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"Moammar Gadhafi has lost legitimacy," Obama says, as opposition fighters strengthened their defenses in the town of Brega. That's where earlier this week the regime's forces launched a failed attack on a major oil facility.

Mutinous army units in pickup trucks armed with machine-guns and rocket launchers deployed around the strategic oil installation at Brega Thursday.

Social media sites have been powerful organizing tools in the Middle East, but they are of little use to the small opposition movement in Cuba, the least-connected country in the hemisphere. In addition, Cuban dissidents are divided and the government responds swiftly to any unsanctioned protest.

A Navy workshop takes families beyond the joyful reunions into the reality of coming home. We'll hear about the challenges vets face returning from deployment, where even the color green can be difficult to adjust to after so much time in the desert.

Lorie Zapf was elected in 2010 to replace the termed-out Donna Frye as the City Council representative from the 6th district. We ask her about the controversies that followed her during the election and the big issues in her first months in office, including water rate increases and the city budget.

Unemployment is still at record-high levels for all workers. But young workers have experienced the highest unemployment rates. The outlook for college students graduating this spring may not be great, but it is improving.

It's the most talked about option for international military action in Libya. But a no-fly zone would be essentially a U.S. invasion from the sky, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says. And it would require large numbers of aircraft — which could pull U.S. resources away from Afghanistan.

The Libyan leader has had a checkered relationship with the African continent over the years. His pursuit of a United States of Africa — with himself as the continent's self-styled King of Kings — is one of the mercurial colonel's more recent projects.

Warplanes attacked the rebel-held oil port of Brega as opposition forces fought off an attempt by troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi to take control of the oil refinery. Gadhafi appeared to be pulling out all the stops to regain large swathes of rebel-controlled eastern Libya.

The Obama Administration is proposing a zone approach in the southwest to help solar projects get online.