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The Empire State Building, illuminated with red, white and blue lights, right, is backlit by fireworks over the Hudson River during the Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks show in New York. (Photo by Frank Franklin II / AP)

The one other country that celebrates the 4th of July

Since the Philippines won their independence from U.S. colonial control on July 4, 1946, it has been a national holiday — though not always the same one. This is the story of the Philippines’ Fourth of July.

The Atlantic

US troops become American citizens — all the way from Kandahar

NPR

Special section:

Quiz: How American are you?

Christian Science Monitor

In defense of your coffee addiction

In the long-running debate about the health benefits of drinking coffee, coffee addicts are always looking for a jolt of good news.

The Atlantic

Special section:

Facts and myths about caffeine

WebMD

‘It’s a Higgs boson’

Scientists at Europe’s CERN research center have found a new subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe, which appears to be the Higgs boson imagined half a century ago.

Reuters

What is the Higgs boson?

Guardian

When the world went Higgs boson crazy

Discovery News

Power outages put damper on 4th of July

Hundreds of thousands from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic are preparing to spend the Fourth of July like America’s founders did in 1776, without the conveniences of electricity and air conditioning.

FOX News

Wiki creator talks about his invention

Ward Cunningham, the creator of the wiki, is proud of his invention. But there is one thing about the wiki that he regrets: that he owns all the pages.

Wired

Working until 70 could ease most retirement worries

Many baby boomers wonder, “So what’s the number?” It turns out that if many boomers keep working until age 70, they could be OK in retirement.

USA TODAY

NATION

Urban living: Oakland turns a corner as Calif. faces budget woes

Long associated with urban decay, Oakland, Calif., has experienced a resurgence in recent years with a revitalized downtown.

NPR

Independence Day irony: veterans with PTSD jolted by fireworks

Explosive bursts send Marine veteran Pete Chinnici lunging to his feet and scurrying outside, heart racing, chest heaving. His instinctive mission: track, identify and “eliminate the threat.”

Msnbc.com

PTSD keeps war vets from 4th fireworks

YouTube

POLITICS

Obama to sign student loan and road-building bill

President Barack Obama plans to sign into law legislation that prevents interest rate increases on new loans to millions of college students and maintains jobs on transportation projects across the nation.

U.S. News & World Report

Clouds gather over Obama campaign

Reuters

Critics say Antonin Scalia too political

Justice Antonin Scalia drew unusually critical attention during this past Supreme Court term for comments he made in court and in his writing that seemed to some more political than judicial.

CBS News

Romney calls health care mandate a ‘tax,’ contradicts top aide

Mitt Romney said the federal health care reform mandate constitutes a “tax,” contradicting the way a senior adviser to his campaign characterized his position earlier this week.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Sun fires off Fourth of July solar flares

The sun is unleashing some powerful solar flares in an impressive celestial fireworks display just in time for the U.S. Independence Day holiday.

CBS News

Detroit, MSU moving forward on urban agriculture research campus

Detroit and Michigan State University have agreed in principle to pursue a major urban agriculture research program to explore innovative research, such as transforming empty buildings into multi-tiered farms.

Detroit Free Press

BUSINESS

Diamond apologizes for ‘reprehensible’ Barclays behavior

Robert Diamond, who quit as chief executive officer of Barclays PLC, apologized for the “reprehensible” behavior at the bank that led to record fines for rigging interest rates.

Bloomberg

The US penny: Should it be scrapped?

Canada has stopped producing the penny coin, deeming it a waste of money. The move has re-ignited a long-running debate in the U.S. over the future of its penny.

BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

From Clooney to Kravitz, celebrity ad deals are growing

Hollywood types are peddling everything from fast-food eateries and reverse mortgages to adult diapers and margarine these days. What is going on?

USA TODAY

The scent of a cat woman

Why is it that the elite perfumers and sommeliers of the world spend so much of their time inhaling cat effluvia from expensive glass bottles?

Slate

Why curly hair is viewed with suspicion

Curls elicit a variety of associations, often negative. But these associations are actually more often than not favorable, according to a leading curl specialist.

