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Family members of Bob and Darlene Jordan family look through for belongings in the couple‘s devastated Joplin, Mo. home. The Jordan’s were missing and thought by family to be dead, until they turned up in a Pittsburg, Kan. hospital. (Photo by Charlie Riedel / AP)

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Warriors who became walking libraries

Roland Marbaugh’s son typed his war stories up on an electric typewriter in the 1980s but, unpublished, Marbaugh’s stories remained largely in his mind, until now.

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CNN

Gas tanks are draining family budgets

High prices at the pump are putting a squeeze on the family budget: for every $10 the typical household earns, almost a full dollar now goes toward gas.

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ABC News

Michele Bachmann says she’s had a ’calling’

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The Note

Mayor: Joplin is ‘a pretty tough community’

The death toll from last weekend’s tornado rose to 132, and 156 people are still missing. And the first funerals are being held now.

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CBS News

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Severe storms wreak havoc northeast

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Houston Chronicle

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The Joplin tornado as seen by those who survived it

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CNN

Egypt has eased blockade at Gaza’s Rafah border

Egypt has relaxed restrictions at its border with the Gaza Strip, allowing many Palestinians to cross freely for the first time in four years.

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BBC

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Palestinian state requires UN council support

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Republican presidential contest suddenly heats up

The still unsettled race for the Republican nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012 is getting more interesting.

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Washington Examiner

NATION

2011 now deadliest year for tornadoes since 1950

The numbers look bleak for families hoping for the best after a monster tornado that devastated the town of Joplin, as the city has raised the death toll to at least 142.

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Star Tribune

To honor veterans, thousands of American flags have been set up

Each year on the eve of the Memorial Day holiday, Vietnam veteran Rick Anderson can see thousands of miniature American flags in the springtime at Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly Township.

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Detroit Free Press

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Why is Memorial Day observed in May?

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Christian Science Monitor

Planned Parenthood sues South Dakota over abortion law

Planned Parenthood sued South Dakota over a law that imposes a 72-hour waiting period for women seeking abortions. The law also requires women to receive counseling before an abortion.

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Reuters

POLITICS

Republican presidential contest suddenly heats up

The still unsettled race for the Republican nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012 is getting more interesting.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Will Supreme Court ruling on immigrants pit ‘big business’ against states?

The Supreme Court ruling affirming Arizona’s right to yank licenses from firms that employ illegal immigrants may spur similar laws in other states, pitting politicians against their business allies.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Officials are opposing a tuition break for illegal immigrants

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BUSINESS

Pools of nuclear waste becoming a recipe for disaster

When it planned the Callaway nuclear plant in the mid-1970s, Union Electric Co. had a straightforward, if wishful, strategy for managing the still-radioactive used fuel.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Foreclosure deal may give banks a few more options

U.S. banks and state attorneys general, seeking to avoid $17 billion in court claims over faulty foreclosures, are discussing a settlement framework that may give firms a menu of options for helping borrowers.

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Bloomberg

SPORTS

Mets-David Einhorn deal outlined

David Einhorn, who has been selected to join the New York Mets ownership group as a minority partner, has a path to majority ownership, a source familiar with the negotiations said.

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ESPN

Bruins finally reach Stanley Cup finals to top Lightning

Vezina Trophy finalist Tim Thomas stopped every shot and gave the Boston Bruins a chance for the biggest prize of all — the Stanley Cup.

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Sports Illustrated

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Nathan Horton’s goal sends Bruins to first Stanley Cup finals since 1990

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ESPN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

‘Grease’ actor Jeff Conaway has died

Actor Jeff Conaway, who was in the TV series “Taxi” and the movie “Grease,” has died, his manager said.

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CNN

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Dr. Drew on Jeff Conaway’s death

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CNN

Violence doesn’t make TV shows more enjoyable for kids

Contrary to the belief of some television producers, spiking cartoons with a dose of violence doesn’t make kids enjoy them more, a new study reveals.

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HealthDay

Museum in New Orleans showcases voodoo history

The New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum holds jumble of wooden masks, portraits of famous priestesses, voodoo queens and human skulls.

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Smithsonian

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Shopping for a church? Give me that real old time religion

Church “shopping” is symptomatic of a deep longing to belong to God. We should appreciate that longing and respect it. However, it suffers from an inadequate ecclesiology, a theology of the Church.

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Catholic Online

Tea party group would link God with the US Constitution

America’s kids will be learning about the U.S. Constitution this coming school year with help from a decidedly conservative Idaho publishing house, if a tea party group gets its way.

