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1. President Barack Obama is hearing from corporate¹ leaders about programs they are using to trim health care cost. The president says if companies can take these steps, there is no reason the country can't follow.

2. Pope Benedict has visited some of the holiest sites in the Middle East. Today he stopped by the Dome² of the Rock and the Western Wall. And later he celebrated³ Mass in a valley beneath the spot where Jesus is believed to have prayed with his disciples⁴ before his arrest.

3. Dozens of young girls have been hospitalized after a gas attack at their school in Afghanistan. Young girls trying to get education have long been the target of Islamic militants⁵ and the government says those extremists were behind this strike.

4. Miss California USA can keep her title. Donald Trump⁶, who owns the Miss USA pageant⁷, says racy photos of Carrie Prejean were acceptable as well as her answer on gay marriage during the pageant.