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Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., talks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate vote on the defense authorization bill. (Photo by Alex Brandon / AP)

North American Bedbug Summit: scientists, exterminators meet

The first annual North American Bedbug Summit begins near Chicago. The National Pest Management Association estimates the number of bedbug complaints have soared 500 percent in the past five years.

ABC News

Chicago hosts first bedbug summit

MSNBC

Commonwealth Games in crisis

The ill-fated Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, has suffered another major setback after a footbridge near the event’s main stadium collapsed, injuring at least 23 laborers.

Telegraph.co.uk

Delhi Games village ‘unfit for athletes’

BBC

‘Don’t ask, don‘t tell’ falters in Senate

A defense bill that includes the repeal of the military‘s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy failed to advance in the U.S. Senate as Republicans closed ranks to keep the bill from coming up for debate.

CNN

Lady Gaga: Equality is the prime rib of US

ABC News

Helicopter crash kills 9 in Afghanistan

Nine members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force have died in a helicopter crash in Zabul province, southern Afghanistan.

BBC

2010 deadliest year for troops

NPR

Taliban, US officials dispute cause of crash

MSNBC

Calculating the cost of obesity

Researchers added up things like employee sick days, lost productivity — even the need for extra gasoline — and found the annual cost of being obese is $4,879 for a woman and $2,646 for a man.

CBS News

NATION

Calif. utility company stumbles upon fossils

A utility company preparing to build a new sub-station in an arid canyon southeast of Los Angeles has stumbled on a trove of animal fossils dating back 1.4 million years.

TIME

Bomb suspect wanted to shake Chicago

A man arrested for allegedly placing a backpack he thought contained a bomb near Chicago’s Wrigley Field got the fake explosive from an FBI undercover agent, authorities say.

CBS News

FBI: Bombing foiled outside Wrigley Field

ABC7Chicago

On politics, economy and American Dream

Half of Americans say the American Dream still holds true. Only a quarter would want their child to run for Congress. And for all the shouting, half don’t think either political party can do much with the economy.

ABC News

POLITICS

Senate Democrats consider early exit

Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin said Democrats might pass a stop-gap spending measure to keep government funded beyond Sept. 30 and then go back to their home states to campaign.

The Hill

Do the wacky things candidates say cut support? Maybe not

This could be a year when traditionally toxic revelations and statements prove less important than voter anger over how Washington operates.

McClatchy Newspapers

EDUCATION

Experts tackle improving STEM education

Citing concerns about the nation’s long-term ability to prosper, two major reports issued separately put forward ideas to improve STEM education, but with decidedly different areas of emphasis.

Education Week

Cost of college: graduates break even by age 33

For the typical student attending a four-year public university, the financial investment in college begins to pay off at about age 33, says a report by released by College Board Advocacy & Policy Center.

USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Vatican backs building Milan’s 1st mosque

While New York frets over the construction of a mosque near ground zero, Milan is pushing back against construction of its first mosque. Local Muslims have found an unlikely ally in the Catholic Church.

Christian Science Monitor

Harvard faces protests over honor for Islamophobic editor

Harvard academics and students are demanding that the university rescind a plan to honor the editor-in-chief of a leading Washington political magazine after he wrote that “Muslim life is cheap.”

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Natural gas industry fuels economy in Pa.

Pennsylvania‘s natural gas industry is rapidly expanding and may be on the verge of a drilling rush. Most of the jobs are going to out-of-state workers, but the rush is providing a boost to the economy.

NPR

Idaho energy leading comeback from recession

USA TODAY

Wild horses in US face uncertain future

Some of the last wild horses in the eastern U.S. are seeing their world get smaller as a boom in vacation homes has caused the descendants of colonial Spanish mustangs to be confined to a 7,500-acre sanctuary.

Kansas City Star

Special section:

Wild horse adoption program

Bureau of Land Management

SPORTS

Broncos’ wide receiver Kenny McKinley dead at 23

Kenny McKinley, a second-year NFL player on the Broncos’ injured reserve list, was found dead of an apparent suicide. He was 23 and is survived by a young son.

