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A photo and tribute to movie theater shooting victim AJ Boik is shown next to a lit candle at a memorial to the shooting victims in Aurora, Colo. (Photo by Ted S. Warren / AP)

‘The Girl from Ipanema’ turns 50

“Tall and tan and young and lovely ... ” “The Girl From Ipanema” is the quintessential bossa nova tune that introduced Rio de Janeiro to the world.

CBS News

Music is tonic for memory and mental abilities

Counsel and Heal

Hope glimmers on Space Coast, 1 year after shuttle shutdown

A year after NASA ended the space shuttle program, which crippled communities around Cape Canaveral, private spaceflight and other ventures are starting to fill the void.

NBCNews.com

Colorado shootings change movie experience

In the wake of the Colorado theater shootings, many movie chains have changed their security policies. No masks, fake weapons, or backpacks.

Christian Science Monitor

Names of victims emerge in Aurora, Colo., theater rampage

USA TODAY

Special section:

‘Horror’ won’t shift gun laws

The Age

Families and friends mourn victims

San Jose Mercury News

Beebe builds case to expand Medicare

Gov. Mike Beebe says he hasn’t made up his mind on whether Arkansas should expand its Medicaid eligibility, but he’s gradually making the case for going forward with the plan.

San Francisco Chronicle

How the Medicaid expansion can help states

NBCNews.com

New lab working on security shoe sole to ID people

A new lab is working to perfect special shoe insoles that can help monitor access to high-security areas, like nuclear power plants or special military bases.

Wilkes Barre Times-Leader

NATION

Troops march in San Diego gay pride parade — in uniform

Some of the loudest cheers at San Diego’s gay pride parade were for active-duty troops in military dress, the first time that U.S. service members participated in such an event in full uniform.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

US poverty on track to rise to highest since the 1960s

The ranks of America’s poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty amid a weak economy and a fraying government safety net.

San Francisco Chronicle

Struggling households target of research

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Traffic deaths shoot up 13.5 percent

Traffic deaths soared 13.5 percent in the first quarter compared to the same period last year, and the number of deaths per miles driven also rose significantly, according to government estimates.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

George W. Bush’s new cause: AIDS

George W. Bush’s The Bush Institute houses a variety of programs under the broad headings of global health, education reform, economic growth and advancing human freedom.

Daily Beast

George W. Bush helps battle cancer in Africa

YouTube

Romney makes key trip to visit with leaders from England, Israel and Poland

Mitt Romney is making his first appearance on the international stage during the 2012 campaign, where he hopes to garner international support for his presidential bid and gain credibility among world leaders.

FOX News

BUSINESS

Economic recovery shows cracks

A combination of expiring tax cuts and slashed spending could shave four percent or more off U.S. gross domestic product next year, throwing millions of people out of work if Congress does not stop them.

USA TODAY

Like Thelma and Louise, US economy headed toward cliff

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Murdoch quits boards of British papers

News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch has stepped down as a director from a string of boards overseeing the Sun, Times and Sunday Times newspapers in Britain, the company said in an internal memo.

Reuters

Banking suffers yet another blow as scandals pile up

Four years after the financial crisis began, the pile-up of bad behavior is feeding a sense that something remains deeply awry inside banks, despite efforts by governments to reform them.

Globeandmail.com

EDUCATION

Yale plans for new college in Singapore

Singapore’s schools are internationally renowned and already cooperate with other American universities, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Duke University.

ABC News

Education advocates look to strengthen laws against teacher assaults

Often assaults go unreported as some teachers are too embarrassed or are reluctant to get a student in trouble. And sometimes, teachers say, administrators dissuade teachers from reporting assaults.

The (Columbus, Ind.) Republic

SPORTS

Wiggins becomes Britain’s 1st Tour de France winner

Bradley Wiggins became the first Briton to win the Tour de France when he claimed the 99th edition of the cycling race.

Reuters

Runner without country to compete at Olympic Games

Despite having no passport and officially no country, a 28-year-old marathoner was cleared to compete at the London Games under the Olympic flag.

USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Ramadan arrives amid high heat and political transition in Arab world

This year’s Ramadan holy month may prove to be the toughest in decades — and not just because it falls when the heat is at its highest and the days are particularly long.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Ramadan observers to bear hottest season

San Francisco Chronicle

Alabama pasture a future pilgrimage site?

Could a Virgin Mary statue under a pine tree in the middle of a cow pasture in rural Alabama one day become an officially recognized international pilgrimage site of the Roman Catholic Church?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Myron Orfield):

The flag of equality is planted in suburbia

Star Tribune

Column (Michael Simkins):

My cultural lexicon is showing its age

Telegraph.co.uk

Column (Nancy Barnes):

With the darkest news, we walk a fine line

Star Tribune

Column (Michelle Kaufman):

Most of the worries will end once Olympics begin

Herald & Review

Blog (James Zogby):

Beyond Bachmann: a challenge for the GOP

(Huffington Post)

The Blog

Column (George Anders):

Why startups should hire the ‘minimally viable’ candidate

Forbes

Column (James Rohrer):

Are progressives harming organized religion and people of faith?

AlterNet

Column (John Ransom):

Public pensions are another form of theft

Townhall.com

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GOOD NEWS

Autism doesn’t deter service efforts of young Utah humanitarian

Austen Snow, 23, overcame serious obstacles on his two-week service trip to the remote eastern rain forests of Guatemala: the humidity, the bug bites, the encounters with bats and his autism.

Salt Lake Tribune

Kids leverage online networks for greater civic engagement

Social media is a tool that enables kids to engage in issues they care about and help to bring about real change in our society. Just ask Seventeen magazine and Universal Studios.

Christian Science Monitor

After girl’s death, mom goes to Africa to honor her clean-water wish

Rachel Beckwith’s wish was for people less fortunate than her to be able to have clean water to drink. A year after her death, her wish has come true for thousands of people she never met.

NBCNews.com

WORLD

Syrian forces fight rebels in Damascus, residents flee