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U.S. President Barack Obama smiles as many people try to take a snapshot of him after his speech in front of the Castle in Prague, Czech Republic. (Photo by Herbert Knosowski / AP)

Obama swoops into Prague for summit

President Barack Obama flew into Prague for a summit with E.U. leaders, making his first venture behind the erstwhile Iron Curtain on the third leg of his European tour.

Google News

Blog:

Obama goes to Europe with new US image

Christian Science Monitor

Obama's travels in Europe

TIME

Chavez seeks 'rational' relations with US

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he hopes to "reset" relations with the United States at an upcoming summit in Trinidad and Tobago.

CBS News

Obama promotes nuclear-free world

President Barack Obama has launched an effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons, saying the U.S. has a moral responsibility to lead as the only nation to ever use one.

BBC

North Korea space launch 'fails'

BBC

Obama resumes Iran threat rhetoric

Press TV

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NPR

Taliban leader warns Barack Obama's plan will make Afghanistan worse

NATO's planned troop surge to Afghanistan will lead to an escalation in fighting and jeopardize secretive peace moves, a senior Taliban moderate has warned.

Telegraph.co.uk

Obama hails NATO's Afghanistan pledge

MSNBC

Binghamton gunman had body armor, ammo, but shot self as cops neared

The tormented Vietnamese immigrant who massacred 13 people planned for a blazing gunfight with police — but instead killed himself at the first sound of sirens.

NY Daily News

NATION

Iowa marriage ruling spurs activists

Gay couples will likely be getting married soon in Iowa, and activists on both sides of the issue claim the sight of same-sex unions in the nation's heartland will spur other states to take action.

Google News

Gay marriages expected to begin April 24

San Francisco Chronicle

Officials rush to revamp detainee policies

In his first week in office, President Obama issued an executive order directing that the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, be closed within a year.

NPR

POLITICS

Anti-Obama talk worries some on right

While Washington policy makers coped with 21st century political problems, some conservative talkers were dredging up 20th-century "-isms."

Politico

Budget approved, but little else done for health reform

Congressional Democrats got the ball rolling on health reform by getting the House and Senate budgets passed. But there is an absence of detail on how much the initiative will cost or what it will require.

The Hill

HEALTH

GE threatens Philips with push into home health care

General Electric Co.’s push into home health care threatens Royal Philips Electronics NV’s market leadership.

Bloomberg

Walking to fight child sexual abuse

The black-and-white photos of victims of child sexual abuse put faces on the problem, and their stories drove the point home during the third annual walk to Stop the Silence.

San Jose Mercury News

EDUCATION

Parents need to read fine print in private school contracts

Most parents shopping for a private school look for the best match for their child’s learning style and goals. But as the experience can show, it’s just as important that parents find a good fit for themselves.

Las Vegas Sun

Hispanic Americans travel rough road to higher education

Hispanic Americans are the fastest growing ethnic group in America, but the least likely to enroll in college.

Houston Chronicle

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Tarantino makes a comeback at Cannes

Hollywood's most controversial director hopes to reignite his career through a return to the famous festival with a Nazi epic starring Brad Pitt.

Guardian

'Inglourious Basterds' trailer

Huffington Post

Amy Poehler gets a bigger playground with new sitcom

Poehler has traded Hillary and all her other "Saturday Night Live" characters for just one: Leslie, the hugely ambitious but dangerously naive bureaucrat at the center of the new NBC comedy.

ABC News

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

India's failing secularism

In a supposedly secular state, India's religious minorities find themselves in an increasingly precarious position.

Guardian

The end of Christian America

America is seeing an old term with new urgency: post-Christian. This is not to say that the Christian God is dead, but that he is less of a force in politics and culture than at any other time in recent memory.

Newsweek

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Afghanistan's oppressed still need NATO

Guardian

Editorial:

Madonna and no child

Economist

Column (Clive Crook):

G-20 and the limits of cooperation

National Journal Magazine

Editorial:

Ruling upholds proud Iowa tradition

Des Moines Register

Column (Gabor Steingart):

The West's fatal overdose

Der Spiegel

Editorial (Matthew Continetti):

A budget deficit

Weekly Standard

Blog (John Nichols):

Unemployment spike a wake-up call

The Nation

Editorial (David Sprintzen):

Budget's reasonable in tough times

Newsday

Editorial (Fred Barnes):

The master of misdirection

Weekly Standard

Column (Woody Paige):

Cutler's departure saddens The Duke

Denver Post

Blog (John Ridley):

The racial mis-education of America's youth

Huffington Post

Column (Christopher Hitchens):

Let them in

Slate

Column:

Learning to live with Kim Jong Il

Atlantic Online

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GOOD NEWS

Famed artist paints huge guitar sculpture for charity

Amanda Dunbar has painted a 10-foot fiberglass guitar sculpture for the Miami GuitarTown project, an international program in which artists donate their work to raise money for charities.

MSNBC

Bank execs see the forest and the trees

In a Maryland forest, bankers trade in their suits and ties to study the environment with Smithsonian scientists.

Smithsonian

WORLD

Taliban blamed for suicide attack on Pakistan mosque

A suicide blast ripped through a crowd outside a Shia mosque south of Islamabad today, killing at least 22 people and wounding many more.

Guardian

Q&A: Pakistan's political instability