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• 5. GOP-LED HOUSE VOTES TO HOLD EX-IRS OFFICIAL IN CONTEMPT
• Democrats deride the action targeting Lois Lerner as little more than an election-year ploy to fire up the Republican base.
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• 6. WHAT SILICON VALLEY, DEMOCRATS HAVE IN COMMON
• The tech industry may dress differently from buttoned-up politicians, but that's where a wealthy segment of Obama's Democratic donor base can be found.
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• 7. WHO ARMY IS DEPLOYING TO COMBAT PTSD
• Lexy, a 5-year-old German shepherd, is getting soldiers to put aside bravado and seek treatment for stress disorders and mental health issues.
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• 8. WHO'S STRUGGLING IN THE CLASSROOM
• Only about a quarter of high school seniors in the U.S. are performing proficiently in math, and just 4 in 10 are making the grade in reading, a new report says.
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• 9. WHAT'S HOLDING BACK THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
• Birth rates -- crucial for economic growth -- tumbled after the Great Recession in 2008 and still haven't recovered.
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• 10. TEXANS ON THE CLOCK
• Houston will have the No. 1 pick when the NFL draft gets underway, Day 1 of a three-day, made-for-TV marathon.
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AP News in Brief
Obama hits up Silicon Valley for Democratic money amid debate over privacy, NSA snooping
• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- They come from different worlds -- the buttoned-down political culture of Washington and the entrepreneurial, socks-optional, let's-do-this-faster ethos of Silicon Valley.
• But where those worlds overlap, that's where you find President Barack Obama and a wealthy segment of his Democratic donor base.
• Obama was to attend two high-dollar Democratic Party fundraisers Thursday hosted by Silicon Valley executives, drawing attention to the complicated relation (Continued on page 28)
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