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Lung cancer death rate falls faster in men than women

The overall drop in death rates means 898,000 individuals who would have died from lung cancer over the last 17 years did not, according to a report issued by the American Cancer Society.

Medical News Today

Cancer death rates continue to fall

Boston Globe

States balk at Obama administration illegal immigrant fingerprint plan

The Obama administration announced plans to protect crime victims and witnesses from deportation under a hotly debated program that requires local jails to send arrestees’ fingerprints to immigration authorities.

San Francisco Chronicle

Hackers target Sega in latest cyberattack

Sega has become the latest computer games giant to fall prey to hackers, warning users of its Sega Pass system that some of their personal information may have been stolen.

Guardian

Hackers might face stiffer sentences in US

Reuters

CIA hacking raises new concerns

Al Jazeera

Symantec: hack attacks sophisticated

YouTube

Senate votes to eliminate foreign ethanol tax break

The U.S. Senate voted 73-27 in favor of an amendment by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to eliminate the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit and repeal the import on foreign ethanol.

Environment News Service

Water is the new liquid gold in Texas

With the region only having received less than 2 inches of rainfall since October, oil producers are buying water from anyone willing to sell the cohesive and adhesive substance.

MSNBC

NATION

Arizona fires: Monument Fire forces chaotic evacuation

Fire crews relied on slurry bombers and helicopters to battle the Monument Fire that’s been roaring through canyons outside of Sierra Vista in southern Arizona for the past several days.

Arizona Republic

United Airlines: Computers are coming back online

The airline announced on Twitter that its computer systems were up and running, about five hours after the systems went down. The airline said it was in the process of resuming operations.

USA TODAY

Payrolls shrink, and the jobless rates drop in many states

The number of people on companies’ payrolls shrank in more than half the U.S. states in May, even though the jobless rates in many places continued to improve, Labor Department data showed.

Reuters

Made in USA: overseas jobs come home

CNNMoney

Map:

The geography of a recession

ABC News

POLITICS

2 top lawyers lost to President Obama in Libya war policy debate

President Obama rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and the Justice Department when he decided that he had the authority to continue participation in the war in Libya, according to officials.

New York Times

Protests at fever pitch

MSNBC

Holder vows to keep fighting for terror trials in civilian courts

Attorney General Eric Holder promised an audience of progressives and liberals that he will not abandon the fight to steer accused terrorists to civilian court trials rather than military tribunals.

CNN

A different David Coleman Headley

PBS

BUSINESS

Web domains expanding

The organization that oversees the Internet address system is preparing to open the floodgates to a nearly limitless selection of new website suffixes, including ones in Arabic, Chinese and other scripts.

Spokesman-Review

IMF warns of the increased risks to the world’s economy

The International Monetary Fund has warned that the risks facing the world economy have increased, saying it was concerned about the continuing Greek debt crisis and the arguments over U.S. deficit.

BBC

IMF lowers US growth forecast for next 2 years

International Business Times

ENVIRONMENT

Bonn climate talks fail to resolve future of Kyoto Protocol

Climate talks have made “clear advances on key issues” ahead of the United Nations annual climate summit, the U.N.’s top climate’ official said. But environmental groups called the progress “uneven.”

Environment News Service

Fukushima: It is much worse than you might think

“Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind,” Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera

EDUCATION

Charter schools group says Gwinnett funding offer violates state law

Gwinnett County Schools did not follow state charter law with its offer to fund Ivy Preparatory Academy, officials with the Georgia Charter Schools Association charged.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

New data on college students concerning their overconfidence

Among academics who track the behavior of young adults and teens, there’s a touchy debate: Should the word “entitled” be used when talking about today’s younger people?

USA TODAY

Student stress: Whose is worst?

A quarter of students surveyed in the latest National College Health Assessment reported that stress has hurt their academic performance, with impacts such as lower grades and dropped courses.

Inside Higher Ed

HEALTH

Alarming number of children on Medicaid denied health care

An undercover investigation in Illinois suggests that children on Medicaid are often denied health care by specialty physicians, while privately insured children get health care more easily.

