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Stories for June 2014 Group 2

• NYC teachers accept contract
• NYC to pay Central Park 5 $40M to end lawsuit, reports say
• Neanderthal feces shows cavemen ate their veggies
• Nearly 800 dead babies found in septic tank in Ireland
• Need to Know: Why smart guns aren'€™t for sale
• New TV ads focus on plight of polar bears in warming world
• New Ukraine president defiant toward Russia in inaugural speech
• New York Congressman Rangel faces tight fight in Democratic primary
• New York poised to legalize medical marijuana
• New York’s top court upholds towns’ right to ban fracking
• New tech makes guns safer, but can't solve political pressure
• New to America, Bhutanese refugees face suicide crisis
• New trial ordered for ex-BP engineer
• News organizations seek ‘secret’ videos of Guantánamo force-feeding
• Nigeria mulls Sri Lankan military strategies in bid to counter Boko Haram
• Nigeria's Stephen Keshi flies the flag for African coaches
• Nigeria's Vincent Enyeama: A rare African goalkeeping star
• Nigeria: Remembering when we knocked out Italy, and other rumors …
• North Kazakhstan isn’t the next Crimea — yet
• North Korea announces test of new missiles
• North Korea calls Hollywood film ‘act of war,’ demands US ban its release
• Nurse Tinder helps men make right swipe for health
• OECD sees US growth accelerating through 2015
• Obama announces creation of world’s largest marine reserve
• Obama calls child migrants an 'urgent humanitarian issue'
• Obama endorses Ukraine’s Poroshenko, warns of Russia's 'dark tactics'
• Obama expected to nominate former Fortune 500 CEO to head VA
• Obama extends student debt relief, invites 'outrage' over low tax for rich
• Obama moves to ensure sick leave for gay couples
• Obama plans to go it alone on immigration reform
• Obama pushes bill to refinance student debt
• Obama pushes to expand family-friendly workplace policies
• Obama seeks $1B boost to bolster short-term military presence in Europe
• Obama seeks $2B to respond to flood of Central American immigrants
• Obama seeks $500M to train, equip Syria rebels
• Obama slams Congress over gun law failure after latest school shooting
• Obama stuck on Band-Aids while students are stuck with debt
• Obama to sign order banning federal workplace discrimination against gays
• Obama ups pressure on Maliki, says future of Iraq ‘hangs in balance’
• Obama, Cameron call for Putin to recognize new Ukraine president
• Obama’s Iraq dilemma: Fighting ISIL puts US and Iran on the same side
• Obama’s Promise Zone both a boon and challenge for West Philly nonprofit
• Obama’s ‘war on coal’ doesn’t exist
• Oil rich, gas poor: Iraq's excruciating gas lines
• Oklahoma Kiowas feel pride with their man at the World Cup
• Oklahoma nearly doubles earthquake count of California
• One nation, one team, 14 immigrant stories
• Online textbooks aim to ease costs for low-income students
• Orange, black and the complicated legacy of Dutch soccer
• Over 100,000 Cambodians flee Thailand amid fears of military crackdown
• Pakistan begins ground offensive against armed groups in North Waziristan
• Pakistan launches attack on insurgents in response to airport seige
• Pakistan political leader arrested in UK
• Pakistan suspends largest news channel
• Palestinians swear in unity government
• Parole offers inmates hope for a smoother reintegration into society
• Patience with Pakistan’s government wearing thin amid Taliban violence
• Petition with 150,000 signatures calls on France to grant Snowden asylum
• Philadelphia Inquirer owner among dead in private plane crash
• Philadelphia transit workers strike, shutting down 13 train lines
• Phone apps used for gay sex linked to higher STD risk
• Photos from 'State of Play: Football Players and the NCAA'
• Photos: A Day in the life of a Brazilian footballer
• Photos: Brazil prepares for the World Cup
• Photos: Breaking Ramadan fast at an Iraqi IDP camp
• Photos: California Chrome prepares for his historic moment
• Photos: Funeral for a home in Philadelphia
• Photos: Glastonbury music festival gets underway
• Photos: Goalposts around the world
• Photos: How to celebrate a World Cup goal
• Photos: Inside Midburn, Israel’s version of Burning Man
• Photos: Inside a detention center for migrant children
• Photos: Inside the besieged Ukrainian city of Slovyansk
• Photos: Iraqis flee fighting in Mosul
• Photos: Israelis hunt for kidnapped teenagers in Hebron
