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President Barack Obama waves to visitors at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Obama and the Republican-run House split their spending differences, staving off a federal shutdown. (Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP)

Female veteran fights an invisible injury

Angel Harris returned from Afghanistan pregnant and — like thousands of others — with a case of PTSD. The military has only recently begun to offer women the same PTSD benefits as men.

Baltimore Sun

Destroying booby-trapped towns to save them

San Jose Mercury News

’Let’s talk about sex’ — and what American teenagers don’t know about it

Sobering stats are presented in “Let’s Talk About Sex,” a documentary airing on TLC. Director James Houston is a photographer who came to the U.S. and was aghast at our screwed-up sexual culture.

Grist

Obama signs short-term funding

President Barack Obama signed a short-term extension after Democrats and Republicans narrowly averted a government shutdown by agreeing on the measure and a budget deal.

CNN

Colo. mom shocked to hear Obama quote her e-mail on TV

USA TODAY

The GOP’s winning streak

Politico

Obama pays surprise visit to Lincoln Memorial

Reuters

This year’s paychecks can’t keep up with rising prices

While many retail prices are moving up, workers’ wages are remaining flat. The mismatch between rising prices and stagnant wages is putting a squeeze on workers this year.

NPR

How smartphone apps are improving public transit

Smartphone apps may be the key to getting people onto mass transit. A study of commuters found people are more willing to ride the bus or train when they can manage their commutes effectively.

ABC News

Special section:

Mobile tech

TechNewsWorld

NATION

Iowa county declared disaster area after wave of tornadoes

Emergency crews sifted through the wreckage left behind by a wave of tornadoes that swept across Iowa. Gov. Terry E. Branstad issued a disaster proclamation in Monona County.

CNN

Vote count ‘human error’ shadows Wis. Supreme Court election

Questions in Wis. regarding the party ties of a local county clerk whose discovery of about 14,000 unrecorded votes is assuring a victory for the Republican incumbent for state Supreme Court.

Christian Science Monitor

The review of Waukesha County vote live

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Judge who struck down Prop 8 confirms he’s gay

Former Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker said he never considered recusing himself from deciding the constitutionality of Proposition 8 because of his sexual orientation.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

POLITICS

Michele Bachmann, Rand Paul blast budget deal; John Boehner claims victory

While President Obama, Senate majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner hailed the eleventh hour accord to avoid a government shutdown as “historic,” several Tea Party members felt differently.

NY Daily News

Blog:

Obama, Ryan praise budget deal

(USA TODAY)

The Oval

House tells FCC to drop ‘net neutrality’

The House has told the Federal Communications Commission to back off from “net neutrality’’ rules preventing service providers from deliberately slowing or blocking Internet traffic.

Boston Globe

HEALTH

Fast food takes a stab at healthy

Hardee’s, which has built a testosterone-rich image around serving “young, hungry guys” an ever bigger thickburger, became the first major fast food chain to roll out a turkey burger.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Is your house making you fat?

U.S. News & World Report

Focusing on partner’s physical attributes may ruin relationship

Concentrating on your partners’ physical attractiveness may make you less happy in relationships, according to a new study.

Times of India

ENVIRONMENT

Microbes may produce marketable methane gas from old coal

New scientific research has a pair of energy companies betting that the future of the U.S. natural gas industry lies in persuading microscopic bugs to treat old coal deposits like all-you-can eat buffets.

USA TODAY

‘Naked’ penguins baffle experts

Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Washington, and other groups are grappling with a wildlife mystery: why are some penguin chicks losing their feathers?

ScienceDaily

Cities ill-prepared for climate change

There is a widespread short-term focus in policy that is pushing action firmly to the back-seat and cities are some of the most vulnerable locations facing up to ongoing extreme weather events.

Earth Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Beijing police halt unapproved church service, detain dozens of worshippers

Beijing police detained dozens of worshippers from an unapproved Christian church who were trying to hold religious services in public after they were evicted from their usual place of worship.

Star Tribune

Prodigal parishioners return to church

The Boston Archdiocese’s largest effort in a generation to reach lapsed Catholics is drawing wandering souls back to the church’s open arms, but the biggest obstacle could be keeping them.

