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A Shiite cleric, a supporter of Muqtada al-Sadr holds up a Quran during a protest in Najaf, Iraq. Al-Sadr's followers have accused the Shiite-dominated government of exploiting a cease-fire. (Photo by AP Photo / Alaa al-Marjani)

US Airways pilot's gun went off as he was stowing weapon

McClatchy

Air marshals missing from almost all domestic flights

CNN

Water continues to rise in eastern Arkansas

Despite sunny skies, water continued to rise in eastern Arkansas, where federal officials have begun to gather their first damage assessments in the week-long floods

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Deadly flooding in central US

Yahoo! News

Iraq forces and militants clash in oil city

Militants loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr clashed with Iraqi security forces in Basra and Baghdad for a second day in fighting that has killed more than 50 people and wounded hundreds.

Reuters

Iraqi PM gives Basra gunmen ultimatum

TIME

Iraq's black market for oil

MSNBC

Unrest in Iraq

BBC

US admits Suez Canal killing

An Egyptian citizen was killed when a U.S. navy-contracted ship fired warning shots at approaching motor boats in the Suez Canal, a statement from the U.S. embassy in Cairo has said.

Al Jazeera

American cancels 200 flights

Prompted by FAA audits, American Airlines canceled approximately 200 flights to reinspect wiring on its fleet of MD-80 aircraft.

ABC News

Special section:

Industry turbulence

CBS News

NATION

New home sales fall, factory orders drop

Sales of new homes fell in February for the fourth straight month, pushing activity down to a 13-year low as the steep slump in housing continued.

Des Moines Register

Mayor's lawyers want steamy texts tossed

Legal experts say the heart of the perjury case against Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick—text messages that seem to contradict his sworn denials of an affair—might be less open-and-shut than many believe.

San Jose Mercury News

Girls will be girls. Or not.

Newsweek

Bush overruled in death penalty dispute

The Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 that President George W. Bush cannot force the state of Texas to reconsider a death penalty case, even if the conviction violated an international court's ruling.

ABC News

POLITICS

McCain derides government intervention to save banks or borrowers

Sen. John McCain derided government intervention to save and reward banks or small borrowers who behave irresponsibly though offered few immediate alternatives for fixing the growing housing crisis.

Star Tribune

Solving the American housing crisis

ABC News

Question on Lewinsky draws quick dismissal from Chelsea Clinton

Chelsea Clinton had a quick retort when asked whether her mother's credibility had been hurt during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Denver Post

Stingy senators stiff GOP

Republican senators with millions of dollars in their campaign accounts have given little or nothing to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, despite its desperate pleas for cash funds.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Motorola to split

Apparently succumbing to pressure from shareholders including billionaire Carl Icahn, Motorola announced plans to spin off its mobile handset business, following a strategic review launched in January.

Forbes

Medicare running out of funds

Spending on Medicare, the U.S. health-care program for the elderly, will reach a legal limit by 2014, requiring the next president to propose changes.

Bloomberg

SPORTS

Sweet 16 full of Big East flavor

The women's Sweet 16 includes all four No. 1 seeds ... and five Big East teams, three of which shone with NCAA tournament wins over Big 12 squads

ESPN

Ramirez, Red Sox top A's in extras to open season

Manny Ramirez's two-run double in the top of the 10th inning lifted Boston over Oakland, 6-5, during Major League Baseball's season opener at the Tokyo Dome.

The Sports Network

Niners docked fifth-round pick for tampering with Briggs

The San Francisco 49ers have forfeited their fifth-round pick in next month's NFL draft after commissioner Roger Goodell said they tampered with Chicago linebacker Lance Briggs.

CBS SportsLine

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA: Mars Rovers to continue despite budget cuts

NASA says it has absolutely no plan to turn off either of the Mars Rovers because of budget cuts.

Houston Chronicle

Yahoo! and MySpace join with Google

Yahoo!, Google and MySpace said that they would create the OpenSocial Foundation to maintain a neutral, community-governed forum for developing applications for social networks.

International Herald Tribune

EDUCATION

School helps autistic kids navigate 'foreign land'

For the teachers at the Croyden Avenue School in Kalamazoo, Mich., each day is filled with tiny steps and tons of repetition. Progress comes on many scales for the autistic students.

