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• U.S. troops are political dynamite in budget battle (Reuters)
• Jobless claims fall, retail sales stronger (Reuters)
• Arizona House passes law allowing guns on campuses (Reuters)
• Where's the Happiest State in the Union? Twitter May Hold the Answer (Time.com)
• The Ryan Budget: A Test of Character for Obama (Time.com)
• States, territories anxious about long U.S. shutdown (Reuters)
• NC academy head suspected of posing as Vietnam vet (AP)
• Obama, leaders short of deal as shutdown looms (AP)
• 2 PG&E execs to step down, as utility reorganizes (AP)
• DA: Nanny cam shows elder abuse at Pa. facility (AP)
• Plea deal derailed in case of woman held captive (AP)
• Maine labor art's removal strikes sensitive nerve (AP)
• Wis. corrects vote count, gives incumbent big lead (AP)
• 3-2-1-blastoff to space shuttles' last destination (AP)
• Judge who struck down Prop 8 confirms he's gay (AP)
• Gates: Little impact on military from gay policy (AP)
• Social Security stopping mailed earning statements (AP)
• SC family: 'ugly' relationship prior to 2 killings (AP)
• A look at how a shutdown would affect Americans (AP)

U.S. troops are political dynamite in budget battle (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 04:40 PM PDT Reuters - A looming government shutdown would be felt thousands of miles away by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and there could be a high political cost for the lawmakers who let it happen.

Jobless claims fall, retail sales stronger (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:35 PM PDT Reuters - New claims for jobless benefits fell last week and retailers racked up much stronger-than-expected sales in March, signs that high fuel prices have not knocked the economy off its growth path.

Arizona House passes law allowing guns on campuses (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 04:58 PM PDT Reuters - The Arizona House on Thursday approved a landmark bill allowing guns on campuses, making it only the second state in the nation to allow firearms to be carried at colleges and universities.

Where's the Happiest State in the Union? Twitter May Hold the Answer (Time.com) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 02:00 PM PDT Time.com - Alex Davies, a doctoral student in machine learning at Cambridge University, created a map that fetches words with a happy connotations from Twitter and groups them together

The Ryan Budget: A Test of Character for Obama (Time.com) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 02:00 PM PDT Time.com - Paul Ryan's sweeping budget plan is a character test for Barack Obama: Will he be a statesman or a candidate?

States, territories anxious about long U.S. shutdown (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 02:50 PM PDT Reuters - As a federal government shutdown looms, states and territories are anxious about the effects on their vulnerable economies if the interruption stretches for a long time.

NC academy head suspected of posing as Vietnam vet (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 12:16 PM PDT AP - Well before he became commandant of North Carolina's only military boarding academy, William Northrop regaled people with stories of serving in the jungles of Vietnam — how he was wounded in battle, how some comrades committed suicide, how he used amphetamines on patrol.

Obama, leaders short of deal as shutdown looms (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama and congressional leaders bargained and blustered by turns Thursday, still short of an agreement to cut federal spending and head off a midnight Friday government shutdown that no one claimed to want.

2 PG&E execs to step down, as utility reorganizes (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 11:20 AM PDT AP - Two top Pacific Gas & Electric Co. executives are resigning — one with a sizeable bonus — as the California utility reorganizes following a deadly explosion on one of its high-pressure gas lines in a San Francisco suburb.

DA: Nanny cam shows elder abuse at Pa. facility (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:49 PM PDT AP - Aides at an assisted living facility assaulted and mocked a half-naked dementia patient as the elderly woman struggled to flee her room and escape the torment, according to video evidence captured by a hidden camera in the room.

Plea deal derailed in case of woman held captive (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 04:36 PM PDT AP - A California woman who was abducted as a girl in 1991 and held captive for 18 years must wait longer to see justice done after an expected plea deal was derailed Thursday by defense concerns that a grand jury might have been improperly selected and acted inappropriately.

Maine labor art's removal strikes sensitive nerve (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:36 PM PDT AP - It's big in its own right, a 36-foot-wide, 11-panel mural representing Maine's labor history. Even bigger is the nerve its removal has struck in politics, academia and the art world during the national debate over public workers' collective bargaining rights.

Wis. corrects vote count, gives incumbent big lead (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT AP - A conservative incumbent surged to a commanding lead in Wisconsin's hotly contested Supreme Court election Thursday, after a predominantly GOP county's clerk announced she had incorrectly entered vote totals in the race seen as a referendum on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's divisive union rights law.

3-2-1-blastoff to space shuttles' last destination (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 02:18 PM PDT AP - As the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch draws near, the focus is not so much on the past but the future: Where will the shuttles wind up once the program winds down?

Judge who struck down Prop 8 confirms he's gay (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 04:03 PM PDT AP - The federal judge who struck down California's gay marriage ban has confirmed longtime rumors that he's gay, but said his sexuality was irrelevant in deciding the landmark case.

Gates: Little impact on military from gay policy (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 04:07 PM PDT AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday reassured U.S. warfighters in Iraq that allowing gays to serve openly in the military will have little impact on the armed forces, an argument largely echoed by the top leaders of the Army, Air Force, Marines and Navy.

Social Security stopping mailed earning statements (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 04:07 PM PDT AP - Those yearly statements that Social Security mails out — here's what you'd get if you retired at 62, at 66, at 70 — will soon stop arriving in workers' mailboxes. It's an effort to save money and steer more people to the agency's website.

SC family: 'ugly' relationship prior to 2 killings (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:29 PM PDT AP - Yet another fight in an "ugly" and violent relationship between two 21-year-olds left their 9-month old shot to death in his highchair, his great-grandmother killed with a shotgun as she tried to run for help and their families in mourning, authorities and relatives say.

A look at how a shutdown would affect Americans (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 02:34 PM PDT AP - You'd still get your mail — and your usual Social Security payment. But troops' pay might be delayed, and you'd have to put off that spring break trip to a national park. How government services would or wouldn't be affected if there's a partial shutdown Friday at midnight:

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