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Anti-government protesters and supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra during a protest outside the government house in Bangkok, Thailand. (Photo by Apichart Weerawong / AP)

Protesters shut Asian summit

Participating Asian leaders were leaving the country, said Thailand's prime minister, who declared a state of emergency, giving police the authority to arrest people without warrants.

CNN

Protesters storm Asia summit venue

BBC

Can the US health care system be fixed?

Instead of consulting with their primary care doctors, many patients in this country who need medical care wind up in the emergency room.

ABC News

Free clinics fill medical void

USA Today

Obama's immigration plan: Congress' poison pill?

Supporters argue that the economy, health care, and homeland security must be dealt with together. To others, immigration reform is a “poison pill” that could sour the mood in Congress.

Christian Science Monitor

Obama urges cooperation on global threats

Examiner

US ships block help for pirates holding US captain

U.S. warships are trying to stop Somali pirates from sending reinforcements to a lifeboat where an American captain is being held hostage as the high-seas standoff entered a fourth day.

NPR

US captain tried to escape, recaptured

CBS News

Utah finds benefits in 4-day workweek

A recent assessment by state planners of Utah's mandated four-day workweek found there have been unexpected boosts to productivity and worker satisfaction.

NPR

NATION

1 in 9 homes sit empty

From Maine to Hawaii, millions of new McMansions, post-World War II bungalows, modern downtown lofts, exurban town homes and inner-city row houses sit empty.

USA Today

Is America's 'exburbs' love affair over?

Reuters

Federal and state governments look to smokers for more tax revenue

High cigarette taxes curtail smoking and reduce the habit's societal costs, but they also take a big bite out of the earnings of America's poor. That's the paradox of the new 62-cent federal tax on tobacco.

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Congressman Spencer Bachus says 17 House members are socialists

You have to go all the way back to 1929 to find a member of the Socialist Party in the U.S. House of Representatives, but U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus says the "workers' party" is alive and kicking on Capitol Hill.

CBS News

Socialists in the House?

Newsweek

Federal Election Commision clears 2 GOP lawmakers of alleged violations

The Federal Election Commission has dismissed complaints against Sen. Pat Roberts and Rep. Aaron Schock, closing the book on two campaign-year controversies.

The Hill

HEALTH

Hospital may have sidestepped rules for face transplant

A Boston hospital may have bent its own rules to offer a disfigured patient a facial transplant. Doctors and ethicists say the move was likely justified.

ABC News

'Brown fat' burns calories — may lead to new obesity treatments

What if you had a special kind of fat in your body that burned calories instead of storing them — and it could be activated simply by spending time in the cold? You probably do.

CNN

EDUCATION

Stimulus supports school construction

School facilities directors are still trying to piece together how much money will be available under the measure for school construction projects, what it can be used for, and when it can be accessed.

Education Week

Sen. Groff named to education job in DC

The Department of Education made it official: Colorado Senate President Peter Groff has accepted a federal education post as director of the office's Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Center.

Denver Post

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Music festivals not feeling pinch

With the summer music festival season just around the corner, leading international festival producers insist that the difficult economic climate isn't putting a serious crimp on business.

Billboard

TV networks revise spending

Variety

Publisher to release Vonnegut stories

A posthumous collection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut will be released this November. The collection, called "Look at the Birdie," contains 14 stories.

MSNBC

SPORTS

Lance Armstrong expects French to ban him from Tour

Lance Armstrong believes French doping officials may ban him from the Tour de France over a report that he violated protocols during a recent drug test.

MSNBC

Lance's response to drug testing allegations

Livestrong

With farewells over, game on at Masters

There are 18 golfers standing between Woods and the top spot at Augusta, including two-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson, who was flirting with the cut line before he rallied back into contention.

Examiner

Tiger Woods talks after round 2

ESPN

ENVIRONMENT

Changes in climate are complicating ozone recovery

Increasing greenhouse gases would delay or even postpone the recovery of ozone levels in the lower stratosphere over some parts of the planet, according to new research from NASA and Johns Hopkins University.

Environment News Service

Dry in Mexico City: Water crisis worsens

About five million people woke up with dry taps. The drought was caused by the biggest stoppage in the city's main reservoir system in recent years to ration its depleting supplies.

TIME

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GOOD NEWS

Egg farmers help feed the nation's hungry during Easter

This Easter, America's egg farmers are teaming up with Feeding America to donate more than 12 million eggs to food banks across the country.

PNN

Daughter makes mother wake from coma

A mother woke from a coma as doctors turned off her life-support machine after her little girl begged her to live.

Daily Express

WORLD

Fiji coup leader restored as PM

Fiji's leader has restored his military chief, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, to the post of interim prime minister a day after suspending the constitution.

BBC

Thousands expected for third day of Georgia demonstrations