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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., speaks about race during a news conference in Philadelphia, Tuesday, March 18, 2008. (Photo by Matt Rourke / AP)

Obama denounces preacher and urges race healing

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama criticized his preacher's racially charged sermons, but said he could not disown him in a speech urging Americans to move past their "racial stalemate."

Reuters

Special section:

The full prepared text of Obama's speech

Union Leader

New York to send construction crane remains for tests

New York City workers will dismantle the remnants of a construction crane that collapsed and killed at least five people and send them to a forensics laboratory.

Bloomberg

Death toll rises in crane accident

Reuters

1,000 Tibetans arrested in Chinese crackdown

Times Online

Dalai Lama threatens to step down if Tibetans turn to violence

International Herald Tribune

Activists' generational divide

CNN

Historic case may decide US gun rights

The Supreme Court is looking at the Second Amendment in a case about D.C's gun ban.

Christian Science Monitor

Bush, Cheney take different sides in gun-ban case

NPR

Airbus A380 makes UK debut

The world's largest passenger aircraft landed at Heathrow on its first commercial flight into Europe and was greeted by a water cannon salute from fire crews.

Times Online

Big bird: Airbus A380

CBS News

NATION

Detroit Council asks Mayor to reisgn

The Detroit City Council called for the resignation of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is being investigated over an alleged affair he swore under oath he did not have. He quickly rejected the request.

Associated Press

On US-Mexican border, new deterrent is jail time

Along a 12-mile stretch, border patrol agents say a zero-tolerance plan has resulted in a 78 percent decrease in arrests.

Christian Science Monitor

Rio Grande hand ferry evokes lost age on U.S. border

Reuters

Paterson to focus on New York budget in first days as governor

David Paterson will spend his first full day as New York's governor focusing on ways to close a budget gap of as much as $5.1 billion while girding for shrinking revenue amid a slowing economy.

Bloomberg

New N.Y. governor admits to extramarital affair

USA Today

POLITICS

Fla. Democrats won't hold re-do primary

Facing strong opposition, Florida Democrats abandoned plans to hold a do-over presidential primary with a mail-in vote and threw the delegate dispute into the lap of the national party.

CBS News

Clinton's First Lady schedules released

The William J. Clinton Presidential Library and the National Archives will open 11,046 pages of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's White House schedules.

MSNBC

Clinton says she is the only candidate to end the war

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., made the case that she is the only candidate who can be trusted to end the war in Iraq.

The Hill

Blog:

Hillary on Iraq

Time

BUSINESS

Fed cuts rates by 0.75 points

Stopping short of giving the market everything it wanted, the Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate by three quarters of one percentage point.

MarketWatch

Stocks storm higher after Fed move

Yahoo! News

Delta offers to buy out 30,000 workers

Delta Air Lines said it will offer voluntary severance payouts to roughly 30,000 employees and cut domestic capacity by an extra 5 percent this year in an attempt to deal with soaring fuel prices.

CNNMoney

Pilots may kill merger plan between Delta and Northwest

MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Tail 'key' for gecko acrobatics

A gecko's tail is as crucial to the animal's acrobatic ability as its sticky feet, scientists report.

BBC

Microsoft releases Vista SP1

After many rumors as to when Windows Vista would get its much-anticipated first service pack looked improbable, Microsoft has finally dropped SP1 on the masses.

Ars Technica

Verizon sides with file-sharing

File sharing has been as unpopular with Internet service providers as it has been popular with users. But Verizon Communications has broken ranks and plans to help its users share files faster

Houston Chronicle

HEALTH

Stem-cell therapy in China draws foreign patients with incurable conditions

China is gaining popularity among a new breed of travelers: patients with incurable conditions who are visiting the country to receive experimental stem-cell treatments not offered in the United States.

NPR

Obesity drug passes safety test

Arena Pharmaceuticals, the developer of an experimental obesity pill, said its drug passed a test showing it doesn't damage heart valves like fen-phen, the Wyeth combination treatment withdrawn in 1997.

