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UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria Kofi Annan, fourth left, Norwegian Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, third left, Syrian President Bashar Assad, third right, and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem, second right, attend a meeting in Damascus, Syria. (Photo by Syrian Official News Agency (SANA) / AP)

The American dream faces a new reality

The American dream evokes the idea that the next generation will have a better life than the previous one. Three years after the worst recession in almost a century, the American dream feels in jeopardy.

NPR

Rethinking the American dream

Vanity Fair

Scientists, doctors use snake robots for surgery, rescues and exploration

Imagine a tiny snake robot crawling through your body. It’s not science fiction — scientists and doctors are using the creeping metallic tools to perform surgery and identify diseases.

Star Tribune

US, 7 other countries to expel Syrian diplomats

The U.S. and seven other countries announced plans to expel Syrian diplomats in a coordinated move reflecting the international outrage about a massacre in the town of Houla.

CNN

Annan travels to Damascus to push peace plan

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Syria: the war within

Al Jazeera

Manufacturers push skills certificate as good jobs go unfilled

The U.S. unemployment rate remains above 8 percent. Each month thousands of manufacturing jobs are there for the taking — but companies are unable to hire sufficiently skilled workers.

McClatchy Newspapers

US winds down longer unemployment benefits

Msnbc.com

Italy hit by another earthquake

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake rattled northern Italy, leaving at least 10 people dead, according to Italian media officials.

CBS News

Special section:

Natural disasters and extreme weather

Guardian

NATION

Unlikely frontier: US border patrol eyes Northwest for Latinos

The Olympic Peninsula has always felt more like the edge of the world than a mere national boundary. Then the United States Border Patrol vehicles started showing up.

Msnbc.com

Shots fired, pinpointed and argued over

While more police departments are using a system that triangulates the location of gunshots, questions are also being raised about privacy and police surveillance.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Special section:

Shot Spotter: how it works

Wired

Army has uphill climb to replace vehicles

After more than a decade of war, the Army wants to replace combat vehicles worn out from war. But with federal budgets tight, political support is lacking and industry hasn’t been able to deliver.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Texas Republicans may give Romney the clinching delegates

The Texas presidential primary has been all but forgotten amid the state’s U.S. Senate free-for-all and some attention-grabbing congressional and legislative races.

Houston Chronicle

Veterans give Romney big lead over Obama

Gallup

Campaigns mine online data to get votes

Strategists say the most important breakthrough this year is a campaigns’ use of online data to raise money, share information and persuade supporters to vote.

ABC News

BUSINESS

RIM ‘could cut 6,000 jobs’

Reports say that the BlackBerry maker is preparing to restructure as it continues to struggle against Android and iPhone.

Guardian

RIM’s top lawyer joins parade of resignations

Reuters

Why retail catalogs survive, even thrive, in Internet age

Online spending may be increasing, but the venerable catalog is doing anything but fading away. In fact, it is still an important part of business for retailers.

USA TODAY

EDUCATION

Experts: Research shows remedial college classes need fixing

A growing body of research shows that remedial courses to prepare students for regular coursework are eating up time and money, often leading not to degrees but student loan hangovers.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Hard lessons follow rocky start for Chicago high school teacher

Tyrese Graham is a science teacher at John Marshall Metropolitan High School in Chicago. When he started teaching there, Marshall was among the worst public schools in the city.

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Tibetan men set selves on fire outside temple to protest Chinese rule

Two men set themselves on fire in the Tibetan city of Lhasa yesterday, the first in a spate of self-immolations in recent months to occur inside the regional capital, China’s Xinhua News Agency reported.

BusinessWeek

Special section:

Inside Tibet

BBC

Just doing his job is the defense for high-level Catholic official

A clergy sex-abuse trial is reaching a crescendo in Philadelphia. Monsignor William Lynn is the first high-level Catholic official to be criminally prosecuted, but not for abusing minors himself.

NPR

SPORTS

Qatari women prepare for Olympic debut

Female athletes from the Gulf state will compete in the Olympics for the first time, but many still face hurdles — in sport and society.

Al Jazeera

Blog:

Jamaica’s fastest woman aims for gold

(Msnbc.com)

Rock Center

Maria Sharapova beats Alexandra Cadantu 6-0, 6-0 in French Open

Maria Sharapova won by a score that couldn‘t be better — a 6-0, 6-0 "double bagel’’ romp in the first round of the French Open and a step toward a possible career Grand Slam.

Sports Illustrated

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GOOD NEWS

Military families enjoy free horse rides at theme park

A Cowboy Town hosted military families for a day of free activities. Dozens of volunteers sweated in 90-degree temperatures to make sure the heroes cooled off with snow cones in the shade.

The Tennessean

ToolBank lends tools to volunteers working on charitable projects

The Baltimore Community ToolBank lends tools and other equipment to churches, schools and charitable organizations as well as neighborhood gardens and associations for service projects.

Baltimore Sun

Military group trains service dogs to help wounded veterans

A group of disabled Iraq and Afghanistan military veterans has taken on an important mission — training service dogs to aid other wounded vets in recovery for a program begun by the Pentagon.

ABC News

WORLD

Poll: Euro isn’t loved, but few want to drop it