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Members of Missouri Task Force One search-and-rescue team stand by as heavy equipment moves debris from a tornado-damaged Home Depot in Joplin, Mo. A large tornado moved through much of the city, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses. (Photo by Jeff Roberson / AP)

More earths out there than we thought?

Planet hunting is by far the hottest area of astronomy these days, and just about everyone who’s in on the search is looking for the same thing: a distant world where life could exist, at least in theory.

TIME

More blacks calling South home again

Roughly six million blacks migrated north during the 20th century, fleeing racial hatred in the South and seeking good jobs in places like Chicago and Milwaukee. Now, many blacks are returning to the South.

NPR

Joplin, Mo., tornado toll at least 116, may rise

Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars in a search for victims of a tornado that killed at least 116 people when it blasted much of this Missouri town off the map.

San Francisco Chronicle

Until 1940s, Americans didn’t get any kind of tornado forecasts

CNN

Special section:

Birth of a tornado

MSNBC

Missouri twister deadliest in decades

Reuters

Obama and Cameron pledge cooperation

President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to work together on economic and security matters in a joint article timed to coincide with Obama’s state visit to Britain.

Bloomberg

President Obama’s visit to the UK

BBC

Horse-killing virus brings fear to western US

A deadly virus is spreading among horses in the Western U.S. and parts of Canada. The highly contagious equine herpes Virus-1 isn’t a threat to humans.

NPR

NATION

US holds up better than most as world markets sink

Europe’s debt crisis and growing fears of slowing global economic growth rock world markets again. But U.S. stock losses overall have been less severe than the declines in many other equity markets.

Los Angeles Times

Bank stocks set for further volatility

ABC News

Huge doses of potent antipsychotics flow into state jails for troubled kids

Florida has plied children in state juvenile jails with heavy doses of powerful antipsychotic medications. And doctors hired to evaluate kids in custody have taken payments from drug companies.

Palm Beach Post

Blog:

Doctors with drug company ties prescribe drugs for jailed youth

ProPublica

A soldier’s search for serenity marred by the ghosts of Iraq

Army Spc. Shane Parham longed for the life he had before Iraq. But the former lawman battled the war’s ghosts and could no longer be trusted with a gun.

CNN

POLITICS

GOP braces for Medicare blowback

An off-year special election in Buffalo, N.Y., and a purely symbolic vote in the Senate might tell Republicans all they need to know about the politics of Medicare reform.

Politico

Air traffic safety the focus of Senate panel

A Senate subcommittee has called in the top officials in charge of airline safety and air traffic control. Tough questions could be asked during testimony about protocol and policies of air traffic controllers.

C-Span

BUSINESS

Jobless discrimination? When firms won’t consider hiring the unemployed

Some companies are refusing to even consider hiring the unemployed for job openings — a harsh catch-22 at a time when long-term joblessness is at its highest level in decades.

TIME

Toyota wants you to friend your car

The Japanese automaker is launching a social network, enabling drivers to interact with their cars on Facebook, Twitter and a new private social network called Toyota Friend.

CNNMoney

Square payment system uses iPads as cash registers

Square, the mobile payments startup co-founded by the creator of Twitter, showed off technology that it said could one day replace cash registers and eliminate paper receipts.

San Francisco Chronicle

EDUCATION

Socrates in Spanish

When parents are given a choice of primary and secondary schools for their children, schools with foreign language immersion programs can be the hottest draws.

Inside Higher Ed

For 2011 business school grads, a low-key send-off

Corporate bigwigs addressing the business school classes of 2011 are tempering their optimism. The message: Work hard, add value, embrace change.

Bloomberg

SPORTS

After big win, Mavs’ magic number is 1

For 48 minutes, the Dallas Mavericks never led. In the five extra minutes of overtime when it counted most, they never trailed.

Kansas City Star

Ron Artest anticipates full season

Lakers forward Ron Artest doesn’t believe the NBA labor situation will result in an NFL-style lockout and expects to play an 82-game regular season beginning in October.

ESPN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Bob Dylan tributes round-up

As Bob Dylan turns 70, the blues legend gets the greatest — and most overblown — tributes to his music.

Telegraph.co.uk

Bob Dylan through the years

YouTube

Why is America the ‘no-vacation nation’?

The typical American worker bee gets two or three precious weeks off a year to vacation — much less than what people in many other countries receive.

CNN

Beach Boys contemplate reunion as 50th anniversary approaches

Brian Wilson said he was open to the possibility of a Beach Boys reunion to commemorate the group‘s 50th anniversary. “I’m considering it,” he told the BBC. “I don’t know yet, but I am considering it.”

Rolling Stone

Columns And Op-Ed

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Gallery of cartoons

USA TODAY

Blog (Byron York):

Giuliani ‘very close’ to joining GOP presidential race

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Casey coverage

Orlando Sentinel

Editorial:

Infrastructure needs a boost

Denver Post

Column (Froma Harrop):

Playing chicken with full faith and credit

Creators Syndicate

Column (Garance Franke-Ruta):

Out of a job? If you’re in the GOP, try running for president

The Atlantic

Column (Kira Cochrane):

Dear Michelle Obama

Guardian

Editorial:

Obama stays course on peace process

Star Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Yellow Dot speeds help to crash victims

A national program that immediately provides first responders with vital information about automobile crash victims is spreading rapidly, fueled by the growing wave of maturing baby boomers.

USA TODAY

Outdoor exposure good for your health

The key to better health may be as easy as stepping outside, says one University of Illinois researcher. Exposure to nature increases people’s health outcomes even when interest in nature isn’t high.

Discovery News

JFK awards given to Egyptian activist, US school board advocate

A Google executive who launched a Facebook page that sparked protests in Egypt and a member of a southern U.S. school board were given the annual John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

CBS News

WORLD

Will ash cloud hit Europe air traffic?