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Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller speaks during a news conference about a joint investigation into mortgage companies, in Des Moines, Iowa. (Photo by Charlie Neibergall / AP)

Doctors lured away from private practice

Doctors are leaving private practices in large numbers and going to work for hospitals. Last year, hospitals hired half of the new doctors just out of medical school.

NPR

Obama‘s campaign to reduce medical costs targets doctors’ pay

Bloomberg

2 Americans become media strategists for al-Qaida

Adam Gadahn and Anwar al-Awlaki are among a small group of Americans who have joined al-Qaida to be elevated to senior positions and promote the group’s message.

NPR

US home seizures climb to record

More than 100,000 U.S. homes were seized by lenders in September, a record number that probably will decline in coming months as major banks halt repossessions and review their foreclosure practices.

Bloomberg

How 2 civilians sleuthed out foreclosure ills

McClatchy Newspapers

Network of Armenians face US health care scam charges

U.S. officials have charged 73 people, a network of Armenian gangsters and their associates, over what is thought to be the largest ever attempt to defraud the country’s medical insurance system.

BBC

Spend-or-cut debate rages

Spend or cut is a debate at the heart of the economic crisis — and tensions over the two strategies, between a Nobel prize-winning economist and an economic historian, boiled over again.

Guardian

Roubini predicts chance of double-dip

Bloomberg

Krugman: Trillions of quantitative easing needed

CNBC

NATION

US Hispanics outlive general population

Hispanics in the United States outlive whites by almost three years and blacks by almost eight years, according to a new report.

HealthDay

US Hispanics have greater longevity

MSNBC

Nuclear watchdog groups say corners cut on fire safety

Nuclear watchdog groups say that an internal report on fire safety at nuclear plants shows that regulators don’t have enough information to know whether its new fire rules will ensure safety.

McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS

‘How dare you take my pension’ becomes refrain as voters consider cutbacks

Rising public pension costs are igniting political fights across the country. In California, voters around the state will decide whether to cut benefits for first responders and other public employees.

Bloomberg

‘Mom-in-chief’ hits the campaign trail

First lady Michelle Obama hit the campaign trail in what has been a tough year for her party, a year in which Democrats, who normally have a 10-point advantage with women, struggle among women voters.

ABC News

Blog:

Obama utters words ‘tax and spend liberal,’ Republicans drool

(Christian Science Monitor)

Vox News

ENVIRONMENT

Western lifestyles plundering tropics at record rate, a report shows

The Earth‘s population is using the equivalent of 1.5 planets’ worth of natural resources, but the long-term decline of animal life appears to have been halted, a World Wildlife Fund report shows.

Guardian

E15 gets EPA’s OK for newer cars

The Environmental Protection Agency said more testing is still needed before deciding if the higher ethanol blend will damage engines of cars made before the 2007 model year.

Star Tribune

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Societies evolve in steps

Human societies progress in small steps just as biological evolution does, according to a study of the language of societies in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean.

Nature

New FCC rules propose an end to shocking cell phone bills

Cell phone companies would have to warn customers via text or voice alerts before they rack up eye-popping extra fees on their bills under rules that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will propose.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Controversial education reformer Michelle Rhee resigns

Michelle Rhee, who made a reputation for being a firebrand reformer, resigned from her job as head of public schools in D.C., a casualty of a bitterly fought mayoral race.

ABC News

Blog:

Chronicling Michelle Rhee

(PBS)

Rundown

Females are equal to males in math skills, large study shows

The mathematical skills of boys and girls, as well as men and women, are substantially equal, according to a new examination of existing studies.

ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Loyalty oath unusual in asserting religion

Most Western democracies administer an oath or pledge as part of becoming a citizen. But Israel’s decision to change its oath — a move approved by the cabinet — has proved particularly controversial.

Forward

Fears of Sharia law in America grow among conservatives

The rise of anti-Muslim sentiment in America has brought with it a wave of largely unsubstantiated suggestions that America is at risk of falling under the sway of Sharia law.

(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Jim Lobe):

Survey: US Jews skeptical of Obama

Al Jazeera

Column (Vijay Prashad):

The waning of Obama

Counterpunch

Column (Bill Bishop):

United? Yes. But ever more divided

Politico

Column (Edward Wasserman):

Dark days ahead for accountability, freedom

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (David Loy):

The cosmos wakes up

Shambhala Sun

Blog (Robert Langreth):

Too much breast cancer awareness?

(Forbes)

Treatments

Column (Robert Fisk):

Lebanon and Hezbollah ready to welcome Ahmadinejad

The Independent

Column (Patricia Kelley Criswell):

Bullying: The advice you got is wrong

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Chile miners’ rescue accomplished

After more than two months underground, all 33 miners have now emerged from the collapsed Chilean copper mine in the Atacama desert, to the excitement and relief of waiting family and friends.

Al Jazeera