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Nation+World headlines: Immigration law signed

Detroit Free Press - ‎1 hour ago‎
Gov. Jan Brewer ignored criticism from President Barack Obama on Friday and signed into law a bill supporters said would take handcuffs off police in dealing with illegal immigration in Arizona, the nation's busiest gateway for human and drug smuggling ...

Report: Netanyahu agrees to new gestures towards Abbas

Ha'aretz - Avi Issacharoff - ‎1 hour ago‎
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his meeting with United States special Mideast envoy George Mitchell on Friday agreed to release over 1000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, ...

Rebellious Mood Takes Root in Rural Thailand

New York Times - Thomas Fuller - ‎6 hours ago‎
Red-shirted protesters in Bangkok on Friday. Farmers who say they were never interested in politics are donating large sums to the red-shirt movement.

Karabakh Key to Turkish - Armenian Peace - Azerbaijan

New York Times - Matt Robinson, Jon Hemming - ‎14 hours ago‎
By REUTERS BAKU/YEREVAN (Reuters) - Azerbaijan warned Armenia on Friday it could not achieve anything in the region unless it makes peace over Nagorno-Karabakh, and warned its army was ready "to hit any target" to take the breakaway region back.

South Korea raises bow of sunken warship

BBC News - ‎39 minutes ago‎
South Korea has raised the front half of a warship sunk last month near the disputed sea border with the North. An unexplained explosion split the ship in half and it sunk with the loss of 46 sailors.

Baghdad mourns bombing victims

Aljazeera.net - ‎2 hours ago‎
Iraqis have been holding funerals for the victims of a series of bombings in Baghdad, which the prime minister has said were a reaction to the killings of two senior al-Qaeda figures last weekend.

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Suspect: al-Qaida ordered suicide attack in NYC

The Associated Press - Tom Hays - ‎3 hours ago‎
NEW YORK - They were former classmates at a New York high school, both on a mission to join the Taliban and fight US forces in Afghanistan.

Analysis: GOP, Dems compete for populist title

The Associated Press - Liz Sidoti - ‎1 hour ago‎
WASHINGTON - Republicans and Democrats are furiously casting each other as the handmaidens of Wall Street, playing to election-year anger surging on Main Street.

Boy Scouts ordered to pay $18.5M in sex abuse case

San Jose Mercury News - William McCall - ‎11 minutes ago‎
PORTLAND, Ore.—An Oregon jury's decision to award a man $18.5 million in punitive damages in his case against the Boy Scouts of America will likely be the first of many financial hits the Scouts will take as it prepares to ...

European Stocks Fall on Budget Deficit; Nokia Drops, RBS Gains

BusinessWeek - Francesca Cinelli - ‎2 hours ago‎
April 24 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks fell for a second week as the euro area's budget deficit widened to more than double the European Union's 3 percent limit in 2009, led by Greece and Ireland, offsetting better-than-expected ...

Paulson Says Firm Will Pay Goldman-Linked Legal Fees

Wall Street Journal - Jenny Strasburg - ‎8 hours ago‎
John Paulson told investors that his hedge-fund firm, not investors, will absorb any legal fees related to a complex investment he profited from that's now central to a federal lawsuit.

Report: SEC staffers watched porn

CNN - ‎12 hours ago‎
SEC employees spent hours looking at porn sites on their work computers, according to an internal report. (CNN) -- As the country was sinking into its worst financial crisis in more than 70 years, Security and Exchange Commission employees and ...

Why Are Space Telescopes Better Than Earth-Based Telescopes?

Space.com - Remy Melina - ‎2 hours ago‎
The Hubble Space Telescope has beamed hundreds of thousands of images back to Earth over the past two decades. One might call it the most skilled paparazzo, snapping countless images of the stars.

Woz has fun with leaked iPhone T-shirt (photo)

CNET - Greg Sandoval - ‎3 hours ago‎
Steve Wozniak, the patron saint of Apple computer engineers, is smiling down on Gray Powell. Wozniak, who along with Ronald Wayne and Steve Jobs founded Apple in 1976, recently had himself photographed drinking a beer, staring into an ...

