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NATO protestors form a sit-in in response to a police barricade of bicycles in Chicago. Security has been high throughout the city in preparation for the two-day NATO summit. (Photo by John Minchillo / AP)

The fishy tale of America’s strangest theme park

Clean the tank, go through the safety procedure, put on your makeup and your tail and dive into a spring: It’s all in a day’s work for Kylee Troche — she’s a full-time mermaid.

The Independent

I’ll Have Another wins Preakness, will aim for Triple Crown

The Kentucky Derby winner needed nearly every yard of the Pimlico stretch to run down Bodemeister and win the Preakness by a neck as the top two staged a near copy of their Derby stretch duel.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

137th Preakness Stakes

Baltimore Sun

NATO summit opens in Chicago amid protests

Against a backdrop of massive protests, the summit will open with NATO countries trying to figure out how to meet a 2014 withdrawal from an unpopular war while shoring up Afghanistan’s security forces.

CNN

NATO summit: World leaders seek common path out of Afghanistan

Reuters

Afghanistan tops NATO agenda

Al Jazeera

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted Lockerbie bomber, reported dead

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in connection with the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, has died, the Libyan government and a family member said.

CNN

Decades later, Lockerbie questions remain

BBC

Northeast Italy shaken by biggest quake there since the 1300s

One of the worst quakes to hit Italy in hundreds of years rattled the region around Bologna, killing at least four people, collapsing factories and sending residents running out into the streets.

Christian Science Monitor

NATION

G-8 summit: Leaders focus on free trade as an alternative to austerity

Leaders of the Group of Eight countries focus their attention on the European fiscal crisis, with arguments that there are ways to resurrect teetering economies that don’t involve austerity.

National Post

President Obama warns eurozone to focus on jobs and growth

Telegraph.co.uk

Activist Chen Guangcheng arrives in US

Now that Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng has reached the United States, both Beijing and Washington are hoping to put what could have been a tense diplomatic situation behind them.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Chinese activist takes to the West

(NPR)

The Two-Way

NAACP backs same-sex marriage as civil right, passes resolution

The NAACP passed a resolution endorsing same-sex marriage as a civil right and opposing any efforts ‘to codify discrimination or hatred into the law.’

Pottstown Mercury

POLITICS

22 states rallying in a campaign finance legal battle

Twenty-two states are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.

Houston Chronicle

With eye on future, billionaire investor bets on Ron Paul

Texas Rep. Ron Paul said he will not campaign in states that have yet to hold primaries. But that has not deterred his supporters, including a billionaire who bankrolled a super PAC backing Paul.

NPR

GOP trying to target growing number of young Latino voters

With the Latino population growing at a fast clip, harnessing a message that inspires young Hispanics to vote is vital if Republicans want to win the White House not only this year, but in decades to come.

U.S. News & World Report

BUSINESS

Millennials spend more than they earn

Most of the 79 million U.S. millennials are either unemployed or weighed down with student loans. On average, they spend $784 a month on discretionary expenses.

Forbes

America is finally paying its bills on time

TIME

GM says it won’t advertise during next Super Bowl game

General Motors Co., which announced plans to cut Facebook advertising, said it won’t run ads during the next National Football League Super Bowl championship game.

BusinessWeek

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Many Muslims revel in basketball

For many Muslim Americans, college and professional basketball provides heroes they can take pride in, symbols of affirmation at a time when they face hostility from some Americans.

Religion News Service

NY Amish in court over smoke alarms

One Amish community in a northerly part of the state of New York is finding modern building regulations are encroaching on its way of life.

BBC

EDUCATION

Staten Island, NY, college students crushed by lesson in debt

College students are feeling the sense of pride and achievement they have when accepting their diploma give way to something else: a sense of dread knowing that, soon, a bill will come in the mail.

Staten Island Advance

Oregon bans American Indian team names, mascots for schools

The Oregon state board of education has banned public schools from using American Indian names and mascots for their athletic teams out of a concern they disparage Native American people.

Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Online dating gets a little less virtual

Dating service Match.com has begun a program called Stir, which hosts 2,000-plus parties a year to combat issues with in-person dates.

TIME

New app scans faces of bar-goers to guess age, gender

A new app scans the faces of patrons in bars to determine average crowd age and gender. Customers can check for updates on men-to-women ratio, age and more to decide if the scene is to their liking.

