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Vice President Joe Biden, followed by National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling, leave the Blair House in Washington, after meeting with congressional Republicans and Democrats in hopes of striking a deal on deficit reduction. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite / AP)

Is Derby winner, Preakness hopeful Animal Kingdom real deal?

Prior to the Kentucky Derby, most horse racing handicappers and experts looked at Animal Kingdom as a turf horse.

Baltimore Sun

10 things you must know about the Preakness

NBCSports

Queen Elizabeth II arrives in Ireland after bomb scare

Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Dublin for the first visit by a British monarch since the Republic of Ireland won its independence. Her visit came just hours after the discovery of a bomb on a bus near Dublin.

MSNBC

Queen arrives in Dublin

Guardian

US hits $14.3 trillion debt ceiling

The United States slammed up against its $14.3 trillion borrowing limit as lawmakers continue to squabble over whether to lift the debt ceiling.

NY Daily News

Tax extensions needed to fix Calif. deficit

San Jose Mercury News

The Great Recession’s lost generation

CNNMoney

Special section:

6 ways to raise the debt ceiling

U.S. News & World Report

Flooding covers millions of acres

Flood waters are expected to peak at record levels in Vicksburg and Natchez, Miss., as well as in Red River Landing and Baton Rouge, La., according to the National Weather Service.

CNN

Miss. flooding to affect national economy

CBS News

Automakers try to convince Chinese to drive green

Car ownership in China has brought with it many problems familiar to Americans, so the Chinese government and the auto companies are trying to push a new generation of environmentally friendly car.

NPR

NATION

Supreme Court: No warrant needed if police discern destruction of evidence

Police do not need a search warrant if, after knocking on a closed door and announcing their presence, they discern that evidence of a crime is being destroyed inside, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.

Christian Science Monitor

Drivers face more toll increases

Drivers are facing higher tolls this year to pay for road maintenance and improvement projects that are in some cases being hampered by state budget shortfalls and declining gas tax revenue, officials say.

USA TODAY

Shuttle Endeavour begins final mission

The 134th and second-to-last flight in the shuttle program was initially delayed by a traffic jam at its destination — the International Space Station — and later by electronic problems.

USA TODAY

Space shuttle Endeavour launches for final time

Telegraph.co.uk

POLITICS

Mike Huckabee casts shadow on early primary states in 2012 elections

The fight for the Mike Huckabee voter is now under way. Huckabee’s decision not to run for president is already scrambling the battle for the GOP nomination, triggering a competition for his fan bases.

Politico

Jeb Bush’s ideas on education draw national attention

Jeb Bush left the Florida governor’s office in 2007, but his influence is now felt in state capitals from New Jersey to Oregon, where lawmakers are eager to adopt his ideas on how to improve education.

McClatchy Newspapers

BUSINESS

An online international banking scam worthy of a spy novel

One moment of weakness — a single click on a bogus e-mail link or website — has cost many U.S. companies nearly $1 million each, connecting them to a crime ring linked to six Chinese cities, the FBI said.

MSNBC

HP posts higher profit, cuts forecast

Hewlett-Packard Co. reported a small increase in second-quarter profit, announcing results after an embarrassing memo leaked from the company’s CEO warned of “another tough quarter.”

MarketWatch

LivingSocial CEO takes unusual low-tech path for company

Business-savvy Tim O’Shaughnessy isn’t a typical tech-startup founder, but that hasn’t kept him from challenging Groupon, the leader in daily online deals.

BusinessWeek

EDUCATION

College student debt grows. Is it worth it?

The amount of money Americans owe on student loans recently exceeded the nation’s credit card debt. That may lead many to ask: Is it smart to borrow a lot of money to go to college?

NPR

School playground duty outsourced to ‘recess coaches’

Playworks, a national non-profit that dispatches recess coaches to mostly inner-city schools, says its job is to “put the play back on playgrounds.”

Star Tribune

Peer support available for struggling San Francisco teachers

The San Francisco Unified School District offers struggling teachers a chance to improve through its peer review and assistance program.

San Francisco Examiner

ENVIRONMENT

Melting icebergs fertilize ocean

Efforts to remove climate-warming carbon dioxide from Earth’s atmosphere appear to be getting a helping hand from a surprising source: the iron in water from melting Antarctic icebergs.

U.S. News & World Report

Large carnivorous Hawaiian crab driven to extinction by 1st arrivals

A new species of large carnivorous crabs, which roamed far inland all over the Hawaiian Islands, has been confirmed in a new paper.

Earth Times

SPORTS

Lockout remains after appeals court sides with NFL

After a series of stinging rebukes from federal judges, the NFL has a significant, favorable ruling in hand from a higher court.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

NFL owners granted permanent stay

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided the league’s lockout of players should stay in place until a full appeal is heard on whether it is legal, which means until at least the first week of June.

ESPN

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (James Grime):

YouTube popularizes science

Notes & Theories: Dispatches from the Science Desk

(Guardian)

Column (Abdel Bari Atwan):

Why Osama bin Laden was radicalized

CNN

Column (Robert Lipsyte):

Why athletes are always told to zip it

USA TODAY

Editorial:

Rein in insurance companies’ fat rates

San Jose Mercury News

Editorial:

Mitt Romney can’t win on health care

Denver Post

Column (Mark LeVine):

Obama: Courage to kill, but not to lead

Al Jazeera

Column (Jim Gallagher):

Graduates, welcome to the school of hard knocks

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Blog (John Yemma):

The astronaut who learned how to see

(Christian Science Monitor)

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GOOD NEWS

Celebrity trainer uses martial arts to show kids from Rio slums a wider world

Trainer Ricardo “Tinha” Carvalho dropped out of school in his teens. When he reached the status of local celebrity, he chose to turn his time and money back to the poor communities he first called home.

Christian Science Monitor

Surgery helps girl take back her smile

Caitlin Cowen laughed as she talked about majoring in mass communications. Her laugh signaled so much about her enthusiasm, especially since, just two years ago, Cowen couldn’t even smile.

ABC News

Boise-based journalist turns activist to aid Afghan women

Karen Day, a 57-year-old freelance writer from Boise, Idaho, founded a nonprofit Afghan Womens Justice Project to aid women imprisoned for “moral crimes.”

Idaho Statesman

WORLD

NATO helicopter fires on Pakistani army border post