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Demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street rally in New York’s Times Square amid continuing protests worldwide. (Photo by Mary Altaffer / AP)

Dedication of MLK monument draws memories across the nation

Many Americans, particularly those in the black community, say today’s dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., is an overdue honor for the slain civil-rights leader.

Columbus Dispatch

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President to dedicate MLK memorial in DC

WNYC

Martin Luther King Jr. dedication

CNN

Chance to spot supernova fading fast

Supernova 2011fe is one of the brightest supernovas in the last century and it’s now visible. The supernova will last for more than a decade, but fade out of view for amateur astronomers within a week.

NPR

Arrests as protest goes to Times Square

Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York City culminated with a Times Square rally that drew thousands opposed to economic inequality, echoed by protests from London to Tokyo.

BusinessWeek

What is Occupy Wall Street movement?

Times of India

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The latest at Occupy Wall Street

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Occupy Wall Street goes global

TIME

Israel: Debate over prisoner release

The relatives of Israelis killed in Palestinian attacks waged a charged debate over the planned release of militants in a deal to free an Israeli soldier held by Hamas for five years.

MSNBC

Iran’s Ahmadinejad denies US assassination claims

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed U.S. accusations that Iranian government agents plotted to kill the Saudi ambassador in the United States.

ABC News

US citizens who’ve plotted terror in America

CNN

NATION

US to drop plans to keep troops in Iraq

The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline. The decision to pull out fully by January will end more than eight years of involvement in the Iraq war.

CBS News

Fighting the scourge of ‘pill mills’

According to the Centers for Disease Control, one American dies of a drug overdose every 14 minutes, and a rapidly increasing share of those deaths caused by prescription drugs.

CBS News

Provision for long-term care dropped from health overhaul law

The Obama administration’s health overhaul law has suffered its first major casualty — a long-term care insurance plan.

ABC News

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Obama team axes part of health care plan

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The Oval

POLITICS

Why women don’t win Massachusetts

Massachusetts may revel in its liberal reputation, but it has struggled to elect women to statewide office. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren will try to smash the glass ceiling.

The Daily Beast

Camp rakes in big bucks after appointment to supercommittee

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions since his appointment to the deficit-reduction supercommittee.

The Hill

Perry touts coal and gas plan

Texas Gov. Rick Perry visited a Pittsburgh steel plant to advocate for increased energy production, particularly through coal and natural gas extraction, and to rip the role of federal environmental regulators.

Philadelphia Inquirer

BUSINESS

G-20 finance ministers back big bank capital surcharge

Finance ministers and central bankers from the world’s top economies backed a mandatory capital surcharge on big lenders of up to 2.5 percent, which is to be phased in from 2016.

Reuters

European taxpayers’ millions lost by EU-funded regional schemes

Telegraph.co.uk

Apple’s new iPhone, Siri and the future of artificial intelligence

Apple’s new iPhone 4S has met with record sales, topping the release of the iPhone 4 last year. The iPhone 4 debuted with 1.7 million units sold.

Forbes

GE radiates confidence with plans for solar-panel plant in Colorado

General Electric’s plans to build a $300 million solar panel plant in Colorado comes as the solar industry has been rocked by a string of bankruptcies and falling prices.

Denver Post

HEALTH

Answer to cystic fibrosis might be found under water

Scientists in Woods Hole and at a Charlestown laboratory are looking under water to treat a disease that robs sufferers of the ability to breathe.

Cape Cod Times

Obesity found to be ‘worse for teen girls’ blood pressure’

Obesity has a greater impact on the blood pressure of teenage girls than on teenage boys, a U.S. study has suggested.

BBC

EDUCATION

Teen: Kissing another male cost me my cheerleading post

A 17-year-old senior says he was kicked off the cheerleading squad and suspended because he kissed another male at their high school in Alice, Texas.

MSNBC

Education funds sought by officials to uncover cheating

New York state education officials, in an attempt to boost confidence in test scores, are willing to spend $2.1 million to hunt among millions of students’ tests for evidence of cheating.

Wall Street Journal

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Eating healthy: Whose choice is it?

With its new happy meal, McDonald’s said it was aiming to help its customers make healthy lifestyle choices. Rising obesity rates are cited for these and other nutritional changes.

NPR

Kids using cell phones at younger ages

Kids are getting mobile phones at younger ages and the mode in which they communicate also is changing, as most kids opt to use text messages as their main platform for expression.

San Francisco Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Playing video games for charity

Video game enthusiasts played their favorite games for 24 hours in a darkened library attic in Enoch, Utah, to raise money for Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City.

St. George Daily Spectrum

Trees help to boost African crop yields and food security

Planting trees that improve soil quality can help boost crop yields for African farmers, an assessment shows.

BBC

Making college possible for Philly kids

One Little Did, a Philadelphia nonprofit, uses weekly workshops, one-on-one mentorships and academic support to help students through the college application process.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Haiti leaders say ‘open for business’