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  1. There are 60 cases filed nationwide objecting to the impending mandate. The challenges are split almost equally between those brought by corporations and by nonprofit entities with a religious affiliation or moral objection to contraception.

    http://wapo.st/13NQWAq
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  3. Wisconsin teenager wins ‘Doodle 4 Google’ contest with poignant military reunion. http://wapo.st/Z2ulhR

    Image: Sabrina Brady's winning entry, courtesy Google.
    Photo: Wisconsin teenager wins ‘Doodle 4 Google’ contest with poignant military reunion. http://wapo.st/Z2ulhR

Image: Sabrina Brady's winning entry, courtesy Google.
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  5. NASA granted $125,000 to a Texas company that hopes to to build a 3D printer to fabricate food in layers, such as pizzas, for astronauts on long-term missions.
    http://wapo.st/195b03L
  6. The Post's Melissa Bell is in Moore, Okla., talking to residents who survived Monday's destructive tornado. Here's what they have to say.
    http://wapo.st/11cGmDR
  7. This news video from London appears to show a man carrying a knife and a machete, his hands covered in blood, explaining that he attacked a man in a London street "because Muslims are dying every day."
    http://wapo.st/11ZiftP
  8. Austin Deweese, 20, Jonathan Welborn, 19, and Derek Hole, 24, drove four hours from Joplin, Mo., to drop off supplies for the residents of Moore. Hole, who worked in search and rescue after the Joplin tornado, and who lost a few friends in ...the storm, said, “We’ve been through the same thing.” Welborn added, “We wanted to return the favor.”

    Read more stories of Ok. tornado volunteers here: http://wapo.st/10n6C9w
    And the stories of tornado survivors here: http://wapo.st/Z0rLce
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    Photo: Austin Deweese, 20, Jonathan Welborn, 19, and Derek Hole, 24, drove four hours from Joplin, Mo., to drop off supplies for the residents of Moore. Hole, who worked in search and rescue after the Joplin tornado, and who lost a few friends in the storm, said, “We’ve been through the same thing.” Welborn added, “We wanted to return the favor.”

Read more stories of Ok. tornado volunteers here: http://wapo.st/10n6C9w
And the stories of tornado survivors here: http://wapo.st/Z0rLce
  9. Do you Yelp? A complex and secretive algorithm chooses which reviews to display on Yelp.com. Some small business owners say they feel pressured to advertise with Yelp for favorable filtering. http://wapo.st/118ScZs
  10. A medical mystery: What caused this young woman's severe, persistent abdominal pain?
    http://wapo.st/12Kb9Ga
  11. Chinese hackers who attacked Google several years ago broke into a sensitive database that would have revealed whether U.S. counterintelligence agents were watching Chinese spies here.
    http://wapo.st/ZbqNvX
  12. FACT CHECKER: Three Pinocchios on White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer's claim, "That's a very serious offense that happened where Republicans on the Hill, we voluntarily provided these e-mails to, took one of them, doctored it and gave it to ABC News in an attempt to smear the president." Read why: http://wapo.st/1924WZJ
  13. 600 books, five dead husbands, 39 kids, 66 grandkids, two member deaths and one divorce later, this group of women will celebrate a half-century reading together at next month’s book club meeting. http://wapo.st/18ZHFaW
  14. A teacher hugs a child at Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City. As darkness fell Monday, dozens of rescuers continued to search through the wreckage looking for children and staffers who were missing. We'll continue with live updates throughout the day. http://wapo.st/16ICRbf

    Photo: Paul Hellstern / Oklahoman via AP
    Photo: A teacher hugs a child at Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City. As darkness fell Monday, dozens of rescuers continued to search through the wreckage looking for children and staffers who were missing. We'll continue with live updates throughout the day. http://wapo.st/16ICRbf

Photo: Paul Hellstern / Oklahoman via AP
  15. A large, violent tornado has carved a long, destructive path on the south side of Oklahoma City. Doppler radar estimates suggest that twister has the potential to produce 200 mph. Live coverage here: http://wapo.st/14pt0Tt
  16. Armed North Koreans are holding a Chinese fishing boat and its crew ransom despite the protestation of Chinese officials. http://wapo.st/14o29qJ
  17. "...the public is very misinformed on the issue, with the average American believing that scientists are split 50/50 on the cause of global warming." http://wapo.st/14jBziH
  18. A Venn Diagram of the Amy's Baking Company meltdown: http://wapo.st/13zPRfE
    Photo: A Venn Diagram of the Amy's Baking Company meltdown: http://wapo.st/13zPRfE
  19. According to a new report, the gap between the rich and poor is growing in developed countries. http://wapo.st/18TaqG0
    Photo: According to a new report, the gap between the rich and poor is growing in developed countries. http://wapo.st/18TaqG0
  20. Some conservatives aren't happy that Obama asked a Marine to hold his umbrella at a news conference on Thursday. http://wapo.st/19LReYB
    Photo: Some conservatives aren't happy that Obama asked a Marine to hold his umbrella at a news conference on Thursday. http://wapo.st/19LReYB
  21. "Every generation must define itself. If you must find your own path, and we have left you no easy path, then decide now to choose the hard path that leads to the life and the world that you want." http://wapo.st/18T9stB
  22. Think you know what happened in Benghazi? Here are five things Republicans and Democrats get wrong. http://wapo.st/188nGFA
    Photo: Think you know what happened in Benghazi? Here are five things Republicans and Democrats get wrong. http://wapo.st/188nGFA
  23. The hottest new tech accessory for teens is ... a cracked cellphone screen. http://wapo.st/10acz9R
    Photo: The hottest new tech accessory for teens is ... a cracked cellphone screen. http://wapo.st/10acz9R
  24. Reality TV producers dream of people like Sammy and Amy Bouzaglo, the hypersensitive and slightly unbalanced restaurateurs who appeared on Fox's "Kitchen Nightmares" this week -- and then proceeded to publicly melt down on social media, fli...nging all-capped profanities at the Yelp and Reddit users "working together to bring us down."

