- Scores are dead after flooding in Columbia has displaced hundreds of thousands and President Juan Manuel Santos has declared a national emergency.
- Ten years after the case was settled by the government, black farmers will finally receive payment for discrimination over farm loans.
- Scientists are starting to put together the depth of the problems in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill.
- The royal wedding of Britain's Prince William to Kate Middleton may add some $1 billion to the UK's economy in tourism.
- Oregon Dem Sen. Ron Wyden is taking aim at a new internet censorship bill he calls a "bunker-busting cluster bomb" of a law.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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