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President Barack Obama addresses the media after bilateral talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the historical Green Vault in Dresden, Germany. (Photo by Michael Sohn / AP)

Obama calls for 2-state solution

President Barack Obama toured a World War II concentration camp after prodding the international community to redouble efforts toward creating separate Israeli and Palestinian states.

Associated Press

Israel: No change on settlement policy

TIME

Obama: End to Bush's regime-change doctrine

Christian Science Monitor

Obama speech gets mixed reactions

Reuters

US to impose North Korea sanctions

The United States has told South Korea it will impose financial sanctions on the North apart from actions that the U.N. has been mulling for Pyongyang's latest nuclear test.

CBS News

North Korea offers talks with South

BBC

Job-cut figures ease, best in 8 months

With companies in no mood to hire, unemployment jumped to 9.4 percent in May, the highest in 25 years. But the pace of layoffs eased, with employers cutting 345,000 jobs, the fewest since September.

MSNBC

Job loss surprise boosts market

BusinessWeek

Grim jobless numbers seem to brighten

ABC News

Bin Laden running out of space to hide

On the eve of President Obama's speech in Cairo, a recording believed to be of Osama bin Laden also made headlines. The message is the latest sign that the al-Qaida leader is alive.

NPR

Recovered debris not from Air France jet, Brazilian officials say

The Brazilian air force said that debris picked up near where officials believe Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean was not from the plane.

CNN

Canada refuses to take Gitmo detainees

Canada has refused a request from the Obama administration to take 17 Chinese Muslims cleared for release from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo.

USA TODAY

NATION

'Big battle' mounts over bigger big rigs

Debate is heating up in a congressional battle over whether federal laws that govern truck weights and lengths should allow heavier, longer trucks.

USA TODAY

Convicted Alaska lawmakers should be freed, US says

Two imprisoned Alaska ex-legislators should be released and their convictions reconsidered because prosecutors withheld information from their lawyers, the U.S. Justice Department said.

Bloomberg

POLITICS

Sotomayor's questionnaire delivered to Senate Judiciary

A lengthy questionnaire filled out by Judge Sonia Sotomayor was delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee in preparation for Sotomayor's expected U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings this summer.

CNN

Sotomayer visits the Hill

The Hill

Will OAS decision to readmit Cuba change US-Latin America relations?

Cuba has shown no desire to rejoin. Socialist states like Venezuela and Nicaragua say they want to form an association that excludes the U.S.

Christian Science Monitor

Democrats postpone action on war bill

Worried by their prospects in the House, Democrats postponed final action on a nearly $100 billion wartime spending bill to buy more time for talks and the return of President Barack Obama from overseas.

Politico

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

US tells CA to cut water use to save fish

Californians' thirst for water has pushed salmon and other fish to the brink of extinction, a federal agency ruled as it directed officials to cut water supplies to cities and farms to save several species.

Environmental News Network

Microsoft faces Russian antimonopoly hearing, charges

Microsoft may have violated Russia's antimonopoly laws by withdrawing Windows XP from the market last year, the country's Federal Antimonopoly Service said.

PC World

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

David Carradine found dead in Bangkok hotel room

David Carradine, star of the 1970s drama "Kung Fu," was found dead in a Bangkok, Thailand, hotel room from an apparent suicide by hanging, according to police and local media. He was 72.

ABC News

'Kung Fu' star David Carradine dies

YouTube

Obama tells laggards: Get ready for DTV

President Obama warned Americans unprepared for the June 12 transition to digital television that their TVs could go dark if they do not get a converter box.

Reuters

EDUCATION

California schools envision digital future for textbooks

The state is reviewing digital versions of textbooks that could be used in high school math and science classes next year.

Sacramento Bee

Military-backed public schools on the rise

The U.S. Marine Corps is wooing public school districts across the country, expanding a network of military academies that has grown steadily despite criticism that it's a recruiting ploy.

Education Week

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Gun-loving pastor to his flock: piece be with you

A Kentucky pastor is inviting his flock to bring guns to church to celebrate the Fourth of July and the Second Amendment.

Examiner

Gay bishop says faith groups key to New Hampshire gay marriage vote

New Hampshire became the sixth state to legalize gay marriage in part because faith leaders testified that the measure would not impinge on religious rights, according to the state's openly gay Episcopal bishop.

Beliefnet

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column:

Obama changes the Middle East

Salon.com

Column (David Harsanyi):

Taxpayers should look to Colorado

RealClearPolitics

Editorial:

Open hand, clenched fist

NY Daily News

Column (Margaret Carlson):

Obama is cleaning up Detroit's mess

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Stuart Taylor Jr.):

Sotomayor and Obama versus voters

National Journal

Column (Robert Satloff):

An uncertain future for the Middle East

The New Republic

Blog:

Let's make an abortion deal

Slate

Column:

Charity foolish to reject donation

Chicago Sun-Times

Column:

Paradox of Tiananmen

Baltimore Sun

Blog:

Is the recession over? Time to party!

Vanity Fair

Blog:

China's long, slow endgame

TIME

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GOOD NEWS

In Normandy, gratitude is lasting

Up and down France’s coast, the memory of what U.S. troops did in June 1944 to protect the country has remained alive, enduring through political disputes that often divide Washington and Paris.

MSNBC

Free entry at national parks this summer on selected weekends

In order to spur more tourism to federal lands, the National Park Service has announced that for three weekends, entrance fees will be waived at more than 100 national parks across the country.

Examiner

Blog:

Free summer weekends at national parks

Budget Travel

WORLD

Italy's Berlusconi: I'll resign if I lied about teen affair