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Nawaf Fares, left, is sworn in as Syria’s first ambassador to Iraq in 26 years before Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem in Damascus. Fares is the most senior diplomat to abandon the regime since the uprising against Assad began. (Photo by SANA / File / AP)

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Some businesses see benefits to adopting pro-gay stance

Google has become the latest in a growing number of companies to publicly take a position in support of gay rights. Companies may be embracing the rainbow, but the motivating color is still green.

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Msnbc.com

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Church ladies launch gay marriage crusade

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The Atlantic

The surprising queer roots of the blues

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The New Republic

DNA: Early Americans arrived in waves

North and South America were first populated by three waves of migrants from Siberia rather than just a single migration, say researchers.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Syria’s Iraq ambassador has defected

The Syrian ambassador to Iraq has defected, denouncing President Bashar Assad in a TV interview and becoming the most senior diplomat to abandon the regime during a 16-month uprising.

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ABC News

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Syrian opposition reports ‘massacre’ in Hama province

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CNN

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The Syrian arms race

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TIME

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For Syrian-American doctors, a painful homecoming

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NPR

Housing rebound signaled as banks resume notifying foreclosures

U.S. lenders are notifying more delinquent homeowners that they face foreclosure, a step toward clearing a backlog of properties and helping to accelerate a housing recovery.

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Bloomberg

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McMansions for half off!

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CNNMoney

Report: 14-year cover-up at Penn State

The panel investigating Penn State’s role in the recent abuse scandal has determined that top leaders tried to cover up the abuse for 14 years.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

NATION

California bankruptcies have just begun

San Bernardino became the third California city to file for bankruptcy in the past few weeks but it will not be the last. Many municipalities around the nation are struggling to cover their costs.

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CNNMoney

SOS call for historic ocean liner

Caretakers for the SS United States, the legendary ocean liner moored on the Delaware River since 1996, are expanding their emergency distress call for the beleaguered piece of American history.

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Houston Chronicle

Why Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has remained mum about his ‘mood disorder’

“In the black community, where the stigma of mental health is still there, getting help for these issues is rare,” says Rebecca Walker, daughter of author Alice Walker.

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Daily Beast

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Rep. Jackson suffering from, getting treatment for ‘mood disorder’

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CBS News

POLITICS

Tax plan: What about the 98 percent?

The fight over creating jobs morphed into the battle of the tax plans after Obama renewed his call to let tax cuts for the affluent expire, a policy Romney dubbed a “kick in the gut.”

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ABC News

Romney booed by NAACP crowd

Mitt Romney told the NAACP that he has the “best interest” of all Americans at heart, but he drew boos from the crowd in Houston at his first mention of wanting to repeal “Obamacare.”

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USA TODAY

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Romney booed by NAACP crowd

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BUSINESS

Federal Reserve signals support for further stimulus if economy slows

The Federal Reserve signaled that a further economic slowdown would bring growing support among policymakers for additional steps to spur the three-year expansion.

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Bloomberg

Lagging revenues raise worries about Atlantic City’s Revel casino

Revel is finding that the stakes are high, and some are already concerned that the casino, open just three months, will not be able to meet them.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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Deval Patrick strikes casino deal with tribe

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3-D printing could remake US manufacturing as it improves

While 3-D printing has been used since the late 1980s, it’s increasingly cranking out limited runs of actual parts for products as printing speeds increase and product quality improves.

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USA TODAY

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3-D nano-printing trending in bio-tech

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Coloradoan

EDUCATION

Yale launches law school Ph.D. program

Yale Law School is starting a Ph.D. law program, calling it the first such program in the country. It is designed to prepare students to become law professors.

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CBS News

Push for higher ed assistance hopes to lift graduation rate

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is on a mission to improve college graduation rates, and getting states to pony up more money toward tuition is part of the plan.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

ENVIRONMENT

Global warming linked to weather extremes

An attempt to dissect weather extremes soon after they happen is confirming more leisurely analyses of earlier phenomena. Human-induced global warming is indeed increasing the chances of record heat.

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Wired

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Extreme heat roasts the Western US

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CNN

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Severe heat wave

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ABC News

Google’s zero-carbon quest

Finding creative solutions to energy issues has become a major priority for Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page, and he is determined to build the nation’s first zero-carbon company.

