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German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts after casting a vote about the eurozone bailout fund at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin. German lawmakers approved new powers in a major step toward tackling the bloc’s sprawling sovereign debt crisis. (Photo by Markus Schreiber / AP)

Andy Rooney — an American original — retires from 60 Minutes

Andy Rooney, 92, will announce on “60 Minutes” that it will be his last regular appearance on the news magazine, ending a 23 year stint on the program with his 1097th original essay.

Washington Post

The best of Andy Rooney, America’s favorite curmudgeon, in his own words

CBS News

Pakistan to meet on crisis with US

Pakistani political leaders will hold all-party talks to address growing American demands to tackle Islamic militants and the possibility that the U.S. might take unilateral military steps in the country.

Reuters

Pakistan frees Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard

CBS News

Debt crisis in Europe

Following a now-familiar script, Europe again averted disaster as German deputies rallied behind Chancellor Angela Merkel for a stronger eurozone bailout fund. But bigger challenges lie ahead.

Reuters

Germany expands European bailout fund

CNN

Immigration: court upholds key parts of tough Alabama law

Immigration law took a twist when a judge upheld a controversial part of an Alabama immigration law that mirrors Arizona’s SB 1070. Supreme Court intervention looks likely.

Christian Science Monitor

Feds expand efforts on listeria warnings

Federal health officials are ensuring no additional bacteria-tainted cantaloupes reach consumers in what has become the most fatal U.S. outbreak of a food-borne illness in more than a decade.

CNN

Listeria illnesses and deaths expected to rise

CBS News

Blog:

Beef, cantaloupe recalls: tips for preventing E. coli, listeriosis

(ABC News)

Medical Unit

The nation’s food recalls: Anger, pain and death

Washington Post

The World in Photos .........................................................................
Tampa Bay Rays’ Evan Longoria, center, celebrates with teammates Sean Rodriguez, left, and Elliot Johnson after his home run that defeated the New York Yankees. (Photo by Chris O’Meara / AP)	A demonstrator wears a mask during a march marking the Latin American Day for Decriminalization of Therapeutic Abortion in Managua, Nicaragua. (Photo by Esteban Felix / AP)	A Monarch butterfly feeds on Blue Sage at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve near Strong City, Kan. (Photo by Charlie Riedel / AP)

NATION

Taxpayers foot bill for harassment claims on Capitol Hill

The number of discrimination and harassment claims on Capitol Hill has increased two-fold — and taxpayers have shelled out hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle them.

Politico

Man planned to blow up US buildings

A Massachusetts man with a degree in physics was charged with plotting to blow up the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol using explosives in remote-controlled airplanes.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

America’s long love affair with nationalism

There has been among Americans a swell of nationalism in the years following the Sept. 11 attacks. Where does it spring from? And is it a positive or a negative trait for a country?

NPR

POLITICS

4 GOP senators in Libya to meet NTC

Four Republican senators have traveled to Libya to meet with the former rebels who overthrew the Gadhafi regime.

Politico

Super PACs for presidential hopefuls changing campaign landscape

Super PACs are shadow cash machines for candidates. Leading GOP contenders have at least one boosting their candidacies, as does President Barack Obama.

Star Tribune

States appeal health care to Supreme Court

A national business group and 26 states opposed to President Obama’s health care overhaul asked for a speedy ruling that would end the law aimed at extending coverage to more than 30 million people.

ABC News

Retired Justice Stevens: No delay

Philadelphia Inquirer

BUSINESS

Fear trumps value in Treasury market

The Federal Reserve may be gearing up to sell short-term Treasuries, but that’s not about to stop nervous investors from buying them up as long as Europe’s debt crisis lingers.

CNNMoney

Reebok to pay $25M in customer refunds over toning shoe claims

In a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, Reebok will need to tone down its advertising for shoes that it said — without scientific evidence — would help reshape your backside.

Forbes

HEALTH

‘Magic mushroom’ drug may improve personality long term

Individuals who took a single dose of psilocybin — the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms” — showed alterations in personality, largely for the better a study shows.

MedPage Today

End-stage alzheimer’s patients often hospitalized unnecessarily

Almost one in every five patients with advanced Alzheimer’s or other form of dementia will be shuttled from a nursing home to a hospital during their last few months of life, a new U.S. study shows.

HealthDay

Are boomers being delusional about health in retirement?

Most baby boomers say they’re planning an active and healthy retirement, says a new poll. But experts worry that when it comes to health, boomers are woefully unprepared — or worse, in denial.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Plants take in more CO2 than originally thought, study finds

Scientists might be able to predict climate change more accurately after discovering that plants consume carbon dioxide 25 percent faster than previously thought.

Yahoo! News

Energy Department approves $1B in new solar energy loan guarantees

The Energy Department finalized more than $1 billion in loan guarantees for two solar energy projects in a decision weeks after Solyndra laid off workers and set off a firestorm in Washington.

The Hill

Blog:

GOP’s Solyndra probe threatens to ensnare Energy Secretary Chu

(The Hill)

E2 Wire

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

In uphill effort, Muslims seek Israeli religious converts

In an unprecedented endeavor, a few Muslim believers are crossing the Holy Land’s volatile boundaries of culture, faith and politics to bring Islam to Jews in Israel — hoping, improbably, for converts.

Seattle Times

Lawyer hopes Christian convert in Iran pastor will be freed

The lawyer for Yusef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor facing the death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity, has said he is “optimistic” that the final verdict could see his client set free.

Telegraph.co.uk

Cool Stuff

The Daily Quote

“It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

J. K. Rowling

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Dana Goldstein):

Why fewer young American Jews share their parents’ view of Israel

TIME

Column (Gloria Borger):

America’s love/hate affair with government

CNN

Column (Casey Newton):

‘Deus Ex: Human Revolution’: game full of choices

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Thomas L. Friedman):

The Israel-Palestinian conflict: back to square one

Seattle Times

Column (Fehmy Saddy):

The Arab spring and Syria’s long winter

Al Jazeera

Column (Laura Miller):

Books that deserve to be banned for good

Salon

Blog (Thomas Denby):

Love hurts in Queens

(The New Yorker)

The Sporting Scene

Blog (Brent Budowsky):

Healthcare: The public option will win

(The Hill)

Pundits

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Washington Post

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San Jose Mercury News

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Boston Globe

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GOOD NEWS

Zoos help restore nearly extinct ferret in US West

Animal keepers at the National Zoo’s conservation center in Virginia sent 26 black-footed ferrets to “boot camp” to prepare them for life in the wild as part of an effort to recover the species.

San Francisco Chronicle

Nelly Furtado donates $1M paid by Gadhafi to charity

Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado announced at WE Day that she will donate $1 million to Free the Children, using the same money she was paid by the Gadhafi clan for a private performance.

CTV

Cheaper drug may help smokers quit

For people trying to quit smoking, the drug cytisine works better than a placebo, and its low cost makes it an alternative to newer stop-smoking medications, researchers say.

HealthDay

WORLD

China lab launch closes gap on US in ‘crowded’ space