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Hundreds of Oahu residents flocked to the Times Supermarket to purchase water and supplies in Honolulu. The state of Hawaii was under a tsunami warning due to a large 8.9 earthquake off Japan. (Photo by Eugene Tanner / AP)

Daylight saving time: how to cope with the loss of an hour

The clocks are about to spring forward into daylight saving time — the bittersweet adjustment that brightens the evenings while wreaking havoc on sleep schedules.

ABC News

Set the clocks ahead this weekend

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Facebook rolls out anti-bullying tools with White House support

A new reporting tool will let Facebook users, including teens and younger users, to privately report troubling content not just to the site itself but to parents, teachers and others in their support system.

CNN

Special section:

bullying directory

WebMD

Tsunami waves sweep Hawaiian islands

Tsunami waves hit Hawaii and were sweeping through the island chain after an earthquake in Japan sparked evacuations far as the U.S. western coast.

San Francisco Chronicle

Japan earthquake experience recounted by Calif. woman

Sacramento Bee

The wrath of the earthquake in Japan

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Japan tsunami heads toward US

CBS News

US shoppers shake off high gasoline costs in February

Retail sales posted their largest gain in four months in February as shoppers stepped up purchases of autos, clothes and other goods even as they spent more for gas.

Reuters

How high will gas prices fly?

MSNBC

Recent war veterans struggle to find jobs

The Labor Department is expected to release new unemployment numbers for veterans. In 2009, 21.1 percent were reported unemployed. The number is expected to be just as high for 2010.

Kansas City Star

NATION

Wis. Assembly passes union measure

After police carried demonstrators out of the building, Republicans entered the Assembly chamber and approved Gov. Scott Walker’s bill repealing most collective bargaining by public employee unions.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Wis. GOP Assembly justifies collective bargaining cuts

PBS Newshour

Last WWI vet to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery

The body of the West Virginia soldier who outlived every other American who served in World War I will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, a family spokesman said.

Houston Chronicle

Army to punish 9 officers for Fort Hood shootings in Texas

The Army has begun to administer punishments for “administrative and leadership failures relating to the career of Maj. Nidal Hasan,” the alleged shooter in the Fort Hood shootings that killed 13.

ABC News

POLITICS

All eyes on GOP House freshmen in budget impasse: Will they budge?

In votes that surprised no one, the Senate rejected first the House’s proposed budget, which included $61 billion in cuts, and then its own alternative proposal, which included $6.5 billion in cuts.

Christian Science Monitor

Rep. Peter King defiant as Muslim hearings open amid controversy

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., struck a defiant tone as he opened his controversial House hearing on radicalization within the American Muslim community, vowing to proceed despite a firestorm of charges.

Politico

Muslim congressman gives emotional testimony

MSNBC

Budget deficit hits record $222.5B

The government posted a record monthly budget deficit of $222.5 billion in February as spending growth outstripped revenue gains crimped by tax cuts enacted late last year, the Treasury Department reported.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Pa. government’s deep cuts in higher education draw protests

Pennsylvania’s new Republican governor is under fire for proposing the nation’s biggest cuts in higher education — more than 50 percent for some universities.

ABC News

Older campuses failing to meet modern-day needs

After a decade of chipping away at accumulated maintenance projects, the Department of Education is adding outdated infrastructure to its priority list for public school campuses.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

ENVIRONMENT

Crude reality: Gas prices rocket because they can

It didn’t take long for turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East to produce pain at gasoline pumps in the U.S. In the weeks ahead, the forecasters say, it’s going to get worse.

National Geographic

Great white shark population lower than previously believed

Researchers have found that fewer great whites are in the Pacific Ocean than previously believed. Other shark species have also suffered steep population declines like the great white shark’s in recent years.

Christian Science Monitor

SPORTS

Ohio State punishment of Jim Tressel called ‘a little light’

The head of a law firm that helps schools deal with the NCAA said the Ohio State punishment of Jim Tressel appears lenient.

USA TODAY

Deadline hangs over labor talks

Rhetoric rose while the clock ticked down in the NFL’s labor talks, with the league and players’ union trading back-and-forth barbs a day before the twice-extended collective bargaining agreement expires.

ESPN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Church should not pursue conversion of Jews, pope says

After excerpts from the pope’s book on Jesus made the rounds featuring his rejection of the idea that “the Jews” killed Christ, the full text has important implications for Christian/Jewish relations.

National Catholic Reporter

Unprotected texts: Sex and marriage in the Bible contradict each other

Pastor Jennifer Wright Knust says the Bible often contradicts itself on topics relating to sex and desire.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Stanton Peele):

Bullying is as American as apple pie

Huffington Post

Column (Mark Pfeifle):

Web’s identity crisis: tool of freedom or repression?

Christian Science Monitor

Column (C.W. Gusewelle):

Unions benefit workers

Kansas City Star

Editorial:

NPR wounds itself, again

Star Tribune

Blog (Adam Clark Estes):

If not a no-fly zone, then what else can be done?

(Salon)

War Room

Column (David Bromwich):

The embarrassments of empires from Egypt to Pakistan

Huffington Post

Editorial:

Gas pains in Congress as prices rise again

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Chuck Raasch):

US prosecution of leakers could chill whistle-blowers

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Father’s dog tag finally in son’s hands after 40 years

Christopher DeGroff never knew his father. But 40 years after his death Christopher received his father’s dog tag and learned what happened to him.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Giffords hopes to attend husband’s shuttle launch

Gabrielle Giffords has shown so much progress in her recovery from a bullet wound that friends and family are making plans for her to attend her husband’s space shuttle mission in Florida.

San Jose Mercury News

‘60 Minutes’ program spurs outpouring of support for homeless children

The Florida social worker featured in the “60 Minutes” piece says people are shocked that this is happening in the U.S., but she adds the resulting flood of charity calls has been “unbelievable.”

CBS News

WORLD

Gadhafi loyalists mount onslaught