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Firefighers stand by while a search team looks through a devastated building in Joplin, Mo. An EF-5 tornado tore through much of the city, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 139 people. (Photo by Charlie Riedel / AP)

The optimism bias

We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. We watch our backs, weigh the odds, pack an umbrella. But both neuroscience and social science suggest that we are more optimistic than realistic.

TIME

Marilyn Monroe photos found at garage sale still a mystery

Photographer Anton Fury’s hobby of searching weekend garage sales for collectible toys led him to dozens of apparently unpublished photos of a young Marilyn Monroe.

CNN

Obama going to Mo. to offer help in healing

President Barack Obama is pivoting from diplomacy on the world stage to the intimate and delicate domestic task of acting as healer-in-chief to a devastated community.

ABC News

Joplin, Mo., tornado death toll at 139

San Francisco Chronicle

Aerial view of tornado damage in Joplin

Detroit Free Press

300 Gazans enter Egypt in first hour of Rafah opening

Egypt opened the Rafah crossing on the Sinai-Gaza border after four years, allowing 300 Palestinians to pass through in the first hour. Hamas and Fatah welcomed the reopening.

Jerusalem Post

On the Egyptian side of Rafah

YouTube

Lockheed Martin hit by cyber incident

Lockheed Martin Corp, the world‘s biggest aerospace company and the Pentagon’s No. 1 supplier by sales, has been hit by an unspecified cyber incident.

Reuters

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A former border guard waves a flag as he bathes in a fountain of Moscow’s Gorky Park, to celebrate Border Guards Day in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel / AP)	F-18 jets perform a flyover before the start of the NASCAR Nationwide Series Top Gear 300 auto race in Concord, N.C. (Photo by Mike McCarn / AP)	A ring-tailed lemur warns the rest of the gang of possible danger in their new enclosure at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Rob Griffith / AP)

NATION

Biden hails resurgent US auto industry

Vice President Joe Biden credited the Obama administration‘s intervention for the American auto industry’s recovery from “the brink of extinction” and pointed to Chrysler’s early repayment of the federal loan that saved it from disaster.

CBS News

For Ground Zero workers, there is another 9/11 anniversary

The men and women who build New York City‘s skyscrapers aren’t a soft bunch, but even the toughest were unprepared for the job that took over their lives in September of 2001.

NPR

Making Memorial Day more meaningful

MSNBC

Delta flight catches fire in Atlanta

Passengers have been evacuated from a Delta Air Lines flight after the plane’s brakes overheated while landing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

MSNBC

POLITICS

Obama going to Missouri to offer help in disaster healing

President Barack Obama is pivoting from diplomacy on the world stage to the intimate and delicate domestic task of acting as healer-in-chief to a devastated community.

CBS News

Few would place bets on whether Palin is running for president

Many people on both sides of the political divide remain skeptical that she will run, or that she has a viable path to the Republican presidential nomination if she does so.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Homeland-security business still booming 10 years later

The niche — that includes James Bond-like tools such as infrared cameras, explosive detectors and body scanners — is expected to grow 12 percent annually through 2013.

CNBC

Pools of nuclear waste becoming a recipe for disaster

When it planned the Callaway nuclear plant in the mid-1970s, Union Electric Co. had a straightforward, if wishful, strategy for managing the still-radioactive used fuel.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SPORTS

Morality tale: Mavericks’ tradition vs. Heat’s power grab

Those prone to hyperbole will cast the NBA Finals as a battle for basketball’s soul. More is at stake than a determination of the league’s best team. The winner of this series hands down a moral judgment.

Kansas City Star

Indianapolis 500: Classic race is picking up speed on 100th anniversary

When Alex Tagliani makes the first turn of the Indianapolis 500, he‘ll be tugging along a century’s worth of triumphs, thrills and tragedy.

San Jose Mercury News

Tagliani, Patrick talk Indy 500

YouTube

Mets-David Einhorn deal outlined

David Einhorn, who has been selected to join the New York Mets ownership group as a minority partner, has a path to majority ownership, a source familiar with the negotiations said.

ESPN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

9 things that make allergies worse

If you’re a seasonal allergy sufferer, you probably already have a few tricks to avoid triggers, but you may not know about these less obvious factors that can make symptoms worse.

ABC News

Warriors who became walking libraries

Roland Marbaugh’s son typed his war stories up on an electric typewriter in the 1980s but, unpublished, Marbaugh’s stories remained largely in his mind, until now.

CNN

Memorial Day quotes

Beliefnet

‘Grease’ actor Jeff Conaway has died

Actor Jeff Conaway, who was in the TV series “Taxi” and the movie “Grease,” has died, his manager said.

CNN

Dr. Drew on Jeff Conaway’s death

CNN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Do prayers help sports players?

Atheists regard the idea that religion can make a difference to outcomes in sport as fanciful. But it is possible to put aside the issue of God’s existance and just examine the impact of faith on performance.

BBC

Cartoonist likes to explore the funny side of Christianity

Is faith funny? Cuyler Black thinks it is. “I believe that God is a God of joy,” says Black, who draws cartoons about the funny side of Christianity.

Winnipeg Free Press

Cool Stuff

The Daily Quote

“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.”

Henry B. Adams

American journalist

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GOOD NEWS

How to help a stray dog

I don’t remember where I was going when that stray dog weaved across a busy street near my home. But I do remember turning the car around to rescue the white pup with large tan spots.

CNN

Run honors fallen hero, raises funds for the Special Olympics

Each year, Hawaii’s Law Enforcement Officers and Military Personnel run to raise money for the Special Olympics, in honor of Troy Barboza, a Honolulu Police officer who was murdered 24 years ago.

Hawaii News Now

Examiner photo reunites heart-attack victim with woman who saved his life

Ken Byk, 53, who had a heart attack during a race last year found a photo of Ruth Rodgers, whose powerful compressions of Byk’s chest broke three of his ribs, but also saved his life.

San Francisco Examiner

WORLD

Egypt reopens border with Gaza