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In this file photo, Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes poses for a photo at the main campus of the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan. Fuentes, Mexico‘s most celebrated novelist and among Latin America’s most prominent authors, has died at 83. (Photo by Andres Leighton / AP)

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Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes dies

Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America’s novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died in a Mexico City hospital at 83.

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TIME

At US border, era of fence-building, manpower ‘surge’ at an end

The U.S. Border Patrol is shifting its strategy away from fence-building and a manpower “surge” at the border and toward one centered on intelligence and identifying threats to national security.

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Christian Science Monitor

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US Border Patrol praises tougher tactic

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Houston Chronicle

Boehner: no debt ceiling increase without equivalent cuts

House Speaker John Boehner will not allow an increase in the debt ceiling to move through the House unless the amount of the increase includes an equal or greater amount of spending cuts.

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USA TODAY

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Senate majority leader fires back at Boehner debt plan

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Politico

After meeting with Merkel, Hollande pushes for growth

France’s freshly inaugurated Socialist president plunged into the economic mess by calling for policies that would spur growth in the ailing eurozone.

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CNN

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François Hollande

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Guardian

Facebook boosts IPO range to value itself at up to $104 billion

Facebook Inc. boosted the price on its initial public offering to seek up to $12.8 billion, a signal that CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects demand for the social network to withstand recent market turmoil.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Poll shows rising user distrust of Facebook

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(Msnbc.com)

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NATION

GOP kills civil unions in Colorado session

Gay couples who watched as Colorado lawmakers rejected a civil unions measure are taking comfort in the bill sponsor’s mantra: It is not a matter of if, but a matter of when civil unions become law.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Post-traumatic stress now a leading concern for military families

A new survey that ranks the top struggles and worries of military families finds that after more than a decade of war, soldiers and their spouses are feeling isolated and financially strapped.

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Christian Science Monitor

JPMorgan losses send Wall Street back to Capitol Hill

Congressional critics are planning hearings to probe how America’s largest bank posted $2 billion in trading losses — and whether new financial regulations go far enough to rein in Wall Street abuses.

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Christian Science Monitor

Obama: JPMorgan is ‘one of the best-managed banks’

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(ABC News)

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POLITICS

3rd-party group cancels Internet primary

A private organization established to run a third-party candidate in this year’s presidential elections has thrown in the towel, saying no one mustered sufficient support for such an effort.

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U.S. News & World Report

Obama looks to energize those who backed him in 2008

President Barack Obama defended his view that gay couples should have the right to marry, saying that the country has never gone wrong when it “expanded rights and responsibilities to everybody.”

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Detroit Free Press

BUSINESS

Older Americans face tough job hunt

The number of long-term unemployed workers aged 55 and older has more than doubled since the recession began in late 2007, and getting back to work is increasingly difficult.

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Reuters

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Job market still hurting college graduates

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McClatchy Newspapers

Groupon makes 1st profit, shares surge

Groupon Inc. posted its first quarterly profit by reining in marketing spending and signing up more customers and merchants, sending its stock about 18 percent higher.

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Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Successful Soyuz launch sends 3 to International Space Station

Two Russians and an American blasted off for the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket in Russia’s first manned space launch for almost five months.

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Space Station’s Expedition 31 mission

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SPACE.com

Are pit bulls dangerous animals?

The Maryland Court of Appeals recently deemed pit bulls and pit bull mixes “inherently dangerous,” but many animal experts and dog advocates believe the court overstepped its authority.

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Solar eclipse: ‘ring of fire’ set to appear

Skywatchers in East Asia and the western United States should mark their calendars. A solar eclipse will soon appear and block out most of the sun, leaving a spectacular “ring of fire” shining in the sky.

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Huffington Post

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Solar eclipse photo guide

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SPACE.com

EDUCATION

Video games in the classroom: an experiment gone right?

A school district in Wisconsin is trying to be at the forefront of attempted integration of technology and academics by using games like Quest Atlantis.

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EducationNews.org

More private colleges begin offering discounts on tuition

The cost of a college education continues to increase faster than inflation. But, with a little digging, parents and students can find deals and programs that make the paper chase a lot more affordable.

