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This photograph shows Thacher Indian Ladder Trail, part of John Boyd Thacher State Park near Voorheesville, New York. The trail was among the sites named America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. (Photo by John Rozell / AP)

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Pakistanis restricted access to Facebook and YouTube

Pakistanis woke up to find access to popular websites Facebook and YouTube blocked after a government crackdown on websites seen to be hosting un-Islamic content.

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BBC

BP bows to demands from Congress

At a hearing in Congress BP was accused of withholding data and blocking efforts by independent scientists to estimate the amount of crude spewing into the Gulf.

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Guardian

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Scientist: BP's oil spill estimates improbable

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NPR

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Oil washing up on marshes

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National Geographic

The 11 most endangered historic places

The National Trust for Historic Preservation added 11 sites to its most-endangered list, including one of the last remaining Negro League ball parks, and other historic sites.

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Endangered list

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CBS News

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Merritt Parkway: endangered historic place

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Cyclone Laila hits southern Indian coast

Cyclone Laila has made landfall on the southern Indian coast, battering the area with heavy rains and strong winds.

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BBC

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Laila storms past Andhra, heads to Orissa

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MSNBC

Education chief says 300,000 teachers could lose jobs

Three hundred thousand teachers nationwide, including 4,000 in Massachusetts, could lose their jobs this year if Congress does not provide additional money to aid states and municipalities.

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Boston Globe

NATION

Obama hails UN Iran sanctions draft

President Barack Obama has vowed to pursue fresh U.N. sanctions against Iran despite Tehran's nuclear deal with Turkey and Brazil.

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BBC

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Iran's nuclear deal

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Obama, Calderon slam Ariz. law

President Barack Obama and his Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderon, agreed that immigration and the war on drug are issues that both countries must tackle together.

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Immigration key to US-Mexico relations

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Reuters

Tornadoes touch down In Okla.

More than a dozen tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma as another round of severe weather developed.

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KOCO

POLITICS

Senate fails to end debate on financial regulation bill

The Senate voted to continue debating on a sweeping financial regulatory bill, rejecting an effort by Democratic leaders to complete the legislation.

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Reuters

White House embraces Sestak

Shortly after Rep. Joe Sestak won an improbable victory over Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate primary, President Obama called Mr. Sestak to congratulate him.

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Primary voters display discontent

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HEALTH

Antibiotics can leave a patient resistant to that drug for a year

Researchers found that giving patients a course of antibiotics doubles the chance they will develop bacterial resistance.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Millions are losing their hearing

May is Better Hearing Month, but millions of Americans continue to needlessly risk losing their hearing each day, warns audiologist Dr. Cindy Beyer.

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EHS Today

Links in infertility treatment to autism

A new study provides some of the strongest evidence to date that autism is linked with the ovulation-inducing drug Clomid and other similar drugs.

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TIME

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Headless Egypt king statue found; link to Cleopatra's tomb?

A massive, headless statue of a Greek king has been found in the ruins of an ancient Egyptian temple, adding to evidence that the structure could be the final resting place of Marc Antony and Cleopatra.

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National Geographic

Record breaking galaxy sighted

Astronomers have found a galaxy that may be a record-breaker: the most massive galaxy in the near Universe. It may be twenty times the mass of the Milky Way!

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CBS News

Free speech vs. hate speech online

Four senators are demanding the Federal Trade Commission do something over the social network’s open privacy policy. A new bug opened the door to hackers who made private information public.

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MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Arctic drilling advances amid concern

A proposal to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean as early as this summer received initial permits at the same time federal auditors were questioning the office about its environmental review process.

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US scientists urge action on climate change

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NPR

Greenland rising as ice continues to melt

Scientists are surprised at the rate with which Greenland’s ice is melting and the corresponding surge of the land beneath.

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SPORTS

Lakers, Celtics aiming at rematch

The NBA’s historic rivals are once again staring each other down. They’re playing a nightly game of can-you-top-this that’s threatening to make a mockery of their respective conference finals.

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Yahoo! News

Flying without a net: cheer injuries rise

Cheerleading — not basketball, not softball, not even field hockey or ice hockey — is by far the most dangerous sport for girls.

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Doctor made many trips, injected athletes with HGH

A sports doctor facing drug charges made multiple trips to U.S. cities to meet with professional athletes and injected at least seven with human growth hormone, according to court documents.

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CBS Sports

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GOOD NEWS

Towson graduate calls on experience as a Marine

Veteran Patrick Young realized that he did not have much in common with the average college student. But he identified with veterans at Towson University, so he helped to found a center for them.

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Ind. kindergartners study, raise, care for endangered species called axolotls

Native to Mexico, axolotls (pronounced ax-oh-lot-uls) look like a cross between a big tadpole and a lizard. Rene Mancourt's class began learning about the creatures and have been studying them since.

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Indianapolis Star

WORLD

North Korea responsible for sinking warship, investigation finds

A North Korean submarine fired a torpedo that sunk a South Korea warship, investigators announced.

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CNN

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Diplomat says North Korea sank ship

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Thai military breaks up red-shirt protests

A military offensive to reclaim Bangkok's commercial center from "red shirt" protesters created near anarchy in this cosmopolitan city.

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Washington Post

BUSINESS

Regulators testify on market, new rules

Two weeks after the stock market's epic dive, federal regulators and U.S. securities exchanges have a new plan to keep it from happening again, proposing that essentially markets call a "time out."

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Houston Chronicle

Mortgage foreclosures hit record as job losses strain budgets

A record share of mortgages were in foreclosure in the first quarter as job losses caused homebuyers to fall behind on payments, thwarting government efforts to stem property seizures.

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Bloomberg

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Mortgages going bust at an alarming rate

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Fed increases growth prediction for this year

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MSNBC

Should auto dealers be exempt from consumer financial protection?

As the debate over financial reform legislation winds down, one big outstanding issue is whether to subject auto financing to the oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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TIME

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Groundbreaking Fox series '24' finally runs out of time

Fox's real-time thriller, covering a single bad day in each of its eight seasons, ends its run, a victim of high costs, lower ratings and burnout among its writing staff.

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USA TODAY

Obamas serve up quite a dinner for visiting Mexican president

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcomed Mexican President Felipe Calderón and his wife, Margarita Zavala, and 200 other guests to the White House for their second state dinner.

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USA TODAY

Special section:

Obama's dinner for Mexico

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CBS News

EDUCATION

Students join in water discussion

The goal of the event presented by the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh was to educate students about the global water supply and the demand for clean water for drinking, agriculture and business.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

To fight 'dropout factories,' school program starts young

A few educators are now taking a hard look at what happens to kids years before they get to high school, where, as it turns out, red flags appear with alarming regularity.

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USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Women protest as French cabinet gets veil ban bill

Nearly 2,000 Muslim women who freely wear face-covering veils anywhere in France will soon have their lives changed.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Even the Dalai Lama has a point man

Imagine a boarding-school-educated young man, fluent in several languages and gifted with a camera, telling his beloved grandmother that he was becoming a Tibetan Buddhist monk.

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NDTV

As priests decline, deacons step in

For more than a millennium, the Roman Catholic Church has relied heavily on priests to perform core duties. But recently, the permanent deacon population has soared.

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Religion News Service

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

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.

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BBC

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Chinese drummers sit waiting to perform at the opening of the Waist Drum Tournament, at Grand View Garden in Beijing, China. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP)

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