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Stories for May 2014 Group 2

• Obama doesn’t deserve deference on drone deaths
• Obama eyeing San Antonio mayor for HUD secretary
• Obama hints at continuing limited role in Afghanistan
• Obama leads nation in Memorial Day commemoration
• Obama on alleged V.A. misconduct: ‘I will not stand for it’
• Obama orders delay of deportation policy review
• Obama pledges action to speed U.S. transition to clean energy
• Obama pushes Congress for funds to repair crumbling US infrastructure
• Obama signals less direct military action for US in foreign policy shift
• Obama taps Silicon Valley cash as tech firms blast FCC net neutrality plan
• Obama to roll out climate rules, to dismay of Democratic candidates
• Obama: ‘The best hammer doesn’t mean every problem is a nail’
• Obama’s Walmart photo-op #FAIL
• Occupy Wall Street activist convicted of assaulting police officer
• Occupy Wall Street's Cecily McMillan sentenced to three months in jail
• Of horrors and hashtags
• Of mice and (wo)men
• Official: Thailand’s July elections ‘unlikely’
• Oh, the irony! Efficiency bill stalls
• Ohio agrees to reform, eventually eliminate juvenile solitary confinement
• Ohio’s choice for secretary of state could influence elections in 2016
• Oil boom jars small-town North Dakota
• Okla. prison guards shocked Lockett with Taser before execution
• Oklahoma enacts new restrictions on abortions, Louisiana to follow
• Oklahoma halts executions for six months following botched procedure
• Oklahoma prison report says collapsed vein behind botched execution
• On world stage, Brazil faces power system weakness
• One-third of Detroit pregnancies end in abortion
• Open Internet backers stage ‘Occupy FCC’
• Opposition wins India vote in early tally
• Oracle v. Google decision threatens innovation
• Orange is the new cap
• Oregon judge overturns gay marriage ban
• Ousted Thai P.M. indicted over rice subsidy scheme
• Out on the field: Former NFL player Wade Davis opens up
• Outcry over latest fatal shooting by Albuquerque police
• Outsourcing surrogacy: It takes a global village
• Overcoming adversity in obscurity primed Pierre Desir for NFL spotlight
• Pa. Dems fight to prove they can milk fracking for all it’s worth
• Pakistan bombs militants on Afghan border
• Pakistan steps up ground offensive against Taliban
• Palestinian refugees: Where are they now?
• Palestinians mark the Nakba amid violence
• Panama's vice president wins presidential vote
• Partners in Progress: Initiative creates one-stop shops for needy families
• Pennsylvania governor won’t appeal gay marriage legalization
• Pentagon gives initial support to Manning transfer for gender treatment
• Personal Essay: Fighting a wrongful arrest and imprisonment in Egypt
• Personal essay: One day with Maya Angelou
• Pew: ‘Internet of Things’ big by 2025 despite security, inequality worries
• Pfizer walks away from $118 billion AstraZeneca takeover bid
• Philippines busts global online 'sextortion' ring
• Philly’s rocky middle class
• Photo gallery: Top 10 newly discovered species
• Photo: Students cower in Kenyan classroom during protests
• Photos: Afghan landslide aftermath
• Photos: Antarctic ice cores unlock Earth's climate record
• Photos: Beijing stages anti-terrorist drill
• Photos: California oil spill
• Photos: Clashes in Istanbul
• Photos: Cultivating paddlefish
• Photos: Eurovision 2014
• Photos: Fighting in Donetsk
• Photos: Inside the Mock Prison Riot
• Photos: Kenya youth cycling team
• Photos: Ladies’ Home Journal through the years
• Photos: Life inside the ‘Venice of Africa,’ Nigeria’s floating slum
• Photos: May Day around the globe
• Photos: Nahendra Modi’s BJP celebrates election victory
• Photos: On al-Nakba, using art to mourn the past” and present
• Photos: One Joplin family’s photos and the stories behind them
• Photos: Paris reads!
