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With CodePink demonstrators behind him, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., before the Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. (Photo by Susan Walsh / AP)

Morgan Stanley posts $177 million loss

Morgan Stanley reported a loss of $177 million in the first three months of the year, worse than analysts expected, and said it would cut its quarterly dividend as real estate investments sapped its profits.

Financial Times

Wells Fargo confirms record profit, shares slip

CNBC

Obama administration's growing dilemma on torture prosecution

President Obama acknowledged that lawyers who drafted memos authorizing the use of harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects could potentially face prosecution.

TIME

Interrogation debate tests Obama

MSNBC

Freddie executive death apparent suicide say police

Virginia police said they found David Kellermann, acting chief financial officer of mortgage company Freddie Mac, hanging in the basement of his Reston, Va., home, dead from an apparent suicide.

ABC News

Freddie Mac official's death probed

MSNBC

Taliban claims victory near Islamabad

The Taliban in Pakistan's Swat valley has moved into a neighbouring district in an apparent move to expand its control of the region, officials have said.

Al Jazeera

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Taliban in Swat expands control

CNN

IMF: Global economy to shrink 1.3 percent in 2009

The world economy is likely to shrink this year for the first time in six decades, according to recent International Monetary Fund projections.

Forbes

Obama's wish on Earth Day: Ignite the energy plan

President Obama is expected to tout his administration's effort to accelerate the creation of renewable-energy jobs in his first trip as president to Iowa, the nation's No. 2 wind energy producer.

USA TODAY

NATION

Police link victims, Craigslist suspect

Police say a Boston University medical student accused of robbing women who advertised erotic services on Craigslist, killing one of them, had items belonging to both victims in his apartment.

CBS News

Worst foreclosure rates found in 4 states

The 26 U.S. cities with the worst foreclosure problems are concentrated in four states - California, Florida, Arizona and Nevada, a report shows.

Sacramento Bee

POLITICS

Democrats to brand GOP as party of Gingrich, Cheney

National Democrats are embarking on a new campaign to brand Republicans as a party led by widely unpopular faces like former Vice President Dick Cheney.

The Hill

Clinton warns of Iran sanctions

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned that Iran faces "very tough sanctions" if it rejects offers of engagement over its nuclear program.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

National parks to get $750 million

National parks will get $750 million in federal economic stimulus money to chip into a to-do list that includes repairing historic buildings, constructing trails and increasing renewable energy use.

USA TODAY

Bangkok residents leave New York-sized carbon footprint

Bangkok residents in 2007 produced as much carbon dioxide as New Yorkers and surpassed Londoners' emissions by 1.2 tons per capita.

Earth Times

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

'Earth' takes viewers on 'breathtaking' global journey

Dramatic scenes await viewers in "Earth," a feature-length documentary hitting theaters for Earth Day.

CNN

'Earth' trailer

Philadelphia Inquirer

Police clear 'Slumdog' child star's father

Indian police said they had no evidence to suggest that the father of a child star in the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" tried to sell his daughter.

Reuters

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Catholic coalition unveils new environmental 'covenant'

A coalition of Catholic groups launched an initiative to encourage Catholic churches, institutions and families to combat climate change and advocate for the poor in the debate over the environment.

Beliefnet

Study: Nearly half of new priests were discouraged against seminary

Almost 45 percent of Catholic priests planning to be ordained this year said they were discouraged from considering the priesthood, according to a new study.

USA TODAY

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Doctor makes human cloning claims

A shocking headline from a controversial American fertility doctor: "I can clone a human being."

CBS News

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Panayiotis Zavos has cloned dead humans, implanted other cloned embryos

Gizmodo

The digital book drive's left-behinds

The quest to turn the pages of every last book on the planet into data – redundantly stored and universally accessible – sounds noble enough. However, technological issues stand in the way.

TechNewsWorld

Columns And Op-Ed

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What's wrong with cloning humans?

Guardian

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CEO: GM needs to get further, faster

The Hill

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Madonna put Edward VII in the shade

London Independent

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Save our national sense of humor!

Salon.com

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Celebrate earth and space

MSNBC

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The two Obamas

Salon.com

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Running the real Boston

Boston Herald

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Weakened rules undermine investor confidence in markets

San Francisco Chronicle

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The G20’s uncertain roadmap

Epoch Times

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Can Obama force change in Cuba?

Times Online

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Making charters the schools of choice

NY Daily News

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GOOD NEWS

Dropout rate improving in some cities

The high school dropout problem is getting better in some big cities where it's most severe, a national study found.

TIME

Damaged Barrier Reef coral makes 'spectacular' recovery

Sections of coral reef in Australia's Great Barrier Reef have made a "spectacular" recovery from a devastating bleaching event three years ago, marine scientists and experts say.

Guardian

WORLD

UN 'regrets' Ahmadinejad speech

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has said Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "misused" an anti-racism conference at which he called Israel a racist state.

BBC

Israeli PM thanks boycotters of Durban II