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Miss. school prom off after lesbian's date request (AP)

AP - A northern Mississippi school district will not be hosting a high school prom this spring after a lesbian student sought to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.

Pinera assumes Chile presidency amid strong quakes (AP)

AP - The strongest aftershock since Chile's devastating earthquake rocked the South American country Thursday as President Sebastian Pinera was sworn into office.

2-second video causes headache for ABC News (AP)

AP - For the want of a better two-second picture of a tachometer, ABC News has called into question its reporting on acceleration problems with Toyota vehicles.

CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella (AP)

AP - As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries.

Supreme Court chief fights back after criticism from Obama (The Newsroom)
The Newsroom - It's no secret that many think the fierce mood of partisanship is routinely crippling Washington. While most of the fur flies between the major parties in Congress ? with the president weighing in occasionally to keep his party leaders on message ? this week has seen an outbreak of hostilities in a less traditional venue: between the Supreme Court and the president.
Minority births on track to outnumber white births (AP)
AP - Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years.
Dodd to offer his own financial regulation bill (AP)

AP - WASHINGTON AP) — Unable to muster bipartisan agreement on key banking provisions, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said Thursday he will offer his own version of a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations without Republican support.

Analysis: Greece's crisis could presage America's (AP)

AP - Greece is a financial basket case, begging for international help. Is America heading down that same road?

KC superintendent says school closings are painful (AP)

AP - Kansas City School Superintendent John Covington says the decision to close almost half the district's schools was difficult and painful but "unquestionably the right thing to do."

Sanders: Obama Has Tragically Lost The Youth, Antagonized Unions (Huffin...

HuffingtonPost.com - A trio of the Senate's leading progressives expressed concern on Wednesday that President Obama has squandered the transformational political coalition that propelled him into office, concluding that he will pay a price for it.

Lars Vilks: why some European artists are building panic rooms (The Chri...

The Christian Science Monitor - Why did Lars Vilks, a mild-mannered Swede who calls himself “the artist,” booby-trap his art with electrified barbed wire, keep an ax by his bedside, and build a panic room upstairs?

Greece hit by strikes, riots over austerity plan (AP)

AP - Serious street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in central Athens Thursday as some 30,000 people demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government's austerity measures.

Online Dating as Honest as Real Life (HealthDay)

HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- For the millions looking for love on the Internet, the nagging question remains: Is my virtual paramour the person they say they are?

Democrats, White House close in on health bill (AP)

AP - House Democratic leaders Thursday walked their rank-and-file members through last-minute agreements that could move President Barack Obama's overhaul of the nation's health care system a step closer to reality.

Lost in the ruins: Haiti's best and brightest (AP)

AP - They kept the books, had the training and fixed the computers. They were the educated few of Haiti, an up-and-coming generation of nurses, technicians, office managers and college students.

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