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U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev talk during their meeting ahead of the G20 summit in London. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP)

Obama, Medvedev hail 'fresh start' in US-Russia relations

President Barack Obama will travel to Moscow in July, part of what he and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, are calling a "fresh start" in strained relations between the nuclear powers.

McClatchy Newspapers

Russia and US pledge to slash nukes

Times Online

Experts doubt breast cancer screening

Experts aiming to promote better-informed decision making in healthcare have questioned the benefits of mammograms, saying that to save one life, nearly 3,000 women have to be tested.

Medical News Today

Congress poised to adopt budget

Democrats controlling the House and Senate are on track to give President Barack Obama a key victory by adopting slightly pared-back versions of his $3.6 trillion budget.

Seattle Times

G-20 pledges $1 trillion

World leaders have announced they are to triple the finances of the International Monetary Fund to help fight the worst economic crisis since the 1930s and will impose new curbs on financial markets.

Al Jazeera

Special section:

Who's who at the G-20

CNN

Protests turn ugly in London

MSNBC

North Korea warned over rocket launch

U.S. President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart have agreed a "stern, united response" must follow any rocket launch by North Korea.

BBC

North Korea starts fueling rocket

Reuters

Senate committee approves credit card accountability act

The U.S. Senate is planning a vote on the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act, a measure designed to end some of the credit card industry’s more abusive practices.

Consumer Affairs

US invests money to keep arms smugglers out of Mexico

New money to monitor U.S. traffic entering Mexico and detect gun smugglers will be spent on scanners for inspecting trucks as well as communication equipment, the U.S. government said.

Reuters

US-Mexico border to get $400 million upgrade

CBS News

NATION

Senators grill Petraeus on Afghan strategy

Senators grilled Pentagon officials over the new U.S. strategy for countering terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan, pressing them on whether there will be enough troops and how progress would be measured.

Christian Science Monitor

Feds drop Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' case

Attorney General Eric Holder dropped a corruption case against ex-Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, saying prosecutors blew it by failing to share evidence.

NY Daily News

'Stunning misconduct' in Stevens case

MSNBC

POLITICS

Romney: Don't root for Obama to fail

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said Republicans shouldn’t oppose President Obama as a reflex and should praise him when he succeeds.

The Hill

Reversing Bush policy, US seeks seat on UN Human Rights council

President Obama is taking another step down the road of engaging America's adversaries with the decision to seek a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, a group President Bush shunned.

Christian Science Monitor

HEALTH

Marijuana chemical fights brain cancer

The active chemical in marijuana promotes the death of brain cancer cells by essentially helping them feed upon themselves, researchers in Spain report.

WebMD

Walgreens clinics offer free medical care for unemployed, uninsured workers

Walgreens is a extending a helping hand to unemployed, uninsured workers and their families, offering to treat minor pains for free at its Take Care clinic.

U.S. News & World Report

EDUCATION

Oregon tracks special ed students after high school

During their first year out of high school, more than one in four special education students in Oregon never held a paying job or enrolled even part time in college or job training.

Oregon Live

Colleges fearing rejection letters

Decision letters being sent out reflect the worries of administrators, who fear admitted applicants may hesitate to commit in this climate of economic uncertainty.

USA Today

Economic stimulus money begins reaching targeted schools

Education Secretary Arne Duncan visited two classrooms with Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley. They took turns reading to first-graders and talked about President Barack Obama to fifth graders.

Houston Chronicle

Schools chief calls for transparency

Detroit Free Press

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Obamas give Queen Elizabeth an iPod

The diplomatic challenges facing President Obama during his overseas trip this week include this one: What gift to give his host in Britain, the Queen?

Baltimore Sun

'Guiding Light' going dark

CBS's "Guiding Light," which began on the network in 1952, is reportedly going off the air in September. Counting its original radio iteration, the show has been on in various forms for 72 years.

TIME

Special section:

'Light' was a beacon for big-name actors

USA Today

Wanda Sykes to host show on Fox

Wanda Sykes will start hosting a late night topical show on Saturdays on Fox starting this fall, the network said.

Hartford Courant

Blog:

Official: Wanda Sykes to Fox

Newsday

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

This Passover, the face of hunger is surging to new heights

Across the country, food banks and kitchens are reporting a surge in demand ranging from 20 percent to 75 percent higher than in previous years, as layoffs and cutbacks force families into poverty.

Forward

Vatican to inspect order after scandal

Pope Benedict XVI has ordered a Vatican investigation of the Legionaries of Christ, the conservative religious order that has acknowledged that its founder fathered a child and molested seminarians.

Seattle Times

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column:

Wear hairshirts, not cloths of gold

Times Online

Column:

The regulatory charade

Slate

Column:

Silence meets despair of Afghan women

Truthdig

Editorial:

Stevens case leaves taint behind

USA Today

Column:

Will Iraq's 'tunnel light' shine on Bush?

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Editorial:

Divided we stand

Economist

Column (Sean Trende):

Poor GOP performance in New York

Real Clear Politics

Editorial (Tonyaa Weathersbee):

Women still fighting discrimination

Florida Times-Union

Editorial:

Prison health care needs vigilance

Detroit Free Press

Blog (John B. Judis):

Vote of confidence

The New Republic

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GOOD NEWS

Falling baby caught by good samaritans

Ordinary outings turned into a life-saving occasion when Robert Lemire and Alex Day rescued a falling toddler.

HappyNews.com

US donates rice for cyclone survivors

The United States has donated more than 16,000 tons of rice to help survivors of last year's devastating cyclone in military-ruled Myanmar, officials said.

Reuters

Nursery saved by parents' charity

Parents have formed a charity to save a south London nursery threatened with closure. About 100 families collaborated to form The Arc Community Trustees, which took over the administration.

BBC

WORLD

Zimbabwe prison called 'death camp'