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From the Washington Post: For doctors such as Pradeep Chopra, long accustomed to prescribing carefully tested medications by the exact milligram, medical marijuana presents a particular conundrum.

From the NY Times: Among the many reverberations of President Obama’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.

NEW ORLEANS – BP PLC has managed to cap one of three leaks at a deepwater oil well, but the work was not expected to reduce the overall flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard said.

HOUSTON – A ruptured, smoking suitcase removed from an arriving international flight is being examined by fire crews and bomb specialists at Houston’s busiest airport.

From STLToday.com: KETTERING, Ohio — Bilal Momin watched as one family member after another succumbed to a genetic and degenerative kidney disease. In 2006, Momin, the associate minister of Freedom-Hill Baptist Church in Dayton, thought he was next.

If you want to know what people think about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico all you need to do is take a look at the web. Social networks like face book and Twitter are over flowing with angry comments, most directed at oil giant British Petroleum. Mainstream media organizations have picked […]

From LATimes.com: As President Obama considers nominees to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a debate bubbles as to whether religion should play a role in his choice.

NEW YORK — A Pakistani-born U.S. citizen was charged Tuesday with terrorism and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in the botched Times Square bombing. The government said he confessed to receiving explosives training in Pakistan.

From CNN: The Cumberland River is receding in swamped Nashville, Tennessee, but Music City faces a long recovery from the historic flooding.

The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is one of many man-made environmental disasters that this country has produced in its history.