Boston Herald

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Lumet, ‘12 Angry Men’ and ‘Network’ director, dies

Sidney Lumet, the award-winning director of such acclaimed films as “Network,” “Serpico,” “Dog Day Afternoon” and “12 Angry Men,” has died. He was 86.

The Herald

12 Angry Men

IMDb

Jacket (not) required

Over the past several years, the dress codes abided and enforced at those ceremonies of formality and occasion have become mostly unspoken, unwritten or loosened like so many Hermes ties.

Wall Street Journal

Dinner etiquette

BusinessWeek

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Mark Shields):

Words of the war that made me weep

Creators Syndicate

Video (Ana Compain-Romero):

Should medical records indicate sexual orientation?

AOL News

Column (Jeff Zeleny):

In budget deal, signs of Obama’s path to the middle

New York Times

Blog (Eric Sherman, LCSW):

Fat stigma: How it works, how it hurts

(Psychology Today)

Couch Meets World

Editorial:

When pure profit drives drugmakers, you pay

USA TODAY

Column (Marcus Wohlsen):

The loaded ethics of DNA hacking

Salon

Editorial:

Pass the bottle − and pay up

Las Vegas Review Journal

Column (Sal Pizarro):

Triumph of historic spaceflight trumps Cold War politics

San Jose Mercury News

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GOOD NEWS

11-year-old bird artist releases book

In the last 12 months, 11-year-old Olivia Bouler has: cleaned up a Gulf Coast beach with the Jonas Brothers, appeared on the “Today” show and written a new book, “Olivia’s Birds: Saving the Gulf.”

AOL News

Philadelphia boy honored for heroism in house fire

When a fire broke out in his family’s home, Darrell Scott recalled what he had learned in the Junior Fire Patrol program at his school, then sprang to action — saving the lives of 11 family members.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Mo. student fills void in college admissions aid

At a college fair last year, Michael Pelts realized he was the only student there from from his high school. So he decided to help bring information back to his school of about 1,000.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

Japanese mayor’s awful choice between job or family

Mr. Toba’s preoccupation with the town’s misery can’t completely obliterate what has happened to his own life with Kumi and Taiga and Kanato.

Tourism and Aviation

Special section:

Mayor Futoshi Toba’s House

Wall Street Journal

Fresh violence erupts in Syria

Syrian security forces shot at protesters in Daraa as a huge crowd buried the dead from a bloody crackdown on anti-regime demonstrators a day earlier.

Khaleej Times

Map:

Demographics fuel Mideast protests

MSNBC

BUSINESS

Specialty foods ripe for growth

With home-grown products like salted caramel biscotti and flavored jalapenos, California entrepreneurs are trying to get a toehold in the growing trend of specialty gourmet food.

Fresno Bee

USDA aims to expand E85 market

In a bid to increase the market for ethanol, the Obama administration is offering aid to rural gas stations to install new tanks and pumps.

Des Moines Register

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Cosmic fireworks erupt as a new black hole swallows star

A mysterious cosmic blast in the constellation Draco has astronomers scrambling to try to understand its cause, so unlike is it to anything ever observed before.

TechNewsWorld

Birth of a black hole

PBS

Duet on the International Space Station

Ian Anderson will play in a duet with U.S. astronaut Col. Catherine Coleman, to honor the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight.

AOL News

After tear in a 737, we need to ask what’s old for a plane?

Nearly one out of every four planes flown today by U.S. airlines is more than 15 years old. That’s about the same share as a decade ago, according to aviation consulting firm Ascend.

San Francisco Chronicle

The threat of metal fatigue

PBS

EDUCATION

Tuition limits: will they work?

Capping increases could protect students, hurt schools. Republican leaders say they are protecting students; others warn of unintended consequences.

Star Tribune

How to slash your tuition costs: spend some time at community college

AOL News

School apologizes for classroom ‘auction’ of black elementary students

School bosses have apologized for a controversial classroom lesson involving the mock auction of black students Norfolk, Virginia.

Daily Mail

SPORTS

Ruiz hits pinch-hit grand slam

Carlos Ruiz hit a pinch-hit grand slam and drove in five runs and Roy Oswalt earned his first victory over Atlanta as the Phillies rolled to a 10-2 win over the Braves.

CBSSports

Bulls clinch No. 1 seed in the East

Chicago, which has won six straight and 18 of 20, will have home-court advantage through the first three rounds of the playoffs.

FOXSports

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