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Federal jobs give hope to job seekers

With a 9.5 percent unemployment rate reported, there aren't a lot of job opportunities for recent graduates, but the federal government is looking to fill 50,000 entry-level positions in the next year.

NPR

NATO 'foils Afghan international conference plot'

NATO forces have announced that they foiled a plot to attack an international donor conference in Kabul to be attended by leaders from more than 60 nations.

Al Jazeera

Many in Afghanistan: NATO is bad for locals

Montreal Gazette

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CBS News

Gulf oil spill: fouling air as well as water?

Questions about air pollution related to the BP oil spill may get more clear answers this coming week, as university researchers and a Louisiana environmental group release initial findings.

Christian Science Monitor

Scientists get another day to study cap

ABC News

BP extending 48 hour test

CNN

AIDS groups call for 'renaissance' in HIV vaccine hunt

AIDS vaccine advocates said studies showing evidence of vaccine-induced protection in humans, and drugs designed to treat AIDS which can also be used for prevention were signs of a "renaissance."

Reuters

Economic slump hurts efforts to fight HIV

France 24

Moonshine 'tempts new generation'

A growing number of Americans are thought to be getting involved in moonshining — distilling illegal liquor. Stills are now going into production in cities across the nation.

BBC

NATION

Clinton aims to refine goals of Afghan war

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton started a South Asia tour aimed at refining the goals of the nearly 9-year-old war in Afghanistan and pushing neighboring nations to work together.

ABC News

Secretary Clinton arrives in Pakistan

CNN

Report: CIA suspects Amiri double agent

Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, who disappeared while in Saudi Arabia and reappeared in the U.S. where he asked to return to Teheran is now suspected by U.S. officials of being a double agent.

Jerusalem Post

POLITICS

Immigration reform: President Obama's political dilemma

President Barack Obama wants comprehensive immigration reform, and he’s suing to block Arizona’s tough new law. But most Americans — including many Democratic officials — are against him.

Christian Science Monitor

Obama's poll numbers down

ABC News

Alvin Greene candidacy makes public debut in SC

Greene has morphed into an international curiosity. Manning, S.C., residents have fielded questions from journalists from as far away as England about the quiet man who lives off Greeleyville Highway.

McClatchy Newspapers

Biden's 2008 presidency campaign owes US Treasury $219,000

Election watchdogs have directed Joe Biden's 2008 presidential campaign to pay the U.S. Treasury more than $219,000 to resolve issues caused by sloppy bookkeeping.

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Apollo-Soyuz space crew reunites

It was the first flight in which spacecrafts from different nations docked with each other, bringing a U.S. Apollo spacecraft together with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and its crew.

CNET News

WISE mission completes its first glance through universe

The WISE infrared telescope finished surveying the universe, but its $320 million mission will continue until its funding and hydrogen coolant run out later this year.

Spaceflight Now

SPORTS

Giants making quick work of Mets

Rookie first baseman Ike Davis' 2-run homer that glanced off a spectator and landed in the water in McCovey Cove in the seventh inning snapped the team's scoreless drought, but the Mets nonetheless lost 8-4.

ESPN

Oosthuizen cruises to first major title

There was little drama at the British Open Championship. Louis Oosthuizen eagled the ninth and after a birdie on the 12th, he was eight strokes clear of the field.

Sports Network

Oosthuizen holds on to large lead

ESPN

EDUCATION

New rules for loans

The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act impacts various aspects of the federal student-loan program, from the way federal loans are originated to the options for paying them back.

Wall Street Journal

Bill Gates' latest mission: fixing America's public schools

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says that smaller schools have not achieved all the gains that were hoped for but that it is "not fair" to declare them a failure.

MSNBC

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GOOD NEWS

La. reopens Gulf waters to sport fishing

Tossing a life preserver to its ailing tourism industry, the state of Louisiana has reopened most of its state waters in the Gulf of Mexico to recreational fishing.

MSNBC

Student organizes race for charity

School’s out for summer, but not for Levi Felton. The Superior senior is pacing his way through the details involved in creating a 5K run/walk — the Osaugie Open Run for Hunger — from scratch.

Duluth News Tribune

WORLD

Suicide bombers attack Iraq militia and kill over 40

A suicide bomber attacked government-backed Sunni militia as they lined up to be paid on Baghdad's southwestern outskirts, killing at least 39 and wounding 41, Iraqi security sources said.

Reuters

Bombs target ‘Sons of Iraq’

BusinessWeek

Suicide bomber attacks militiamen in Baghdad

Yahoo! News

Polanski makes first appearance since house arrest ends

Film director Roman Polanski has made his first public appearance since being released from house arrest in Switzerland four days ago.

BBC

BUSINESS

Housing outlook clouded by expiration of tax credit

For the first time in over two years, the U.S. housing market is on its own, without extraordinary help from the government.

MarketWatch

The Facebook effect

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, in front of an industry conference in Las Vegas announced that e-mail was on the way out.

Guardian

HEALTH

Highly active antiretroviral therapy has halved number of new HIV diagnoses

HAART, or Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, has halved the annual number of new HIV diagnoses since 1996, when the therapy was first introduced.

Medical News Today

Does your dog face a greater air travel risk?

Dogs with pushed-back faces such as English bulldogs and pugs accounted for roughly half the purebred dog deaths on airlines in the past five years, the Transportation Department disclosed.

AOL News

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Aged 9,000 years, ancient beer finally hits stores

Dogfish Head brewery is known for making exotic beer, so it might not sound surprising that its newest creation is from a recipe found from Neolithic China.

NPR

Christo project to drape fabric over Arkansas River takes step forward

Artist Christo's $50 million project to drape the Arkansas River with fabric took a major step toward resolution when the federal Bureau of Land Management released its draft environmental impact statement.

Kansas City Gazette

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Evangelicals call for day of prayer for Gulf communities hit by oil spill

While prayers have been answered for those who asked for the oil to stop flowing into the Gulf, evangelical leaders say the praying must continue.

USA TODAY

Is this your brain on God?

More than 50 percent of adult Americans report they have had a life-changing spiritual experience. Now, scientists are using new technologies to analyze the brains of people on God.

NPR

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