• Photos: Japanese town hosts whale-carving event
• Photos: Kim Jong-Un propaganda push
• Photos: Life in Pankisi Gorge
• Photos: Palestinian village Battir selected as UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Photos: Pitching at Gaza 4.0 Startup Weekend
• Photos: Re-enacting D-Day
• Photos: Remembering Ruby Dee
• Photos: Remembering Ruby Lee
• Photos: Remembering radio pioneer Casey Kasem
• Photos: The Come-Unity Food Pantry
• Photos: Tiananmen Square crackdown anniversary observed in Hong Kong
• Photos: Watching the World Cup in Tehran
• Photos: Women Sufi mystics of the Pankisi Gorge
• Pistorius didn't suffer from mental illness at time of shooting
• Poachers slaughter 68 Congo elephants in two months
• Police raid South Korea church in futile search for ferry mogul
• Pope Francis rails against financial speculation
• Pope Francis to address the number of crimes in Italy
• Pope condemns efforts to legalize marijuana
• Pope excommunicates Italian Mafia, calling it ‘the adoration of evil’
• Pope to lead Israeli-Palestinian peace prayer
• Pope, Peres and Abbas pray for Mideast peace
• Portugal: A childhood ended
• Presbyterian Assembly: Gay marriage is Christian
• Presbyterians vote to divest in protest over Israeli occupation
• Pro-Russian rebels clash with government forces across eastern Ukraine
• Pro-Russian separatists attack Ukrainian posts, ignoring cease-fire
• Proactive policing fights crime, but at high cost for civil liberties
• Producer: "Inmates described alternative learning centers as 'doing time'"
• Product aims to mitigate school shooting carnage
• Prosecutors: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker part of 'criminal scheme'
• Public schools regularly restrain, seclude disabled children, says report
• Putin asks parliament to revoke approval for using force in Ukraine
• Putin pledges support for Ukraine cease-fire as fighting continues
• Putin, Poroshenko meet briefly on sidelines of D-Day commemoration
• Qatar’s World Cup organizers deny bribery allegations
• Questions swirl around the deal that set soldier free
• R&B and soul singer Bobby Womack dies at 70
• Racism on soccer field in Brazil still hidden not so deep beneath surface
• Rangel set for 23rd term after surviving primary challenge
• Rape in India: Reading between the lines
• Rape victims say Bob Jones University told them to repent
• Rebekah Brooks found not guilty in UK phone-hacking trial
• Rebuild by Design projects focus on constructed nature
• Reclaiming their image: College athletes sue NCAA for cut of profits
• Release of Taliban detainees shows Obama has power to close Gitmo
• Renegade South Korean soldier captured
• Report belittling student debt woes misses the point, experts counter
• Report says blowout preventers could cause more oil spills
• Report: Accidental shootings kill more kids than federal data shows
• Report: Forest loss starves fish
• Report: Nuclear powers talk up disarmament while modernizing arsenals
• Report: Obama drone policy destabilizing for world, US democracy
• Report: Tsunami-inducing earthquakes caused by extinct undersea volcanoes
• Republican primaries show decline of the tea party
• Reset the Net campaign aims to thwart spying on NSA leak anniversary
• Rick Perry: homosexuality like being ‘an alcoholic’
• Rights group: Israel’s search for settlers led to collective punishment
• Riots break out in India amid power cuts during heat wave
• Robert Ford talks to Ray Suarez
• Russia cuts gas supply to Ukraine
• Russia extends deadline for Ukrainian gas payments
• Russia: Soviet victories, racism and miracles
• Russian bank chiefs take aim at US dollar
• Russian troops seen to mass at Ukraine border as rebels reject peace plan
• Russia’s goal in Ukraine remains the same: Keep NATO out
• S. Korea ferry sinking survivors return to class
• SCOTUS: Public-sector unions can’t force nonstaff workers to pay dues
• SCOTUS: Religious employers can refuse to pay for birth control coverage
• SEC chief plots major rules for high-speed traders
• Samba soccer be damned, FIFA demands quiet on the World Cup set
• San Francisco debates controversial mental health law
• San Francisco slams the brakes on pay-for-public-parking app
• Santos re-elected president of Colombia
• Saudi Arabia announces 92 more MERS deaths, sacks deputy health minister
• Savage beating of Roma teen in Paris prompts outrage
• Saving Buddhist statues: Afghanistan’s big dig
• Saving the sage-grouse: Can oil and conservation work together?
