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A man walks past an advertisement featuring Chinese and foreign banknotes at an exchange shop in Hong Kong. U.S. Republican leaders promised a vote in the House on a plan to increase the U.S. $14.3 trillion debt limit and avoid America’s first-ever default. (Photo by Kin Cheung / AP)

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Turning gangsters to ultimate fighters

With gang violence a grim fixture in parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, Eugene Jackson helps at-risk youth avoid the pitfalls that almost claimed him through mixed martial arts.

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TIME

For some workers, Baltimore life is sweeter with no car

About 43,000 Baltimore workers are without a car in the household, according to the U.S. census. While many have little choice in the matter, others have decided that a car is an unnecessary expense.

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Analysts: Reid debt plan falls short of promises

The debt reduction plan proposed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., falls $500 billion short of its promised savings, according to an analysis released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

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CNN

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America’s debt crisis

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CNNMoney

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The history of the debt limit

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Lockerbie bomber appears at pro-Gadhafi rally in Tripoli, Libya

The Libyan man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing attended a pro-Gadhafi rally in Tripoli, Libya, reviving criticism in Britain of the decision to grant him early release on medical grounds.

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Britain expels all staff from Libyan Embassy in London

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Telegraph.co.uk

New device reduces seizures, no surgery required

A experimental device that delivers electrical pulses to the forehead can help control epileptic seizures, say scientists at UCLA.

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NPR

NATION

Internet regrets: online and embarrassed

The ease of a quick Tweet or Facebook post frequently turns into regret, according to 18 percent of Americans in a new poll.

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ABC News

Niagara Falls considers a return to its daredevil past

High-wire artist Nik Wallenda approached officials recently with a plan to cross the cataract on a wire the width of a nickel. The performance would be featured in “Life on a Wire,” a Discovery Channel show.

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Los Angeles Times

Closing soon near you: a post office

The Postal Service is considering closing more than one in 10 of its retail outlets, studying more than 3,600 local branches.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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US Postal Service considers closing locations

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ABC News

POLITICS

No end in sight for FAA shutdown

A legislative stalemate between Republicans and Democrats in Congress has forced the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration.

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CBS News

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Feds say $25M air traffic control project for Houston shut down

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Houston Chronicle

Carol Browner: GOP fight against EPA a replay of ’95

Former White House energy and climate adviser Carol Browner says the GOP fight against environmental regulations is a rerun from the 1990s.

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Politico

BUSINESS

BofA donates then demolishes houses

Bank of America Corp. faced with a glut of foreclosed and abandoned houses it can’t sell, has a new tool to get rid of the most decrepit ones: a bulldozer.

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Bloomberg

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Investors purchase $1.2M home for $10K

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ABC News

Jefferson County, home of Birmingham, Ala., facing bankruptcy

Alabama’s largest county began laying the groundwork for what would be the largest-ever U.S. municipal bankruptcy after three years of trying to work out a solution with Wall Street to more than $3 billion in debt.

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CBS News

Wal-Mart launches video streaming

The world’s largest retailer started streaming many movies the same day they come out on DVD, in a second bid for a share of popular movie rental and streaming website Netflix Inc.

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Globeandmail.com

ENVIRONMENT

Special report: Fukushima long ranked most hazardous plant

Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant ranked as one of the most dangerous in the world for radiation exposure, years before it was destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami.

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Yahoo! News

Michigan oil spill cleanup costly, complex

A year after a pipeline rupture sent at least 819,000 gallons of oil into a Kalamazoo River tributary, crews continue to pull submerged oil from the stream and its tributaries.

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Detroit Free Press

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Spill tally: Oil on 60 percent of shoreline

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Forbes

EDUCATION

No-show students drop out despite interventions to keep them in school

In Baltimore‘s toughest neighborhoods, kids miss lots of school days, and that puts them at risk of dropping out. Now, the city’s efforts are driven toward reaching these children early.

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NPR

Survey: Nearly 30 percent of Michigan teachers report pressure to cheat

One out of three public school educators report pressure from bosses, parents or others to change grades, and nearly 30 percent say pressure to cheat on standardized tests is a problem.

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Detroit Free Press

Anxiety and uncertainty

As the deadline for increasing the federal debt limit approaches, the uncertainty is growing at colleges: What happens to financial aid and federal research funds if the government defaults?

