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This satellite photo shows the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico as it closes in Port Fourchon, La. (Photo by NASA / AP)

Protesters descend on Wall Street

Labor union members led by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka marched on Wall Street to demand taxes on bonuses as securities workers said the protesters should go to work and stop demonstrating.

San Francisco Chronicle

Goldman scrutinized by US prosecutors

BusinessWeek

Criminal probe looks into Goldman trading

Wall Street Journal

Hawaii lawmakers approve same-sex civil unions, send bill to governor

A bill allowing same-sex civil unions that prompted some of Hawaii's biggest protest rallies is headed to the governor after the state House of Representatives gave it final legislative approval.

USA TODAY

White House says no new offshore drilling

The White House said that there will be no new domestic offshore drilling until the investigation of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill incident is complete.

ABC News

Fighting the spreading Gulf oil spill

TIME

Oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico

Examiner

The anatomy of an oil spill

Globeandmail.com

Iraq government demands return of secret Jewish archive

With secret archives sitting in an office building, the Iraqi government demands they be shipped back, saying they are the property of the Iraqi people.

MSNBC

Suspected antiquities smuggling ring arrested

Earth Times

Study: Evidence for an Arctic climate feedback loop

By analyzing and comparing temperature records from all available sources over the past 20 years, the University of Melbourne shows that the warming trend is most pronounced near the surface, in the Arctic.

TIME

The World in Photos .........................................................................
A pair of parrots fly from a perch to a trainer at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh. (Photo by Keith Srakocic / AP)	Oh Eun-sun, at the top of Mount Annapurna in Nepal, is the first woman to scale the world's 14 highest mountains. (Photo by Anonymous / Yonhap / AP)	A bullfinch with its beak full of seeds is on a balcony in Hamburg, northern Germany. (Photo by Axel Heimken / AP)

NATION

US Navy allows women on submarines‎

The Navy formally announced its plan to integrate female officers into submarines, ending one of the last men-only bastions that have floated beneath the water's surface for 110 years.

Christian Science Monitor

Massey offers $3M each to dead coal miners' families

The owner of the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia, where 29 miners died in a massive explosion, is offering cash settlements to the families of the victims.

NPR

Ky. miners found dead

CNN

US subpoenas Times reporter over book

The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the CIA, a rare step that was authorized by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.

New York Times

POLITICS

Police officer sues over immigration law

A police officer in Tucson, Ariz., asks that local law enforcement be exempt from enforcing the state's new immigration law in a lawsuit filed in federal court.

CNN

Will immigration law cost Ariz. All-Star game?

ABC News

Charlie Crist declares independent run for US Senate

Declaring the political system "broken," Gov. Charlie Crist made his long-awaited announcement that he will run for the U.S. Senate as an independent.

St. Petersburg Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Genetically, frogs surprisingly like humans

African clawed frogs have more in common with humans than you might think, according to their newly sequenced genome, which shows a surprising number of commonalities with the human genome.

LiveScience

Did Earth's water come from space?

According to studies in Nature, the large asteroid 24 Themis is rife with water ice and organic molecules, more evidence that the water so precious to life on Earth came to our planet on board such rocks.

CBS News

Earth fossil find may lead to Martian discoveries

Discovery News

ENVIRONMENT

World's nature target 'will not be met'

The world's governments will not meet their agreed target of curbing the loss of species by 2010, a major study confirmed.

BBC

Cape Wind wind farm approved

After nearly a decade of debate, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm, heralding it as the start of a new era in national energy policy.

Cape Cod Times

SPORTS

Ky. Derby represents a 'humbling, challenging race'

The Kentucky Derby, celebrated as the most exciting two minutes in sports, might also be the most confounding event.

USA TODAY

Historic homestand brings hope for Mets

After their 7-3 win over the Dodgers at Citi Field, the Mets tied the 1969 and 1988 teams for the best homestand in team history, winning nine of 10 games, including seven in a row.

New York Post

Dodgers' GM on Matt Kemp

MLB.com

EDUCATION

Science education vs. research: a zero-sum game?

The U.S. has the largest economy in the world and spends a disproportionately large percent of its GDP on scientific research, so why aren't our students excelling in science?

Ars Technica

Iowa still has doubts on teacher merit pay

Iowa has courted merit pay for about a decade, largely through studies involving school districts. Teachers unions historically have opposed the idea.

Des Moines Register

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GOOD NEWS

Rescuing girls from sex slavery

Maiti Nepal is a group that fights to prevent sexual trafficking of women and girls. More than 12,000 Nepali women and girls have been rescued and rehabilitated since 1993.

CNN

Miss. tornado couple receives wedding dress, trip

Days after a tornado obliterated their home and delayed their wedding, a Mississippi bride and groom say they feel blessed by the kindness of strangers.

Chicago Sun-Times

WORLD

New twist in Iraq election crisis: Maliki's enemies latch onto torture allegations

The election recount demanded by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki might take up to two weeks while recent allegations of torture could further weaken his ability to head a coalition government.

Christian Science Monitor

Torture, rape in 'secret' Iraqi prison