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McClatchy Newspapers

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

The Dead Sea Scrolls come to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia

The Franklin Institute opened a new exhibition entitled “Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times,” which consists of more than 600 figurines, altars and coins from the Dead Sea.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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Gospel fragment tantalizes experts

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Christianity Today

Lady Gaga gagged in Indonesia; protests by Islamic hard-liners and lawmakers

Lady Gaga will have to cancel her sold-out show in Indonesia following protests by Islamic hard-liners and conservative lawmakers, who said her sexy clothes and dance moves will corrupt young people.

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Huffington Post

Black churches conflicted on Obama’s gay marriage decision

The pulpits of the nation’s black churches took measure of President Obama’s decision to support gay marriage, and the result was conflicted.

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USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Reddit users surprise terminally ill man with random acts of kindness

Scott Widak and his family recently received the greatest gift anyone in their situation could receive — a viral act of encouragement and kindness from complete strangers.

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Mashable

Intern finds way to help deaf community from Capitol Hill

Members of Congress might wait years before accomplishing something of lasting value, if they are even lucky enough to do that. For 22-year-old Capitol Hill intern Zach Ennis, it took only three months.

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McClatchy Newspapers

New Coast Guard grad was rescued at sea as a boy

Eternally grateful from being rescued at sea as a 6-year-old boy, Orlando Morel will graduate from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut and join the Coast Guard shortly after.

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Huffington Post

WORLD

Ex-Murdoch editor charged over UK phone-hacking scandal

Rebekah Brooks, a confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was charged with interfering with an investigation in a scandal that has rocked the tycoon’s media empire as well as the British political establishment.

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Reuters

World braces itself for Greek euro exit

Financial markets plunged into fresh turmoil after Greece’s political parties failed once again to agree to form a unity government, and policymakers admit Athens may exit from the single currency.

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The Independent

Could LRA commander’s capture help net Joseph Kony?

Captured deep in the remote Central African jungle, Ceasar Acellam is the highest-ranking Lord’s Resistance Army commander to be caught alive. Is the net closing on Joseph Kony?

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Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

Arizona fire forces evacuations

Firefighters continued to battle a wildfire in northern Arizona that has forced residents from their homes in the historic mining town of Crown King just weeks ahead of the busy tourist season.

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Las Vegas Review Journal

Global biodiversity has decreased by 30 percent in 40 years

According to a new report, the world’s biodiversity is down 30 percent since the 1970s, with tropical species taking the biggest hit. And if humanity continues as it has been, the picture could get bleaker.

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Amber preserves insect pollen carriers

What may be the earliest direct example of insect pollination in 100-million-year-old amber blocks from Spain has been identified by scientists.

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BBC

Life in the universe: easy or hard?

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(TIME)

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HEALTH

US adopts landmark strategy to fight Alzheimer’s disease

The Obama administration will adopt a national strategy to fight Alzheimer’s, setting the clock ticking toward a 2025 deadline to find effective ways to treat, or at least stall, the disease.

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Houston Chronicle

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Clock ticking with new plan to fight Alzheimer’s

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U.S. News & World Report

Are sperm counts really dropping around the world?

The shocking conclusion of a study 20 years ago indicated that sperm counts had halved. But a closer look at the evidence now paints a much more complex story.

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BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

For a nation of whiners, therapists try tough love

How do you get someone to stop the constant griping? The answer is simple, but not always easy: Do not listen to it.

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Wall Street Journal

WWII pinup poster girl dies

Margie Stewart was the official U.S. Army poster girl during World War II, and millions of her pinup photos were distributed to American GIs.

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Sydney Morning Herald

Is it a house or a music box?

In a funky New Orleans experiment, musicians, artists and tinkerers have gathered materials from a Creole cottage and built a cacophony of sounds.

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Smithsonian Magazine

SPORTS

13-year-old NY boy can play on girls’ field hockey team

The biggest goal of Keeling Pilaro’s field hockey career happened far from an athletic field, when it was ruled that he would be allowed to play girls’ field hockey.

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CBS News

Celtics rally again but cannot hold on

The Sixers beat the Celtics, 82-81, at the Garden to even their best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series at 1-1. Now, the Celtics have to win a game in Philadelphia to advance to the finals.

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Telegram & Gazette

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

New digital library aims to expand kids’ media literacy

On the ground floor of Chicago’s main library, an experiment is taking place, one that could determine what a neighborhood library looks like in the future.

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USA TODAY

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A Kashmiri Muslim girl walks through a field in Ganderbal, 12 miles northeast of Srinagar, India. (Photo by Dar Yasin / AP)

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