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Inside Higher Ed

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Atheist group wants to stop World Trade Center cross

A group of atheists has filed a lawsuit to stop the display of the World Trade Center cross at a memorial of the 9/11 terror attacks.

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CNN

Albany Diocesan priest has become chief army chaplain

A priest in the Albany Roman Catholic Diocese has assumed command of the U.S. Army’s 2,700 chaplains and their assistants.

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Times Union

Columns And Op-Ed

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Obama wants sympathy (and your vote)

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Ballot Box

Column (James Fallows):

Another chart for your debt ceiling discussions

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The Atlantic

Debt talks just the latest front in the war on the working class

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The Platform (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

The public wants balance

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Jessica Roake):

Thomas the imperialist tank engine

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Slate

Column (Chris Good):

A few proposals for saving the US postal service

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The Atlantic

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Government vs. business

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Column (Robert Jensen):

Green is the new red: environmental activists under attack

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Grist

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GOOD NEWS

Baby okapi born in Belgium

An endangered baby okapi has made her first public appearance at a Belgian zoo. The only country where the okapi can still be found in the wild is the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Medicare drug plan saves hospital costs

A new study suggests that Medicare’s 5-year-old prescription drug plan is keeping seniors out of hospitals and nursing homes, saving the federal program an estimated $12 billion a year in those costs.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A safe place to play after tornado

Tiana Loyd, a 5 year old, is among 130 children targeted by a special summer program that offers a safe place to play for children of families that were made homeless after the Minneapolis tornado.

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Star Tribune

WORLD

Revolutionary spirit returns to Egypt’s Tahrir Square

Cairo’s Tahrir Square became synonymous with revolution in Egypt. Now, the protesters have returned: Demonstrators unhappy with the pace of change in Egypt began camping out in the square.

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NPR

Breivik sent ‘manifesto’ to 250 UK contacts hours before Norway killings

The man responsible for the mass killing in Norway emailed his 1,500-page document to 250 British contacts less than 90 minutes before he began his attack, according to a Belgian MP.

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Guardian

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Norway security scare as nation mourns

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CBS News

How Mexican killers got US guns from ‘Fast and Furious’ operation

U.S. officials thought they would catch Mexican criminals in a bold gun-running sting called “Fast and Furious.” Instead, they inadvertently armed drug cartels as the operation spiraled out of control.

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Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Administration wins stem cell lawsuit

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s funding of stem cell research. The program allows research on embryos harvested long ago through private funding.

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Politico

An ‘on-off’ switch for sex and violence discovered in brain

Using optical and genetic techniques, neuroscientists have identified an “on-off” switch for aggression in the brain

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Scientific American

HEALTH

Residents of rural areas face more health care hurdles

Residents of rural areas in Minnesota and across the nation are more likely to have chronic diseases and face hurdles to getting quality care, according to a UnitedHealth Group report.

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Star Tribune

Fragmented sleep ‘harms memory’

Stanford University found disrupting sleep made it harder for the animals to recognize familiar objects.

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BBC

Special section:

Sleep disorders

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WebMD

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Confessions of a garlic festival judge

Garlic-infused pot stickers are one thing. But when garlic ends up minced into cookies and tarts, one thing becomes clear: The judges of Northern California’s Gilroy Garlic Festival have palates of steel.

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San Jose Mercury News

Downtown Denver’s public pianos — a creative outlet for ‘mall stars’

They make music for money. Playing music is at least one way of escaping from a daily grind fraught with headache and peril.

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Denver Post

SPORTS

NFL adopts a compromise for growth with deal

Labor peace in the NFL is the ticket to explosive growth. That is the bottom-line measure of the NFL’s new collective bargaining agreement, which better positions the league to print more money.

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USA TODAY

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NFL roundup: Lions pursuing Tulloch, Vikings to acquire McNabb, Johnson to stay with Panthers

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Detroit Free Press

Wings praise retiring Kris Draper for ‘extraordinary work ethic’

Kris Draper, a four-time Stanley Cup champion with the Red Wings, announced that he will retire from the NHL after 20 seasons.

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Detroit News

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Crude reality: Gas prices rocket because they can

It didn’t take long for turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East to produce pain at gasoline pumps in the U.S.

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National Geographic

Photo of the Day

A giraffe cares for her newborn calf at the The Toledo Zoo in Ohio. The calf stood nearly 6 feet tall and weighed about 160 pounds at birth. (Photo by The Toledo Zoo / AP)

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