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A visitor looks at the monument of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. Motorcyclists are in Washington for the annual Rolling Thunder events during the Memorial Day weekend. (Photo by Jose Luis Magana / AP)

Soldier’s widow dreams of what could have been

Many families are celebrating the Memorial Day holiday with picnics and beach trips. For those who lost friends or family serving their country, it’s a day to honor their sacrifice.

San Jose Mercury News

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US military actions and wars

PBS

Observing Memorial Day

Houston Chronicle

Fraud hits southwest Fla. hard

Consumers lost more than $1.7 billion last year in frauds reported to the Federal Trade Commission, and southwest Florida was one of the regions hit hardest in the nation.

Sarasota Tribune Herald

Obama: ‘A national tragedy’ in Joplin, Mo.

Assuming a role as the nation’s pastor, President Obama delivered a sermon reflecting on the heroics of those who were killed saving others in the storm.

ABC News

Miles of flood control with Hesco baskets

NPR

Mo. governor on Obama’s Joplin visit

CBS News

Serbian police have detained 180 in pro-Mladic protests

Serbian authorities detained 180 people who had attacked police during a protest against the arrest of Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman said.

MSNBC

Hackers pirate PBS website, post fake story that Tupac is still alive

Online hackers have pirated the PBS website and posted a false story claiming the rapper Tupac Shakur — who has been dead for almost 15 years — is alive and living in New Zealand.

CNN

Blog:

The hackers always win

(CNET News)

Reporter's Roundtable

NATION

Children of fallen US troops turn to each other for support

More than 4,300 children of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are growing up, forging their own paths while also keeping their connection to their mom or dad alive.

Houston Chronicle

After bad tornado season, time to worry about hurricanes

Florida is about to enter hurricane season 2011, officially pushing its luck. It’s not because mother nature has gone wild on global warming juice. It’s just a matter of simple odds.

Miami Herald

Man wrongly imprisoned for 27 years

Justice prevailed when William Michael Dillon was released from prison after 27 years. He is now on the Innocence Project of Florida’s list of 13 prisoners who have been exonerated by DNA evidence.

CNN

POLITICS

Obama picks combat-tested Gen. Martin Dempsey to head Joint Chiefs

President Barack Obama has named Army Gen. Martin Dempsey to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Christian Science Monitor

Who’s afraid of ethanol? The 2012 race will tell

There has long been a truism for presidential hopefuls in Iowa. If you want to do well in the first of the national caucuses, then you should definetely support subsidies for ethanol.

NPR

Roundtable: GOP field takes shape

ABC News

BUSINESS

South Fla.’s nursery industry: alive and growing

It takes more than pretty plants to stay in the business. Today’s nursery farmers spend less time getting their hands dirty in the field and more time thinking about marketing, science and consumer behavior.

Miami Herald

Google, Microsoft test Apple’s dominance

Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s attempts to loosen Apple Inc.’s grip on the tablet-computer market will be put to the test as they unveil new models at the Computex trade show in China.

Bloomberg

HEALTH

Hospitals hunt substitutes as drug shortages rise

A growing shortage of medications for a host of illnesses has hospitals scrambling for substitutes to avoid patient harm, and sometimes even delaying treatment.

ABC News

The optimism bias

We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. We watch our backs, weigh the odds and pack an umbrella. But both neuroscience and social science suggest that we are more optimistic than realistic.

TIME

SPORTS

Sources: Ohio State coach Jim Tressel was encouraged to resign

Mounting pressure, a pending NCAA disciplinary hearing and new revelations about the culture of the program forced Ohio State University to act on their once-revered coach, sources said.

Columbus Dispatch

Dan Wheldon gets stunning Indy win

J.R. Hildebrand was one turn away from winning the Indianapolis 500 on his very first try. Then, within sight of the checkered flag, the 23-year-old Californian made the ultimate mistake.

ESPN

100th anniversary Indy 500

Sports Illustrated

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Holiday travelers welcome back the luxury of vacation

Over the past three summers, the travel and leisure sectors have been hurt by the surge of “staycations,” the stay-at-home alternatives for people who couldn’t afford destination vacations.

NPR

Parks face economic stress this Memorial Day

Christian Science Monitor

Boat traditions live on in Australia

An Australian boat-building school is looking to keep a centuries-old tradition of local boat-building alive, producing unique Tasmanian timber boats that shipwrights hope will last hundreds of years.

Reuters

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Revised Bibles strive for balance

Two new English revisions of the Bible — the New American Bible, published by Catholic Bishops, and Zondervan and Biblica’s New International Version, favored by most Protestants — are out this spring.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Nearly 200 gather in Calif. to dedicate Jonestown memorial

Nearly 200 people gathered at the Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, Calif., to dedicate a memorial to the victims of the 1978 mass murder and suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, organizers said.

Modesto Bee

Honoring tsunami victims, loved ones in Hawaii with Buddhist tradition

Like many Japanese traditions, the ritual of toro nagashi — setting a floating lantern adrift to accompany spirits of the dead back to Buddha’s realm — has been embraced by Hawaiian communities.

San Francisco Chronicle

Columns And Op-Ed

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Lecturers back students’ right to wear the burqa

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War memorials

Slate

Column (Jeremy Williams):

The invisible wounds of veterans

Houston Chronicle

Column (Marcos Breton):

Census doesn’t tell us about loyalties

McClatchy Newspapers

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US courts can spur immigration reform

Globeandmail.com

Blog (Amy Kass and Leon Kass):

Taking out the time to remember

(Weekly Standard)

Today's Standard

Column (Bradford Plumer):

Turning FEMA around

The New Republic

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Obama vs. Netanyahu

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

2 new drug treatments have cured thousands of liver disease

The recent approval of two new drugs offers the first good treatment options in years for the 170,000 Americans newly diagnosed with the liver disease.

Detroit Free Press

Calif.’s LA Unified to give leftover meals to nonprofits that feed needy

The Los Angeles Unified School District has offered up to 21,000 uneaten meals it has each day to nonprofit organizations that feed the hungry.

Los Angeles Times

Neighbor rescues woman and child from burning bungalow

A man who was working on a car smelled smoke and rushed inside a burning home where he rescued a 77-year-old woman and her 5-year-old grandson overnight in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.

Chicago Sun-Times

WORLD

NATO apologizes for the deaths of Afghan civilians