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Three members of the Students for a Free Tibet hang banners from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to protest China's human rights record and the impending arrival of the Olympic torch. (Photo by Jakub Mosur / AP)

Petraeus urges 45-day halt in weighing new Iraq troop cuts

International Herald Tribune

Hearings preview fall campaign's debate on Iraq war

McClatchy Newspapers

Mortars hit Baghdad on anniversary

At least six people have been killed in mortar attacks in Baghdad on the fifth anniversary of the city's capture by American forces.

BBC

Special section:

Iraq: 5 Years At War

CBS News

San Francisco braces for wild Olympic torch run

The Olympic torch embarks on its only U.S. relay in San Francisco, Calif., where large protests against Chinese policies are expected in a city famous for its tradition of demonstrations.

Reuters

Thousands turn out for speeches by Desmond Tutu, Richard Gere

San Francisco Chronicle

Olympic torch protests

CNN

Leniency for big corporations in the US

In a major shift of policy, the Justice Department, once known for taking down giant corporations, has put off prosecuting more than 50 companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years.

International Herald Tribune

American cancels 850 additional flights for safety checks

American Airlines said it cancelled 850 flights, or nearly one-third of its mainline operations. The move could disrupt travel plans for as many as 85,000 passengers nationwide.

USA Today

Plummeting airline quality

ABC News

NATION

Millions wasted on federal credit cards

Federal employees charged millions for Internet dating, tailor-made suits, lingerie, lavish dinners and other expenses to government credit cards over a 15-month period, congressional auditors say.

USA Today

Abuse alleged at polygamist camp

A polygamist compound with hundreds of children was rife with sexual abuse, child welfare officials allege in court documents, with girls spiritually married to much older men as soon as they reached puberty.

MSNBC

As many crack convicts are freed early, will crime rise?

Of the 19,500 drug offenders eligible over the next 30 years to apply for early release, 3,417 have had their sentences reduced.

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Pelosi favors fewer superdelegates

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday she favors a reduction in the number of superdelegates — and their oversized influence — in choosing the Democratic Party's nominee.

Seattle Times

Elizabeth Edwards backs Clinton's health care plan

Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former candidate John Edwards, remains unwilling to endorse either of the remaining Democratic contenders, but said she preferred Clinton's health plan to Obama's.

ABC News

Obama gaining in Pennsylvania

Sen. Barack Obama continues to chip away at Sen. Hillary Clinton's lead in the crucial state of Pennsylvania, a new Quinnipiac poll showed.

CNN

Obama’s young backers twist their parents’ arms

MSNBC

BUSINESS

American cancels up to 500 flights

American Airlines said it was canceling up to 500 flights, potentially more than one-fifth of its schedule, to check the bundling of wires in some planes.

Google News

S&P cuts ratings on 4 mortgage insurers

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services slashed its credit ratings on four mortgage insurers because of concerns the economy could drag down the companies' earnings.

BusinessWeek

Stocks falls as results season starts

U.S. stocks ended a three session winning streak, falling after Alcoa reported a downbeat set of results and Washington Mutual said it had secured a $7 billion capital infusion to shore up its capital base.

Financial Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Earbuds: convenience at a cost

Small devices can compromise quality, hearing and alertness

CBS News

Who trumps bin Laden as a cyberthreat? Look in the mirror

It turns out al-Qaida's leader and his cohorts aren't the biggest threat to our cybersecurity. You are.

CNET News

SPORTS

Parker, driven Lady Vols top Stanford for 8th title

The Lady Vols did what they do best: They defended, they rebounded, they won another national championship.

Sports Illustrated

National Championship highlights

ESPN

Stover wants to oust NFLPA head Upshaw

Matt Stover, the Baltimore Ravens' veteran kicker, has begun a campaign to replace Gene Upshaw as executive director of the NFL Players Association by next March.

