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Faithful crowd St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI beatified Pope John Paul II before more than a million faithful in St. Peter’s Square and surrounding streets in the fastest beatification in modern times. (Photo by Riccardo De Luca / AP)

Faithful jam Vatican to honor Pope John Paul II

Catholic faithful from around the world poured into Rome as the Catholic Church declares Pope John Paul II “blessed,” a step below sainthood.

CNN

The life of John Paul II

TIME

‘Like’ button becomes force in e-commerce

Whether you buy an airline ticket or a pair of jeans online, chances are an Internet search precedes the transaction. Now Facebook hopes to make its online social connections another central ingredient.

San Jose Mercury News

Obama ramps up recovery help for South

The government ramped up efforts to help thousands of homeless victims of the country’s second deadliest recorded tornado outbreak, which killed at least 350 people.

Reuters

South‘s ‘super tornado’ outbreak may be worst ever in US history

Christian Science Monitor

Tornado victim: ‘We dove in the tub’

YouTube

Obama mocks Trump’s presidential ambitions at correspondents’ dinner

President Obama exacted his revenge from his would-be Republican challenger Donald Trump, joking that the wealthy businessman would transform the White House into a casino.

USA TODAY

Inner-city youth escape causes trouble at urban ranch

Compton, Calif. has been troubled by gangs more than most American cities, reports correspondent Bill Whitaker. But in this city, there’s a ranch where youngsters can escape their problems.

CBS News

NATION

After Times Square scare both normalcy and concerns endure

One year after a militant drove a bomb-laden SUV into the heart of Times Square, New Yorkers, including the street vendor who alerted police, still descend on the square as if it never happened.

Yahoo! News

An artist imagines the White House as it once was

The White House is a home, not a museum, so when presidents move in, they do what any new homeowner would do: they redecorate. Just like the rest of us, they paint, paper and change the furniture.

NPR

Appeals court says plan to blow up levee can proceed

The U.S. Appeals Court in St. Louis denied a request by Missouri’s attorney general to prevent the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from opening up an emergency floodway to ease flooding on the Mississippi River.

Wall Street Journal

POLITICS

Buffett remains solid on the American economy

Tens of thousands of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders who descended on Omaha for the conglomerate’s annual meeting got one unmistakable message from Buffett.

Reuters

Symbolism and sympathy: Obama’s risky gasoline strategy

The White House is using mostly symbolic measures to address soaring gasoline prices, but the strategy is failing to resonate with frustrated American voters.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Sony is set to resume some PlayStation gaming services

Sony has said it will resume some services on its PlayStation Network, which was shut down after the theft of personal details of about 77 million users.

BBC

Amazon explains its cloud disaster

Amazon issued a detailed analysis and apology on last week’s massive crash of its cloud service, an event that brought down dozens of websites.

CNNMoney

Gauging the economy’s health

Jobs and manufacturing data will command investors’ attention in the coming week as a better gauge of the U.S. economy’s health following the release of weak gross domestic product data.

MarketWatch

HEALTH

China, home to 300 million smokers, starts public smoking ban

China, the world’s largest cigarette market, started its first-ever smoking ban in public places in a bid to reduce deaths from tobacco use.

Bloomberg

Checklist may help identify autism earlier on in life

Identifying autism as early in life as possible improves a child’s subsequent learning and development. A new checklist available for parents to complete at doctor’s waiting rooms might well help do this.

Medical News Today

Osteopenia doesn’t mean osteoporosis — so should you treat it?

As women age, they find themselves at greater risk of developing a variety of health problems. Should osteopenia be one of them?

Baltimore Sun

ENVIRONMENT

House passes controversial environmental bill in minutes

With head-spinning speed, the Florida House took up and passed a major rewrite of state environmental laws that Florida conservation groups call one of the worst environmental bills in decades.

St. Petersburg Times

Giant tortoise helps restore ecosystem

Rather than wreaking havoc as alien species often do, a giant tortoise appears to be helping its native ecosystem.

LiveScience

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

What secrets do ancient medical texts hold?

The Smithsonian’s Alain Touwaide scours the globe searching for millennia-old medical manuscripts to identify medicines used thousands of years ago.

Smithsonian Magazine

Will airlines’ onboard Wi-Fi take off?

As the owner of a corporate-communications firm, Meister pays $40 to $50 every month to remain connected with clients on US Airways flights to Boston, Philadelphia and San Francisco.

USA TODAY

Balancing privacy with the benefits of location data

What are the three most important topics in tech? Location, location and location. That, at least, would be the impression of anyone scanning the news, as coverage of Apple’s privacy bungle dominated the headlines.

San Francisco Chronicle

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Steve Chapman):

Why birtherism is here to stay

Chicago Tribune

Column (Tina Griego):

Libyan students in US feel stranded by a homeland in turmoil

Denver Post

Editorial:

Abuses happen when unions have government friends

Washington Examiner

Column (Maggie Debelius):

5 ways kids can serve communities

PBS

Blog (Eric Schlosser):

Why being a foodie isn’t very ‘elitist’

Washington Post

Editorial:

The majesty of marriage

Baltimore Sun

Column (Brian Palmer):

Cursive writing will never die, so we might as well teach it in schools

Slate

Column (Doyle McManus):

The right budget battle to watch

McClatchy Newspapers

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GOOD NEWS

Award-winning kindergarten teacher gets it just right

Kim Edwards Anderson teaches kindergarten at Chase Elementary School in Chicago and is a recipient of this year’s prestigious Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Award.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ohio University to receive a generous $105 million donation

Ohio University will receive a $105 million donation that will help build a medical college in Columbus focused on training family physicians.

Columbus Dispatch

Chance encounter: Siblings meet for 1st time on Hawaii beach

In Hawaii, six thousand miles from where they grew up, a pair of half brothers met — and hugged — for the first time.

Yahoo! News

WORLD

Growing skepticism surrounds ‘Gadafi son’s death’