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Columbus Dispatch

Columns And Op-Ed

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Ryan Medicare plan

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Parallel states: A new vision for peace

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Al Jazeera

Rise of ‘missing girls’ in India and China

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Christian Science Monitor

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Movies should take chances on unknown actors

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Slate

Column (Sandy McConnell):

Annual pink-slip dance in schools helps no one

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San Jose Mercury News

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Medicare magic trick

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Houston Chronicle

Column (Samira Kawash):

The end of candy: How health food threatens our sweets

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The Atlantic

Blog (William Kristol):

Not ‘right now’

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Weekly Standard

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GOOD NEWS

Examiner photo reunites heart-attack victim with woman who saved his life

Ken Byk, 53, who had a heart attack during a race last year found a photo of Ruth Rodgers, whose powerful compressions of Byk’s chest broke three of his ribs, but also saved his life.

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San Francisco Examiner

Volunteers swarm in to help

The Nordic Ski Foundation and Surly Brewing Co. don’t typically drum up volunteers to help tornado victims. But armed with chainsaws and rakes, their troops headed to Minneapolis’ North Side.

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Star Tribune

Wimauma teacher wins district’s $10,000 ‘We Deliver’ award

Covered in silly string and hugging her students, Melanie Bolender won the We Deliver award and its prize of $10,000 for her work as a migrant reading teacher at Reddick Elementary School in Florida.

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St. Petersburg Times

WORLD

Egypt reopens border with Gaza

In a highly symbolic break with previous policy, Egypt reopened its border crossing into Gaza, opening the door for Palestinians to the outside world and raising fears of increased militant attacks.

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CNN

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Egypt opens Rafah border with Gaza

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Al Jazeera

Russia agrees to mediate Gadhafi exit

Russia has agreed to mediate the exit of Moammar Gadhafi, Libya’s leader, after leaders at the G-8 meeting in France called on Russia to take the role.

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Al Jazeera

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G-8 pledges $20 billion to foster Arab Spring

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Reuters

Ratko Mladic ruled fit for extradition to face Bosnia war crimes tribunal

Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general charged with orchestrating the murder of tens of thousands of Balkan Muslims, has been ruled fit for extradition to face international justice.

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Guardian

Ratko Mladic: What’s next?

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Eastern approaches

HEALTH

Autism changes molecular structure of the brain

Autism researchers have faced a baffling riddle: how to unravel a disorder that leaves no physical trace in the brain.

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ScienceDaily

Early intervention holds hope for those who stutter

Stuttering occurs when a child‘s speech and language abilities can’t keep pace with verbal demands placed on the child. Early intervention allows parents to minimize the pressure placed on their kids.

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HealthDay

Missed medication could cost more than $250B a year

Americans may waste as much as $258 billion a year by not taking prescribed medications because the missed doses lead to emergency room visits, doctors’ visits and in-patient hospitalizations.

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USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Atlantic bluefin tuna put on US environmental watchlist

The U.S. government put the Atlantic bluefin tuna on an environmental watchlist as a “species of concern” and will keep checking for any impact on these fish from the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Environmental News Network

Koalas left up a gumtree are in a struggling fight to survive

The future of the unique arboreal marsupial is again under fierce scrutiny in an inquiry by New Zealand’s government on whether to declare the koala a threatened species.

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New Zealand Herald

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

US goes on offense against digital piracy

Amid growing calls for more government regulation of the Internet, the United States is conducting what it calls “a sustained law enforcement initiative aimed at counterfeiting and piracy."

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MSNBC

Stringer blindsided by Sony hackers who probed flaws with threat to attack

Sony Corp., besieged by hackers since April, considered its PlayStation Network an unlikely target even after threats by the online collective Anonymous and three separate security incidents in 2008.

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Bloomberg

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Government cracks down on Internet piracy

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MSNBC

EDUCATION

Report: US reforms out of sync with high-performing nations

The United States’ education system is neither coherent nor likely to see great improvements based on its current attempts at reform.

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Thiel Foundation gives $100K awards to under-20 dropouts

Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and one of the early investors in Facebook, named 24 winners of his first annual fellowship program that awards $100,000 to young people under 20.

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EducationNews.org

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Captain America and suicide prevention

In the latest Marvel tale, the character finds himself testing his mettle against insurmountable odds, while saving the life of a boy who is considering suicide.

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USA TODAY

Photo of the Day

A former Russian border guard waves a Russian Border guard flag as he bathes in a fountain in Moscow’s Gorky Park to celebrate Border Guards Day. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel / AP)

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