Atlantic.com: President Obama’s biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris involved introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of power.
Reuters: A federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make emergency contraception pills available without a prescription to all girls of reproductive age.
PC Mag: North Korea’s official Twitter and Flickr accounts were hacked by Anonymous.
Salon.com: Fast food workers this morning planned to walk off the job in what organizers promised would be the largest-ever strike.
AP: Armstrong will not swim three distance events in the Masters South Central Zone Swimming Championships this weekend after swimming’s international federation body raised objections.
USA Today: The governor says he will sign the bill drawn up by a bipartisan panel and which is now headed for the state house or representatives.
Reuters: Genetic sequence data on a deadly strain of bird flu show the virus has already acquired some mutations that might make it more likely to cause a human pandemic.
Salon.com: The “Two and a Half Men” star and tech investor seeks Columbia English majors to staff a new company.
The Wall Street Journal: The SEC has ruled that publicly held companies may use social media sites to communicate with investors in lieu of news releases and websites as long as they inform them ahead of time.
Washington Post: A group sponsored by the National Rifle Association issued a report calling for an armed security guard at every school in the country.