Houston Chronicle

Urban entertainment districts: blocks where no one has fun

What could be wrong with a district where nightclubs and galleries are encouraged to thrive? Nothing, necessarily; done right, a city can help foster these scenes with a gentle guiding hand.

Salon

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Anders Fogh Rasmussen):

NATO’s enduring ties to Afghanistan

Politico

Column (George Parry):

It’s time to end the game of racial roulette

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Meg Urry):

Private space travel: A new era begins?

CNN

Editorial:

Grow jobs, yes, but how, exactly?

Sacramento Bee

Column (Tom Horner and Tim Penny):

What can we, as Americans, do together?

Star Tribune

Blog (Robert L. Luddy):

Government regulation is killing economic growth

Economic Intelligence

(U.S. News & World Report)

Column (Jonathan Bernstein):

Where are the young politicians?

Salon

Column (Brian Montopoli):

Will the birther movement ever go away?

CBS News

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GOOD NEWS

Kentucky man buys everything at closing Kmart, donates to charity

A Kentucky businessman showed a heart of gold by buying the entire inventory of a closing Kmart and donating it to charity.

ABC News

Nonprofit agency pays companies to hire the unemployed

The WorkPlace, a Connecticut nonprofit agency, believes the best way to get the long-term unemployed back into the workforce is by paying companies to hire them.

CNNMoney

Strangers give couple fairy-tale wedding

Defying the odds, Nicole Brobeck and Curtis Braxton have found their happily-ever-after. The disabled couple from California enjoyed a fairy-tale wedding thanks to the generosity of strangers.

Huffington Post

WORLD

Opposition groups report clashes in Syrian capital

A restive district of the Syrian capital that has been a hotbed of dissent against President Bashar Assad was rocked by fighting between government forces and army defectors, opposition groups said.

Guardian

China to join elite aircraft carrier club

The Pentagon has determined China soon will commission its first aircraft carrier, placing it in an elite club of seafaring nations and raising concerns about Beijing’s growing global ambitions.

U.S. News & World Report

Bomb at Italian school kills teenage girl, wounds 10

A 16-year-old girl was killed in southern Italy by a bomb that exploded in front of her school before classes in an unprecedented attack that wounded 10 others, one seriously.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

EPA warns massive Alaska mine could devastate rivers

The Environmental Protection Agency is warning that plans for a mine in the hills above Bristol Bay in Alaska could have devastating consequences for rivers and streams and wipe out habitat for fish.

Kansas City Star

Water use may be culprit in rising seas

Sea levels are rising — but why? Scientists from Japan and the U.S. claim unsustainable water use on the ground has contributed almost half of the rise in sea levels between 1961 and 2003.

The Telegraph

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Solar eclipse to project ‘ring of fire’

Thousands of people are planning viewing parties in the western U.S. for the annular solar eclipse, a rare event in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon.

CNN

How to safely observe the solar eclipse

SPACE.com

Solar eclipse in the US

YouTube

1st test of electric car network in Israel

Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi has begun rolling out the world’s first nationwide electric car network to wean the world from oil and eliminate hurdles to environmentally friendly electric cars.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

HEALTH

Test may predict risk of schizophrenia

Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine have developed a genetic test that can predict how likely an individual is to develop schizophrenia.

Medical News Today

Raw milk, and raw emotion, go to court

Two Minnesota farmers are charged in cases that pit health claims against protecting the public. The debate centers around the health benefits, and risks, of raw milk.

Star Tribune

Good and bad fats affect brain health

“Good” fats like monounsaturated fats and “bad” fats like trans and saturated fats are not just factors in heart health — a new study shows they can affect brain health and memory, too.

Huffington Post

SPORTS

Sylvain Georges wins 6th stage of Amgen Tour of California

Sylvain Georges of France pedaled to a long, solo win, and Dave Zabriskie maintained his race lead with a main field finish in the mountainous Stage 6 of the Amgen Tour of California.

San Jose Mercury News

Olympic torch starts 8,000 mile journey

British sailing hero Ben Ainslie kicked off the torch relay for the 2012 London Olympics with a stroll through teary, flag-waving crowds who cheered the arrival of the flame.

ABC News

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