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• House panel delves into Muslims radicalization (Reuters)
• New York high school student accused of acid attack (Reuters)
• School Visits: How Parents Can Get the Best Information (Time.com)
• Q&A: David Brooks, Author of 'The Social Animal' (Time.com)
• Wisconsin at epicenter of drive to curb unions (Reuters)
• AP: Federal prisons run out of key execution drug (AP)
• Pa. gov's deep higher-ed cuts draw protests (AP)
• Wet Northeast watches skies, worries about floods (AP)
• Ethiopia moves to sharply reduce foreign adoptions (AP)
• FBI searching home of bomb suspect's father (AP)
• February budget deficit highest ever for any month (AP)
• Stocks plunge on economic news, oil price swings (AP)
• Source: Giffords to attend husband shuttle launch (AP)
• Wis. defeat could help launch counterattack on GOP (AP)
• Panel: Child welfare system failed dead Fla. girl (AP)
• Protesters removed from Wis. Capitol before vote (AP)
• NH lawmaker suggests sending disabled 'to Siberia' (AP)
• 2nd trial opens in deadly NH home invasion case (AP)
• LA school officer charged in alleged hoax shooting (AP)

House panel delves into Muslims radicalization (Reuters) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 11:00 AM PST Reuters - Muslim Americans must do more to combat Islamic radicalization as al Qaeda targets them to help carry out terrorism plots, a lawmaker said on Thursday as he convened hearings critics said unfairly singled out Muslims.

New York high school student accused of acid attack (Reuters) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 02:41 PM PST Reuters - A New York City high school student was arraigned on felony charges on Thursday for allegedly trying to burn a classmate's eyes with acid during chemistry class, prosecutors said.

School Visits: How Parents Can Get the Best Information (Time.com) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 02:45 PM PST Time.com - Schools can be open to visits without sacrificing learning or safety. Different schools employ different methods, from student-led tours to simply allowing parents to drop in with a little advance notice

Q&A: David Brooks, Author of 'The Social Animal' (Time.com) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 02:45 PM PST Time.com - New York Times columnist David Brooks discusses his new book on brain science, The Social Animal

Wisconsin at epicenter of drive to curb unions (Reuters) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 11:56 AM PST Reuters - Wisconsin lawmakers, after three weeks of angry protests, were expected on Thursday to vote on, and likely approve, Republican Governor Scott Walker's plan to curb public workers' union rights.

AP: Federal prisons run out of key execution drug (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:41 PM PST AP - The federal government has told state attorneys general that it has run out of a key execution drug and is exploring alternatives, dashing states' hopes of obtaining a federal supply of the drug. Concerns about the shortage were highlighted Thursday when Ohio executed a man with another drug never before used alone in an execution.

Pa. gov's deep higher-ed cuts draw protests (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:19 PM PST AP - Pennsylvania's new Republican governor is under fire for proposing the nation's biggest cuts in higher education — more than 50 percent for some universities — while refusing to tax the gas drilling that is fast becoming one of the state's largest industries.

Wet Northeast watches skies, worries about floods (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:07 PM PST AP - Residents in the Northeast and parts of the Midwest nervously watched rising waterways Thursday as heavy rain swelled creeks and rivers, damaged houses, detoured commuters and forced amusement park workers to pack up equipment.

Ethiopia moves to sharply reduce foreign adoptions (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:13 PM PST AP - Ethiopia, which has become the No. 2 source country for children adopted by Americans, implemented changes Thursday that could reduce the number of foreign adoptions by up to 90 percent, the State Department said.

FBI searching home of bomb suspect's father (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:35 PM PST AP - The FBI is searching the Washington state home of a man whose 36-year-old son has been accused of placing a sophisticated bomb along a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route in Spokane.

February budget deficit highest ever for any month (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:40 PM PST AP - The government ran the largest-ever budget deficit for a single month in February. The shortfall kept this year's annual deficit on pace to end as the biggest in U.S. history.

Stocks plunge on economic news, oil price swings (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:40 PM PST AP - Just when Americans put aside their fears and started buying stocks again, here come a host of reminders of why they left.

Source: Giffords to attend husband shuttle launch (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:31 PM PST AP - Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords plans to attend the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour next month to see off her astronaut husband, a person close to the family told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Wis. defeat could help launch counterattack on GOP (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:31 PM PST AP - With the labor movement suffering an epic defeat in Wisconsin and perhaps other states, union leaders plan to use the setback to fire up their members nationwide and mount a major counterattack against Republicans at the ballot box in 2012.

Panel: Child welfare system failed dead Fla. girl (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:11 PM PST AP - A panel investigating the death of a 10-year-old Florida girl whose body was found in the back of her adoptive father's truck said a lack of commonsense and communication among child welfare officials played a role in the tragedy.

Protesters removed from Wis. Capitol before vote (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 02:56 PM PST AP - Police carried dozens of protesters from a hallway leading to the Wisconsin Assembly on Thursday morning as Democratic representatives pounded on the locked door of the chamber, demanding to be let in before a historic vote on an explosive bill taking away public workers' collective bargaining rights.

NH lawmaker suggests sending disabled 'to Siberia' (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:07 PM PST AP - A 91-year-old freshman Republican state lawmaker suggested New Hampshire's mentally disabled should be shipped to Siberia and said he is unapologetic about the comment.

2nd trial opens in deadly NH home invasion case (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:27 PM PST AP - A man who admitted hacking a woman to death and nearly killing her daughter was diagnosed as a likely sociopath and felt like he was "broken and couldn't be fixed" two years before the 2009 home invasion, the defense said Thursday at the start of the man's insanity trial.

LA school officer charged in alleged hoax shooting (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:41 PM PST AP - A school police officer was charged Thursday with falsely claiming he was shot outside a high school — a report that led authorities to seal thousands of youngsters inside classrooms and scour miles of the San Fernando Valley for a gunman in January.

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