The Age

EDUCATION

Veterans sign up for job education

Thousands of unemployed veterans may be heading back to school under a federal program to get out-of-work veterans trained and back in the job market.

ABC News

Dalai Lama pushes Tibetan monks to tackle scientific education

A fierce proponent of modern schooling, the Dalai Lama created programs to teach scientific education to monks, the traditional core of Tibetan culture.

Huffington Post

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

Farm bill bulges in wrong places

Star Tribune

Column (Danny Westneat):

A heritage of grievances for a nation of complainers

Seattle Times

Column (Karen Hughes and Mark Penn):

What are American values these days?

TIME

Blog (Adam Turner):

When is it time to walk away from a game?

The Age

Column (Dominique Browning):

Why we will never adapt to record heat

TIME

Column (Richard Haass and Klaus Kleinfeld):

Lack of skilled employees hurting manufacturing

USA TODAY

Column (Simon Doonan):

Why do hotels turn us into monsters?

Slate

Column (Issac J. Bailey):

Real people suffer when health care is mixed with politics

McClatchy Newspapers

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GOOD NEWS

South African runner to be 1st amputee in Olympic track

Never write Oscar Pistorius off. The “Blade Runner” will be competing in the London Olympics in his favored 400 meters after all — the first amputee track athlete to compete at any Games.

CBSSports

Pistorius sprints to Olympics

Msnbc.com

8-year-old boy reaches summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro for a cure

Having reached the top of Africa‘s highest mountain, Tyler Armstrong is the second-youngest person to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. He did it to raise money to help find a cure for muscular dystrophy.

Huffington Post

Beijing introduces recycling banks that pay subway credits for bottles

Beijing’s plastic-bottle scavengers will get an automated rival later this month, when the city introduces its first reverse vending machines that pay subway credits in exchange for returned containers.

Guardian

WORLD

Voice of Tunisian spring calls for equality

Attacks on art in Tunisia are mainly driven by frustration over the injustices of daily life in the North African country rather than pure religious ideology, a Tunisian revolutionary singer said.

Reuters

Yasser Arafat ‘poisoned with polonium’

Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been killed with a lethal dose of the highly radioactive substance polonium, indicate new tests.

Telegraph.co.uk

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Feeling under siege, Catholic leadership shifts right

Perceiving its core beliefs to be under threat from popular culture, the White House and even Catholics themselves, the Vatican and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are pushing back.

NPR

Religious right’s new rivals

Salon

Pope Benedict XVI to bring message of peace in Lebanon

Pope Benedict XVI will bring a message of peace for the Middle East on a three-day trip to Lebanon amid rising tensions due to the conflict in neighboring Syria.

Yahoo! News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The robot of the future is about to explore the deep past of Mars

Equipped with a marshmallow-shaped lump of plutonium for energy and rock-vaporizing lasers for eyes, NASA’s Curiosity rover is en route to an ancient crater on the red planet.

The Atlantic

Outsourcing our memories

Is storing your life experiences on digital devices the same as remembering them? This question becomes ever more relevant in an age where technology allows us to record almost every waking moment.

BBC

HEALTH

US approves first take-home HIV test

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved OraQuick, the first over-the-counter HIV test, allowing Americans to check themselves for the virus that causes AIDS in the privacy of their homes.

Guardian

Methadone drug behind a 3rd of painkiller deaths, CDC says

Methadone makes up only two percent of painkiller prescriptions, but is behind more than 30 percent of prescription painkiller overdose deaths.

CBS News

SPORTS

Wild agrees to $98 million deals with Parise and Suter

The Minnesota Wild scored a major coup, agreeing to 13-year, $98 million deals with Zach Parise and Ryan Suter — considered the two biggest prizes in this year’s free-agent class.

Star Tribune

Federer in a familiar place at Wimbledon

When he feels the need to remind people of all that he has done and all that he is, Roger Federer will talk about perspective, a lost commodity in a time of superlatives and overheated analysis.

ESPN

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