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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets an audience member as he campaigns at Ring Power Lift Trucks in Jacksonville, Fla. Romney has catapulted to a double digit lead in recent polls. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

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As new trade center tower rises, so does its price tag

The price tag for One World Trade Center, the skyscraper under construction at ground zero in New York, has risen to more than $3.8 billion, making it by far the world’s most expensive new office tower.

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Wall Street Journal

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Ground zero building struggles to find tenants

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Telegram & Gazette

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Ground zero’s 10-year transformation

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YouTube

‘I am a boxer’: a fighter in the ring, lady outside it

This summer in London, female boxers will compete in the Olympics for the first time. The women competing for a spot on the U.S. team will make history, but few know who they are — and why they box.

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NPR

Romney leads in Fla. as rivals shift focus

Mitt Romney opened a commanding lead in Florida, driving his rivals to shift to other states to keep challenging him for the Republican presidential nomination.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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How big money has changed the Republican presidential primary race

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Toronto Star

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Gingrich, Romney make final push in Florida

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MSNBC

UN considers resolution amid reports of heavy fighting in Syria

The U.N. Security Council will take up a draft resolution that calls on Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down and transfer power following news of the Arab League suspending its Syrian mission.

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Syrian army ‘regains Damascus suburb’

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Al Jazeera

US Midwest jobs return as applesauce joins cars to lift Obama

From northern Michigan’s iron mines to Pennsylvania’s natural-gas fields, the industrial heartland of America is humming with jobs again as the region recovers faster than the rest of the U.S.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Employees to face ‘term limits’ at casino

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NATION

150 years later, the wounds of war are still cutting deep

Minnesota is divided on how best to commemorate the U.S.-Dakota War, which ended in the largest mass execution in the history of the U.S.

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Star Tribune

Changes in wake of troubled arms trafficking probe

In Operation Fast and Furious, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allowed hundreds of weapons to flow across the border into Mexico.

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Houston Chronicle

Forced sterilization victim: ‘How much are the kids I never had worth?’

A North Carolina woman who was coerced to undergo sterilization as a child is now looking for compensation.

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Sydney Morning Herald

POLITICS

Democrats prime recruits to try to take back House

After a thumping in the 2010 midterm elections, House Democrats have seized on the current anti-Washington fervor and are confident they can win the 25 seats needed to regain control of the House.

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CNN

Occupy protesters arrested, damage assessed on Oakland

Officials assessed damage to City Hall caused by Occupy Oakland protesters while leaders of the movement claimed that police acted illegally in arresting hundreds of demonstrators.

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Christian Science Monitor

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400 arrested after Occupy Oakland protest

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BUSINESS

United Steel Workes tells US refinery workers to prepare for strike

The United Steel Workers may begin refinery shutdowns if union talks do not yield satisfactory outcomes.

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Reuters

New regulations may lead to airline ticket ‘sticker shock’

Travel experts say rules requiring airlines to include taxes and fees in their advertised prices may reduce ticket sales by scaring away passengers with prices that seem much higher than before.

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Los Angeles Times

ENVIRONMENT

Can hunting endangered animals save species?

Exotic African antelope are thriving on ranches in Texas, where a small number are hunted. Ranchers say they need the income to care for the herd. Animal rights activists want the hunting to end.

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CBS News

Companies try to recycle all waste, send nothing to landfill

Food leftovers as worm bedding? At a DuPont warehouse in Lockport, N.Y., cafeteria waste is turned into compost that’s used for its landscaping.

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USA TODAY

Climate-driven heat peaks may shrink wheat crops

Intense heat waves due to global warming could diminish wheat crop yields around the world through premature aging, according to a recently-published study.

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physorg.com

HEALTH

New York state teen girls’ mystery illness draws Erin Brockovich

In a small upstate New York town, more than a dozen high school girls are making headlines for what many are calling a medical mystery, experiencing symptoms of uncontrollable tics and verbal outbursts.

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CBS News

Drug dealers get creative in the pursuit of oxycodone

Drug dealers are finding creative ways around new laws that crack down on “pill mills,” which are dispensing powerful painkillers such as oxycodone.

