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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates greets South Korean Minister of National Defense Lee Sang-hee during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Asia Security Summit in Singapore. (Photo by Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison / AP)

GM bankruptcy looms while Chrysler awaits fate

General Motors Corp. has pulled together many of the pieces needed to complete restructuring, but its board still is likely to decide to head into bankruptcy protection because there's too much left to do.

Associated Press

Can the government be trusted to steer GM?

Christian Science Monitor

Obama 'helped' Opel rescue deal

BBC

US vows to keep using 'state secrets'

The Obama administration has informed a federal judge it will continue to invoke the "state secrets" privilege in a legal battle with an Islamic charity suspected of funding international terrorism.

CNN

US will not accept North Korean nukes

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the United States would not accept a nuclear-armed North Korea and he warned Pyongyang against transferring nuclear material overseas.

Reuters

Gates: N Korea nuke sign of 'dark future'

ABC News

Tensions rise on Korean Peninsula

NPR

North Korea's missile threat

CBS News

GOP split over dealing with Sotomayor

Republicans are divided over how aggressively to go after Sonia Sotomayor, a family feud about the tone of the debate over confirming the first Hispanic to sit on the United States' Supreme Court.

MSNBC

Truckers say new regs won't jam borders

Americans returning from Canada, Mexico, and other nations will need more than a driver's license to get back in — and efforts are underway to prevent that from turning into a truck backlog at the borders.

USA TODAY

Passports soon mandatory at borders

FOX News

NATION

Hurricane season sparks anxieties

This year should be slightly less busy than last year, when 16 named storms formed in the Atlantic, eight of which were hurricanes and nine of which made landfall, according to the National Hurricane Center.

USA TODAY

Coast on edge for hurricane sea...

The Weather Channel

Schwarzenegger proposes closing 80 percent of Calif. state parks

Nearly every state park in the Bay Area —from the towering redwoods at Big Basin to Angel Island, Mount Tamalpais to Mount Diablo — would close.

San Jose Mercury News

Nearly all Bay Area state parks would close

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Former presidents look back

Former President George W. Bush shared the stage with another ex-President, Bill Clinton, for a discussion on global and domestic challenges facing the United States and Canada.

ABC News

Weakened Kilpatrick big target in primary

Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick took the lowest primary percentage of any returning member of Congress last cycle, so it’s not surprising that ambitious Detroit lawmakers are taking aim at her again.

The Hill

Tax hike, campaign donation caps stall

House Democrats balked at a plan to temporarily increase the state income tax and staged a mini-coup against a bid to cap campaign contributions that was pushed by Gov. Quinn.

Chicago Sun-Times

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Coming to the living room: 3-D TV

The technology behind 3-D entertainment has come a long way since those sci-fi shockers of the 1950s, which could be viewed only by theater-goers willing to wear dorky cardboard spectacles.

TIME

The Electronic Entertainment Expo tries to recapture past buzz

After two lackluster years of tiny audiences and slashed budgets, the Electronic Entertainment Expo is trying to recapture some of its past luster, but it may be too little, too late.

CNET News

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Passing the torch on the 'Tonight Show'

Jay Leno's final "Tonight Show" week was a carefully orchestrated blend of favorite guests and classic bits. All he had to do on the final show was shake hands with his successor, Conan O'Brien, and go home.

Hollywood Reporter

Conan has big shoes to fill

Hulu

Dance group Diversity trumps Boyle on 'Britain's Got Talent'

Internet sensation Susan Boyle came up short, coming in second during "Britain's Got Talent" finale.

CNN

God save the brand? Punk musicians power UK ads

Never mind the bullocks, indeed – Johnny Rotten and some stampeding cows have started a rush toward punk advertising in the United Kingdom.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Duncan: States could lose out on stimulus

States will hurt their chance to compete for millions of federal stimulus dollars if they fail to embrace innovations like charter schools, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said.

Education Week

University of Illinois kept secret clout list

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, maintains a secret list of student applicants backed with clout, a “Category I List’’ of relatives and friends of politicians, trustees and administrators.

Chicago Sun-Times

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Is Mary the 'coredemptrix' of humanity?

At least 7 million Catholics from more than 170 countries, have reportedly signed petitions urging the pope to proclaim Mary "the Spiritual Mother of All Humanity, the coredemptrix with Jesus the redeemer."

Beliefnet

Celebrity priest’s conversion strains ecumenical ties

Known as “Father Oprah” for his popularity and media savvy, Rev. Alberto Cutie left Catholicism to join the Episcopal Church.

Religion News Service

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Gary Andres):

Lobbyist's golden age under Obama

Weekly Standard

Column (David Sirota):

Democracy needs a bailout

Salon.com

Column (Lawrence Kudlow):

Little green cars

RealClearPolitics

Column (Jonah Goldberg):

Cheney's success vs. Obama

New York Post

Column (Ronald Brownstein):

Can Congress step up on security?

National Journal

Column (Mark Steyn):

North Korea provokes with impunity

Orange County Register

Column (John Dickerson):

Sotomayer said nothing wrong

Slate

Blog:

9 questions for Newt Gingrich

Economist

Column:

Democracy needs a bailout

Salon.com

Blog:

Talking horses

Guardian

Column:

The limits of empathy for Sotomayor

TIME

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GOOD NEWS

Heirloom finds its way back to vet

A war veteran has reconnected with a precious heirloom thanks to a boy from a small town in Iowa.

KING 5

WWII Vet gets heirloom back

AOL News

Volunteers descend on Eudora for a ‘church-raising’

The national group pulled in nearly 100 volunteers to work with church members. And that was just the first week.

Kansas City Star

WORLD

Iran hangs 3 over mosque bombing

Iran executed in public three men convicted of involvement in a bomb attack on a mosque that killed 25 people, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Reuters

Burmese opposition leader Suu Kyi needs urgent medical care

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, urgently needs medical attention in the prison where she is being held, her party said.

Telegraph.co.uk

Trial of Burmese opposition leader opens

My VOA NEWS

BUSINESS

Is economic twilight falling on 'Sun Belt' states following crash?

For a generation, the Sun Belt thrived like no other region in America. But now swaths of the region suffering as severely as anywhere in the current recession.

Associated Press

US stocks rally, capping 3-month advance for S&P 500

U.S. stocks rallied, capping the first three-month gain for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index since its record in 2007.

Bloomberg

HEALTH

Healthy living still eludes Americans

Americans know what they need to do to ward off cardiovascular disease and live longer, but despite recommendations, most still aren't making smart lifestyle choices, new research indicates.

WebMD

Drug trials show modest gains against lung cancer

Certain drugs offer incremental yet significant improvements in pushing back advanced lung cancer.

Forbes

ENVIRONMENT

55 pilot whales stranded on South African beach

About 55 pilot whales were stranded on a beach near Cape Town, South Africa and rescue teams had to humanely kill some after failing to return them all to the ocean, the sea rescue institute said.

Reuters

Pilot whales beached in South Africa

BBC

Connecticut lawmakers won't take up wild animal ban

The Connecticut General Assembly won't take up a bill this session banning a long list of wild and potentially dangerous animals as pets.

Hartford Courant

SPORTS

Lakers eliminate Nuggets

The Los Angeles Lakers put together an impressive 119-92 wipeout of the Denver Nuggets to win the West final 4-2 and advance to the NBA Finals.

FOX News

Lakers win West, advance to NBA finals

YouTube

Reutimann: from win to pole

David Reutimann recorded a lap of 156.794 mph to capture the Sprint Cup Autism Speaks 400 pole at Dover International Speedway.

San Francisco Chronicle

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