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In this file photo, a displaced Sudanese girl carries a child at Abu Shouk refugee camp, outside the Darfur town of al-Fasher. (Photo by Nasser Nasser / AP)

When couples fight on Facebook, everyone knows the score

Whether through nagging wall posts or antagonistic changes to their “relationship status,” the social networking site is proving to be as good for broadcasting marital discord as it is for sharing vacation photos.

New York Times

Facebook passes Google in weekly traffic

San Jose Mercury News

Barack Obama does not hate Israel, says Binyamin Netanyahu

Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, distanced himself from his brother-in-law's accusation that President Barack Obama is an anti-Semite who hates Israel.

Guardian

Rebels, refugees make peace in Darfur

Sudan has signed a ceasefire with a major Darfur rebel group, the second deal in recent weeks, leaving just one band of rebels in open conflict.

BBC

Red Cross hostage freed in Darfur

Reuters

Federal employees owe IRS millions

Congressman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, is irked that nearly 100,000 federal employees owe the IRS $962 million in back taxes. He thinks they should pay or be fired.

ABC News

Federal workers owe $1B in back taxes

CBS News

Octopuses excited by HDTV

In experiments evaluating how the creatures react to moving images, the animals responded more vigorously to high definition TV than standard definition TV.

BBC

HDTV reveals octopus has no personality

New Scientist

NATION

'Jihad Jane' suspect pleads not guilty

Colleen LaRose — an American woman who authorities say called herself "Jihad Jane" — pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to support terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country.

CNN

Smithsonian opens human evolution hall

Hundreds of early human fossils, artifacts and forensically recreated faces of mankind's prehistoric relatives went on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington.

CBS News

Prehistoric dads helped with child care

MSNBC

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Smithsonian Institution

New York Times

POLITICS

Cracks in bipartisan support of jobs bill

The bipartisan coalition in the Senate that passed the jobs bill is showing cracks as more votes on job-creation measures line up on the horizon.

The Hill

Twisting path to 216 for Pelosi

Every tough vote has its arithmetic, and health reform is no different. Get to 216, score a win. But to make it, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has to minimize the defections among “yes” votes and flip a few “no” votes.

Politico

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New planet found; may be cosmic Rosetta stone outside solar system

A newly discovered gas-giant planet with a nearly circular orbit around its parent star is the first Jupiter-like planet outside our solar system — or "exoplanet" — that can be studied in detail.

National Geographic

Male pipefish gives birth, but some are deadbeat dads, study shows

Male pipefishes and their seahorse cousins are the only males that actually become pregnant and give birth, but prove to be poor fathers.

ScienceDaily

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Pet owners spare no expense in funerals

Devoted pet owners are increasingly holding ceremonies that pay tribute to pets and provide the humans with an endpoint that celebrates the good times and helps them reframe their grief.

USA TODAY

Multiple generations once again under 1 roof

Adult children are moving back in with parents, and grandparents are taking up residence with their kids' families. Sound like old times? In fact, multi-generational households are making a comeback.

LiveScience

ENVIRONMENT

Crops diminished as drought worsens in Southwest China

The worst drought in 60 years is expected to cut crop yields by more than half in much of Southwest China, bringing more misery to some of the nation's poorest villages, state media said.

Earth Times

China drawing high-tech research from US

New York Times

Farmers hail increased water allowance

The sprinklers will go on this summer in California's Central Valley, but not as much as farmers there would like.

San Francisco Chronicle

For parched state, wet winter means quenched thirst Ariz.

Arizona Republic

If it does matter where CO2 is released, cities are in trouble

New research about “CO2 domes,” invisible clouds of carbon pollution that hover above urban areas, suggests city population is at an immediate risk of respiratory diseases and possibly premature death.

Grist

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Civil liberties group decries textbooks on Islam as inflammatory

A series of children's textbooks on Islam contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric about the religion, inaccurately portraying its followers as inherently violent and deserving of suspicion.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Cardinal ashamed of abuse 'failings'

The head of Ireland's Catholics has apologized for mishandling the case of a serial child abuser, as more details have been released.

BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Haitian baby isn't orphan after all

A baby pulled out after four days trapped under rubble in Haitian earthquake was dehydrated, had multiple broken ribs and a head injury. But she is not an orphan after all.

CBS News

27th Shamrocks Against Dystrophy sets fundraising record

The Muscular Dystrophy Association announced that its 2010 Shamrocks Against Dystrophy fundraiser is the most successful in the event’s 27 year history.

PNNOnline

WORLD

Tehran accused of arming the Taliban with weapons and explosives

The Iranian government has been accused by Afghan and Western officials of delivering tons of weaponry to the Taliban, including plastic explosives, mortars, grenades and technical manuals.

Times Online

Mexico's president seeks US help on drugs war