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CNNMoney

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Scientologists plan Hollywood TV studio

The Church of Scientology plans to start a religious broadcasting center to promote its teachings over TV, radio and the Internet, hoping for an elevated public profile.

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Reuters

Mormons in public eye ahead of US polls

A senior figure in the Mormon church has dismissed claims that the religion is a “cult,” and claims that America is learning to love the faith.

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Sky News

Columns And Op-Ed

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The case against single-sex classrooms

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Mitt’s real insult to the NAACP: disrespecting the group’s legacy

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Salon

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Winnowing weddings

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All Men are Liars

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Is social media making the resume obsolete?

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CNN

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The bias against sports moms

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TIME

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Egypt’s over-hyped parliamentary showdown

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Daily Beast

It’s time to listen up

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The opportunity gap

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GOOD NEWS

Los Angeles’ homeless children get Christmas in July

Over 100 homeless children living in LA’s Skid Row will be treated to Christmas in July — complete with mounds of snow perfect for a snowball fight, presents, and a visit from Santa Claus himself.

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Dexter community comes out of tornado stronger than before

Four months after a twister damaged 255 structures and caused $9.14 million in losses, residents of one of the affected subdivisions came together to reconnect during a block party.

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Detroit Free Press

Injured hiker saves rescuer hit by helicopter blades

An Air Force doctor who broke his leg while hiking in Northern California ended up saving the life of one of his rescuers after the man was struck by a helicopter’s rotor blade.

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Daily Herald

WORLD

Stakes are high for Northern Ireland’s improving reputation

Northern Ireland has enjoyed unprecedented positive headlines around the world in recent months, but security concerns over upcoming events have left tourist chiefs holding their breath.

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BBC

Bridging Belfast’s divided Catholic and Protestant communities

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The Rundown

The universal draft, a call to arms for Israeli Arabs

They may inhabit parallel universes, but most ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and Israeli Arabs share the same instinctive aversion to the idea that they should be forced into military service.

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Reuters

As South Sudan marks 1st year, wars rage on its doorstep

In Sudan, hundreds of thousands of people are starving to death and fleeing their homes in war-torn border lands whose names are unknown to most outsiders.

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McClatchy Newspapers

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New Pluto moon hints at perilous journey for spacecraft

The discovery of another moon around Pluto is exciting news, but it is also likely to cause some anxiety for the team in charge of a spacecraft set to be the first probe ever to visit the dwarf planet.

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SPACE.com

Social networks scan for sexual predators with uneven results

Facebook’s extensive but little-discussed technology for scanning postings and chats for criminal activity automatically flags conversations for employees.

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Reuters

Ingredient makes fish court other species

A common chemical used to make plastics also causes fish to indiscriminately court members of other species — behavior that could result in interbreeding and the merger of two species.

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HEALTH

Why zombies, robots, clowns freak us out

What do zombies, androids and clowns have in common? They’re almost human, but not quite. That disconnect is creepy, in a way that scientists are searching to understand.

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CNN

Is obesity child abuse? Australian courts think so

Australian welfare authorities have begun using extreme obesity as a reason to support children being separated from their parents — and experts predict more cases as the population gets fatter.

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The Age

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

What’s on American minds? Increasingly, ‘me’ and not ‘we’

An analysis of words and phrases in more than 750,000 American books published in the past 50 years finds an emphasis on “I” before “we."

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USA TODAY

The 1st pizza museum

Although a pizza joint — even one that is educational — is not original, a museum is. Through the collection, you can follow the thread in popular culture for the last 100 years.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

SPORTS

Brooklyn embraces new-look Nets, hopes for possible Howard trade

The new-look Nets, with Deron Williams signed for five years and All-Star Joe Johnson in the fold, appear to be making all the right moves before their debut season in Kings County.

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Women’s field hockey aims to end Olympic drought this year

As one of the world‘s most popular sports, field hockey produces celebrities in Argentina, the Netherlands and Australia. But the sport is relatively obscure in the United States.

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NPR

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Talks with Saudi Arabia on allowing Olympic women ongoing

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Sports Illustrated

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Shark fin soup faces extinction in Calif.

A Chinese delicacy may soon disappear from California restaurants if a bill to ban the sale of shark fins makes it through the state Senate.

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CNN

Photo of the Day

A Syrian brown bear eats an ice block of frozen fruits, vegetables and fish to cool off from the heat at the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv, Israel. (Photo by Ariel Schalit / AP)

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