• School food lobby flip-flops on healthy school lunches
• School shootings: 74 … and still counting
• Scientists discover how to date fingerprints
• Scientists unveil 367 new species
• Scores fall ill near Louisiana gas facility
• Search intensifies for survivors of Malaysia boat sinking
• Seattle City Council approves $15 minimum wage
• Seminary divests from fossil fuels, calling oil ‘profoundly sinful’
• Senate approves Burwell as new US health secretary
• Senate confirms first openly gay black federal judge
• Senior officers in Nigeria military found guilty of helping Boko Haram
• Shia leaders call on Iraqis to join fight against insurgents
• Silent kidney epidemic ravages Central America sugar belt
• Silicon Valley’s minimum wage success story
• Sioux reservation has mixed feelings about Obama's visit
• Sisi declared Egyptian president following predicted landslide election
• Sisi sworn in as Egypt’s new president
• Sisi will not interfere with journalists’ verdicts despite outcry
• Six climbers feared dead on Washington's Mount Rainier
• Soccer as the continuation of politics by other means
• Soccer is no longer America’s sport of the future
• Soldier at Fort Hood accused of running prostitution ring
• Some Washington cities reject state marijuana legalization – but can they?
• South Korea: Trying to recapture the miracle of 2002
• South Korean ferry crew stands trial for negligence, homicide
• South Korean soldier shoots dead 5 comrades near border with North
• Space tourism company breaks record with high-altitude balloon flight
• Spain protesters call for referendum on monarchy
• Spain's morbid symptoms are generational, not philosophical
• Spain, Germany arrest 11 for alleged recruiting for ISIL
• Spain: World Cup dream comes true
• Spanish King Juan Carlos abdicates
• Spurs cool the Heat 104-87 for NBA title
• Stalled Voting Rights Act amendment leaves voters vulnerable, critics say
• Starbucks to partially fund bachelor's degrees for workers
• State of Emergency: Air, Water, Food
• State of Play: Football Players and the NCAA
• State-level minimum wage increases leave domestic workers behind
• Statement from NCAA on topics covered in 'State of Play'
• Status of voting rights fragile as midterms approach, reports find
• Still waters run deep: Underground reservoir triple size of oceans found
• Strikes threaten to disrupt Brazil’s World Cup
• Study suggests possible link between autism and pesticide exposure
• Study warns carbon cuts fall short as UN climate conference begins
• Study: Pollution laws reduce deaths from lung illness
• Study: Red meat possibly linked to breast cancer
• Studying science of songbirds, and finishing high school
• Subsidized federal marketplace health premiums average $82
• Suburban expansion threatens prehistoric sites near St. Louis
• Sudanese ‘apostasy’ woman detained at airport after release
• Suicide bomber explodes at Beirut hotel during security raid
• Summit urges world not to ‘turn aside’ from wartime sexual violence
• Supreme Court backs broadcasters in controversial Aereo streaming case
• Supreme Court curtails president's recess appointment powers
• Supreme Court leaves intact Florida verdicts against tobacco companies
• Supreme Court rejects reporter’s bid to keep source confidential
• Supreme Court rules public sector whistleblowers safe from job retaliation
• Supreme Court rules warrantless search of cellphones unconstitutional
• Supreme Court says BP must pay spill claims during appeal
• Supreme Court set to decide on 'Hobby Lobby' employee birth control case
• Supreme Court strikes down abortion clinic protest buffer zones
