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• Mississippi River crests near record at Memphis (Reuters)
• Obama stresses immigration benefits at Mexico border (Reuters)
• Yemeni man yelled "God is Greatest" on flight: prosecutor (Reuters)
• Memphis: Tourists Flock to See River's Rising Waters (Time.com)
• The Navy Says 'I Do' to Same-Sex Marriages (Time.com)
• Neighbor charged in strangling of girl in Pennsylvania (Reuters)
• Appeals court blasts VA mental health care system (AP)
• A reluctant Shriver made most of first lady role (AP)
• TV networks seek interview with woman held captive (AP)
• Mississippi Delta braces for historic flood (AP)
• Pa. girl, 9, found dead; neighbor faces charges (AP)
• Federal judge blocks Utah immigration law (AP)
• North Ala. nuclear plant cited for safety by NRC (AP)
• AP IMPACT: FEMA asks for return of disaster aid (AP)
• 'Pill mill' doctor convicted of causing 4 deaths (AP)
• Laying down blunt budget markers for debt crisis (AP)
• Report: Up to 44M more uninsured under GOP budget (AP)
• Players group mum on online poker recommendation (AP)
• Schwarzenegger, Shriver separating after 25 years (AP)
• Air Force lesbian who won reinstatement retiring (AP)

Mississippi River crests near record at Memphis (Reuters) Posted: 10 May 2011 05:38 PM PDT Reuters - The Mississippi River was cresting at Memphis on Tuesday just inches below the all-time record as the swollen wall of water moved south toward the Gulf of Mexico.

Obama stresses immigration benefits at Mexico border (Reuters) Posted: 10 May 2011 04:56 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama issued an impassioned call for immigration reform in a speech at the U.S.-Mexican border on Tuesday, sending a message to Hispanics whose votes he needs to win re-election next year.

Yemeni man yelled "God is Greatest" on flight: prosecutor (Reuters) Posted: 10 May 2011 04:38 PM PDT Reuters - A Yemeni man yelled "God is greatest" in Arabic as he tried to barge into the cockpit of an American Airlines flight over the weekend, a federal prosecutor told a judge in the case on Tuesday.

Memphis: Tourists Flock to See River's Rising Waters (Time.com) Posted: 10 May 2011 09:10 AM PDT Time.com - With the Mississippi about to crest, hundreds flee their homes for shelters, but thousands go out to gawk

The Navy Says 'I Do' to Same-Sex Marriages (Time.com) Posted: 10 May 2011 09:10 AM PDT Time.com - Last Monday, the Navy was the hero across America, for the exploits of its SEALs in bringing Osama bin Laden to justice. This Monday, the sea service was zero in certain quarters for saying it will permit same-sex marriages within its hallowed chapels

Neighbor charged in strangling of girl in Pennsylvania (Reuters) Posted: 10 May 2011 04:16 PM PDT Reuters - A neighbor was arrested on Tuesday for raping and strangling a 9-year-old girl whose bloody body was found in a dumpster at their apartment complex in a Philadelphia suburb.

Appeals court blasts VA mental health care system (AP) Posted: 10 May 2011 03:36 PM PDT AP - Noting that an average of 18 veterans a day commit suicide, a federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs to dramatically overhaul its mental health care system.

A reluctant Shriver made most of first lady role (AP) Posted: 10 May 2011 05:13 PM PDT AP - Maria Shriver was sidelined as a network TV journalist when her movie star husband, Arnold Schwarzenegger, suddenly decided to jump into politics — the business of her family.

TV networks seek interview with woman held captive (AP) Posted: 10 May 2011 03:04 PM PDT AP - The coming publication of a memoir by the California woman who was kidnapped as a girl and held for 18 years has broadcasters scrambling to become the first to get an interview with her.

Mississippi Delta braces for historic flood (AP) Posted: 10 May 2011 05:15 PM PDT AP - The bulging Mississippi River rolled into the fertile Mississippi Delta on Tuesday, threatening to swamp antebellum mansions, wash away shotgun shacks, and destroy fields of cotton, rice and corn in a flood of historic proportions.

Pa. girl, 9, found dead; neighbor faces charges (AP) Posted: 10 May 2011 05:40 PM PDT AP - A 9-year-old girl who disappeared while playing outside her suburban apartment building was raped, choked and murdered by a neighbor who claimed he had a "whiteout" and just "snapped," authorities said Tuesday.

Federal judge blocks Utah immigration law (AP) Posted: 10 May 2011 05:12 PM PDT AP - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a Utah immigration law that would have allowed police to check the citizenship status of anyone they arrest, citing its similarities to the most controversial parts of an Arizona law that seems bound for the U.S. Supreme Court.

North Ala. nuclear plant cited for safety by NRC (AP) Posted: 10 May 2011 04:23 PM PDT AP - Federal regulators ordered an in-depth inspection Tuesday at a nuclear power plant run by the Tennessee Valley Authority in northern Alabama after deciding the failure of an emergency cooling system there could have been a serious safety problem.

AP IMPACT: FEMA asks for return of disaster aid (AP) Posted: 10 May 2011 03:12 PM PDT AP - After the raging Cedar River filled his home with 13 feet of water and ruined most of his possessions, Justin Van Fleet pleaded for help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to get back on his feet.

'Pill mill' doctor convicted of causing 4 deaths (AP) Posted: 10 May 2011 03:51 PM PDT AP - A Chicago doctor accused of running a pill mill in an Appalachian county where painkillers are a public-health scourge was convicted Monday of causing the death of four patients who overdosed.

Laying down blunt budget markers for debt crisis (AP) Posted: 10 May 2011 05:15 PM PDT AP - The battle over whether tax increases can be used to cut the nation's debt flared Tuesday as the Senate's Democratic budget writer floated a possible millionaire's surtax to help cut projected deficits over the next decade. But Republican leaders flatly said no to tax increases.

Report: Up to 44M more uninsured under GOP budget (AP) Posted: 10 May 2011 03:01 PM PDT AP - The House Republican budget would leave up to 44 million more low-income people uninsured as the federal government cuts states' Medicaid funding by about one-third over the next 10 years, nonpartisan groups said in a report issued Tuesday.

Players group mum on online poker recommendation (AP) Posted: 10 May 2011 01:48 PM PDT AP - An organization of card players pushing for full legalization of Internet poker is staying away from recommending whether Americans should gamble online after indictments of executives at three of the world's top online poker companies.

Schwarzenegger, Shriver separating after 25 years (AP) Posted: 10 May 2011 04:24 PM PDT AP - It was a storybook marriage in 1986 on a spring weekend on Cape Cod that united a princess of an American political dynasty, Maria Shriver, and the gap-toothed muscle-clad movie star famous enough to be known by one name, Arnold.

Air Force lesbian who won reinstatement retiring (AP) Posted: 10 May 2011 04:24 PM PDT AP - An Air Force Reserve flight nurse who sued to overturn her dismissal under the "don't ask, don't tell" law against gays serving openly in the military said Tuesday she is retiring with full benefits rather than resuming service.

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