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FDIC Chair Sheila Bair, left, and John Bowman, acting director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, are sworn in on Capitol Hill prior to testifying on the role of bank regulators in the financial crisis. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / Ap)

Hundreds flee Iceland volcano

About 700 people were evacuated from isolated rural homes near the volcano, which is under the Eyjafjallajoekull glacier. Flooding has cut the coastal road from the area to the capital Reykjavik.

BBC

Ash cloud casts pall over world of music

New York Times

Eruption in Iceland

MSNBC

Feds indict ex-Blackwater president

The former president of Blackwater Worldwide was charged with using straw purchases to stockpile automatic weapons and with filing false documents to cover up gifts given to the King of Jordan.

BusinessWeek

Fresh crisis without new financial rules

The U.S. is destined to endure a new economic crisis that sticks taxpayers with the bill unless Congress tightens oversight of the financial industry, President Barack Obama said.

Houston Chronicle

Dems say Goldman suit bolsters case for rules

Business Week

GE: 7,000 tax returns, $0 US tax bill

General Electric filed more than 7,000 income tax returns in hundreds of global jurisdictions last year, but when push came to shove, the company owed the U.S. government a whopping bill of $0.

CNNMoney

GE earnings

CNBC

Earthquake survivors in Tibet mourn loss of treasured heritage

As Tibetans begin to cope with the loss of loved ones, they also grieve for their cultural sites and monuments.

Guardian

NATION

Yahoo beats Feds in e-mail privacy battle

Yahoo prevailed over Colorado federal prosecutors in a legal battle testing whether the Constitution’s warrant requirements apply to Americans’ e-mail.

Wired

In Vt., nuke power faces a test

As an embattled nuclear plant seeks to extend its operating life — and become a symbol of the conflict over whether to expand nuclear power — it's "no nukes" vs. "pro nukes," and not much in between.

USA TODAY

Nuke cancer concern scares town

CNN

POLITICS

Obama asks businesses to get behind climate bill

President Barack Obama wants business leaders to push Congress to pass long-stalled climate legislation awaiting action in the Senate.

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Destruction of interrogation videotapes raised concerns at CIA

Top Central Intelligence Agency officials were concerned over whether it was proper to have destroyed videotapes showing the interrogation of terrorism suspects, according to internal documents.

Wall Street Journal

HEALTH

Public defibrillators save lives

Placing automatic external defibrillators in public places across the United States and Canada could save the lives of 474 people who otherwise would die of cardiac arrest each year, researchers report.

HealthDay

'Off-the-charts' pollen counts bring misery to millions

A cold winter followed by a sudden and sustained warming trend has boosted pollen counts to near-record highs across the United States this spring, experts say.

HealthDay

10 worst plants for your allergies

Health.com

EDUCATION

Truancy court in Oakland is for parents

One by one, mothers stepped forward to face Alameda County Superior Court Judge Cecilia Castellanos and explain why their children have repeatedly failed to show up to elementary school.

San Francisco Chronicle

Government report sees increase in campus violence

Targeted college campus violence, from serious assaults to the mass shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007, is up sharply over the last two decades.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

SPORTS

Predators get 1st road playoff win by knocking off Blackhawks

J.P. Dumont called it a lucky goal, but the unexpected score allowed the Nashville Predators to tie the game early and changed the momentum in their direction.

ESPN

League says cap will likely shrink, but not as much as expected

NBA teams could find more money to spend during shopping season. Commissioner David Stern said that the league is projecting the salary cap to be higher than it expected.

CBS SportsLine

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Smithsonian taxidermist: a dying job title

Every natural history museum worth its stuffing used to have a whole crew of taxidermists working behind the scenes. And many of the animals now displayed date from that era, many decades ago.

NPR

Danny Glover arrested during protest

Actor Danny Glover and 11 others have been arrested during a labor union protest at the headquarters of a food service company.

CBS News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Europe struggles with Muslim dress code

Belgium soon may be the first European nation to outlaw the burqa and other Islamic garb that completely hides a woman's body and face.

Philadelphia Inquirer

German Bishop convicted of denying the Holocaust

British Roman Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson has been convicted in a German court of denying the Holocaust in a television interview.

CBC News

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GOOD NEWS

Boy's NBA-size dream comes true

4-year-old Ezra Frech was born with a rare condition that caused his left arm and leg to form improperly, which hasn't stopped the boy from doggedly doing what he loves most, playing basketball.

ABC News

Heroic NYC Transit driver helps man escape burning SUV

A Staten Island bus driver was hailed a hero for helping a man escape from an SUV that burst into flames after a crash.

NY Daily News

WORLD

Pakistan 'failed to protect Bhutto'

The 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani leader, could have been prevented and Pakistani officials failed to properly investigate her murder, a United Nations commission has found.

Al Jazeera

Conspiracy theorists feel vindicated

Guardian

Vote counting on after Sudan poll

Sudan has begun counting millions of ballots after five days of voting in its first multiparty elections in 24 years.

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

Housing starts, permits rise as US builders gain confidence

Builders broke ground on more U.S. homes in March than anticipated and took out permits at the fastest pace in more than a year, a sign of growing confidence that sales will stabilize.

BusinessWeek

US house repossessions hit 5-year high

Telegraph.co.uk

Goldman capitalized on mortgage-security boom

Fabrice Tourre, the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. employee at the center of a case alleging securities fraud, is a mid-level trader who rose when complex securities backed by risky mortgage loans were hot.

Wall Street Journal

Investor who made billions not targeted in suit

New York Times

ENVIRONMENT

Top 10 National Parks

During National Park Week — April 17 through April 25 — the National Park Service is waiving the standard entrance fees to the parks, with special promotions being offered in many parks.

ABC News

Hidden park gems

National Geographic

Iceland volcano unlikely to slow global warming: scientists

Big volcanic eruptions have had a cooling effect on Earth's climate, but the Icelandic event is too small to provide any such respite from man made global warming, scientists said.

France24

Volcano erupts more strongly, chaos continues

MSNBC

Researchers puzzle over how long Iceland volcano will erupt

Christian Science Monitor

WWI toxic chemicals unearthed

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has found what may be a fourth major disposal area for World War I-era munitions and chemical weapons in the nation's capital.

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Virtual reality makes real-world cash, boosts self-esteem

Worldwide, millions are offering up their credit cards to create their own avatar in "Wee World," advance their criminal empire in "Mafia World," or explore, interact and travel in a virtual world in "Second Life."

ABC News

Can the Web, social networks improve metropolitan Detroit region?

Detroit Free Press

Baldness gene identified

U.S. researchers have found a gene mutation that causes a progressive type of hair loss and say their discovery is likely to affect research and improve treatments for different types of hair loss.

Medical News Today

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