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• 6. OBAMA'S LATE FATHER 'WAS ABUSIVE'
• President's China-based half-brother details domestic abuse claims in his new autobiography.

• 7. WHY WOMEN ARE LEADING ISLAMIC PROTESTS IN CAIRO
• A crackdown by Egypt's new rulers has forced many male members of the Muslim Brotherhood into hiding.

• 8. WHAT NEW GUIDELINES MEAN FOR PEOPLE WITH HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
• Many older adults may not need to take as many pills for the condition, an expert panel concludes.

• 9. WHERE IS THE MYSTERY MILLIONAIRE
• Georgia's Ira Curry will collect half the $636 million Mega Millions jackpot, but the California winner is yet to come forward.

• 10. GAY SLURS SINK 'DUCK DYNASTY' STAR
• Patriarch Phil Robertson is off the reality show after slamming homosexuals as sinners in a magazine interview.

AP News in Brief
Under recommendations, NSA record-gathering and spying would continue amid more oversight

• WASHINGTON (AP) -- If President Barack Obama follows even half of the recommendations urged by his advisory panel, the National Security Agency would significantly change the way it does business.
• The collection of U.S. phone records and the spying on other governments and their citizens would continue. But Americans' phone records would be held by phone companies, not the NSA, and multiple court orders, rather than just one, could be required before the information could be searched.
• Other changes: The president would have to sign off personally on spying on foreign leaders, and foreigners would have greater rights not to be spied upon. Foreign countries could enter into do-not-spy agreements with the U.S. The White House

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