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A body rests outside a coroner’s van outside Oikos University in Oakland, Calif. A gunman opened fire at the university, killing at least seven people, law enforcement sources close to the investigation said. (Photo by Noah Berger / AP)

The plight of the Roma

The position of Roma minorities across Europe is more precarious than ever. A new report paints a disturbing picture of poverty, exclusion and rights abuses.

The Independent

Special section:

Roma, Gypsies and travelers

Guardian

US auto sales sizzle in March

Auto sales continued a robust pace in March, boosted by consumers with more confidence in a recovering U.S. economy who want to buy fuel-efficient cars and trucks in the face of rising gasoline prices.

Reuters

Special section:

Comeback of the American car

CNNMoney

7 dead in shooting at Oakland college

A 43-year-old former student of a small Christian university in California opened fire at the school, killing at least seven people and setting off a chaotic manhunt that ended with his capture.

CBS News

Deadliest US school shootings

San Francisco Chronicle

Suspect detained in California shooting

CNN

Syrian forces to leave populated areas

Syria told international envoy Kofi Annan that its military will withdraw troops and heavy weapons from populated areas, a first step toward ending the conflict.

San Francisco Chronicle

Assad cannot survive for long, his uncle says

BBC

Blog:

Syria: live

Al Jazeera

African-American children more optimistic about race than whites

A white child and a black child look at the exact same picture of two students on the playground, but what both children see is very different and what they say speaks volumes about the racial divide in the U.S.

CNN

NATION

US economy enters sweet spot

The U.S. may be emerging as the main engine for global growth once again — and at an opportune time, as Europe slides into recession and China’s economy decelerates.

Bloomberg

Feds raid 3 medical marijuana sites

Federal agents converged on Oaksterdam University and two other medical marijuana sites in downtown Oakland, but officials are releasing few details about the raid or any warrants served.

San Jose Mercury News

The new US household: 3 generations under 1 roof

As the economy continues to take a toll on consumers’ finances, a growing number of people are discovering that becoming roommates with mom and dad helps to ease the financial burden.

CNN

POLITICS

Fuel-efficient MPG equals bad news for highway fund

The federal Highway Trust Fund is being hobbled by politics, but it is also threatened by success.

ABC News

Despite delegate lead, Romney struggles to put Santorum away

Rick Santorum is likely to keep giving Mitt Romney fits even if Romney wins the primaries in Wisconsin and Maryland, according to top Republicans.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Overweight and chic: plus-size fashion business is booming

While supermodels in glossy magazines seem to be getting skinnier, “real” American women have gotten plumper and more curvy, which has launched a new and booming market for plus-size fashion.

ABC News

‘Anorexia has many causes — and you’re probably not one’

The Independent

As foreclosure problems persist, fed seeks more fines

Federal regulators are poised to crack down on eight financial firms that are not part of the recent government settlement over home foreclosure practices involving sloppy, inaccurate or forged documents.

CNBC

Forget gas prices — airfares are getting more painful

A summer vacation involving a flight might come with sticker shock this year. Domestic U.S. airfares are surging as airlines reap the benefits of industry consolidation and big capacity cuts.

BusinessWeek

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Humans used fire 1 million years ago

Ash and charred bone from a cave in South Africa were found alongside stone tools in a sediment layer dating back 1 million years.

Discovery News

Coolest jobs: hackers for hire

Hackers carry a bit of a stigma, as most blame them for their annoying computer viruses. But what about those who earn an honest living hacking into Fortune 1000 casinos, banks and energy companies?

Ars Technica

Pastebin: where hackers publicize their attacks

BBC

Sparrows change their tune to be heard in noisy city

Sparrows in San Francisco’s Presidio district have changed their tune to soar above the increasing cacophony of car horns and engine rumbles, according to a new research study.

ScienceDaily

HEALTH

Many kids lack outdoor time with parents

Roughly half of preschoolers don’t spend time playing outside with a parent each day, despite the fact that outdoor play has been tied to a host of benefits for children.

Reuters

The German beer belly is misunderstood

By measuring almost 20,000 Germans, scientists have concluded that beer is not the main cause of the beer belly.

Guardian

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Doris Day: a Hollywood legend

The biggest female box-office star in Hollywood history, Doris Day, started singing and dancing when she was a teenager and made her first film when she was 24.

NPR

Mega Million Monday: back to work for all but a few

The record-breaking $656 million Mega Millions lottery prize went to three lucky winners, and just about everyone else retains worthless slips of bar-coded paper and a kind of embarrassment.

USA TODAY

Maryland woman, co-workers spar over winning mega millions claim

TIME

Columns And Op-Ed

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Political cartoons

U.S. News & World Report

Column (Stephen Zunes):

Plight of Arab Christians is an outgrowth of Western policies

National Catholic Reporter

Editorial:

The right budget? GOP wants to kill the ‘New Deal’

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Linda Bloom and Charlie Bloom):

The epidemic of gray divorces

Stronger at the Broken Places

(Psychology Today)

Editorial:

‘Opt out’ should be as easy to search as Googling

USA TODAY

Column (Natasha Lennard):

Occupy’s ‘precarious’ general strike

Salon

Editorial:

Suu Kyi is right to ignore the risks

The Independent

Column (Susan DeMersseman):

How to raise African-American boys to be careful, not paranoid

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Afghanistan’s 1st female Olympic boxer eyes London dream

An arena where the Taliban used to execute women provides a chilling and incongruous setting for one teen girl’s unlikely Olympic dream.

CNN

Dogs are valuable classroom aides in Bucks County, Pa.

In a cozy corner of a classroom, 9-year-old Conner Weinberg confidently reads to a companion, glancing up for approval. In return, his listener offered a soulful gaze and a slight wag of a tail.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Indian man single-handedly plants 1,360-acre forest

A little more than 30 years ago, a teenager named Jadav “Molai” Payeng began burying seeds along a barren sandbar in northern India’s Assam region to grow a refuge for wildlife.

TreeHugger

WORLD

US offers $10M for militant chief