NPR

Pottermania lives on in classrooms

J.K. Rowling has retired Harry Potter, but the fictional boy wizard lives on in college classes across the country where the children's books are embraced as literary and academic texts.

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Dahlia Lithwick):

The Supreme Court gives habeas corpus a swirly

Slate

Column (Andrew Lee Butters):

So you wanna be a Hezbollah fighter?

TIME

Column (Jerry Adler):

The working-class smoker

Newsweek

Column (Fred Kaplan):

What does "victory in Iraq" mean?

Slate

Editorial:

The Russians are coming

Baltimore Sun

Editorial:

Save the disabled parking for those who truly need it

San Jose Mercury News

Column:

Human rights not in China's game plan

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Editorial:

The campaign grinds on

Economist

Editorial:

A cue on energy from Europe and Japan

International Herald Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Big tip will mean a dream prom night

An 18-year-old in Indiana will have the prom night she was dreaming of, thanks to a mystery man's Easter tip.

San Francisco Chronicle

Mayor plans 10 'bubbles' of free Wi-Fi

Mayor Bill White announced that Houston will use about $3.5 million to build 10 free wireless network "bubbles" in low-income parts of Houston, Texas, to give residents access they otherwise might do without.

Houston Chronicle

Alaska couple married in swimming pool

The cake was in the shape of a pool and the walk down the aisle was replaced by a zip down a water slide as Mark Confer and Joanne Wainwright took the plunge into marriage — literally.

HappyNews.com

WORLD

US sent missile parts to Taiwan

The U.S. military mistakenly shipped four triggers for nuclear missiles to Taiwan, the Pentagon said. The items have been returned to the United States.

MSNBC

Special section:

Fast facts: Taiwan

CBS News

European economy weathering turmoil

The European economy is holding up better than many expected, but officials warned that a slowdown in growth was probably inevitable, given the global credit crisis and the faltering U.S. economy.

International Herald Tribune

Somalia too dangerous for aid work

Top international aid agencies warned that war-scarred Somalia has become too dangerous for its workers to help more than 1 million civilians living rough, as fresh fighting erupted.

Sydney Morning Herald

ENVIRONMENT

Antarctic ice shelf 'hangs by a thread'

Part of the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula is supported only by a thin strip of ice hanging between two islands.

Science Daily

Trash pickers become green force

The unsung heroes in the environmental battle are the impoverished trash pickers in the developing world, who search garbage for cardboard and plastic bags that can be sold and recycled.

McClatchy Newspapers

America's 10 cleanest cities

Forbes

Contaminated water system flushed

Crews started pumping chlorine through the Alamosa, Colo. water system to rid it of salmonella bacteria that has sickened nearly 250 people.

Detroit Free Press

HEALTH

Patient turns harsh light on clinics reusing syringes

When Evelyn McKnight was diagnosed with cancer she knew she was facing the fight of her life. What she couldn't know was that the people treating her would cause another life-threatening illness.

USA Today

Weight gain: thyroid gland to blame?

If you're tempted to blame your thyroid gland for the numbers on the scale, researchers have some good news and some not-so-good news for you.

WebMD

Florida teen dies after complications during breast surgery

Florida high school senior Stephanie Kuleba's promising life was cut short after the 18-year-old suffered what doctors believe was a fatal reaction to anesthesia during breast augmentation surgery.

ABC News

RELIGION

Jewish punk

Though few people would associate punk rock with Judaism, the punk movement was created by Jews from Brooklyn and Queens.

Beliefnet

Muslims in US turn to home schooling

Across the United States, Muslims who find that a public school education clashes with their religious or cultural traditions have turned to home schooling.

International Herald Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Ellen is top talk host

Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has topped rival Oprah Winfrey in a popularity poll of television hosts — while veteran Larry King was labeled the least sexy.

MSNBC

Bullet grazes Prudhomme at golf event

Paul Prudhomme was setting up his cooking tent on the practice range at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans golf event when he felt a sting in his right arm, just above his elbow.

Newsweek

DoOneNiceThing.com inspires do-gooders to keep it up

DoOneNiceThing.com began in a simple way: Over lunch with girlfriends, Debbie Tenzer listened as they argued over the state of the world and how they felt helpless to change anything.

Christian Science Monitor

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