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Polls show former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with a double-digit lead over his main rival, Newt Gingrich, who has been left reeling by one of the most expensive and sustained negative ad campaigns in recent US history. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

Humans tamed horses all over the world

The domestication of wild horses had a profound effect on human history, but there are still many unanswered questions about when and where our species began its long love affair with horses.

Discovery News

Ancestral mother of all horses galloped 160,000 years ago

San Francisco Chronicle

International leaders call for UN to act as fighting continues in Syria

The U.N. Security Council will take up a draft resolution that calls on Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down and transfer power following news of the Arab League suspending its Syrian mission.

CNN

Russia says UN effort ’path to civil war’

Telegraph.co.uk

Romney looks beyond Gingrich as Fla. votes

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was in a triumphant mood as Florida voters flocked to the polls to choose the party candidate to take on Barack Obama in November.

Guardian

Amid Fla. vote, Gingrich continues fight

CBS News

Blog:

Florida Republican primary: live

Telegraph.co.uk

Occupy DC protesters remain as eviction deadline passes

Defiant but festive, Occupy D.C. protesters hunkered down as a deadline passed for U.S. Park Police to begin enforcing a ban on camping in two Washington parks.

CNN

Blog:

Occupy DC ‘Tent of Dreams’ constructed

Huffington Post

Occupy DC protester tased by police at McPherson Square

YouTube

How the $800 billion stimulus revived the electric car

One success the Obama administration can duly claim is the rebirth of the electric-car industry in the United States. Automakers have unveiled a number of mass-market electric cars.

ProPublica

The World in Photos .........................................................................
Colombia’s bullfighter Ramses performs a pass during a bullfight at the Santamaria bullring in Bogota, Colombia. (Photo by Fernando Vergara / AP)	A surfer walks the shoreline as clouds roll in on South Point in Miami Beach, Fla. (Photo by C.X. Matiash / AP)	Male orangutan, Duran, sits in its compound at the zoo in Dresden, eastern Germany. (Photo by Norbert Millauer / dapd / AP)

NATION

Freddie Mac bets against homeowners

Freddie Mac has invested billions of dollars betting that U.S. homeowners won’t be able to refinance their mortgages at lower rates, according to an investigation by NPR and ProPublica.

ProPublica

Blog:

States where citizens carry the most mortgage debt

(Msnbc.com)

Bottom Line

Freddie Mac betting against homeowners

NPR

Study finds black segregation at lowest levels in a century

Black segregation from other racial groups has hit its lowest point in more than a century — declining in all 85 of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas — but social and income inequality persist.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Gay marriage supporters say they are seeing gains

With momentum building in several states to give same-sex couples the right to marry, and with legislators and voters alike rallying to their side, supporters of gay marriage feel good about 2012.

McClatchy Newspapers

Obama in live Google+ ‘hangout’

President Barack Obama had a rare opportunity to connect via online “hangout” one-on-one with voters to discuss education, unemployment and even his upcoming wedding anniversary.

CBS News

BUSINESS

Under CEO Costolo, Twitter is growing up

There are growing pains in any start-up’s coming-of-age story — but Twitter looks to be coming out of its awkward phase. CEO Dick Costolo brings a mature, adult-like presence to the web 2.0 start-up.

Wired

Twitter CEO speaks out against Google, censorship and SOPA

VentureBeat

Refiners, unions prepare for strike as contract deadline looms

Union officials are drawing up strike rosters while refineries prepare for possible shutdowns as a deadline looms on nationwide contract talks covering 30,000 refinery and chemical workers.

(Houston Chronicle)

Fuel Fix

Feds: Megaupload‘s 50 million users’ data could be gone

U.S. prosecutors blocked access to Megaupload and charged seven men, saying the site facilitated millions of illegal downloads of movies, music and other content.

Msnbc.com

ENVIRONMENT

Pythons eating through the Everglades’ mammals at ‘astonishing’ rate

From rabbits to deer to even bobcats, invasive Burmese pythons appear to be eating through the Everglades’ supply of mammals, new research shows.

National Geographic

Cactus as soil savior?

The prickly pear cactus may not sound like a trendy cash crop, but it could become a phenomenon among farmers on the arid west side of California’s San Joaquin Valley.

McClatchy Newspapers

HEALTH

Research into mutant flu ‘must go on’

One of the scientists responsible for creating a highly dangerous form of bird flu has denounced attempts by the U.S. government to censor the research over fears that it may be used by bioterrorists.

The Independent

Ketamine: quick fix for depression?

Researchers at the Neuro Psychiatric Center next to Ben Taub General Hospital are testing one infusion of ketamine for its short-term effects in treating depression.

ABC News

Could a club drug offer ‘almost immediate’ relief from depression?

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Journey to the Heart of Islam

Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam at the British Museum attempts to distill a spiritual experience into an art exhibition.

The Independent

Islam critic’s invitation to West Point draws protest

A veterans’ advocacy group asked the Army chief of staff to rescind a West Point prayer breakfast invitation to a retired U.S. general who made comments denigrating Islam.

Huffington Post

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The Daily Quote

“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”

William Wordsworth

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ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

1 soldier’s progress against traumatic brain injury

Army Sgt. Medina became one of the first patients at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence, the military’s $65 million, state-of-the-art treatment center for brain-injured soldiers.

ProPublica

4th grader saves best friend’s life

School officials in Orem, Utah, honor a fourth grader for his heroism in performing the Heimlich maneuver to save his choking friend.

ABC News

Lonely millionaire leaves $1 million for chauffeur, $500,000 for doorman

Alan Meltzer, who lived in a luxury apartment building on New York’s Park Avenue, stated in his will that he would give $1 million to his chauffeur Jean Laborde, a 54-year-old father-of-five.

The Telegraph

WORLD

World lacks food, water and fuel as population soars