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A pro-Syrian President Bashar Assad protester shouts slogans during a demonstration to show his support for his president, in Damascus, Syria. (Photo by Muzaffar Salman / AP)

Immigrants become citizens

The immigrants moved up to a table, where they signed their certificates of naturalization. There, they made a poignant exchange. Each person traded in a green card for an American flag.

The Herald

Blog:

Newest Americans celebrate citizenship

(MSNBC)

Field Notes

Nissan plant opens on Saturdays amid power crunch

Nissan’s plant is busily rolling out the Leaf electric car and other models, having shifted production schedules for an aggressive nationwide effort to fight a power crunch.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Japan’s power-saving kicks off

Reuters

Crowds turn out against Syria’s President Assad

Hundreds of thousands of protesters flooded cities around Syria in what activists described as the largest-yet outpouring against the regime of President Bashar Assad.

San Francisco Chronicle

Syria’s Assad tries to appease protesters

MSNBC

Blog:

Live from Syria

(Al Jazeera)

Syria Live Blog

Obama: Ending tax breaks is required

President Barack Obama pressed his case for achieving deficit reduction, in part by ending tax breaks and singling out hedge fund managers, oil companies and billionaires to take the hit.

Reuters

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Obama, Republicans debate national debt and taxes

(USA TODAY)

The Oval

Fourth of July celebrators more likely to become Republicans

Attending a Fourth of July fireworks display or flag waving parade as a child slightly increases the likelihood that that kid will grow up to vote Republican, according to a Harvard University study.

ABC News

Special section:

Patriotic reflections

PBS

NATION

Illinois death row officially shuts down

After spending years at the center of heated national debate over capital punishment, Illinois’ death row officially died when a state law abolishing the death penalty quietly took effect.

ABC News

Quinn signs Ill. budget, cuts $376 million more than expected

Huffington Post

Wall Street’s best week in 2 years

Stocks started July with a bang with Wall Street scoring its best week in two years on strong manufacturing data that eased concerns about slowing growth.

Reuters

The economic recovery turns 2: Feel better yet?

Houston Chronicle

Talking numbers: bumpy road ahead?

CNBC

FAA, air traffic controllers agree on new fatigue rules

The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association announced details of a new agreement on fatigue recommendations.

CNN

POLITICS

Soldier leaves legacy much larger than the phrase ‘he was gay’

Cpl. Andrew Charles Wilfahrt, 31, is believed to be the first gay U.S. soldier to die in battle since President Obama signed the repeal of “don‘t ask, don’t tell."

CNN

Minnesota awakes to shutdown and political parties point fingers

The shutdown is the product of an ongoing dispute over taxes and spending between Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislative majorities.

CBS News

Planned Parenthood fights defunding laws in spending bill

After federal attempts to defund Planned Parenthood as part of Congress’ Continuing Resolution spending bill failed , anti-abortion activists took to state legislatures to continue the battle.

ABC News

BUSINESS

Week ahead: Market faces its next hurdle — the jobs report

The June jobs report looms as the next hurdle for a stock market that has gone from gloom to boom with its best weekly performance in nearly two years.

CNBC

Retirement savings near all-time high

Retirement assets rose to $18.1 trillion at the end of the first quarter, up 3 percent from the end of 2010. That’s up nearly 10 percent from the same quarter a year ago.

CNNMoney

Zynga files for $1 billion IPO

Zynga, creator of the -Ville online gaming franchise, filed to raise up to $1 billion in an initial public offering. Unlike many of its fellow much-buzzed-about Web upstarts, Zynga is solidly profitable.

CNNMoney

EDUCATION

Some kids can just sail through P.E.

Some high school students are learning to sail and kayak to earn a physical education credit this summer. Taking the class gives them more time for other activities during the busy school year.

Roanoke Times

State of Kentucky eyeing new ‘Race to the Top’ grants

State education officials have their eye on a new federal “Race to the Top” education grant proposal that focuses on making improvements in early learning.

Cincinnati Enquirer

HEALTH

The health beef over barbecued meat

Grilling some meats is reputed to increase cancer risk thanks in part to chemical compounds called HCAs, which form at high temperatures. So what should a July 4th cook do?

Los Angeles Times

Copper kills 97 percent of hospital ICU bacteria, according to clinical trial

Antimicrobial copper surfaces in intensive care units (ICU) kill 97 percent of bacteria that can cause hospital-acquired infections, according to preliminary results of a multi-site clinical trial in the U.S.

