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People stand outside of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago building, where federal banks are being tested for their stress levels in Chicago. (Photo by Paul Beaty / AP)

Taliban leader in Pakistan tells fighters to pull back

A Taliban commander is reported to have ordered troops occupying a district only 60 miles from Islamabad to pull back as alarm mounts in Washington, London and Pakistan over their advance.

Guardian

Taliban-style law for women dropped

Times Online

US to release pictures of prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan

The Obama administration is set to intensify the torture debate by releasing up to 2,000 photographs showing abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. The pictures were taken between 2001 and 2006.

Guardian

McCain warns of 'witch hunt'

CNN

Torture controversy heats up

CBS News

US releases criteria for bank stress tests

The Federal Reserve publicly released its parameters for conducting stress tests of the 19 largest U.S. banks. Banks could bring $900 billion onto their balance sheet based on FASB changes.

MarketWatch

Investors await stress tests

CBS News

Suicide bombers kill 150 people in 24 hours in Iraq

Suicide bombers killed 60 people in an attack at a Shia Muslim shrine in Baghdad, the deadliest single terrorist strike in Iraq in almost a year.

Telegraph.co.uk

UN says 6,500 civilians killed in Sri Lanka

Hundreds who fled intense fighting in Sri Lanka's war zone were awaiting evacuation as the U.N. reported that nearly 6,500 ethnic Tamil civilians were killed in the last three months.

ABC News

Sri Lanka - foreign affairs expert

YouTube

March home sales encouraging

Purchases of new homes in the U.S. last month were higher than anticipated, providing further evidence the market may be stabilizing.

Bloomberg

NATION

Which US airport has the highest number of jet-bird strikes?

The FAA has made good on its promise to release for the first time records of where and when airplanes have struck birds over the last 19 years.

USA TODAY

US, Russia start arms talks amid tension

The United States and Russia will begin talks on a new agreement to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expires in December.

NPR

Russia-US S.T.A.R.T consultations

YouTube

POLITICS

Gingrich vs. Gore on global warming

The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee has added former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to the roster of witnesses for its hearing on a climate bill.

The Hill

Gore: Emission cuts would restore America

CBS News

Geithner to outline banking fix efforts

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is expected to outline the Obama administration's efforts to clean up the U.S. banking system during meetings with finance ministers.

Forbes

ENVIRONMENT

Fuels must clean up act

California became the first state in the nation to mandate carbon-based reductions in transportation fuels in an attempt to cut their overall greenhouse gas emissions.

Sacramento Bee

Fire is an important and under-appreciated part of global climate change

Fire must be accounted for as an integral part of climate change, according to 22 authors of an article published in the journal Science.

Environmental News Network

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Rome to pay tribute to Meryl Streep

The Rome Film Festival will honor Meryl Streep with its Marcus Aurelius lifetime achievement award, while Milos Forman has been recruited as jury president.

Variety

Susan Boyle gets a makeover

Singing sensation Susan Boyle, whose dowdy image contrasted so greatly with her angelic voice that she became an instant Internet celebrity, has had a makeover.

Kansas City Star

Everything you did/didn't want to know

Telegraph.co.uk

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

NYC archbishop to visit WTC site

The city's new archbishop celebrated Mass at a church across from ground zero and prepared to pay respects at the World Trade Center site.

Newsday

Bishop Tobin slams gay agenda

Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence challenged Catholics to abandon “our abysmal apathy” and “help Rhode Island maintain its moral sanity.”

Catholic Culture

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft follows in the footsteps of McDonald's and Wal-Mart

Microsoft just released earnings that were mediocre but not any worse than was expected. It said that the balance of the calendar year would not be much better.

TIME

Yahoo! closing down its Geocities web hosting service

Geocities is slightly outdated in the current Web 2.0 era, giving users no way to integrate their sites with third-party applications.

Vnunet

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column:

Is Iraq unraveling again?

TIME

Column:

Health care emphasis gets creative

Houston Chronicle

Blog:

Time to drop the 'expectation of privacy' test

Wired

Column:

The next big thing: a new you

NPR

Column:

Marijuana should be legal, and left alone

McClatchy Newspapers

Editorial:

Car-search ruling handcuffs the cops

NY Daily News

Column:

The moral burden

Newsweek

Editorial:

Little to celebrate on Press Freedom Day

Miami Herald

Column:

1929 scams return in Geithner plan

Bloomberg

Column (Irwin Stelzer):

Oh, the changes we'll see

Weekly Standard

Column (Aryn Baker):

Is Pakistan nearing collapse?

TIME

Editorial:

Faced with threat, Pakistan chooses denial

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

MSU's $10 million gift a mystery

The mystery donor who stunned colleges across the country with anonymous donations totaling nearly $70 million has struck again, this time in Michigan.

Detroit News

United Way honors volunteers

Sylvia Campbell was named the Golden Achievement Award recipient at the 2009 United Way of Tampa Bay Volunteer of the Year Award Luncheon.

Tampa Tribune

WORLD

US journalists charged in North Korea face years in labor camp

Two female American journalists face five years or more in a labor camp, after North Korea announced that they would be prosecuted for allegedly crossing the Stalinist state’s border with China.

Times Online

British economy shrinks at fastest rate seen in the last 30 years

Official figures show GDP fell by 1.9 percent in the first three months of this year, the sharpest quarterly decline since 1979, the year Margaret Thatcher came to power.

Guardian

Indian child bride says 'I won't.'

Nearly half of all Indian females get married before turning the legal minimum age of 18. The requirement has been in place for more than three decades.

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Ford posts $1.4B 1Q loss, uses less cash

Ford Motor Co. reported a first-quarter loss of $1.4 billion, saying it burned through less of its cash than expected, emphasizing that it doesn't expect to seek more government assistance.

ABC News

US stocks gain as Ford Motor, Microsoft rally

Bloomberg

3M profit falls sharply

Diversified manufacturer 3M reported a 48 percent drop in quarterly profit and cut its earnings forecast, citing falling demand as its customers reduce inventories.

CNBC

HEALTH

Breastfeeding protects hearts of mothers from attacks, strokes

Now a new study by the University of Pittsburgh has shown that breastfeeding protects women from heart disease, heart attacks and strokes as well.

Natural News

Metabolic syndrome hikes mortality in hepatitis C

Patients with hepatitis C infection appear more likely to die from the condition if they also suffer from one or more components of metabolic syndrome, a researcher said.

MedPage Today

Mexico flu outbreak kills dozens

Dozens of people have died and hundreds of others have been infected in a viral outbreak in Mexico suspected to have been caused by a strain of swine flu.

BBC

EDUCATION

High school testing helps university freshman avoid remedial classes

A 5-year-old program to test high school juniors to determine if they're ready for college is reducing the number of Sacramento State freshmen who need to take remedial math and English.

Sacramento Bee

Stimulus money may fund summer school, teacher pay

Education Secretary Arne Duncan has some suggestions for how schools can spend their windfall from the economic stimulus law, including summer school and extra pay for teachers.

Associated Press

SPORTS

Congenital amputee Kyle Maynard's long road to MMA debut

Two years ago, when he almost made his amateur mixed-martial-arts debut, Maynard held a greater concern about all his fight meant and how much it was despised in the MMA community.

Yahoo! News

Kyle Maynard on 'Larry King Live'

YouTube

Fitzgerald, Polamalu picked for cover of EA’s ‘Madden NFL’ game

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald and Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu will both grace the cover of the “Madden NFL” video game.

Bloomberg

Exclusive Madden NFL trailer

YouTube

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