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A protester wearing a Rupert Murdoch mask poses with a puppet of Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron in London. News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch defended his media career, saying that he never called in favors from the powerful people his papers covered. (Photo by Matt Dunham / AP)

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The camera continues to defy the smartphone onslaught

While most attention in the gadget world is on the breakneck pace of innovation in mobile phones, tablets and computers, another device has resolutely refused to die: the camera.

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Reuters

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Google’s drive to dominate your digital life

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Sydney Morning Herald

Romney turns toward raising money and reconciling with Santorum

With the Republican presidential nomination all but in hand, Mitt Romney is refocusing his efforts on challenging President Barack Obama, raising cash and reconciling with onetime primary rival Rick Santorum.

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San Jose Mercury News

Special section:

Who will run with Romney?

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CNN

Rupert Murdoch grilled by British ethics panel

News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch testified he held no anger towards Prime Minister David Cameron for setting up the wide-ranging inquiry into media ethics run by one of the country’s senior judges.

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CBS News

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Gordon Brown ‘was not of balanced mind,’ says Rupert Murdoch

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The Independent

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Rupert Murdoch evidence — live

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BBC

Special section:

Leveson inquiry

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Guardian

Pakistan tests nuclear-capable ballistic missile days after India’s launch

Pakistan successfully launched an upgraded ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, days after its neighbor and rival India conducted its own missile test, the Pakistani military said.

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CBS News

Pakistan missile test

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Msnbc.com

How to handle little liars

Researchers are taking a new interest in children’s lying, using experiments to explore its role in development and applying the results to court cases pertaining to bullying and other problems.

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Wall Street Journal

NATION

Shifts are being detected in support for death penalty

The campaign to abolish the death penalty has been freshly invigorated this month in a series of actions that supporters say represents evidence that America is losing its taste for capital punishment.

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USA TODAY

US charges ex-BP engineer obstructed probe after the spill

A former BP engineer has been arrested and charged with intentionally destroying evidence related to how much oil was spilling from the company’s broken well.

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Reuters

Special section:

BP oil spill

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Guardian

Student debt: How big a risk does it pose to the economy?

Student debt represents a financial challenge for America, some economists say, but in a way that’s different from the big buildup in mortgage debt that led to a deep recession.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Negotiating the college funding labyrinth

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NPR

POLITICS

Supreme Court hears arguments over Ariz. immigration law

Crowds began arriving early at the U.S. Supreme Court as justices prepared to consider the fate of what many consider the toughest state immigration law in the country.

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USA TODAY

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Arizona’s controversial immigration law arrives at the Supreme Court

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NPR

Gingrich to suspend campaign after a tough primary race

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich will suspend his presidential candidacy after winning just two primaries and falling behind in the delegate count to Mitt Romney, his party’s presumptive nominee.

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BusinessWeek

BUSINESS

Orders for US goods decrease by the most in 3 years

Orders for U.S. durable goods fell in March by the most in three years, indicating manufacturing will contribute less to growth this year.

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Bloomberg

Debt crisis: live

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Telegraph.co.uk

The billionaire who wants to remake downtown Las Vegas

Meet Tony Hsieh — a 38-year-old CEO who plans to invest $350 million of his own fortune to remake downtown Las Vegas.

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TIME

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

More churches turning to social media

No matter where you live, you can go to church — so to speak — with Christ Fellowship in McKinney, Texas, which is on board with almost every high-tech gambit under heaven.

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Huffington Post

Muslims in Europe dogged by violence

Muslims living in Europe face discrimination in education, employment and religious freedom, according to an Amnesty International report.

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CNN

Special section:

Islam

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Guardian

HEALTH

Mad cow case confirmed in California

The first U.S. case of mad cow disease in six years has been found in a dairy cow in central California, detected before it could enter the human food chain and pose any threat to consumers, officials said.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Violence ages children’s DNA, shortens their chromosomes

Violence leaves long-term scars on children’s bodies — not just bruises on the skin — and also alters their DNA, causing changes that are equivalent to seven to 10 years of premature aging.

