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A helicopter tries to put out fire on the Waldo Canyon wildfire as it moved into subdivisions and destroyed homes in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Photo by Gaylon Wampler / AP)

Nora Ephron, director, dies at age 71

Movie fans and movie stars are mourning the death of screenwriter, director and essayist Nora Ephron, who succumbed to pneumonia after a battle with leukemia.

NY Daily News

Special section:

Nora Ephron: 1941-2012

USA TODAY

BCS gets boot in favor of 4-team playoff

The best way to determine a major college football champion seemed obvious to many for so long. Just have a playoff. Now the people in charge of making that decision are on board, too.

Houston Chronicle

‘Monster’ Colorado fire doubles in size

After jumping fire lines, the towering blaze has now burned 24 square miles and an undetermined number of homes, and a forecast for thunderstorms could mean unpredictable winds.

Msnbc.com

Waldo Canyon fire erupts

Denver Post

Consumer confidence declines

Consumer confidence fell in June for the fourth straight month as worries about jobs and the overall economy outweighed relief at the gas pump and an improvement in the housing market.

Detroit Free Press

Pending home sales climb to two-year high

MarketWatch

Elizabeth shakes hands with IRA chief, continues peace process

Queen Elizabeth’s meeting Martin McGuiness, the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, comes 14 years after the Irish Republican Army ended its war against British rule.

Reuters

The Northern Ireland peace process

BBC

NATION

Debby aftermath: flooded homes, busted roads and lots of cleaning up

Tropical Depression Debby still poses a flooding and tornado threat as it heads toward the Atlantic, but some Florida communities have started the long process of drying out and cleaning up.

Msnbc.com

Debby’s destructive wake

The Weather Channel

Texas might become the next immigration law battleground

In a state where lawmakers have proposed requiring presidential candidates to prove their citizenship, state lawmakers are eager to propose new immigration-related bills.

McClatchy Newspapers

Pentagon marks gay pride month for the 1st time after ‘don’t ask, don‘t tell’ repeal

Following the repeal of “don‘t ask, don’t tell,” the Pentagon held their first-ever event to recognize the service of the country’s gay and lesbian troops.

CBS News

Rainbow-stuffed cookie sparks boycott

ABC News

POLITICS

Speaker Boehner says contempt vote on Holder will proceed

A vote on holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for withholding documents involving the failed Fast and Furious weapons operation will proceed, Speaker John Boehner says.

CNN

Why NRA wants Congress to vote Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt

Christian Science Monitor

Provision of Arizona law upheld by Supreme Court leads to confusion, anxiety

Across Arizona, the law’s “show me your papers” provision has created confusion and anxiety and moved Latinos to ask an overriding question: Will we be singled out because of how we look?

Boston Herald

Ripple effect of Supreme Court ruling on Arizona’s anti-immigration law

MSNBC

EDUCATION

What is driving college costs higher?

Just days before student loan rates are set to double for millions of Americans, President Obama and congressional leaders have not reached an agreement on legislation to keep rates at 3.4 percent.

NPR

Rebuilding Mr. Jefferson’s University

The University of Virginia has recently raised questions about its ability to tackle the challenges facing all public research universities and has brought to light some of the university’s significant shortcomings.

Inside Higher Ed

ENVIRONMENT

Wealth gap curbs Rio goals

Brazil‘s extravagant wealth rings Rio’s luxurious beaches, while poverty looks on from across the surrounding hills. Such inequality is symbolic of the challenge humanity faces on a global scale.

Nature

How G-20 nations stack up in renewable energy

SmartPlanet

Blow-up solar lantern lights up Haiti’s prospects for future

The elegant clear plastic lantern, which charges itself when left out in the sun and emits the light of a 60-watt bulb, will bring a safe and inexpensive light source to those without electricity.

Christian Science Monitor

HEALTH

Drinking moderate amounts of coffee cuts heart failure risk

While current American Heart Association heart failure prevention guidelines warn against habitual coffee consumption, some studies propose a protective benefit, and still others find no association at all.

Times of India

Blog:

2 cups of coffee per day may decrease odds of developing heart failure

(CBS News)

Health Pop

Addiction treatment in America not based on science

Unlike most known diseases, the treatment of addiction is not based on scientific evidence, nor is it required to be provided by people with medical education, according to a new report.

TIME

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Robot enhances listener experience

Wedding DJs everywhere should be worried about job security now that a new robot is on the scene.