Reuters

SPORTS

Rivals meet as Tour de France begins

Defending champion Alberto Contador and last year’s runner-up Andy Schleck renewed their rivalry as riders started the 2011 Tour de France.

NPR

Special section:

2011 Tour de France all access

NBCSports

Defending champ Nadal, Djokovic to meet in Wimbledon final

Novak Djokovic secured the No. 1 ranking by reaching the Wimbledon final. He will get a chance to beat the man he is replacing — defending champion Rafael Nadal.

Sports Illustrated

Notre Dame settles case involving death of student videographer

Notre Dame will pay a $42,000 fine for six safety violations and make an undisclosed contribution to a memorial for a student videographer who died at football practice.

ESPN

Sullivan family has no problem with the fine being reduced

Daily Herald

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (June Thomas):

Can gay bars survive?

Slate

Column (Dean Baker):

Ron Paul’s surprisingly lucid solution to the debt ceiling impasse

The New Republic

Column (Robert Grenier):

What is President Obama’s Afghanistan plan?

Al Jazeera

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4th of July

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Daniel Denvir):

Segregation in the land of limousine liberalism

(Salon)

War Room

Blog (Eliot Spitzer):

China’s a lion. Is the United States a gazelle?

(Slate)

The Best Policy

Column (Ruben Navarrette):

New life for the DREAM Act?

CNN

Editorial:

House Republicans’ budget cuts imperil food safety

San Francisco Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Minnesota zoo welcomes animals from North Dakota

Approximately 230 animals evacuated from the Roosevelt Park Zoo in Minot, N.D., have been moved to the Como Zoo in St. Paul, Minn., because of floods.

Star Tribune

Rare grizzly bear photographed in North Cascades of Washington

A hiker has photographed a living grizzly bear in the North Cascades of Washington. Grizzly bears are a protected species in the area but many experts wondered if the bears still survived.

Seattle Times

Day care teacher recognized for saving toddler’s life

Community officials acknowledged the heroics of Cindy Davis who helped save a 4-year-old’s life by administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

Moammar Gadhafi threatens European ‘homes, offices, families’

A defiant Moammar Gadhafi has threatened to bring war to the “homes, offices, families,” of Europe unless NATO stops airstrikes against his regime in Libya.

Guardian

Misurata’s call for arms

Al Jazeera

China’s Communist Party marks its 90th year with celebration

Celebrating the Communist Party’s 90th anniversary, Chinese President Hu Jintao said that its ability to adapt made China affluent and powerful and that the party must fight corruption.

TIME

China marks 90th anniversary of communism

YouTube

Strauss-Kahn free from house arrest; charges stand

Former International Monetary Fund Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn walked out of court free without bail or home confinement after prosecutors conducted an extensive background investigation.

MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Why faces of other races look alike

The well-documented “other-race effect” finds that people are less likely to remember a face from a racial group different from their own.

LiveScience

Cloud-computing presents challenges, opportunities for local firms

It may be bad news for the people in your corporate IT department, but much of their work may be moving to “the cloud.”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

ENVIRONMENT

India’s rural poor give up on power grid, go solar

Across India, thousands of homes are receiving their first light through small companies and aid programs that are bypassing the central electricity grid to deliver solar panels to the rural poor.

Denver Post

Air traffic could cause more precipitation near airports

Researchers have found that areas near commercial airports sometimes experience a small but measurable increase in rain.

ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pastor preaches brotherly love for his co-pastor sister

Siblings Doriane Parker-Sims and Daniel Parker are co-pastors of Kingdom Life Ministries in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Religion News Service

Church takes steps into social media

When it comes to social networking, some Catholics are becoming hesitant to click the “like” button.

National Catholic Reporter

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Don’t get surgery in July

Steer clear of summer surgery if you can: a 10 percent spike in fatalities at teaching hospitals in July, confirmed by a new Journal of General Internal Medicine study.

ABC News

Superheroes, celebrity look-alikes swarm Las Vegas Strip

The Las Vegas Strip is teeming with Spidermen, Elmos and Elvis Presleys of all shapes and waistlines.

USA TODAY

Blacks return to their Southern roots

In a major demographic shift, Blacks are moving out of cities in the Northeast and Midwest and into cities and suburbs of the South.

USA TODAY

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