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An American flag hangs on the side of a tornado damaged building in Henryville, Ind. Emergency crews desperately searched for survivors after a violent wave of Midwest and Southern storms flattened some rural communities and left behind a trail of destruction. (Photo by Michael Conroy / AP)

Letizia Battaglia: shooting the mafia

Nearly 20 years after the murder of her friend, the anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, one of the great photographers of our time, talks about her experiences during an 18-year mafia killing spree.

Guardian

Putin ‘elected Russian president’

Vladimir Putin has been elected Russian president for the third time after spending the last four years as the country’s Prime Minister. Exit poll results gave him about 60 percent of the vote.

BBC

Russians vote for new president

Al Jazeera

Survival stories emerge from tornado victims

As survival accounts were passed around, emergency officials trudged with search dogs past knocked-down cellphone towers and ruined homes looking for survivors in rural Kentucky and Indiana.

Kansas City Star

Aerial views of tornado damage

CBS News

Tornadoes devastate Indiana

TIME

Romney wins Washington caucuses

Mitt Romney won the Republican caucuses in Washington state, giving the former Massachusetts governor a shot in the arm heading into Super Tuesday contests.

CNN

Republican candidates make final push toward Super Tuesday

San Francisco Chronicle

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Candidate tracker

Politico

Stocks: the little engine that could

Stocks have proven the naysayers wrong so far in 2012, and the February jobs report could help to keep the bulls going into next week.

Reuters

Hiring, key to US recovery, on upswing

MarketWatch

NATION

One last fight for secret soldiers

Decades after fighting alongside U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, Hmong veterans begin their final battle with the U.S. Congress: fighting for veteran benefits and the right to burial in a veteran’s cemetery.

McClatchy Newspapers

Fed up, New Orleans looks to shake ‘Murder City’ title

The revelry of Mardi Gras is over, and so is a series of high-profile football games that had people dancing in the streets, yet with nearly a slaying a day in January, not all city residents feel like celebrating.

CNN

Occupy may seem to be receding, but take a closer look

The Occupy movement seems to be in hibernation — most encampments are gone, and diminished numbers take part in protests. But there’s a lot of ferment behind the scenes.

NPR

POLITICS

Gay marriage backers find success emphasizing love and family

Proponents of gay marriage, who frame the cause as a matter of equality and civil rights, are increasingly invoking something else: family.

Los Angeles Times

Limbaugh apologizes to Sandra Fluke

Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh apologized to activist Sandra Fluke for his “insulting word choices” after calling her a “slut” and a “prostitute” after her testimony before Congress.

CBS News

Text of Rush Limbaugh apology to law student

Seattle Times

BUSINESS

Lenders change strategy, now helping distressed owners

Forced by the harsh realities of the real estate market, lenders are increasingly likely to allow defaulting owners to remain in their homes — a change in strategy that is helping to buoy some neighborhoods.

CNBC

The evolution of the Cuban cigar

Cuban cigars, long a sign of luxury, are increasing their sales even as the global economy struggles. At a convention in Cuba, cigar-makers show how they are adapting to the times.

BBC

HEALTH

More young women having strokes

A new study shows an alarming rise in the number of acute ischemic strokes in young adults. From 1995 to 2008, women between 15 to 34 who were hospitalized for this type of stroke rose 23 percent.

ABC News

Many pilots, truck drivers sleep-deprived, survey finds

One in 10 American truck drivers, train conductors, airline pilots and other transportation workers may be dangerously sleep-deprived, a new survey suggests.

Yahoo! News

Cannabis memory effects examined

Scientists believe they are closer to understanding how taking cannabis disrupts short-term memory.

BBC

EDUCATION

Maryland campuses struggle over when to issue emergency alerts

Since 1990, federal law has required colleges and universities to issue timely emergency notifications. Rapidly evolving technology has universities continually evaluating alert systems.

Baltimore Sun

Dual-language schools offer new educational wrinkle

Zavala is a dual-language school. It was one of more than a dozen schools that opened their doors this month to teachers and principals attending a convention for bilingual education.

Houston Chronicle

Fla. charter schools get merit pay break

Over the opposition of Democrats, the Florida House passed a bill that clarifies that charter schools have wiggle room in complying with a controversial “merit pay” law signed last year.

Florida Times-Union

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Cardinal Keith O’Brien clashes with David Cameron on same-sex marriage

The Catholic Church is on a collision course with David Cameron as one of its most senior figures issues an outspoken attack on the Government over its plans to legalize gay marriage.

Telegraph.co.uk

Number of American mosques growing, study finds

According to a new study, the number of American mosques has increased dramatically in the last decade, despite post-9/11 protests aimed at Muslim houses of worship.

Sioux City Journal

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Dick Polman):

The American debate: swing voters amid the mess

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Nicholas D. Kristof):

We were born to not get bullied

Seattle Times

Blog (Susan Clayton, Ph.D.):

A look at environmental politics

(Psychology Today)

On Being Green

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Political cartoons

U.S. News & World Report

Column (Will Oremus):

Brother, can you spare an e-dime?

Slate

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The cultural attitudes of Rick Santorum

U.S. News & World Report

Column (Kurt Volker):

Russian elections: US and Europe must rethink the ‘reset’

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Robert Fisk):

The heroic myth and the uncomfortable truth of war reporting

The Independent

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GOOD NEWS

For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining globally

The world reached the U.N.’s “millennium development goal” of halving world poverty between 1990 and 2015 five years early.

Economist

The baby in the cornfield: tales of tiny tornado survivors

Why are stories of tornado “miracle babies” so common? It happened again when rescuers found a blond, blue-eyed toddler in the middle of an Indiana cornfield, 10 miles from her home.

Christian Science Monitor

Nestle removes all artificial ingredients from products

Nestle, the company behind chocolate bars Kit Kat and Aero, has become the first major confectionery company to take out all artificial colorings, flavors and preservatives from its entire range.

Telegraph.co.uk

WORLD

Kim Jong Un visits front-line DMZ troops, orders high alert