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Libyan rebel fighters shout to clear a path for a truck carrying dead and injured fighters to gain medical aid during heavy fighting with pro-Gadhafi forces at the frontline of Dafniya in Misrata, Libya. (Photo by Hassan Ammar / AP)

Father’s Day: Are men on the verge of a manhood crisis?

On a variety of fronts it seems that fatherhood, manhood, and even boyhood are under strain or attack, beset by changes in the economy and society.

Christian Science Monitor

Happy (single) Father’s Day!

San Jose Mercury News

Parris Island gets 1st female commander

Parris Island, the military installation that has trained thousands of young Marines, has its first female commander. Brig. Gen. Lori Reynolds just took over at a change-of-command ceremony.

CNN

NATO Tripoli strike kills 9 civilians, Libya says

A NATO strike hit a residential neighborhood in Tripoli, killing at least nine people and injuring six, Libya’s government claimed. NATO said it was looking into the allegations and taking them “very seriously indeed.”

CNN

NATO expresses regret for hitting Libyan rebels

San Francisco Chronicle

Libya conflict: Backlash ensues for Obama’s refusal to seek Congress’s nod

Christian Science Monitor

A slideshow of Libya’s bloody uprising

Economist

McCain chastises GOP for isolationism

Former Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) took aim at his party for what he called its growing movement towards isolationism.

ABC News

Clarence Clemons dies at 69

Clarence Clemons, the legendary saxophonist in the E Street Band who played alongside Bruce Springsteen for the past 40 years, died after suffering a massive stroke.

Rolling Stone

Clarence Clemons’ best saxophone solos

Huffington Post

NATION

States balk at Obama administration illegal immigrant fingerprint plan

The Obama administration announced plans to protect crime victims and witnesses from deportation under a hotly debated program that requires local jails to send arrestees’ fingerprints to immigration authorities.

San Francisco Chronicle

Senate votes to eliminate foreign ethanol tax break

The U.S. Senate voted 73-27 in favor of an amendment by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to eliminate the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit and repeal the import on foreign ethanol.

Environment News Service

POLITICS

US mayors find few recovery signs as cutbacks pose new risks

Little Rock, Ark. has stopped replacing aging police cars. Mesa, Ariz. is losing $5 million a year from thousands of vacant homes that aren’t paying utility bills. Providence, R.I. closed schools and fired teachers.

BusinessWeek

Gov. Perry calls for more state power

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, sounding like a candidate for the White House, called for turning more power over to state governments.

Wall Street Journal

BUSINESS

Making a whiffle ball

At various points, whiffle ball has tried flying discs or plastic golf balls. But each time, they were reminded that people did not have much use for anything beside the bat and ball.

Wall Street Journal

History and making of whiffle ball

Wall Street Journal

Water is the new liquid gold in Texas

With the region only having received less than 2 inches of rainfall since October, oil producers are buying water from anyone willing to sell the cohesive and adhesive substance.

MSNBC

Worst drought in more than a century strikes Tex. oil boom

Bloomberg

Goldman: Russia investment shouldn’t wait for elections

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) is advising clients to avoid delaying investment decisions for Russia until it becomes clear who will be the next president in elections in March.

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

New data on college students concerning their overconfidence

Among academics who track the behavior of young adults and teens, there’s a touchy debate: Should the word “entitled” be used when talking about today’s younger people?

USA TODAY

Charter schools group says Gwinnett funding offer violates state law

Gwinnett County Schools did not follow state charter law with its offer to fund Ivy Preparatory Academy, officials with the Georgia Charter Schools Association charged.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

HEALTH

HPV vaccine may prevent cervical cancer

Australian researchers have reported that vaccinated girls younger than age 18 had 38 percent fewer serious cervical lesions than did girls before the advent of the vaccine.

The Australian

Alarming number of children on Medicaid denied health care

An undercover investigation in Illinois suggests that children on Medicaid are often denied health care by specialty physicians, while privately insured children get health care more easily.

HealthNews

SPORTS

2011 US Open: Rory McIlroy leads, sets 54-hole record

Rory McIlroy kept punishing the golf course and the record book, setting himself up with an eight-shot lead at the U.S. Open with 18 holes left between him and his first major championship.

ESPN

Special section:

US Open scoring

USGA

Bruins celebrate Stanley Cup with parade through downtown Boston

Screaming fans dressed in the black and gold of the Boston Bruins smiled, waved and stood on trees and bus shelters as they watched the NHL champions roll through city streets on a balmy, breezy day.

Sports Illustrated

Nationals beat Orioles 4-2

Michael Morse put Washington ahead with a sixth-inning homer, Ryan Zimmerman also connected, and the Nationals beat the Baltimore Orioles 4-2 for their eighth straight victory.

Yahoo! News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Meyer’s take

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Nate Rovenstine and Pam Morrison):

How have your religious views changed?

Lawrence Journal-World

Column (Jonathan Dudley):

Christian faith requires accepting evolution

Huffington Post

Editorial:

Fill it up, but not that gas

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Eugene Kennedy):

Killng bin Laden and common Islamic and Christian myths

National Catholic Reporter

Column (Dennis Jett):

Is GOP’s 2012 game plan to cause a recession?

McClatchy Newspapers

Video:

Is another stimulus needed?

CNN

Blog (Jerry Brito):

‘We do it for the Lulz’: What makes LulzSec tick?

(TIME)

Techland

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GOOD NEWS

Coach’s nightmare turns to a dream

After the school announced this would be the final baseball season because of severe budget constraints, California’s David Esquer has led the team to the College World Series.

San Francisco Chronicle

A special Father’s Day: Longwood man gives son a kidney

A Longwood man has given his son an invaluable gift this Father’s Day weekend: one of his kidneys.

Orlando Sentinel

Back on track: African Americans recall their role in the railroad industry

A new national historical society founded in Miami aims to capture the history and contributions of African Americans in the railroad industry.

Miami Herald

WORLD

Half a million displaced as Khartoum moves to crush Sudan’s Nuba people