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Trader Samer Farhood looks at his screens while working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Stocks extended their September rally into a fourth week as investors hoped for more moves by the Federal Reserve to prop up the economy. (Photo by David Goldman / AP)

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Feds gain power in Medicare fraud

Proposed regulations seek to crack down on Medicare and Medicaid fraud by subjecting operators of certain medical firms to fingerprinting and stopping payments.

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USA TODAY

Many black farmers who suffered racism still await payment

The U.S. Department of Agriculture acknowledged decades of widespread discrimination against African-Americans, but as many as 70,000 black farmers are still awaiting payments on claims.

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Houston Chronicle

Recession officially ended in June 2009

The great recession ended in June 2009, according to the body charged with dating when economic downturns begin and end. But the news is little comfort to the millions of Americans still out of work.

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CNNMoney

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Street rallies around official recession end

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Forbes

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Obama: Recession ‘is still very real’

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MSNBC

Pakistani children without food face death

More than 100,000 children left homeless by Pakistan’s floods are in danger of dying because they simply do not have enough to eat, according to UNICEF.

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ABC News

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Deadly flooding devastates nation

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MSNBC

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Relief workers targeted in Pakistan

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CNN

Study may aid asthma sufferers

Asthma sufferers worried by research that beta-agonist drugs used to control their condition might pose a risk of death could have an alternative.

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Denver Post

NATION

5,000 people evacuate before Utah wildfire; 4 homes destroyed

A wildfire raging this morning in Utah that was touched off at a National Guard firing range has scorched at least 10,000 acres, destroyed four homes and forced the evacuation of an estimated 5,000 people.

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AOL News

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Fire threatens hundreds of Utah homes

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CNN

Deaths connected to distracted driving decline in the US

The number of people killed in crashes connected to driver distraction declined last year, but the government said the problem remains an epidemic for motorists in the U.S.

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Globeandmail.com

Va. to execute 1st woman in a century

After having her final request for clemency rejected, Teresa Lewis, 41, is due to be executed by lethal injection.

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Telegraph.co.uk

POLITICS

Ambitious ‘young guns’ shake up GOP

Republicans are expected to pick up seats in the House of Representatives. With voter dissatisfaction high and the economy laid low, the GOP hopes that voters will give them the majority.

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NPR

Palin leads early maneuvering for the White House

Possible candidates for the White House in 2012 have stepped up their jockeying, not just in public events, but also by building a power base by endorsing candidates and raising funds for midterm elections.

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The Independent

EDUCATION

States eye standards for virtual educators

Experts say many states and national education groups are behind the curve in addressing the issue of teacher quality for the online classroom.

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States playing fast and loose with teachers’ jobs money

Federal lawmakers gave cash-strapped states $10 billion to save 145,000 teachers’ jobs, but some governors have been using the funds to close their budget shortfalls.

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CNNMoney

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Budget cuts hit children

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Anita Hill, 2 other lesbians in committed relationships welcomed as pastors

In a ceremony that started with a public mea culpa and ended with a prolonged standing ovation, three lesbian ministers were officially embraced by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

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Star Tribune

Hitchens skipping prayer day in his honor

Some may be satisfied to see a man who made a career skewering organized religion switch sides and pray. But Christopher Hitchens won’t be bowing his head, not even on a day set aside just for him.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

SPORTS

‘Just the beginning’: Jets back up big talk, hammer Patriots

Coach Rex Ryan took the podium in the Jets’ new glass-encased interview room at New Meadowlands Stadium while ecstatic fans chanted, “Rex, Rex, Rex,” after New York’s 28-14 win.

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USA TODAY

Cubs’ catcher Soto done for year

Chicago Cubs catcher Geovany Soto will miss the remainder of the season with a right shoulder injury. Soto will undergo arthroscopic surgery on the shoulder.

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ESPN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Zappa fans celebrate rocker

A crowd massed in Baltimore to cheer as a bust of their hero, Frank Zappa, was unveiled to rest forevermore atop an imposing pedestal outside his hometown’s newest library.

