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Palestinian members of the Hamas naval police and civilian defense officers ride a boat at Gaza port during a display of their preparations ahead of the expected arrival of a flotilla of hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists trying to sail into the Gaza Strip, in Gaza city. (Photo by Hatem Moussa / AP)

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Memorial Day stories of loss, redemption and healing

Many Americans who’ve lost someone in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan have found something redemptive in the loss — not only honoring those who serve, but tangibly helping others as well.

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Christian Science Monitor

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.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Dennis Hopper, 1936-2010

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USA TODAY

Gaza hopes to welcome blockade-busting flotilla

Preparations are under way in Gaza to receive a convoy of ships that is trying to break Israel's economic blockade of the Palestinian territory.

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BBC

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A new "Iron Curtain" along Gaza

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CBS News

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Egypt 'aids in breaking Gaza siege'

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Al Jazeera

Oil spill taking toll on BP's credibility

A litany of half-truths, withholding crucial video, blocking media access to the site and a failure to share timely and complete information have created the widespread impression that BP is suppressing facts.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Gulf of Mexico oil spill

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The Times-Picayune

Handmade hoops put the clang into NY basketball courts

The unbending rims used on New York’s outside basketball courts might seem like a remnant of an earlier era, but blacksmiths are still making them.

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NATION

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.

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Washington Post

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Uighurs at Guantanamo

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Christian Science Monitor

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.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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High hopes for NJ pot sales

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Anchorage Daily News

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.

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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.

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Detroit Free Press

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Musicians differ in responses to Arizona’s new immigration law

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Harry Gregson-Williams works for ogres and princes alike

It's the life of a film composer: One week you're in a fairy-tale world populated by green ogres and talking donkeys, the next week you're dashing around 6th century Persia with a magical dagger.

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Los Angeles Times

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.

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NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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.

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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.

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NPR

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.

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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.

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CBS News

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Boston SportsCenter

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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.

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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.

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The Atlantic

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

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.

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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.

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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.

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National Geographic

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GOOD NEWS

Self-made millionaire on a mission to save her heritage

Businesswoman Zita Cobb is at the forefront of a $20-million push to make remote, largely inaccessible island a must-go spot for artists and travellers.

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Globeandmail.com

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.

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Daily Comet

WORLD

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.

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Salon

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The challenge of reporting from Kandahar

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CNN

Nepal PM agrees to step down

Nepal's prime minister has agreed to resign as part of a last-minute deal with the country's former Maoist rebels to avert a political crisis.

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Al Jazeera

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.

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BBC

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Tropical storm forms off Guatemala

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Houston Chronicle

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Guatemalan volcano erupts

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Reuters

BUSINESS

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.

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Detroit Free Press

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.

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Detroit Free Press

Prudential tries to cut sale price for AIG Asian takeover

The attempt by insurer Prudential to take over AIG’s Asian life insurance business took another twist as the company sought to cut the sale price on the back of increasing shareholder opposition.

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Herald Scotland

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Pru looks to backtrack on AIA price

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Reuters

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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TIME

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Much of US water is safe, but many problems still remain

The U.S. has benefited from centuries of improvements in drinking water safety. Yet closer inspection on a house-by-house basis shows water quality isn't guaranteed.

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Photo of the Day

An Orthodox church, right, and Catholic church, left, are silhouetted during sunset in the town of Novogrudok, west of the capital Minsk, Belarus. (Photo by Sergei Grits / AP)

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