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In this file photo, a vessel sails towards a wind farm in southeastern England, similar to the offshore wind farm proposed off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. (Photo by David Bebber / Pool / AP)

Nation's first offshore wind farm gets the go-ahead

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved the nation's first offshore wind farm. The 130 turbines are to be located several miles from the Massachusetts shore in the iconic waters of Nantucket Sound.

CNN

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New York Times

Coast Guard to burn Gulf oil slick

Authorities will start burning some of the thickest oil in a massive slick from a rig explosion off the coast of Louisiana, the Coast Guard said.

MSNBC

NASA satellite pictures show extent of oil slick

YouTube

Greek rescue plan seen topping €100B

Financial markets have fallen on fears of a Greek default and a possible domino-effect through EU states, and some investors have questioned whether the euro currency zone can survive the crisis.

Reuters

Spain downgrade sparks European sell-off

Times Online

Greek debt may topple Merkel's government

The Independent

Calls to boycott Arizona grow over new immigration law

The law makes it a state crime to be in Arizona illegally and requires police to check suspects for immigration paperwork. It also bars people from soliciting work or hiring day laborers off the street.

Los Angeles Times

Texas lawmaker to introduce anti-immigration bill

El Paso Times

High court rules cross doesn't violate separation of church and state

The Supreme Court ruled that a white cross, erected as a war memorial and sitting on national parkland in the Mojave Desert, does not violate the constitutional separation of church and state.

CNN

NATION

Strict abortion measures enacted in Okla.

The Oklahoma Legislature voted to override vetoes of two highly restrictive abortion measures, one making it a law that women listen to a detailed description of the fetus before having an abortion.

New York Times

Rapid growth of militias feeds off politics

The U.S. is one of the few Western democratic countries that permit independent militias. Their rapid growth coincides with a sharp rise in partisan rhetoric as November elections near.

Reuters

POLITICS

Florida Gov. Crist to make an unaffiliated Senate bid

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, determining he cannot win the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, has decided to exit the race and run instead in the general election without a party affiliation.

Wall Street Journal

White House press corps gripes pile up

President Barack Obama and the media actually have a surprisingly hostile relationship—as contentious as any between press and president in the last decade, White House reporters say.

Politico

BUSINESS

Senators confront Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs officials met with confrontation and blunt questioning as senators from both parties challenged them over their aggressive marketing of mortgage-based investments.

New York Times

Goldman's Tourre in the hot seat

Reuters

Unemployment pushes workers into filing for early retirement

For some older Americans who lost jobs in the Great Recession, Social Security is filling the void left when unemployment benefits run out.

NPR

Ford surges to profit

Ford Motor Co. continued to lead major automakers in recovering from the difficulties of a year ago by reporting a better-than-expected first quarter profit.

CNNMoney

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GM plant upgrades to preserve 1,600 jobs

Detroit Free Press

2010 Focus, Fusion and Taurus

Detroit Free Press

ENVIRONMENT

Cities offer discounts on green mowers to protect air quality

To help improve air quality, communities across the U.S. are offering residents vouchers and discounts toward purchase of electric or non-motorized mowers when they turn in their gas-powered mowers.

USA TODAY

The deaths of lodgepole pine trees have a silver lining

It's not exactly turning a sow's ear into a silk purse, but Cobalt Technologies Inc. is aiming to transform pine-bark-beetle-killed lodgepole pines into motor fuel.

Denver Post

Storm-water ponds are chemical soups

Star Tribune

Visible from space, deadly on Earth: the gas flares of Nigeria

Shell's activities in the West African country are under scrutiny for the destructive and wasteful practice of gas flaring.

The Independent

SPORTS

Washington's Mark Emmert named new NCAA president

University of Washington president Mark Emmert was named as the NCAA's new president, emerging from a field of finalists that included Sen. Evan Bayh.

USA TODAY

Deaf icon Curtis Pride bringing big-league game to Gallaudet

When Gallaudet hired Curtis Pride to coach its baseball team, the move gave deaf athletes nationwide a chance to play for an iconic figure in their community.

