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An Iranian is seen protesting the outcome of the presidential election in Iran during a demonstration near the Iranian embassy in Paris, France. (Photo by Thibault Camus / AP)

9 dead in DC Metro crash

The death toll climbed to nine in a rush-hour collision between two Metro trains in Washington with scores more injured, CNN affiliates reported.

CNN

DC transit train smashes another, 6 killed

YouTube

Obama to push healthcare, energy reform

President Barack Obama will throw his weight behind legislative bids to reform health care and cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in his fourth White House press conference since taking office.

Reuters

Michelle Obama: Health reform won't be easy

ABC News

Top Iran body rejects poll annulment demand

Iran's top legislative body has again ruled out any annulment of the June 12 presidential election, as demanded by two defeated candidates, state television said.

Reuters

Obama draws criticism for Iran response

NPR

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Tehran morgue demands 'bullet fee' for release of body

USA TODAY

Protesters clash with Iranian riot police

BBC

DHS to kill domestic satellite spying

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano plans to kill a program begun by the Bush administration that would use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security and law enforcement.

CBS News

Easy for suspected terrorists to buy guns in US

Christian Science Monitor

Closely watched North Korean ship still off China coast

A U.S. destroyer is watching a North Korean ship off Shanghai en route to Myanmar suspected of carrying weapons.

Las Vegas Sun

NATION

Lost jobs forcing more out of homes

The nation's foreclosure crisis — once largely confined to only a few corners of the country — is spreading to new areas as the economy teeters.

USA TODAY

New foreclosure program shows big jump

TIME

Judge orders Gitmo detainee freed

A federal judge ordered a Guantanamo detainee released after chastising prosecutors for claiming a man tortured, imprisoned and abandoned by al-Qaida and the Taliban could still be working with them.

Ledger

POLITICS

Spokesman: SC governor hiking Appalachian Trail

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has been hiking along the Appalachian Trail, a spokesman said, explaining an absence that perplexed fellow state leaders.

Yahoo! News

Obama pressed on 'don't ask, don't tell'

House members are urging President Obama to suspend the investigation and discharge of military personnel because of their sexual orientation.

The Hill

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Ice sheets can retreat 'in a geologic instant,' study shows

Modern glaciers, such as those making up the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, are capable of undergoing periods of rapid shrinkage or retreat.

ScienceDaily

Recording glacial melting

Extreme Ice Survey

Purpose of fingerprints is questioned

A new study found that if, as scientists have long reasoned, fingerprints help people grip things, it's not because they create more friction.

LiveScience

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

TV host Ed McMahon is dead at age 86

Television host Ed McMahon, best known as Johnny Carson's sidekick on the "Tonight Show," has died.

MSNBC

Chris Brown avoids jail time in Rihanna assault case

With Rihanna set to break her silence in her assault case, Chris Brown reached a plea agreement that spared him jail time.

People

EDUCATION

A symbolic step to reconstitute No Child Left Behind

The Obama administration has made clear that it is putting its own stamp on education reform. That will mean a new name and image for No Child Left Behind.

The Capital Times

Benefits of year-round schools touted

Students at Shreve Island Elementary in Shreveport, La. attend school the same number of days as everyone. However, many note the shift in the academic calendar makes classes more effective.

The Shreveport Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Clergy appeal over organ donors

Leaders of the U.K.'s main religions have appealed to their followers to support a campaign to register as organ donors.

BBC

Mormons asked to soften gay viewpoint

A group of current and former Mormons at odds with the church's position on same-sex marriage and its political activism to ban it has launched a Web site asking the faith to soften its stance.

San Francisco Chronicle

Everyday Christian

Columns And Op-Ed

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Charter schools: Time to cull the herd

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File-sharing to spawn copyright reform?

Wired

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The GOP doesn't see its race problem

McClatchy

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Reparations less important than promises

Baltimore Sun

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Wanted: freedom from religion

Salon.com

Column (David Keene):

For Iran, a lesson in hope

The Hill

Column (Jonathan Alter):

One nation under Medicare

Newsweek

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Iranian women in protest

Slate

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15 natural mood boosters

WebMD

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The compensation hustle

CBS News

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GOOD NEWS

New cancer therapy showing success

An experimental therapy to treat melanoma that has spread to the liver is showing promise in clinical trials. It may also offer hope for other cancers, like breast and colon, that spread to the liver.

CNN

New strategy eyed for AIDS treatment

A radical new therapy could improve treatment of people with HIV-AIDS by destroying the viruses circulating in the body as well as those hiding in immune system cells, according to a new study.

Forbes

WORLD

Taliban chief killed by 'own guard'

A Taliban leader who criticized the group's Pakistani head of command over attacks that killed two civilians has been shot dead, reportedly by one of his own guards.

Al Jazeera

Sarkozy: Burqa 'not welcome' in France