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Republican Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou, left, has his picture taken with Marian Crislip of Mililani. Djou won a special election for the 1st congressional district seat representing urban Honolulu, President Barack Obama's hometown. (Photo by Eugene Tanner / AP)

How did a Republican win in Obama's Hawaii hometown?

Republican Charles Djou won the special election in Hawaii's 1st congressional district — the Honolulu district where President Barack Obama grew up.

Christian Science Monitor

Charles Djou wins Hawaii special election

Youtube

Celtics rout Magic for 3-0 series lead

With Los Angeles up 2-0 against Phoenix and Boston now up 3-0, the Celtics and Lakers appear headed for the NBA Finals.

USA TODAY

US strategy rests on Kandahar offensive

The Obama administration's campaign to drive the Taliban out of Afghanistan's second-largest city is a go-for-broke move that its authors are unsure will succeed.

MSNBC

Britain not setting timetable on Afghan pullout

Reuters

Afghanistan: nation at a crossroads

MSNBC

Dwindling bog habitats support endangered turtle

May 23 is World Turtle Day. Penn State University wetlands biologist Gian Rocco spent most of last June visiting study sites daily, and will do the same this year.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Japanese prime minister: 'No choice' but to accept US base in Okinawa

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama decided to move a U.S. military base within Okinawa, saying security threats from countries such as North Korea trump local sentiment to shift it elsewhere.

Bloomberg

NATION

Obama moves to take political control of BP Gulf oil spill

President Barack Obama has named a bipartisan commission to investigate the causes of the BP Gulf oil spill, one of the nation's worst environmental disasters, including any government failures.

Christian Science Monitor

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Obama creates commission to prevent spills

Chicago Sun-Times

Time capsule brings glimpse of 1910

The contents of the century-old time capsule cracked open at Des Moines City Hall showed just how much Iowa's capital city had changed - and stayed the same.

Des Moines Register

POLITICS

Intel post becomes 'wicked problem' for White House

The difficulties the Obama administration has run into in filling the post are rekindling questions about whether anyone can do the job as it is currently constructed.

Politico

Clinton courts Chinese people; tough mission nears

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to make the case for cooperation between the two countries as a difficult assignment approached: winning Beijing's support for punishing North Korea.

MSNBC

Clinton visits Shanghai expo

Reuters

HEALTH

Protein heart tests

Some experts question the role of CRP and inflammation in heart disease, and worry there's too much emphasis.

CNN

CDC: 1 in 8 pools may pose infection risk

Researchers examined data from pools in child care facilities, residential complexes, hotels and motels and interactive fountains, finding improper pH levels in the water that lead to transmitting disease-causing germs.

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Facebook considers changes to its privacy settings

Facebook is considering simplifying its privacy settings, following a backlash from users. The social network told the BBC that a number of users had complained Facebook had "made things too complex."

PC World

Historical extinction may have affected oceanic species composition

Modern-day lizards, snakes, frogs and mammals may owe their existence to a mass extinction of ancient fish 360 million years ago that left the oceans relatively barren, paleontologists said.

Star Tribune

SPORTS

French Open considers move in 2016

Roger Federer and four-time winner Justine Henin may not be in favor of the proposal, but French Open officials are considering a move outside Paris for the clay-court Grand Slam tournament from 2016.

Sports Illustrated

NY state of (baseball) mind

The New York Yankees finally got a decent start from a pitcher they've been skipping in the rotation, then struggled to score any runs for him.

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Report into biodiversity crisis reveals price of consuming the planet

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature believes one in five mammals, one in three amphibians and one in seven birds are extinct or in danger, with other species also in peril.

Guardian

Environment watch

Reuters

Cruise ship environmental report card

The second annual report card grading cruise lines on their environmental impacts is out from Friends of the Earth, and Disney Cruise Line gets props for "most improved."

USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Frugal Europe, on foot

It was December 1933, and an 18-year-old Englishman named Patrick Leigh Fermor put on a pair of hobnail boots.

New York Times

Everyone else outsources, so why can't the arts?

The recession hit nonprofits hard, and now these organizations have no choice but to become more efficient. So they're handing over the "back office" to the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

66 years later, pair of World War II vets get their due

Sixty six years after the fact, the heroics of Lt. Edward Stevens and Walter W. May earned them the prestigious awards of the Silver Star for Gallantry and French Legion of Honor, respectively.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

13-year-old American climbs Everest, calls his mom

The youngest climber to reach the peak of Mount Everest hugged his tearful companions and told them he loved them. Then 13-year-old Jordan Romero took the satellite phone and called his mom.

San Jose Mercury News

13-year-old boy climbs Everest

Reuters

WORLD

India plane crash kills 158 passengers

Rescue teams worked into the night at the smoldering scene of an Air India plane crash that killed 158 people after the jet overshot a runway in southern India and crashed into a ravine, officials said.