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In this file photo, customers get assistance while purchasing the new Apple iPhone 3G S at the Apple store in San Francisco. (Photo by Eric Risberg / AP)

Apple sold more than a million iPhone 3G S

Apple announced that it has sold more than 1 million iPhone 3G S models since they went on sale. The announcement also garnered the first public comment from Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a while.

PC World

Doctors: Jobs has high chance of recovery

Computerworld

iPhone 3G S review

CNET News

Narrow ruling sidesteps voting rights issue

The Supreme Court ruled narrowly in a challenge to the landmark Voting Rights Act, exempting a small Texas governing authority from a key provision of the civil rights law.

USA TODAY

Police break up new Tehran rally

Iranian riot police have fired tear gas to break up a new opposition rally in the centre of the capital Tehran, hours after a stern warning to protesters.

BBC

Iran's Guardian Council 'admits poll flaws'

Al Jazeera

Voices from Iran's front lines

ABC News

Female Iranian protesters

CNN

Obama citizen plan in danger

Lawmakers will gather for a session on immigration reform, a meeting anticipated by Latino leaders eager for the president to honor promises to put undocumented workers on a path to citizenship.

Baltimore Sun

Obama's campaign promises on immigration

YouTube

Obama says US ready for N Korea test launch toward Hawaii

The U.S. military is “fully prepared” should North Korea launch a missile toward Hawaii, President Barack Obama said in an interview with CBS News.

Bloomberg

NATION

Cheap homes spur sales increase

Sales of homes priced less than $100,000 are up 25 percent from just a year ago, whereas all other housing price ranges are down, according to the National Association of Realtors.

ABC News

Tax credit for home purchase could rise

USA TODAY

Traveling abroad? Airlines sure hope so

Battered U.S. airlines are trimming first- and business-class seating in favor of coach on international flights as they wait for signs of life in high-end travel that could presage a broader recovery.

Reuters

Special section:

Struggling airlines launch more 'a la carte' fees

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Court ends Plame's suit against Cheney

The Supreme Court declined Valerie Plame Wilson's lawsuit against Lewis "Scooter" Libby, killing the suit that accused key figures, including former vice president Dick Cheney, of outing Wilson as a CIA operative.

The Hill

Sotomayor proves little boost to GOP

Nearly a month after President Barack Obama picked her for the Supreme Court, Republican senators say Sonia Sotomayor isn’t serving as the political lightning rod they hoped she would be.

Politico

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

'Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars' coming to PSP

"Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars," the portable Nintendo DS version of "Rockstar’s" hit carjacking criminal sandbox franchise, will be released on PSP, the publisher said.

Wired

Variable iTunes pricing a moneymaker

Soon after Apple gave labels the ability to set different prices for their songs on iTunes, every track on Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" was raised to $1.29.

Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

First look: What a weird 'Wonderland' Burton's made

You might have gone down the rabbit hole before. But never with a guide quite as attuned to the fantastic as Tim Burton.

USA TODAY

Einstein photograph sold for $74,000

An auctioneer in Amherst, N.H., says he sold a famed photograph of theoretical physicist Albert Einstein for $74,324.

United Press International

EDUCATION

Budget crisis forces cuts at Calif. schools

California's historic budget crisis threatens to devastate a public education system that was once considered a national model but now ranks near the bottom in school funding and academic achievement.

Google News

Charter schools might not be better

On average, charter schools are not performing as well as their traditional public-school peers, according to a new study that is being called the first national assessment of these school-choice options.

U.S. News & World Report

Education chief to warn advocates that inferior charter schools harm the effort

New York Times

Special section:

America's top public high schools

Newsweek

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Are Mormons misunderstood?

The LDS is the fourth largest church in the country and one of the fastest-growing abroad. But as Mormons become more prominent, they struggle to overcome lingering prejudices.

Time

Report: Scientology leaders often violent

The leader of the Church of Scientology struck his subordinates numerous times and set an example for physical violence among the tightly controlled management team.

MSNBC

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column:

The compensation hustle

CBS News

Column:

Why Ahmadinejad is preferred in Israel

Christian Science Monitor

Column:

Strength in numbers in Iran

NPR

Editorial:

A stop sign for human trafficking

Christian Science Monitor

Column:

The God choice

USA TODAY

Column (Timothy Noah):

Case for government health care

Slate

Column (Jon Meacham):

Theocracies are doomed

Newsweek

Column (David Sirota):

Dream big, Obama

Salon.com

Column:

Oil and water mix in Ecuador

San Francisco Chronicle

Column:

For the dads who got it right

Politics Daily

Column:

Can't take road to reparations

Chicago Sun-Times

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GOOD NEWS

New strategy eyed for AIDS treatment

A radical new therapy could improve treatment of people with HIV-AIDS by destroying the viruses circulating in the body as well as those hiding in immune system cells, according to a new study.

Forbes

103-year-old burns that first pitch

Emilio Navarro, who at 103 is believed to be the oldest living professional baseball player, threw out the ceremonial first pitch before the Oakland Athletics-San Diego Padres game.

MSNBC

WORLD

Attack on Russian regional leader

The president of the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia has been wounded in an assassination attempt, apparently launched by a suicide bomber.

BBC

Taliban wanted $25 million for life of New York Times reporter