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Protesters to the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad set fires in a main street in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by AP)

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Iran's supreme leader orders election inquiry

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered an investigation into the disputed re-election of President Ahmadinejad, reversing his earlier decree that the result was fair.

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Times Online

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Shots fired at huge Iran protest

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BBC

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Iran election and protest in pictures

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CNN

California's hard times driving people back to the 'Dust Bowl'

Fleeing drought and the Great Depression, a vast wave of Oklahomans and Texans loaded everything they could onto crowded vehicles and headed for California. Now, their grandchildren are moving back.

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Obama urges doctor support of health plan

President Barack Obama, continuing to barnstorm for his health care proposals, will urge doctors gathered in Chicago to support wider insurance coverage and targeted federal spending cuts.

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TIME

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Obama faces tough audience at AMA

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ABC News

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Biden on health care reform

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MSNBC

Sites for North Korea nuke tests found

The United States and South Korea have pinpointed 11 underground sites in North Korea where it could conduct a third nuclear test.

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Forbes

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South Korean leader heads to US for summit

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Houston Chronicle

Fed to get bigger mandate to supervise financial system

The Obama administration says it is committed to overhauling the financial rule book by giving the Feds increased powers to guard against the types of risks that could bring down the entire system.

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CNBC

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Debating Obama's plan

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NATION

High court won't weigh in on Texas border fence dispute

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to get involved in a fight between Texas communities and the federal government over the building of hundreds of miles of fence along the border with Mexico.

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NPR

Calif. working to keep American Indian language alive

Lawmakers are moving on a bill to create a special American Indian languages teaching credential to promote efforts to teach — and recapture — some of the nearly 100 languages once spoken in California.

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McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS

Renegade Democrats buck Barack Obama

He’s riding high in the polls among his fellow Democrats, but President Barack Obama’s political sway within his own party is about to be tested.

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Politico

Sonia Sotomayor's temperament on trial

Lawyers have raved about the Supreme Court nominee, calling her brilliant and tough. She's also been called a bully.

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NPR

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McConnell: Sotomayor filibuster is possible

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Politico

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microbe wakes up after 120,000 years

After more than 120,000 years trapped beneath a block of ice in Greenland, a tiny microbe has awoken. The long-lasting bacteria may hold clues to what life forms might exist on other planets.

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LiveScience

Do our dreams have meaning? Maybe.

Growing evidence suggests that dreams — and sleep — are powerfully connected to the processing of human emotion.

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TIME

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

How the recession is reshaping the American family

Although economic shifts always affect the American family, this downturn, because of its depth, is adjusting roles and relationships at home perhaps more than at anytime since the Great Depression.

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Christian Science Monitor

Celebs pay final respects to Carradine

In the midst of the tumultuous investigation surrounding his death, David Carradine has been laid to rest in Los Angeles.

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E! Online

EDUCATION

Education Secretary Duncan hopes stimulus will push standards

Education Secretary Arne Duncan is offering federal cash incentives to achieve one of his priorities: developing national standards for reading and math to replace a hodgepodge of benchmarks in the states.

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Star Tribune

States consider college aid cuts; student programs at risk

At a time when students and parents are struggling to pay for college, several states are considering reducing funds for grants and scholarships for thousands of low- and middle-income students.

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USA TODAY

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Teacher accused of displaying Bible sues school district

An Ohio school teacher fired over accusations that he preached Christianity in class says in a $1 million lawsuit that his free speech and civil rights were violated.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Seminary turns prisoners into preachers

Inmates of Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman received bachelor’s degrees in Christian ministry from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

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Kansas City Star

Columns And Op-Ed

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Was Ahmadinejad's win rigged?

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TIME

Public option a 'non-starter' for GOP

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CBS News

Column (Fareed Zakaria):

The capitalist manifesto: Greed is good

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Newsweek

No such thing as a bad election

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Slate

The biggest bill in history

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Economist

Iran: live-blogging the uprising

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Huffington Post

Column (James Lileks):

Late-night comedy's same routine

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Leon Panetta and the CIA

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New Yorker

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Obama needs courage on gays in military

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Christopher Dickey):

What Ahmadinejad's win means

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Newsweek

Column (Robert Dreyfuss):

A rigged election

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The Nation

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GOOD NEWS

Minn. town sets off on healthy path

The project in Albert Lea, Minn. is simple: eat more fruits and vegetables, walk instead of drive, stay productive and social into old age, and seek inner fulfillment.

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USA TODAY

Central Park Zoo visitors go wild for new snow leopards

Two snow leopards made their debut at the Central Park Zoo and visitors are already going wild for them.

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WORLD

Taliban head 'must be eliminated'

General Ashfaq Kayani, Pakistan's army chief, has said the head of the Taliban in Pakistan "must be eliminated."

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BBC

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US missile strike kills 5 in Pakistan

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CBS News

Palestinians reject Israeli terms

Palestinian officials have condemned a major speech by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, saying it closes the reach for an agreement.

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Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

IMF raises forecast for US economy

The IMF, which has rescued economies from Pakistan to Iceland, raised its outlook for the United States and called for steps to reduce concern about rising public debt.

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Bloomberg

GE announces loans for e-medical records

GE Healthcare launched a new financing and product-certification program that will offer zero percent interest loans to physicians’ offices, hospitals, clinics, and other organizations.

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BusinessWeek

ENVIRONMENT

Reviving American chestnut trees may mitigate climate change

A study shows that introducing a new hybrid of the American chestnut tree would not only bring back the almost extinct species, but also put a dent in the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.

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Environmental News Network

Food of the future to be more diverse?

Agricultural scientists shaping the future of food say that, as global waming alters patterns of temperature and rainfall, farms must evolve.

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National Geographic

HEALTH

A better life through home dialysis

Studies are finding that those who do home dialysis also do more frequent cleansings, which can lead to better overall health.

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NPR

Study links ADHD stimulants to rare, unexplained deaths in children

A study suggests that stimulant medication may have played a role in a handful of cases of sudden, unexplained death in children and adolescents.

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Health.com

SPORTS

Lakers put away Magic for 15th title

Kobe and Phil get their statement championship. The Lakers beat the Magic 99-86 for their 15th title, giving Phil Jackson his tenth ring while Kobe Bryant wins his first without Shaquille O'Neal.

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Kobe wins 4th MVP trophy

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NBA.com

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NBA Title ratings

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ESPN

Peugeot ends Audi run

Peugeot has finally brought an end to Audi's domination of the race dubbed the "hardest in the world" with a commanding one-two on home soil at La Sarthe.

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Crash.net

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Major leap for faster computers

Super-fast quantum computers are now a step closer to becoming a reality, thanks to a breakthrough by scientists.

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BBC

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Graffiti is seen on a section of Israel's separation barrier, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. (Photo by Bernat Armangue / AP)

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