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On an organized tour, a Libyan official stands next to a destroyed library at Moammar Gadhafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound, a regular target of NATO airstrikes, in Tripoli, Libya. (Photo by Ivan Sekretarev / AP)

Concerns about overmedicated military

The military is struggling with the demands of its personnel returning from deployments and seeking treatment for a variety of injuries and mental issues — which could be resulting in over medication.

CNN

PTSD relief comes with a mantra

MedPage Today

Blame game as rising river nears homes in South Dakota

Recreational boating on the Missouri River was restricted because of heavy flooding that threatened to overwhelm levees meant to help protect cities.

MSNBC

NATO helicopters join Libya attacks

British and French helicopters under NATO command struck Libyan military targets, increasing pressure on leader Moammar Gadhafi, commanders said.

BBC

Boat from Libya capsizes, 150 drown

CNN

House votes to require Obama to justify US military engagement in Libya

Detroit Free Press

Libyan rebels move closer to Tripoli

Al Jazeera

Nearly 14 million Americans currently looking for work

The economic recovery seems to be losing momentum. In May, private companies hired 83,000 new people. But local and state governments cut 28,000 jobs — that’s the biggest drop since last November.

CBS News

Stresses add up in the world of modern-day motherhood

The pressures of modern motherhood run the gamut from souped-up societal expectations, to the logistics of day care, to the division of labor that still leaves mom with the cooking and cleaning.

Baltimore Sun

NATION

Unemployment ticks up to 9.1 percent

The Labor Department report offered startling evidence that the U.S. economy is slowing, hampered by high gas prices and natural disasters in Japan that have hurt U.S. manufacturers.

Chicago Sun-Times

Anemic job growth bodes ill for economy

ABC News

Mass. residents face the tragic aftermath of tornadoes

Residents of tornado-ravaged towns in western and central Massachusetts faced the arduous tasks of cleaning up and assessing the damage from the twisters that ripped through the region this week.

Reuters

Tornadoes slam Mass.

USA TODAY

Budget battle pits atheist Ayn Rand vs. Jesus and the Bible

The atheist philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand published more than a dozen books before she died. Liberal Christians say another work belongs in Rand’s controversial canon: the 2012 budget.

Religion News Service

POLITICS

John Edwards indicted in $925K campaign fund cover-up

John Edwards acknowledged he has “done wrong” but strongly denied breaking the law after being charged with misusing presidential campaign contributions to hide his mistress in 2008.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog:

The money behind John Edwards: heiress Rachel ‘Bunny’ Mellon, age 100

(Forbes)

Filthy Rich

Edwards pleads not guilty

CNN

Obama says government bailout aid saved auto industry from ‘free fall’

President Barack Obama said the bailout of the auto industry has been vindicated by the resurgence of Chrysler Group LLC and General Motors Co. (GM) and the addition of jobs making vehicles across the country.

Bloomberg

BUSINESS

How big is Microsoft gambling with Windows 8?

Analysts are split over Microsoft Windows 8 and how big the company’s gambling with its operating system cash cow, some saying the bet was for the farm, while others said it was their best move.

Computerworld

Blog:

Windows 8 and the future of Microsoft

(CNET News)

Reporters' Roundtable

Stocks on major losing streak

U.S. stocks fell sharply with the Dow and S&P falling for the fifth-straight week, as investors digested a disappointing May jobs report. The Dow is now on its longest weekly losing streak since July 2004.

CNNMoney

HEALTH

Doctor: Retailers selling legal high ‘time bombs’ to kids

Despite being linked to multiple deaths, synthetic drugs — from cocaine-like “bath salts” to so-called “legal marijuana” — are sold to teenagers legally in stores.

ABC News

Special section:

Illegal drug use and addiction

WebMD

US possibly touched by deadly E. coli

Four Americans are suspected of being infected with the new deadly strain of Escherichia coli that is rapidly spreading across Europe.

MedPage Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Atheist confab in Ireland comes as Europe confronts religion in public life

This weekend about 350 conventioneers descend on Dublin to discuss matters of faith and its place in public life. It’s not a meeting of the Catholic Church hierarchy, but the first World Atheist Convention.

Christian Science Monitor

Boston church weighs major reshuffle

The Boston Archdiocese is considering a radical reshuffling that would unite its 291 parishes into 80 to 120 groups so that each cluster could share resources and clergy.

Boston Herald

SPORTS

Britton rocked in Orioles’ 8-4 loss to Jays

As a rookie in the big leagues, Orioles left-hander Zach Britton has encountered plenty of celebratory firsts this season.