How Blippy users' credit cards got into Google

CNET - Tom Krazit - ‎11 hours ago‎
After Blippy exposed credit card numbers in early February, Google's search crawlers failed to detect that it had scrubbed its site.

Bret Michaels 'Stabilized' After Brain Hemorrhage

MTV.com - Larry Carroll - ‎8 hours ago‎
Poison frontman was rushed to the hospital Thursday night and was said to be in critical condition. By Larry Carroll In the immediate hours following Bret Michaels' hospitalization for a brain hemorrhage, his fans have been poring over various websites ...

Michael Lohan makes a bad week worse for Lindsay Lohan with 'welfare check'

New York Daily News - Nancy Dillon - ‎1 hour ago‎
First came word the hard-partying 23-year-old - plagued by bouts of booze and drugs - was more than half a million dollars in debt.

'South Park' Episode Altered After Muslim Group's Warning

New York Times - Dave Itzkoff, Al Baker - ‎16 hours ago‎
“South Park,” the Comedy Central series, is an animated show that tries its best to push buttons and the boundaries of free speech by mocking every high-profile target in sight, from Hollywood celebrities to religious figures.

Panthers happy Clausen available at No. 48

Boston Globe - ‎2 hours ago‎
Jets fans had the costumes out and the reactions ready when their team made a second-round selection yesterday. (Jason Decrow/Associated Press) Associated Press / April 24, 2010 Instead of Heisman Trophy winners and All-Americans, the opening choices ...

Tim Tebow arrives in Denver, ready to become an NFL QB

USA Today - ‎6 hours ago‎
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) - Tim Tebow looked out the foggy window as his weather-delayed flight dropped through the dark clouds and descended into Centennial Airport on Friday afternoon.

What to watch today Another day of draft picks

Detroit Free Press - ‎1 hour ago‎
Barring any more trades, the Lions have four picks today in the final rounds of the NFL draft. Coverage of Rounds 4-7 starts at 10 am on ESPN and NFL Network.

Spanish doctors conduct full face transplant

CNN International - Al Goodman, Elizabeth Landau - ‎41 minutes ago‎
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- Doctors in Spain say they have carried out the world's first full face transplant on a man who severely damaged his face in an accident.

Airborne Fungus Expected to Spread in US

WebMD - Kathleen Doheny - ‎54 minutes ago‎
April 23, 2010 -- A potentially deadly airborne fungus, widely dubbed the killer fungus, has infected more than 50 people in the US, according to the CDC, and is expected to spread from the Pacific Northwest where it first surfaced.

H1N1 vaccine study investigating hints of complications from vaccine

Washington Post - Rob Stein - ‎8 hours ago‎
Federal health officials are investigating the first hints of any possible significant complications from the H1N1 vaccine, but stressed that the concerns will probably turn out to be a false alarm.

Caring for Hips and Knees to Avoid Artificial Joints

New York Times - Lesley Alderman - ‎19 hours ago‎
Dr. David Felson, a rheumatologist and arthritis-prevention specialist at Boston University School of Medicine, with his patient Stephen Carter.

This Is Apple's Next iPhone

Gizmodo.com (blog) - ‎Apr 19, 2010‎
You are looking at Apple's next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it.

Expansion FAQs: Clearing the haze around conference realignment

SI.com - ‎Apr 20, 2010‎
AP With the Big Ten seemingly moving full-steam ahead with its intent to expand by as many as three to five teams, it's come to my attention -- via your tweets and e-mails -- that there's a whole lot of confusion out there about the conference ...

Bernie Goldberg Admits: Jon Stewart Was Right About Fox News (VIDEO)

Huffington Post (blog) - ‎Apr 20, 2010‎
Fox News commentator Bernie Goldberg acknowledged Monday night on "The O'Reilly Factor" that Jon Stewart was right in his critique of Fox News.

Does Facebook user pray for Obama's death?

CNN Political Ticker - ‎Apr 21, 2010‎
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- What do President Barack Obama, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have in common?
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