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Iran sees 2nd day of post-election violence

Outraged supporters of the moderate candidate, Mir Hussein Mousavi, who claimed his defeat was manipulated, took to Tehran streets again today raising the prospect of more violent clashes.

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Guardian

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Re-election doesn’t deter engagement with Iran

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Bloomberg

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Election battles turn into street fights in Iran

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G-8: big economies 'stabilizing'

The world's largest economies are beginning to stabilize, but still face major risks amid an ongoing recession, G8 finance ministers say.

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BBC

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G-8 plans to exit stimulus on recovery signs

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Bloomberg

Holocaust museum shooter to survive

The suspect charged with killing a security officer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is expected to survive his subsequent shooting, said the FBI.

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CNN

NATION

Affordable health insurance elusive in rural America

Small business owners, family farmers and ranchers often don't qualify for more competitive rates.

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NPR

FDA gets tobacco regulatory authority, Phillip Morris cheers

The Senate voted 79-17 to give the Food and Drug Administration regulatory authority over tobacco, a product that kills 440,000 Americans annually.

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Forbes

POLITICS

Obama: Save $1 trillion by cutting costs

The critics said it couldn't be done, but President Barack Obama said he's come up with almost a trillion dollars in savings to provide for 45 million uninsured Americans.

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CBS News

State redistricting looms over 2010 election landscape

Though two years in the future, the prospect of the next round of redistricting is already rearing its ugly head for many actual and aspiring members of Congress.

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The Hill

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Chinese regime’s ‘anti-pornography’ software targets Falun Gong

China's communist regime has ordered all new computers purchased in China to have software to target pornography and other “unhealthy information.”

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Epoch Times

Whales killed by the bends after warship sonar shock

A startling theory has surfaced which suggests beaked whales get the bends when they surface rapidly—possibly after being startled by naval sonar.

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Scotsman

ENVIRONMENT

Rat Island is now almost rat free

Alaska's Rat Island is finally rat-free, after a Japanese shipwreck spilled rampaging rodents onto the island 229 years ago, decimating the local bird population.

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RedOrbit

Hybrid American chestnut trees are carbon storage champions

A new hybrid of the American chestnut tree could not only revive the nearly extinct species, but also help limit the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, according to new research.

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Environment News Service

Uganda to jail people who are found using plastic bags

Any person caught using plastic bags in Uganda from early 2010 will be jailed for three years or be fined an equivalent of 1,500 dollars, press reports said.

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Earth Times

EDUCATION

Charter schools enroll fewer students with special needs

Colorado charter schools on average enroll fewer students with disabilities than noncharters — lending weight to long-held criticism of the publicly funded schools that are supposed to serve everyone.

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Denver Post

Schwarzenegger is for digital textbooks

By the fall, Governor Schwarzenegger intends to make free digital textbooks available for high school math and science classes throughout California, a move that he says will help reduce costs.

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ABC News

Student barred from graduation cheers classmates' success

Barred from participating in her graduation ceremony, foster youth Taylor nevertheless woke at dawn, went to school, and climbed the bleachers to honor her classmates.

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San Jose Mercury News

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Monument endorses religion, violates Constitution, court rules

A federal appeals court panel has ruled that a Ten Commandments display outside a county courthouse is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.

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Ada Evening News

AU asks IRS to investigate Virginia church

Americans United for Separation of Church and State asked the IRS to investigate whether Fifth Street Baptist Church violated the rules of its tax exemption by engaging in electioneering.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Robert Dreyfuss):

A rigged election

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The Nation

Recovery will take another year

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Forbes

Column (Daniel Gross):

Dollar store thrives in recession

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Slate

Meddling with the bail-out

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Economist

Meet the new boss in Iran

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Column (Eleanor Clift):

Aiming at new identity, the GOP misfires

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Newsweek

Column (Francis Cianfrocca):

Wealth creation under attack

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Commentary

Column (Joseph E. Stiglitz):

After the crisis, capitalism discredited

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Vanity Fair

Column (Mary Mitchell):

Letterman, Wright done in by own words

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Chicago Sun-Times

Column (Robert Reich):

The healthcare war has officially begun

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Salon.com

Column (Donald Macintyre):

Netanyahu's moment of decision

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The Independent

Miranda rights read to terrorists?

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Investor's Business Daily

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GOOD NEWS

Tokyo fights burglars with flowers

A Tokyo district plagued with burglaries has turned to planting flowers to beautify its streets and help stamp out crime.

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Global Good News

New hope for ending traffic jams

Some traffic jams have no apparent cause; no accident, stalled vehicle or closed lanes. A new study has figured out how to reduce the odds of them forming.

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LiveScience

WORLD

Afghan villagers slain as they took cover

Tears streaming down her face, the Afghan woman sat in a room with no roof and broken windows, mourning 19 of her closest and dearest relatives.

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Times Online

Yemen says it has arrested top Saudi financier of al-Qaida

Yemen has arrested a man described as al-Qaida's top financier in the Yemen and Saudi Arabia region.

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Reuters

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Foreigners 'kidnapped' in north Yemen

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BBC

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Slain Sunni leader laid to rest in Iraq

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NPR

BUSINESS

Lilly sold drug for dementia knowing it didn’t help, files show

Eli Lilly & Co. urged doctors to prescribe Zyprexa for elderly patients with dementia, even though the drugmaker had evidence the medicine didn’t work for such patients, according to unsealed documents.

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Bloomberg

GM sale of Saab looms as speedy Koenigsegg steps up

General Motors is close to selling its Saab unit after tiny Koenigsegg agreed to ride to the rescue of its fellow Swedish carmaker, a source reveals.

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Reuters

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Koenigsegg CCXR Edition Biofuel

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HEALTH

High noon for health care reform

President Obama and Democrats will try to do what no Congress or president has done: reform the U.S. health care system.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Moderates in Congress feel health care push

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ABC News

What are the options?

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The Atlantic

Stress, DNA damage responsible for gray hair

Those stubborn gray hairs that come with age really are signs of stress, albeit of the cellular kind, DNA, according to a new Japanese study.

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RedOrbit

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

The switch-off: Analog TV gone for good

TV shows were replaced by the hiss of static in perhaps 1 million U.S. homes as stations ended their analog broadcasts and abandoned the transmission technology in use for generations.

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CBS News

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Switch to digital TV not so clear for many

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Regional dictionary tracks the funny things we say

A multivolume dictionary five decades in the making collects linguistic treasures like "pipjennies" and "mumble squibbles."

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NPR

SPORTS

The Mets don't drop the ball this time against Yankees

Injury fill-in Fernando Nieve earned his first major league victory in three years and the Mets rebounded from a heartbreaking loss, beating the Yankees 6-2.

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MSNBC

Red Sox pull a fast one

Jacoby Ellsbury got the ball rolling in the first inning with his legs and finished things off in the ninth to lead the Red Sox to an 11-6 win over the Phillies.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Does high-tech highway design actually make us less safe?

Highway safety advances — wider, straighter roadways and more electronic traffic signals — may make drivers too comfortable. That’s when accident rates start to rise.

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Popular Mechanics

Photo of the Day

Paul Bonhomme flies during qualifying heats for the Red Bull Air Race World Championships in Windsor, Ontorio, looking across the river towards Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Dave Chidley / AP)

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