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Eddie Fisher dies at age 82

South Philadelphia’s Eddie Fisher, whose huge fame as a pop singer was overshadowed by scandals ending his marriages to Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor, has died.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Eddie Fisher dead at 82

Examiner

Former Marine sees ‘long way to go’ for equality in the military

Kendall Bailey joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 2001. In 2006, he was a sergeant, assigned to a recruiting office, considering making the military his career. But those plans changed.

NPR

US opposes proposed ‘don’t ask, don‘t tell’ ban

BusinessWeek

Stephen Colbert storms Capitol Hill for migrant workers

Colbert, accompanied by a media swarm, sarcastically testified on Capitol Hill about conditions facing America’s undocumented farm workers. He said that he hoped to bring attention to the workers’ hardships.

CNN

Blog:

Colbert takes Washington

Huffington Post

Colbert testifies before Congress

MSNBC

UN, Obama eye Sudan and Southeast Asia

President Barack Obama is using his last day at the U.N. General Assembly to focus on averting renewed conflict in Sudan and easing growing maritime tensions between China and its Southeast Asian neighbors.

San Francisco Chronicle

Sudan’s ticking time bomb?

CNN

IAEA rejects Arab move targeting Israel

Member states of the U.N. nuclear watchdog narrowly rejected an Arab-sponsored resolution calling on Israel to join and abide by a global anti-atomic weapons treaty.

Reuters

Arab League chief warns of Mideast arms race

Ynetnews

NATION

A wave of addiction and crime, with the medicine cabinet to blame

Police departments have collected thousands of handguns through buy-back programs in communities throughout the country. Now they want the contents of your medicine cabinet.

New York Times

Teresa Lewis executed in Va.

The first woman executed in the United States in five years was put to death in Virginia for arranging the killings of her husband and a stepson over a $250,000 insurance payment.

Guardian

Woman executed in Va.

CNN

Richest dynasties back in the money

The top of the list of U.S. billionaires is still dominated by dynastic wealth, according to the latest annual survey by Forbes magazine, while 272 of the 400 richest Americans are self-made.

The Independent

The richest people in America

Forbes

POLITICS

History shows President, Democrats face stiff headwinds for midterms

With the midterm elections less than six weeks away, President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are suffering from a lack of voter optimism, according to a Voter Confidence Index created by NBC News.

MSNBC

US House joins Senate to repeal SEC exemption on withholding documents

The House of Representatives voted to amend the Dodd-Frank financial-regulation law to restrict the Securities and Exchange Commission’s power to withhold documents from the public.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Titanium foam builds Wolverine bones

Eat your heart out, Wolverine. The “X-Men” superhero won’t be the only one with with metal fused into his skeleton if a new titanium foam proves suitable for replacing and strengthening damaged bones.

New Scientist

Revealing Einstein’s relativity

Einstein‘s theories of relativity suggest time is affected by how fast you’re moving and how close you are to a gravitational field, like Earth’s.

NPR

HEALTH

How to fight a scourge: scenes from the bedbug summit

It‘s possible that bedbugs are simply the latest in a long string of public panics over epidemics that eventually proved to be manageable, from killer bees to bird flu.

TIME

Bedbugs head to Chicago for summit

St. Petersburg Times

Similac recall: Bugs in baby formula

Abbott Laboratories is voluntarily recalling up to 5 million containers of its popular powdered Similac infant formula after finding evidence that beetles had possibly contaminated it.

ABC News

EDUCATION

Department of Education grants $442M for teacher merit pay

The Department of Education is giving school districts and nonprofit organizations from across the country $442 million to create merit pay programs for teachers and principals.

Las Vegas Sun

School year shrinking in Ill.

The traditional American 180-day school year is more myth than reality in Illinois, as districts chip away instruction time, shorten school hours and cut the number of days students come to school.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Facebook opens up a whole new world

Facebook’s status is about to receive a major update. When the new movie, “The Social Network,” hits theaters, Facebook will officially reach the status of pop culture icon.

Boston Herald

Number of unmarried couples living together jumps

For love or money? The number of unmarried couples living together is rising sharply as many young adults who are having a hard time finding jobs are now “doubling up” with significant others.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

How does your faith group celebrate the birth of a child?