Sporting News

EDUCATION

ACLU requests Georgia school district disclose sex segregation plans

The American Civil Liberties Union requested the school district make public all plans to segregate Greene County, Ga., schools by sex, claiming sex segregation in public schools is illegal.

EducationNews.org

White teen sues University of Texas over admissions policy

An 18-year-old Sugar Land, Texas, student sued the University of Texas at Austin, challenging the school's use of racial preferences in its admissions policy.

Houston Chronicle

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Editorial:

Respect the right to carry torch, as well as to protest

San Jose Mercury News

Column (Gary Kamiya):

The Iran boogeyman is back

Salon.com

Column (John Dickerson):

Will Mark Penn stay quiet?

Slate

Editorial:

Veterans Affairs' wasted dollars

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Column (Roland Martin):

Democrats finally getting religion on religion

CNN

Column (Katrina vanden Heuvel):

Why we need a voter paper trail

The Nation

Column (Marina Otttaway):

The Iraq stalemate

Guardian

Editorial:

The real issue on free trade

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Joseph Galloway):

A common bond for Gold Star children

McClatchy Newspapers

Editorial:

More time in Iraq for more of the same?

International Herald Tribune

Column:

No really, Hillary, you should go

CBS News

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GOOD NEWS

Congress to push housing measures

The Senate is working to quickly pass measures aimed at helping homeowners and businesses weather the housing crisis.

ABC News

The whole world is watching: Google shines light on refugee camps

Google has partnered with the U.N. High Commission for Refugees to create an online mapping tool to raise awareness of the plight of millions of refugees.

TechNewsWorld

Professor Pausch's life, 'Lecture' goes from Web to book

Randy Pausch has metastatic pancreatic cancer, but he isn't about dying. He's about living. Living for his wife and their three young children. Living a good life as long as he can.

USA Today

'The Last Lecture'

MarketWatch

WORLD

History in the making in Nepal elections

After 10 years of fighting, Nepal's Maoist insurgents have come out of the jungle and will take part in elections to choose a special assembly to rewrite the constitution.

Sydney Morning Herald

Low turnout in Egypt elections

Egyptians have largely stayed away from local elections in which the ruling party was guaranteed victory after many opposition candidates were barred from standing.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

$16 billion lawsuit tests Chevron

The case filed by Ecuadorean indigenous groups is one of the largest environmental suits against an oil firm and could set a precedent. Chevron dismisses it as a "charade."

Christian Science Monitor

Report urges more funds to buy private land within national parks

A conservation group warned that unless Washington provides more money to buy private lands within park boundaries, there could be problems at national parks from Golden Gate to Gettysburg.

McClatchy Newspapers

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Nickelodeon creating new virtual worlds for tweens

Nickelodeon is in the virtual real-estate game, triumphantly unveiling the development of virtual lands where it hopes tweens will live happily (and commercially) ever after.

Denver Post

Disney announces animation slate through 2012

The Walt Disney Studios unveiled an ambitious four-year slate of 10 new animated features from both Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios.

Animation World Network

HEALTH

Egg-surance: put your eggs on ice

The bio-clock ticks, but is freezing your eggs a good bet?

ABC News

Too much TV, too little sleep makes toddlers overweight

The value of a good night’s sleep is becoming more and more evident as studies increasingly identify health risks associated with a lack of sleep.

MedHeadlines

RELIGION

Religious teaching straight to your iPod

Evangelists have long used the airwaves to get their messages out to a mass audience. But now, podcast technology is opening the doors to a wider variety of religious teaching than ever before

USA Today

Jews brace for kosher cracker shortage this Passover

Passover without Tam Tams? Many Jews will have to do without their favorite salty cracker fix due to an engineering glitch with new baking machinery at the Manischewitz plant in Newark, N.J.

San Jose Mercury News

A wunderkind turned religion professor will greet pope

Ravi Gupta will present the pontiff a Hindu symbol as a token of goodwill among faiths.

Idaho-Statesman

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