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French special intervention police officers leave the area in Toulouse, France, where an Islamic extremist died after jumping from his window, gun in hand, in a fierce shoot-out with police. (Photo by Bob Edme / AP)

Could the website Pinterest soon become the next Facebook?

Pinterest — for the uninitiated — is a deceptively simple-sounding, insanely addictive social media website that allows its users to collect and share images with friends on digital pinboards.

CNNMoney

How to use Pinterest for business

CIO Magazine

Blog:

The copyright question: protecting yourself on Pinterest

Mashable

The new normal adoption: birth parent no longer secret

The secrecy that long shrouded adoption has given way to openness. Only about five percent of infant adoptions in the U.S. do not include some kind of relationship with the birth parents.

Christian Science Monitor

Minister confirms French shooter is dead

Mohamed Merah, who is believed responsible for the killing of seven people, is dead, following a prolonged siege of his apartment in Toulouse, France.

Spiegel International

Gunman dead as siege ends in shoot-out

YouTube

Jewish community draws solace from France’s response to killings

Christian Science Monitor

Mutiny in Mali: Renegade soldiers seize power after palace attack

Soldiers stormed state television and announced they had seized control of the democratic country, dissolving all of its institutions due to the nation’s mishandling of an insurgency in the north.

TIME

Soldiers loot Mali presidential palace after ousting leader

USA TODAY

“No confidence” vote for police chief after handling of Trayvon Martin shooting

Sanford city commissioners have voted “no confidence” in their police chief for his handling of the shooting of Fla. teen Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer.

CBS News

Trayvon Martin march in New York

Guardian

NATION

Researchers wrestle with how many deployments are too many

After nearly 11 years of war and hundreds of millions of dollars in research on troops’ mental health, the military is no closer to understanding how many deployments are too many for soldiers.

USA TODAY

Some employers go above and beyond to hire jobless veterans

USA TODAY

Financially troubled Harrisburg bets on unusual auction

Harrisburg, the financially troubled capital of Pennsylvania, is hosting an auction of artifacts this summer in hopes of raising enough money to close the gap between the city’s revenue and operating costs.

CNNMoney

Does Secret Service trump speech rights? Supreme Court hears case

The Supreme Court heard an appeal that asked the justices to enact a special rule exempting U.S. Secret Service agents from civil liability for arresting someone for the offensive content of their speech.

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

The GOP race is lining up for Romney

It has not been pretty, but the Republican establishment, the delegate math and the money are lining up in Mitt Romney’s favor for the party’s nomination.

Detroit Free Press

Special section:

Elections 2012

Guardian

Obama tours 4 states to defend clean energy policy

Against the desert backdrop of the nation’s largest solar energy installation, President Obama assailed Republican critics of his clean energy policies as “the flat earth society.”

MSNBC

Obama’s speedy Keystone review will not accelerate Cushing pipeline

Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Kraft, Mondelēz International and the ‘art’ of rebranding a company

Think what you will of Mondelēz International, the new name that Kraft Foods will give to its global snacks business after the company splits this year. At least it is not “Tfark.”

BusinessWeek

Investors feast on the popularity of ‘The Hunger Games’

Teenagers love “The Hunger Games,” a hot trilogy of books about to hit theaters. But the biggest fans may be from an older generation — investors.

CNNMoney

More employers asking job seekers for Facebook passwords

In their efforts to vet applicants, some employers are going beyond merely glancing at a person’s social networking profiles. Instead, they are asking to log in as the user to have a look around.

MSNBC

Blog:

When employers log in to dig in

(NPR)

all tech considered

ENVIRONMENT

Fire devours Kenya’s ancient forests

A weeklong fire raging on Kenya’s highest mountain has devoured thousands of hectares of Mount Kenya’s ancient forests, a crucial water catchment for the country.

Al Jazeera

Grasslands more diverse than rain forests — in small areas

Sorry, tropical rain forests. Grasslands have the most plant species, at least when the area studied is smaller than a couple of parking spaces.

National Geographic

EDUCATION

Seattle School Board votes to keep Teach For America partnership

The Seattle School Board voted to continue the district’s partnership with Teach For America, an organization that places recent college graduates without teaching credentials in low-performing schools.

Seattle Times

Shortcomings of US schools pose national security threat

Nearly 30 years after the landmark education report “A Nation at Risk,” a new report finds that schools failing to prepare for a globalized world now pose a national security threat.

Christian Science Monitor

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

‘Blue Like Jazz’ seeks Christian audience

“We wanted to show that movies about the faith struggle that millions of Americans deal with do not have to be cheesy,” said director Steve Taylor. “They can compete with other films at the box office.”

Huffington Post

Americans think politicians talk too much about religion

In an election campaign season where birth control and gay marriage have made headlines, a growing number of Americans think political leaders are talking too much religion, according to a new survey.

Msnbc.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Nabila Ramdani):

Toulouse killings: making political capital out of Mohammed Merah

Guardian

Column (Leonard Pitts Jr):

‘The Boss’ delivers his state of our union

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Joanna Weiss):

Another kind of heroine

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (James Fallows):

An exchange with Jeffrey Goldberg on ‘bluffing,’ Israel and Iran

The Atlantic

Column (Michael Eisen):

How traditional publishing hurts scientific progress

Wired

Column (Howie Carr):

Nomination had value — then came Mitt

Boston Herald

Column (Michael Musto):

Drinking with rich people

Village Voice

Column (Barbara Hollingsworth):

Where going to jail is a campaign advantage

Washington Examiner

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GOOD NEWS

State grant puts Focus: HOPE back in business, aids employment

Focus: HOPE is getting back to the business of putting metro Detroiters to work. The State of Michigan’s Workforce Development Agency is giving it a $2.35 million grant to restore programs.

Detroit Free Press

Teen gets lost wallet returned with $20 ‘surprise’ gift

When Courtney Barwick got a call saying that her wallet had been found, she expected that it was returned in the same condition she had lost it — empty, except for an ID and some loose change.

Huffington Post

Students’ creations offer hope for cause

The half-dozen girls who make up Kids and a Cause — a Pittsburgh group that raises funds for cancer patients and treatment — have raised more than $14,000 in the past five years.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WORLD

Scandal in the fight for Hong Kong