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Debra Bekher, left, and her daughter, Cindy Pain look at family heirlooms they found in the burnt out rubble of their home in a neighborhood hit by a wildfire in the Big Tujunga Canyon in Tujunga, Calif. (Photo by LM Otero / AP)

North Korea now 'in final uranium phase'

North Korea has entered the final phase of uranium enrichment, the North's state media are reported as saying by South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

BBC

US August payrolls fall 216,000, jobless rate 9.7 percent

U.S. employers cut a fewer-than-expected 216,000 jobs in August, while the unemployment rate rose to a 26-year high, the government said in a report showing a still-fragile labor market.

Forbes

Unemployment benefits running out

USA TODAY

Los Angeles wildfire ruled arson

A huge wildfire which has devastated a large area north of Los Angeles was started deliberately, say authorities in California.

BBC

Station fire ruled arson

ABC7.COM

Afghanistan: air strike on hijacked tankers kills 90

Up to 90 people are feared dead and wounded after a NATO air strike hit two fuel tankers in northern Afghanistan.

Telegraph.co.uk

Nato air strike in Afghanistan kills scores

Guardian

Obama may need sense of crisis to revive health care overhaul

President Obama returns to Washington in search of one thing that can revive his health care overhaul: a sense of crisis.

Bloomberg

Unplugged: Obama's Next Move

CBS News

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Interactive: in search of health care

Washington Post

NATION

US cuts off all non-humanitarian aid to Honduras, revokes visas

The Obama administration ratcheted up the pressure on Honduras' coup-installed government to step down by cutting all non-humanitarian aid to the poor Central American country.

McClatchy Newspapers

Obama back-to-school speech plan sparks Republican protests

President Obama’s plan to give a televised speech to U.S. students has sparked complaints by Republicans that he may use it to promote his political agenda.

Bloomberg

POLITICS

GOP chairwoman eyes Reid challenge

Nevada Republican Party Chairwoman Sue Lowden announced she would step down from her post in order to explore a challenge to Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.)

The Hill

White House’s new stimulus message: it’s helping you

Vice President Biden and five cabinet secretaries went on the stump nationwide to convince Americans that the federal stimulus package is having a significant impact on their everyday lives.

Christian Science Monitor

A justice slows his hiring

Justice John Paul Stevens has hired only one clerk for the term, setting off speculation that he may be planning to retire. Or it could mean that he is keeping his options open.

New York Times

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Science could erase traumatic memories

Scientists are beginning to understand why fearful memories are so persistent in the brain, and how they can be erased.

NPR

Microsoft granted stay of Word injunction

Microsoft has been granted a stay of a landmark injunction in a patent infringement case that would have required the software giant to stop selling its popular Word in its current form by next month.

CNET News

Oh, the places Google can go with their book plan

Google Inc. pointed out that the estate of Dr. Seuss intends to file a letter in support of the pending legal settlement that allows for Google to continue with plans to make millions of books searchable online.

San Francisco Chronicle

EDUCATION

Quarter of graduates 'not in full-time jobs'

Almost a quarter of students were not in full-time jobs more than three years after leaving university, according to figures.

EducationNews.org

Kent teachers delay decision on whether to stay on strike

About 1,300 striking Kent School District teachers have put off their decision on whether to obey a judge's order that they return to the classroom.

Seattle Times

Proposed 'Race to Top' rules are by some seen as prescriptive

As the U.S. Department of Education prepares to fine-tune its rules for the Race to the Top Fund competition, officials face objections from many states, school districts and teachers’ unions.

Education Week

ENVIRONMENT

'Climate change is here, it is a reality'

We met Isaac and Abdi, Alima and Muslima near the Ethiopia-Kenya border, with families who have watched their animals die of starvation from deep drought and whose days of herding cattle are over.

Guardian

Next ice age delayed by global warming

Humans are putting the brakes on the next ice age, according to the most extensive study to date on Arctic climate change.

