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A leading international human rights group says Syrian forces have summarily executed several people, most of them civilians. A report by Human Rights Watch says this includes several mass executions in the restive provinces of Homs and Idlib. (Photo by Local Coordinatiion Committees in Syria / AP)

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Is R&B going extinct?

Recent comments from musicians show anxiety about the genre‘s popularity — and about black artists’ place in it.

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The Atlantic

Special section:

A history of R&B and hip-hop

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Guardian

Special prosecutor: no grand jury for Trayvon Martin case

State Attorney Angela Corey has decided not to use a grand jury in her investigation into the shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.

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CBS News

Syrian rebels reject latest demands

Rebels in Syria have rejected a last-minute demand by the government, made just 48 hours ahead of a proposed ceasefire that now looks set to fail.

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BBC

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Defectors offer insider’s view of Syrian army

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NPR

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Will Annan’s peace plan succeed?

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YouTube

North Korea readies rocket for launch

North Korea’s long-range rocket, scheduled to put what it says is a satellite into orbit, has been installed on its launch platform, the country’s space officials say.

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Al Jazeera

What‘s behind launch plans?

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CNN

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A rare glimpse inside North Korea

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Toronto Star

Questions cloud red-light camera issue

The conversation about red-light cameras keeps simmering, raising the question as to whether they save lives by reducing accidents or whether they’re just a way for cities to raise money.

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USA TODAY

NATION

Tulsa shooting suspects charged, bond set at $9.1 million each

Two Tulsa men arrested in connection with a shooting spree that left three black men dead and two critically injured were charged with murder and are being held on $9.1 million bonds each.

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ABC News

Local US furniture company’s revival has global message

With rising labor and shipping costs in China, companies producing appliances, cookware, audio earphones, water heaters and other goods have decided to move some of their operations back to U.S. soil.

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Associated Press

2 firefighters killed in Philadelphia warehouse fire

A fire at an abandoned warehouse claimed the lives of two Philadelphia firefighters after a wall collapsed in an adjacent building where the men were trying to halt the fire’s progress, officials said.

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San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Santorum child’s illness prompts Romney to pull ad

Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign pulled an attack ad targeting Rick Santorum, responding to the Republican rival’s decision to suspend campaigning after the hospitalization of his daughter.

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BusinessWeek

Congress’ spring break is a time for voters to vent

Members of Congress on a two-week spring break hear their constituents’ concerns and try to explain their actions in Washington.

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Yahoo! News

BUSINESS

Facebook to buy Instagram for $1 billion

Facebook said it is acquiring popular photo-sharing app-maker Instagram for $1 billion in what is the social network’s biggest acquisition to date.

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Wall Street Journal

Asian stock markets fall after US hiring slows down

Asian stock markets declined after U.S. hiring slowed in March, raising doubts about the durability of the recovery in the world’s largest economy.

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Federal funds to train the jobless are drying up

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Report: Sony to ax 10,000 jobs, expects $2.7 billion net loss

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Bloomberg

HEALTH

Study identifies possible link between autism and obesity during pregnancy

Though researchers stopped short of saying that obesity causes autism, new research has identified a link between obesity during pregnancy and certain developmental disorders.

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CBS News

World Health Day celebrated with focus on healthy, active aging

The World Health Organization celebrated its birthday by focusing on aging. The days proceedings included a host of events, research and information under the theme, “Good health adds life to years.”

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CNN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Gay Mormon students come out to say, ‘It gets better’

Brigham Young University students have launched a web video aimed at reassuring other gay and lesbian youth struggling with their faith and sexual orientation.

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Toronto Star

Caregiving for loved ones the ‘new normal’ for baby boomers

Trying to create the best possible quality of life for an aging relative is “the new normal” for 43.5 million Americans caring for someone older than 50, according to the Family Caregiver Alliance.

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CNN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Cruise ship retraces the Titanic’s route 100 years later

Determined to recreate the Titanic voyage, a ship’s crew and passengers departed from Southampton, England.

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CBS News

Club Tropicana: Totally tropical fashion comes in from the cold

Could the American everyman wear anything other than a Hawaiian shirt? That’s the tussle in considering this oft-maligned, mostly reviled garment.

