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AP: In addition to success stories, "US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq "

Silk's dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons

U.S. vows help in fight against Congo sexual violence

Indiana ruling halts caregiver choices based on race

Michelangeo's "David" Gets Dragged into an Italian Proxy War

Dr. Laura, Sarah Palin, and the fight over free speech

Why Do 20% of Americans Think Obama Is Muslim?

Author Jonathan Schneer traces lead-up to "The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict"

Israeli art show's portrayal of FM as a pig sparks protests

Very thought-provoking article: "Cloning, cruelty and how science sold out to greed"

Judge orders protections reinstated for gray wolf

China bets future on inland cities

TIME article: "Argentina Belatedly Celebrates a Journalist Hero"

NY Times article -- "Inside the Fog of War: Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan"

Gadget makers forced to look at links to Congo war

Petition seeks to have wolves howl across US

Lost Kafka writings resurface; court orders them to be removed from private possession

Netanyahu says he will oppose conversion bill

The Coming Birth Control Battle: Health-care reform spurs conservative activists to fight against coverage

TIME article -- Animal Rights: New Laws Take Movement to the Mainstream

Russian curators anger church, but escape jail

Promises, Promises: US fails to punish Sudan

How Postal Rate Hikes Foretell America's Future

US government files lawsuit, says Arizona immigration law crosses 'constitutional line'

EPA: the Clean Air Interstate Rule would overturn Bush-era plan; "measure requires 31 states from Massachusetts to Texas to reduce smog and soot-producing emissions"

'Help us save our mother': Pleas from children of Iranian woman convicted of adultery, who faces death by stoning

Funniest reason given for why someone could not be a Russian spy

Thousands of French Nazi collaborators revealed as official reports are published online

Rival Hamas, UN summer camps compete over children

Behind Kagan hearing: A fight over 'activist judges'

Documents show vast cleanup of Plum Island, New York "since 2000 to remove vast amounts of waste and contaminants at site of top-secret Army germ warfare research"

China's young college grads toil in 'ant tribes' as they "run up against the realities of China's rapid economic ascent"

Opinion article: "Art Is Fundamental -- and Fundamental to Support" by Maria Shriver

Stalin statue removed in Georgian home town

Source tells Washington Post that Rolling Stone violated interview ground rules in McChrystal profile; did the reporter "essentially take run-of-the-mill complaining and turn it into a direct challenge to presidential authority"?

Congress considers cracking down on 'puppy mills'

TIME article: Is Germany's Government Headed for a Breakdown?

VA quietly giving benefits to Marines exposed to toxic water on Camp Lejeune

HBO works to get film on Iranian dissident Neda Agha Soltan seen by as many people as possible within Iran as anniversary of her death approaches

Ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan worsens; Uzbeks allege rapes, say troops let violence occur

Library of Congress places Bob Hope's joke file (85,000 pages) on public view

Israel agrees to ease Gaza land blockade

At spill hearing, BP CEO says he's 'deeply sorry'

TIME article -- "First, China. Next: the Great Firewall of... Australia? In Western democracy first, Australia may restrict Web access"

Bloody Sunday report blames British soldiers fully; Cameron offers apology

Obama faces rare defeat on health help for jobless

Hispanics abandon Arizona, fleeing economy, immigration law

Chinese farmer uses homemade cannon to fight eviction; "China has witnessed a surge of violent confrontations triggered by land seizures as officials and businesses seek to cash in by evicting residents"

Prescott, Arizona elementary school to 'whiten' image of child in mural

Autopsy shows Gaza activists were hit 30 times at close range

Head of large Congo human rights group found dead. Floribert Chebeya Bahizire was head of Voix des Sans Voix, or Voice of the Voiceless

Egypt opens Gaza border -- for those already cleared (pre-cleared patients with medical emergencies and students with visas to study abroad)

California moves to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, and charge for paper bags

The Code of Hammurabi (1795-1750 BCE)

Blair: Gaza blockade counterproductive but hard to ease

Upper Delaware River most endangered in U.S. -- source of drinking water for 17 million people one of 10 rivers on list, threatened due to natural gas drilling, mining and poor flood management

Activists send new boat to challenge Gaza blockade as Egypt lifts its side of blockade for aid

Peruvian child, seven-year-old Daisy Cuevas, becomes symbol of US undocumented

Links to the Guardian's news coverage of Israel and the Gaza flotilla; the 600 passengers of the flotilla included a Nobel Peace Laureate

Q&A: Aid and Israel's Gaza blockade

Bloody Israeli raid on flotilla sparks crisis

Al-Jazeera anchorwomen 'quit in clothing spat'

Charges considered in deaths of 83 wild horses

After fix fail, a dispiriting summer of oil, anger. Hurricane season starts Tuesday

Catch "Special Relationship" on HBO if you can; just watched it and enjoyed it. Much food for thought.

Hawaii first in nation to ban possession, sale, trade or distribution of shark fins (plus article "A sad shark's tale: Shocking images show scale of fin trade")

Democrat James Carville Slams Obama's Response to BP Oil Spill and 'Political Stupidity'

Idaho Tea Party win embarrasses GOP establishment

The Batavian Rebellion and Quintus Petillius Cerialis (between 69-70 CE. Cerialis was made Governor of Britannia from 71 to 74 CE)

Photo: (Nazret, Ethiopia) Women wait to cast their vote at a polling station

Vietnam, US still in conflict over Agent Orange

Blackfeet Elouise Cobell sees end to 14-year government fight: "Cobell's class-action lawsuit represents as many as 500,000 Indians who own property that the government holds in trust for them"

How Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's civil-rights views escaped media scrutiny

Muslim anger prompts Pakistan to block Facebook amid anger over page encouraging users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad

Abortion foes capitalize on health law they fought, using it to limit coverage by private insurers

Thousands of nonprofits may lose tax-exempt status because they haven't filed a new form with the IRS

High-risk patients may be stuck paying high rates

Afghan violence victims want voice in peace talks

Montana, Idaho consider increased wolf hunt quotas

Obama says health care law already helps millions

Austria's 'Reich Mother' presidential candidate Barbara Rosenkranz caught singing SS anthem

Obama seeks court nominee who backs women's rights

Muslim group warns 'South Park' creators could face violent retribution for depicting the prophet Muhammad in a bear suit

Earth Day turns 40

TIME article -- School Bullying Prevention: Teach Empathy at Young Age

Mexico rejects church criticism of sex education

Iranian cleric: "women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes"

Has Scott Brown turned out to be a blessing in disguise for congressional Democrats?

Oklahoma tea parties and lawmakers envision militia: "to help defend against what they believe are improper federal infringements on state sovereignty"

Polish President Lech Kaczynski, along with other military and civilian leaders, killed as presidential plane crashes in Russia

13-year-old Yemeni bride dies of internal bleeding, "injuries to her genitals four days after a family-arranged marriage"

President Obama questions Sarah Palin's nuclear acumen

RIP Wilma Mankiller: Remembering First Female Chief Of Cherokee Nation

Italian prostitutes get own road sign to warn motorists

California bill would expand pesticide safety program

Thousands of vets missing out on better benefits

UK 'Climategate' inquiry largely clears scientists

Would partners of gay troops get benefits, too?

Rep. Randy Neugebauer "apologizes for 'baby killer' remark during health care debate, but turns moment into a campaign fundraiser"

Congress approves historic health care legislation