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Kids play in a water park to beat the early evening temperatures in Indianapolis. Temperatures are expected to be in the low 90's for the next few days. (Photo by Darron Cummings / AP)

US wilting under heat wave

On the heels of an earlier heat wave that set records in parts of the country, Americans are bracing for round two of what's becoming a very steamy summer.

CBS News

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Heat wave

MSNBC

Riding the heat wave

ABC News

Apple sets up cots for engineers working ‘butts off’ on iPhone

CEO Steve Jobs said that employees started a round-the-clock effort to improve the iPhone 4's antenna reception amid complaints since the device’s debut.

Bloomberg

Apple's iPhone fix

YouTube

BP's confidence growing in well integrity

The pressure on BP's Macondo well continued to rise slowly, now sitting at about 6,745 pounds per square inch, with no signs of leaks, BP's Kent Wells said.

Houston Chronicle

Critical test to continue in fight to contain oil spill

Baltimore Sun

'Mystery plumber' may be brains behind containment cap

ABC News

Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster

MSNBC

AIDS fight shifts toward prevention

The global fight against HIV and AIDS is moving into a new phase as the high cost of treating millions of people is forcing governments and donors to focus more on the difficult challenge of prevention.

Wall Street Journal

The generals who ended Goldman’s war

The SEC and Goldman Sachs settled an epic battle — one waged over whether the storied investment bank defrauded investors in a transaction that regulators said Goldman had built to self-destruct.

New York Times

NATION

Incarcerated pregnant women laboring and delivering in shackles

Across the U.S., there are stories of pregnant women going from jails or prisons to hospitals, where they labor and sometimes even deliver while restrained with handcuffs, leg shackles or both.

NPR

'I Write Like' site erupts online

For anyone who has ever thought Charles Dickens was inside his or her prose, a new website claims it can find your inner author.

NPR

$251 million Medicare fraud crackdown in metro Detroit

Dozens of people, including several from metro Detroit, were arrested in what federal authorities described as the nation's biggest Medicare fraud crackdown.

Detroit Free Press

Medicare fraud arrests

CBS News

POLITICS

Obama chides Republicans for thwarting jobless extension

President Barack Obama stepped up criticism of Republicans for blocking jobless aid, hammering home a Democratic election year attack line that casts the opposition as the party of the rich.

Baltimore Sun

Calif.'s Chiang can delay Schwarzenegger minimum wage plan

California Controller John Chiang can delay complying with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s order to slash the pay of almost 200,000 state workers to the minimum wage until a budget is passed.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Techies reject coasts for 'Silicon Prairie'

Midwestern tech is coming into its own. Jeff Slobotski produces an event called Big Omaha that includes more than 500 of the region's workers.

CNN

French crack secrets of Mona Lisa

French researchers studied 7 Leonardo da Vinci paintings, including the "Mona Lisa," to analyze a technique that gave his works their dreamy quality.

CNN

Astronomers discover rare cosmic lens

Astronomers have discovered the first known case of a distant galaxy being magnified by a quasar acting as a gravitational lens.

ScienceDaily

Mapping space in infrared

CBSNews

ENVIRONMENT

Hibernating bears have healthy hearts

Grizzly bears love pastries, can be 50 percent body fat and spend nearly half the year sleeping. Yet the hibernating bears don't suffer from heart attacks or any circulation issues.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Sea-level rise will be worse for some, we just don’t know who

The Seychelles could see up to 10 percent more sea-level rise than the global average. Or the sea level around the islands could drop. It depends on who you ask.

Wired

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Better burgers are sizzling-hot segment of restaurant industry

With a drive-through seemingly on every corner, you might think that the market for burgers long ago reached saturation. But the fastest-growing restaurant chain in America last year was Five Guys.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

With ticket sales down 9 percent, Live Nation faces its investors

Giant concert promoter Live Nation confirmed what most industry observers already knew: Ticket sales in 2010 have been lousy.

NPR

EDUCATION

Alliance Defense Fund demands U of I reinstate professor

The Alliance Defense Fund asked the University of Illinois to reinstate a professor fired amid complaints he engaged in “hate speech” by teaching Catholic beliefs on homosexuality.

