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President Barack Obama leaves the Marine One helicopter on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington as he returns from the NATO summit in Chicago and visit to Joplin, Mo. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

How much can potential employers ask about you?

Conducting background checks has become a billion-dollar business. More than 90 percent of employers conduct criminal background checks, and others access credit reports and driving records.

NPR

Greeks embrace some new myths about life with the euro

In a land of ancient myths, modern Greeks have created some of their own about their near-bankrupt country’s future as an integral part of a Europe that will never kick them out.

Reuters

Why a Greek exit could be worse than expected

TIME

NATO sets roadmap to withdraw troops, end Afghanistan war

President Barack Obama and NATO have set an “irreversible” roadmap to “gradually and responsibly” withdraw 130,000 combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

Telegraph.co.uk

Blog:

NATO moves forward with missile shield

(U.S. News & World Report)

DOTMIL

NATO leaders agree to Afghan exit strategy

Al Jazeera

From rubble to rebuilding: Joplin still recovering a year after tornado

The tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., one year ago took 161 lives, injured hundreds and destroyed thousands of homes and buildings. A year later, some things have been rebuilt, and some never will be.

NY Daily News

‘Blue Shirts’ help Joplin survivors

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Stories of the Joplin tornado as it happened

Esquire

US Airways flight diverted because of passenger’s ‘suspicious behavior’

A US Airways flight en route from Paris, France, to Charlotte, N.C., was diverted after a passenger’s “suspicious behavior” on board a Boeing 767 jet.

Bloomberg

NATION

Inventor of the remote control dies at 96

A spokesman for Zenith Electronics says Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control, has died. He was 96.

San Jose Mercury News

Ex-Rutgers student gets 30-day sentence for webcam spying case

Prosecutors will appeal a 30-day jail sentence handed down against Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers student convicted of spying on and intimidating his gay roommate, who killed himself.

CNN

Videos from the trial

The Star-Ledger

Supreme Court reviews FISA amendment

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to examine whether a group of U.S.-based lawyers, activists and journalists can challenge a Bush-era law authorizing broad surveillance overseas.

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Congress sounding increasingly like teenagers, study says

The level of discourse in the House and Senate has dropped a full grade level — to the equivalent of a sophomore in high school, according to a new study.

Los Angeles Times

Romney is about to make the same health care mistake as Bush

Romney’s advisers want the main component of his health care campaign to be a change in the tax code, but Romney is leaning toward offering much less help to the uninsured.

Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Facebook shares fall sharply on 2nd day of trading on Nasdaq

Facebook shares have fallen sharply on a second day of trading, leading to questions about the valuation of its IPO and the handling of the sale by its bankers.

Guardian

Key developments in Facebook’s IPO

San Francisco Chronicle

Westfield gives a peak at World Trade Center plans

After years of negotiation, Westfield last week signed a deal with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for a $1.25 billion joint venture to lease the retail space at the World Trade Center.

Reuters

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

NC pastor calls for death of gays, lesbians

A North Carolina pastor is calling for the extermination of all gays and lesbians by locking them off behind an electrified fence and waiting for them to die.

NY Daily News

Catholic groups take fight against Obama birth-control rules to court

Some 43 Catholic groups, including Notre Dame, are attempting to block rules in the new health care law that require health insurance to provide access to birth-control services.

Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

Success in college can spring from a single conversation, say experts

How does someone succeed in college? It is the $64,000 question — or more like the $150,000 question — whose answer has been sought by countless policymakers, researchers and universities.

McClatchy Newspapers

Race to the Top 2012 invites school districts to compete

This year, Race to the Top, the U.S. Education Department’s $4.35 billion contest, opens $400 million in grant money to school districts — and not states, like in previous rounds.

Huffington Post

SPORTS

Durant and Westbrook help Thunder oust Lakers from playoffs

Russell Westbrook scored 28 points and Kevin Durant added 25 points as the Oklahoma City Thunder surged ahead to beat Los Angeles 106-90 in Game 5 and eliminate the Lakers from the playoffs.

