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Victoria Fischer speaks to a job applicant during the New York Career Fair, in N.Y. The number of people filing new claims for jobless benefits jumped, another sign that hiring remains weak. (Photo by Mary Altaffer / AP)

Retirement: 67 is the new 55

Looking forward to retirement? You may have to wait a bit longer. A combination of financial pressures and aging populations is forcing U.S. states and European countries to raise their official retirement ages.

NPR

Communications regulators move forward with broadband rules

U.S. communications authorities took a small but significant step toward regulating high-speed Internet in a bid to reclaim oversight, setting the stage for an eventual showdown with industry heavyweights.

Reuters

FAQ: the '3rd way' legal approach

Broadband.gov

Senate rejects jobless benefits bill

The Senate effectively rejected a slimmed-down package of jobless benefits and state aid, rebuffing President Barack Obama's call for urgent action to bolster the economic recovery.

Washington Post

Blog:

Why the jobs bills failed

(The Atlantic)

Atlantic Wire

Israel's partial easing of Gaza blockade dismissed as inadequate

Israel's decision to allow a partial easing of the blockade of Gaza was given a cool response by the international community, while Palestinians demanded the blockade be lifted completely.

Guardian

Blog:

Pro-Palestinian Turkish aid group plans another Gaza flotilla

Philanthropy Today

(The Chronicle of Philanthropy)

Detroit 3 surpass foreign brands

The results show that domestic automakers are not just closing the quality gap on their foreign rivals but are actually surpassing them in some cases, especially at Ford.

Detroit Free Press

Auto survey shows big win for domestics

CNBC

NATION

Clinton comment on immigration law riles Ariz. governor

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said she's angry over comments made by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that the Obama administration will sue the state over its new immigration law.

Examiner

Ads are latest weapon to scare off layoffs

The Sacramento County, Calif., sheriff's deputies union is using ads in a bid to avert more layoffs. They include a photo of a child with an adult's hand over its mouth and the words, "Your child could be at risk!"

USA TODAY

Suicide rivals the battlefield in US military

Nearly as many American troops have committed suicide this year as have been killed in combat in Afghanistan. Alarmed at this rate, the Army has begun investigating its suicide prevention programs.

NPR

POLITICS

No privacy for state-issued messaging devices, justices rule

Public employees who send personal messages on their state-issued communication devices do not enjoy a "reasonable expectation" of privacy, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.

CNN

Blagojevich tapes unearth his methods

FBI recordings of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich's phone calls are giving jurors in his federal corruption trial — and anyone else who wants to listen online — glimpses into how he operated.

USA TODAY

Tea party readies for harsh scrutiny

Big-time publishing houses, documentary filmmakers and academia are now promising to make sense of the tea party in a series of books, conferences and documentaries.

Politico

Tea party backs Palin-favored candidate over Murkowski in Alaska

NPR

HEALTH

Male menopause symptoms identified

European researchers have identified the symptoms of late-onset hypogonadism, also termed "male menopause."

Medical News Today

Mediterranean diet helps heart function

The Mediterranean diet is associated with higher heart rate variability, researchers have found.

MedPage Today

Veterans travel farther for surgery with new policy

A new rating system now restricts the types of surgery performed at certain Veterans Affairs facilities in five states. The new policy will prompt some veterans to travel farther to reach other VA facilities.

NPR

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Should a child really have a best friend?

The childhood "best friend" has long been romanticized in pop culture. But increasingly, educators and other professionals are asking why it is so important.

New York Times

Man's voice reveals his fighting ability

In the animal kingdom, a male's vocalizations are sometimes tied to actual physical strength. Human men also turn out to fit that phenomenon perfectly.

Discovery News

ENVIRONMENT

US lawns getting an eco-makeover

From coast to coast, eco-concerned homeowners are ripping out their manicured, chemically-treated lawns and replacing them with organic food gardens, native flowers and sometimes, just rocks.

Environmental News Network

Rainfall impacts of climate warming to persist decades after CO2's decline

Impacts of man-made greenhouse warming on rainfall would endure long after temperatures fell, a study suggests.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Christians expelled, Morocco and US spar over religious freedom

After Morocco deported nearly 100 Christian foreigners, the U.S. Congress and Morocco are sparring over religious freedom, with both countries opening investigations that could strain relations between them.