• Photos: Pontiac Silverdome to be auctioned off, piece by piece
• Photos: Pope Francis visits the Palestinian territories
• Photos: Poroshenko wins Ukraine presidential election
• Photos: Pro-Ukrainians and pro-Russians clash in Odessa
• Photos: Remembering Maya Angelou, 1928–2014
• Photos: Severe flooding in Bosnia, Serbia
• Photos: Skeleton clue to early American ancestry
• Photos: South African elections
• Photos: SpaceX reveals the future of manned space flight
• Photos: The Balkans dig out from floods
• Photos: The Latino streets of Los Angeles
• Photos: The battle of Dien Bien Phu
• Photos: Top 10 new species of 2014
• Photos: Turkey mine disaster
• Photos: Ukraine violence spreads to Mariupol
• Photos: Ukrainian forces seize checkpoint near Slovyansk
• Photos: Victory Day in Ukraine
• Photos: Vladimir Putin, hockey star
• Photos: Where the wild things aren’t
• Photos: Wildfires in Southern California
• Photos: With armed escort, Muslims escape C.A.R. to safety in Chad
• Photos: Women priests ordained
• Pings fail to pinpoint MH370 location
• Pipeline company in LA oil spill has history of violations
• Police crack down on May Day protests in Turkey, Cambodia
• Police foil Minnesota teen’s planned mass shooting
• Police: Pakistan man, whose wife was stoned to death, killed first wife
• Politics at play in release of secret drone memo, say rights experts
• Polls open in Egypt’s presidential election
• Pols finally catching up on pot policy
• Poor interpreters of a defective constitution
• Pope Francis invites Israeli, Palestinian leaders to Vatican
• Pope hopes to strengthen interfaith relations in Jerusalem visit
• Pope wraps Mideast visit fraught with zigzagging political symbolism
• Pope’s Holy Land visit casts light on plight of Palestinian Christians
• Porn stars vs. PayPal
• Poroshenko claims victory in Ukraine presidential election
• Portland residents ordered to boil water after E. coli contamination
• Postal workers resist privatization plans
• Pot lobby tries to harness green energy on Capitol Hill
• Pregnant Pakistani woman stoned to death by family
• President of Los Angeles NAACP resigns over plan to honor Clippers owner
• President wins first round in Lithuania vote
• Pro-Russia forces ambush checkpoint, kill 11 Ukraine troops
• Pro-Russia rebels to hold east Ukraine referendum despite Putin plea
• Pro-Russian rebels hail turnout in autonomy vote
• Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine collect their dead and ask, Where is Putin?
• Producer's Blog: Extreme shooting in Greenland
• Push to cut sentences under Obama clemency drive begins
• Putin calls Ukraine crisis ‘full-scale civil war’
• Putin makes his case for Greater Russia
• Putin orders troops near Ukraine to return home
• Putin says troops pulled back from Ukraine border, urges referendum delay
• Putin turns the tables in Ukraine
• Putin visits Crimea as violence escalates in eastern Ukraine
• Putin voices concern, pledges respect for Ukraine election
• Putin’s Ukraine symmetries
• Putin’s obscenity ban will make profanity thrive
• Rallying the Roma, Europe’s most neglected minority
• Rapper’s arrest highlights Morocco ‘politics of revenge,’ activists say
• Rarely seen Monet auctioned for $27M
• Rate of Antarctic ice loss doubled in recent years, study finds
• Rebuilding Joplin, one photo at a time
• Reconsidering mandatory minimums
• Report details enduring flaws in State Dept. diplomatic security
• Report: America’s poorest minorities at highest risk of chemical accidents
• Report: Child workers on US tobacco farms face hazardous conditions
• Report: Climate change affecting corporate bottom lines
• Report: End drug mixtures in executions
• Report: North Dakota has highest rate of worker deaths
• Report: Over 33.3 million people internally displaced in 2013
• Reports: At least 30 killed at church in Central African Republic
• Republican-controlled House backs medical marijuana
• Republicans relaunch attacks on Obama over Benghazi