HealthNews

Nearly 900,000 fewer cancer deaths in the US since 1990

There has been a steady drop in cancer deaths in the United States in the past two decades, two American Cancer Society reports find.

HealthDay

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Eugene Kennedy):

Killng bin Laden and common Islamic and Christian myths

National Catholic Reporter

Column (Dennis Jett):

Is GOP’s 2012 game plan to cause a recession?

McClatchy Newspapers

Video:

Is another stimulus needed?

CNN

Blog (Jerry Brito):

‘We do it for the Lulz’: What makes LulzSec tick?

(TIME)

Techland

Blog (Tim Padgett):

4 decades later, it’s time to scrap the dead-end drug war

(TIME)

Global Spin

Column (Lamar Smith and Elton Gallegly):

E-Verify works; let’s use it

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (Maia Szalavitz):

Top 10 unhealthy side effects of the war on drugs

(TIME)

Healthland

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Inaction and denial bring us the whirlwind of climate change

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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GOOD NEWS

Homeless beauty queen to compete for Miss USA crown

Blair Griffith stunned the judges of the Miss Colorado USA pageant with her beauty, winning the title. Then she stunned everyone — when she admitted in an interview that she was homeless.

ABC News

Human milk from cows? Scientists can make it happen

Scientists in China and Argentina have cloned cows that produce milk that’s chemically similar to mother’s own.

CBS News

Man brews a link between Fresno, Thai coffee growers

A new nonprofit coffee roasting company in Fresno, Calif., is trying to help hill tribes in northern Thailand earn a living.

Fresno Bee

WORLD

Afghan President Hamid Karzai: US ‘in peace talks with Taliban’

Afghan President Hamid Karzai provided the first high-level confirmation that the U.S. is engaged in talks with the Taliban. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said there could be talks with the Taliban.

BBC

2 dead in insurgent attack in Afghan capital

Houston Chronicle

Syrian forces storm town near Turkey

Syrian troops and gunmen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad stormed a town near the Turkish border, burning houses and arresting dozens, witnesses said.

Reuters

Starting a revolution with new technology

CNN

Special section:

Arab Spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Parkinson’s artificial brain bank being built at Oxford

In a study aimed at finding cures for Parkinson’s disease, Oxford researchers have begun creating a bank of artificially grown brain cells.

BBC

Memories off and on with flip of switch

Scientists have developed a way to turn memories on and off — and do it literally with the flip of a switch.

ScienceDaily

Gender-spotting tool could have rumbled fake blogger

Software that guesses a writer’s gender could have prevented the world being duped into believing a blog that was striking out for gay rights was written by a young lesbian living in Syria.

New Scientist

SPORTS

Nationals beat Orioles 4-2

Michael Morse put Washington ahead with a sixth-inning homer, Ryan Zimmerman also connected, and the Nationals beat the Baltimore Orioles 4-2 for their eighth straight victory.

Yahoo! News

Did Babe Ruth really call his shot at Wrigley Field?

Almost 79 years later, it’s still one of the more debatable moments in baseball folklore: Did George Herman Ruth — ‘‘The Babe’’ — really call his shot in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series against the Cubs?

Chicago Sun-Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Baptists tackle immigration issue

Southern Baptists adopted a resolution that supports a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, but clearly states they reject “amnesty.”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Caldwell chaplain assistant helps soldiers of all faiths in Baghdad

Sgt. Keith Millar of Caldwell, a chaplain assistant, helps minister a diverse group of soldiers and civilians at Forward Operating Base Prosperity in Baghdad.

Idaho Statesman

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Father’s Day: Dads more engaged ... and more absent

Two distinct trends characterize fatherhood: Educated fathers are spending more time than ever with their kids, but on the other hand, poorer fathers are often absent altogether.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

President Obama’s fatherhood Rx: quality time, structure and love

(USA TODAY)

The Oval

Review: ‘Page One’: the ‘Times,’ a-changing on all fronts

“Page One” is an insider’s view, but if it isn’t raking up any muck, it’s not a love letter. It’s more a portrait of an institution in a moment of transition.

NPR

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