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A man walks in thick smog from wildfires covering the ancient Russian city of Ryazan, some 180 km (111 miles) southeast of Moscow. More than 500 separate blazes were burning nationwide amid the country's intense heat wave. (Photo by Sergey Ponomarev / AP)

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Moscow smog worsens, crippling air travel

A choking smog from raging wildfires shrouded Moscow, grounding flights, plunging the city's iconic Red Square into a sea of dirty mist and stinging eyes and throats across the Russian capital.

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CBS News

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Russian heatwave kills over 5,000 as fires rage out of control

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Russia heatwave and smoke from wildfires

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ABC News

Personality set for life by 1st grade

Our personalities stay pretty much the same throughout our lives, from our early childhood years until after we're over the hill, according to a new study.

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LiveScience

CEO of HP resigns after investigation

Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd resigned after an investigation found that he had falsified expense reports to conceal a relationship with a female contractor.

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Reuters

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Disgraced CEO to get nearly $28 million

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MSNBC

BP engineers wrap up battle against oil

BP finished a near final phase in a battle to defeat its ruptured oil well, with engineers forcing the crude underground with mud and cement, preparing for a final push to plug the well from the bottom.

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BP gets ready to drill final stretch of relief well

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BBC

Huge ice sheet breaks from glacier

A giant sheet of ice measuring 100 square miles has broken off a glacier in Greenland, according to researchers at a U.S. university.

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BBC

NATION

New al-Qaida leader knows US all too well

A suspected al-Qaida operative who lived in the U.S. has become chief of the terror network, marking the first time a leader so intimately familiar with U.S. society is in charge of attacks.

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AOL News

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MSNBC

Top officials in California urge judge to allow same-sex marriage

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked a federal judge to allow same-sex marriages while an appeal over the struck-down law that banned them makes its way through the courts.

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CNN

CIA whisked prisoners from Gitmo 'to hide detainees from the courts'

Four highly valued terrorists were secretly moved to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, then to overseas prisons before the Supreme Court could give them access to lawyers.

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Yahoo! News

POLITICS

Pentagon considering 'compelling' docs from WikiLeaks

With WikiLeaks threatening to publish more classified documents on the U.S. war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon is demanding that the whistleblower website erase its classified records and return documents.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Pentagon to WikiLeaks: 'Do the right thing'

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CNN

Will the middle class see a raise again?

For millions of working Americans, wage stagnation has become a way of life. Incomes have remained the same, leaving many just a paycheck from the street.

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Economy sheds 131,000 jobs in July

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Reuters

BUSINESS

Tylenol's side effect? A brand boycott

Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl may come back to drugstores, but industry watchers say consumers could permanently banish them from their own medicine cabinets.

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CNNMoney

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Johnson & Johnson, Merck joint venture gets citation from FDA

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YouTube

FCC ends private talks on Web rules

Federal Communications Commission officials called off closed-door talks with lobbyists aimed at reaching a compromise on new rules to prevent internet traffic from being blocked or slowed.

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Wall Street Journal

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Flipboard app customizes mix of social, news feeds

A startup called Flipboard made a big splash in the tech world with an application that takes a user's stream of Facebook and Twitter feeds and turns it into an easy-to-read digital magazine.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Bee eye gives insight into visual world

Bees navigate remarkably. A new imaging system mimicking a honeybee's vision could change the way we build mobile robots and small flying vehicles.

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ScienceDaily

SPORTS

Buck doesn't stop here as O's walk off

Adam Jones' two-out single in the bottom of the 10th inning gave the Orioles their second consecutive walk-off win, this time a 2-1 victory over the White Sox.

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MLB.com

Coaches vote Tide overwhelming No. 1

Defending national champion Alabama is No. 1 atop the USA Today preseason coaches' poll.

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NESN

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'Bama No. 1 in pre-season poll

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ESPN

ENVIRONMENT

US says countries 'backtracking' on Copenhagen climate agreement

The U.S. is concerned that envoys at United Nations climate talks are “backtracking” on an agreement made in 2009 in Copenhagen, the country’s lead negotiator at the talks said.

