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Clowns celebrate during the traditional carnival Rose Monday Parade in Duesseldorf, Germany. Carnival celebrations, such as Mardi Gras in the U.S., are traditionally held around the world ahead of the Lent season. (Photo by Frank Augstein / AP)

New Orleans warms up for Mardi Gras

With ideal weather as a backdrop, crowds poured onto the streets in the traditional warm-up for Carnival’s big show on Fat Tuesday when New Orleans expresses itself in song, dance and masked spectacle.

MSNBC

Brazil’s Carnival

Denver Post

Utah approves guest worker program for illegal immigrants

Utah could become the first state in the nation with its own guest worker program that would grant permits to undocumented immigrants and allow them to continue living and working in the state legally.

ABC News

Pro-Gadhafi forces block rebels

Libyan government forces are advancing towards the oil port of Ras Lanuf. The town of Bin Jawad, 30 miles from Ras Lanuf, has fallen to forces loyal to Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi.

BBC

How Gadhafi friended Bush, Blair and Berlusconi

Newsweek

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Live updates

Al Jazeera

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Unrest in the Middle East and Africa

CNN

Gas prices continue climb

Gas prices continued to rise, driven higher for nearly two full weeks by the turmoil in Libya, with analysts expecting prices to keep climbing.

CNNMoney

Even electric cars are no safe haven from high gas prices

ABC News

Not getting enough sleep? Time to turn off the technology

Dependence on televisions, cellphones and laptops may be costing Americans dearly — in lack of sleep.

Reuters

NATION

Why employee pensions aren’t bankrupting states

From state legislatures, to Congress, to tea party rallies, a vocal backlash is rising against what are perceived as too-generous retirement benefits for state and local government workers.

McClatchy Newspapers

Homeless children: hard times generation

American families have been falling out of the middle class in record numbers. The combination of lost jobs and millions of foreclosures means a lot of folks are homeless for the first time in their lives.

CBS News

Winter snows bring spring flood risk

As a winter that has pelted much of the nation with unusually heavy snowfall comes to a close, some heartland communities are readying sandbags for what could be a flood-soaked spring.

MSNBC

POLITICS

Genetically altered salmon spook Northwest lawmakers

Fearing for the wild salmon industry in the Northwest, Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state wants to stop the FDA from approving genetically modified Atlantic salmon for human consumption.

McClatchy Newspapers

Democrats, GOP stall on talks over collective bargaining rights

A Wisconsin Democratic lawmaker says negotiations have stalled with Republicans over controversial legislation that would strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights.

USA TODAY

Coal reignites a mighty battle of labor history

NPR

HEALTH

Noninvasive test may identify Down syndrome early on

A simple blood test may one day offer a safe way to detect Down syndrome during pregnancy, researchers say.

HealthDay

Electronic glow affecting sleep

In the National Sleep Foundation’s 2011 Sleep in America poll, 95 percent of those surveyed reported using some type of electronic device within an hour of bedtime at least a few nights a week.

USA TODAY

New gene regions identified that predispose people to heart attacks

Scientists have identified 13 new gene sites associated with the risk of coronary artery disease and validated 10 sites found in previous studies.

ScienceDaily

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Jupiter to leave the evening sky

It will soon be time to bid a fond adieu to an object that has been a fixture in our evening sky since the start of last fall: the planet Jupiter.

Space News

Space station astronauts bid farewell to shuttle Discovery

Less than 24 hours before the space shuttle Discovery departs the International Space Station, the shuttle crew and the astronauts living onboard the space station joined together for a farewell ceremony.

Space News

Shuttle Discovery leaves space station for the last time

Orlando Sentinel

Bacteria found on meteorites

A NASA scientist reports detecting tiny fossilized bacteria on three meteorites, and maintains these microscopic life forms are not native to Earth.

Toronto Star

SPORTS

Lindsey Vonn wins World Cup hat trick

United States skier Lindsey Vonn has clinched this season’s World Cup downhill, super-G and super combined titles within three days of each other.

BBC

NFL head-butting is all about millionaires versus billionaires

National Football League players and team owners opted to keep talking despite the expiration of the current contract. But in the $9 billion sport, the biggest stumbling block remains money.

Christian Science Monitor

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Crowd in NYC rallies against congressional hearing on US Muslims

A crowd gathered in New York’s Times Square to speak out against a planned congressional hearing on Muslims’ role in homegrown terrorism.

Seattle Times

How religion changes a Chinese billionaire developer

Zhang Xin, the billionaire Chief Executive of Soho China Ltd., insists she’s not the woman she once was. Zhang is reinventing herself as a Baha’i convert who has transcended materialistic pursuits.

Wall Street Journal

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Vicki Viotti):

Civil unions: the road ahead

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Blog (John Yemma):

Revolution 2011: What comes next is not the end of the story

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Editor's Blog

Column (Dana Vachon):

Cairo: So now what?

Salon

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Raise taxes

USA TODAY

Column (William Kristol):

The Gates of resignation

Weekly Standard

Column (Glenn Cook):

Bluster surrounds debate over salaries, benefits

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Editorial:

California addiction to debt proves costly

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Paul Stoller):

Politics in a culture of ignorance

Huffington Post

Editorial:

Don‘t copy Ariz.’s foolishness on immigration law

Detroit Free Press

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GOOD NEWS

Youth pitch in to remove graffiti along US 95 in Nev.

Clark County officials declared March Graffiti-Free Nevada Month and two groups of students have given up their morning to help cover markings on walls along a half-mile stretch of U.S. 95.

Las Vegas Sun

7th annual bed race raises money for City Rescue Mission

Fable characters and fairy princesses could all be found along Hogan Street downtown. It was all part of City Rescue Mission’s seventh annual Bed Race and Family Fun Festival.

Florida Times-Union

Human cues used to improve computer user-friendliness

Lijun Yin wants computers to understand inputs from humans that go beyond the traditional keyboard and mouse.

ScienceDaily

WORLD

Japan a haven for child abductions?