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Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean, left, is presented by police in Morelia, Mexico. Laurean is wanted in the brutal slaying of a pregnant fellow Marine at Camp Lejeune. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini / AP)

Defense secretary breaks with Bush on Iraq pullout

CNN

Stresses still high on US military

Christian Science Monitor

Flight cancellations stretch into weekend

As airlines continue to re-accommodate customers, many stranded travelers are raising the same question: "Why would they come out with a plan to ground all the planes at one time?"

ABC News

Frontier Airlines files for bankruptcy

CNBC

Fugitive Marine in custody in Mexico

Authorities have fugitive U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Cesar Armando Laurean in custody in Mexico, three months after he disappeared amid allegations that he killed a pregnant colleague.

News & Observer

Murdered pregnant women: the racial divide

CBS News

Politics follow as Dalai Lama visits US

The Dalai Lama's Seattle visit, while intended to be nonpolitical, is bringing out strong feelings in the community. The Dalai Lama's trip is inextricably tied to politics.

Seattle Times

Battered Olympic tour to continue, but IOC chief rebukes China

International Herald Tribune

Special section:

Olympic torch in San Francisco

San Francisco Chronicle

Zimbabwe bans political rallies

Zimbabwean police have banned political rallies "with immediate effect", amid growing tension over the country's disputed presidential election.

BBC

Pressure mounts on Mugabe

Reuters

NATION

Identity thieves tax the system

Federal Trade Commission complaints involving tax returns linked to identity theft are up 158 percent since 2003. Similar complaints to the IRS Taxpayer Advocate jumped 644 percent in three years.

USA Today

Avoiding tax mistakes

CNN

Virginia Tech families agree to deal

Survivors and the families of those killed a year ago have agreed to an $11 million deal with the state, lawyers say.

BBC

Photos: Virginia Tech survivors speak out

ABC News

POLITICS

McCain shifts stance on mortgage crisis

Sen. John McCain shifted his stance on the mortgage crisis, acknowledging that the country can't rebound from the foreclosure epidemic without some government assistance to homeowners.

Newsday

Clinton says she'd pull troops even if the brass objected

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said that she would carry out her pledge to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq within 60 days of taking office, even if military commanders advised against it.

Philadelphia Inquirer

BUSINESS

Consumer confidence dips to new low

Americans' confidence in the economy fell to a new low, dragged down by worries about mounting job losses, record-high home foreclosures and zooming energy prices.

CBS News

Microsoft-Yahoo so far a lot of talk

After a flurry of events, most analysts said their bottom line remains unchanged: Microsoft will buy Yahoo — with more posturing and maybe a higher price.

CNNMoney

US biotechs on sale

Takeda, Japan's biggest drug company, is buying Cambridge, Mass.-based Millennium Pharmaceuticals for $8.8 billion, or $25 a share.

Forbes

SPORTS

Jones' teammates stripped of medals from 2000 Games

Marion Jones' former relay teammates paid the price for her doping offenses, losing their medals from the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

ESPN

Mystique of Masters makes it special

It's a mystique that doesn't wear off, even for the likes of Arnold Palmer. Perhaps the most beloved figure at Augusta, Palmer won the first of his four green jackets exactly 50 years ago.

Google News

Tiger Woods shoots even par In round 1

ESPN

HEALTH

Increasing obesity requires new ambulance equipment

Calls from obese patients had increased nearly 25 percent in recent years, and the fire department in Concord, New Hampshire can no longer handle them.

International Herald Tribune

How common is postpartum depression?

The CDC issued its latest statistics on postpartum depression, and the figures show that certain groups of women may be at higher risk.

CBS News

Researchers flesh out Parkinson's treatment using skin cells

New study shows that adult skin cells made to differentiate like embryonic stem cells may reverse neurological damage.

Scientific American

EDUCATION

Catholic school enrollment dwindling

Overall, Catholic school enrollment now stands at about 2.3 million, down from the peak of 5.2 million in the early 1960s.

