the north.

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TIME

HEALTH

Clue to male baldness discovered

A biological clue to male baldness has been discovered in the form of a protein that triggers hair loss. The finding raises the prospect of a treatment to stop or even reverse thinning hair.

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BBC

Registered nurse labor supply and the recession: Are we in a bubble?

Over the next several years, many RNs who entered the workforce during the economic downturn are likely to leave their jobs once the economy recovers.

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New England Journal of Medicine

ENVIRONMENT

Fire devours Kenya’s ancient forests

A weeklong fire raging on Kenya’s highest mountain has devoured thousands of hectares of Mount Kenya’s ancient forests, a crucial water catchment for the country.

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Al Jazeera

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British troops help tackle Kenya blaze

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YouTube

US intelligence agencies: water a cause for war in coming decades

The lack of fresh water may cause significant global instability in the coming decades, especially as developing nations seek to supply exploding populations in the face of climate change.

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Detroit News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The science of judo

Every form of exercise uses a different combination of metabolic systems for energy. A team of researchers have taken the lab into the dojo to study the energy requirements of the Japanese art of judo.

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Science

Activists commit more cyberattacks than cybercriminals

Activists who hack into government and corporate computer networks, and then release files to embarrass those organizations, were responsible for more than half of all known data thefts in 2011.

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Guardian

SPORTS

NFL suspends Saints coaches, GM for ‘bounties’ on opponents

New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton was suspended without pay for the entire 2012 season in a series of NFL punishments for the team’s bounty program targeting opponents.

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CNN

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Senate to hold hearing on bounties

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ESPN

New York sure to test Tebow, on and off the field

Instead of the lovefest that usually greets new players, Tim Tebow was dismissed as a "publicity stunt’’ by none other than Joe Namath, and dissed by Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie.

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Sports Illustrated

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New Yorkers react to Tim Tebow trade to Jets

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YouTube

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Mechanicsville teen helping lead national fight against childhood obesity

Madelyn Clark, 17, is a member of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s Youth Advisory Board and reaches out to youngsters to share the importance of healthy eating habits.

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Richmond Times Dispatch

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Young Bangladeshi refugee boys are geared up to play cricket on a clear piece of land near their homes in a slum in Karachi, Pakistan. (Photo by Anonymous / AP)

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