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USA TODAY

Study: how bullying and abuse may age children prematurely

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(TIME)

Healthland

Health care laws leave hospitals overwhelmed by ‘permanent patients’

For Barbara Latasiewicz, home was a hospital room. The Poland native, who had cleaned homes in the Chicago area for 20 years, suffered a stroke while on the job in September 2009.

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Msnbc.com

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Charity challenges: These are the getaways that give back

From hiking up volcanoes to biking around Europe, charity challenges have wide-reaching benefits. They’re not just normal holidays; rather they can actually be life-changing adventures.

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The Independent

Fear of commitment drives Generation Y

America’s young adults are putting off getting married, buying houses and having kids. Gen Y’s reluctance to commit is now changing how some businesses package their services.

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U.S. News & World Report

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Generation Y may face least secure retirement

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USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

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GOOD NEWS

Smokey Bear picked as the next space crew’s mascot

NASA astronaut Joseph Acaba said that he hopes Smokey, the mascot of the United States Forest Service, will help raise public awareness about the dangers posed by forest fires.

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CBS News

Students put tech to good use in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup contest

It looked almost like a scene from an old-time video arcade: teenagers and young adults crowded around computer screens and displays, buzzing excitedly.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Discovery sparks interest in forgotten black scholar

Three years ago, just moments before sledgehammers ripped through an abandoned home in Chicago, the head of a demolition crew decided to save the contents of an old trunk in the attic.

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NPR

WORLD

In Afghanistan, underground girls school defies Taliban edict, threats

Every morning in this mountain village in eastern Afghanistan, four dozen girls sneak through a square opening in a mud-baked wall, defying a Taliban edict.

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Washington Post

Why Afghanistan is like Vietnam

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(TIME)

Battleland

South Sudan accuses Khartoum of declaring war

South Sudan accused Sudan of mounting bombing raids on the newly independent country’s oil-producing region. President Salva Kiir said the latest hostilities amounted to a declaration of a war.

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Reuters

Special section:

South Sudan, a new nation

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BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

A close call: why the jury is still out on mobile phones

Is a rise in brain tumors linked to the radiation sources we hold so close to our heads? Experts just can’t seem to agree on the answer.

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The Independent

Mining asteroids: the real story from Planetary Resources Inc.

Space-faring robots could be extracting gold and platinum from asteroids within 10 years if a new venture backed by two Silicon Valley titans and filmmaker James Cameron gets off the ground as planned.

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ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Transition Towns moves communities beyond sustainability to resiliency

The Transition Town initiative focuses on urban agriculture and other social enterprises, using a 12-step model to organize a community toward a sustainable, resilient future.

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Christian Science Monitor

Who put lettuce in my daffodils?

Bucking the idea that vegetable gardens belong in far corner of the backyard, more gardeners are mixing in edible plants with their flowers.

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Wall Street Journal

Governments failing to avert catastrophic climate change, IEA warns

Ministers attending the clean energy summit in London are expected to be gravely warned about continuing global addiction to fossil fuels.

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Guardian

EDUCATION

States struggling to figure out how to evaluate special ed teachers

Many states have passed laws to reform how teachers are evaluated and include student growth as a component. For special education students, measuring that growth is complicated.

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Salt Lake Tribune

Political push continues on student loan interest rates

Hoping for a federal student loan to help pay for college? Beware, because the interest rates are set to double unless Congress and the White House find a way to avoid another political standoff.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Student loan rate hike: what you need to know

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CNNMoney

SPORTS

‘Hunger Games’ and Olympics spawn new generation of archery fans

In schools and backyards, kids are gaga for archery four weeks into the box office run of “The Hunger Games” and less than 100 days before the London Olympics.

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Christian Science Monitor

What does it take to break the athlete’s code of silence?

Doing nothing is exactly what’s expected in sports, where a version of the Mafia’s omerta, or code of silence, holds sway. Snitching runs counter to the accepted notion of taking one for the team.

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The Atlantic

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Life’s extremes: the early birds versus the night owls

It‘s 6:30 a.m. For “early birds” or “larks,” that’s prime time. For “night owls,” however, such an hour is ungodly.

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Nori Basheer, 25, who was displaced by 2010 floods from a village near Multan, Pakistan, plays with her son, Baber, while sitting outside her makeshift tent in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP)

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