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In this file photo, an unidentified resident of a homeless encampment, known as tent city, is seen in Fresno, Calif. Fresno has one of the highest concentrations of poverty in the nation. (Photo by Rich Pedroncelli / AP)

US poverty hits record levels

The number of people who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Barack Obama's watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching levels that led to the 1960s national war on poverty.

MSNBC

Crisis 'hollowing out' middle-class work force

Chicago Sun-Times

Revenge of the nerds: Are they leading us towards ‘nerdocalypse’?

The wildest, most mind-frazzling visions of the years ahead are no longer the sole preserve of science fiction. At least, it seems that way at a reception to mark the start of the 2010 Singularity Summit.

The Independent

World panel backs rules to avert banking crises

Top central bankers and regulators agreed on new rules for the global banking industry that more than triple the amount of capital banks must hold in reserve as a shield against financial disasters.

New York Times

Factbox: Reactions to bank capital rules

Reuters

US military: Taliban turns to child soldiers

From 4-year-olds used as human shields or in gathering spent cartridges, to teenagers offered motorcycles for planting roadside bombs, Afghan children are used more and more to fight Americans.

USA TODAY

Afghan security growing worse

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Special section:

Children and armed conflict

UNICEF

Ladders build community in church's public art

"Transcend2010," a public art project, is intended to show how we depend on one another to overcome adversity.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

NATION

9/11 memorial ceremony at ground zero simple, poignant

At the 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York, family members and others read the names of those who died that day in 2001.

Christian Science Monitor

Flight 93 memorial to be finished in 2011

CNN

Turning Russian nukes into US energy

As a result of a 1993 agreement, nearly 10% of all electricity in the U.S. is generated by nuclear material taken from the tips of Russian missiles once aimed at American cities.

TIME

Senator demands answers in Calif. blaze

California Sen. Barbara Boxer demanded answers to questions about why a gas transmission line ruptured in a suburban San Francisco town, triggering a massive fire that killed four people.

CNN

San Bruno fire pictures: 'Hell on Earth' in Calif.

National Geographic

POLITICS

What Gates plans to do before leaving

Robert Gates has one last, crucial mission before he leaves office, and it’s not in Afghanistan or Iraq. It’s in Washington — within the hallowed halls of the Pentagon.

Newsweek

Congress returns to talk economy, but may do little

The sputtering economy will clearly be the focus of lawmakers gathering for the session that is to last just four weeks. As usual, how much — if anything — is accomplished will depend on the Senate.

NPR

Boehner says he'd support a middle-class tax cut

AOL News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Artificial skins detect the gentlest touch

New artificial "skin" fashioned out of flexible semiconductor materials can sense touch, making it possible to create robots with a grip delicate enough to hold an egg, U.S. researchers said.

Nature

Professional astronomers: Let's study fireballs hitting Jupiter

Amateur astronomers detected two small objects burning up in the atmosphere of Jupiter. Professional astronomers are now suggesting that a continuous observation by astronomers be undertaken of Jupiter.

iTWire

HEALTH

Cesareans more likely for women at for-profit hospitals, study finds

For-profit hospitals across the state are performing cesarean sections at higher rates than nonprofit hospitals, a California Watch analysis has found.

San Jose Mercury News

Blog:

C-section rates surging

(Philadelphia Inquirer)

Check Up

China mass measles vaccination plan sparks outcry

China's plans to vaccinate 100 million children and come a step closer to eradicating measles has set off an outcry.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Measles warning

WebMD

SPORTS

Source: NFL reviews complaint vs. Jets

An unidentified team has filed a formal complaint claiming an eight-player "Jets West Camp" organized by quarterback Mark Sanchez violated the league's offseason training rules.

ESPN

Blog:

NFL investigating alleged harassment of female reporter in Jets locker room

(USA TODAY)

The Huddle

Nadal reaches first US Open final

Top-seeded Rafael Nadal blew through No. 12 Mikhail Youzhny 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 to reach his first U.S. Open final and set up the first half of his sport's dream matchup — Nadal vs. Roger Federer for a Grand Slam title.