Christian Science Monitor

Southern Baptists' budget vote shapes new evangelism approach

As the older hard-line conservatives fade into the background, a new group of leaders is jostling over the priorities of the country's largest Protestant denomination.

USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Kathleen Pender):

Federal and state benefits for unemployment may end

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Gail Collins):

Obama bores his way to achievement

San Jose Mercury News

Editorial:

US needs to push forward on free trade

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Ruben Navarrette Jr.):

Ariz. citizenship bill targets children

CNN

Video:

Internet stars for Internet freedom

YouTube

Blog (Maia Szalavitz):

Empathy and the Internet: ways to limit problematic technology use

Huffington Post

Column (Nick Summers):

Can anyone explain how Alvin Greene actually won?

Newsweek

Blog (Dan Nolan):

Dubai's property bubble

(Al Jazeera)

The Business Blog

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GOOD NEWS

Nonprofit gym helps low-income community get fit

In many low-income neighborhoods, obesity and diabetes are huge problems. Indoor gyms are often too few and too expensive. Healthworks, a nonprofit fitness center in Boston, is trying to change that.

NPR

High school students rewarded for resiliency, compassion, leadership

There is one award that honors students who have persevered through different kinds of obstacles to make it to graduation day, and who have demonstrated admirable strength of character.

Mansfield Today

WORLD

EU joins US in widening Iran sanctions, draws Russian rebuke

The governments of the European Union strengthened sanctions against Iran, following the U.S. with measures that break the united front against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

BusinessWeek

US troops charged in Afghan deaths

Five U.S. soldiers have been charged with premeditated murder over the killings of three Afghan civilians in the province of Kandahar earlier this year, the U.S. army has said.

Al Jazeera

Spanish auction brings strong demand

The Spanish government sold $4.3 billion of bonds, the maximum set for the auction, easing investor worries that the country will struggle to make ends meet without outside help.

New York Times

BUSINESS

Kevin Costner blasts Big Oil 'bureaucratic maze'

A company Kevin Costner founded worked for 17 years on a technological innovation now being used to help clean up the Gulf oil spill — and it took almost as long to get Big Oil to pay any attention.

CNNMoney

Converting oil to natural gas

ScienceDaily

The other US energy crisis: lack of R&D

Government R&D spending on energy has been scarce, which helps explain why the world is still getting its energy by punching holes in the sea floor rather than from safer, renewable sources such as the sun.

BusinessWeek

Jobless claims in US unexpectedly rise

The number of Americans seeking jobless benefits last week unexpectedly rose to a one-month high, indicating that firings remain elevated even as the U.S. economy begins to grow.

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

Israel’s ultra-orthodox protest ruling

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews took to the streets to accompany parents who were on their way to prison after refusing to comply with a ruling against ethnic segregation in their children’s school.

New York Times

Major foundation gets set to open a charter school

One of the nation’s largest private foundations has been authorized to run its own charter school, which it plans to open in fall 2011.

Education Week

State to set new degree of difficulty for graduating from high school

New York City Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch noted that three-quarters of city high school graduates entering city community colleges fail entrance exams.

NY Daily News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

'Clickjackers' spreading corrupted Facebook 'Like' buttons

Cybercriminals have begun spreading corrupted Facebook "Like" buttons inside the popular social network.

Arizona Republic

Insights into ocean floor activity

The study reveals that when continental plates break apart there is not always a corresponding volcanic eruption on the ocean floor.

PlanetSave.com

Zoological society scientists monitor dolphins in spill's way

The Sarasota Bay bottlenose dolphins along Florida's central western coast glide through blue-green waters above sugar-white sands and swaying meadows of seagrass.

Chicago Sun-Times

SPORTS

Higuain emulates Batistuta with hat trick at World Cup

Gonzalo Higuain scored Argentina's first hat trick at a World Cup in 16 years, leading his team to a 4-1 victory over South Korea to steal the spotlight from Lionel Messi.

USA TODAY

World Cup 2010: a satellite tour of the 32 competing nations

Discovery News

Pac-10 invites Utah as 12th member

Utah is poised to become the 12th member of the Pac-10, as the conference quickly pivoted to invite the Utes after being turned down by Texas and four other members of the Big 12.

ESPN

2012 All-Star Game to be at Kansas City

Bereft of baseball pageantry for decades, Kansas City will finally get to see the game's best and brightest up close.

Sports Illustrated

2012 MLB All-Star Game announcement at Kauffman Stadium

Kansas City Star

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