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Hundreds of demonstrators, including state worker Michelle Lewis, center, of Hastings, Minn., hold a candlelight vigil outside the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul. (Photo by Genevieve Ross / AP)

Specialized summer camp for kids teaches social skills

At Camp STAR in Highland Park, Ill., children with ADHD, anxiety and socially disruptive disorders earn rewards for participation and following rules.

ABC News

US Secretary of State Clinton outlines road ahead for Arab democracy

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that the rule of law, political parties and democratic institutions must emerge in the Arab world if it is to transition to truly free societies

Philadelphia Inquirer

Minnesota government shuts down amid debt fallout

Minnesota’s government has shut down for the second time in the past six years after state leaders failed to find common ground on how to resolve a $5 billion budget deficit.

CBS News

Special section:

Complete coverage of the Minn. state shutdown

Star Tribune

Minn. government shuts down

YouTube

Fire crews battle NM fire as it pushes into the canyon

Firefighters battled a 145-square-mile fire burning in a canyon leading to parts of the Los Alamos nuclear lab and an evacuated town, even as confidence rose that both would be spared from the flames.

USA TODAY

Los Alamos fire set to become state’s biggest

MSNBC

July means fireworks and a new crop of state laws

Like any fireworks show on July 4, state laws taking effect are certain to deepen some Americans’ patriotism — and leave others feeling cheated.

NPR

NATION

Anti-abortion: the new face of the infamous modern movement

Recent polls show a shifting of support between pro-abortion rights and anti-abortion factions. Anti-abortion groups have hardened their resolve while adopting a strategy of compassion.

Columbia Missourian

Low corn prices may ease food inflation

Corn prices fell 10 percent after the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a report that noted farmers are sowing unexpectedly large amounts of the grain.

BBC

Blog:

Corn export sales jump

(Des Moines Register)

Green Fields

US to probe deaths of 2 detainees

The U.S. Justice Department inquiry into CIA interrogations of terrorist detainees has led to a full criminal investigation into the deaths of two people while they were in custody in Iraq and Afghanistan.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Justice Ginsburg reflects on term, leadership role

In her new position as the most senior member of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been carving out a more prominent role among the nine justices.

USA TODAY

Panetta promises defense cuts will not leave Pentagon with ‘hollow force’

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta took over at the Pentagon and immediately promised the budget cuts he will oversee will not produce a “hollow force.”

The Hill

Is GOP resolve on taxes showing cracks?

Most Senate Republicans voted to end a tax break for ethanol. Some see that vote as a chink in the armor of anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist and the no-new-taxes pledge he’s gotten GOP lawmakers to take.

NPR

BUSINESS

Stocks jump on manufacturing data

Stocks climbed, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index poised for its largest weekly rally in almost a year, as a U.S. manufacturing index unexpectedly rose and Greece moved closer to averting a default.

Bloomberg

Fannie Mae’s silence opened the way to $3 billion fraud

The first sign of what would become a $3 billion fraud surfaced when Fannie Mae executive Samuel Smith discovered Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. sold him a loan owned by someone else.

Bloomberg

Home Depot accused of violating Buy American Act

Home Depot is the target of a lawsuit for allegedly selling goods manufactured in China and other prohibited countries to U.S. government agencies in violation of the Buy American Act.

ABC News

EDUCATION

Federal data shedding light on recent education disparities

New federal statistics shared about thousands of schools and districts show that students across the country don’t have equal access to a rigorous education, and school counselors.

Education Week

Civil rights survey: 3,000 US high schools don’t have math beyond Algebra I

To better diagnose achievement gaps and help education leaders tailor solutions, federal civil rights officials released an expanded, searchable set of information.

Christian Science Monitor

Schools find uses for predictive data techniques to predict success

The use of analytic tools to predict student performance is exploding in higher education. Experts say that these tools show even more promise for K-12 schools.

Education Week

SPORTS

NBA to lock out players

The NBA’s thrilling season came with a high price tag. The NBA will lock out its players, a long-expected move that puts the 2011-12 season in jeopardy.

