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Demonstrators light candles at a street corner where a man was shot and killed after an altercation near the campsite for Occupy Oakland protesters at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, Calif. (Photo by Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP)

School targets refugee teen girls from war torn nations

At a baseball field outside Atlanta, a group of giggling teenage girls gather for physical education class at a small private school for refugee teenage girls who have little or no English education.

CNN

Mexico’s Interior Minister, 7 others killed in helicopter crash

Mexico’s second-highest leader after the president, Francisco Blake Mora, was killed along with seven other people when a helicopter crashed south of the capital.

Bloomberg

Mexico’s Interior Minister dies in helicopter crash outside Mexico City

Euronews

Occupy protests face new issue in deaths

City leaders across the U.S. are feeling increasing pressure to shut down Occupy protest encampments after men were slain in shootings and others were found dead inside their tents.

USA TODAY

Officials move to break up Occupy protests after deaths in past 2 days

NY Daily News

Blog:

As veterans protest, police distribute eviction fliers to Occupy Oakland campers

San Francisco Chronicle

President Obama urges help for veterans in radio address

President Barack Obama says veterans of conflicts overseas should not struggle to find work once they return home, and he‘s urging the House to follow the Senate’s lead and do something to help them.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Veterans are assets, not liabilities

(Huffington Post)

Impact

Armistice Day marked around the world

Guardian

Employer-based health insurance continues to trend down

The percentage of American adults who get their health insurance from an employer continues to decline, falling to 44.5 percent in the third quarter.

Gallup

NATION

Unpaid interns: real world work or just free labor?

Internships have become an almost essential first step on the career ladder in the U.S., but some argue that many unpaid internships fail to comply with labor laws.

NPR

White House turns over e-mails related to Solyndra loan

The White House turned over internal e-mails in a House panel investigating the collapse of Solyndra, but stopped short of releasing the full cache sought by the Energy and Commerce Committee.

CNN

Canada defiant after oil pipeline rebuff

Canada will keep promoting crude from the tar sands of northern Alberta as a secure source of energy despite a U.S. decision to delay approval of a pipeline to carry the oil from Alberta to Texas, officials said.

Reuters

POLITICS

Romney’s political shifts stir criticism

With his positions evolving on abortion, gay rights, stem cell research and health care, Romney has prompted charges of political opportunism from Republicans and Democrats alike.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Obama seeks to hitch US economy to Asian growth

With Europe mired in crisis, President Obama is launching an offensive to hitch the U.S. economy to opportunities in Asia he hopes can help power the recovery he needs for re-election.

Reuters

BUSINESS

EMI sells music unit to Universal

EMI, with a history as a home to artists including Coldplay, the Beatles and Pink Floyd, has said it will sell its recorded music unit for $1.9 billion to Universal Music.

BBC

You can cry foul, but Thanksgiving dinner costs soar

The American Farm Bureau Federation says a classic holiday feast for 10 people — including turkey, sweet potatoes, rolls and stuffing — will run $49.20 this year, up from $43.47 in 2010.

Los Angeles Times

ENVIRONMENT

A house with no furnace? You betcha

Many houses are remodeled to save energy, but Paul Brazelton, a software engineer and passionate environmentalist, has renovated a Minneapolis home that takes energy-saving one step further.

Star Tribune

Alternative LED lighting could offer solutions to energy crisis

Recent advancements in light-emitting diode, or LED, technologies could provide an innovative way to save energy and make wasteful lighting obsolete.

LiveScience

State agency’s plan for growing bear population cracks door open for hunts

State wildlife commissioners voted to take the Florida black bear off their list of protected species, but the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologists had to produce a plan for managing bears.

St. Petersburg Times

EDUCATION

Teachers, facing low salaries, high expenses, search for second jobs

Second jobs are not a new phenomenon for teachers. In 1981, about 11 percent of teachers were moonlighting — that number has now risen to about 20 percent.

Star Tribune

Online education continues growth

The number of college students enrolled in at least one online course increased again according to the Babson Survey Research Group’s annual survey.

U.S. News & World Report

Rough path seen for Senate’s ESEA bill

The prospects for a comprehensive rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act moving through Congress this session remain cloudy, even after a hearing.

Education Week

SPORTS

Washington Nationals’ Ramos rescued after Venezuelan kidnapping

Wilson Ramos, the 24-year-old Venezuelan catcher for the Washington Nationals, was rescued in a mountainous area of central Venezuela after being kidnapped in front of his family’s home.

BusinessWeek

Wilson Ramos rescued after kidnapping

YouTube

Penn State alums raise funds for victims, bring back pride

A group of Penn State alumni, distraught over the child molestation scandal that has engulfed their alma mater, has launched a fundraising effort to help victims of abuse.

ABC News

The act of whistleblowing involves much more than just courage

Kansas City Star

Penn State’s McQueary on indefinite leave

Sports Network

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

Before the court, privacy rights for all

Star Tribune

Blog (Hendrik Hertzberg):

Oops

(The New Yorker)

Hendrik Hertzberg

Column (Peter Jones):

The rhetoric and reality of attacking Tehran

Globeandmail.com

Blog (Gary Stix):

The science of earworms, or why a song gets stuck in your head

(Scientific American)

Observations

Column (Judith Warner):

How low can we go?

TIME

Blog (Ed Yong):

Who were the 99 percent of ancient Rome?

(CNN)

Light Years

Blog (James Fallows):

On brain freezes and the value of debates

The Atlantic

Editorial:

Penn State rioters on the wrong side of sexual abuse

Star Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Diaper donation leads to dispensary for low income families

Kristin Grode wanted to donate a bag of diapers her daughter had outgrown. One thing led to another, and she founded a nonprofit organization that gave away 120,000 diapers.

TwinCities.com

Visits from coffee angel help ease cancer patients’ pain

To fulfill his father’s dying wish, Dan Dewey delivers 20 or more drinks from Starbucks to the cancer center at St. Joseph Mercy Oakland hospital in Pontiac, Michigan.

Detroit Free Press

Free nursery places for 140,000 disadvantaged toddlers

As many as 140,000 disadvantaged two-year-olds could have free nursery places under a scheme planned to be rolled out in England and extended nationwide in September 2013.

BBC

WORLD

Italy pushes through austerity law, Greek PM sworn in