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More people are turning to the Web to watch favorite shows

TVs come in all shapes and sizes, but more and more viewers aren't getting their fill of sitcoms from televisions at all. They're getting it online.

Houston Chronicle

Broadcasters team up for mobile TV service

CNET News

Google revenue up 23 percent

Google's large advertisers are returning "in droves" and its future looks exceptionally bright as the Internet advertising economy continues to grow.

San Jose Mercury News

Google shares tumble after results

MarketWatch

Tea party names its heroes and targets

Leaders of the Tea Party Express marked Tax Day by celebrating their efforts over the last year and unveiling a list of "heroes" and "targets" for November's midterm elections.

CNN

Blog:

Rally against 'gangster government'

CBS News

Special section:

Tax Day tea parties

Huffington Post

Budget, taxes, economic policy

Polling Report

Obama widens some medical rights for same-sex partners

President Barack Obama ordered new rules issued aimed at granting hospital visitation rights to same-sex partners, and making it easier for gays and lesbians to make medical decisions on behalf of their partners.

New York Times

Special section:

Read the memo

NPR

Is China another real estate bubble?

It may be the world's last real estate bubble, one that is still inflating rapidly. And its end could become the "pop" heard 'round the world.

CNNMoney

NATION

Meteor sighting in Midwest skies

Residents in Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri and even Illinois reported seeing a meteor or a large fireball traverse the sky.

WGNtv

Possible meteor lights up sky

KSPR

Jobless benefits bill rebounds in Senate

After weeks of partisan struggle that caused more than 400,000 people to miss unemployment checks, a bill restoring those benefits is back on track.

NPR

Jobless claims rise for 2nd straight week

Stamford Advocate

Fla. 'Space Coast' sees economic hardship in Obama plan

The retirement of the space shuttle fleet coupled with dismantling Constellation, the program to take astronauts to the moon and Mars, will strip this area of a major economic engine.

Christian Science Monitor

Shooting past the moon with a new focus

MSNBC

POLITICS

The cost of 'no'

The Republican Party has assumed the mantle of "the party of no." But at what cost to taxpayers? Here's a breakdown of the most expensive word in American political history.

Vanity Fair

GOP split over new 'Contract with America'

Republicans are salivating over the prospect of winning back the House, and they're planning to produce a new "Contract With America" in the hopes of sealing the deal.

Politico

HEALTH

E. coli declines, but other foodborne illnesses a worry

U.S. officials report a continuing decline in food-related illnesses caused by several common bacteria, including the most virulent form of E. coli.

HealthDay

H1N1 fading, but not gone

MedPage Today

Health insurance companies' fast food holdings raise red flag

The investments of large insurers of health, disability and long term care in fast food chains like McDonald's and Pizza Hut have raised the interest of a study in the American Journal of Public Health.

CBS News

EDUCATION

All KC principals, vice principals must re-apply for their jobs

Every principal and vice principal will have to re-apply if they want to continue as building leaders next fall in a trimmed-down Kansas City School District.

Kansas City Star

Advocates push for a new definition of career readiness

As educators push schools to produce high school graduates who are ready to succeed in college or good jobs, an association is trying to influence policy by defining what it considers to be "career readiness."

Education Week

Daniels Scholarships delight winners

Bill Daniels "had a dream about 1,000 students going to college, and now that we have 2,000 in just 10 years, it's amazing," said Linda Childears, president and chief executive of the Daniels Fund.

Denver Post

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

NFL takes the stage on Broadway

As odd couples go, football and Broadway make for one of the oddest. But that's not stopping the NFL from going legit, signing on as a special producing partner for "Lombardi," the pigskin-themed play.

Variety

Civil rights leader Benjamin Hooks dies

Benjamin L. Hooks, a civil rights leader who led the NAACP from 1977 to 1992, has died, said Leila McDowell, the vice president for communication at the NAACP.

CNN

Special section:

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

New York Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Private libraries scramble to rescue endangered books from time's ravages

Inside a locked reading room atop a staircase at the Salem Athenaeum, hundreds of theological books — including some that are nearly 500 years old — are once again stirring up debate.

Religion News Service

Africa goes to church, the mosque and the witch doctor

In his cramped hut at the end of an alleyway in the coastal Tanzanian town of Bagamoyo, traditional healer Dr. Msilo treats patients for a variety of mental and physical problems.

BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Puma ditches the shoe box for a greener 'Clever Little Bag'

Puma will sell its shoes in cardboard frames wrapped in reusable shoe bags — called the "Clever Little Bag."

Telegraph.co.uk

Alternative therapies for brain disorders seeing success

At a clinic in Colorado, kids benefit from alternative therapies for autism and related neurological disorders.

Denver Post

WORLD

Volcanic ash shuts down British air space

A huge plume of volcanic ash sweeping in from Iceland forced the complete closure of British and Irish air space and disrupted flights across Northern Europe.

CNN

Iceland volcano triggers floods

National Geographic

In pictures: Volcano erupts in Iceland

BBC

China’s Hu cuts short Brazil visit after Qinghai earthquake

Chinese President Hu Jintao cut short a visit to Latin America to return home after 930 people were reported dead or missing after an earthquake in a remote western part of the country.

Bloomberg

Kyrgyzstan's deposed president flies to Kazakhstan after incident

The deposed president of Kyrgyzstan left the country for neighboring Kazakhstan, after gunfire erupted at a rally where he was speaking to supporters.

MSNBC

BUSINESS

Wal-Mart tops Fortune 500 list

The Fortune 500 — the biggest companies in America — boosted their earnings 335 percent. It's the second biggest jump since the list began.

ABC News

Foreclosure rates surge

A record number of U.S. homes were lost to foreclosure this year, a sign banks are starting to wade through the backlog of troubled home loans at a faster pace.

WNYC

Post office may go broke by October without help, Potter says

The U.S. Postal Service may run out of cash unless Congress drops a requirement to fund health benefits for retirees, Postmaster General John Potter told lawmakers.

BusinessWeek

SPORTS

Undercurrents of violence at World Cup

Interpol and the U.S. State Department are dealing with an explicit threat by a group allied to al-Qaida that it plans to attack players and spectators during the World Cup in South Africa.

New York Times

FIFA begins push to shift tickets

ESPN

NCAA cracks down on taunting, bans eye-black messages

Wedge blocks and eye black with messages will be banned in college football next season. And taunting penalties could cost teams points in 2011.

Sporting News

ENVIRONMENT

Sarkozy, Berlusconi push EU for border climate levy

The European Union's executive must work out ways to impose a climate levy on imports from countries which do not make efforts to combat global warming, the leaders of France and Italy said.

Earth Times

Body heat: Sweden's new green energy

Stockholm has taken the idea of using excess body heat a step further by successfully transferring it from one building to another.

TIME

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

How the brain keeps tabs on tasks

New research shows that rather than being totally devoted to one goal at a time, the human brain can distribute two goals to different hemispheres to keep them both in mind.

Scientific American

Bob the baby screech owl

A newspaper photographer in Miami was taking some unique pictures. But they weren't coming from her day job; they were from her backyard.

NPR

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