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Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Scoville displays the Facebook page of a fugitive. The Feds are on Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter as law enforcement follows the rest of the world onto popular social networking services, watching suspects and gathering information. (Photo by Elaine Thompson / AP)

Stalkers, harassers plunge into world of social media

The wide open world of social media is opening new territory for trouble. As the use of Facebook, MySpace and other technology grows, so does the number of crimes connected with them.

Star Tribune

Blog:

National Stalking Awareness Month

(Florida Times-Union)

Inside Hubbard House

Obama administration ends high-tech border fence

The Obama administration ended a high-tech border fence project that cost taxpayers nearly $1 billion but did little to improve security. Congress ordered the controversial high-tech fence in 2006.

CBS News

Feds reject ‘1 size fits all’ border security

Houston Chronicle

US to bill states $1.3B amid tight budgets

For states, a new bill is coming from the federal government, which will charge them $1.3 billion in interest on the billions they have borrowed from Washington to pay unemployment benefits.

New York Times

Liberals warn of Democratic schism if Obama backs Social Security cut

The Hill

Jobless claims jump more than expected

MSNBC

Tunisia swears in interim leader

Tunisia’s speaker of parliament has temporarily assumed power in the country a day after President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali fled amid a mass uprising.

Al Jazeera

WikiLeaks: US ambassador warned that Ben Ali was unpopular

McClatchy Newspapers

In pictures: Tunisia tensions

BBC

Gun background checks have big gaps

The National Instant Criminal Background Check System pulls records from state and local police as well as dozens of other agencies, but several studies say those records are often incomplete or missing.

NPR

NATION

IRS still ramping up for itemized filings

The Internal Revenue Service announced the opening of tax filing season with a warning that it will not be able to process certain types of returns, including those with itemized deductions, until next month.

Des Moines Register

Obama readies new focus on education

President Barack Obama is putting education overhaul at the forefront of his agenda as he adjusts to the new reality of a government with serious partisan division.

ABC News

TRAGEDY IN TUCSON

Safeway at shooting site reopens

One week to the day after a gunman riddled the parking lot with bullets, the supermarket north of Tucson where six people were killed and 13 were wounded reopened.

Arizona Republic

Police create timeline of Loughner’s morning before arrest

In the early morning hours before he was arrested, Jared Loughner attempted twice to buy ammunition and had photographs developed of himself posing with a gun, law enforcement officials said.

USA TODAY

Blog:

In America, violence and guns forever

Reuters

Giffords intern handling sudden fame

Intern Daniel Hernandez’s brave and clear-headed actions in helping save the life of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords after she was shot made him an unlikely hero. Since then, he’s become something of a celebrity.

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog:

Mass shootings and mental illness

(CBS News)

In Focus

POLITICS

Reince Priebus elected RNC chairman

Reince Priebus, who led the Wisconsin Republican Party to significant gains in the 2010 midterm elections, won the election and will now step in as the new chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Politico

RNC chair-elect: We must come together

CNN

Special section:

The new elected RNC chairman

MSNBC

Obama to ease travel restrictions to Cuba, allow more money to be sent back

President Barack Obama plans to loosen Cuban travel policy to allow students and church groups to go to the communist country, the administration announced.

Star Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

New zodiac signs 2011: Can 1 guy just change the zodiac like that?

In an interview, astronomer Parke Kunkle pointed out a fact that astronomers have known for millennia, a fact which has prompted an uproar among those who believe in astrology.

Christian Science Monitor

The most dangerous show on television

MTV’s controversial new series “Skins” portrays teens as sex-obsessed, experimental, lying to their parents and sneaking out at night. In other words, it shows them as they really are.

Newsweek

Profiling the people who seek fame through assassination

In the Secret Service Exception Case Study Project, they identified 83 people who had completed assassinations or made assassination attempts since 1949 — some cases known to the public, some not.

NPR

SPORTS

Spurs victory leads to Mavericks’ 4th straight loss

Everything is on track for the San Antonio Spurs. They’re staying healthy and coasting toward the home-court advantage they prize in the playoffs.

Sports Illustrated

NCAA survey delves into practice time

Players in the NCAA’s Division I bowl subdivision say they devote over 43 hours a week to the sport during the season. Other sports, like baseball and men’s basketball also approach that commitment.

USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

In rise of ultra-Orthodox, there are challenges for Israel

Dramatic changes may be coming in Israel: Demographers now estimate about a third of last year’s Jewish babies were born into the ultra-Orthodox community, an insular and devout minority.

Huffington Post

Cleric’s opponents plan gathering too

As the Muslim leader who proposed the mosque near ground zero kicks off a national speaking tour, a group of opponents will hold a conference on the same day to voice their strong opposition.

Detroit Free Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

Split decision

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Nancy Darling):

Flinching from ‘Tiger Mom’

(Psychology Today)

Thinking About Kids

Editorial:

Obama showed grace, wisdom in Tucson

Washington Examiner

Blog (Samantha Henig):

The logic of Michael Steele

(The New Yorker)

News Desk

Column (Zhang Wei):

How to make the Chinese president’s US visit more meaningful

Seattle Times

Column (Pete Earley):

Don’t blame the parents of Jared Loughner

USA TODAY

Blog (Glenn Greenwald):

Brookings’ ‘centrist’ opposition to the rule of law

Salon

Column (Leila Levinson):

Veterans support: Do you know anyone on active duty?

Huffington Post

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GOOD NEWS

South African teens get virtual mentoring from all over the world

Using a custom, Web-based technology, Infinite Family has connected almost 300 South African teens — called Net Buddies — with nearly 200 volunteer mentors from around the world.

CNN

Stars come together on the Lennon Bus

NAMM, the music trade show, opened recently in Anaheim, Calif., and perhaps the biggest event was the one thrown by the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus.

AOL News

Burning Man festival raises nearly $100,000 in donations

The organization that stages the annual Burning Man festival has donated nearly $100,000 to various charitable, art and service organizations in northern Nevada.

San Francisco Chronicle

WORLD

BP and Russia in Arctic oil deal