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Cinco de Mayo history: A celebration of the battle of Puebla

What is Cinco de Mayo? It actually celebrates the 1862 Mexican victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla and, according to many people, is more of a U.S. holiday than a Mexican one.

ABC News

Special section:

Top 10 drunkest holidays

TIME

Greenhouse-gas numbers up in the air

Aircraft will soon crisscross the skies, measuring an array of greenhouse gases, aerosols and other atmospheric properties as they fly over cities, industrial facilities and agricultural areas.

Scientific American

Earth could become too hot for humans

LiveScience

US closes exposed no-fly loophole

Airlines must recheck passenger lists within two hours of being notified of a ‘special circumstances’ name on the no-fly list. The rule comes after the arrest of Faisal Shahzad at a New York airport.

Christian Science Monitor

Guns and terror

ABC News

Muslims react to Times Square arrest

YouTube

Shiite alliance in Iraq may push Allawi's secular coalition aside

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the other major Shiite bloc in Iraq announced a post-election alliance that cleared the way for a Shiite-dominated government for the next 4 years.

New York Times

Shia blocs form new Iraq alliance

YouTube

Computer software decodes emotions over the phone

Shortly after a cell phone conversation begins, a new computer program can predict a broken heart — literally and figuratively.

Discovery News

NATION

2 Ariz. city councils vote to sue state over new immigration law

The Tucson and Flagstaff city councils voted to sue Arizona over its tough new immigration law, citing concerns about enforcement costs and negative effects on the state's tourism industry.

Star Tribune

Phoenix to wear 'Los Suns' jerseys

KOLD

Tea party groups battle racism claims

As states with "tea party" groups prepare to hold primary elections, the movement is struggling to overcome accusations of racism that are tinting perceptions of this network of conservatives.

MSNBC

POLITICS

Obama faces backlash over leak response

The massive leak in the Gulf of Mexico has unleashed a dispute over the quality of President Barack Obama's leadership in confronting the still-unfolding disaster.

NPR

Smallest leak on damaged oil well capped, reports BP exec

CNN

US exempted BP rig from impact study

MSNBC

Incumbents win in NC, Ohio

Voters in North Carolina and Ohio kept their incumbents and those in Indiana turned to an old Capitol Hill hand — Republican Dan Coats — in their primaries.

Detroit News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Google to start selling e-books

Google plans to begin selling e-books over a platform that would allow readers to load the books onto multiple electronic devices, the company said.

MarketWatch

Fast transistors save energy

Transistors are the cornerstone of electronics. Researchers have developed new transistors that can reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions.

ScienceDaily

SPORTS

Ernie Harwell, voice of the Tigers, dies

With Ernie Harwell's death, Michigan loses one of its most beloved figures, and baseball does as well.

Detroit News

Remembering Ernie Harwell

Detroit Free Press

Lind homers in 9th to continue Indians losing streak

Manny Acta endured plenty of losses with the Washington Nationals. His time with the Cleveland Indians hasn't been much better.

Sporting News

ENVIRONMENT

Feds seek aid for beetle-ravaged forests

The threat to watersheds from fire-prone dying forests is growing so severe that federal forest managers are seeking help from water utilities, ski resorts and others in ravaged Western states.

Denver Post

EPA to regulate coal ash disposal

Coal ash from power plants will be regulated by the federal government for the first time under stricter disposal rules proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Chattanooga Times Free Press

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Producer sentenced blackmail plot

The former CBS television producer who tried to shake down David Letterman over the comic icon's office affairs started a six-month jail term.

Variety

Why we have weather on the brain

We live in air-conditioned houses and work in climate-controlled offices, yet we react as the ancients did to the weather.

CNN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

On Israel, Jews often disagree

Criticizing Israel has long been the equivalent of touching a third rail in many Jewish families and friendships, relegating disagreements to a zone where only the innocent and foolhardy go.

New York Times

Day of Prayer highlights faith debate

As thousands gather for prayer services for National Day of Prayer, the question of whether America is a Christian nation is heating up as pastors and politicians debate the country's religious identity.

Detroit Free Press

Evangelicals take aim at one of their own

Southern Baptist theologian Jim Hamilton doesn’t write parables. But he recently posted an original one on his blog against a popular author who Hamilton says is falsely advertising himself as an evangelical.

Religion News Service

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GOOD NEWS

163 years later, a wrong is made right

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court admitted George Boyer Vashon to the practice of law 163 years after Allegheny County officials turned him down because of his race.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

DNA exonerates man jailed for 30 years

An Ohio man tasted freedom for the first time in nearly 30 years after a judge vacated his conviction because DNA evidence showed he did not rape an 11-year-old girl.

TIME

Afghan Educational Children's Circus provides 'free atmosphere'

Hidden away in a compound in western Kabul, singing fills the air. Teens on roller blades race through the Afghan Educational Children's Circus, speeding down slides and jumping onto stages.

USA TODAY

WORLD

3 dead as Greece protest turns violent

At least three people have been killed in the Greek capital as protesters set fire to a bank during a general strike over planned austerity measures.

BBC

UK budget deficit could surpass Greece's as worst in EU

Guardian

Clashes across Greece

MSNBC

British party leaders woo voters in final campaign hours

Britain's party leaders criss-crossed the country making a final push for votes in the last day of campaigning before the parliamentary election, as two polls pointed to an inconclusive result.

Reuters

A nuclear-weapons-free Middle East? Pressure on Israel grows.

The NPT conference is breathing new life into a 15-year-old proposal to create a nuclear weapons free Middle East. The West is focusing on Iran, but Israel would have to play ball, too.

Christian Science Monitor

Iran accepts 'mediation on nuclear fuel deal'

BBC

BUSINESS

Private sector jobs rise for the first time since 2008

Signs of a recovery in the U.S. labor market grew as data on the private sector labor market showed job gains.

Reuters

Washington Post to sell Newsweek

The Washington Post Co. announced that it is exploring the possible sale of Newsweek magazine. The newsweekly, which has struggled in recent years, was purchased by The Washington Post Co. in 1961.

Newsweek

HEALTH

More wander off in fog of age

For generations, the search-and-rescue was generally for lost children and adolescents. But now another type of search has crossed into first place: wandering, confused dementia patients.

New York Times

Symphony devotes May to Alzheimer's patients

Salt Lake Tribune

Sleeping for less than six hours can cause early death, study finds

Sleeping consistently for less than six hours a night can cause an early death, but too much sleep could also mean problems, according to a study on abnormal sleep patterns.

Guardian

Stomach cancer on the rise among young, white adults

While rates of lower stomach cancer continue to decline for most groups in the United States, a new study finds that among young, white men and women the rate is increasing.

HealthDay

EDUCATION

Obama praises Kalamazoo Promise, to speak at Mich. high school

Buoyed by a program promising to cover students' in-state tuition, Kalamazoo Central High School beat out other schools to win the prize of a commencement speech from President Barack Obama.

Detroit Free Press

Students give school a lesson

When the school board fired the basketball coach at Sherwood High School, a small Kansas rural school, it had no idea it was in for a full-court press.

Kansas City Star

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