USA Today

Colleges slam beer ad binge

Advocates of a ban on beer advertising during college games prompted a letter from the National Collegiate Athletic Association to tame or eliminate alcohol ads during sponsored events.

Palm Beach Post

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Brad DeLong):

Hillary Clinton shouldn't be winning

Salon.com

Column (John Dickerson):

Going where Republicans fear to tread

Slate

Editorial:

Iraq's realities (whoever is president)

Christian Science Monitor

Column:

The great American slowdown

Economist

Column:

Snub at Olympics could backfire

Orlando Sentinel

Column (Joe Conason):

McCain on reproductive rights

Salon.com

Column (Daniel Gross):

Blue-collar Prius

Newsweek

Column (Nathan Gonzalez):

Iraq was not a preemptive war

Yahoo! News

Column:

The forgotten McCain story

Slate

Editorial:

The real issue on free trade

Christian Science Monitor

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Nisha Dubey, Lukas Dregne and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

Brother-in-law gives big gift of a kidney

While getting ready for his operation, Todd MacLeod was told that his kidney donation fell through. That was when eight separate people stepped up to the plate to offer their own kidneys.

Seacoast Online

Candy helps cut tooth decay

Most children are told to stay away from candy to keep their teeth cavity-free, but children who ate a special cavity-fighting candy had fewer cavities than those who brushed regularly.

ABC News

WORLD

Food prices stir poverty concern

The International Monetary Fund has said that rising food prices threaten to undermine gains made in cutting poverty and could further strain the global economy.

Al Jazeera

Uprooted Kenyans long to return home

More than 200,000 people remain in camps three months after ethnic clashes killed 1,200.

Christian Science Monitor

Air strikes in Baghdad and Basra kill 12

U.S. and British forces killed 12 gunmen in air strikes on Iraq's southern oil-hub of Basra and the eastern Baghdad militia stronghold of Sadr City overnight, military officials said.

International Herald Tribune

U.S. shifts focus in Iraq to ‘special groups’

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Quest for oil leads to Dakota prairie

Deep under the northern Badlands, trapped tightly in dense layers of shale, there is oil. Perhaps hundreds of billions of barrels of it.

Kansas City Star

Melting causes lake in Chile to empty

Melting ice in southern Chile caused a glacial lake to swell and then empty suddenly, sending a "tsunami" rolling through a river, a scientist said. No one was injured in the remote region.

Yahoo! News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Black holes discovered on the Internet

At any given moment, messages throughout the world are lost to cyber black holes, according to new computer science research.

MSNBC

First South Korean astronaut enters the International Space Station

A 29-year-old nanotechnology engineer became the first South Korean aboard the International Space Station (ISS), when a Russian space rocket successfully docked with the orbiting platform.

Reuters

Girls' mean fights fueled by Internet?

Recent high-profile videos featuring real-life "mean girls" have created interest and a conversation about a possible increase in girl-on-girl aggression.

ABC News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Record price expected for painting by Lucian Freud

A painting by British artist Lucian Freud will likely fetch the highest ever auction price for a work by a living artist. Christie’s says ‘Benefits Supervisor Sleeping’ could fetch $25-$35 million at auction

MSNBC

More beauty salons target teens, but how young is too young?

The billion-dollar beauty industry is reaching out to the tween and pre-teen market in a big way.

ABC News

Marriott urged to drop adult movies

Several conservative groups are asking Marriott International Inc. to stop giving hotel guests the option of ordering pay-per-view movies with strong adult content.

CBS News

RELIGION

Mom of twins becomes Australia's first female bishop

A pioneer of women's ordination and mother of twins is to become the nation's first Anglican woman bishop.

Sydney Morning Herald

Catholic health care: religious restrictions spark debate

A debate over sterilization, contraception and other procedures prohibited by the Catholic Church has spilled over to the courts and the Colorado Legislature in the form of lawsuits and legislation.

Denver Business Journal

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