ScienceDaily

Triumph in the jaws of disaster

It is that moment in a gig that musicians dread. The guitar lead has broken; the monitors are not giving off a sound. But it does not have to be like that.

The Independent

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Nigam Arora):

Why Facebook forcing its email on you is brilliant

(Forbes)

Great Speculations

Column (Michael J. Koplow and Brent E. Sasley):

Ending the ‘cold war’ between Turkey and Israel

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Ericka Christakis):

The school-bus bullies: Are adults to blame too?

TIME

Column (Dick Yarbrough):

It is not the menu, it is the men

The Telegraph

Column (Eric Liu):

The Asian-American dilemma

TIME

Column (Laura Vanderkam):

The not-so-overworked American

CBS News

Editorial:

Supreme Court makes 2 good decisions and 1 bad

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Alex Pareene):

We get it, Grandpa, you’re hip to Springsteen

Salon

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GOOD NEWS

Nonprofit offers dental care for breast cancer patients

Sugar, superacidic foods, and the side effects of chemotherapy can cause damage to your teeth. The latter possibility caused dentist Olya Banchik to establish a nonprofit organization.

Las Vegas Review Journal

The world meets the 1st ‘Bachelor’s Five’ of philanthropic studies

The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University is no newcomer to the mission of working for the public good. It’s been around for 20 years, but its new class of five represents a new step.

The Atlantic

Man behind secret $2M donation is revealed months later

A mystery for 4,000 families was at last solved when casino mogul Steve Wynn made it known that he had made the anonymous donation to the United Way of Southern Nevada.

ABC News

WORLD

Syria’s Assad faces growing rebel and foreign threats

With a high-profile attack on a government TV station, escalating fighting and talk of increasing covert foreign support, Syria’s rebels are bringing the fight closer to Bashar Al Assad.

Reuters

Gunmen ‘kill 7 people’ at Syrian pro-government TV station

BBC

Special section:

Syria

Guardian

Egypt’s Mursi to name deputies including woman, Christian

Egypt’s Islamist president-elect set his sights on naming a woman and a Christian among his deputies, seeking to heal the rifts that polarized the country after last year’s revolt.

BusinessWeek

Special section:

Egypt in transition

Al Jazeera

News Corp considering split

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has confirmed that it is considering splitting itself in two. The media giant said it was exploring the creation of “two distinct publicly traded companies.”

BBC

BUSINESS

Dole salad recall 2012 hits bagged lettuce at Wal-Mart, Kroger

Dole Fresh Vegetables has recalled 1,077 cases of pre-bagged salad sold at Wal-Mart stores and Kroger supermarkets in six U.S. states due to possible listeria contamination.

Christian Science Monitor

A softer approach to online piracy

The entertainment industry’s ongoing battle with digital pirates will enter a new chapter as music and movie companies take a different approach to dealing with widespread copyright infringement.

TIME

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mars mission gets update

NASA officials offered a surprise announcement, saying they have adjusted the path of the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, set to land on Mars this year.

Bunsen Burner

Making human organs on a chip

Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have created an organ on a chip — a device the size of a thumb drive containing living cells — that mimics the behavior of a human organ.

BusinessWeek

Twisted beams of light can transmit up to 2.56 terabits of data per second

A new system of data transmission using twisted beams of light at ultra-high speeds has been developed by a team of researchers from the U.S., China, Israel and Pakistan.

PlanetSave.com

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Famed Crystal Cathedral to become Catholic church

The Diocese of Orange re-baptized the church Christ Cathedral and plans to turn the Protestant landmark into its spiritual and administrative headquarters.

ABC News

Jewish groups condemn court’s decision that circumcision is grievous bodily harm

A German court has ruled that circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm, in a landmark decision condemned by the Jewish community.

Telegraph.co.uk

SPORTS

Wimbledon 2012: Roger Federer sweeps past Italy’s Fabio Fognini

Before dismantling the injury-cursed Italian Fabio Fognini in straight sets, six-time champion Roger Federer bowed for Prince Charles, who was present for the first time since 1970.

Guardian

Serena all business in Wimbledon win

Sports Illustrated

Pacers part ways with Larry Bird

The Indiana Pacers have parted ways with Larry Bird. Owner Herb Simon announced the move one day before the NBA draft; Bird will stay on for the draft.

San Francisco Chronicle

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