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USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholic priests urge parishioners to oppose federal birth-control rule

Catholic churches across the U.S. echoed with scorn for a new federal rule requiring faith-based employers to include birth control and other reproductive services in their health care coverage.

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Chicago Sun-Times

African sisters launch an 8 nation strategic plan

The leadership of ACWECA, representing more than 20,000 sisters, gathered to launch the organization’s first strategic plan in its 37-year history, indicating their growing strength and self-confidence.

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National Catholic Reporter

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GOOD NEWS

In Suburban Station, lost souls are getting some direction

An empty hair salon in Suburban Station, Philadelphia, has been converted into the “Hub of Hope,” bringing together health-care providers and others who provide help to the homeless and mentally ill.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Perfectly coupled

Two families are celebrating 65 years of marriage and an especially strong form of companionship between them.

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Star Tribune

Paralyzed athlete Grant Korgan achieves polar goal

Two winters after being paralyzed from the waist down, Grant Korgan found his redemption this month on a minus-45-degree day at the South Pole.

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San Francisco Chronicle

WORLD

Euro crisis hangs over latest EU summit

The eurozone crisis will dominate an E.U. summit, with an emphasis on growth and “smart” budget discipline. The E.U. has more than 23 million unemployed people and there are fears of budget cuts.

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BBC

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World stocks fall ahead of EU summit

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Euro, rich-poor gap proved key issues

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Japan’s population to drop by 1 million each year in coming decades

Japan’s rapid aging means the national population of 128 million will shrink by one-third by 2060 and seniors will account for 40 percent of people, placing a greater burden on the shrinking work force.

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Msnbc.com

US drones patrolling its skies provoke outrage in Iraq

The State Department is operating a fleet of surveillance drones here to help protect the U.S. Embassy and consulates. Iraqi officials see that as an affront to their country’s sovereignty.

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Pentagon unable to account for missing Iraqi millions

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CNBC

The Defense Secretary: an interview with Leon Panetta

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EDUCATION

Catholic schools shelving books for iPads

The educational opportunities, coupled with a desire to teach students to use 21st-century technology, are driving some Catholic high schools to add Apple iPads and other one-on-one computer tools.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Discipline in Florida public schools: Are students really behaving better?

Suspensions of Duval County, Fla., public school students have dropped dramatically in the last four years, but teachers say the trend reflects pressure to turn a blind eye to student misconduct.

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Florida Times-Union

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Cell phones are more annoying than they are dangerous

More studies are coming in to suggest that cell phones aren’t as strongly connected with brain tumors, car accidents and virtual sex contact as we once thought.

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The Atlantic

Military keeps a wary eye on stormy sun

Swedes reveled in brilliant vistas of green and red that danced across the northern skies. Residents of Colorado mostly went about their normal lives.

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Colorado Springs Gazette

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Among SAG Awards’ unexpected winners: ‘The Help,’ Dujardin

The Screen Actors Guild Awards featured some unexpected winners, including ‘The Help’ for best overall cast performance and French actor Jean Dujardin for best actor in “The Artist.”

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Christian Science Monitor

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2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Making an impression in just 4 notes

Joel Beckerman spent about 18 months developing a song that boils down to a melody just four notes long.

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Wall Street Journal

SPORTS

Foreign visitors turning their backs on the London Olympics

Just as Olympics organizers traditionally underestimate the final cost, hoteliers in cities holding the Games are prone to overestimate the money they will make.

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The Independent

Djokovic beats Nadal to claim Australian Open title

In the longest Grand Slam singles final in the history of professional tennis, Novak Djokovic outlasted Rafael Nadal over 5 hours, 53 minutes to win a third Australian Open title.

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ABC News

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Djokovic holds off Nadal

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Bringing the joy of reading to Kenya

What started out as a seed of an idea — volunteering at an orphanage in Africa — became a life-changing experience for two Shutesbury, Mass. women.

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Telegram & Gazette

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Underprivileged Indian children dressed in costume to look like the late Mahatma Gandhi arrive on a bus before attempting a world record. (Photo by Bikas Das / AP)

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