Baltimore Sun

Shaquille O’Neal eager for next chapter

Shaquille O’Neal made his retirement official, reiterating what he revealed in a video posted online two days earlier that his NBA playing days are over.

ESPN

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Bo Ekman):

Connecting anew

Khaleej Times

Column (Richard L. Hasen):

A cover-up, not a crime: the John Edwards case may be hard to prove

Slate

Column (Marc Siegel):

Killer cellphones?! Don’t believe the WHO hype

USA TODAY

Blog (Zac Bissonnette):

Should housing data affect your stance on homeownership?

(TIME)

Moneyland

Video (Ibrahim Eissa):

Real free media means journalists owning their media organizations

Guardian

Audio (Jim Zarroli):

What if we don’t raise the overly large debt ceiling?

NPR

Blog (Josh Burek):

How Kevorkian and assisted suicide fit into a mixed moral landscape

The Editorial Board

(Christian Science Monitor)

Blog (Brad Tuttle):

Maybe all the skepticism and paranoia over new light bulbs is justified

(TIME)

Moneyland

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GOOD NEWS

100-year-old graduate gets her diploma

It took 84 years, but Thelma Dyess finally got her high school diploma. Dyess, 100, led the procession of 389 other Texas City High School graduates across the stage to receive diplomas at Stingaree Stadium.

Houston Chronicle

Hollywood stars align for giving pledge

A drive is on to enlist big names in Hollywood to show their support for charity. Kim Kardashian, Denzel Washington and Justin Bieber have all signed the ‘Hollywood Pledge.’

MSNBC

Riley‘s ’code lavender’ eases stress of caring for very ill kids

Code Lavender is a non-emergency call for help in dealing with the stress of working with sick and dying children at Riley Hospital for Children in Indiana.

Indianapolis Star

WORLD

US strike kills top-ranking Pakistan militant Ilyas Kashmiri

A top Pakistani militant leader has been killed in a U.S. drone strike in the South Waziristan area of Pakistan, reports say.

BBC

Yemen heads to war as President is almost killed

Yemen’s president survived an attempt to kill him as the country headed into all-out war. The incident fueled fears the region’s uprisings are turning the poorest Arab country into a warzone.

Guardian

Report: Yemeni officials go to Saudi Arabia for treatment after attack

CNN

Violence spikes in Yemen

YouTube

EDUCATION

Spelling bee champion triumphs with proper ‘cymotrichous’

Spelling bee champion Sukanya Roy held on through repeated perfect rounds — where no spellers made any mistakes — to triumph at the 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Christian Science Monitor

Spelling Bee W-I-N-N-E-R

YouTube

Common-core tests to have built-in disability accommodations

When a new generation of tests — the common-core assessments — is unveiled in a few years, they will have accommodations for most students with disabilities built in.

Education Week

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Quantum physics 1st: Physicists measure without distorting

Quantum mechanics is famous for presenting us with this paradox: How can we know reality if we cannot measure it without distorting it?

ScienceDaily

Danish amateurs launch homemade rocket, aim for future spaceflight

A private Danish rocket was launched into the sky on its first successful test — a trip that didn’t reach anywhere near space but did mark a huge step for the team’s plan for cheap suborbital spaceflights.

Space News

ENVIRONMENT

Egyptian mummies hold clues of air pollution

Ancient Egyptians may have been exposed to air pollution: New evidence of particulates has been found in the lungs of 15 mummies.

LiveScience

Hype aside, ‘green jobs’ are for real

Experts may argue about what constitutes a “green job” or how many of them currently exist in the U.S., but everyone seems to agree there will be many more of them in the coming decades.

CNBC

Wolf wars: Can man and predator coexist in the West?

With the government taking the gray wolf off the endangered species list, the next chapter is about to unfold, revealing how well man and predator can coexist in the changing landscape of the West.

Christian Science Monitor

Gray wolf reluctantly removed from endangered species list

Discovery News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

James Arness of ‘Gunsmoke’ fame dead at 88

It takes a special kind of lawman to carry on for 20 years in the Wild West of TV. Matt Dillon, the mythical marshal of Dodge City, stood tall — all 6 feet, 6 inches of him on “Gunsmoke."

Las Vegas Review Journal

A look at the misconceptions of evolution in ‘X-men’ movies

X-men movies are meant to be fun, not facts. But some of the film’s errors about evolution could be reinforcing popular misconceptions.

Scientific American

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