Bloomberg

Internet addiction could be classified as mental illness

The American Journal of Psychiatry says Internet addiction is a common compulsive-impulsive disorder, and that it should be added to psychiatry's official guidebook of mental disorders.

AOL News

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column:

Obama's bold gamble on race

TIME

Column (Gary Kamiya):

Of war and cancer

Salon.com

Column (James Kirchick):

Why Obama can't escape his minister

Politico

Column (David Bogoslaw):

Is Lehman liquid enough?

BusinessWeek

Editorial:

The price of 'Madness'

USA Today

Column (Andrew Leonard):

The crash in Republican economics

Salon.com

Column (John Dickerson):

The Democrats' pain threshold

Slate

Editorial:

Facing up to debt contagion

Yahoo! News

Editorial:

A cancer that can be cured

International Herald Tribune

Column (Simon Jenkins):

Revenge in Iraq has cost the American people some $3-$4 trillion

Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Co-workers appear to hold $276 million Powerball ticket

The West Virginia Lottery worked to confirm that eight women in the Monongalia County Sheriff's Department Tax Office hold a winning Powerball ticket worth $276.3 million.

MSNBC

Trumpeter to help New Orleans libraries

Jazz trumpeter Irvin Mayfield intends to unveil a plan for a multimillion-dollar library system that reflects the city's identity. It would include a jazz-themed branch housing early recordings.

Associated Press

WORLD

OAS stalled on Colombia-Venezuela talks

Foreign ministers of 34 Western hemisphere nations grappled with a resolution that would settle a two-week crisis between Colombia and Ecuador over a cross-border military raid.

McClatchy Newspapers

Kenyan MPs to usher in new era

Kenya's parliament is debating two bills that will entrench a power-sharing deal between President Mwai Kibaki and rival Raila Odinga into the constitution.

BBC

French official says EU should consider opening ceremony boycott

France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says the European Union should consider boycotting the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics if violence continues in Tibet.

ESPN

Henderson: Olympic athletes can't be pawns

Globeandmail.com

ENVIRONMENT

The all-electric Subaru R1e to be tested in New York City

The all-electric Subaru R1e will be on display at the New York International Auto Show, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.

Environmental News Network

Glaciers suffer record shrinkage

The rate at which some of the world's glaciers are melting has more than doubled, data from the United Nations Environment Program has shown.

BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

'English Patient ' director dies after routine neck operation

Anthony Minghella, the Oscar-winning director of "The English Patient," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Cold Mountain" has died. He was 54.

TMZ

Q&A: Steve Van Zandt

The favorite sideman of Bruce Springsteen and Tony Soprano talks about touring, his favorite songs and why he’ll probably never do another solo album

Rolling Stone

SPORTS

UConn wins NCAA women's top seed

Tennessee, Connecticut, Maryland and North Carolina are all familiar powerhouses and are all anchors in the NCAA women's tournament bracket.

Sports Illustrated

Growth hormone no benefit to athletes

People who take human growth hormone in the hope of boosting athletic performance are breaking the law, risking their health and are likely not even achieving their objective.

Reuters

RELIGION

Actor quits big break on rabbis' orders

Abraham Karpen, 25, was cast as Natalie Portman's husband in the film "New York I Love You." When his rabbis found out, they ordered him to withdraw from the film or face punishment.

ABC News

More Spanish converting to Mormonism

Spanish-speakers are fueling growth in the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which recently opened new worship space in Tucson's predominantly Hispanic south side.

Examiner

EDUCATION

Paper examines Michigan athletes and their academic educations

A seven-month-long investigation by the Ann Arbor News now raises serious questions about the education Wolverine athletes are receiving.

Sporting News

Smaller class sizes may not help

Putting fewer children in classrooms has been a popular option to narrow the achievement gap for struggling students. But a new study suggests that smaller class sizes may not level the playing field.

U.S. News & World Report

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