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In this September 2009 file photo, members of the Alaska Wilderness League demonstrate on offshore drilling off Alaska's coast, among other places, outside the Interior Department in Washington. (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)

New England flooding drowns homes

The second record storm that socked the Northeast this month was reduced to drizzle as it was winding down, but the worst of widespread flooding is yet to come, forecasters said.

ABC News

Battered RI watches as water rises

MSNBC

Carcieri: 'Worst is still ahead of us'

NECN

Grasshopper forecast spreads concern

Grasshopper infestations have taken on mythic tones on the arid prairie of northeastern Wyoming — they blanket highways and devour nearly every scrap of vegetation on ranches and farms.

Detroit News

Obama to open offshore areas to drilling

The Obama administration will propose opening water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling for the first time, officials said.

St. Petersburg Times

Blog:

Obama to address 'energy security'

The Hill

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New York Times

12 killed by twin bombings in Russia

At least 12 people, including a top local police official, have been killed by two suicide bombings in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan. It is the second bombing in Russia this week.

BBC

2nd blast in Dagestan caught on phone camera

YouTube

Will 5-day delivery save USPS?

The Postal Service went to its regulator with a plan to save itself. It's a plan the agency spent nearly $5 billion developing: to stop delivering mail on Saturdays.

Newsweek

Netflix is the big loser in USPS changes

MSNBC

The World in Photos .........................................................................
An Egyptian Bedouin camel owner pulls his camels, prior to the Sharqeya Camel Race Festival, on the outskirts of the city of Belbeis, Egypt. (Photo by Amr Nabil / AP)	Kevin Forino performs with the Connecticut band before the NCAA Dayton Regional final college basketball game in Dayton, Ohio. (Photo by Al Behrman / AP)	A priest takes part in the Mass of the Blessing of the Oils at the Cathedral-Basilica of Saint James in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Tina Fineberg / AP)

NATION

4 killed as gunman sprays bullets 'into a crowd'

A drive-by shooting killed four people and wounded at least five others in the nation's capital, officials said.

MSNBC

Speeding 'cushion' may dwindle

The recession may be claiming a new victim: the 5-10-mph "cushion" police and state troopers across the U.S. have routinely given motorists exceeding the speed limit.

USA TODAY

Kan. inmates get access to private info

Kansas and seven other states give prisoners access to citizens' Social Security numbers and other personal information despite federal officials' warnings against it, according to a federal audit.

Kansas City Star

POLITICS

Texas GOP Sen. Hutchison to stay

Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, ended a series of back and forth announcements on her career plans over the last year by saying she is planning to stay.

Austin Statesman

The politics of death threats

Health care may be done, but the battle over who was victimized most for their position on it is fully joined.

Politico

RNC spending questions go beyond recent racy headlines

The Republican National Committee is busy doing damage control after its monthly financial report was filed with a $1,900 tab at a topless nightclub.

NPR

BUSINESS

Liquid assets outperform

Investing in wine, even cheap varieties, can be good for your total portfolio and is especially useful during a financial crisis.

Reuters

Automakers seek experienced engineers

The restructuring of the auto industry, the emergence of new technology and increased demands for safer, more-efficient vehicles are changing what automakers look for when they recruit engineers.

Detroit News

Car sales growth expected

Detroit Free Press

Nissan prices US Leaf battery car to challenge Prius hybrid

BusinessWeek

Hallmark turning envelope scraps into new line of funny cards

An effort to "go greener" at Hallmark Cards is turning envelope scraps from the company's Topeka manufacturing plant into a new Laugh Responsibly line of cards.

Kansas City Star

EDUCATION

'Math wars' over national standards may erupt again in Calif.

Hold on to your graphing calculators: The passionate, contentious debate over how California students should learn math is ready to erupt again.

EducationNews.org

Obama signs bill that revolutionizes student loan program

President Barack Obama signed into law the last piece of his plan to overhaul health care and simultaneously achieved a far-reaching change in the way most Americas help pay the cost of a college education.

Denver Post

Race to the Top competition: Do Calif., Fla. have a chance?

The Education Department has released the scores and reviewer comments from Round 1 of the Race to the Top competition. One aim is to help states improve their applications in the next round.

Christian Science Monitor

SPORTS

Roger Federer suffers defeat in Sony Ericsson Open

Roger Federer suffered a surprise defeat in the fourth round of the Sony Ericsson Open as the world top ranked player went down 6-4, 6-7, 7-6 to Tomas Berdych.

Times Online

Moore leads UConn back to the Final Four

Maya Moore and Connecticut are just two steps away from their ultimate goal after another rout in the NCAA tournament.

Daily Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Dead Marine's father ordered to pay protesters' legal costs

The father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by the Westboro Baptist Church says an order to pay the protesters' legal costs in a civil claim is nothing less than a "slap in the face."

CNN

Is Obama ignoring black church leaders?

Some black pastors expected meetings with the president, or at least to be enlisted as informal advisers. For better or worse, those expectations have largely fallen flat.

Religion News Service

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GOOD NEWS

Agencies line up for new aid for children

In a season of recession, the crowd at the Edward Jones Auditorium sought a piece of a rare commodity: some $35 million for programs serving children and youths.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

4 strangers become saviors

Four good samaritans have come to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., in recent months, seeking to donate a kidney — to anyone who needs one.

Chicago Sun-Times

WORLD

Karzai seen to flout influence of US

Even as President Barack Obama pours tens of thousands of additional American troops into Afghanistan, Mr. Karzai now often voices the view that his interests and the United States' no longer coincide.

New York Times

President Obama in Afghanistan