Sports Illustrated

Bill Hancock, DOJ officials meet

Called in by the Department of Justice to explain how college football crowns a champion, the head of the Bowl Championship Series made a case for the much criticized system.

ESPN

How are college football rankings determined?

HowStuffWorks.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Ruben Navarrette):

New life for the DREAM Act?

CNN

Editorial:

House Republicans’ budget cuts imperil food safety

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Leonard Pitts Jr.):

On gay marriage, the president evolves too slowly

Detroit Free Press

Editorial:

Character and compassion define the American spirit

USA TODAY

Column (Sherrilyn A. Ifill):

To save states, fix prison system

CNN

Editorial:

Deciphering signals on Gadhafi, Libya

Star Tribune

Blog (Alex Pareene):

Mark Halperin comes up with great excuse to fire Mark Halperin

(Salon)

War Room

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Chavez feels better

Slate

Column (Suzanne Fields):

Video violence vs. free speech

Creators Syndicate

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GOOD NEWS

Ohio House gives pit bulls a break

A bill passed that would remove the section of the Ohio Revised Code that automatically designates pit bulls as vicious.

Columbus Dispatch

King County man, Wash., receives hero award posthumously

A King County man who drowned when he jumped into a swift Oregon river to help save a 12-year-old boy was one of 20 people honored for their bravery by the Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Hero Fund.

Seattle Times

Texas wetland restoration could be model for Gulf

A complete ecosystem with animals living in a man-made creation dredged from the Houston Ship Channel is part of a 20-year-old project to restore lost wetlands and islands off the Texas coast.

CBS News

WORLD

Prosecutors find significant problems with Dominique Strauss-Kahn case

Manhattan District Attorney’s investigators have uncovered issues with the account of the maid who claimed she was assaulted by the former head of the International Monetary Fund.

BBC

Dominique Strauss-Kahn sex-assault case may be crumbling

NPR

Dominique Strauss-Kahn case falling apart?

CBS News

Census update: what the world will look like in 2050

Here is the world in 2050, as imagined by the U.S. Census Bureau: India will be the most populous nation, surpassing China sometime around 2025. The U.S. will be in third place.

TIME

Map:

Asia leads a rapid urban shift

National Geographic

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

‘Zombie’ stars key to measuring dark energy, scientists say

“Zombie” stars explode like bombs as they die, only to revive by sucking matter out of other stars.

ScienceDaily

The end of the space age

People like Elon Musk in America and Sir Richard Branson in Britain hope to make human space flight commercially viable. But the market seems small and vulnerable.

Economist

ENVIRONMENT

Winds of change in the US

The new chair of the American Wind Energy Association is calling for more consistency at policy level to develop the wind sector. Does it point to a change in how government sees wind energy?

Earth Times

18 new biosphere reserves protected in global network

The U.N. added 18 new sites to its global list of biosphere reserves, bringing the total to 581 in 114 countries.

Environment News Service

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

St. Patrick’s new virtual candles light up Cathedral website

Clicking your prayers is old news but now you can click your virtual candle — and make a “suggested” $5 donation to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan, too.

USA TODAY

A church by any other name

For Living Faith Lutheran Church, the name change was as much about the future as the past. The Rockville, Md., congregation formally bid goodbye to its old name, Crusader Lutheran Church.

Religion News Service

HEALTH

Avastin rejection is being supported by cancer experts

Oncologists are endorsing a U.S. health advisory panel’s recommendation that the blockbuster cancer drug Avastin be removed from use in metastatic breast cancer.

U.S. News & World Report

Medicare confirms payment for prostate cancer drug

Medicare officials confirmed that the program will cover the $93,000 price tag for the prostate cancer drug Provenge, an innovative therapy.

Yahoo! News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Is the British roundabout out to conquer the US?

A roundabout revolution is slowly sweeping the U.S. The “land of the car” has started to embrace the British circular.

BBC

That thing Tom Hanks does: Direct the movie ‘Larry Crowne’

What is left to prove for the onetime cross-dressing star of the oh-so-‘80s sitcom “Bosom Buddies” after scoring two Oscars in a row for 1993’s “Philadelphia” and 1994’s “Forrest Gump?”

USA TODAY

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