• Supreme Court won't hear California's prison appeal
• Supreme Court: Ban on buying guns for others applies in all cases
• Survey: One-fourth of Americans have no emergency savings
• Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnap 20 women in Nigeria
• Suspected French extremist arrested over Belgian Jewish museum attack
• Suspected US drone strikes hit Pakistan after hiatus
• Suspected ringleader behind Benghazi consulate attack captured by US
• Switzerland reimagines itself
• Switzerland's team challenges Europe's anti-immigrant feeling
• Syria mandates Russian language study
• Syria rebels hold a cautionary tale as ISIL rises in Iraq
• Syrian children recruited as anti-Assad soldiers, says HRW
• Syrians vote in presidential elections amid sounds of war
• São Paulo subway strikes snarl traffic before World Cup
• TEPCO pushes for nuclear plant restarts over shareholder protests
• Taking off from Harvard Yard: Flight of the RoboBees
• Taliban holding US woman and her Canadian husband, families say
• Taliban launches deadly assault on Pakistan airport
• Taliban video shows dazed-looking Bergdahl in handover
• Tall tales about Texas
• Task force reveals brutal physical and sexual abuse at Australia base
• Task force traces the routes of Native Alaskan victims of violence
• Teaching digital citizenship in a 'yakking' world
• Team profile: Algeria
• Team profile: Argentina
• Team profile: Australia
• Team profile: Belgium
• Team profile: Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Team profile: Brazil
• Team profile: Cameroon
• Team profile: Chile
• Team profile: Colombia
• Team profile: Costa Rica
• Team profile: Cote D'Ivoire
• Team profile: Croatia
• Team profile: Ecuador
• Team profile: England
• Team profile: France
• Team profile: Germany
• Team profile: Ghana
• Team profile: Greece
• Team profile: Honduras
• Team profile: Iran
• Team profile: Italy
• Team profile: Japan
• Team profile: Mexico
• Team profile: Netherlands
• Team profile: Nigeria
• Team profile: Portugal
• Team profile: Russia
• Team profile: South Korea
• Team profile: Spain
• Team profile: Switzerland
• Team profile: USA
• Team profile: Uruguay
• TechKnow 139: Early earthquake warnings & new gun safety tech
• TechKnow 140: Innovations from Caltech
• TechKnow 141: Swimming with sharks in the name of science
• TechKnow 142: Vehicle-to-vehicle smart tech
• Telangana becomes India’s newest state
• Tens of thousands flee Pakistan offensive
• Tense talks for Kerry in Baghdad as ISIL gains ground
• Texas GOP advances therapy to turn gay people straight
• Thai coup leaders take aim at economy
• Thai junta sets up panels to crack down on critical news reports
• Thailand anti-coup activist detained by police
• Thailand junta offers citizens free movie and soccer
• Thailand launches corruption probe against ousted PM Yingluck
• Thailand, Venezuela and Malaysia downgraded in US human trafficking index
• Thanks to WikiLeaks, public can debate alarming new trade deal
• The Clintons' web of wealth
• The Donbass Battalion prepares to save Ukraine from separatists
• The European single currency system spirals further out of control
• The Hillary Clinton age trap
• The Men's Rights Movement
• The Muslim Brotherhood struggles to come in from the cold
• The New York Rangers and me
• The Republican Party’s Goldwater moment
• The Russian-Chinese geopolitical game
• The Supreme Court's wisdom on metadata
• The United States of Belgium
• The West doesn’t need nuclear for energy independence
• The White House steps in to help students in debt: What next?