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The Independent

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Ana Marie Cox):

Ludicrous, hysterical, brilliant – the top Republican campaign adverts

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Guardian

Column (Victoria Bekiempis):

America’s prescription drug addiction suggests a sick nation

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Guardian

Column (Andrew Billo):

Is ‘Gross National Happiness’ a better measurement than GDP?

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The Atlantic

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Issues that hit close to home

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USA TODAY

Cellphone privacy is on the line

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Column (Mitch Albom):

Why ‘Words with Friends’ has me hooked

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Detroit Free Press

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Telegram & Gazette

Column (Khaled Beydoun):

When suicide is the only escape

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Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

New life for boy blinded by shooting

It’s Sunday morning at Sacred Heart Church in Camden, and Jorge Cartagena feels the warm embrace of a new family.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Ways to Work loan program a life-changing opportunity

The Ways to Work program, started in 1984 in Milwaukee, Wis., helps low-income workers get loans on used cars if they agree to continue working and take financial literacy education.

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USA TODAY

Michelle Obama visits wounded veterans for Easter celebration

To kick off the Month of Military Child, first lady Michelle Obama took part in a pre-Easter celebration with wounded veterans and their families at the Fisher House in Bethesda, Md.

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Huffington Post

WORLD

Kenya’s marathon men

Many wonder what the secret to Kenya’s phenomenal success in long-distance running is. The answer, says former priest and top running coach Colm O’Connell, is that there is no secret.

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Guardian

The experience of the marathon and its psychedelic connection

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Boston Globe

West to target Iran’s nuclear fuel work

The U.S. and its allies are pressing for an end to Iran‘s uranium enrichment and the closure of a facility built deep under a mountain as talks on Tehran’s nuclear standoff with the West resume.

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Home again in Mexico: Illegal immigration hits net zero

Tiny Tamaula is the new face of rural Mexico: Villagers are home again as the number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. drops to net number of zero.

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Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Quantum computer built inside diamond

The future of quantum computing may be on display in the form of a quantum computer built inside a diamond, the first of its kind to include protection against harmful noise called “decoherence.”

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Futurity.org

There is a war under way for control of the Internet, and every day brings word of new clashes. Governments, corporations, criminals, anarchists — they all have their own aims.

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Vanity Fair

Who owns the Internet?

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Howstuffworks.com

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Internet theft on the rise, but few are caught

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USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

What now for bisphenol A?

The U.S. FDA denied a petition asking it to ban BPA from food and food packaging, but it said its studies of the chemical are not complete.

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Kansas City Star

Are Denmark’s energy goals realistic?

Denmark has stated that by the end of this decade it will produce a third of its energy from renewable sources. The question is whether they will be able to reach the lofty goal.

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BBC

EDUCATION

Schools under fire for targeting vets

Many veterans looking for a school find they are inundated by sales pitches from institutions hungry for their government benefits. Now, lawmakers are looking for ways to protect vets.

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NPR

Fights over school vouchers’ fate

For all the arguments in favor of vouchers, there are opponents who say vouchers erode public schools, violate the separation of church and state and are not a proven way to improve test scores.

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Yahoo! News

SPORTS

With a shot only he could hit, Bubba Watson wins Masters in playoff

One man made history, but the other, playing alongside the first, refused to resign himself to spectator status and wound up making history of his own.

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Sports Illustrated

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Masters final round highlights

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CBSSports

Yankees, Red Sox both 0-3 for 1st time since 1966

The last time the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees opened a baseball season like this there was no American League East — and Yankees manager Joe Girardi was one year old.

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USA TODAY

Canucks blank Oilers to win Presidents’ Trophy, clinch top seed in playoffs

Henrik Sedin broke out of a lengthy scoring slump at just the right time to help the Vancouver Canucks win their second straight Presidents’ Trophy.

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CBSSports

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Arctic ice as likely to grow as melt in immediate future

The trending loss of ice in the Arctic has been seen as one of the most prominent outcomes of the 20th-century warming, but in the next few decades it could as easily grow as it could continue to shrink.

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Photo of the Day

An Indian tosses a rope with a magnet attached at its end into the water as he drags for coins thrown by Hindu devotees as offerings in the holy River Ganges in Allahabad, India. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)

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