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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano, center, speaks to the media after returning from Iran at the Vienna International Airport near Schwechat, Austria. (Photo by Ronald Zak / AP)

How much can potential employers ask about you?

Conducting background checks has become a billion-dollar business. More than 90 percent of employers conduct criminal background checks, and others access credit reports and driving records.

NPR

Facebook stocks drop amid pressure

Facebook’s shares fell again as questions mounted over the company’s financial prospects and its ability to grow fast enough to live up to the hype surrounding its stock.

San Francisco Examiner

Facebook employees still well off

ABC News

What happens when IPOs get a bad start?

CNBC

Iran agrees to UN inspections in advance of nuclear talks

Iran made the first move in attempts to gain an edge in nuclear talks with world powers: It agreed to allow U.N. inspectors to restart probes into a military site suspected of testing atomic weapons.

San Jose Mercury News

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Iran’s key nuclear sites

BBC

US Airways flight diverted because of passenger’s ‘suspicious behavior’

A US Airways flight en route from Paris, France, to Charlotte, N.C., was diverted after a passenger’s “suspicious behavior” on board a Boeing 767 jet.

Bloomberg

Eurozone warned ‘severe recession’ may be looming in the future

The 17-country eurozone risks falling into a “severe recession,” the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned, as it called on Europe’s central bank to act quickly.

USA TODAY

Hollywood’s former holiday destination of choice to vanish from tourist map

More than 100 years after it was created by a flood and decades after environmental degradation, California‘s Salton Sea is six weeks from falling off the tourist map, thanks to the state’s fiscal crisis.

The Independent

The World in Photos .........................................................................
A boy dives into the water of a public pool on a hot, sunny day in Essen, western Germany. (Photo by Martin Meissner / AP)	Tourists stop to photograph shafts of light coming through the sandstone canyon walls while touring through Antelope Canyon near Page, Ariz. (Photo by Julie Jacobson / AP)	The Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket is seen during a time exposure as it lifts off at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Photo by John Raoux / AP)

NATION

From rubble to rebuilding: Joplin still recovering a year after tornado

The tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., one year ago took 161 lives, injured hundreds and destroyed thousands of homes and buildings. A year later, some things have been rebuilt, and some never will be.

NY Daily News

‘Blue Shirts’ help Joplin survivors

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Inventor of the remote control dies at 96

A spokesman for Zenith Electronics says Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control, has died. He was 96.

San Jose Mercury News

Supreme Court reviews FISA amendment

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to examine whether a group of U.S.-based lawyers, activists and journalists can challenge a Bush-era law authorizing broad surveillance overseas.

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Campaign researchers dig deeper for dirt on political opposition

Campaign researchers have one goal: uncovering an unguarded moment, a controversial position, a gaffe or flip-flop — anything that can be used to torpedo a political foe’s campaign.

USA TODAY

Romney is about to make the same health care mistake as Bush

Romney’s advisers want the main component of his health care campaign to be a change in the tax code, but Romney is leaning toward offering much less help to the uninsured.

Bloomberg

BUSINESS

US home sales up across the country

Americans are buying more homes in every region of the country. An increasing portion of those sales are from first-time buyers, who are critical to a housing recovery.

Associated Press

Westfield gives a peak at World Trade Center plans

After years of negotiation, Westfield last week signed a deal with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for a $1.25 billion joint venture to lease the retail space at the World Trade Center.

Reuters

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

NC pastor calls for death of gays, lesbians

A North Carolina pastor is calling for the extermination of all gays and lesbians by locking them off behind an electrified fence and waiting for them to die.

NY Daily News

LAPD modifies surveillance of Muslims

After lobbying from Muslim and Sikh leaders, the Los Angeles Police Department has agreed to modify its information-gathering program on suspicious activities of Muslims.

Huffington Post

Catholic groups take fight against Obama birth-control rules to court

Some 43 Catholic groups, including Notre Dame, are attempting to block rules in the new health care law that require health insurance to provide access to birth-control services.

Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

Success in college can spring from a single conversation, say experts

How does someone succeed in college? It is the $64,000 question — or more like the $150,000 question — whose answer has been sought by countless policymakers, researchers and universities.

McClatchy Newspapers

Race to the Top 2012 invites school districts to compete

This year, Race to the Top, the U.S. Education Department’s $4.35 billion contest, opens $400 million in grant money to school districts — and not states, like in previous rounds.

Huffington Post

SPORTS

Durant and Westbrook help Thunder oust Lakers from playoffs

Russell Westbrook scored 28 points and Kevin Durant added 25 points as the Oklahoma City Thunder surged ahead to beat Los Angeles 106-90 in Game 5 and eliminate the Lakers from the playoffs.

USA TODAY

The NBA’s small-market disadvantage

The Atlantic

Summer sports programs for high school student-athletes

The high school sports year is winding down in schools across Long Island, but there are plenty of programs offered in summer months for student-athletes to keep their skills sharp.

Yahoo! News

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GOOD NEWS

US museums to open doors for free to military families

More than 1,600 museums across the country will offer free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families this summer in a program that has more than doubled in size since 2010.

Star Tribune

Bartender’s charity helps world’s thirsty with wells

Doc Hendley founded Wine to Water in Boone, N.C., in 2004. The charity funds well repair and water filtration projects in countries including Uganda, India, Haiti, Cambodia and Peru.

BusinessWeek

Small implantable disk may help cancer patients with pain

Johns Hopkins scientists are developing a button-sized disk implanted under cancer patients’ skin that releases consistent doses of painkiller over a month. No pills, no measuring and no trips to the clinic.

Baltimore Sun

WORLD

NATO sets roadmap to withdraw troops, end Afghanistan war