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Protesters descend on Wall Street

Labor union members led by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka marched on Wall Street to demand taxes on bonuses as securities workers said the protesters should go to work and stop demonstrating.

San Francisco Chronicle

Goldman scrutinized by US prosecutors

BusinessWeek

Criminal probe looks into Goldman trading

Wall Street Journal

Hawaii lawmakers approve same-sex civil unions, send bill to governor

A bill allowing same-sex civil unions that prompted some of Hawaii's biggest protest rallies is headed to the governor after the state House of Representatives gave it final legislative approval.

USA TODAY

White House says no new offshore drilling

The White House said that there will be no new domestic offshore drilling until the investigation of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill incident is complete.

ABC News

Fighting the spreading Gulf oil spill

TIME

Oil spill’s blow may cost out-of-pocket

New York Times

The anatomy of an oil spill

Globeandmail.com

Iraq government demands return of secret Jewish archive

With secret archives sitting in an office building, the Iraqi government demands they be shipped back, saying they are the property of the Iraqi people.

MSNBC

Suspected antiquities smuggling ring arrested

Earth Times

Study: Evidence for an Arctic climate feedback loop

By analyzing and comparing temperature records from all available sources over the past 20 years, the University of Melbourne shows that the warming trend is most pronounced near the surface, in the Arctic.

TIME

NATION

US Navy allows women on submarines‎

The Navy formally announced its plan to integrate female officers into submarines, ending one of the last men-only bastions that have floated beneath the water's surface for 110 years.

Christian Science Monitor

Massey offers $3M each to dead coal miners' families

The owner of the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia, where 29 miners died in a massive explosion, is offering cash settlements to the families of the victims.

NPR

Ky. miners found dead

CNN

US subpoenas Times reporter over book

The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the CIA, a rare step that was authorized by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.

New York Times

POLITICS

Police officer sues over immigration law

A police officer in Tucson, Ariz., asks that local law enforcement be exempt from enforcing the state's new immigration law in a lawsuit filed in federal court.

CNN

Will immigration law cost Ariz. All-Star game?

ABC News

US Democrats push to stem corporate campaign money

Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation to blunt the impact of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations, unions and other groups to spend unlimited funds to support or oppose political candidates.

Reuters

Charlie Crist declares independent run for US Senate

Declaring the political system "broken," Gov. Charlie Crist made his long-awaited announcement that he will run for the U.S. Senate as an independent.

St. Petersburg Times

Crist announces as independent

Politico

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mice has gene link to OCD

A mouse with mental health issues? In their own tiny way, mice can suffer from at least one psychiatric condition: obsessive-compulsive disorder.

TIME

Genetically, frogs surprisingly like humans

African clawed frogs have more in common with humans than you might think, according to their newly sequenced genome, which shows a surprising number of commonalities with the human genome.

LiveScience

Did Earth's water come from space?

According to studies in Nature, the large asteroid 24 Themis is rife with water ice and organic molecules, more evidence that the water so precious to life on Earth came to our planet on board such rocks.

CBS News

Earth fossil find may lead to Martian discoveries

Discovery News

ENVIRONMENT

World's nature target 'will not be met'

The world's governments will not meet their agreed target of curbing the loss of species by 2010, a major study confirmed.

BBC

Cape Wind wind farm approved

After nearly a decade of debate, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm, heralding it as the start of a new era in national energy policy.

Cape Cod Times

SPORTS

Historic homestand brings hope for Mets

After their 7-3 win over the Dodgers at Citi Field, the Mets tied the 1969 and 1988 teams for the best homestand in team history, winning nine of 10 games, including seven in a row.

New York Post

Dodgers' GM on Matt Kemp

MLB.com

Willis blanks Twins; Ordonez gets 2,000th hit in win

Dontrell Willis pitched four-hit ball and got to the seventh inning in perhaps his best performance with the Tigers, helping them beat the Minnesota Twins 3-0 to win the three-game series.

USA TODAY

EDUCATION

Is teacher tenure still necessary?

Tenure is under attack. The century-old system of protecting experienced teachers from arbitrary dismissal — long viewed as sacred — has triggered hot political debates in several states.

NPR

Iowa still has doubts on teacher merit pay

Des Moines Register

Ind. district pulls Toni Morrison book from hands of students

Students at Franklin Central High School in Franklin, Ind., had to return an award-winning but controversial novel, "Song of Solomon," after complaints surfaced about its appropriateness.

Indianapolis Star

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GOOD NEWS

Donations fly to aid of World Bird Sanctuary and its hospital

The World Bird Sanctuary's call for help has inspired $70,000 in donations that will keep its hospital open at least a year and buy time to rebuild its finances.

STLtoday.com

Miss. tornado couple receives wedding dress, trip

Days after a tornado obliterated their home and delayed their wedding, a Mississippi bride and groom say they feel blessed by the kindness of strangers.

Chicago Sun-Times

WORLD

New twist in Iraq election crisis: Maliki's enemies latch onto torture allegations

The election recount demanded by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki might take up to two weeks while recent allegations of torture could further weaken his ability to head a coalition government.

Christian Science Monitor

Torture, rape in 'secret' Iraqi prison

The Province

Man stabs 28 children in China nursery school attack

Twenty-eight children and three adults have been injured by a man with a knife at a nursery school in eastern China, the third such attack in a month.

BBC

Timeline: deadly school attacks in China

Google News

Israel slows building in east Jerusalem

Where someone builds in Jerusalem — and why — is at the center of an ongoing diplomatic tussle between Israel and the Obama administration.

NPR

BUSINESS

Greek debt restructuring gains traction

European policy makers say a Greek debt restructuring is not an option, but economists and some politicians are starting to suggest it may have to be part of the solution to Greece's debt crisis.

Reuters

HP, Palm merger could shake up PC industry alliances

Hewlett-Packard's bid to gobble up Palm Inc. could shake up alliances in the personal computer industry, as other players in the sector figure out their play in a rapidly-changing smartphone arena.

MarketWatch

Blog:

Is Motorola next in line to be acquired?

CNET News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

China rules the world at Expo 2010

On May Day more than a million visitors will come to the banks of Shanghai's Huangpu River to inaugurate the opening of Expo 2010, the most expensive and well-attended World's Fair in history.

The Atlantic

Alvin Ailey Company names a new leader

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater said that it would entrust its future to Robert Battle, a 37-year-old outside choreographer who has had a long association with the company.

New York Times

HEALTH

FDA approves 1st cancer vaccine

The Food and Drug Administration approved the first vaccine to treat prostate cancer — or any cancer — the culmination of decades of research into harnessing the immune system to fight tumors.

USA TODAY

Special section:

Surviving prostate cancer

WebMD

Ready for $1,000 personal genomes?

Do you really want to know all of the information encoded in your genes? A thought-provoking new study shows why you might — and why you might not.

WebMD

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

US defense of global religious freedom

A bipartisan national commission finds President Barack Obama lacking when it comes to defending and promoting global religious freedom. The commission also names 13 countries as serious violators.

Christian Science Monitor

In Spain, church candles go digital

A digital candelabra, which consists of a computer screen mounted on a stand decorated with the Cross of Saint James, allows the faithful to light a virtual candle to a favorite saint through a website.

TIME

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