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A soldier, part of the NATO forces, carries a sniffing dog after a gun battle in Kabul, Afghanistan. A Taliban attack on the Afghan capital ended when insurgents were overcome by heavy gunfire from Afghan-led forces and air assaults from coalition helicopters. (Photo by Musadeq Sadeq / AP)

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Busted by the crafts cops

Etsy Inc. has tapped into the consumer craze for all things local, artisanal and authentic. Yet a problem is hitting the site that promises shoppers handmade items: Factory-made goods lurk on Etsy.

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Wall Street Journal

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A poem store open for business, in the open air

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NPR

Courtroom clash over tweets

Those 140-character tweets are raising squawks as judges deal with journalists and even jurors over use of the micro-blogging site in court.

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Star Tribune

US preparing for last Afghan offensive

A U.S.-led offensive, expected to begin in the coming weeks, may be NATO‘s last chance to shore up Kabul’s defenses before a withdrawal of combat troops.

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CBS News

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Who will pay for Afghanistan’s forces?

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NPR

Afghanistan live

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Al Jazeera

Migrants left to die on the high seas still haunt NATO

Two new reports examine the circumstances in which 63 African migrants perished on a fairly crowded sea after they fled the eight-month Libyan conflict during NATO‘s bombing campaign.

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TIME

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Migrant boat disaster: Who was responsible?

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Guardian

Pentagon outlines plan to crack down on sexual assaults in US military

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the moves will “fundamentally change” the way the Pentagon goes about prosecuting sexual assault cases.

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Christian Science Monitor

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All services will set up sexual assault SVUs

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Marine Corps Times

NATION

Space shuttle Discovery takes off on final flight to the Smithsonian

Space shuttle Discovery, NASA’s fleet leader and the world’s most flown spacecraft, lifted off for the last time to be delivered to the Smithsonian museum.

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SPACE.com

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Last flight of shuttle Discovery

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USA TODAY

US housing starts unexpected drop to 5-month low

Builders began work on fewer homes than forecast in March, signaling a sustained industry recovery that will take some time to get underway.

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Bloomberg

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US housing starts slow, but housing permit requests rise

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TIME

POLITICS

‘Pig Book’: Congress curbs earmarking

Congress has seriously curbed its earmark habit of spending tax dollars for pet projects. According to the new “Pig Book," the amount of tax dollars destined for earmarks is down to $3.3 billion.

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CBS News

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CAGW releases 2012 congressional ‘Pig Book’

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MarketWatch

Stung by gas prices, Obama seeks new oil market crackdown

President Barack Obama, whose political fortunes are threatened by rising gasoline prices, proposed new measures to reduce oil market manipulation that are unlikely to get support from a divided Congress.

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Reuters

GSA whistle-blower testifies on scandal

A GSA official who raised questions about the agency’s overspending at a 2010 Las Vegas conference said she supported the findings of the government investigation.

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CNN

BUSINESS

IMF: Despite growth, the world economy remains fragile

Global growth is slowly improving as the U.S. recovery gains traction and dangers from Europe recede, but risks remain high and the situation is very fragile.

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Reuters

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US stocks advance as IMF boosts projection

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San Francisco Chronicle

Giving up tech and never looking back

Claims last year that Facebook lost 6 million users may not have dented the site’s heady growth, but it did reflect a growing trend of disillusionment with the use of social networking websites.

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Sydney Morning Herald

Special section:

Battle for the Internet

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Guardian

EDUCATION

Pointing to words helps children read in later years

Parents who point out words and letters to their children as they read aloud boost the youngsters’ reading skills when they are older, according to a new study.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Online and underpaid?

Argosy University has cut pay rates for adjunct faculty who teach online — by as much as 33 percent in some cases.

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Inside Higher Ed

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Renting a bike has never been so easy

Thanks to a new peer-to-peer bike-sharing website called Spinlister, you may soon be able to rent a bike almost anywhere.

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Grist

What to say to save a life

Suicide in film is often glamorized and always tragic, but often unconvincing. Can films ever capture the reality of wanting to take your own life?

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The Independent

Coachella’s modern music

The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival’s promoters doubled down this year, adding a second three-day weekend with an identical lineup of more than 140 acts.

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Wall Street Journal

Did humans invent music?

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The Atlantic

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Bible given a new voice

The name Jesus Christ does not appear in The Voice, a new translation of the Bible. Nor do words such as angel or apostle. Instead, angel is rendered as messenger and apostle as emissary.

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Sydney Morning Herald

Christians talking politics: Was Jesus for small government?

What would Jesus do with the U.S. economy? That’s a matter of fierce debate among Christians, with conservatives promoting a small-government Jesus and liberals seeing Jesus quite differently.