• Rescuers give up hope in Afghanistan landslide; 2,100 believed dead
• Reversing the flow: With Cove Point, U.S. seeks to become a gas exporter
• Revolutionary hopes dim in Kyiv as political strife escalates
• Rights group calls on U.S. to reform harsh criminal sentences
• Rights group: Nigeria had warning of Boko Haram attack
• Rights groups: Palestinian teens killed with live ammo, deaths ‘unlawful’
• Rise of anti-EU parties sounds alarm for Brussels’ future
• Rogue general leads deadly fight against armed groups in Benghazi
• Rosie Perez talks to Stephanie Sy
• Russia says troops begin pullback as fighting continues in eastern Ukraine
• Russia seeks new world order with China's help
• Russia, China sign deal to bypass US dollar
• Russian law censors swearing in the arts
• Russia’s Gazprom says Ukraine will owe $5.2 billion for gas
• S. Korea’s president calls for end of coast guard
• Samsung apologizes to cancer-stricken factory workers
• Sam’s a Ram: St. Louis picks first openly gay football player
• Santa Cruz, Calif., bans fracking
• Satanic Temple unveils plan to bring sympathy for the devil to Oklahoma
• Scientists create functioning synthetic DNA
• Scientists discover oldest intact skeleton in New World
• Scientists unearth world’s largest dinosaur in Argentina
• Scores still missing after Bangladesh ferry capsizes
• Search ends in Turkey as bodies of last missing miners brought out
• Search engine results have power to swing votes, study says
• Seattle marks May Day with $15 minimum wage hike
• Second case of deadly MERS virus reported in the U.S.
• Secret laws are a threat to American democracy
• Secret toxins in menstrual products cause alarm
• Secretive Bilderberg group holds annual conference for global elite
• Senate report set to reveal Djibouti as CIA ‘black site’
• Sharing isn’t always caring
• She’s still a mom, even behind bars
• Shinseki says VA 'must do better' on patient care amid delays scandal
• Shooting goals and AK-47s: The other soccer cup in Rio’s favelas
• Should Europe pay reparations to the Caribbean?
• Should colleges be ranked for sexual assault?
• Silver Patrol: Crime-fighting seniors on the beat look out for one another
• Sinn Fein leader released from police detention
• Six episodes of The Simpsons that made us scream 'Ay, caramba!'
• Six injured in knife attack at Chinese station
• Slumber party for science!
• Slut-shaming has little to do with sex, study finds
• Soft on Putin? Blame Big Oil
• South Africa ruling party leading vote in early election results
• South China Sea tensions top Asian summit
• South Korea authorities looking for missing ferry owner
• South Korea indicts 15 in ferry disaster
• South Korea to seek arrest of head of ferry company
• South Korean cardinal visits North, a first
• South Sudan president agrees to talks with rebel leader to stem violence
• South Sudan president, rebel leader agree to ceasefire
• South Sudan: Complications of birthing a nation
• South Sudanese army captures key rebel base
• Spending the night in a zero-net energy model home
• Sprint fined $7.5m for unwanted telemarketing calls
• Stateless in the Dominican Republic: Residents stripped of citizenship
• Stranded ship could ‘unleash a disaster’ in the Galápagos
• Student commits suicide after cyberbullies attack her for porn video
• Student debtors slide deeper into peonage
• Student loan holders’ households have lower net worth, study finds
• Studies find young blood rejuvenates aging mice
• Study: Black college grads have double the unemployment rate
• Study: Diabetes rates skyrocket among children and teens
• Study: Florida deadliest for walkers; minorities, seniors face most risk
• Study: People with mental health issues more likely to use e-cigarettes
• Study: Prostate cancer may be linked to sexually transmitted parasite
• Study: Student debt worst at universities with highest-paid presidents
• Sudan death row mother will be freed 'within days,' official says