National Geographic

Wild Asian cattle resembling antelopes near extinction

One of the world's rarest mammals, discovered just 16 years ago, is on the brink of extinction, warn conservation biologists after an emergency meeting in Laos to try to save the animal.

Environment News Service

Columns And Op-Ed

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Rules of the street

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Charge into renewables

San Francisco Chronicle

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US medical system superiority is a myth

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Brighton Rock

The Dish

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Health care that works

New York Times

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AT&T sets the date for iPhone MMS

PC World

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What’s good for GM

The Atlantic

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Is the West's baby bust being busted?

Christian Science Monitor

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Health care could take out Democrats

Kansas City Star

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Obama speech drives right-wing batty

Huffington Post

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US spread dangerously thin in Afghanistan

Salon.com

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GOOD NEWS

Scripps closer to AIDS vaccine

Scientists have made a significant step forward in the effort to develop a vaccine for the HIV virus. The researchers have discovered two human antibodies that could be the basis of a cure.

Voice of San Diego

100-year old color photographs restored

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii rode through pre-revolutionary Russia shooting color photos. The photos have now been digitally restored.

HappyNews.com

In revolutionary color

Newsweek

WORLD

India awaits politician's funeral

The funeral of the Indian politician killed in a helicopter crash is set to take place in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

BBC

Shock, grief over Indian minister's death claims 67 lives

Monsters and Critics

Search on for trapped Indonesians

Roads blocked by earthquake debris were cleared enough to allow the addition of heavy machinery for the first time in the search for people trapped under rubble.

CNN

BUSINESS

Turnout heavy for Mercury Marine contract vote

Voting concludes on a controversial labor contract proposal at Mercury Marine Inc. Union members said turnout was steady, with several hundred voters casting their ballots at the union hall on Bank St.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Google China will lose head, gain bodies

Top Google China executive Lee Kai-Fu resigns, but the company plans to ramp up hiring to take on Baidu.

Forbes

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Playwright inspired by fugitive childhood

The work of Zayd Dohrn, the son of the former Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, is drawing attention from theaters.

New York Times

Heavy hitters head for Telluride

Every Labor Day weekend, attendees of the Telluride Film Festival hope to see prizewinners from May's Cannes Film Festival. The 36th Telluride Film Festival once again meets those expectations.

Denver Post

HEALTH

Report: thin thighs may increase risk of heart disease?

Thin thighs might look good in jeans, but a new Danish study indicates they might also raise the risk of premature death and heart disease in both men and women.

HealthDay

Those blinded by brain injury may still 'see,' new study shows

The study provides evidence for the idea that obstacle avoidance depends on ancient visual pathways in the brain that appear to bypass the main visual areas that allow us to perceive the world.

ScienceDaily

Can 1 GOP senator make a difference on health care?

The White House is reportedly giving special attention to Sen. Snowe on the issue of health care, but it is unclear whether liberal members of Congress would accept her proposals.

CBS News

SPORTS

Lincecum-Pedro duel delivers, but Giants' bats don't

The Giants not only wasted another Tim Lincecum gem, they squandered a chance to tie the Rockies for the National League wild-card lead, which would have made their trip to Philly an unqualified success.

San Francisco Chronicle

Martinez outduels Lincecum for the 2-1 win

ESPN

US Open: teen Oudin ousts Dementieva; Jankovic gone too

Former finalists Elena Dementieva and Jelena Jankovic were eliminated in successive surprises in Arthur Ashe Stadium at the U.S. Open.

USA TODAY

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Stuck on the road to enlightenment

In a bid to mix métier and mantra, 35-year-old Kate Churchill set out to make a documentary that would prove yoga can lead anyone to enlightenment.

Maclean's

New Dan Brown novel means extra scrutiny for Masons

As members of a secretive brotherhood, Freemasons are no strangers to conspiracy theories.

Religion News Service

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