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As new trade center tower rises, so does its price tag

The price tag for One World Trade Center, the skyscraper under construction at ground zero in New York, has risen to more than $3.8 billion, making it by far the world’s most expensive new office tower.

Wall Street Journal

Ground zero building struggles to find tenants

Telegram & Gazette

Ground zero’s 10-year transformation

YouTube

Feds: Megaupload‘s 50 million users’ data could be gone

U.S. prosecutors blocked access to Megaupload and charged seven men, saying the site facilitated millions of illegal downloads of movies, music and other content.

Msnbc.com

Romney leads in Fla. as rivals shift focus

Mitt Romney opened a commanding lead in Florida, driving his rivals to shift to other states to keep challenging him for the Republican presidential nomination.

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog:

GOP presidential contest: Is it over or just getting started?

NPR

Gingrich, Romney make final push in Florida

MSNBC

UN considers resolution amid reports of heavy fighting in Syria

The U.N. Security Council will take up a draft resolution that calls on Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down and transfer power following news of the Arab League suspending its Syrian mission.

CNN

Syrian army ‘regains Damascus suburb’

Al Jazeera

Obama in live Google+ ‘hangout’

President Barack Obama had a rare opportunity to connect via online “hangout” one-on-one with voters to discuss education, unemployment and even his upcoming wedding anniversary.

CBS News

Obama to help find job for unemployed engineer

MarketWatch

NATION

Study finds black segregation at lowest levels in a century

Black segregation from other racial groups has hit its lowest point in more than a century — declining in all 85 of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas — but social and income inequality persist.

USA TODAY

US Midwest jobs return as applesauce joins cars to lift Obama

From northern Michigan’s iron mines to Pennsylvania’s natural-gas fields, the industrial heartland of America is humming with jobs again as the region recovers faster than the rest of the U.S.

San Francisco Chronicle

Employees to face ‘term limits’ at casino

NPR

150 years later, the wounds of war are still cutting deep

Minnesota is divided on how best to commemorate the U.S.-Dakota War, which ended in the largest mass execution in the history of the U.S.

Star Tribune

POLITICS

Democrats prime recruits to try to take back House

After a thumping in the 2010 midterm elections, House Democrats have seized on the current anti-Washington fervor and are confident they can win the 25 seats needed to regain control of the House.

CNN

Occupy DC protesters in standoff with police as eviction deadline passes

Occupy demonstrators in Washington, D.C., have chosen to stand their ground in the face of newly-enforced anti-camping regulations — but protesters worry the authorities could move in at any moment.

Guardian

400 arrested after Occupy Oakland protest

Msnbc.com

BUSINESS

Starbucks to enter India, targets 50 outlets by year-end

Starbucks will open its first coffee shops in India a year later than originally planned. The Seattle-based chain is joining forces with the Tata group, India’s biggest business house.

Reuters

New regulations may lead to airline ticket ‘sticker shock’

Travel experts say rules requiring airlines to include taxes and fees in their advertised prices may reduce ticket sales by scaring away passengers with prices that seem much higher than before.

Los Angeles Times

ENVIRONMENT

Pythons eating through the Everglades’ mammals at ‘astonishing’ rate

From rabbits to deer to even bobcats, invasive Burmese pythons appear to be eating through the Everglades’ supply of mammals, new research shows.

National Geographic

Can hunting endangered animals save species?

Exotic African antelope are thriving on ranches in Texas, where a small number are hunted. Ranchers say they need the income to care for the herd. Animal rights activists want the hunting to end.

CBS News

HEALTH

New York state teen girls’ mystery illness draws Erin Brockovich

In a small upstate New York town, more than a dozen high school girls are making headlines for what many are calling a medical mystery, experiencing symptoms of uncontrollable tics and verbal outbursts.

CBS News

Drug dealers get creative in the pursuit of oxycodone

Drug dealers are finding creative ways around new laws that crack down on “pill mills,” which are dispensing powerful painkillers such as oxycodone.

USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Islam critic’s invitation to West Point draws protest

A veterans’ advocacy group asked the Army chief of staff to rescind a West Point prayer breakfast invitation to a retired U.S. general who made comments denigrating Islam.

Huffington Post

Catholic priests urge parishioners to oppose federal birth-control rule

Catholic churches across the U.S. echoed with scorn for a new federal rule requiring faith-based employers to include birth control and other reproductive services in their health care coverage.

Chicago Sun-Times

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GOOD NEWS

4th grader saves best friend’s life

School officials in Orem, Utah, honor a fourth grader for his heroism in performing the Heimlich maneuver to save his choking friend.

ABC News

Lonely millionaire leaves $1 million for chauffeur, $500,000 for doorman

Alan Meltzer, who lived in a luxury apartment building on New York’s Park Avenue, stated in his will that he would give $1 million to his chauffeur Jean Laborde, a 54-year-old father-of-five.

The Telegraph

In Suburban Station, lost souls are getting some direction

An empty hair salon in Suburban Station, Philadelphia, has been converted into the “Hub of Hope,” bringing together health-care providers and others who provide help to the homeless and mentally ill.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Euro crisis hangs over latest EU summit

The eurozone crisis will dominate an E.U. summit, with an emphasis on growth and “smart” budget discipline. The E.U. has more than 23 million unemployed people and there are fears of budget cuts.

BBC

World stocks fall ahead of EU summit

Seattle Times

Euro, rich-poor gap proved key issues

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Japan’s population to drop by 1 million each year in coming decades

Japan’s rapid aging means the national population of 128 million will shrink by one-third by 2060 and seniors will account for 40 percent of people, placing a greater burden on the shrinking work force.

Msnbc.com

Iraqi vice president predicts return to sectarian violence

Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi has lashed out at Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, predicting that Iraq could soon return to widespread sectarian violence that could require the return of U.S. forces.

CNN

Pentagon unable to account for missing Iraqi millions

CNBC

Interview:

The Defense Secretary: an interview with Leon Panetta

CBS News

EDUCATION

City students at small schools more likely to graduate

Teenagers in New York City are more likely to graduate if they attend small public high schools with fewer than 100 students per grade.

EducationNews.org

Catholic schools shelving books for iPads

The educational opportunities, coupled with a desire to teach students to use 21st-century technology, are driving some Catholic high schools to add Apple iPads and other one-on-one computer tools.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Cell phones are more annoying than they are dangerous

More studies are coming in to suggest that cell phones aren’t as strongly connected with brain tumors, car accidents and virtual sex contact as we once thought.

The Atlantic

What do killer whales eat in the arctic?

Killer whales are the top marine predator, wherever they are found, and seem to eat everything from schools of small fish to large baleen whales more than twice their own size.

e!ScienceNews

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

‘I am a boxer’: a fighter in the ring, lady outside it

This summer in London, female boxers will compete in the Olympics for the first time. The women competing for a spot on the U.S. team will make history, but few know who they are — and why they box.

NPR

Among SAG Awards’ unexpected winners: ‘The Help,’ Dujardin

The Screen Actors Guild Awards featured some unexpected winners, including ‘The Help’ for best overall cast performance and French actor Jean Dujardin for best actor in “The Artist.”

Christian Science Monitor

SPORTS

Indianapolis Colts face departure of long-time quarterback

The spotlight shines on Indianapolis as the city comes to terms with the possible departure of Peyton Manning, its iconic quarterback of 14 seasons.

ESPN

Foreign visitors turning their backs on the London Olympics

Just as Olympics organizers traditionally underestimate the final cost, hoteliers in cities holding the Games are prone to overestimate the money they will make.

The Independent

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