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Vitamin B could be new weapon against Alzheimer's disease

The research showed that large doses of the supplement could halve the rate of brain shrinkage — a physical symptom associated memory loss and dementia in the elderly.

Telegraph.co.uk

Pill could beat Alzheimer's

Sky News

High court won't order state to defend Proposition 8

The California state Supreme Court refused to come to the aid of California's ban on same-sex marriage, denying a request to appeal a federal judge's ruling striking down the voter-approved measure.

San Francisco Chronicle

Obama firm against tax cuts for rich

President Barack Obama stood firm in opposition to a Republican push to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the rich but stopped short of threatening to veto such a measure if passed by Congress.

Reuters

Obama: $300B in business tax incentives

YouTube

Quran burning concerns Fla. governor

Florida's governor, Charlie Crist, is concerned about safety at home and around the world over a plan by the head of a small church to burn the Quran to mark the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

ABC News

Fla. minister has no plans to cancel Quran burn

Associated Press

Traffic deaths lower

The number of people dying on the nation's roads has fallen, helped by a combination of seat belts, safer cars and tougher enforcement of drunken driving laws.

ABC News

NATION

9th Circuit throws out CIA torture lawsuit for national security reasons

Five men who say they were kidnapped and tortured by the CIA cannot sue the Boeing Co. subsidiary that helped spirit them away because of the risk of secret intelligence matters being exposed at trial.

Los Angeles Times

Imam: handling of Islamic center plan a matter of national security

The religious leader behind plans to build an Islamic center and mosque a few blocks from New York's ground zero said that America's national security depends on how it handles the controversy.

CNN

Most Americans against mosque at ground zero

NDTV

Americans pick debit over credit

Credit spending is on the decline as "cautious consumers" prefer to pay now as opposed to pay later. Data shows that credit card use in 2009 was at 56 percent, down from 87 percent in 2007.

Newsweek

POLITICS

Top ballot item: legalizing pot in Calif.

No single election contest this fall combines the buzz and history-making potential of California's Proposition 19, which would make the state the first to legalize recreational use of marijuana.

Las Vegas Sun

Fewer candidates seeking Obama's help

The days of President Barack Obama traipsing around the country to states like Montana in freewheeling campaign mode — and with sky-high popularity lifting Democratic candidates — are long over.

MSNBC

Democratic Governors Association goes on 'offense' in midterms

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Extinction ‘tipping points’ possibly predictable

Thousands of plants and animals are listed as endangered and a new study shows a way to determine when extinction becomes inevitable.

LiveScience

Thinking like a chimpanzee

Tetsuro Matsuzawa and the dozen scientists and graduate students who work with him are peering into the minds of our closest relatives to understand what separates them from us.

Smithsonian

Archaeologists find 2000-year-old pills in Greek shipwreck

Archaeologists and, for the first time, archaeo-botanists have been able to examine and analyze pills that were prepared by the physicians of ancient Greece.

New Scientist

EDUCATION

Social media blackout

State information technology officials in Pennsylvania will block access to popular social media tools on computers using the campus network of Harrisburg University of Science and Technology.

Inside Higher Ed

Learning-disabled enrollment dips

After decades of what seemed to be an inexorable upward path, the number of students classified as learning-disabled declined from year to year over much of the past decade.

Education Week

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Muslim gargoyle vexes French extremists

A Muslim stonemason, who helped restore a Roman Catholic cathedral in France, has been immortalized as a winged gargoyle peering out from the cathedral's facade.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

New mosque in Ky. an oasis of calm

The installation at the Muslim Community Center of Louisville, Ky., marked the crowning moment so far in the construction of the city's newest mosque.

USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Blog (Glenn Greenwald):

Obama wins the right to invoke 'state secrets' to protect Bush crimes

(Salon)

Unclaimed Territory

Column (S.E. Cupp):

After Obama, a dose of Hillary Clinton? Many moderates would support her

NY Daily News

Column (Matthew Shaffer):

Racial voyeurism

National Review

Column (Alexis Madrigal):

The pros and cons of Google Instant

The Atlantic

Editorial:

When every teacher is rated 'great,' students suffer

USA TODAY

Column (John Hughes):

Obama must not let Taliban rule over Afghan women again

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Nora Barrows-Friedman):

During war there are no civilians

Al Jazeera

Column (Feisal Abdul Rauf):

Building on faith

New York Times

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GOOD NEWS

George Soros gives $100 million to human rights group

Billionaire philanthropist and investor, George Soros, donated more than $100 million to Human Rights Watch, the New York-based organization that investigates and highlights human rights worldwide.

The Daily Maverick

Australia, New Zealand top charity list; US stands in 5th place

CBS News

Teachers give generously from own money for school supplies

According to a recent study by the National School Supply and Equipment Association, U.S. public school teachers on average spent $356 of their own money on supplies for their classrooms in 2009-10.

Ventura County Star

WORLD

Iran 'reviewing' stoning sentence

Iranian authorities have suspended the execution by stoning of a woman convicted of adultery, the foreign ministry said, after condemnation from around the world.

The Independent

Mullah Omar tells Afghans that the Taliban are winning

The Taliban's leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, said Afghan fighters are winning the war and warns Americans they are wasting lives and billions in tax dollars.

TIME

Inside the mind of a suicide bomber

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

Century farms: a slice of history

Along the back roads of states like Kansas, Iowa, Utah, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, signs pop up that say "Century Farm," signifying land farmed by the same family for more than 100 years.

NPR

Economists cut US growth forecast again

Projected U.S. economic growth for the rest of this year and next was revised down for a third month in a row by a panel of about 50 economists.

Reuters

Special section:

US economy

MSNBC

HEALTH

Chest compression OK for cardiac arrests in the field

Chest compressions prior to defibrillation are just as good as immediate treatment with an electrical defibrillator for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, according to analysis of pooled data.

MedPage Today

Stanford students learn what's in their DNA in summer course

A controversial Stanford Medical School summer course that allowed students to test their own DNA was designed to help students understand the commercially available genetic tests.

San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Record summer heat scorched US

The intense heat this summer wasn't a mirage for tens of millions of people. Every state east of the Mississippi River recorded one of its 10 warmest summers.

USA TODAY

Mining the truth on coal supplies

Most estimates are that the world has abundant coal reserves, but a new analysis that takes into account coal quality concludes that supplies may not be as ample as widely thought.

National Geographic

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Kelsey Grammer backs new conservative TV network

Kelsey Grammer is the front man in the RightNetwork, a new, politically conservative TV network.

Christian Science Monitor

Military bans troop 'killing' video game

Military bases across the U.S. have banned the sale of a new video game that lets a player pretend to be a Taliban fighter and "shoot" U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Denver Post

SPORTS

Patriots Pro Bowl QB Brady unhurt in 2-car accident

The New England Patriots have confirmed on Twitter and Facebook that five-time Pro Bowl quarterback Tom Brady was unhurt in a car accident.

NFL News

Tom Brady in car accident

ESPN

Trevor Hoffman collects 600th save

Trevor Hoffman added another milestone to his illustrious career, earning his 600th save by closing out the Brewers' 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.

ESPN

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