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In heavy rain, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, third left, reviews a flotilla of 1,000 vessels passing her barge, flanked by Kate Duchess of Cambridge, right, Prince William, second right, and Prince Harry, second left, on the River Thames, in London. (Photo by Matt Dunham-Pool / AP)

The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee: happy and glorious

On a most British of days — right down to the weather — more than a million people lined the Thames to pay tribute to the Queen on her Diamond Jubilee.

Telegraph.co.uk

All eyes on Thames royal pageant

CNN

Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee

ABC News

Texting and the art of conversation

Statistics show that, these days, many people with cell phones prefer texting over a phone call. And that’s creating a communication divide, of sorts — the talkers versus the texters.

Telegram & Gazette

Syria crisis: Assad denies role in Houla massacre

Syria’s President Bashar Assad has denied his government had any role in the Houla massacre. More than 100 people, many of them children, were killed in the attack, most knifed or shot at close range.

BBC

Syria violence claims young filmmaker

Los Angeles Times

Map:

Houla massacre: what, where, when

Guardian

Looming court ruling worries some with health woes

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to rule on whether to overturn the healthcare law, many with pre-existing conditions say the choice is clear.

Reuters

State pursues health care fixes

Star Tribune

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Health care reform

ABC News

Can good deeds lower unemployment?

Long before the current recession, people in Chatham County, N.C., saw the economy dipping. They noticed prices going up and incomes going down. So they fought back by caring for each other.

Christian Science Monitor

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A Filipino boy uses an improvised float as he joins friends swimming along the polluted waters of Manila’s bay, Philippines. (Photo by Aaron Favila / AP)	A person in costume pauses for a portrait during a gay pride parade in Mexico City. (Photo by Marco Ugarte / AP)	Oklahoma City Thunder center Kendrick Perkins dunks during the first half of Game 4 in the NBA Western Conference finals. (Photo by Eric Gay / AP)

NATION

Some towns eyeing retreat from the sea

Years of storms have threatened to gnaw away a popular beachfront park near Los Angeles. Instead of building a 500-foot-long wooden defense to tame the tide, the latest thinking is to flee.

USA TODAY

Alaskans mark 100th anniversary of big volcanic eruption

Even a century after one of the world’s largest volcanic eruptions, a strong wind still whips up the ash that rained down on what became known as Alaska’s Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.

Anchorage Daily News

Alaska volcano eruption still boggles mind

Alaska Dispatch

The brotherhood of Disaster City

The streets of Disaster City are dotted by smashed and overturned automobiles — on one corner, a school bus has rammed into a telephone pole. It’s a façade, of course, no more dangerous than a movie set.

CNN

POLITICS

Drone wars and state secrecy — how Barack Obama became a hardliner

He was once a liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war. Now, the U.S. president personally oversees a “kill list” for drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan.

Guardian

Wisconsin recall election tests voters’ appetite for cuts

Wisconsin voters will decide whether to remove Gov. Scott Walker from office. Walker is under fire for cutting budgets at the expense of public employees.

Kansas City Star

Blog:

Wisconsin recall battle is state’s most expensive election

(Msnbc.com)

Open Channel

BUSINESS

As economy stalls, Fed may step in

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be back on Capitol Hill to testify before a congressional committee about the state of the U.S. economy. He’s not going to get an easy ride.

(Msnbc.com)

Market Day

Acquisitions drive Enterprise’s growth in car share business

Enterprise Holdings has built its business renting cars for days or weeks at a time. Now, the company is pursuing a growing number of consumers who want a more fleeting relationship — cars by the hour.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

ENVIRONMENT

Rio de Janeiro closes its massive Jardim Gramacho dump

One of the world’s largest open-air landfills where thousands of people have made a living sorting through the debris by hand will close after 34 years in malodorous service.

USA TODAY

Clinton urges cooperation in resource-rich Arctic

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ventured north of the Arctic Circle and urged international cooperation in a region that could become a new battleground for natural resources.

Seattle Times

EDUCATION

UN calls for investigation of US school’s shock treatments of autistic children

The U.N.’s special rapporteur on torture has made a formal approach to the U.S. government over a school near Boston that inflicts electric shocks on autistic children as a form of behavioral control.

Guardian

In Minnesota, fraud, waste hijack federal tutoring program

The federal tutoring program is rife with mismanagement and fraud. Participating Minnesota students are failing to achieve the academic gains educators expected a decade ago.

Star Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Today’s blacksmiths forge a new kind of artisanal future

Blacksmithing is an ancient trade that saw a downturn during the Industrial Revolution, when machines took over jobs that humans once did. Now, blacksmithing is seeing a small revival.

NPR

America’s gone bananas: here’s how

Today, bananas are cheap and ubiquitous in the United States — but that wasn’t always the case.

NPR

Rekindling old flames in a digital age

The prevalence of social media is making it easier for former loves to reconnect, making the memories very visceral when they surface.

Star Tribune

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ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

Smart bomb drug attacks breast cancer

Doctors have successfully dropped the first “smart bomb” on breast cancer, using a drug to deliver a toxic payload to tumor cells while leaving healthy ones alone.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Prostate cancer drug proved so effective, trial stopped early

A new drug for advanced prostate cancer patients has proved so effective that researchers stopped the clinical trial early to give all patients a chance to receive the life-extending medication.

San Francisco Chronicle

Hormone-blocking pill slows cancer spread

Reuters

Leaving the Bay Area behind

A retired couple find peace, sun and parking meters that give an unprecedented two-hour time value for a quarter, in North San Juan, Calif.

San Francisco Chronicle