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Pakistan’s transgender tax collectors

If you miss your tax deadline in the United States, you might get a nasty letter at your door. In Karachi, Pakistan, you might get “transgender” tax collectors — whose weapons include a little lipstick.

CNN

Gulf still grapples with BP oil spill

One year later, oil from the largest spill in U.S. history clogs wetlands, pollutes the ocean and endangers wildlife, not to mention the toll it has inflicted on the economy of the Gulf Coast.

Reuters

BP oil spill: British diplomatic damage control efforts revealed

Guardian

Budget bill gets Congress’ final OK

Congress voted to keep the federal government running through September — but not before a struggle that brought both conservative and liberal opposition to the compromise spending plan.

Philadelphia Inquirer

House prepares to vote on $6B spending cuts

Forbes

Blog:

GOP tried to ‘sneak’ agenda into budget

(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

Obama’s open mic challenge to GOP

CBS News

Food prices: World Bank warns millions face poverty

The World Bank has warned that rising food prices, driven partly by rising fuel costs, are pushing millions of people into extreme poverty.

BBC

Um, uh … speech stumbles help toddlers learn new words

Stuck with a word on the tip of your tongue when talking to a toddler? Don’t worry — a new study finds that adults’ hesitant speech may help the kid learn new vocabulary.

LiveScience

NATION

Severe storms death toll rises to 9

Destructive storms across the country’s midsection left nine people dead after smashing uprooted trees into homes in Arkansas and ripping apart the only school in one tiny Oklahoma town.

USA TODAY

Census: Hispanics surpass blacks in most US metros

Hispanics now outnumber African-Americans for the first time in most U.S. metropolitan areas, shifting the political and racial dynamics in cities once dominated by whites and blacks.

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Lawmakers approve civil unions bill

Delaware lawmakers approved a measure legalizing civil unions, sending the bill to the governor who has said that he will sign it.

CNN

Same-sex families get a boost from tax rules

NPR

DeMint demands Constitution be changed to ban federal debt

Sen. Jim DeMint, who has wrought chaos in Congress over earmarks, immigration and health care, is preparing a crusade that would make those fights look tame.

McClatchy Newspapers

HEALTH

Hooked on drugs, medical world really needs change

Top dogs from the medical community gathered to share their endeavors at combating global diseases a day before the release of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Al Jazeera

Healthy breast cells help kill cancer cells

Healthy cells in breast tissue secrete an anti-cancer protein that instructs malignant cells to self-destruct, leaving healthy cells intact, according to new research.

Medical News Today

CDC study: Suicide rates rise and fall with the economy

The suicide rate in the United States rises when the economy slumps and falls when economic times improve. And this has been the case at least since the Great Depression, the CDC says in a new study.

WebMD

Tough times in America

Spiegel International

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Maya mystery solved by important volcanic discovery

Even at ancient Maya cities far from volcanoes, ash rained down relatively frequently, according to a “spectacularly important” new study.

National Geographic

ABC cancels longtime soaps ‘All My Children,’ ‘One Life to Live’

ABC is making the long-anticipated move of canceling the long-running soap operas “All My Children” and “One Life to Live,” consigning them to television history.

Variety

Susan Lucci through the years

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Rome’s station churches revive tradition

During the 40 days of Lent, a band of worshippers walk in the footsteps of early Christians, visiting some of the world’s oldest churches in preparation for the most solemn week on the calendar.

USA TODAY

Belgium urges harsh punishment for sex abuse bishop

Belgium’s justice minister urged the Vatican to impose stiff punishment on a disgraced Catholic bishop who denies being a pedophile despite admitting to sexually abusing two of his own nephews.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Aftershocks: What are they?

The U.S. Geological Survey reports that 59 aftershocks have been reported in or near Japan, including four with a magnitude of 6.0 or above.

USA TODAY

Pacific salmon may be dying from leukemia-type virus

In Canada’s Fraser River, a mysterious illness has killed millions of Pacific salmon, and scientists have a new hypothesis about why: viral infections.

McClatchy Newspapers

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Steven Metz):

Swan song: Is Libya the end of NATO?

The New Republic

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Despite media yammer, there’s hope for real news

Christian Science Monitor

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Steve Sack editorial

Star Tribune

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101 damnations: Missouri lawmakers choose politics over puppies

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Smokers’ rights

Telegram & Gazette

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Budget cuts are the dollar’s savior

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Halah Touryalai):

Barry Bonds faces jail time while Wall Street execs sit pretty

(Forbes)

Working Capital

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Brain surgery

Houston Chronicle

Editorial:

Can’t call it justice

Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

No sign of global economy stalling

Surging inflation pressures and the natural disasters that ravaged Japan look like they will be unlikely to stall an ascendant global economy, a Reuters poll of around 350 economists showed.

Reuters

Close-knit neighborhoods raise chances of stroke survival

Seniors living in neighborhoods where they have a lot of interaction with their neighbors stand a much better chance of surviving a stroke, a new study suggests.

HealthDay

Tigers could reappear in Kazakhstan under new plan

Russia, together with the government and experts of the Republic of Kazakhstan, announced a new program to return tigers to the region.

Environmental News Network

WORLD

Japanese government orders nuclear plant to pay compensation

The Japanese government has ordered the operator of the nuclear plant damaged by the recent quake and tsunami to pay compensation to affected families.

BBC

Western leaders insist ‘Gadhafi must go’

Leaders of Britain, France and the United States have vowed to continue their military campaign in Libya until Moammar Gadhafi leaves power.

Al Jazeera

Rebel leader recounts daring trip to ‘courageous’ Misrata, Libya

NPR

Libya: Col. Moammar Gadhafi ‘parades through Tripoli in a jeep’

Telegraph.co.uk

BUSINESS

Cost surge under new Google CEO unnerves Street

Google Inc.’s stunning 54 percent spending surge spooked investors already worried about its new CEO, driving its shares more than five percent lower.

Reuters

Ford expands recall of F-150 pickups

Ford Motor Co. is expanding a recall of F-150 and Lincoln Mark LT pickup trucks because federal regulators have warned that unwanted driver’s side air bag deployments have resulted in injuries.

Detroit Free Press

Who wants to be a triple trillionaire?

By the end of last year, China’s foreign-exchange reserves amounted to $2.85 trillion. China’s central bank released new figures showing that its reserves have now soared above $3 trillion.

Economist

EDUCATION

Uncertain about future benefits, many veteran teachers are retiring early

At a time when the Wisconsin governor’s plan is to eliminate collective bargaining for teachers, some school districts are seeing record numbers of senior teachers turn in their retirement paperwork.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Why NJ teacher-tenure reform plan matters to the rest of America

While New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s new proposal continues the national debate over how to reform teacher tenure, seven other states have passed or are considering similar legislation.

Christian Science Monitor

Education reform awaits vote

Chicago Sun-Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Brain monitoring to keep air traffic controllers awake

A new class of brain-computer interface technology could not only let you control devices and play games with your thoughts, but also help detect fatigue in air traffic controllers.

ABC News

Quantum leap: Bits of light teleported to another place

Our world is getting closer to “Star Trek” every day, it seems. Scientists announced they’ve been able to teleport special bits of light from one place to another.

LiveScience

SPORTS

Sharks beat Kings 3-2 in OT

It was a roller-coaster type of game that saw each team dominate at times before the Sharks came out on top 3-2 over the Los Angeles Kings in Game 1 of their all-California opening round playoff series.

Sports Illustrated

Report: MLB leans toward extra replay

Major League Baseball is leaning toward expanding replay for the 2012 season to include trapped balls and fair-or-foul rulings down the lines.

ESPN

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