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Bloomberg

BP says it may drill in spill reservoir

BP PLC says it may in the future drill in the same Gulf of Mexico oil reservoir as the well that blew its top and caused one of the world's worst spills.

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NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Chris O'Brien):

The mysterious circumstances of Hurd's departure

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San Jose Mercury News

Mistaken eyewitness testimony is far too common in wrongful imprisonment cases

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Houston Chronicle

Blog (Bernd Debusmann):

Iraq, America and hired guns

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Reuters

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Columbus Dispatch

Column (Tony Norman):

Club of Christians sometimes feels too big

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Blog (Glenn Greenwald):

What a collapsing empire looks like

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Unclaimed Territory

Column (Jon Carroll):

The mosque mess

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San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Hamish McDonald):

Wikileaks driving them gaga

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Sydney Morning Herald

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GOOD NEWS

Camp Bayou Learning Center lets kids earn free school supplies

Camp Bayou Outdoor Learning Center is giving South Shore, Fla., students a chance to enjoy nature, have some fun and walk away with free school supplies.

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Couple wills $35 million to Cleveland's University Hospitals

Officials say a $35 million gift is the largest single donation ever received in the 143-year history of Cleveland's University Hospitals.

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Columbus Dispatch

WORLD

Wyclef Jean responds to criticism

The potential front-runner in Haiti's election is attempting a difficult transformation from international recording artist to leader of one of the world's poorest and most dysfunctional countries.

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CBS News

Cameron, Obama push for Middle East peace talks

British Prime Minister David Cameron's office says he and President Barack Obama agreed on the need for urgency on Middle East peace talks.

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Survey: Arabs lose faith in Obama

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Al Jazeera

HEALTH

Don't put off pregnancy after miscarriage

Women who have suffered a miscarriage do not need to wait before trying for another baby, doctors have said.

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Herald Sun

Flip-flops aren't always easy on the feet

People everywhere seem to be tossing their closed-in shoes for cool, convenient pairs of flip-flops. But many foot doctors say that when it comes to healthy feet, the lightweight sandals can be a flop.

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CNN

EDUCATION

Students raised in foster care get priority housing at Calif. universities

Experts say stable residency is crucial for students just out of foster care, who may have nowhere to go during school vacations. A new law requires public colleges to accommodate them.

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Los Angeles Times

For American students, life lessons in the Middle East

In what educators are calling the fastest growing study-abroad program, American college students are increasingly choosing to spend their traditional junior year abroad in the Middle East.

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LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Billy the Kid pardon opposed

Nearly 130 years after Pat Garrett killed Billy the Kid, the lawman’s descendants are lobbying against a posthumous pardon for the outlaw.

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Journal Gazette

Humane society offers unusual animals

Although you can't cuddle up with a bearded dragon or play fetch with a water turtle, the Peninsula Humane Society in San Mateo regularly offers these kinds of animals for adoption.

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San Jose Mercury News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Happy campers build Jewish identity

It's clearly a good time, but the oldest Reform Jewish camp in the country — as well as almost 200 other Jewish camps in North America — serves a larger purpose.

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Denver Post

Group sues to stop mosque near NYC's ground zero

The debate over a planned mosque near ground zero became a court fight, as a conservative advocacy group tries to stop a project that has become a fulcrum of religious freedom and 9/11 legacy.

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BusinessWeek

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Holocaust survivors condemn tribute to newswoman, call proposed honor immoral

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Detroit Free Press

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

'Biggest art theft in history'

A lone intruder took off with five modern art masterpieces from a Paris art gallery as a result of a broken alarm system and "dozing" security guards.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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A star tortoise walks across paint on a canvas at the Oklahoma City Zoo. The canvas will become part of an exhibition which allows guests to view and buy art created by the zoo's animals. (Photo by Sue Ogrocki / AP)

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