• Sudan woman gets death sentence for apostasy
• Super Tuesday promises predictable results, no matter who wins
• Supreme Court bans IQ criteria for executions
• Supreme Court greenlights prayer before public meetings
• Supreme Court halts Missouri execution
• Supreme Court justice halts Missouri execution
• Surveillance reform bill moves forward in Congress
• Survey finds a quarter of global population harbors anti-Semitic views
• Survey: 1 in 10 Americans no longer carries cash
• Survey: Women more likely than men to skip doctor
• Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kill Muslim emir, policemen in Nigeria
• Sweden sues EU over lack of chemical regulations
• Sweetened tea flavors Texas election
• Syria mediator Brahimi announces resignation
• Syria rebels begin evacuation of Homs, the revolution's ‘capital’
• Syrian opposition fighters' withdrawal from Homs delayed
• TB is a 'neglected disease' in Vietnam despite death toll
• Taking refuge: Armenian family exiled for third time in century
• Target chief resigns five months after data breach
• Tea for two: Conservatives score victories in closely watched primaries
• Tea party dominates Texas runoffs
• Tea party fails in Idaho primary
• Tea partyers find out the club has a cover
• TechKnow 135: Inside Monsanto & goats making spider silk
• TechKnow 136: Inside NASA's Greenland research station
• TechKnow 137: The smart house of the future
• TechKnow 138: Cancer-detecting goggles & finding fossils in L.A.
• Tennessee brings back execution by electric chair
• Tensions rise between Koreas in the Yellow Sea
• Texas AG flip-flops on execution drug secrecy
• Texas judges halt execution over mental health appeal
• Texas man appeals execution, cites Oklahoma death chamber botch
• Texas mayor appeals for fracking data after earthquakes jolt town
• Thai army declares martial law
• Thai coup leader claims king's endorsement
• Thai coup leaders dissolve Senate
• Thai military detains Yingluck
• Thai opposition keeps up pressure after PM Yingluck ousted
• Thai prime minister ordered to resign
• Thai troops detain ex-government minister who criticized coup
• Thailand army carries out coup, takes control of government
• Thailand coup leader: No elections for at least one year
• Thailand on the brink of civil war
• The Black Death: Only the strong survive
• The EU’s success story in Central Europe
• The Mock Prison Riot: Where guards play jail
• The Obama doctrine: Anti-war or forever war?
• The PTSD you never hear about
• The Quantified Soul
• The Simpsons at 25: Satire in serious times
• The Ukraine crisis: Putin’s dress rehearsal for what?
• The bogus gospel of free trade and free religion
• The commercial bail bond system in 9 GIFs
• The cost of being a millennial and a mother
• The cost of cholera in Haiti
• The creeping expansion of the Border Patrol
• The demise of urban farming has been greatly exaggerated
• The drive to ban mandated paid sick days
• The end of Ladies’ Home Journal
• The future of the drone: From war machine to crop duster
• The last Spinner: Keeping the iconic doo-wop group alive
• The long struggle for justice in Guatemala
• The making of Mexico’s vigilantes
• The merits of participatory budgeting
• The neo-Zapatistas: Twenty years after
• The new age of hacking
• The panel on diplomatic security organization and management
• The pride of Pontiac up for auction
• The promise and challenge of Narendra Modi
• The promises and pitfalls of big data
• The real problem with Donald Sterling
• The real story behind the Brunei boycott
• The resegregation of America’s schools
• The ride to the top
• The short, bumpy journey of Chivas USA
• The silences of Larry Kramer's 'Normal Heart'
• The unexpected way Congress is making the drone program more transparent
• The wages of low pay
• The ‘war on terrorism’ led to a worldwide increase of torture
• There is no comparison between Syria and Rwanda
• Think tank: North Korean missile may be capable of reaching U.S.