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Anti-Muslim sentiment grows 9 years later

America's conflicting feelings toward Muslims and Islam are woven through the saturation TV coverage of the mosque planned near ground zero and the repeated threats by Terry Jones to burn copies of the Quran.

San Francisco Chronicle

100s at Cathedral earthquake mass

About 400 people gathered in Christchurch's Cathedral Square for the Cathedral's first mass since New Zealand's devastating 7.1 magnitude earthquake.

New Zealand Herald

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Robyn E. Blumner):

The language of the future

St. Petersburg Times

Blog (Daniel Gross):

Low-ball America

(Slate)

Moneybox

Editorial:

Misguided use of microchip technology

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog (Jake Tapper):

Republicans talk about government shut-down over spending

(ABC News)

Political Punch

Blog (Justin Elliot):

A contentious 9/11 anniversary unfolds

(Salon)

War Room

Editorial:

Trade challenge: The USW claim against China deserves scrutiny

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Editorial:

Let's clear the air

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

A wrenching anniversary

Orlando Sentinel

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GOOD NEWS

British Museum secures $38M donation

The British Museum has received a $38 million donation from the former head of a supermarket chain to help pay for a new extension.

Reuters UK

Family sells home, hits the road for music

Andrew Witchger and his wife, Janet, took a leap of faith with four children under 12. Andrew quit his job in 2001, they sold their home and moved out of the suburbs and into their SUV. They've never looked back.

CNN

WORLD

Igor now a Category 4 hurricane; Julia to follow?

Hurricane Igor strengthened to a Category 4 storm in the central Atlantic Ocean, and while it's still days away from land, there could soon be two other named storms to worry about — Julia and Karl.

AOL News

Special section:

Hurricane season

The Weather Channel

Iranian prosecutor ready to release American woman

Authorities will release a jailed American woman on $500,000 bail because of health problems, another sudden about-face by Iran in a case that has added to tension with the United States.

ABC News

North Korea maintains veil of secrecy over succession

In a time when nearly everyone learns everything at the same moment, North Korea has somehow managed to keep its secrets from thousands of prying eyes.

NPR

BUSINESS

The case against homeownership

The dark side of homeownership is now all too apparent: foreclosures and walkaways, neighborhoods plagued by abandoned properties and plummeting home values.

TIME

Housing forecast remains cloudy

NPR

Retail sales in US probably rose for second month on merchant discounts

Retail sales in the U.S. probably increased in August for a second month as merchants lured shoppers with discounts, a sign the economy will keep expanding, economists said before reports.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

China explores a frontier 2 miles deep

Three Chinese scientists descended more than two miles in a craft the size of a small truck, signaling Beijing’s intention to take the lead in exploring remote and inaccessible parts of the ocean floor.

New York Times

Underwater exploration

National Geographic

Flying fish glide as well as birds

We're all familiar with birds that are as comfortable diving as they are flying but one family of fish has made the reverse journey.

ScienceDaily

Monterey sea otters killed by toxic algae

A toxic algae that forms in reservoirs, lakes and stagnant freshwater ponds was responsible for the deaths of at least 21 threatened California sea otters, a scientific study revealed.

San Francisco Chronicle

EDUCATION

Teaching no longer a secure position during recession

An estimated 135,000 teachers will be out of work this school year. Not even a recent $10 billion injection to education from Congress is expected to help that much.

CNNMoney

Despite grant competition money, charter school limit remains

President Barack Obama's "Race to the Top" grant competition has charter school boosters playing from behind again in the latest round of education reform.

Charlotte Observer

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The power of song

Scenes of police beating and detaining protesters revived a sleeping musical movement. Russia has rediscovered the political power of rock and roll.

Newsweek

French filmmaker Claude Chabrol dies

French director Claude Chabrol, one of the founders of the New Wave movement whose films probed the latent malice beneath the placid surface of bourgeois life, has died. He was 80.

NPR

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