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A Bahraini protester works on art with stones celebrating love for the country at the Pearl roundabout after the military pulled out in Manama, Bahrain. The armed forces were ordered to withdraw as Bahrain’s monarchy seeks to open negotiations with protesters. (Photo by Hasan Jamali / AP)

Couples who make their relationship work, at work

Many couples look at going into business together as a preferred alternative to working apart. That’s no surprise, seeing that a business owner’s spouse is considered his or her most trusted adviser.

San Francisco Chronicle

Couples working together

BusinessWeek

Speaking 2 languages might delay getting Alzheimer’s later on

Mastering a second language can pump up your brain in ways that seem to delay getting Alzheimer’s disease later on, scientists said.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Bahrain unrest: Army withdraws from capital

Armoured vehicles sealing off Pearl Square, the focal point of protests in Bahrain’s capital, have withdrawn on the orders of the royal family.

BBC

Scores are killed in Libya protests

Al Jazeera

Map:

Twitter network of protests

Guardian

Violence grips Bahrain, Libya and Yemen

Telegraph.co.uk

House passes bill to cut $60B

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed legislation to cut from hundreds of federal programs, in what John Boehner described as “one of the largest spending cuts in American history.”

MSNBC

Fiscal crisis strikes at labor’s core

Many critics say government unions have used their clout to negotiate generous benefits — and they say these need to be scaled back in the current fiscal crisis.

NPR

Wis. legislators aren’t the 1st to walk out

CNN

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A worker arranges carnival masks in the likeness of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi in Sao Goncalo, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. (Photo by Felipe Dana / AP)	Bill Holmes feeds pigeons on the beach in Long Beach, Calif. Southern California braced for heavy rains expected later. (Photo by Nick Ut / AP)	Trainees in spacesuits assisted by scuba divers train in a pool at the Russian Cosmonauts Training Center at the Star City outside Moscow. (Photo by Sergey Ponomarev / AP)

NATION

Civil War: Southerners remember Confederate president

A group in Alabama will gather to celebrate the 150th inauguration anniversary of the first Confederate president. Critics see the event as an unsettling celebration of the enslavement of African-Americans.

BBC

States hope to cash in on Fla.’s rejection of rail funds

Florida’s decision to shun federal funding for high-speed rail has set off an auction-house-like frenzy among some states hoping to get a bigger piece of the pie.

CNN

Postage rates going up but not for most first-class letters

First the bad news, postage rates are going up April 17. Now the good news, the basic 44-cent rate for first-class mail stays the same.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

POLITICS

House votes to strip Planned Parenthood federal funding

The House of Representatives passed a measure to end federal funding for abortion provider Planned Parenthood a day after Rep. Jackie Speier described her own personal experience with abortion.

ABC News

White House must prep for government shutdown, experts say

While Democrats and Republicans play a high-stakes game of budgetary chicken, the Obama administration is quietly preparing for an expensive government shutdown. Or at least experts say it should be.

Politico

Tea party assembled to rally for Wis. anti-union bill

With Republican state lawmakers stymied over plans to pass an anti-union bill and Gov. Scott Walker not compromising, tea party activists joined in the controversy by organizing in support of the legislation.

MSNBC

Unions under fire, states try to cut benefits

CNNMoney

HEALTH

That squeaking sound might come from your new hip

Months after getting a ceramic hip replacement, some patients may be startled to find their artificial joint is squeaking.

HealthDay

Parents giving children alcohol

More often than not, parents are giving their children alcohol. In total, 30 percent of the liquor being drunk by underaged youth is provided by adults or relatives.

Medical News Today

EDUCATION

Pa. students protest against switch to charter school

Students at Martin Luther King High School walked out to protest the Philadelphia School District’s decision to convert their school into a charter school.

Philadelphia Inquirer

When the professor is controversial

Instructors’ political views form the core of draft policies being released by the American Association of University Professors concerning politically controversial academics.

Inside Higher Ed

SPORTS

Local coach accused of corporal punishment against youth speedskaters

A local speedskating coach inflicted verbal abuse on young skaters during recent stints, yet continues to teach in the Washington area.

Washington Post

NFL, union resume mediated negotiations on 2nd day

Representatives of both sides are meeting again with George Cohen, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, a U.S. government agency.

ABC News

Sides still far apart

ESPN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Open doors await gay teenagers at churches in Texas

In an effort to counter negative messages against homosexuality, almost two dozen Houston-area churches have designated Sunday as Bring Your Gay Teen to Church Day.

Houston Chronicle

Pope’s coffin to be exhumed for faithful

Faithful attending the beatification of Pope John Paul in Rome will be able to pray before his coffin, which will be exhumed for the event.

Reuters

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GOOD NEWS

Green Awards campaign to launch in Colo. to promote green ideas

Denver is one of three cities chosen to launch Green Giant’s Green Awards campaign, which will celebrate the best green ideas, initiatives and thinkers in communities across the nation.

Denver Post

Children in Pa. with special needs get hope, care and a chance to live

Created in 1987 to help HIV-positive and crack-cocaine babies whose birth parents could no longer care for them, Best Nest Inc. finds foster and adoptive homes for medically fragile children.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Feds give $20M grant to universities to study winter wheat

The federal government has awarded a $20 million grant to universities in Washington, Oregon and Idaho that is designed to ensure wheat farming in the Pacific Northwest will survive climate change.

Bloomberg

WORLD

US vetoes UN outright condemnation of Israeli settlements