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NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Dan Neal):

We get a lot in return for our income tax dollars

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Casper Star-Tribune

Column (Sandra Fluke):

Yes, women care about their wages

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CNN

Blog (Juliana Breines):

How you can learn to be good (to yourself)

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(Psychology Today)

In Love and War

Ban antibiotics in America’s food

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Virginian-Pilot

Blog (Dr. Jim Taylor III):

Should parents raise their own children?

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Cartoon (Joel Pett):

Taxes

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McClatchy Newspapers

Space station meets cool test, but falls short on science

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Orlando Sentinel

Column (Eyal Press):

The unsung heroes of the Balkan wars

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GOOD NEWS

Gifting birth: A woman helps build a family for others

For most mothers, there is no event in life bigger than giving birth to a child. Charity Lovas has given birth to eight children, yet only three of those children are actually her own.

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NPR

$1 million donation to transform library into digital playground

A $1 million donation in the memory of Orlando, Fla., civic leader Dorothy Lumley Melrose will transform the Orlando Public Library into one of the most avant-garde in the nation.

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Orlando Sentinel

For soldier, rap is a powerful weapon

When Jeff Barillaro came home from fighting the war in Iraq, he felt lost, like thousands of veterans do. He didn‘t have a mission anymore. But now, through music, he’s found one.

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NPR

WORLD

Sudan, South Sudan now at war

Nine months after Sudan split into two nations in search of a peace brokered by the United States, it is now clear that the two sides are at war.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Sudan calls government of South an ‘enemy’

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Al Jazeera

Panama booms, poor watch from afar

Panama is experiencing a boom fueled by an expansion of the Panama Canal. But even as the government markets the country as a paradise, not everyone is sharing in the prosperity.

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NPR

Breivik: ‘I would have done it again’

Anders Behring Breivik defended his massacre of 77 people in Norway, insisting he would do it again and calling the bomb-and-shooting rampage the most “spectacular” attack since World War II.

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Star Tribune

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Brain scans predict weight gain and sexual behavior

The activity in a region of the brain associated with reward can predict who will gain weight or have sex in the next six months, according to new research.

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LiveScience

Tupac ‘hologram’ merely a pretty cool optical illusion

Rapper Tupac’s recent resurrection is a clever optical illusion technique known as “Pepper’s Ghost,” which dates back to being first described by an Italian scientist in the 16th century.

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Ars Technica

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Rapper‘s delight: Tupac ’hologram’ may start going on tour

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Wall Street Journal

ENVIRONMENT

Muddy history from the ocean floor

Throughout vast oceans, unimaginable numbers of tiny organisms of life are slowly sinking until they settle on the ocean floor, on top of the billions from years past. The ocean floor is a cemetery.

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Guardian

Bald eagles are making a comeback in the Windy City

Just 30 minutes from downtown Chicago, bald eagles are making their return to the area for the first time in over 100 years.

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Msnbc.com

Farmers must spend more on herbicides as effectiveness fades

A much-used herbicide, which for years has helped U.S. farmers increase profits, is losing its effectiveness and forcing producers to spend more to control the weeds that threaten yields.

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USA TODAY

HEALTH

US, Haiti kick off vaccination campaigns

Haiti, the U.S. and international partners are launching a nationwide vaccination campaign in the Caribbean country that seeks to curb or prevent infectious diseases, health officials.

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San Francisco Chronicle

New treatment for prostate cancer gives ‘perfect results’ for 9 in 10 men

A new treatment for prostate cancer can rid the disease from nine in 10 men without debilitating side effects, a study has found, leading to new hope for tens of thousands of men.

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Telegraph.co.uk

SPORTS

NFL announces 2012 schedule

The nation will not have to wait long to see Peyton Manning in a Broncos uniform. Manning’s first game as the Broncos’ quarterback will come during prime time.

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ESPN

Special section:

2012 NFL schedule

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NFL.com

Olympic cheats: the cat-and-mouse game to catch dopers

The world of sports doping is a high-stakes, high-tech game played out at race tracks and in labs. But as the Olympics approaches, scientists hope new techniques will give them the edge.

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BBC

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Darkest exoplanet spotted by astronomers 750 light-years away

A dark alien world, blacker than coal, has been spotted by astronomers. The Jupiter-sized planet is orbiting its star at a distance of just 3,106,855.96 miles and is likely to be at a temperature of 2,192 F.

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BBC

Photo of the Day

The Space Shuttle Discovery, mounted on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, flies past the flags of the Washington Monument. Discovery is en route from Kennedy Space Center to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. (Photo by Ann Heisenfelt / AP)

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