• This American life (without parole)
• This is not the establishment you’re looking for
• Thousands of Syrians return to Homs after rebels lose city
• Tillis wins North Carolina GOP senate primary
• Timeline: The rise of vigilantism in Michoacán, Mexico
• Tohono O’odham along the US-Mexico border
• Too early to cry ‘coup’ in Libya
• Top V.A. official Petzel resigns amid hospital delays scandal
• Towns separated by US-Mexico border closings are fighting back
• Toxic fumes, health concerns remain after LA pipeline rupture
• Transgender inmate takes on Georgia prison system amid Manning transfer
• Trepidation, intimidation in eastern Ukraine as Sunday’s election nears
• Tripoli tense after attack on Libyan parliament
• Troubled waters: Rivalries make for a choppy South China Sea
• Tuesday night primaries: McConnell, Nunn win big
• Turkey high court overrules YouTube ban
• Turkey protesters battle police in attempt to reach Taksim Square
• Turkish mining company denies negligence
• Turkish police detain 25 in mine disaster investigation
• Twin blasts hit central Nigerian city of Jos
• Twin blasts kill at least 10 in Kenyan capital
• Two Koreas escalate war of words
• Two Ugandans go on trial over ‘homosexual offenses’
• Two coal miners killed on eve of W.Va. primary
• Two inmates dead, scores injured in Florida prison blast
• Two-state blues
• U.N. chief in South Sudan to urge for peace
• U.N. committee compares Vatican's handling of sex abuse to torture
• U.N. says Canada in crisis over treatment of aboriginals
• U.N.: Meth trafficking, synthetic drug use at 'unprecedented' levels
• U.N.: Record-high global demand for fish threatens oceans
• U.N.: Warlord Kony hiding in South Sudan
• U.S. 'must put heft' behind mediation in South Sudan, experts say
• U.S. accuses Chinese officials of cyberspying, tensions escalate
• U.S. deploys troops to Chad to aid search for kidnapped Nigerian girls
• U.S. job growth surges in April, but many have stopped looking for work
• U.S. military flying planes over Nigeria to find missing girls
• U.S. mulls blocking Chinese hackers from Defcon event
• U.S. presses China on exchange rates
• U.S. sanctions on Russia threaten America’s space ambitions
• U.S. to release memo that sanctioned killing of American citizen
• U.S.-Mexico border wreaks havoc on lives of an indigenous desert tribe
• UCLA renews diversity class effort
• UN blacklists Boko Haram, imposes sanctions
• UN panel criticizes Vatican over priest sex-abuse scandal
• UN urges Qatar to reform labor practices
• UN’s ambitious new development goals could fall flat
• US Chamber of Commerce chief urges Cuba to extend reforms
• US homeless numbers drop, but low pay threatens progress
• US manipulates number of Gitmo hunger strikers, says detainee
• US soldier held by Taliban released in swap for Guantánamo detainees
• US teachers less diverse than their students
• US teen pregnancy rate falls to historic low
• US to help combat coffee disease in Central America
• US to keep 9,800 troops in Afghanistan at year’s end
• US urges better tests for airline batteries
• Ukraine holds presidential vote; rebels block polling stations in east
• Ukraine launches first major attack on pro-Russian forces in restive east
• Ukraine reinstates military conscription
• Ukraine says rebel bases destroyed in east
• Ukraine separatists vow to ruin election, fighting escalates
• Ukraine set to launch dialogue under O.S.C.E. plan
• Ukraine: Pro-Russian separatists freed from Odessa prison
• Ukraine’s Poroshenko vows to punish pro-Russian ‘terrorists’
• Ukraine’s leader-elect talks of peace, but the fighting goes on in Donetsk
• Ukraine’s leader-elect talks peace, but renewed fighting flares in east
• Ukrainian troops battle pro-Russian separatists in Slovyansk
• Ukrainian voters, seeking stability, favor ‘Chocolate King’ Poroshenko
• Ukrainians mourn in Odessa as clashes continue in east
• Undocumented NYC domestic workers clean up with collective
• Undocumented migrants die in boat accident on Aegean Sea
• Unidentified remains arrive at 9/11 museum amid controversy
• United Nations: Canada needs indigenous consent for pipeline projects
• United: NY area airport workers join union
• Unplugging to recharge
• Unsung Heroes
• Uphill battle on vaccination education continues amid loud opposition
• Urban green: Hoop houses replace rowhouses in Baltimore’s Sandtown
• Uruguay president sends Obama more than smoke signals
• Uruguay unveils marijuana regulation details
• VA watchdog: 115-day wait at Phoenix veterans hospital
• Vatican defrocks 848 priests in 10 years
• Vatican to develop 'best practices' for sex-abuse cases
• Vehicle attack in Xinjiang market kills at least 30
• Venezuela breaks up protest camps
• Venezuela releases 156 protesters
• Vermont becomes first U.S. state to require GMO labeling
• Veterans Affairs chief Shinseki has resigned, Obama says
• Veterans Affairs head Eric Shinseki subpoenaed over hospital deaths
• Veterans Affairs: What is the real scandal?
