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Damage to the walls is seen at Metropolitan AME Church, one of the locations announced by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin / AP)

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.

BBC

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.

Boston Globe

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.

CNN

Endangered list

CBS News

Merritt Parkway: endangered historic place

YouTube

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.

BBC

Laila storms past Andhra, heads to Orissa

MSNBC

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.

Guardian

Scientist: BP's oil spill estimates improbable

NPR

Oil washing up on marshes

National Geographic

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.

BBC

Iran's nuclear deal

YouTube

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.

CNN

Immigration key to US-Mexico relations

Reuters

Tornadoes touch down In Okla.

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

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.

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.

New York Times

Primary voters display discontent

PBS

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

New York Times

US scientists urge action on climate change

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.

PlanetSave.com

Ocean warmed significantly over 16 years

The ocean has warmed significantly over the past decade and a half, a new study based on ocean warming data suggests.

LiveScience

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.

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.

MSNBC

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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.

Baltimore Sun

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.

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.

CNN

Diplomat says North Korea sank ship

YouTube

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.

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."

Houston Chronicle

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.

TIME

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Police: Thief steals Picasso, Matisse from Paris museum

A lone thief stole five paintings worth a total of half a billion euros, including works by Picasso and Matisse, in a brazen overnight heist from a Paris modern art museum, police and prosecutors said.

Star Tribune

Art theft in Paris

Guardian

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.

USA TODAY

Special section:

Obama's dinner for Mexico

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.

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.

USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

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.

NDTV

Ministry reaches homeless by listening

Raleigh ministry Love Wins works with the homeless by listening and sharing. Yes, the ministry does offer food, but as volunteers will tell you, the real ministry happens long after the food is gone.

Raleigh News & Observer

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