USA TODAY

The NBA’s small-market disadvantage

The Atlantic

Summer sports programs for high school student-athletes

The high school sports year is winding down in schools across Long Island, but there are plenty of programs offered in summer months for student-athletes to keep their skills sharp.

Yahoo! News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

G-8 debate: walking the line between growth and austerity

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Column (Jefferson Morley):

Drones’ new weapon: PR blitz

Salon

Column (Michael Elkin):

An ‘American Idol’ before there were any

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Laurie Penny):

In the age of camera phones, protesters are watching police, too

The Independent

Column (Carl Tobias):

Time to fill 9th Circuit vacancies: judicial emergencies

McClatchy Newspapers

Editorial:

Citizens United II

Baltimore Sun

Editorial:

Coffee, chocolate and wine, oh my!

Denver Post

Editorial:

Chen situation signals maturity in US-Chinese relations

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

US museums to open doors for free to military families

More than 1,600 museums across the country will offer free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families this summer in a program that has more than doubled in size since 2010.

Star Tribune

Bartender’s charity helps world’s thirsty with wells

Doc Hendley founded Wine to Water in Boone, N.C., in 2004. The charity funds well repair and water filtration projects in countries including Uganda, India, Haiti, Cambodia and Peru.

BusinessWeek

Small implantable disk may help cancer patients with pain

Johns Hopkins scientists are developing a button-sized disk implanted under cancer patients’ skin that releases consistent doses of painkiller over a month. No pills, no measuring and no trips to the clinic.

Baltimore Sun

WORLD

Suicide blast kills more than 100 at tightly guarded Yemen site

A suicide bomber dressed in a military uniform infiltrated one of the most heavily secured locations in Yemen, setting off a blast that killed more than 100 soldiers, authorities said.

CNN

Is Africa the next Asia?

Africa, with a population expected to roughly double by midcentury, has become recognized as the world’s fastest growing continent. But the less-told story is Africa’s economic rise.

The Atlantic

ENVIRONMENT

World’s oceans are ‘plasticized’; marine life could be affected

A marine expedition of environmentalists has confirmed the bad news it feared — the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” extends even further than previously known.

CNN

Pollution-hunting robot fish take to the sea

Reuters

Release of Arctic methane from permafrost could accelerate warming

Melting Arctic permafrost could put more methane — a potent greenhouse gas — into the atmosphere than previously thought, with worrying implications for the pace of global warming.

New Scientist

Special section:

Climate change

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Liquid Robotics launches swarm of ocean-patrolling robots

Liquid Robotics operates a fleet of solar-powered ocean robots that have the potential to predict tsunamis, track fish, snuff out offshore oil leaks and patrol waters for national security threats.

CNN

Computer screens’ new home: the face

Wearable glasses showing turn-by-turn driving directions, or displaying email and text messages, could be the future.

Wall Street Journal

SpaceX rocket begins milestone mission

For the first time, a private rocket launched a commercial spacecraft toward the International Space Station, three days after an initial launch abort.

Msnbc.com

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch

YouTube

HEALTH

Kids’ health care costs rising

A report released from the Health Care Cost Institute details how out-of-pocket health care expenses are on the rise, and spending in general is growing fastest among Americans 18 and under.

CNN

Is this the end of drug discovery?

The drug industry faces multiple crises as budgets are squeezed and tough scientific challenges loom.

BBC

Study finds fake malaria drugs to be common in Asia, Africa

More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were fake or bad quality, seriously undermining efforts to combat the disease.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Special section:

Malaria directory

WebMD

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Chihuly glass garden shines in Seattle

Placed between the Space Needle and the Pacific Science Museum, Chihuly Garden and Glass gives visitors something intriguing to look at.

McClatchy Newspapers

Inside the world of couple swapping

Couples who openly swap partners are becoming a growing trend — and those who swing say the rest are missing out.

ABC News

Smithsonian gets $3M pledge to develop human genome exhibit on National Mall

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History is developing its first major exhibit on the human genome with a $3 million pledge announced from a biotechnology company.

Star Tribune

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