FIRST LOOK: GE chief says American workers need more skills

Welcome to First Look, our daily roundup of early-bird news:

• Forty years after they first leaked, the U.S. government is releasing the Pentagon Papers. (AP)

• U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says he'll change No Child Left Behind on his own if lawmakers don't--by waiving certain states from the law's requirements. (WSJ)

• The chief of GE said Americans aren't skilled enough for millions of open jobs in manufacturing. (CNN)

• Justice Alito said he gets along with his Supreme Court buddies because they agree never to talk about cases over lunch. (Post-Dispatch)

• The FBI's new guidelines give its agents more leeway in their investigations, raising privacy concerns. (New York Times)

• The former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer who shot and killed an unarmed man was released a year early from jail. He testified he meant to use the stun gun on the victim, and accidentally shot him with live ammunition instead. (LA Times)

• First photos of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords released since she was shot in January. (The Ticket)

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