• Vets with PTSD victims of VA policy on pot
• Video manifesto reveals CA shooting spree was revenge for social rejection
• Vietnam PM texts nation amid anti-China riots
• Vietnam arrests dissident bloggers
• Vietnam says China sank fishing boat in disputed waters
• Vietnam threatens legal action against China
• Violence in Iraq kills at least 54
• Violent clashes in Istanbul leave two people dead
• W.H.O. says alcohol killed 3 million people worldwide in a year
• W.H.O.: Polio outbreak a ‘public health emergency’
• WNBA embraces LGBT fans
• Water for Coal
• Wave of blasts targets Iraqi Shia neighborhoods, killing at least 28
• We are already living in the future
• We don’t need economists to explain the economy
• West Antarctic ice melt is now ‘unstoppable,’ NASA report says
• West threatens further sanctions on Russia if Ukraine elections fail
• What Putin learned from the U.S. invasion of Iraq
• What a friend we have in cheeses
• What can Castro expect as housing secretary nominee?
• What can be done when the warning signs are so clear?
• What is Boko Haram?
• What is Boko Haram?
• What we're not
• What you need to know about student debt collection
• What’s happening to the bees?
• What’s left of May Day?
• When Women Refuse: Misogynistic rant inspires chilling website
• When in China, do as the Romans
• When it comes to subway break dancing, the NYPD is killin’ it
• When they make childhood criminal…
• When ‘patriots’ unite to restrict voting rights
• Where the wild things aren’t
• Which two states still have unchallenged bans on same-sex marriage?
• Whistleblower: Arizona inmates are dying from inadequate health care
• White House asks Congress to update consumer electronic privacy laws
• White House hosts summit on concussions among young athletes
• White House uses college-shaming to fight campus sexual violence
• White House: No conflict with Biden's son working for Ukraine gas company
• Why an American is imprisoned and on hunger strike in Egypt
• Why college rape victims don’t go to the police
• Why do Chinese cyberattacks demand an aggressive response?
• Why the Muslim Brotherhood will not die
• Why won’t Obama protect gay workers?
• Why would someone confess to a crime he didn’t commit?
• Wi-Fi now available on the moon
• Wildfires menace southern California, thousands evacuated
• Winners — and losers — from this winter’s Big Freeze
• With congress stymied, what can the president do on immigration reform?
• With friends like the IMF and EU, Ukraine doesn’t need enemies
• With measles cases surging, why are vaccination rates dropping?
• Workers push out pro-Russian activists in eastern Ukraine city
• World Cup costs soar as political donations from constructors eyed
• Wrongfully accused by the electronic surveillance state
• Wyoming rejects science standards, won't teach man-made climate change
• Yemen attacks kill more than a dozen
• Yemen moves to set up rehab center for Gitmo detainees
• Young South Africans staying away from polls as elections near
• Youths sue US government over climate inaction
• ‘No hope’: Death toll climbs in Turkish coal mine tragedy
• ‘Point of no return’: Resolve builds among Ukraine rebels with each death
• ‘Sometimes you cannot bear holding a camera’
• ‘Systematic lying’ and ‘cooked schedules’ push VA secretary to resign
• ‘The Bosnia List’: Recalling a childhood lost amid war