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Villagers living in relief camps hold their voter identity card and stand in line outside a polling center at Badimunda village, India. (Photo by Biswaranjan Rout / AP)

India starts voting in elections

Hundreds of thousands of Indians went to polling stations to start the world's biggest democratic elections, a monthlong process expected to yield no clear winner to lead India through the global economic malaise.

Examiner

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Millions of Indians go to polls

BBC

Obama addresses economy, tax plan

President Obama touted his tax cut as an important component of his plan to right the U.S. economy and put working families on a more prosperous path.

CNN

Anti-tax 'tea parties' protest tax and spending

ABC News

Obamas made $2.7 million last year

MSNBC

Obama to show unity, 'respect' in Mexico

President Obama's diplomatic mission to Mexico is meant to show solidarity with a neighbor — and to prove that the U.S. is serious about halting the deadly flow of drugs and weapons.

CBS News

Mexico focused on guns, guns, guns

USA Today

UN inspectors leave N. Korea's nuclear facility

U.N. inspectors ordered out by North Korea have left the country's main nuclear facility after removing seals and surveillance cameras there, a diplomat said.

Guardian

US foreclosures up 24 percent

The number of American households threatened with losing their homes grew 24 percent in the first quarter and is poised to rise further as lenders restart foreclosures after a temporary break.

San Francisco Chronicle

Support for homeowner program overhaul

NPR

1st-time homebuyers jolt market into life

Christian Science Monitor

NATION

Folks losing homes call bank number; no one answers

Banks and lenders say that they have been overwhelmed with calls and that they're doing all they can to help ease the situation for Americans in distress.

CNN

Pirate attack survivors make their way home amid hugs, cheers

The captain and crew who fought off pirates in a hostage standoff are getting closer to the place they've all wanted to be — home.

ABC News

USS Bainbridge arrives in Kenya

YouTube

Alan Bersin named 'border czar'

Alan Bersin, a former U.S. attorney, was named to the new U.S. post of "border czar," to oversee efforts to end drug-cartel violence along the U.S.-Mexico border.

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

DHS' domestic terror warning angers GOP

Republicans said that a Homeland Security Department intelligence assessment unfairly characterizes military veterans as right-wing extremists.

CBS News

Clinton unveils piracy plan

Hillary Clinton unveiled a plan to fight piracy, calling for prosecution and freezing pirates' assets with the support of Washington's international partners.

Telegraph.co.uk

HEALTH

Epilepsy drug linked to birth defects

A study has found women who take a common epilepsy drug while pregnant increase the risk of having a mentally impaired baby.

Pharmacy Europe

Psychology of Va. Tech, Columbine killers still baffles experts

As the 10th anniversary of the Columbine tragedy approaches, experts say they can't predict which teens will go on a suicide-driven rampage.

ABC News

Home births 'as safe as hospital'

The largest study of its kind has found that for low-risk women, giving birth at home is as safe as doing so in hospital.

BBC

EDUCATION

Strip search review tests limits of school drug policy

Drug searches, along with drug tests for students in extracurricular activities, have become common in schools across the nation. But the U.S. Supreme Court will review whether they can continue.

USA Today

Education chief to spend billions to ‘transform’ US schools

Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to spend a record $5 billion to transform U.S. schools by rewarding states for innovation, providing merit pay to teachers.

Bloomberg

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

YouTube-assembled orchestra plays Carnegie Hall to sold-out crowd

Proving music is a universal language, the first symphony orchestra assembled through YouTube auditions dazzled a sold-out crowd at the iconic midtown concert venue, winning a standing ovation.

NY Daily News

YouTube Symphony Orchestra

Telegraph.co.uk

Documentary makes History

History — a cable network not normally known for its celebrity quotient — is rolling out the red carpet for "The People Speak," a star-driven multiplatform project from Matt Damon and Chris Moore.

Variety

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

New Hong Kong bishop vows to help unite Chinese Catholics

The new head of Hong Kong's Catholic church pledged to unite Chinese Catholics and work toward ensuring religious freedom on the mainland.

Associated Press

Vatican appoints new bishop to Hong Kong

Telegraph.co.uk

For Jerusalem's Hebrew-speaking Catholics, Jewish identity is cardinal

Active since 1955, the Hebrew-speaking Catholic Vicariate, also known as the Association of St. James, was founded mainly to serve European-Catholic immigrants to the new Jewish state.

Ha'aretz

Columns And Op-Ed

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Changing course on Cuba

Philadelphia Inquirer

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Mac vs. PC: What you don't get for $699

BusinessWeek

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If you want a lady's love, write a poem

Baltimore Sun

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Wheels of magic reward kids' hard work

Chicago Sun-Times

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Patent system exploited

San Francisco Chronicle

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Newspapers like department stores

Salon.com

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It's all Obama, all the time

Politico

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The end of Newsweek?

Townhall

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How to think about taxes

Mother Jones

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Republicans and the Tea Parties

Wall Street Journal

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Homeland insecurity

San Francisco Chronicle

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The Obama doctrine

Real Clear Politics

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On climate & health, beware of easy formulas

Washington Examiner

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GOOD NEWS

'Slumdog' producers donate over $740,000 to Indian kids

The producers of Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire are hoping to change the lives of some real life children living in Mumbai.

People

$40 million found in forgotten account

Baltimore has unearthed a nearly $40 million windfall, after auditors realized that an account had been accumulating tax payments for about a decade.

Baltimore Sun

WORLD

Russia 'ends Chechnya operation'

Russia has ended its decade-long "counter-terrorism operation" against separatist rebels in the southern republic of Chechnya, officials say.

BBC

Iran's new plan to end nuclear standoff