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Houses and property along the Mississippi River near Tunica, Miss., are flooded by the Mississippi River. Gov. Haley Barbour and other officials took an aerial trip along the Mississippi River and some of its tributaries to view the spreading damage from the flood waters. (Photo by Rogelio V. Solis / AP)

Aging population largest in Northeast

Driven by immigration and young people moving to the South and West and older Americans who stay put elsewhere, the age gap between regions in the U.S. has grown to its widest level in decades.

Telegram & Gazette

Census shows Calif. median age at record

San Francisco Chronicle

Pace of foreclosures slows down

Nationwide, foreclosures in the first quarter took an average 400 days from default notice to the day the bank reclaimed the property, RealtyTrac reports.

USA TODAY

Louisiana prepares for flood surge

Residents of three southern states await historic flood crest that has slowly worked its way downstream toward New Orleans along the Mississippi River.

CNN

Tales of trauma and resiliency in Mississippi River flooding

ABC News

Poor suffer as Mississippi level rises

Al Jazeera

US attacks militants in Pakistan as pressure grows

A U.S. drone aircraft fired missiles at militants in Pakistan, killing eight of them, Pakistani officials said.

Reuters

Pakistani hill town a secret militant hub?

MSNBC

US to spend $30 million fighting Internet censorship in repressive regimes

The United States is playing a game of “cat and mouse” on the Web, funding new technology aimed at breaking Internet censorship in repressive regimes including China and Iran, officials have said.

Guardian

NATION

Border arrests of undocumented immigrants down 58 percent

The number of arrests of people trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally has decreased sharply in the last five years, according to federal statistics.

CNN

Assisted suicide goes digital

For years, William Melchert-Dinkel impersonated a female nurse and advised people on suicide methods in online chat rooms. But without any physical contact, was it really a crime?

TIME

Rajaratnam guilty on all counts in US insider trading case

Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund tycoon at the center of a U.S. insider trading crackdown, was found guilty of all 14 counts against him in the largest illegal stock-tipping case in a generation.

Bloomberg

The basics of Rajaratnam’s conviction

CNBC

POLITICS

Poll: Americans back tax increases in recent debt fix

More than half of Americans say higher taxes should be part of a fix to tame the $14.3 trillion U.S. debt, a Reuters poll released found, signaling a disconnect with Republicans who reject any tax increases.

Reuters

Newt Gingrich will run for president

Newt Gingrich, the 67-year-old former Republican House speaker, in an announcement on Twitter, said he intends to run for president of the United States.

NPR

Democrats reintroduce DREAM Act

Congressional Democrats reintroduced the DREAM Act, a bill giving citizenship to people who were brought into the country illegally as youngsters if they join the military or complete two years of college.

Las Vegas Review Journal

DEATH OF BIN LADEN

Obama to reach out to Muslims in post-bin Laden world

Amid change in the Middle East and North Africa, President Barack Obama will address U.S. policy toward the region in a speech.

MSNBC

Blog:

Osama bin Laden operational journal among evidence from raid

(ABC News)

The Blotter

Special section:

Osama bin Laden’s family tree

BBC

Members of Congress see photos of bin Laden’s body

Republican Sen. James Inhofe told CNN’s Eliot Spitzer he saw about 15 photos of bin Laden’s body, most taken at the al-Qaida leader’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

CNN

BUSINESS

Wall Street slips with commodities, inflation fears

U.S. stocks slid as falling commodity prices prompted an unwinding of bets on risky assets and raised questions about the strength of the economic recovery.

MSN Money

Weekly US jobless claims drop 44,000

Applications in the U.S. for unemployment compensation fell by 44,000, partly reversing a large spike earlier in April, the Labor Department reported.

MarketWatch

Your family’s health care costs: $19,393

Health care costs for a family of four rose again in 2011, with employees paying a much larger share of the rising expenses, according to a new industry report.

CNNMoney

ENVIRONMENT

Severe tropical droughts expected as temperatures rise

A sediment core which has allowed researchers from the University of Pittsburgh to create a 2,300-year climate record reveals that as temperatures rise, so the summer monsoons will become drier.

PlanetSave.com

1st pipeline-fed hydrogen refueling station opens in the US

Toyota celebrated the opening of the first pipeline-fed refueling station in the U.S. Located in Torrance, Calif., it is the first hydrogen station to be directly connected to an active industrial hydrogen pipeline.

Environmental News Network

SPORTS

‘Tractor’ Traylor, 34, found dead

Former NBA and University of Michigan player Robert “Tractor” Traylor, 34, has died. Police in San Juan, Puerto Rico, said in a statement that he was found dead on the bedroom floor of his oceanfront apartment.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Celtics wilt away in Heat

Borrowed time expired on the Boston Celtics when LeBron James got a shot off over Paul Pierce from 24 feet away.

Boston Herald

Heat close out Celtics

YouTube

Fiesta Bowl to stay in BCS after being hit with $1M fine

The Bowl Championship Series hit the wayward Fiesta Bowl with sanctions including a $1 million fine, but the game will remain part of the system that decides college football’s national championship.

USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Andrew J. Rotherham):

Why the Hispanic student crisis is going ignored

TIME

Editorial:

Gay rights and the church’s evolving role

Los Angeles Times

Editorial:

Obama puts immigration reform on the nation agenda

San Francisco Chronicle

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Cartoon slideshow

The New Yorker

Column (Harold Myerson):

Is China’s bad news good for America?

Star Tribune

Column (L.Z. Granderson):

We need year-round school to compete globally

CNN

Column (Peter Roff):

Boehner’s debt ceiling speech shows problems of Obama-nomics

U.S. News & World Report

Blog (Natasha Lennard):

A legal trap for anonymous big-money donors

(Salon)

War Room

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GOOD NEWS

Experimental AIDS vaccine ‘works in monkeys,’ researchers say

An experimental vaccine has helped monkeys with a form of the AIDS virus control the infection for more than a year, suggesting it may lead to a vaccine for people, U.S. researchers have said.

Al Jazeera

A big-hearted billionaires club

The Giving Pledge, founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, has signed up 69 billionaires who promise to give away most of their fortunes to charity.

Christian Science Monitor

In Ill. town, groups partner to create outdoor classroom

Elementary children were taught how plants grow and what is required to care for them. The harvest will be given to the state Women, Infants and Children program and sold at a local market.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

Air France 447: Flight box recorders could unlock crash mystery