Leaders of eight different religious traditions describe the rituals and ceremonies that accompany the birth of a child, and explain the symbolism of each.

Ottawa Citizen

Eddie Long to preach; stays mum on gay sex suit

The pastor of a nationally known Atlanta-area megachurch took other young men on trips as part of a mentoring program but stands by his denial of claims he had sex with them.

CBS News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Steve Clemons):

Clinton missing the big picture

Al Jazeera

Column (Annette John-Hall):

With the death penalty, you’d better be sure the case is air tight

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Roy S. Johnson):

Texans overtake big brother Cowboys

ESPN

Blog (Bill Maher):

New rule: Rich people who complain about being vilified should be vilified

Huffington Post

Column (Eugene Robinson):

The party of nonsense

Truthdig

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Running with, and from, political labels

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Column (Josef Storm and Malou Innocent):

To better Afghanistan, boot the contractors

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Joshua Green):

The angry middle class

The Atlantic

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GOOD NEWS

A legacy of kindness

Grant Pahl, a seventh-grader at Gilbert Middle School, always sticks up for people and makes it a point to say “hi” in the hallways. He didn’t realize how much good could come from such small gestures.

Ames Tribune

Facebook founder’s $100M gift could change Newark, NJ

Education in New Jersey’s biggest city could be in for a big change — and not just because of the $100 million stock donation Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is expected to announce.

Boston Herald

WORLD

Pakistan erupts after US jailing of ‘daughter of the nation’ Aafia Siddiqui

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Pakistan after a New York court sentenced Aafia Siddiqui, a U.S.-educated neuroscientist and mother of three, to 86 years in jail.

Guardian

Killings of journalists lead to news blackouts in Mexico

Press advocates and newspaper editors say a campaign by criminal syndicates to kill journalists is drawing a dark curtain across swaths of Mexico.

McClatchy Newspapers

Special section:

Mexico under seige

Los Angeles Times

Ahmadinejad calls for UN investigation into events of 9/11

The U.S. delegation walked out of the United Nations’ annual showpiece event after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pinned responsibility for 9/11 on American and Israeli “segments.”

AOL News

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s UN speech may have just helped Israel

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Stocks jump after manufacturing report

Stocks are surging at the open after news that orders for manufactured goods, excluding the volatile transportation sector, rose sharply last month.

Forbes

Nike jumps ahead with strong stock growth

CNNMoney

Congress passes small-business bill; Obama will sign

Small businesses stymied by a lack of credit should get lots of help soon, as the House of Representatives passed legislation to provide billions in aid and sent it to President Barack Obama.

McClatchy Newspapers

W.Va. names task force to help regulate gas drilling

Six gas company representatives were named to a nine-member task force that will help the Department of Environmental Protection determine how to regulate West Virginia’s booming industry.

BusinessWeek

ENVIRONMENT

World’s largest offshore wind farm powers up British renewable energy

Britain has inaugurated the world‘s largest offshore wind farm, part of the government’s bid to reduce the carbon emissions that drive climate change.

Vancouver Sun

Scientists give estimate of Gulf oil spill

Researchers weighed in on the controversial question of how much oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico during the spill and said the total amount was around 4.4 million barrels.

Reuters

Oil spill paymaster catching up on claims

MSNBC

Lost frogs found

An expedition looking for “lost” amphibian species found three of them, and hopes for more rediscoveries in the future.

USA TODAY

SPORTS

Ichiro Suzuki ties Pete Rose’s record with 10th 200-hit season

Ichiro Suzuki stroked a fifth-inning single to center to collect his 200th hit, extending his own record with his 10th straight season reaching the milestone.

MLB.com

NBA expands rules on technicals

NBA referees will have more reasons to issue technical fouls next season. At the referees’ annual meeting in Jersey City, N.J., they announced technical fouls will expand to include “overt” player reactions.

ESPN

Champagne weekend: 5 teams can clinch postseason berths

As many as five teams are in position to celebrate division titles and playoff berths. It could be the first time since 2002 that four of the six division races were decided entering the final week of the season.

USA TODAY

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