• The art of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela
• The betrayal of Karachi
• The case for raising feminist boys
• The college-cost denial industry
• The consequences of the U.S. war on terrorism in Africa
• The curse of Ronaldo, Zidane and the Cat
• The evolution of the GI Bill
• The female Sufi mystics of the Pankisi Gorge
• The greening of the American teacher
• The high cost of phoning home: Prisoners demand cheaper connection
• The legacy children of the Honduran coup
• The middle class is shrinking in America but growing in Texas
• The next culture war
• The offal truth: Britain urges US to address haggis
• The racial tensions behind Sweden’s idyllic facade
• The speed of money: High frequency trading
• The stakes are high in Qatar’s World Cup drama
• The trouble with trigger warnings
• The unknown Neruda
• The warm afterglow of Croatia's 1998 legacy
• The youth heroin epidemic that wasn’t
• This World Cup belongs to Latin America’s middle class
• Those who do not learn history: Iraq edition
• Tiananmen Square, then, now and to come
• To be gay, Christian and black in Harlem
• To free or not to free: Giving juvenile murderers a second chance
• To get a fair share, sharing-economy workers must unionize
• To prevent MERS pandemic, respect Saudi Arabia’s rights to the virus
• Tony Awards for ‘All the Way,’ ‘A Gentleman’s Guide’
• Top Chinese official accused amid ‘faint echoes’ of Cultural Revolution
• Top Shia cleric calls for new Iraqi government
• Travel agents ask Thai military to lift curfew ahead of ‘full-moon party’
• Trial next step in Sterling duel over Clippers sale
• Trickle down surveillance
• Turkey's female mayors pledge to prioritize women's issues
• Turmoil in Iraq: Prime minister declares state of emergency
• Turning Rio's favelas into a tourist attraction
• Two Palestinians killed in West Bank as Israel searches for missing teens
• UK doctors push to ban cigarette sales to anyone born after 2000
• UN blacklists Ugandan group for using child soldiers
• UN panel: Detroit water cutoffs violate human rights
• UN: 50,000 children could die of hunger, disease in South Sudan
• UN: Almost half of Syria's population needs humanitarian aid
• UN: Marijuana-related health problems on rise in US
• UN: Number of world’s displaced highest since WWII
• UNESCO names West Bank’s Battir a protected World Heritage Site
• US Army launches investigation of Bergdahl disappearance
• US added 217,000 jobs in May; unemployment steady at 6.3 percent
• US advances to final 16 of World Cup despite rain-soaked loss
• US appeals court rules Utah gay marriage ban unconstitutional
• US court revives lawsuit against Abu Ghraib security contractors
• US economy shrank by 2.9 percent in Q1, but spring rebound predicted
• US electricity markets are anti-consumer
• US executions continue despite concerns over secretive drugs
• US govt. defends prisoner swap, says essential to save soldier’s life
• US imposes new sanctions on Uganda over anti-gay law
• US military should publish all investigations of civilian deaths
• US plans child migrant processing center in Texas warehouse
• US reportedly relaxing ban on crude oil exports
• US says Russian tanks, rocket launchers in eastern Ukraine
• US seeks to thaw Egypt relations
• US signals intention to eliminate its land mines, join treaty
• US to boost support for Iraqi security forces as rebels gain ground
• US to deploy 275 troops to Iraq
• US to hold bilateral meetings with Iran
• US to partially evacuate embassy after string of Baghdad explosions
• US to provide lawyers for some immigrant children
• US tourist detained in North Korea, state media reports
• US unveils plan to cut power plant emissions 30 percent
• US, Mexico discuss influx of immigrant children
• US-Cuba policies are wasted on the old
• US-Iran cooperation on Iraq tricky but will boost nuclear deal incentives
• US-Taliban prisoner swap inspires tentative hopes for Afghan peace
• USA: The World Cup as an American selfie
• Ukraine accuses Russia of letting rebels bring in tanks
• Ukraine announces cease-fire amid renewed fighting
• Ukraine launches airstrikes on rebel bases after plane shot down in east
• Ukraine president ends unilateral cease-fire, saying: 'we will attack'
• Ukraine president floats unilateral cease-fire order for restive east
• Ukraine rejects Russia’s gas offer
• Ukraine separatists agree to peace talks
• Ukraine signs landmark EU trade deal, Russia warns of ‘grave consequences’
• Ukraine’s oligarchs remain influential as ever
• Ukraine’s president orders civilian corridor in east
• Ukrainian president proposes truce to push peace plan
• Upworthy’s unworthy politics
• Uruguay's teenage World Cup hero vindicates its youth soccer policy
• Uruguay: small in size, great in achievement
• Uruguay’s Suárez to miss rest of World Cup over biting incident
• Uterine prolapse: The hidden agony of Nepalese women
• Utopia sometimes sings Les Bleus
• VA audit reveals more than 120,000 veterans experienced long wait times
• VA: 18 veterans left off wait list died
• Vatican fires archbishop accused of sexual abuse
• Venezuela Divided
• Venezuela opposition leader to remain jailed
• Venezuela’€™s right-wing violence is ignored, say pro-government groups
• Verizon, Netflix streaming spat heats up
• Veterans not surprised Iraq's Army collapsed
• Video streamer Aereo suspends service after Supreme Court decision
• Vodafone report: 6 countries have direct access to operators' networks
• Volleyball game on South China Sea island angers Beijing
• WHO urges 'drastic action' to combat Ebola in West Africa
• WHO: Death toll from West Africa Ebola hits 337
• WHO: Guinea’s Ebola outbreak approaching deadliest ever
• Walmart's image problem under scrutiny at annual shareholder meeting
• Washington Redskins stripped of trademark by US Patent Office
• Washington candidate takes a shot at voter outreach
• Washington city sued over its ban on marijuana businesses
• Watchdog says Syrian chemical stockpile in western control
• Wave of attacks leaves dozens dead in Nigeria
• We filmed a Venezuelan food line, here’s what happened
• Weighing military options in Iraq, US faces legal, tactical challenges
• West Bank crackdown raises peril for both Abbas and Netanyahu
• What FIFA talks about when FIFA talks about FIFA
• What ISIL’s English-language propaganda tells us about its goals
• What Maya Angelou taught our students
• What can the U.S. do about ISIL in Iraq?
