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Pelicans watch a shrimp trawler skim oil in Caminada Bay north of Grand Isle, La. The tiny resort island on the Gulf of Mexico is closed to all fishing due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (Photo by Chuck Cook / AP)

Iran to review woman's stoning sentence over adultery

Iran's human rights official said the death by stoning sentence for a 43-year-old woman convicted of adultery is under review.

CBS News

Obama to ease policy for US veterans seeking stress-disorder benefits

President Barack Obama said the government will make it easier for thousands of U.S. veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder to obtain benefits.

Bloomberg

Weekly address: Help for vets with PTSD

YouTube

Gulf oil leak could be contained using new cap

Undersea robots will begin removing the containment cap over the gushing well head in the Gulf of Mexico to replace it with a tighter-fitting cap that could funnel all the oil to tankers at the surface.

Baltimore Sun

Value of oil skimming Gulf flotilla is uncertain

Houston Chronicle

Deaths from bombings in Pakistan jump to 102

Two suicide bombers killed 102 people and didn't discriminate among their victims. The attack also wounded 168 people in the village of Yakaghund.

Star Tribune

Scores die in Pakistan bombing

MSNBC

Labor ups the pressure on GOP centrists ahead of July session

The nation’s leading public-sector employees union will launch a newspaper advertising campaign to pressure centrist Senate Republicans to support increased federal aid to states.

The Hill

After recess, senators face a stalemate

NPR

NATION

Inmate population drops

After peaking at about 4,000 inmates in late 2007, Rhode Island's prison population is now around 3,300. It's an improbable position for the state, whose prison population was projected to grow.

Christian Science Monitor

Prison count 2010: State population declines for the first time in 38 years

Pew Research Center

Mehserle apologizes; Grant family unimpressed and angered

While the jury was deliberating his fate, former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle crafted a handwritten statement in which he apologized for the first time for shooting Oscar Grant.

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog:

Oaklanders peacefully discuss verdict

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Proposition 8 could have larger effect

The battle over same-sex marriage intensified after a federal judge ruled the 1996 law that forbids the federal government from recognizing gay marriages as unconstitutional.

Washington Post

CIA's Panetta, Russian spy chief negotiated swap

CIA director Leon Panetta and Russia's spy chief, Mikhail Fradkov, worked out the largest spy swap since the Cold War in just a few days, a U.S. official says.

CBS News

Spy swap: the boy they left behind

ABC News

Finish in sight for financial overhaul

The Senate is working to secure the final votes needed to pass legislation that would impose the most sweeping rules on banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression.

San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Maryland seeks $1.2 million for violations

The Maryland Department of the Environment says it is seeking $1.2 million in fines for violations including stormwater violations at a Baltimore sugar plant and lead paint violations at Baltimore properties.

Baltimore Sun

Total solar eclipse Sunday, most remote of the century?

On Sunday the moon's shadow will sweep across Earth during one of the most remote total solar eclipses of the century.

National Geographic

Solar eclipse: still powerful in popular mythology

ABC News

Special section:

Solar eclipse: Only the rich will be able to view this one

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Sophisticated mathematical model predicts Spain will win World Cup Final

A pair of London mathematicians say they're confident Spain will win the World Cup final. It's not just a prediction — it's science.

It may be time for a virtual shopping spree. Facebook announced that it will be shutting down the three-year-old Facebook Gifts in order to focus on other projects.

PC World

Calif. legislators' effort to prevent student DNA testing could come too late

State legislators have lined up a bill aimed at preventing the University of California, Berkeley, from executing a program that asks students to participate in genetic testing as part of an orientation program.

Scientific American

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Chubby Checker: 50 years of "The Twist"

Fifty years after the release of the hip-swiveling tune "The Twist," the man who made it famous celebrated the occasion in his hometown.

CBS News

Asia’s chess factory

In Vietnam, children as young as four who do well in tournaments receive salaries, chess instruction and prizes for winning.

Christian Science Monitor

Spielberg, Lucas celebrate Rockwell's iconic America

What do painter Norman Rockwell, and filmmakers George Lucas and Steven Spielberg all have in common? All are commercial artists.

NPR

HEALTH

Advance in quest for HIV vaccine

U.S. scientists say they have discovered three powerful antibodies, the strongest of which neutralizes 91 percent of HIV strains, more than any AIDS antibody yet discovered.

Wall Street Journal

Ex-regulator said to testify GlaxoSmithKline withheld study

A former U.S. Food and Drug Administration official said GlaxoSmithKline PLC withheld from regulators a study showing its Avandia diabetes drug may cause heart attacks.

Bloomberg

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Ezra Klein):

It’s always the economy, stupid

Newsweek

Editorial:

Oldies but goodies

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Lara Rozen):

Spooky swap

Politico

Column (Robert Reich):

The vanishing American consumer and the coming trade war

Huffington Post

Blog (Mary Williams):

Why can't 'career women' just be women?

(Salon)

Broadsheet

Column (Tim Goodman):

Good viewing means one tough year for Emmys

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Sam Fulwood):

LeBron shouldn't define Cleveland sports

Huffington Post

Column (Stephen M. Walt):

Foreign policy: Twitter firing was a mistake for CNN

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Thousands to meet "Hugging Saint"

People lined up in Alexandria just for a hug. Many wept and many felt changed. They call her Amma, the hugging saint.

FOX News

Teen turns act of compassion into opportunity for Girls' Soccer team

On a soccer field inside ESPN’s Wide World of Sports, 19 Haitian soccer players link arms in a huddle, singing, clapping and dancing together.

ABC News

WORLD

Civilian clashes with UN soldiers rise in Lebanon's Hezbollah heartland

Civilians in Qabirkha, Lebanon, where many support Hezbollah, attacked French soldiers with the UNIFIL peacekeeping mission. The U.N. Security Council is expected to discuss the rising tensions.

Christian Science Monitor

Former Colombian hostage wants $6.7 million