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General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson speaks at a news conference in New York. (Photo by Seth Wenig / AP)

GM hoping for speedy sale, exit from Chapter 11

General Motors hopes to follow the lead of Chrysler by transforming its most profitable assets into a new company in just 30 days and emerging from bankruptcy protection soon after.

Houston Chronicle

The heavy price of bankruptcy

ABC News

N Korea prepares more missile tests as successor announced

North Korea pushed forward with preparations to test-fire more missiles in the wake of last week's nuclear test as leader Kim Jong Il anointed his third son as heir to the world's first communist dynasty.

Guardian

Cheney: No Saddam Hussein and 9/11 link

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said that he does not believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the planning or execution of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

CNN

Obama: US needs to be 'honest' with Israel

As he prepares to embark on a trip to the Mideast, President Obama reasserted U.S. support for Israel, but also said he will continue to push for a Palestinian state and for a freeze on Israeli settlements.

NPR

Obama on Mideast peace hopes

BBC

Search for Air France jet continues

Search planes scoured the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, looking for the remains of an Air France jetliner that disappeared in a storm with 228 people on board.

Reuters

Missing plane baffles aviation experts

Christian Science Monitor

Still no signs of lost Air France plane

MSNBC

Sotomayor to make her Capitol Hill debut

Sonia Sotomayor is meeting the senators who will vote on her Supreme Court nomination, with a marathon set of Capitol Hill meet-and-greets.

Examiner

White House frames health care as economic problem

Fixing the economy requires overhauling the U.S. health care system, a White House report concludes — just the message the administration needs to help implement a new social welfare program.

San Jose Mercury News

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An adult peregrine falcon, protective of a chick being taken out of the nest, flies in downtown Racine, Wis. (Photo by Gregory Shaver / AP)	Jesse White from Minneapolis, MN, plays Frisbee with some friends in front of the Reichstag, in Berlin. (Photo by Gero Breloer / AP)	A Kashmiri Hindu devotee offers prayers at Kheer Bhawani temple during an annual Hindu festival in Jammu, India. (Photo by Channi Anand / AP)

NATION

Suspect arrested in slaying of Kansas abortion provider

A 51-year-old man was held on suspicion of first-degree murder in the killing of a physician whose women's clinic frequently took center stage in the debate over abortion, authorities said.

CNN

Inside abortion assassination

CBS News

Census uses foreign language to get numbers, ease fears

This year, companies such as the U.S. Spanish-language network Telemundo are working with the Census Bureau to cook up creative and quirky ways to get the word out about the 2010 Census.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Obama to nominate Republican McHugh as Army secretary

President Obama will announce that he is nominating Republican John McHugh to be secretary of the Army, according to the White House.

The Hill

Burris relegated to outcast status on Capitol Hill

Even in a Senate club famous for how it ostracizes the unwanted, the shunning of Sen. Roland Burris is unprecedented.

FOX News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Scientists turn living cells into clocks

Humans have rejiggered life at the cellular level for quite some time. But when a joint team uses biochemical trickery to give cells computer-like timers, they raise this rejiggering to a higher level.

Christian Science Monitor

Microsoft buys gene-splicing software

Microsoft waded deeper into the health care industry, announcing intentions to acquire Rosetta Biosoftware, which makes software for analyzing genomes and conducting clinical studies.

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

'No service fee Wednesday' for Live Nation ticket-buyers

Live Nation, the world's largest concert promoter, is giving cash-strapped fans something to sing about.

USA TODAY

Pearl Jam on Conan

The Conan O'Brien era for "The Tonight Show" begins this week, and for the debut, Pearl Jam is set to perform two new songs from their album.

film.com

Great 'Late Night' moments

Hulu

EDUCATION

Students studying abroad face dangers with little oversight

In the rapidly expanding world of study abroad, the case highlights a long-standing gap between families' perceptions and what colleges and providers see as their responsibility for ensuring student safety.

USA TODAY

Education stimulus money comes with strings attached

While scores of teachers in Florida are being laid off, a big chunk of their $4 billion federal education stimulus can't be used to save their jobs or to pay salaries.

EducationNews.org

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Father Thomas Berry, renowned cultural historian, dies

Father Thomas Berry, a Greensboro, North Carolina, native and world-renowned cultural historian, died at the Well-Spring retirement community. He was 94.

News & Record

Fla. cleric gives first sermon since leaving Catholic Church

A Miami priest nicknamed "Father Oprah" delivered his first sermon since leaving the Roman Catholic Church to become Episcopalian amid uproar over published photos of him kissing his girlfriend.

Baltimore Sun

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GOOD NEWS

Conn. bride rescues family from fire

Georgette Fogarty-Clemons was heading home from her wedding when she spotted smoke coming from her neighbor's house. Still in her wedding gown and high heels, she jumped out of the car to help.

San Francisco Chronicle

Cycle of giving rolls on

About 7,000 youngsters will participate in the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge children's bike rides, which take place throughout the summer.

Boston Herald

WORLD

Civilians killed in Afghan blast

Six Afghan civilians, including two children, have been killed in a blast near a major U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan, officials have said.

Al Jazeera

Founder of banned militant group freed by Pakistani court