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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, 2nd left, Prince Philip, left, Camilla Duchess of Cornwall, 2nd right, and Kate Duchess of Cambridge watch the proceedings from the royal barge during the Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames in London. (Photo by John Stillwell / AP)

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The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee: happy and glorious

On a most British of days — right down to the weather — more than a million people lined the Thames to pay tribute to the Queen on her Diamond Jubilee.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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All eyes on Thames royal pageant

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CNN

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Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee

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ABC News

Disaster relief in the social-media age

Hours after a tornado devastated parts of Joplin, Mo., a mother and daughter turned a Facebook page into a clearinghouse for information on recovery, how to volunteer and where to donate supplies.

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The Atlantic

Putin denies Russian role in Syrian violence

Under mounting international pressure, President Vladimir Putin denied that Moscow is fueling bloodshed in Syria with arms exports and that Russia unilaterally supports the government in Damascus.

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Moscow Times

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EU to press Putin on Syria at summit

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BBC

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Assad: Syria faces ‘real war’ from outside

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YouTube

Panetta in Vietnam on historic visit

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived at a former U.S. air and naval base at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, becoming the most senior American official to go there since the war ended.

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Msnbc.com

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More cracks appear in Tiananmen facade

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Sydney Morning Herald

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.

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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.

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USA TODAY

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.

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CNN

POLITICS

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.

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Reuters

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Health care reform

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ABC News

Florida will defy order to stop purging voter list amid calls of ‘suppression’

Florida says it will defy an order from the U.S. Department of Justice to stop purging its voter roll of people the state claims may not be American citizens.

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Guardian

BUSINESS

US jobs, Chinese factories add to fears

Europe’s debt crisis has frayed nerves around the world for months. Now signs of weakness in the U.S. jobs market and in Chinese factory output give policymakers even more reason to be afraid.

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Reuters

As economy stalls, Fed may step in

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(Msnbc.com)

Market Day

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.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

ENVIRONMENT

Rio de Janeiro closes its massive Jardim Gramacho dump

One of the world’s largest open-air landfills where thousands of people have made a living sorting through the debris by hand will close after 34 years in malodorous service.

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USA TODAY

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.

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EDUCATION

UN calls for investigation of US school’s shock treatments of autistic children

The U.N.’s special rapporteur on torture has made a formal approach to the U.S. government over a school near Boston that inflicts electric shocks on autistic children as a form of behavioral control.

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Guardian

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.

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Star Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

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.

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NPR

Texting and the art of conversation

Statistics show that, these days, many people with cell phones prefer texting over a phone call. And that’s creating a communication divide, of sorts — the talkers versus the texters.

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Telegram & Gazette

Where old aircraft die — or live again

The proprietor of an airplane graveyard knows each aircraft and rattles off their stories as he wanders through canyons of refuse.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Mitch Albom):

Fake pot can have real and serious consequences

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Detroit Free Press

Column (Alex Berezow and Hank Campbell):

Quit fretting, US is fine in science education

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USA TODAY

The Big Apple vs. the Big Gulp

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Denver Post

Blog (Steve Taylor):

Looking forward

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(Psychology Today)

Out of the Darkness

Column (Daniel Gros):

Democracy vs. the eurozone

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Al Jazeera

Column (Paul Harris):

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

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Guardian

Column (Leonard Pitts Jr.):

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

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Class size does make a difference

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Smart bomb drug attacks breast cancer

Doctors have successfully dropped the first “smart bomb” on breast cancer, using a drug to deliver a toxic payload to tumor cells while leaving healthy ones alone.

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Las Vegas Review Journal

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.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Leaving the Bay Area behind

A retired couple find peace, sun and parking meters that give an unprecedented two-hour time value for a quarter, in North San Juan, Calif.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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.

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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.

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CNN

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.

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Scotsman

What’s so addictive about ‘Angry Birds’?

First, in 2009, there was “Angry Birds.” Then came “Angry Birds Seasons,” which put the birds in Christmas and other holiday scenes. Finally, “Angry Birds Space” set, well, in space.

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CNN

HEALTH

Fresh alert over the dangers of caffeine

Coffee drinkers are woefully ignorant of the dangers lurking in their cup, a new report warns. The caffeine content of their takeaway latte or espresso can vary in strength from shop to bar.

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The Independent

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.

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U.S. News & World Report

Special section:

Breast cancer health center

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WebMD

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

More Vatican documents leaked

The furore over leaked correspondence, which shows scheming within the walls of the city-state, has gripped the Vatican just as it was recovering from a long-running sexual abuse scandal.

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Reuters

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.

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USA TODAY

SPORTS

Olympic medalist Shawn Johnson announces retirement from gymnastics

Shawn Johnson, whose bubbly personality gave American gymnastics a face four years ago, has decided not to pursue another shot at Olympic glory.

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San Jose Mercury News

Tiger Woods seals Memorial Tournament

With a high-tariff chip from the back of the 16th green at Muirfield Village, Tiger Woods watched the ball track into the hole on his way to winning the Memorial Tournament.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Boston Celtics squeak past Miami Heat in Game 4 OT thriller

Rajon Rondo gave another advanced-level seminar in point guard play, scoring 15 points and 15 assists as the Celtics defeated the Heat 93-91 in overtime, evening the best-of-seven series at 2-2.

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USA TODAY

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Chemical shortage hampers ‘legal high’ work and progress

Attempts to understand and control new synthetic recreational drugs are being hindered by analysis laboratories’ inability to obtain pure samples of the compounds, experts say.

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Nature

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Pakistanis jump into a canal to beat the heat in Lahore, Pakistan. The intense heat has gripped parts of Pakistan, pushing temperatures of 118 degrees Fahrenheit. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary / AP)

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