    But while the Internet has rejoiced in the Bouzaglos' raving -- their Facebook page has nabbed more than 85,000 likes -- even their angriest rants may hide a shadow of truth. Yelp reviews can destroy a business's reputation, whether it deserves it or not, some owners say. In fact, more than 700 businesses and consumers have filed complaints about the popular online consumer review service with the Federal Trade Commission -- and earned Yelp a few mixed reviews of its own.

    http://wapo.st/112jxfU
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  25. For ADHD, the definition is being broadened, meaning the disorder could be diagnosed in more children. In the case of autism, the opposite is true.

    The new criteria are among the changes that will be released with the publication this week...end of the long-awaited guidebook that psychiatrists and other mental health clinicians use to diagnose mental disorders. It's the first major update in nearly 20 years. The 947-page tome by the American Psychiatric Association adds some new disorders, broadens criteria for existing ones and tightens them for other illnesses.

    http://wapo.st/1129zev
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  26. Post opinion writer Alexandra Petri on Amy's Baking Company: A master-class in How To Lose An Argument on the Internet. Follow the steps: http://wapo.st/13zMncY
    Photo: Post opinion writer Alexandra Petri on Amy's Baking Company: A master-class in How To Lose An Argument on the Internet. Follow the steps: http://wapo.st/13zMncY
  27. Photos from the workshop of one of Europe's most sought-after taxidermists.
    http://wapo.st/13zL51q
  28. A fascinating map of the world's most and least racially tolerant countries created from World Values Survey data which asked respondents to identify kinds of people they would not want as neighbors: http://wapo.st/13zsLFK
  29. Will you watch the last episode of "The Office" tonight? Angela Kinsey, who plays head of accounting Angela Martin on the show, choose her favorite moments from the nine-year run. Watch them here: http://wapo.st/13zsinc
  30. Looking back on the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and immigration policy during the Bush administration: Third in a four-part video series on the history of immigration.
    http://wapo.st/107jy6X
  31. The deadly, destructive outbreak of tornado follows one of the quietest periods for twisters in the U.S record. The death toll from Granbury tornado comes close to matching the total number of fatalities from tornadoes in the U.S. in past 12 months (7). http://wapo.st/15Qa4RL
  32. See the view from the top of the Washington Monument scaffolding, which was completed Monday as part of a $15 million project to repair damage from the 2011 earthquake http://wapo.st/105sWYB
  33. Does Facebook do enough to protect the privacy of its youngest users? More than 4,500 people signed a petition calling for Facebook to automatically set the accounts of children and teens to private. http://wapo.st/10Q0ECJ
  34. Read political reporter Aaron Blake's live blog of the Attorney General Eric Holder testifying before the House Judiciary Committee. The latest: another tense exchange, this time with Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) over alleged Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. http://wapo.st/19unDTc
  35. 'Houston, we have a superstar. He's Chris Hadfield, who crawled out of a space capsule on the plains of Kazakhstan early Tuesday (late Monday night EDT), dealing with gravity for the first time in five months and sudden global celebrity fro...m singing a gone-viral made-in-space music video.

    The astronaut's cover of David Bowie's ethereal 1969 hit "Space Oddity" ("Ground control to Major Tom...") landed on YouTube over the weekend, and by early Tuesday afternoon had been viewed more than 6.9­ million times.'

    http://wapo.st/16xUHNo
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  36. Twenty-seven years ago the United States implemented a plan that offered amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. Hear from one of the architects of the bill and key players as they discuss where it went wrong. First in a four-part series.
    http://wapo.st/16xHAvG
  37. The letter reads, as some Russia-watchers have pointed out, more like a scam e-mail you might receive from a “Nigerian prince” than a piece of top-secret espionage by the world’s premier spy service. http://wapo.st/14k6Gd3
  38. A 3D printer at Children's National Medical Center makes plastic models of individual patients' vital organs with all of their quirks, helping doctors solve their problems.
    http://wapo.st/YRGXup
  39. After French troops expelled jihadists from Timbuktu, the ancient city remains in a quiet despair.
    http://wapo.st/13tIbLJ
  40. At twenty years old, Bryce Harper has a technique for the ages. http://wapo.st/14hcLad
    Photo: At twenty years old, Bryce Harper has a technique for the ages. http://wapo.st/14hcLad

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