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South Korean Marines man their position on South Korea's western Yeonpyongs Island, near the disputed sea border with communist North Korea. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon / AP)

Bankruptcy looms for GM

General Motors Corp. has cleared a couple of key roadblocks on the ailing automaker's route to an almost certain bankruptcy filing.

Examiner

GM tying up loose ends for bankruptcy

Detroit Free Press

GM's Opel rescued in global deal

CNNMoney

GM bankruptcy looms

MarketWatch

Russia begins destroying WMDs

Russia and the United States formally opened a plant in Siberia to destroy a huge stockpile of artillery shells filled with deadly nerve agents.

MSNBC

New signs of N Korea missile preparations

Spy satellites have spotted signs that North Korea may be preparing to transport another long-range missile to a test launch site, South Korean officials said, as the U.S. issues harsh warnings.

Guardian

Gates issues warning to Pyongyang

BBC

Virus cripples FBI e-mails

A vicious cyber-virus is crippling the FBI's computer and e-mail systems, continuing to jam the agency's vast communications network more than nine days after first being detected.

New York Post

Obama's strategy for countering cyber attacks

Christian Science Monitor

Computer war hacking

CBS News

US urges more aid for Afghanistan

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged the international community to give more aid to Afghanistan to build infrastructure, expand its military and police, and ensure security for elections.

Reuters

NATION

Hurricane season sparks anxieties

This year should be slightly less busy than last year, when 16 named storms formed in the Atlantic, eight of which were hurricanes and nine of which made landfall, according to the National Hurricane Center.

USA TODAY

City tries to shrink its way to success

Youngstown, Ohio’s groundbreaking plan for revival collides with recession and hard choices about neighborhood survival.

Christian Science Monitor

Schwarzenegger proposes closing 80 percent of Calif. state parks

Nearly every state park in the Bay Area —from the towering redwoods at Big Basin to Angel Island, Mount Tamalpais to Mount Diablo — would close.

San Jose Mercury News

Nearly all Bay Area state parks would close

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Former presidents look back

Former President George W. Bush shared the stage with another ex-President, Bill Clinton, for a discussion on global and domestic challenges facing the United States and Canada.

ABC News

McAuliffe blazes different Virginia trail

Two candidates for the Virginia Senate seat are being outpaced in most polls by a man who has never served a day in public office and, until a few months ago, had few ties to Virginia besides his mailing address.

Politico

Weakened Kilpatrick big target in primary

Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick took the lowest primary percentage of any returning member of Congress last cycle, so it’s not surprising that ambitious Detroit lawmakers are taking aim at her again.

The Hill

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Solar alignments cause 'Manhattanhenge'

For 15 minutes around sunset this summer, the sun will set in exact alignment with the cross streets of Manhattan's street grid, making the city's towering buildings function like a modern-day Stonehenge.

LiveScience

Scientists find secret of hockey shot

It takes less than a second, but the wrist shot in hockey is one of the hardest skills in sports to master. A team of researchers believe they have isolated the key components of a successful wrist shot.

BBC

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Passing the torch on the 'Tonight Show'

Jay Leno's final "Tonight Show" week was a carefully orchestrated blend of favorite guests and classic bits. All he had to do on the final show was shake hands with his successor, Conan O'Brien, and go home.

Hollywood Reporter

Conan has big shoes to fill

Hulu

God save the brand? Punk musicians power UK ads

Never mind the bullocks, indeed – Johnny Rotten and some stampeding cows have started a rush toward punk advertising in the United Kingdom.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Duncan: States could lose out on stimulus

States will hurt their chance to compete for millions of federal stimulus dollars if they fail to embrace innovations like charter schools, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said.

Education Week

University of Illinois kept secret clout list

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, maintains a secret list of student applicants backed with clout, a “Category I List’’ of relatives and friends of politicians, trustees and administrators.

Chicago Sun-Times

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Is Mary the 'coredemptrix' of humanity?

At least 7 million Catholics from more than 170 countries, have reportedly signed petitions urging the pope to proclaim Mary "the Spiritual Mother of All Humanity, the coredemptrix with Jesus the redeemer."

Beliefnet

Celebrity priest’s conversion strains ecumenical ties

Known as “Father Oprah” for his popularity and media savvy, Rev. Alberto Cutie left Catholicism to join the Episcopal Church.

Religion News Service

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Robert L. Borosage & Katrina vanden Heuvel):

Exacting change

The Nation

Column (Richard A. Posner):

The GM reorganization

The Atlantic

Column (Mark Morford):

Apologies from California

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Caroline Glick):

Israel and the axis of evil

RealClearPolitics

Column:

The bankruptcy parasites

Newsweek

Column (Arianna Huffington):

Conservatives play the race card

Huffington Post

Column:

Closing Gitmo won't repair US image

Chicago Sun-Times

Column (Emily Brandon):

Boomers claiming Social Security early

U.S. News & World Report

Editorial:

A Minnesota model for US food safety

Star Tribune

Editorial:

Time's up for state government cuts

Detroit News

Editorial:

Piling on the government

Economist

Blog:

Grasping at straws

Indianapolis Star

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GOOD NEWS

Facebook reunites mother with son

A woman whose three-year-old son was abducted and taken to live in Hungary has been reunited with him 27 years later after finding his name on Facebook.

Times Online

Shivashankar wins national spelling bee

Kavya Shivashankar won the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee one word at a time. “When I was the last one left, I thought I had a chance to win, but I didn’t think about (winning) until then,” she said.

Kansas City Star

Raw video: spelling bee champ crowned

YouTube

WORLD

Iran hangs 3 over mosque bombing

Iran executed in public three men convicted of involvement in a bomb attack on a mosque that killed 25 people, the official IRNA news agency reported.