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A Predator B unmanned aircraft taxis at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is expanding its use of Predator B unmanned aircraft outfitted with powerful infrared cameras and sensitive radar to patrol U.S. borders. (Photo by Eric Gay / AP)

Will drone technology come to be used in civil society?

Their killing power is immense and the surveillance possibilities are endless. Perhaps it is no wonder that the awesome potential of unmanned aerial vehicles is now being so energetically explored.

The Independent

Unmanned drones patrolling Washington border

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Revisiting a dark day in Los Angeles

Henry Keith Watson remembers April 29, 1992, as if it happened last week. It was a day that marked the beginning of one of the deadliest, most destructive race riots in our nation’s history.

Arizona Daily Star

The LA riots as a neighbor remembers it

NPR

Protection for Chinese dissident thought to be in US in negotiation

The U.S. and Chinese governments face delicate diplomatic negotiations over Chen Guangcheng, the blind lawyer who fled from house arrest and is now thought to be under U.S. protection.

San Francisco Chronicle

Dissident’s case poses a diplomatic test for the US and China

Reuters

Chen turns down offer to leave China

Guardian

Immigration tide shifts back to Mexico

A historic shift is underway across the nation as more immigrants from Mexico head back to their native country and fewer Mexicans enter the U.S., according to a study from the Pew Hispanic Center.

Star Tribune

Many illegal immigrants returning to Mexico

Palm Beach Post

House acts to curb loan rates

Republicans defied a veto threat as the House voted to prevent federal loan costs from doubling for millions of college students, giving the GOP a momentary election-year triumph.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Student loan agreement? Not so fast.

CBS News

NATION

National Guard members’ next battle: the job hunt

Before the soldiers of the 182 Regiment of the Army National Guard came home, they were asked how many were unemployed or looking for work. The answer: about 1 in 3.

NPR

Despite skills, veterans of Afghanistan, Iraq not getting hired

Detroit Free Press

Help for the economy? Not from debt-bound grads

The total amount of student loan debt in this country is at $1 trillion. In the not-too-distant future, student loan debt will eclipse the amount of money Americans owe on their cars and credit cards.

NPR

Who pays for soaring student loan debt?

CNN

POLITICS

‘War on women’ sparks a battle for votes

There’s little question that the political battle for the women’s vote is intensifying, as Democrats were on the march across the nation protesting what they see as an assault on reproductive rights.

Kansas City Star

Obama dishes out — and takes — some digs at dinner

President Barack Obama made light of the serious and the inconsequential at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

CNN

Blog:

White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2012: red carpet live blog

(Politico)

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Edwards’ fate hinges on ex-right-hand man and wife

Despite the outrageous lies and years of cover-ups, Cheri and Andrew Young have stayed together. They are now reliving their volatile relationship with John Edwards as witnesses in his trial.

Houston Chronicle

BUSINESS

How Apple sidesteps billions in taxes

In a small office in Reno, in a company subsidiary named Braeburn Capital, Apple has done something central to its corporate strategy: It has avoided millions of dollars in taxes.

San Jose Mercury News

An $8B loan to Sudan

China will provide South Sudan $8 billion in development loans over the next two years, which will be used for agriculture, hydroelectricity, infrastructure and telecommunications.

BusinessWeek

ENVIRONMENT

Fragile Earth app is bringing climate change home

The Fragile Earth app brings us from the farthest reaches of the universe back to our own world, whose surface is rapidly transforming due to the effects of climate change and human civilization.

Discovery News

Fragile Earth app gallery

The Ecologist

Using DNA to get a glimpse into ancient farming

Analyzing DNA from ancient skeletons, scientists are helping to resolve a debate over the origins of ancient European agriculture.

Boston Herald

HEALTH

Letting go of the unfeasible boosts well-being, research shows

Researchers have found that among breast cancer survivors, letting go of unrealistic goals and making new, achievable ones is linked with a higher quality of life and an increase in physical activity.

Huffington Post

Special section:

Breast cancer health center

WebMD

Hospital seeing more babies born exposed to prescription drugs

Cries echo through the neonatal intensive care unit at East Tennessee Children‘s Hospital. Nearly half of the newborn babies in the hospital’s NICU are suffering from prescription drug withdrawal.

CNN

‘Take Back Day’ keeps prescription drugs out of wrong hands

Columbus Dispatch

Vivus pill promises more effectiveness than Viagra, approved

A Vivus Inc. pill that is supposed to provide results in 15 minutes — about half the time as its well-known competitor, Viagra — has won U.S. regulatory approval.

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

Posted images of California school tests raise cheating concerns

Hundreds of photos of standardized tests have begun to appear on social-networking sites in California, raising concerns about test security and cheating by students.

Los Angeles Times

Common Core standards driving wedge in education circles

An effort by a pair of national education groups to strengthen and focus the building blocks of elementary and secondary education is finally making its way into schools.

USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Paul Krugman):

Death of the confidence fairy: living with economic zombies

Seattle Times

Blog (Susan Biali, M.D.):

A little weird? Prone to depression? Blame your creative brain

(Psychology Today)

Prescriptions for Life

Column (Mark Brown):

Telling the sterile truth of the past takes talent

Chicago Sun-Times

Column (Kumi Yokoe):

Diplomacy flowers with cherry blossoms

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Anna Weaver):

Creepy political ads, feeding the world, and your 10-terabyte mind

Slate

Column (Glenn Garvin):

When robots go to war

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Edward Wasserman):

Blowing a whistle on sports cruelty

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Ken Auletta):

Is Stanford too close to Silicon Valley?

The New Yorker

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GOOD NEWS

From near-death to the Olympics

From fighting for her life to becoming world champion, one British cyclist’s ardous journey to the Olympics is inspiring the country.

Huffington Post

A Kenyan woman stands up against a massive dam project

Ikal Angelei is helping lead a campaign to stop construction of the Gibe III dam in Ethiopia that threatens the water supply and way of life of tens of thousands of indigenous people.

Christian Science Monitor

Removed from mother’s home, man reunites with the family he lost

After 61 years, Jerry Wooliver, who was sent to an institution as a 5-year-old because of cerebral palsy, is reunited with his family in Kent, Wash.

Seattle Times

WORLD

Child soldiers: returning to gang warfare