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Space workers check out Space Shuttle Endeavour after it landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Photo by John Raoux / AP)

‘Walmart of Weed’ to open, promote growing your own

This newest big-box store is devoted to selling marijuana-growing equipment. Its biggest outlet yet is set to open in Phoenix, where Arizona voters approved medical cannabis last fall.

CNN

Medical-marijuana sellers run risk of raids, an advocacy group says

Detroit Free Press

Panasonic plans to build a ‘sustainable smart town’ in Japan by 2014

Part demonstration initiative and part reclamation project, a former Panasonic factory site will be turned into a 47-acre, 1,000-home “smart town” with energy- and eco-conscious considerations.

Popular Science

Space Shuttle Endeavour lands safely

Space Shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts returned to Earth, closing out the next-to-last mission in NASA’s 30-year program with a safe middle-of-the-night landing.

ABC News

Space Shuttle Endeavour’s final launch

Space

Mark Kelly: ‘Great to be back’

CNN

House Republicans press President Obama for spending cuts

Scores of House Republicans are heading to the White House for a meeting with President Obama to demand trillions of dollars in spending cuts.

CBS News

Blog:

John Boehner cites support of economists in debt limit fight

New York Times

Application helps diagnose concussions in youth sports

Gerard Gioia, chief neuropsychologist at Children’s National Medical Center, helped develop a concussion evaluation application for parents and coaches, available for $3.99.

Washington Post

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Miami Heat Udonis Haslem, right, goes up for a shot past Dallas Mavericks Tyson Chandler, left, during the NBA Finals in Miami. (Photo by Hans Deryk / AP)	Farmers sow groundnuts with the aid of a pair of bulls near Himmatnagar, India. (Photo by Ajit Solanki / AP)	The Assumption Cathedral of the 1,000-year-old Monastery of Caves is seen at sunset in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky / AP)

NATION

Could a cyberwar turn into a real one for the US?

The United States is warning that a cyberattack — presumably if it is devastating enough — could result in real-world military retaliation. Easier said than done.

Reuters

Blog:

Military may respond to cyberattacks

(The Hill)

Hillicon Valley

Engineers look for possible danger signs on levees

Sand boils, dirt slides and other phenomena that occurred while the swollen Mississippi River rumbled from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico could have weakened levees, officials say.

USA TODAY

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Floods

CNN

‘Handcuffed by policy:’ Fire crews watch man die

Fire crews and police could only watch after a man waded into San Francisco Bay, stood up to his neck and waited. They wanted to save the 50-year-old, but a policy restricted them, officials said.

MSNBC

POLITICS

High court rejects lawsuit against former Attorney General John Ashcroft

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft cannot be held liable for a post-Sept. 11 policy that led to the arrest and detention of a Muslim man picked up at Dulles Airport, the Supreme Court ruled 8-0.

USA TODAY

Civil union law for same-sex couples takes effect in Ill.

Scores of same-sex couples across Illinois are expected to apply for civil union licenses as a new state law takes effect, bestowing on them rights already granted to married couples.

Chicago Sun-Times

BUSINESS

Microsoft is said to limit computer manufacturers in chip-partner choices

Microsoft Corp. has asked chipmakers that want to use the next version of Windows for tablets to work with no more than one computer manufacturer, three people with knowledge of the plan said.

Bloomberg

Colombia farmers attempt to steer Asians from tea

Colombia, known for coffee farmer Juan Valdez and his donkey sidekick Conchita, is looking to steer new generations of Chinese toward coffee instead of tea.

Bloomberg

Big 3 automakers in Detroit prep for new hiring blitz

Detroit’s Big Three are gearing up for massive factory hiring. The automakers have recalled many laid-off workers, but more are needed as the companies boost production.

Detroit News

HEALTH

Special Report: An end to AIDS?

An HIV-positive American who was cured by a type of bone marrow transplant, Timothy Ray Brown, known as “the Berlin patient,” has become an icon of the possible next phase of the AIDS pandemic: its end.

Reuters

Earpieces can minimize possible risks from cellphones, experts say

Using a cellphone can increase the risk of cancer, World Health Organization says. This puts cellphones in the same category as lead and auto exhaust in terms of their potential to cause cancer.

HealthDay

Cellphones linked to cancer, WHO says

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SPORTS

Soccer associations ask FIFA to delay presidential election

The Football Association and the Scottish Football Association have called for FIFA to postpone its presidential election.

BBC

Tressel out at Ohio State

His teams found glory on the field. His clean-cut image made him one of the biggest icons in college sports. But Jim Tressel’s impressive resume wasn’t enough to save him.

Columbus Dispatch

Ohio State latest

ESPN

ENVIRONMENT

How Greenland’s cold beat the Vikings

We’d be the last to demean the Vikings as weak, but the legendary Norsemen ultimately proved to be no tougher than other humans when it came to battling the elements.

CBS News

Biofuels boom in Africa as British firms lead rush on land for plantations

British firms have acquired more land in Africa for controversial biofuel plantations than companies from any other country, an investigation has revealed.

Guardian

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Medicare minefield

Politico

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No excuse for legislators shelving ban on lobbyist gifts

San Francisco Chronicle

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Thinking liberally about feeling

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Democracy in America

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Afghanistan ‘sovereignty’

Salon

Column (Terrence Jeffrey):

Has America opened its last frontier?

Creators Syndicate

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Growth and grim numbers

(Weekly Standard)

Today's Standard

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A countryside feast of thought, science and music

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Have you volunteered in the field after a disaster?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Baltimore Sun

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ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

Columbia, Mo., garden creation to bloom on international stage

Brett O’Brien, a Columbia, Mo., city parks supervisor, was called upon to help design an American garden to be showcased at an international expo in South Korea.

Columbia Missourian

Only 14, Hadley going the extra miles

Alana Hadley, 14, is running a 5K race in Albany, N.Y. Her personal record is not fast enough to win the race, but plenty fast to make her a curiosity in running circles around the country.

Times Union

Treasure in a trash bag: A final gift touches many

Irene Suslovich spent her final years living in a small, sparsely furnished apartment. Yet she squirreled away $70,000 for years in a garbage bag, which she donated after her death.

Eagle-Tribune

WORLD

Mexicans turn to social media for news about drug crimes