• What is Iraq’s fate in the hands of Maliki?
• What kind of precedent does the Hobby Lobby ruling set?
• What language does soccer speak?
• What’s behind the Starbucks College Achievement Plan?
• When Mexico beats Croatia in Brazil, creating a situation for the LAPD...
• When costs prohibit gender reassignment surgery, some raise funds online
• When schools put their brands before assaulted students
• Where will Israel’s West Bank crackdown leave the occupation?
• White House convenes summit on workplace, family leave policies
• Who done it? Citizen investigators mine social media for crime clues
• Who so blue? Picasso painting reveals hidden man
• Wholesale voters: Why Hillary Clinton went to Costco
• Who’s your daddy? Study on genetic testing says parents don’t need to know
• Why 28 years have passed since the EPA’s last chemical risk review
• Why Brazil's key men are its defensive midfielders
• Why New York’s proposal to grant state citizenship makes perfect sense
• Why are sharks the 'bad guys'?
• Why are so many young migrants attempting to come to the US alone?
• Why intent shouldn’t matter with online threats
• Why is FIFA tolerating fans in blackface at the World Cup?
• Why is the United States becoming more partisan?
• Why money clouded the World Cup for Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon
• Why the US should have blocked Ugandan minister’s UN post
• Wikipedia says editors must disclose all paid contributions
• Wild, Wild Midwest: A rash of 'justified homicides' in Detroit
• Will Bosnia & Herzegovina learn from their team’s diversity?
• Will JK Rowling’s Expelliarmus disarm Scottish independence?
• Will real estate bubbles again sink the global economy?
• Will the Dutch resolve their identity crisis in Brazil?
• Will the Iraq crisis trickle down to the pump?
• Will the curse of oil drag down Vladimir Putin?
• Wisconsin's Mining Standoff
• With small limits, Supreme Court backs EPA authority over carbon emissions
• With the fall of Mosul, Maliki loses more Iraqi ground
• Witnesses: New sectarian violence in Central African Republic
• Women's rights activist faces excommunication from Mormon church
• Workers promise strike at Rio's airport
• World Bank predicts ‘disappointing’ growth for developing world
• World Cup battles to shift from street to pitch as tournament kicks off
• World Cup beer honor angers Iran lawmaker
• World Cup latest
• World leaders honor D-Day’s fallen, 70 years later
• World leaders, news outlets unite to condemn Al Jazeera sentences
• YouTube announces paid music service; indie labels fear being edged out
• Your tax dollars hard at work: Iraq edition
• Youth baseball coaches take less blame in search for elbow injury answers
• ‘Bionic pancreas’ shows promise for Type 1 diabetes
• ‘Debt for diploma’: The new reality for college graduates
• ‘Extremely disturbing’ force-feeding tapes cited in Gitmo abuse case
• ‘It’s not our fault, it’s not our fight — and we can’t fix it’
• ‘Pilger is gone’: Tornadoes wipe out Nebraska village
• ‘Relatives’ of Neanderthals discovered among human skulls
• ‘School-to-Prison Pipeline’