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President Barack Obama greets British Foreign Sec. David Miliband, right, as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown greets Sec. of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, and Sec. of Treasury Tim Geithner, left, looks on during a meeting at 10 Downing Street in London. (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)

Obama, Medvedev agree to reopen nuclear arms talks

The U.S. and Russia hope to have a new nuclear arms deal in place before the existing treaty expires in December.

Bloomberg

President heralds 'great progress.'

MSNBC

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US, Russia to negotiate weapons treaty

CBS News

ADP says US companies reduced payrolls by 742,000 workers

U.S. companies cut an estimated 742,000 workers in March, pointing to no relief in sight for the labor market amid the longest recession in seven decades.

Bloomberg

France demands tougher G20 rules

France and Germany have called for tougher regulation for the world's financial system at the G20 summit.

BBC

Obama, Brown: G20 must agree on bank rules

CNN

G20 priorities

ABC News

Flooding spotlight turns to Southeast US

Residents of the rain-soaked Southeast braced for more storms even as they tried to dry out from a weekend deluge that flooded hundreds of homes, washed out roads and forced evacuations.

MSNBC

Fargo exhales as Red River recedes

CBS News

White House optimistic GM can retool without bankruptcy

President Barack Obama's administration remains optimistic that General Motors Corp. can restructure without going to bankruptcy court, a senior administration official said.

Reuters

Auto bankruptcy: what it means

CNNMoney

NATION

Stimulus highway projects underway

Early federal stimulus money appears to be hitting its target, paying for new projects and creating jobs, according to a review of some of the first projects.

USA Today

Federal tax hike hits smokers

The cigarette excise tax that tobacco companies pay the federal government rose by 61.6 cents per pack to about $10.10 per carton, or $1.01 per pack.

CNN

POLITICS

Obama nominee admits tax errors

President Obama's second choice for health secretary is the latest nominee to reveal tax payment problems.

BBC

Holder: void Stevens' conviction

Attorney General Eric Holder will drop the case against former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens given persistent problems from prosecutors' actions.

NPR

HEALTH

Choice autism treatment offers benefits, has limits

The effectiveness and nature of Applied Behavior Analysis is particularly relevant as parents fight for insurance companies to cover it and other autism treatments.

CNN

Late bedtimes linked to heart disease

Men who go to bed after midnight have significantly more arterial stiffening — an early stage of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries — than men who turn in earlier, a new study shows.

WebMD

EDUCATION

Rules allowing extended graduation time

Federal regulations opened a door for schools to get credit under the No Child Left Behind Act for students who take longer than four years to earn a high school diploma.

Education Week

Reverend Al Sharpton's $500,000 link to education reform

Reverend Al Sharpton and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein stunned the education world in June joining forces to reform the nation's public schools.

NY Daily News

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

The end of verse?

A National Endowment for the Arts report finds fiction reading on the rise, while poetry readership dropped significantly. Is an art form dying?

Newsweek

Coldplay, Beastie Boys, Tool to headline 2009 All Points West Festival

The second annual All Points West Festival goes down July 30 to Aug. 2 at New Jersey’s Liberty State Park.

Rolling Stone

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

With God on our side; egocentrism in reading God's mind

People's own beliefs line up much closer with the beliefs they attribute to their gods than to those they peg on other people, including attitudes about abortion, gay marriage, and the Iraq war.

Psychology Today

Gordon Brown draws on religion to warn 'markets need morals'

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on religious leaders to help develop a "shared moral sense" that will govern markets and the economy in the wake of the global economic crisis.

Telegraph.co.uk

Pope urges Gordon Brown to back 'ethical' financial system

Times Online

Columns And Op-Ed

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Don't fear debate; fear its end

Denver Post

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Like a recovering patient, prison health care needs vigilance

Detroit Free Press

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Where is the new JFK we expected? He's stuck in a rut with Gordon Brown

Guardian

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Diet pills: too good to be true

Newsweek

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A fraying trans-Atlantic alliance

Baltimore Sun

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Shades of gay

Slate

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Afghanistan is not Iraq

Weekly Standard

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Rising to the occasion

USA Today

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Michigan's future is battery powered

Newsweek

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Rusty and me

Salon.com

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Judges can help homeowners hang on

Christian Science Monitor

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Papa Bear won't travel to Spain anymore

Huffington Post

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Pyongyang, Tehran: axis of missiles

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GOOD NEWS

Kidney donation spurs others to help

The generosity of Marcus Gilbert, owner of a sandwich store, already saved one Orem, Utah boy's life with his actions, and his example has led to others helping those with kidney disease.

Daily Herald

Are astronomers on the brink of finding another Earth?

Astronomers may be on the brink of discovering a second Earth-like planet, a finding that would add fresh impetus to the search for extraterrestrial life.

Daily Galaxy

WORLD

Can the US work with Netanyahu?

Despite Washington's hopes, swearing in Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel's new Prime Minister may not herald an agreement on a two-state solution.

TIME

Netanyahu: Israel is serious about peace