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• Strauss-Kahn case raises issue of diplomat abuse in U.S. (Reuters)
• Shuttle docks, astronauts to install $2 billion device (Reuters)
• Giffords recovering from cranioplasty in Houston (Reuters)
• Pioneer: Rick Welts, The Sports Executive Who Came Out (Time.com)
• A Surprising Jobs Recovery: American Manufacturing Is Back (Time.com)
• Wisconsin's Walker refuses to defend gay rights law (Reuters)
• Document: Boy says neo-Nazi dad hit him, step-mom (AP)
• Circumcision ban to appear on San Francisco ballot (AP)
• Study: Homosexuality, celibacy didn't cause abuse (AP)
• Mass. police questioning woman about Maine body (AP)
• NY police look for DNA in hotel carpet in IMF case (AP)
• Activists decry probe revealed by found FBI papers (AP)
• Gates: Somebody in Pakistan knew about bin Laden (AP)
• End of the world? How about a party instead? (AP)
• Gay RI House speaker takes heat for marriage vote (AP)
• HPV test beats Pap for cervical cancer screening (AP)
• NY attorney named ground zero fund administrator (AP)

Strauss-Kahn case raises issue of diplomat abuse in U.S. (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 09:49 AM PDT Reuters - The case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is an extreme example of alleged sexual assault by an elite member of the international community. But the charges against him also shine a light on how diplomats and international officials have been accused of abusing maids or nannies in the United States, and have largely escaped prosecution.

Shuttle docks, astronauts to install $2 billion device (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 04:09 PM PDT Reuters - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station prepared to install a $2 billion particle detector outside the orbiting outpost after shuttle Endeavour arrived on Wednesday on NASA's next-to-last shuttle mission.

Giffords recovering from cranioplasty in Houston (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 04:36 PM PDT Reuters - Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Wednesday underwent a cranioplasty in Houston, a critical step in her recovery from a gunshot wound to the head, according to hospital officials.

Pioneer: Rick Welts, The Sports Executive Who Came Out (Time.com) Posted: 17 May 2011 10:40 AM PDT Time.com - The President and CEO of the Phoenix Suns, Rick Welts, rocked the NBA and the sporting world when he announced in a front page New York Times story that he was gay. Soon after he spoke to TIME about the reasoning behind his decision

A Surprising Jobs Recovery: American Manufacturing Is Back (Time.com) Posted: 17 May 2011 10:40 AM PDT Time.com - Amid a lackluster economic rebound, the manufacturing in this country has, for the first time in decades, seen an unlikely boom

Wisconsin's Walker refuses to defend gay rights law (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 02:30 PM PDT Reuters - A judge may rule next month on Governor Scott Walker's refusal to defend a Wisconsin law giving same sex couples hospital visiting rights.

Document: Boy says neo-Nazi dad hit him, step-mom (AP) Posted: 18 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT AP - A 10-year-old boy charged with murdering his white supremacist father told investigators that he shot the man after growing tired of him hitting him and his stepmother, court documents showed on Wednesday.

Circumcision ban to appear on San Francisco ballot (AP) Posted: 18 May 2011 04:09 PM PDT AP - A group seeking to ban the circumcision of male children in San Francisco has succeeded in getting their controversial measure on the November ballot, meaning voters will be asked to weigh in on what until now has been a private family matter.

Study: Homosexuality, celibacy didn't cause abuse (AP) Posted: 18 May 2011 02:35 PM PDT AP - Researchers hired by the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops to determine the causes of the sex crisis that convulsed the church dismissed all the usual suspects:

Mass. police questioning woman about Maine body (AP) Posted: 18 May 2011 03:47 PM PDT AP - Police in Massachusetts investigating the death of a boy whose body was found along a dirt road in Maine took a woman they were questioning to a hospital for a medical evaluation Wednesday.

NY police look for DNA in hotel carpet in IMF case (AP) Posted: 18 May 2011 05:16 PM PDT AP - Investigators cut out a piece of carpet in a painstaking search of a penthouse suite for DNA evidence in IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's sex assault case, law enforcement officials said Wednesday as he made a new bid to get out of jail.

Activists decry probe revealed by found FBI papers (AP) Posted: 18 May 2011 04:43 PM PDT AP - When Meredith Aby met with members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in 2006, she asked what it would take to get them to stop fighting. Jess Sundin did the same during her trip to Colombia 11 years ago.

Gates: Somebody in Pakistan knew about bin Laden (AP) Posted: 18 May 2011 04:26 PM PDT AP - Pakistan has already paid dearly for its failure to know or acknowledge that Osama bin Laden was hiding for more than five years in a compound a short distance from a Pakistani military facility, Pentagon leaders insisted Wednesday.

End of the world? How about a party instead? (AP) Posted: 18 May 2011 04:25 PM PDT AP - For some, it's Judgment Day. For others, it's party time. A loosely organized Christian movement has spread the word around the globe that Jesus Christ will return to earth on Saturday to gather the faithful into heaven. While the Christian mainstream isn't buying it, many other skeptics are milking it.

Gay RI House speaker takes heat for marriage vote (AP) Posted: 18 May 2011 03:18 PM PDT AP - The protests started as soon as Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox sounded the death knell for gay marriage legislation and said he'd back civil unions instead. A cop-out, gay marriage supporters said. A compromise for no one. One man made a sign proclaiming, "Fox Hunting Season is Open."

HPV test beats Pap for cervical cancer screening (AP) Posted: 18 May 2011 03:06 PM PDT AP - Two big studies suggest possible new ways to screen healthy people for cervical or prostate cancers, but a third disappointed those hoping for a way to detect early signs of deadly ovarian tumors.

NY attorney named ground zero fund administrator (AP) Posted: 18 May 2011 03:31 PM PDT AP - A prominent New York attorney known as the "Queen of Torts" for her courtroom defense of some of the country's top companies is tackling a vastly different job — running the $2.78 billion fund to compensate ground zero workers and others who say they were sickened by the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack wreckage.

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