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Volunteers, from left, Matt Moore, Amy Pearce, Danielle Cook and Ashley Moore of Springfield, Mo., and Ashlee Woodard of Joplin, Mo., lift a section of wall at a destroyed home in Joplin. At least 126 people were killed when a tornado cut through Joplin. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein / AP)

Of war and kisses: How adversity shapes culture

Countries tend to have personalities just like people do. Researchers have set out to define those differences, using a scale that measures how tight the social rules and standards are.

NPR

US Congress passes extension of Patriot Act wiretap power

The U.S. Congress approved, and President Barack Obama signed into law, a four-year extension of provisions in the Patriot Act that allow law enforcement to track suspected terrorists with roving wiretaps.

Bloomberg

Blog:

President Obama uses ‘autopen’ to sign extension for Patriot Act

(ABC News)

The Note

Authorities to release new list of missing in Joplin

Authorities in Missouri will release an updated list of 232 people who are still missing after the tornado that devastated the region.

CNN

Some of Joplin’s missing turn up safe and alive

CNBC

Hundreds missing after tornado

Reuters

G-8 leaders support historic revolts in the Arab world

Group of Eight leaders promised to support new Arab democracies, according to a statement they were due to release following a meeting in the northern French resort town of Deauville.

MSNBC

President Obama: US, France resolved to ‘finish job’ in Libya

BBC

PayPal sues Google over smartphone payment service

After Google unveiled its tap-to-pay technology on a smartphone equipped with its Android software, PayPal struck back with a lawsuit alleging the service is the by-product of intellectual theft.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Last shuttle spacewalkers make history above Earth

NASA completed its part in the construction of the International Space Station, with the final spacewalkers in the 30-year shuttle program attaching an extension boom.

Houston Chronicle

NATION

Violent storms in Northeast bring flooding, evacuations and outages

A series of intense, slow-moving thunderstorms unleashed high winds and torrential rains around the Northeast, causing widespread river flooding and ripping up streets in Vermont.

Star Tribune

Obama visit to Poland chance to add vigor to ties

President Barack Obama’s last stop on his European tour brings him to Poland for the first time, giving him the chance to inject new vigor in a relationship with an ally that has sometimes felt slighted by Washington.

San Francisco Chronicle

Morganza Spillway flood gates closing

Not as much Mississippi River floodwater is entering La.’s Atchafalaya Basin. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started closing gates on the Morganza Spillway, leaving only 14 of its 125 gates open.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

GOP presidential hopefuls shift positions on global warming

For Republican presidential contenders who once supported combatting global warming, the race is heating up. Most of these contenders have stepped back from their previous positions.

MSNBC

Wis. judge invalidates law curbing unions, fight isn’t over yet

A Wis. circuit court judge has invalidated a controversial law designed to limit the power of public sector unions in the state, legislation which prompted massive protests earlier this year.

Christian Science Monitor

Democrats see Hochul’s win as evidence they can take back House

An unexpected win in a New York GOP stronghold has Democrats believing they now have a winning strategy to retake the U.S. House in 2012.

NY Daily News

House Republicans cope with NY-26 fallout

Politico

BUSINESS

Consumer sentiment rises

A gauge of consumer sentiment rose as expectations improved, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan survey data released.

MarketWatch

A post-Fukushima rebound for Toshiba

After the Mar. 11 earthquake and tsunami, few Japanese companies were in worse shape than Toshiba. Since then, Toshiba’s stock has shown surprising resilience.

BusinessWeek

Facebook founder Zuckerberg tells G-8 summit: Don’t regulate the Web

Leading Internet figures have warned world political leaders against trying to regulate the Web, telling them to leave alone a process that has flourished without government interference.

Guardian

The G-8 and the economic realities

CBS News

SPORTS

Charged-up fans jolt Lightning tix to Bruins record

Tickets for the Bruins Game 7 against the Tampa Bay Lightning are averaging $383, the highest price for any B’s home game on record, unless you count the Winter Classic at Fenway.

Boston Herald

LeBron James, Dwyane Wade lead charge as Heat eliminate Bulls

LeBron James scored 28 points and Dwyane Wade added 21 as they led a furious rally in the final minutes as the Miami Heat eliminated the Chicago Bulls 83-80 in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals.

Houston Chronicle

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Lady Gaga zips into Central Park

“You like to make an entrance, don’t you!!” said Good Morning America co-host Robin Roberts after Lady Gaga zip-lined onto the stage for a concert.

USA TODAY

Carlos Santana and Herbie Hancock battle Grammy changes

Musicians including Carlos Santana and Herbie Hancock have criticized Grammy Award organizers for dropping categories from the annual show.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Vatican invites AIDS experts to talk

The Vatican has invited AIDS experts from around the world to a two-day symposium on preventing HIV and caring for people with the virus.

Huffington Post

At 95, rabbi has spiritual awakening

Shortly before his 95th birthday, Rabbi Herman Schaalman had an epiphany. God was nothing like he had imagined all these years. He was much more.

Idaho Statesman

Adventists in Calif. city lose their Sunday mail delivery

Postal carrier Ruth Gomez had prayed and waited for five years to be transferred to the Loma Linda Post Office so that she could finally put to rest the conflicts between her faith and her job.

Religion News Service

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (William Kristol):

Not ‘right now’

Weekly Standard

Column (Leonard Pitts Jr.):

Murfreesboro shows a country that has lost its mind

McClatchy Newspapers

Editorial:

What is the culprit behind flooding and tornado tragedies?

USA TODAY

Editorial:

Open border to trouble

Boston Herald

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Editorial cartoon

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Andrew Leonard):

Orrin Hatch’s tough love for losers

(Salon)

How the World Works

Column (Steven King and Nathan A. Sales):

Patriot Act fits tea party standards

Politico

Column (Roger Simon):

The Republican death grip

Creators Syndicate

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GOOD NEWS

Johns Hopkins receives $10 million to open patient safety institute

Johns Hopkins plans to use a $10 million gift to launch an institute for patient safety, aiming to reduce medical mistakes that have long troubled health care facilities around the nation.

Baltimore Sun

More than $1 million raised locally through social media-based effort

A locally coordinated, social media-based fundraiser for the Joplin tornado relief effort brought in more than $1 million. All of the money raised so far will go directly to the relief efforts in Joplin.

Columbia Missourian

SEAL’s canine commando piques interest in war dogs

Life after the military is looking brighter than ever for America’s four-legged veterans since one of their own helped in the mission to kill Osama bin Laden.

San Francisco Examiner

WORLD

Air France captain absent when fateful descent began