Denver Post

Yankees make a tribute

The New York Yankees unveiled a large monument to late owner George Steinbrenner prior to their game against Tampa Bay.

Sports Network

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Charles Krauthammer):

Some tea party victories hurt conservatives

Detroit News

Editorial:

Unfinished work remains

Las Vegas Sun

Column (Joan Walsh):

Clinton: Tea party led by ‘ultra right wing’

Salon

Column (Mona Charen):

Democrats chose wrong moment for big government

National Review

Column (Daniel Indiviglio):

Tax cuts are the government’s only viable option

The Atlantic

Editorial:

Stimulus happytalk

Boston Herald

Blog (Marguerite Reardon and Caroline McCarthy):

Why a Facebook phone may not be nuts

(CNET News)

Signal Strength

Column (Brent Budowsky):

Bill Clinton at the plate

The Hill

Column (Phil Bronstein):

Marijuana’s future has an upscale look

San Francisco Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Actress encourages ambassadorship in fight against infant mortality

Actress Victoria Rowell served as keynote speaker during Low Country Healthy Start, a maternal wellness program to help focus attention on infant mortality rates, particularly among minorities.

The TandD

Haitian artists to sell work at Macy’s

Macy’s, the largest department store chain in the United States, has unveiled itself as the commercial knight in shining armor responsible for giving more than 200 Haitian artisans their first full-time contracts.

Globeandmail.com

WORLD

North Korea to hold rare conference

North Korea’s ruling party will meet next week to elect a “supreme leadership body” amid growing questions about who will succeed Kim Jong Il, the country’s dictator, Pyongyang has announced.

Financial Times

North Korea‘s ruling Workers’ Party

Reuters

Afghan poll watchdog says 2,988 complaints lodged

Afghanistan‘s election watchdog has received almost 3,000 formal complaints about a parliamentary poll and is mulling extending a deadline for grievances because many more are expected.

Vancouver Sun

Poisonous water rising from the ground threatens Johannesburg

Johannesburg, South Africa, is facing a nightmare of biblical proportions: a vast tide of poisonous water rising inexorably toward the foundations of the city itself.

Globeandmail.com

BUSINESS

Money-laundering probe at Vatican Bank

Italian authorities have seized $30.18 million from a Vatican bank account and begun investigating top officials of the Vatican bank in connection with a money-laundering probe.

CBS News

Artificial intelligence goes mobile

Some of technology’s biggest companies are developing AI-related hardware, software and components to run on smartphones and tablets. Might a wireless device rebalance your investment portfolio?

BusinessWeek

HEALTH

Dementia costs hit $604B in 2010

The worldwide costs of dementia will reach $604 billion in 2010, more than 1 percent of global GDP output, and those costs will soar as the number of sufferers triples by 2050, according to a report.

Reuters

Human connections start with a touch

Social scientists have shown in many studies over the years that supportive touch can have good outcomes in a number of different realms.

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Twitter fixes security flaw after many hit

After a new Twitter security hack created chaos for thousands of users, the company said it had fixed the problem on its status blog. Soon after, the company said the breach had been fully patched.

ABC News

Livermore lab nears fusion quest

The scientists at the National Ignition Facility are preparing to meet a deadline for the first set of experiments in the final stretch of a national effort to achieve the long-sought goal of fusion.

Contra Costa Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The French renaissance of Impressionist painter Claude Monet

One of the world’s favorite Frenchmen is coming home after 30 years of official neglect. The largest ever exhibition of the works of the Impressionist master Claude Monet opens in Paris.

The Independent

Time for truce about household duties between couples

According to a national study looking at how opposite sexes clean, men and women have different ideas about sharing chores. About 1 out of 5 admitted to arguing about housework on a monthly basis.

MSNBC

Piracy activists target recording industry in Web attacks

Piracy activists have carried out coordinated Web attacks, temporarily knocking the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America offline.

BBC

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