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Iraqi Special Operations troops escort Ahmed Abid Uwaid, a suspected leader of al-Qaida in Iraq who was believed to be a mastermind of the assassination of a prominent Sunni lawmaker, following his capture in Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo by Ahmed Alhusseiney / AP)

Iran TV accuses US of 'intolerable' meddling

Iranian state television blamed the foreign media—especially the U.S. media—for the unrest in the country, even as two senior opposition leaders were arrested.

ABC News

New protests over Iran elections

BBC

US consumer prices rose less than forecast in May

The cost of living in the United States rose less than forecast in May, culminating in the biggest 12-month drop in prices in almost 60 years.

Bloomberg

Answers to your money questions

MSNBC

Obama to detail broad financial reform

President Obama will finally announce his long-anticipated plan to restructure how banks and other firms are regulated in the hope of preventing another financial collapse.

CNNMoney

Financial plan draws mixed reviews

CNBC

Understanding Obama's overhaul

MSNBC

Cost once again a major issue as Senate discusses health care reform

The Senate made its first stab at overhauling the nation's health care system, with Republicans demanding specific cost totals amid estimates of $1 trillion-plus.

Houston Chronicle

Budget chief sees 'hard slog' on health

USA TODAY

N Korea warns of 'merciless' retaliation

North Korea warned of a "thousand-fold" military retaliation against the United States and its allies if provoked. This comes as the latest rhetoric in defense of its burgeoning nuclear program.

CBS News

United front against North Korea

Reuters

NATION

Space shuttle launch scrubbed again

NASA has postponed the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour because of a liquid hydrogen leak.

CNN

NASA: 'We're going to step back"

BBC

Mortgage applications plunge to near 7-month low

New U.S. mortgage applications have fallen for a fourth consecutive week, with overall demand plunging to its lowest level in nearly seven months.

CNBC

POLITICS

Calif. lawmakers ready to battle over taxes

Democratic lawmakers proposed raising taxes on tobacco and oil companies and refused to cut state worker pay as a key budget committee finished its plan to solve the state's $24.3 billion deficit.

San Francisco Chronicle

US House of Representatives approves war funding bill

A bill to pay for U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and help bolster Pakistan's ability to fight extremists, has been approved by the U.S. House of Representatives in a 226 to 202 vote.

Voice of America

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

How a plane-sized bird replaced feathers

An extinct bird the size of a Cessna airplane and weighing as much as an average human was one of the largest birds to have ever flown the friendly skies.

LiveScience

Nokia phone recharges without wires

While lab experiments have been able to "beam" electricity a few feet to power a light bulb, the day when our cell phones can charge without having to plug them in still seems decades in the future.

Yahoo! Tech

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Twitter goes literary

Twitter, the social networking site favored by some celebrities, has gone high-brow with a performance from James Joyce's 1922 novel "Ulysses."

Google News

Twitter: Iranian movements' medium

TIME

Sarah Palin accepts Letterman's apology

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin issued a statement that officially accepted David Letterman's apology for remarks he made about her daughter last week.

Detroit Free Press

EDUCATION

It's Janet Reno vs. Alonzo Mourning for Miami school's name

The Mournings and Reno are vying for the same title — or at least their supporters are: the future name of North Miami's newest high school.

McClatchy Newspapers

What does 'p' in music mean? 20 percent of US students know

A report card on arts education released by the National Endowment for the Arts shows room for improvement as gaps between socioeconomic and racial groups persisted.

Christian Science Monitor

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Former Catholic priest Cutie marries woman from beach photos

Sitting in the passenger seat of a champagne-colored Lexus and hiding his face behind a newspaper, former Roman Catholic priest Alberto Cutie left a Coral Gables courthouse as a married man.

McClatchy Newspapers

Report says terrorism finance laws hurt Muslim charities

Federal laws targeting the financing of terrorism are vague and have given the government unchecked power over American Muslim charities, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a new report.

Beliefnet

Columns And Op-Ed

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Twitter's double-edged sword in Iran?

The Atlantic

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The best diet for allergies and hay fever

WebMD

Column (Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi):

Afghans still skeptical about Obama

McClatchy

Column (Jonathan Alter):

The moment of real reform

Newsweek

Column (Christopher Beam):

Conservative minds reel on health care

Slate

Editorial:

A step toward Palestine

Baltimore Sun

Column (Mike Madden):

Bomb Iran — with love

Salon.com

Blog:

Americans want health reform

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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The consensus bet

Economist

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Europe: not a role model for America

Forbes

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Tweety birdbrains

The New Yorker

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People power shows might in Tehran

NY Daily News

Editorial:

GM needs fresh start from UAW, too

Detroit News

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GOOD NEWS

For the most part, the kids are all right

Although exhausted moms and dads may not hear it often enough, research shows that their devotion is paying off. Kids are far healthier and safer today than they were even a generation ago.

USA TODAY

Blue butterfly colonies thriving

The large blue butterfly was declared extinct in Britain in 1979, but large blues were imported from Sweden in the 1980s by conservationists. Since then they have made an astonishing comeback.

BBC

WORLD

400 pieces of Air France debris found

Search teams have recovered more than 400 pieces of debris from Air France Flight 447 but investigators still do not know why the plane crashed into the Atlantic, the French accident chief said.

TIME

India and Pakistan talk for first time since Mumbai attacks