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Over 1,000 boats sailed down the Thames in a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 years on the throne that organizers are calling the biggest gathering on the river for 350 years. (Photo by Tim Hales / AP)

A celebration fit for a queen

It’s a historic sight that’s fit for a queen. Some are calling it the biggest gathering along the banks of the River Thames in 350 years, as both royals and dignitaries prepare for the Diamond Jubilee Pageant.

CBS News

The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee: pageant crowds

Telegraph.co.uk

Today’s blacksmiths forge a new kind of artisanal future

Blacksmithing is an ancient trade that saw a downturn during the Industrial Revolution, when machines took over jobs that humans once did. Now, blacksmithing is seeing a small revival.

NPR

Syria crisis: Assad denies role in Houla massacre

Syria’s President Bashar Assad has denied his government had any role in the Houla massacre. More than 100 people, many of them children, were killed in the attack, most knifed or shot at close range.

BBC

Syria violence claims young filmmaker

Los Angeles Times

Map:

Houla massacre: what, where, when

Guardian

Looming court ruling worries some with health woes

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to rule on whether to overturn the healthcare law, many with pre-existing conditions say the choice is clear.

Reuters

State pursues health care fixes

Star Tribune

Special section:

Health care reform

ABC News

Can good deeds lower unemployment?

Long before the current recession, people in Chatham County, N.C., saw the economy dipping. They noticed prices going up and incomes going down. So they fought back by caring for each other.

Christian Science Monitor

NATION

Some towns eyeing retreat from the sea

Years of storms have threatened to gnaw away a popular beachfront park near Los Angeles. Instead of building a 500-foot-long wooden defense to tame the tide, the latest thinking is to flee.

USA TODAY

Alaskans mark 100th anniversary of big volcanic eruption

Even a century after one of the world’s largest volcanic eruptions, a strong wind still whips up the ash that rained down on what became known as Alaska’s Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.

Anchorage Daily News

Alaska volcano eruption still boggles mind

Alaska Dispatch

The brotherhood of Disaster City

The streets of Disaster City are dotted by smashed and overturned automobiles — on one corner, a school bus has rammed into a telephone pole. It’s a façade, of course, no more dangerous than a movie set.

CNN

POLITICS

Drone wars and state secrecy — how Barack Obama became a hardliner

He was once a liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war. Now, the U.S. president personally oversees a “kill list” for drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan.

Guardian

Wisconsin recall election tests voters’ appetite for cuts

Wisconsin voters will decide whether to remove Gov. Scott Walker from office. Walker is under fire for cutting budgets at the expense of public employees.

Kansas City Star

Blog:

Wisconsin recall battle is state’s most expensive election

(Msnbc.com)

Open Channel

BUSINESS

Acquisitions drive Enterprise’s growth in car share business

Enterprise Holdings has built its business renting cars for days or weeks at a time. Now, the company is pursuing a growing number of consumers who want a more fleeting relationship — cars by the hour.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Experts torn on Oracle’s chances of appeal in Android copyright ruling

Oracle has pledged to appeal a judge’s ruling that Java APIs cited in its lawsuit against Google were not subject to copyright protection.

PC Advisor

Blog:

No perks for Java

(Economist)

Babbage

ENVIRONMENT

Clinton urges cooperation in resource-rich Arctic

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ventured north of the Arctic Circle and urged international cooperation in a region that could become a new battleground for natural resources.

Seattle Times

New Mexico wildfire is partly contained as firefighters prepare for bad weather

More than 1,200 firefighters are battling the nation’s largest wildfire that has charred acres in the rugged mountains and canyons of southwestern New Mexico, shrouding parts of the region in smoke.

Guardian

EDUCATION

In Minnesota, fraud, waste hijack federal tutoring program

The federal tutoring program is rife with mismanagement and fraud. Participating Minnesota students are failing to achieve the academic gains educators expected a decade ago.

Star Tribune

Teacher faces toughest ‘R’: retirement

After 46 years of teaching at Deephaven Elementary, in Minnetonka, Minn., Lynn Owens is retiring. She is one of the longest-serving teachers in the Minnetonka school district.

Star Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Rekindling old flames in a digital age

The prevalence of social media is making it easier for former loves to reconnect, making the memories very visceral when they surface.

Star Tribune

Are men more unfaithful than women?

Commonly quoted statistics suggest that more men are unfaithful to their partners than women. But if it takes two to tango, is it even possible?

