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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton leaves with U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Louis Susman, rear left, after talks at 10 Downing Street in London with Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, ahead of the meeting of international allies to discuss the next steps for Libya. (Photo by Akira Suemori / AP)

Calif. city takes on prostitution

In Vallejo, a town 25 miles northeast of San Francisco, locals are looking for prostitutes — not to do business with them, but to scare them off.

TIME

FBI: Seattle speakeasy ring leader smuggled guns to Mexican rebels

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Amazon launches online media storage service ahead of Apple, Google

Amazon wants to be more than a destination for shopping online: It also dreams of being a place where you can store your music, photos and videos and access them any time, from any computer.

San Jose Mercury News

US: Strikes to go on until Gadhafi leaves

Allied strikes on Libya will continue until its leader, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, meets U.N. terms, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told world leaders.

BBC

Rebels’ march halted

Sydney Morning Herald

Blog:

2012 presidential hopefuls take aim at Obama’s Libya speech

(Politico)

2012 Live

Target Libya: Gadhafi negotiates exit

ABC News

BP managers said to face US manslaughter charges review

Federal prosecutors are considering manslaughter charges against BP managers over the oil well explosion last year that killed 11 workers and caused the biggest offshore spill in U.S. history.

Bloomberg

NASA to Mars rover: calling home after yearlong sleep

Spirit, the stuck Mars rover, has failed to respond to repeated calls from Earth. NASA will make a last-ditch effort to communicate with Spirit, which fell silent a little over a year ago.

ABC News

NATION

Arguments resume in challenge to Wisc.’s anti-union law

Opponents of Wisconsin’s new law curbing the union rights of public employees are scheduled to be back in court, pursuing one of several legal challenges to the Republican-backed measure.

Reuters

Search continues for Egyptian cobra missing from Bronx Zoo

It may take days or even weeks to find a venomous Egyptian cobra that has gone missing from New York’s Bronx Zoo, according to officials.

CNN

Poisonous snake still missing — but tweeting!

CBS News

Have states cut taxes too much?

State budget problems resulted largely from falling tax revenues and rising costs. But tax reductions at state and local levels made the budget gaps larger — and resulting spending cuts deeper in many cases.

McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS

Obama’s speech leaves GOP wanting

Republican reaction to President Obama’s speech on U.S. intervention in Libya came in two primary themes. Some Republicans say he waited too long and isn’t fighting hard enough, others say U.S. role unjustified.

CBS News

Mich. governor signs cut in unemployment benefits

Gov. Rick Snyder made Michigan the first state in the country to lower the number of weeks jobless workers can get state benefits, a trend other cash-strapped states may follow.

Columbus Telegram

OutServe launched for active duty gay and lesbian troops

An underground group of gay and lesbian service members launched a new magazine, OutServe, hoping it will spread awareness about the contributions of gay troops.

ABC News

CRISIS IN JAPAN

Japan finds plutonium in soil at stricken nuclear plant

Plutonium found in soil at the Fukushima nuclear complex heightened alarm over Japan’s battle to contain the world’s worst atomic crisis in 25 years.

Reuters

Expert explains plutonium near Japan plant

AOL News

Chernobyl’s legacy

Nature

Traces of Japanese radiation detected in 13 US states

Radiation has been detected in the air or water in 13 states, but “far below levels of public health concern.” Rainwater is considered safe to drink, while Massachusetts is monitoring milk supplies.

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

China ‘to overtake US on science’

China is on course to overtake the U.S. in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 — far earlier than expected.

BBC

A real ‘green’ car: Pineapple or banana may toughen its plastics

Your next new car hopefully won’t be a lemon, but it could be a pineapple or a banana. Scientists have now developed a way to use fibers from these plants in a new generation of automotive plastics.

LiveScience

Marine microbes digest plastic

Nature

HEALTH

Infrared technology could improve hearing devices and heart conditions

The research shows that infrared light is more effective than electrical pulses, which are currently used by many devices such as cardiac pacemakers and cochlear implants.

Earth Times

Chinese baby weighs 132 pounds

Experts say a child weighing 132 pounds has signs of Prader-Willi syndrome, genetic disorder not well known to the public or some in the medical field. Others thought the child was just overweight.

ABC News

Special section:

What is Prader-Willi Syndrome?

Medical News Today

SPORTS

Ex-mistress testifies at Barry Bonds’ perjury trial

The mistress finally testified in home run king Barry Bonds’ perjury trial. The jury is faced with a stark choice — Kimberly Bell is either a bitter ex-lover or a brave woman willing to help the government.

San Jose Mercury News

Unthinkable NCAA Final Four in Houston

Kentucky, Connecticut, Butler and Virginia Commonwealth fill out a Final Four that, by most standards, is the most unimaginable in the history of the NCAA tournament, which has never lacked surprises.

Detroit Free Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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Joe Biden’s closet

Orlando Sentinel

Blog (Ray B. Williams):

Are Americans getting ‘dumber’?

(Psychology Today)

Wired for Success

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Political cartoon

Christian Science Monitor

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Respect for the rule of law on Miranda rights

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Amos N. Guiora):

What US can learn from Israel’s judicial review for detainees

McClatchy Newspapers

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Don’t forget to wipe

Truthdig

Blog (Cathy Lynn Grossman):

Catholic mothers to bishops: Step up against abuse

(USA TODAY)

Faith and Reason

Column (Stanley Crouch):

This crazy quilt called America

NY Daily News

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GOOD NEWS

Valencia student has rare hand transplant at Emory University

A 21-year-old college student from Oviedo received the Southeast’s first hand transplant this month at Emory University in Atlanta.

Baltimore Sun

NC soldier surprises son after 9-month separation

While all eyes were closed, a visitor slipped up behind 8-year-old Haven Abernathy. He didn’t realize a person dressed in U.S. Army fatigues was standing behind him until his teacher asked him to turn around.

Shelby Star

Parents can read to children from afar with new application

Parents whose hectic schedules mean they can’t be at home when their children go to bed can now buy an app that enables them to read their youngsters a good-night story or sing them a lullaby from afar.

Reuters

WORLD

Pakistan’s Asher Hasan brings health care innovation: $1.80 per month