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President Barack Obama delivers remarks at an event celebrating the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate in Washington. (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)

Obama to make first visit to New Orleans since taking office

President Barack Obama will visit New Orleans for the first time since taking office, to address rebuilding efforts in the city ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.

CNN

Obama's Katrina controversy

CBS News

Puerto Rico braces for 'people's strike' to protest cutbacks

Labor unions called for a "people's strike" to be held in Puerto Rico to protest widespread government cutbacks announced last March in the wake of the economic downturn.

CNN

Trouble in paradise: Puerto Rico budget crisis

ABC News

US initial unemployment claims decrease

The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits dropped to the lowest level in nine months, indicating the improving economy is leading to a slowdown in firings.

Bloomberg

Joblessness peaks, Wall Street and banks gain

NPR

Stagnant consumer prices prevent Social Security benefit increases

For the first time in more than three decades, people who rely on Social Security and federal pensions will not get an increase in their monthly benefit checks because consumer prices have stagnated.

San Jose Mercury News

Obama backs $250 payments to seniors

Denver Post

House toughens pilot training rules

The House voted to toughen regulations on pilot training, qualifications and work schedules, a response to a fatal crash in upstate New York and other accidents involving regional airlines.

Kansas City Star

FAA proposes fines for US Airways, United

Philadelphia Inquirer

NATION

Foreclosures rise 5 percent

The number of households in the foreclosure crisis rose more than 5 percent as a federal effort to assist struggling borrowers was overwhelmed by a flood of defaults among people who lost their jobs.

Palm Beach Post

Special section:

Interactive foreclosure map

NPR

Senior al-Qaida figure contacted Zazi

The airport shuttle driver accused of a terrorism plot in New York had high level al-Qaida contacts, up to an Osama bin Laden confidant believed to be the terrorist group's leader in Afghanistan.

MSNBC

Zazi contacted Afghan al-Qaida chief

YouTube

POLITICS

Unions say public plan is needed

Labor groups criticized the Senate Finance Committee's health care plan as "deeply flawed" for its lack of a government-run option and its tax on expensive health-insurance plans.

Wall Street Journal

Next big hurdle in health debate is public option

New York Times

A tax break for a 4-legged friend?

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter has thrown pet owners a bone by sponsoring a bill that would allow them to deduct animal care expenses from their taxes.

NPR

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Looking at nature makes you nicer

In a set of recent experiments, researchers at the University of Rochester in New York monitored the effects of natural versus artificial environments — and found that nature actually makes us nicer.

MSNBC

Ralph Lauren model in emaciated photo dropped for being 'too fat'

A model who featured in a fashion photograph for Polo Ralph Lauren, which was doctored to make her look abnormally thin, has been dropped by the clothing label, she says, for being too fat.

Times Online

HEALTH

Complete retirement 'bad for you'

Giving up work completely on retirement could be bad for your health, U.S. research suggests. The study found that retirees who take on temporary or part-time work function better day to day.

BBC

Tobacco research destroyed, report says

Imperial Tobacco Canada destroyed seven million pages of research that included decades' worth of studies that indicated the devastating effects of smoking, a new medical journal article alleges.

Toronto Star

Brain science impacting varied fields

Images showing neurons firing in different areas of the brain are gaining attention from experts in fields as varied as law, marketing, education, criminology, philosophy and ethics.

Reuters

SPORTS

NASCAR's 1st Hall of Fame class revealed

NASCAR's inaugural Hall of Fame class was selected, with Bill France Sr., Richard Petty, Bill France Jr., Dale Earnhardt and Junior Johnson as the inductees.

Sports Network

Inside the NASCAR voting

ESPN

Argentina reaches World Cup

After months of worry they would miss the World Cup, Argentina narrowly qualified for next year's tournament.

Toronto Star

Argentina headed to World Cup

CNN

Group bidding to buy St. Louis Rams drops Rush Limbaugh

Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was dropped from a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams.

ESPN

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Latino evangelical pastors split over 2010 census boycott

Immigration reform activists, divided over whether undocumented immigrants should volunteer to be counted in the 2010 census, are escalating rhetoric and seeking support from Latino evangelical pastors.

Religion News Service

Georgia school board upholds policy banning Bible banners

A school board in far northern Georgia upheld a policy banning cheerleaders from displaying religious banners on the field at high school football games.

Associated Baptist Press

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GOOD NEWS

Hundreds of missing children found using age-progression images

Age-progression photographs have been instrumental in the recovery of more than 900 missing children.

ABC News

US man gets 50 different jobs in 50 states in 50 weeks

Californian Dan Seddiqui went from being homeless and unemployed to getting 50 different jobs in 50 different U.S. states in just 50 weeks.

Telegraph.co.uk

WORLD

Coordinated attacks leave at least 39 dead in Pakistan

Gunmen armed with grenades and suicide vests stormed four police buildings across Pakistan in coordinated attacks that left at least 39 people dead.

Telegraph.co.uk

New Pakistan attacks