BBC

Jessica Springsteen, Bruce’s daughter, was born to jump

Jessica Springsteen took a trip to the other side of the Atlantic to represent the U.S. in the Young Rider Tour of Europe. During the event, she received more attention than she does in America.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Daniel Gros):

Democracy vs. the eurozone

Al Jazeera

Column (Leonard Pitts Jr.):

GOP’s war on voter fraud: a threat that doesn’t exist

Seattle Times

Editorial:

Class size does make a difference

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Scott Maxwell):

Orlando is ‘worst dressed’? Tank tops, bra straps gave us away

Orlando Sentinel

Column (Jim Jenkins):

Watergate at 40

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Michael Nesset):

Whatever your point of view, ponder your place in space

Star Tribune

Column (Lion Calandra):

Time to toss the SAT test

FOX News

Column (Michelle Cottle):

Bill Clinton: two-edged sword for President Obama

Daily Beast

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GOOD NEWS

Prostate cancer drug proved so effective, trial stopped early

A new drug for advanced prostate cancer patients has proved so effective that researchers stopped the clinical trial early to give all patients a chance to receive the life-extending medication.

San Francisco Chronicle

Hormone-blocking pill slows cancer spread

Reuters

Cuba-trained doctors making a difference around the world

The world’s largest medical school, Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina, located in Santa Clara, Cuba, is home to students from 110 different countries who go on to help people from all around the world.

Toronto Star

Make it Right homes in NOLA

Over the past five years, the Make it Right Foundation, established by Brad Pitt in New Orleans, has been realizing its commitment to build 150 affordable, green storm-resistant homes for families.

Huffington Post

WORLD

Passenger plane crashes in Nigeria’s largest city

An aviation official says that all passengers on board the plane that crashed in Nigeria’s largest city have been killed. The government says 153 people were on board.

TIME

New charge against Mubarak’s sons as protests grow

Defiant demonstrators took to Cairo’s Tahrir Square, despite the Egyptian heat, decrying a judge’s decision to put deposed President Hosni Mubarak behind bars for life but clear a number of his top officials.

CNN

Mubarak verdict adds to tension before vote

Reuters

Blog:

Egypt: live

Al Jazeera

How Vietnam became a crucial US ally

Vietnamese are now prying their way into the developed world — for the sake of themselves and their families, obviously, but also to preserve their independence against an equally dynamic China.

The Atlantic

Vietnam: a country on the move

Brisbane Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Archaeologists in Oban discover Bronze Age was height of cool

They had fridges, state-of-the-art heating systems and possibly even access to a sauna. Archaeologists have discovered that Bronze Age people had a range of modern conveniences.

Scotsman

How the ‘bling ring’ gang used Twitter to burgle Hollywood homes

When six American youths were caught breaking into the homes of Hollywood celebrities — using Twitter and Google Earth to assist them — the “bling ring” gang achieved instant notoriety.

The Independent

HEALTH

Experimental drug shows promise for certain breast cancers

An experimental drug designed to treat patients with a specific kind of breast cancer appeared to boost survival compared to the standard treatment, a new study shows.

U.S. News & World Report

Special section:

Breast cancer health center

WebMD

Alternatives to the nursing home for aging or ailing parents

For many families facing the same journey at the end of life, the medical decisions that must be made can be overwhelming.

TIME

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope to visit Philadelphia in 2015

Pope Benedict XVI will visit Philadelphia in 2015 to host the Vatican World Meeting of Families, he announced as this year’s meeting wrapped up in Milan.

USA TODAY

Conspiracy and cleanup at the Vatican

The scandal over leaked documents that has been engulfing the Vatican is the biggest breach of confidence and security at the Holy See in recent memory.

NPR

SPORTS

Durant powers Thunder past Spurs 109-103, even series 2-2

Kevin Durant scored 18 of his 36 points in the final seven minutes, Serge Ibaka added a career-high 26 points and the Thunder evened the series by beating the San Antonio Spurs 109-103.

ABC News

Vilma’s lawyer says Saints’ ledger kept track of bonuses for clean plays

The attorney for suspended New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma says a ledger of under-the-table cash bonuses and fines for players shows no proof of bounties placed on targeted opponents.

CBSSports

Saints’ ‘ledger’ shows ‘cart-offs’ worth $1K

NFL.com

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