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Mushroom fans attend Fungus Fair

At the fourth annual Fungus Fair, held in Massachusetts, more than 150 mushroom lovers from coast to coast gathered for forays, mushroom tasting and mycological discussions.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Marijuana’s future has an upscale look

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San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Steven Apfelbaum):

Dirty jobs: the key to America’s economic and environmental renewal

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Christian Science Monitor

Elizabeth Warren appointment merely a half step

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San Francisco Chronicle

Column (E.J. Dionne Jr.):

We’re having the wrong tax cut debate

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Truthdig

Column (Chris Cillizza):

As November nears, voters turn backs on both parties

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Washington Post

Column (Robert Bixby):

The real US budget deficit challenge is too often sidestepped

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San Jose Mercury News

Blog (Jeff McMahan):

The meat eaters

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Column (Joe Conason):

Coalition of fear: tea party, the religious right and Islamophobia

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Salon

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GOOD NEWS

New York Giants’ Keith Bulluck honored for work in foster care

The All-Pro linebacker provides outreach to children through the Keith Bulluck Believe & Achieve Foundation. He will be honored at a gala by New Yorkers for Children, which funds programs for foster children.

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Bloomberg

Greener Partners brings people closer to their food

Greener Partners is a nonprofit organization that envisions a network of small farms in the Philadelphia region that would help bring people closer to their food.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

UK troops leave Helmand’s Sangin

British troops handed over responsibility for one of the deadliest districts in southern Afghanistan to American forces, Britain’s defense ministry said.

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BBC

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Afghanistan election: Why the next parliament won‘t check Karzai’s power

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Christian Science Monitor

Swedish far-right leader: success due to immigration backlash

The historic success of a far-right party in Swedish elections is a response to the country’s “extreme immigration policies,” which have “shattered” Swedish society, the party leader said.

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CNN

Iran’s leader proposes prisoner swap with US

As a U.S. woman who was held in Iran for more than 13 months on spying charges returned home, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran said the United States should now release eight Iranians.

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Boston Globe

BUSINESS

IBM to buy analytics company Netezza

IBM offered to buy Netezza Corp for $1.7 billion to expand its technology services business and help clients better analyze market information — the latest deal to emerge from a recovering tech sector.

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Reuters

Chinese automaker may buy General Motors stock

China’s top automaker has expressed interest in buying a stake in General Motors once the Detroit automaker begins issuing stock again, a person familiar with the situation said.

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Detroit Free Press

HEALTH

To India, for a new heart

In Minnesota, Rom Lemmer lives within a 90-minute drive of three world-class transplant centers. Despite that, he joined the growing ranks of “medical tourists” seeking donor organs in poor countries.

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Star Tribune

A drug with gills? FDA reshapes debate on biotech fish

Public hearings on the safety of the genetically modified salmon that would be the first gene-altered animal to enter the North American food chain will seek to decide whether the fish are food or drugs.

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Globeandmail.com

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Frankenfish?

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CTV

Cold strain linked to obesity in kids

New research shows that obese children who have had “adenovirus 36” are more likely to be obese.

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USA TODAY

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

For deaf, wireless devices a new portal to the world

Quietly over the last decade, phones that make text messaging easy have changed life profoundly for millions of deaf people.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Wireless devices entry to hearing world

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YouTube

Stone tools ‘change migration story’

A research team reports new findings of Stone Age tools that suggest humans came “out of Africa” by land earlier than has been thought.

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BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Behind climate change skepticism

Many doubt global warming because they’ve been conditioned to, according to a new study that brings together climate science and cognitive psychology.

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Sydney Morning Herald

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Climate change skeptics sweep GOP primaries

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Wal-Mart plans new solar power initiative

Wal-Mart, one of the U.S.’s largest private users of electricity, is running real-world tests on green-energy technologies. It is expected to almost double the number of locations that have solar technology.

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USA TODAY

Mystery on the Nile: Whose river is it?

All great mysteries begin at the end and end at the very beginning. And for thousands of years, the Nile River was perhaps the world’s greatest mystery.

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NPR

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Hooked on gadgets, paying mental price

Scientists say our ability to focus is being undermined by juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming bursts of information.

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Raindrops bead on a leaf floating in a puddle near Portland’s International Rose Test Garden in Oregon. (Photo by Rick Bowmer / AP)

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