USA TODAY

Is the Kentucky Derby still supreme?

Behind the pageantry and spectacle of the 136th Derby, Kentucky is confronting an unwelcome worry. After nearly a century of dominance, is the state losing its grip on the horse racing industry?

TIME

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Comic book publisher praised for reflecting 'tolerance of Islam'

President Barack Obama gave special praise to Kuwaiti publisher Naif al-Mutawa for promoting international understanding with his "The 99" comics.

CNN

Lawyers, styles, and the church

It would appear these lawyers — currently pitted against each other in two abuse-related lawsuits — have little else in common. Yet each strives to help unpopular clients get treated fairly.

Religion News Service

What's God trying to tell us?

What do homosexuality, health care reform, and advertising standards all have in common? They've all ticked God off, some religious leaders say, and he's venting his frustration with Iceland's volcano.

NewsOK.com

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GOOD NEWS

Refurbished bikes help Gambian children get to school

Bicycles refurbished by prison inmates are helping children in Africa get to school thanks to a Wiltshire charity. The Jole Rider organization has shipped its 6,000th bike to Gambia.

BBC

Heroes from years past among those to become part of Colo. memorial

Forgotten heroes will be recognized and remembered on the Colorado Law Enforcement Memorial this year.

Denver Post

Corrections officers lean on faith, each other to handle prisoners, stress

Members of the nondenominational Christian "Corrections Staff Fellowship" attend gatherings in Buena Vista, Colo., where they pray, read Scriptures and talk about not judging prisoners.

Denver Post

WORLD

China ends ban on HIV visitors before Shanghai Expo

China ended a decades-old ban on visitors with HIV days before the opening of the Shanghai Expo, the biennial fair designed to showcase different cultures.

BusinessWeek

Russia publishes Katyn archives

Russia has published online once-secret files on the 1940 Katyn massacre, in which some 22,000 members of the Polish elite were killed by Soviet forces.

BBC

Russia and Poland: a new era of solidarity

Telegraph.co.uk

Gordon Brown 'mortified' by his 'bigoted woman' slur

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he is "mortified" after being caught on microphone describing a voter he had just spoken to as a "bigoted woman."

BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

World's 50 best restaurants list released

S. Pellegrino's annual "World's 50 Best Restaurants" list was released at a celebrity-chef-studded event in London, marking the 9th edition of the much buzzed-about catalog.

CNN

Heartsick? An Estonian pharmacy may have cure

On display inside the pharmacy was the pharmacy's famous anti-aphrodisiac. Each piece of candy is packed with the secret ingredient: almond powder. People struck by love use it to cure themselves.

NPR

HEALTH

One-off bowel test could greatly reduce cancer deaths

A short, one-off sigmoidoscopy test to locate tumors and polyps in the colon using a small camera and a flexible tube could reduce deaths from bowel cancer by 40 per cent, concluded a U.K. trial.

Medical News Today

Justices get first taste of biotech crops

The Supreme Court heard its first case involving genetically modified crops and their potential environmental and health impacts — 14 years after the first biotech crop came to market.

MSNBC

Calcium helps predict heart attack risk

Now scientists report some intriguing evidence for a new test to predict those at-risk for heart attacks; it measures calcium deposits in the heart arteries.

TIME

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New 'heart' for particle detector

An antimatter detector to be installed on the space station is to have a key component changed in order to help it stay longer in space.

BBC

Scientists discover new species of giant flaming lizard

Discovered in Indonesia and known as the Torch lizard because of its distinctive orange head, the new species is a close relative of the Komodo dragon.

Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

The 'whole child' a key factor in renewal

Lawmakers are seeking to address the complaint that the No Child Left Behind Act places too much emphasis on students’ test scores and too little to their health and other needs.

Education Week

Dogs help kids improve reading fluency

Researchers found that reading to dogs helped children improve their fluency by up to 30 percent.

Medical News Today

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