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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shows his identification document after casting his ballot for the parliamentary elections at a polling station in Tehran, Iran. Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi, right, looks on. (Photo by Vahid Salemi / AP)

Here come the megabuses

Governments in countries like China are turning to more extreme forms of public transport to wean people off their obsession with cars and ease gridlock in crowded cities.

BBC

High gas prices give natural gas vehicles a boost

NPR

Is bias-free news coverage coming back into vogue?

After years in which news outlets became associated with one political slant or another, there are some signs that a course correction is under way in the media. So far, the shift is a subtle one.

Christian Science Monitor

Iran votes for 1st time since 2009

Iranians headed to the polls in a parliamentary election, marking the first nationwide balloting since a disputed vote triggered massive protests nearly three years ago.

CNN

Obama to Iran and Israel: ‘I don’t bluff’

The Atlantic

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Iran

Guardian

Iranians prepare for elections

Al Jazeera (YouTube)

Red Cross aid convoy arrives in Homs

The Red Cross and Syrian Red Crescent have organized the seven-truck aid convoy and are also planning to evacuate the wounded from the city.

BBC

French reporter wounded in Syria on way home

CBS News

Forget bookcases: Now you can buy an entire house from Ikea

Have you ever strolled through Ikea wondering: “If only I could live at this magical place?” Wonder no more. The Swedish company paired with architects to create miniature Ikea wonderlands.

TIME

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A Croatian honor guard jumps over the red carpet before the arrival ceremony for Austria’s President Heinz Fischer in Zagreb, Croatia. (Photo by Darko Bandic / AP)	Models wear creations from designer Manish Arora during Paris Fashion Week. (Photo by Christophe Ena / AP)	Benny Nadeau heads out to the heavy surf at Gooch’s Beach in Kennebunk, Maine. (Photo by Robert F. Bukaty / AP)

NATION

Underground Cold War relics converted to doomsday castles

The Cold War is over, but decades later, several defunct missile silos still dot the American landscape. A developer in Kansas is converting one such silo complex into an underground condo tower.

NPR

Department of Justice casts wide net with mortgage subpoenas

The probe is part of a task force unveiled by President Barack Obama in his State of the Union speech. It is designed to help investigate the sale of repackaged mortgages behind the housing bubble.

Reuters

Map:

Poverty moves to the suburbs

Huffington Post

Maryland governor signs same-sex marriage bill

Maryland became the eighth U.S. state to allow same-sex marriage when Gov. Martin O’Malley signed legislation that he said secures the “human dignity” of all the state’s residents.

CNN

Map:

Where states stand on same-sex marriage

USA TODAY

POLITICS

How a swing-state upswing could alter the 2012 race

The economy has been, and is likely to continue to be, a major focus of this year’s presidential campaign. In key battleground states like Ohio, the economy appears to be outperforming the nation as a whole.

NPR

Romney wins Wyoming, splits delegates

The Republican presidential candidate followed his victory in Michigan with one in Wyoming‘s caucuses. But like in Michigan, he will be splitting delegates with rival Rick Santorum.

CNN

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Santorum: We have a ‘guerrilla campaign’

(ABC News)

The Note

Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart dies at 43

Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger whose posting of an explicit photo of former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner led to the congressman’s downfall, has died of natural causes, his attorney confirmed.

CNN

Andrew Breitbart: The left and right react

Politico

BUSINESS

Foreclosures made up one quarter of all home sales

Homes in some stage of foreclosure accounted for nearly one in four home sales during the fourth quarter, according to RealtyTrac.

CNNMoney

Facebook seeking bigger credit line

Facebook plans to increase its $2.5 billion credit line to help cover a major tax hit when employee stock awards vest shortly after it goes public, according to two sources familiar with the company’s plans.

Reuters

HEALTH

Federal judge nixes FDA’s new cigarette warning labels

A judge has sided with tobacco companies and ruled that requiring cigarette packages to carry graphic health warnings on their labels is a violation of tobacco companies’ First Amendment rights.

MedPage Today

5 things you need to know about the birth control mandate

The controversy about contraception has centered around the compliance of religiously affiliated employers. That debate has obscured other questions about how the rules will be implemented.

MSNBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

‘Rock star’ Sharia scholars present legal risks for Islamic finance

Sheikh Hussein is one of the world’s most sought-after scholars in applying Sharia, or Islamic law, to finance. Such scholars command great influence, but their opinions are often challenged.

Reuters

Why do Mormons baptize people after they are dead and how do they do it?

Amid reports that Anne Frank and the parents of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal had been posthumously baptized, the Mormon practice of baptizing non-Mormons after death is the subject of new scrutiny.

NY Daily News

EDUCATION

After deadly shooting, students returning to Chardon high school

Students are returning to an Ohio high school where a shooting earlier this week killed three teens and wounded two others. Police were on hand as students arrived under cloudy skies.

MSNBC

Case renews focus on affirmative action In college admissions

College and university presidents are wringing their hands over the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to revisit the issue of affirmative action next fall.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Preparing to turn 100, Girl Scouts USA imparts skills for 21st century

One hundred years ago — during the same year that Fenway Park opened in Boston and the Titanic set sail for America — Girl Scouts USA was founded by Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low in Savannah, Ga.

Columbus Dispatch

From hazelnut trees to Foxconn, corporate responsibility is growing

Mountain Hazelnut Venture is planting trees, paying fair wages and supplying customers in a triple win for corporate social responsibility.

Christian Science Monitor

Microloans in Haiti show the power of $1 in fighting poverty

Matt Jones does not need big bucks to create change in a place where half a million people live in tents. He just wants Americans to see how far a few U.S. dollars can stretch in a recovering Haiti.

Huffington Post

WORLD

Miracle or not, Putin on course to win election in Russia