CSN

Changes urged for Mass. schools

The state’s commissioner of elementary and secondary education recommended replacing its academic standards for English and math with a uniform set of national standards.

Boston Globe

University of California considers online bachelor's degree

The University of California hopes to become the country's first top-tier research institution to offer an online bachelor’s degree that is comparable in quality to its campus program.

Christian Science Monitor

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Patrik Jonsson):

What's behind yet another summer of racial discontent in America?

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Tom Carney):

Don't follow Arizona's lead on immigrants

Des Moines Register

Column (Shaun Rein):

Blame yourself for the recession

Forbes

Column (Jesse Bering):

Do stray dogs have qualitatively different kinds of canine minds?

Scientific American

Editorial:

Census sets off a battle to redraw voter districts — and power in Congress

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Larry Kudlow):

Business knows more than Team Obama

RealClearPolitics

Column (Brian Goldsmith):

Defending the 'bailout'

The Atlantic

Blog (Daniel Gross):

Goldman's best trade ever

(Slate)

Moneybox

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GOOD NEWS

Volunteer work provides 'lifeline' to city

Jim McNally works about 700 hours per year for the Aurora Police Department. In return, he gets to learn new skills and work with people — a reimbursement he says is greater than any monetary value.

Aurora Sentinel

Cerebral palsy camp uses wheelchairs

At one summer camp power wheelchairs were the art tools instead of paintbrushes. Young people with cerebral palsy attend the camp for the sports they don't normally get to play.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Government to ban dangerous cribs

Members of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission voted in favor of tougher safety standards for cribs. The proposal needs some more work and another vote before it becomes final.

(NPR)

Shots

WORLD

Iran accuses US and UK of supporting group behind mosque attacks

General Hossein Salami, deputy commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, claimed that the victims "were martyred by the hands of mercenaries of the U.S. and U.K."

Guardian

Fire rages after oil pipeline in busy Chinese port explodes

An oil pipeline at a Chinese port exploded, causing a massive fire. State-run media reported that more than 2,000 fire fighters worked to control the flames.

MSNBC

Abbas says Israel must accept foreign border force

The Palestinian president says he'll go to direct peace talks if Israel accepts its 1967 frontier as a baseline for the borders of a Palestinian state.

Houston Chronicle

BUSINESS

AIG to pay $725 million in fraud case

American International Group Inc. agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running securities fraud lawsuit led by three Ohio public pension funds, in one of the largest class action settlements in U.S. history.

Reuters

Dollar weakens versus euro on signs of economic slowdown

The dollar fell against the euro and dropped to a lower level versus the yen as economic reports added to evidence that the U.S. recovery is losing momentum.

Bloomberg

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

1st woman Lutheran bishop resigns

The first woman ever elected as a Lutheran bishop has resigned from her post in northern Germany amid allegations she failed to thoroughly investigate reports of a sexually abusive pastor.

Seattle Times

Billboard’s right-to-die message raises eyebrows, concerns in NJ

A billboard stating “My Life, My Death, My Choice, FinalExitNetwork.org” went up in New Jersey, paid for by a group that provides guidance to adults seeking to end life of constant pain from incurable illness.

Religion News Service

HEALTH

Researchers discover novel therapeutic for chronic pain

Columbia scientists working to combat injury-related depression, substance abuse and suicide due to persistent pain may have discovered a new way of treating that pain.

Medical News Today

Menthol: Mystery ingredient in cigarettes enters the spotlight

A panel of experts is mulling over menthol and trying to come up with some advice for the FDA on whether menthol should be forbidden as an additive.

NPR

SPORTS

Pyrenees loom large after Contador's attack puts Schleck on notice

The real impact of Spaniard Alberto Contador's attack on Tour de France race leader Andy Schleck could be revealed tonight when the three-week race enters the Pyrenees.

Sydney Morning Herald

Special section:

Tour de France

LeTour.fr

Rangers' Molina hits grand slam, triple completes cycle in win

Molina completed his feat in the eighth inning when he hit Ramon Ramirez's pitch to the deepest part of Fenway into the center field triangle 420 feet from home.

CBSSports

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