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Waves crash over rocks in Baker's Haulover Inlet in front of buildings in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla. A tropical storm warning has been issued for the Gulf coast as Tropical Storm Bonnie begins moving over South Florida. (Photo by Wilfredo Lee / AP)

Nearly-weds take flight for parties

Engaged couples are turning bachelor and bachelorette parties into major events and flying off to Las Vegas, Mexico or the Bahamas before they tie the knot.

Reuters

Pay czar: 17 banks overpaid execs

The Treasury Department's pay czar said that 17 banks gave their top executives $1.6 billion in payments while they were receiving taxpayer-funded bailouts.

CBS News

Report: 80 percent of bonuses unmerited

MSNBC

Tropical storm Bonnie approaches Fla.

South Florida braces for heavy squalls as Tropical Storm Bonnie nears the coastline, the National Hurricane Center said. Bonnie remains a minimal tropical storm with sustained winds of 40 mph.

CNN

Oil spill work on hold as Bonnie approaches

ABC News

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Hurricane central

Houston Chronicle

North Korea warns of 'physical response'

North Korea vowed a "physical response" to planned joint military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea.

CNN

US wades into thorny Asian disputes

MSNBC

The US military in the Pacific

TIME

Boulder stumbles on going green

Boulder, Colo., wants to reduce its carbon emissions 80 percent by 2020. But the city's dependence on fossil fuel and its recent prosperity makes the target appear to be overly ambitious.

BBC

NATION

Pentagon workers tied to child porn

Federal investigators have identified several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors with high-level security clearances whom they accuse of purchasing and downloading child pornography.

Boston Globe

Bernanke says extending Bush tax cuts would maintain stimulus to economy

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said extending tax cuts passed during the Bush administration would help strengthen a U.S. economy still in need of stimulus.

Bloomberg

Bernanke talks jobless remedies

Reuters

Ariz. court hears challenges against immigration law

An Arizona judge has heard federal government arguments aimed at halting a law targeting illegal immigrants.

BBC

POLITICS

Charles Rangel charged with ethics violations: how bad for Democrats?

Charles Rangel, a Democratic congressman from New York, faces a House trial in which eight members will rule on the findings. Democrats will be concerned about its effect on midterms.

Christian Science Monitor

Rangel faces a House ethics committee hearing

CNN

Obama calls Sherrod

Shirley Sherrod got her wish when she got a call from President Barack Obama about her firing from the USDA.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

World's oldest dog?

A jaw fragment from the earliest known dog was found in a Swiss cave, according to scientists who carbon-dated the fossil at 14,000 years old.

Discovery News

India unveils prototype of $35 touchscreen tablet computer

It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th the cost: India has unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet aimed at students, which it hopes to bring into production by 2011.

Philadelphia Inquirer

'Fresh' crater found in Egypt could change impact risk

A small impact crater discovered in the Egyptian desert could change estimates for impact hazards to our planet, according to a new study.

National Geographic

ENVIRONMENT

Amazon deforestation in dramatic decline

The Brazilian environment agency, Ibama, says the drop in deforestation rate is due to increased use of satellite data to spot the felling of trees and other new tactics used to deter loggers.

Guardian

Rutgers' Chinese solar panels show clean energy shift

At Rutgers University in New Jersey, 7,600 panels convert sunlight into electricity, saving some $200,000 in energy costs this year in the biggest solar-power experiment at a U.S. college.

Bloomberg

SPORTS

Sox sleepless but victorious in Seattle

In a flash, John Lackey’s bid for no-hitter history had turned into a Red Sox salvage mission. When it was over, music blared from the speakers in the visiting clubhouse.

Boston Herald

Lackey flirts with no-no

MLB.com

France World Cup squad suspended for Norway friendly

The French Football Federation has suspended all 23 members of the World Cup squad. Coach Laurent Blanc requested that no member of the squad be selected for a friendly against Norway in Oslo.

BBC

Lloris: France's actions 'totally stupid'

ESPN

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Reid Cramer):

Want a nation of savers? Start at birth

AOL News

Editorial:

Floridians will lose out without fix to jobless benefits

St. Petersburg Times

Column (Kari Haus):

Hands-off approach to oiled marshes — strategic or chaotic?

MSNBC

Column (Reihan Salam):

Will your children grow up to be servants and nannies?

Forbes

Column (Alexis Madrigal):

Why editing could make a comeback

The Atlantic

Column (Frida Ghitis):

Iran's neighbors are nervous

Star Tribune

Column (David Brooks):

The technocracy revolution

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Column (Christopher Whalen):

EU stress tests: Who knows, who cares?

Reuters

Column (Cary Tennis):

Does God hate New Orleans?

Salon

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GOOD NEWS

In Hawaii, SPCA cares for pets gathered during homeless sweep

In addition to 73 cats, dogs, puppies and kittens rounded up during the city's homeless sweep, 18 more animals were taken in by the Oahu Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Honolulu Star Bulletin

Volunteers spruce up home of World War II veteran

Volunteers working with Sears' Heroes at Home and Rebuilding Together, returned the good deeds of Edward Schultz, a World War II and Korean War veteran.

Denver Post

WORLD

Uncovered: UK's secret prisoner rendition program

Until now, Britain has been guilty only by association in the illegal transfer of prisoners. The covert rendition of a Moroccan man suggests that the practice was central to Britain's "war on terror."

The Independent

New charge against Vietnamese activist Ly Tong in Santa Clara attack

Prosecutors tacked on another felony charge to an anti-Communist activist in San Jose, Calif., accused of pepper-spraying a pop singer from Vietnam.

San Jose Mercury News

BUSINESS

Mexican business, Silicon Valley style

Funded by Mexico but run by the binational U.S.-Mexico Foundation for Science, the Technology Business Accelerator teaches young, ambitious Mexican companies how to break into the global market.

San Jose Mercury News

Ford swings to $2.7 billion profit

Ford Motor Company continued its successful turnaround as better than expected sales and profits easily outdistanced expectations and reversed the operating loss of a year ago.

CNNMoney

Ford's reinvention is taking shape

Detroit Free Press

HEALTH

Mail-in genetic testing found to be unreliable, misleading

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing promises vital DNA insight. But according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office, these tests are rife with mistakes.

ABC News

UN expert warns that overcrowded prisons are breeding grounds for AIDS

The U.N.'s top investigator on torture and punishment warned that overcrowded prisons are breeding grounds for AIDS.

Star Tribune

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Parody, copyright clash in online clips

Parodies, another example of the democratizing power of the Internet, have become part of skirmishes between digital technology and copyright law.

San Francisco Chronicle

Review: ‘Mad Men’ sets stage for a breakthrough season 4

“Who is Don Draper?” A reporter asks this burning question in the first scene of “Mad Men," opening the fourth season of one of the coolest shows on television.

San Diego Union-Tribune

EDUCATION

Education grants for military spouses revived, but limited

The Defense Department will revive an education grant program for military spouses that was suspended after an overwhelming surge of applicants.

San Francisco Chronicle

Panel adopts US academic standards

The Massachusetts Board of Education unanimously approved replacing the state’s academic standards with national guidelines, ushering in a wave of change in classrooms.

Boston Globe

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Italian church says gay priests should not lead 'double life,' or leave priesthood

The Catholic Church in Italy, still reeling from the clerical sex abuse scandal, lashed out at gay priests who are leading a double life, urging them to come out of the closet and leave the priesthood.

Star Tribune

Beijing, Buddhists find common cause

The first World Buddhist Forum signaled Beijing's new proactive approach to religion and, in particular, its support for Buddhism, possibly as a counterweight to the explosion of Christianity in China.

NPR

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