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In this file photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, Guantanamo detainees pray before dawn near a fence of razor-wire, inside Camp 4 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (Photo by Brennan Linsley / AP)

US drone crew said to be cause of Afghan civilian deaths

Inexperienced operators of a U.S. drone aircraft ignored or downplayed signs that Afghan civilians were in a convoy blasted in a deadly American missile attack earlier this year, a military report said.

Salon

The challenge of reporting from Kandahar

CNN

Jobless pay extension OK'd

The U.S. House approved legislation to extend unemployment insurance, restore some tax breaks and raise taxes on managers of buyout funds and other investment partnerships.

Detroit Free Press

Report: mostly low-level fighters detained at Guantanamo

The majority of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay when President Barack Obama took office were low-level fighters, according to a previously undisclosed government report.

Washington Post

Uighurs at Guantanamo

Christian Science Monitor

NYC bus ads ask ‘Leaving Islam?’

The questions on the ads aren't subtle: Leaving Islam? Fatwa on your head? Is your family threatening you? A conservative activist and her organizations have paid for the ads to run on city buses for a month.

Las Vegas Sun

Dennis Hopper, 74, dies

Dennis Hopper, the Hollywood hellraiser whose screen performances in such films as "Easy Rider" captured the spirit of a generation, has died at the age of 74.

Telegraph.co.uk

Dennis Hopper, 1936-2010

USA TODAY

NATION

San Jose union organizing pot workers

A major California labor union is organizing medical cannabis workers in Oakland, a move that analysts say will help efforts to legalize marijuana.

San Francisco Chronicle

Oil spill hits day 40 with no end in sight

The worst oil spill in U.S. history hit its 40th day with Gulf residents clinging to one tenuous hope: that BP's complicated "top kill" operation will plug the gushing well.

Reuters

POLITICS

Calif. candidates change drilling position

California GOP gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner backed away from their party's "drill, baby, drill" mantra in the wake of the devastating BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

San Francisco Chronicle

Immigration rallies draw Phoenix crowds

Organizers of a boycott of Arizona over the state's new immigration law called for a one-day suspension as they bused in people from across the country for a rally at the state capitol.

Detroit Free Press

Musicians differ in responses to Arizona’s new immigration law

New York Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

A flowering tribute to Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson loved nature and was an avid gardener, and now an exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden called "The Poetry of Flowers" is putting on display a side of the poet that is little known.

NPR

From Elvis to Lady Gaga: playing with shock value in music

Musicians have long used shock value to pump up interest in their music. Elvis Presley swung his hips, Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat and Marilyn Manson named himself after a convicted killer.

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Taking tomatoes back to their tasty roots

Scientists have a noble aspiration: Restore the tomato to something that tastes more like a tomato than a piece of cardboard.

NPR

San Andreas-like fault in eastern US

For 30 years geologists have been puzzled by a straight magnetic line that runs between New York and Alabama. A more recent aerial magnetic survey suggests that it's a 500-million-year-old fault.

Discovery News

Close relationship with mom leads to better romance later

A close relationship with one's mother in early adolescence was associated with better-quality romantic relationships as young adults.

LiveScience

SPORTS

Celtics back in NBA finals

The Boston Celtics were supposed to be too old, too hurt and too inconsistent. Coach Doc Rivers knew better.

CBS News

Boston SportsCenter

ESPN

Serena battles Russian teen in Paris

Serena Williams needed three sets to advance to the fourth round of the French Open, battling an apparent illness to beat the challenge of 29th-seeded Russian teenager Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

Sports Network

NHL Playoffs: In Montreal, no parade for Les Glorieux

After a surprising run which unseated from the playoffs the two best players in the sport, the Canadiens were trounced out of the playoffs by the Philadelphia Flyers in the Eastern Conference Final.

The Atlantic

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Mega-churches are a hot training ground for ‘American Idol’

Leesa Bellesi, who runs a Christian nonprofit, exerts her own kind of pull on “American Idol,” Fox’s singing contest, which has a unique if often-unstated link to Christian churches.

Kansas City Star

Pagan burial altar found in Israel

A 2,000-year-old altar where wealthy pagans worshiped has been unearthed in an Israeli cemetery, archaeologists say.

National Geographic

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GOOD NEWS

Laptops for hospitalized kids

Ninth-grader Carrie Ingerman formed a nonprofit to help young cancer patients, applied by herself for nonprofit status and raised $10,000 in less than a year.

Daily Comet

Officers honored for treatment of mentally ill

Dozens of police officers from across the St. Louis area were honored for their work helping people with mental illness.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

Thousands flee volcanic eruptions

Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes as two volcanos, the Pacaya volcano and Tungurahua volcano, erupted in Guatemala and Ecuador.

BBC

Guatemalan volcano erupts

Reuters

Nations reaffirm nuclear weapons ban

Hard negotiations over the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty ended with 189 nations reaffirming their commitment to eliminating all nuclear weapons.

New York Times

Turkey silent on nuclear stockpile

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

Mercury's days seem numbered

Lincoln Mercury dealers have lived for years with rumors that the Mercury name would be exiled to history, but the reality may be just days or weeks away.

Detroit Free Press

Spain’s credit downgrade caps a down month for stocks

The Fitch ratings firm announced that it had downgraded Spain’s credit rating by one notch, sending American stock indexes on a swift decline of more than 1 percent.

New York Times

Special section:

Credit crunch

Guardian

HEALTH

High hopes for business folk planning NJ pot sales

It could be a year or more before the first legal medical marijuana sales in New Jersey, yet the scramble to be allowed to sell it has begun.

San Francisco Examiner

College students likely to lack empathy

"Generation Me" tends to be self-centered, competitive, U.S. research shows. A three-decade analysis of prior research reveals that American college students are not as empathetic as they used to be.

U.S. News & World Report

ENVIRONMENT

A great carbon dioxide burp

There are many earth cycles. One is a cycling between warmer and colder periods which are commonly called ice ages. The causes of these cycles are complex and are related to how much sun radiation we get.

Environmental News Network

NY lawmakers to reopen state parks

New York lawmakers signed off on a deal to restore $11 million in funds to 55 parks and historic sites, shortly after the ongoing budget crisis forced their closure.

The Journal News

EDUCATION

When college grads move home

The good news: Your son or daughter has graduated college. The potentially bad news: He or she has returned to the nest, unable to afford to live on his or her own.

CBS News

How children survive with meritocracy

Children start out as strict egalitarians, preferring to divide resources equally among peers. But as they grow older, they come to prefer a more meritocratic method of resource distribution, a study shows.

TIME

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