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Honduras's ousted President Manuel Zelaya, holding a copy of the Honduran Constitution, speaks during a press conference at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (Photo by Esteban Felix / AP)

CDC tracks daily updates of swine flu H1N1 influenza

The CDC reported this morning that a second wave of H1N1 influenza is now widespread in 26 states across the United States.

Examiner

Family steps up in flu vaccine trials

USA TODAY

Swine flu and no paid sick leave

CNNMoney

NASA satellite to intentionally slam moon

A NASA satellite is scheduled to slam into the moon on purpose. NASA hopes to determine whether the moon has water.

Arizona Republic

Plutonium shortage could stall space exploration

NPR

Civil liberties suspended in Honduras

Honduras's interim leaders suspended key civil liberties in response to "calls for insurrection" by ousted president Manuel Zelaya, empowering police and soldiers to arrest people without warrants.

Guardian

Honduras' Zelaya 'holed up' in Brazil embassy

YouTube

Field trip! Obamas take in monuments by moonlight as they explore DC

President Barack Obama took his family on a brisk moonlit tour of American history, whizzing them through the Jefferson Memorial and the Washington Monument.

Daily Mail

Spanish speakers targeted in census

For the first time, the census will be distributed in the two languages to 13.5 million households in predominantly Spanish-speaking neighborhoods.

CBS News

Latinos hope bilingual census aid counts

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Texting while driving a road hazard

A Maryland state law will go into effect this week which makes texting behind the wheel illegal, but many people question how much of a difference it will make.

Baltimore Sun

Poll: 90 percent say ban texting in cars

CBS News

NATION

State lawmakers push for ban on mandatory health insurance

A small but growing group of lawmakers are pressing for state constitutional amendments that would outlaw an element of federal health care reform that requires everyone to buy insurance or pay a penalty.

New York Times

Calif. mulls legalizing marijuana

In 1996 voters in California approved a referendum that made it legal to use marijuana for medicinal purposes. Now there are moves afoot in California to go further and fully legalize marijuana.

BBC

Calif. dreaming of full marijuana legalization

Times Online

Great Recession changes the workplace

Going to work may never be the same again. The Great Recession has reshaped the American workplace and work force in ways that will last for years, if not longer.

MSNBC

Job losses, early retirements hurt Social Security

Yahoo! News

POLITICS

Obama to fly to Copenhagen to support Chicago Olympics bid

U.S. President Barack Obama will fly to Copenhagen to support Chicago's bid to stage the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Reuters

New York Governor Paterson says he’ll run in 2010

New York Governor David Paterson said he will campaign to keep his job, disregarding pressure from other Democrats including President Barack Obama who want him to step aside.

Bloomberg

Paterson: 'I’m blind, but I’m not oblivious'

Politico

Republicans feel lost at Calif. convention

Having no favorite candidate to go to is a dilemma that many conservative Republicans wrestled with, as fiscal issues such as cutting taxes rather than social causes dominated the discussion.

Sacramento Bee

BUSINESS

Negative bond returns converge with mortgage miracle

Treasury bondholders will lose money amid an unprecedented decline in the gap between the interest rate on 30-year mortgages and government notes, signaling an end to the financial crisis.

Bloomberg

CEO salaries at nonprofits up

A new study shows that the top pay at the nation's largest nonprofits rose again, with some eye-popping results. The survey also found that these high-dollar salaries may be starting to turn around.

NPR

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Burst of technology helps blind to see

A project, involving patients in the U.S., Mexico and Europe, is part of a burst of recent research aimed at one of science’s most-sought-after holy grails: making the blind see.

New York Times

Mercury to send message to Earth

Astronomers on Earth are about to learn a whole lot more about the planet Mercury as NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft passes less than 142 miles above the planet’s surface.

iTWire

HEALTH

Researchers struggle to understand breast cancer's racial gap

Breast cancer occurs more often in white women than in black women in the U.S., but it kills more black women than white. This "racial gap" is a provocative topic for cancer researchers hoping to save lives.

The News Star

Exclusion of menthol cigarettes in ban worries health experts

The Food and Drug Administration may have banned candy- and fruit-flavored cigarettes, but some public health experts still see a big hole in their efforts to keep teens from starting to smoke.

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Clinton initiative raises $8 billion

The Clinton Global Initiative gathered more than $8 billion in pledges, surprising its organizers who had worried that the recession would lower the level of support.

Good News Gazette

Blind high schooler creates array of art

Aaron Johnson pushes the pieces of fabric underneath the rapidly moving needle, sewing together his quilt. The young artist will never see his quilt because he is blind, but Johnson feels his art being created.

Kansas City Star

WORLD

Flood-ravaged Philippine capital on disease alert

Philippine health authorities warned of disease outbreaks following horror floods, as filthy water covered large areas of Manila and bodies lay in coffins next to survivors at evacuation centers.

Google News