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Abdul Qadir, right, leader of the Pakistani religious party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam addresses a pro-Osama bin Laden rally in Kuchlak, located 16 miles north of Quetta, Pakistan. (Photo by Arshad Butt / AP)

Does size matter? For today’s families, it does

Two may well be the number of kids favored by most Americans, but for many, deciding how many kids they could or should have isn’t as easy as settling on a magic number.

USA TODAY

Blog:

The true value of a stay-at-home mother

(MSNBC)

Investopedia

Without a college degree, hard-pressed for jobs

The recession hit everyone. The recovery, though, hasn’t been so democratic; the “in-between” — people living above the poverty line but below the average wage — are now fighting just to get a job.

NPR

Employment in US probably slowed as companies curbed spending

Bloomberg

Al-Qaida aspired to attack US trains

Al-Qaida considered attacking U.S. trains on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, according to a look at DVDs, computers and other documents seized at the raid on Osama bin Laden’s home

MSNBC

Al-Qaida vows to revenge dead bin Laden

Reuters

Was killing of Osama bin Laden legal under international law?

ABC News

Special section:

The killing of Osama bin Laden

CBS News

Sex, coffee increase stroke risk

For someone with a brain aneurysm, having sex or drinking coffee could temporarily raise the risk of the aneurysm rupturing and causing a stroke.

MSNBC

More evacuations in Miss.

Authorities ordered more evacuations near the Mississippi and Ohio rivers as flood waters continued to surge, drenching farmlands, highways and homes.

CNN

NATION

Obama’s next problem: economic woes

Gas is $4 a gallon and rising; the price of groceries is going up; wages remain stagnant; the deficit continues to balloon. What ought the president to tackle first, and how should he go about it?

ABC News

Americans are undertaxed

Here’s a secret most Americans don’t want to hear: We’re under taxed. Nobody wants to pay more taxes. But by historical standards, what we pay in federal taxes has gone down.

McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS

Democrats, Republicans edge closer on debt deal

The outlines of a deal that would allow the U.S. to avert a debt default emerged as top Republican and Democratic lawmakers held their first meeting aimed at cutting the bloated deficit.

Reuters

Negotiators leave Biden talks hopeful

As Republicans and Democrats gird for battle over the debt ceiling, starting from diametrically different positions, both sides are starting out sounding hopeful.

Politico

DEATH OF BIN LADEN

Obama to meet SEALs team that killed bin Laden as terror plot revealed

President Barack Obama was scheduled to meet the men responsible for collecting the intelligence during a raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound.

CNN

Blog:

Military dog assisted in bin Laden raid

(TIME)

Newsfeed

Special section:

Spotlight on bin Laden

Al Jazeera

Pakistani military launches investigation into bin Laden

Pakistan’s military has launched an investigation into how Osama bin Laden was able to live in the country undetected — for up to five years, according to the al-Qaida leader’s wife.

Al Jazeera

Blog:

Pakistani army concedes that there are ‘shortcomings’ in intelligence

(NPR)

The Two-Way

Special section:

Al-Qaida around the world

BBC

BUSINESS

US economy: Payrolls increase by 244,000, exceeding forecasts

American employers added more jobs than forecast and the labor market was stronger than initially estimated, indicating the world’s largest economy is weathering the impact of higher fuel prices.

BusinessWeek

Oil drops below $100 on worry of weaker US demand

Oil plunged nearly nine percent to settle below $100 per barrel. Investors who had ridden months-long rally fled the market because of concerns about weakening demand for fuel in the U.S.

San Francisco Chronicle

GM’s 1st quarter profit: $3.2B

General Motors Co. posted a $3.2 billion profit during the first quarter — its fifth consecutive quarterly profit, further evidence the automaker continues to build momentum after its 2009 bailout.

Detroit News

ENVIRONMENT

Chimps are self-aware

According to a study, Chimpanzees are self-aware and can anticipate the impact of their actions on the environment around them, an ability once thought to be uniquely human.

Environmental News Network

Food prices driven up by global warming, study shows

Global warming has already harmed the world’s food production and has driven up food prices by as much as 20 percent over recent decades, new research has revealed.

Guardian

Climate emails ‘leave science sound’

Successive reviews into the University of East Anglia (UEA) climate email hack cast no doubt on the basic picture of global warming, the government says.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Making peace in America’s cities

The Dalai Lama inspires a new generation of urban activists who know that inner and outer peace are one. Barry Boyce on two cities where they’re making a difference.

Shambhala Sun

Faith unshaken by tornado

The sound of someone playing a piano emanated from the Alberta Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa, Ala., two days after a devastating tornado ripped a deadly gash through this Southern town.

CNN

SPORTS

Seve Ballesteros’ condition worsens

Golfing great Seve Ballesteros has suffered “a severe deterioration” in his condition 2½ years after he had multiple surgeries to remove a cancerous brain tumor.

ESPN

Kentucky Derby may soon have its 1st female winner

Rosie Napravnik will try to be the first woman to ride a Kentucky Derby winner. Can Rosie get the roses?

Virginian-Pilot

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (D.J. Tice):

Health care’s ugliest truth

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

Reasonable initiatives to curb childhood obesity deserve better than a fat chance

Houston Chronicle

Column (Howard Wollner):

Consider all the facts about federal funding for NPR stations

Seattle Times

Editorial:

Obama’s ground zero visit ends one phase of war on terror, but there is more to do

NY Daily News

Column (Michael Hirsh):

The 2 faces of Pakistan

RealClearPolitics

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Just a typical bunch of next-door-neighbors

USA TODAY

Blog (Steve Kornacki):

Mike Huckabee’s favorite Holocaust anecdote

(Salon)

War Room

Blog (Josh Burek):

High gas prices: Want to be a cool ‘hypermiler’?

The Editorial Board

(Christian Science Monitor)

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GOOD NEWS

Meet Sam Sevian, the 10-year-old chess master from Santa Clara, Calif.

Two chess masters hunched over their royal armies, lost in thought. Playing white was 10-year-old Sam Sevian, who became the youngest chess master in the history of the U.S. Chess Federation.

San Jose Mercury News

Local students donate prom dresses, shoes to Smithville, Miss.

With the power of the tiara and enough taffeta and tulle to blanket the state of Mississippi, a handful of determined parents and local school students have given the gift of a magical night.

Commercial Dispatch

Pit bull that woke family during fire is called a hero

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles presented Diamond, a 15-month-old pit bull, with their 29th annual National Hero Dog award.

San Jose Mercury News

WORLD

Israeli settlers try to lure tourists to West Bank