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Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., left, and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. attend a Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill in Washington. The battle to pass a bill that would allow the debt ceiling to rise continues to move towards an uncertain but worrying climax. (Photo by Harry Hamburg / AP)

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Flying high for the Sinaloa drug cartel

Flying shipments for the Sinaloa drug cartel was John Ward’s best gig in years. He delivered cocaine to Pennsylvania and returned with duffel bags stuffed with up to $2.8 million.

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Los Angeles Times

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Mexican cartels increase meth production

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Doctor says Parkinson’s treatment could work for OCD, too

For some people with OCD, the intrusive thoughts and rituals are severely disabling and don’t respond to drugs or behavioral therapies. So doctors have been trying a new treatment: deep brain stimulation.

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NPR

States count cash, hope for US debt agreement

With Washington in a political deadlock that may stop the federal government from borrowing money, states are preparing for the fallout should the Treasury Department run out of cash.

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Bloomberg

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Boehner tells Republicans to ‘fall in line’

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BBC

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Who’s who in the debt crisis

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Christian Science Monitor

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White House, Wall Street frustrated with debt impasse

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Reuters

UN begins food aid airlift to Somalia

The World Food Program airlifted tons of emergency supplies to Mogadishu to feed thousands of malnourished children in drought-stricken Somalia, officials said.

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Al Jazeera

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Logistical nightmare in Horn of Africa

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Spiegel International

A tropical soaking is what Texas needs

The meteorology world is abuzz about tropical storm Don located in the Yucatan Channel and emerging into the Gulf of Mexico.

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The Weather Channel

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Tracking tropical storm Don

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Houston Chronicle

NATION

Victory for stem-cell research: Court backs Obama’s guidelines

Federal funds can support research using human embryonic stem cells. Two scientists had sued President Obama and the National Institutes of Health in efforts to overturn their regulations.

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Christian Science Monitor

Lawmaker probing if Treasury meddled in S&P rating

A congressional panel is examining whether the Obama administration tried to unduly influence Standard & Poor’s before the credit rater revised its outlook on the debt rating to negative.

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Reuters

After 102 years, storied Walter Reed Army hospital about to close

A solemn final moment came for Walter Reed Army Medical Center when Army commanders rolled up maroon and green flags and placed them in cloth cases, never to be unfurled again.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Walter Reed closing after more than 100 years of treating wounded troops

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MSNBC

BUSINESS

US economic growth slows, says Fed

U.S. economic growth has slowed due to ongoing troubles in the housing and labor markets, a report from the Federal Reserve suggests.

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BBC

Leading CEOs testify on tax-code rewrite

The Senate Finance Committee gathered together several leading CEOs to discuss how U.S. companies can best implement tax reform legislation ideas to spur the economic recovery.

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C-Span

BofA donates then demolishes houses

Bank of America Corp. faced with a glut of foreclosed and abandoned houses it can’t sell, has a new tool to get rid of the most decrepit ones: a bulldozer.

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Bloomberg

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Investors purchase $1.2M home for $10K

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ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Tulotoma snail on the road to recovery

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reclassified the tulotoma snail from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The snail is making major strides to recovery.

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Carmakers likely to back new fuel rules

At least five automakers are expected to endorse a dramatic boost in fuel efficiency requirements to 54.5 mpg by 2025.

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Detroit News

How to save a bug’s life

Whales have the ocean to swim in and lions roam over territories the size of London. But an insect might depend on a solitary hole in a stump or on a puddle — and some of these mini-habitats are in short supply.

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The Independent

EDUCATION

States brace for dips in reported high school graduation rates

States are bracing for plummeting high school graduation rates as districts nationwide dump flawed measurement formulas that often underreported dropouts and produced inflated results.

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Columbia Missourian

Anxiety and uncertainty

As the deadline for increasing the federal debt limit approaches, the uncertainty is growing at colleges: What happens to financial aid and federal research funds if the government defaults?

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Inside Higher Ed

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Congressional hearing targets ‘radicalization’ of American Muslims

The third in a controversial series of congressional hearings on the “radicalization” of American Muslims showcased a Somali group that some experts say poses a serious risk to the U.S.

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Religion News Service

Quran goes on Twitter for Ramadan

Ramadan, which begins with a sunup-to-sundown fast, calls on the Muslim faithful to immerse themselves in scripture — ideally by reading the entire Quran.

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USA TODAY

Bogus court filings spotlight little-known sect, Moorish Science

From New Jersey to California, police, courthouse officials and real estate agents are being confronted with legal documents filed by followers of an obscure religion called Moorish Science.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Altaf Husain):

Rep. King must realize Somali Americans are allies

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CNN

Column (Allen Barra):

Roger Maris’s misunderstood quest to break the home run record

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The Atlantic

Cartoon (Mike Thompson):

The tea party sails

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Detroit Free Press

Blog (Andrew Leonard):

The awesome hypocrisy of GOP mutiny

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How the World Works

Blog (Sam Youngman):

Obama wants sympathy (and your vote)

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Ballot Box

Column (James Fallows):

Another chart for your debt ceiling discussions

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The Atlantic

Debt talks just the latest front in the war on the working class

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The Platform (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

The public wants balance

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Jessica Roake):

Thomas the imperialist tank engine

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Slate

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GOOD NEWS

Walton Family pledges $49.5M investment to Teach For America

Even though school is still out this summer, the process for funding education organizations has not ceased, thanks to a $49.5 million investment by the Walton Family Foundation in Teach for America.

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NonProfit Times

Cancer can’t hold back professional Minnesota wakeboarder

When 21-year-old former Spicer, Minn., resident Alexa Score said she wanted to become a professional wakeboarder, a few were skeptical of her ambitions. Score stared down leukemia and soared over it.

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Star Tribune

Baby okapi born in Belgium

An endangered baby okapi has made her first public appearance at a Belgian zoo. The only country where the okapi can still be found in the wild is the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Telegraph.co.uk

WORLD

Japan back in recession as earthquake cuts consumption

Japan’s economy, the world’s third largest, has slid back into recession after the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami in March.

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BBC

After deadly attacks, Norway to review security, police

Police are more certain that mass killer Anders Behring Breivik acted alone, but are not giving up the search for collaborators as they try to close one of the bloodiest chapters in Norway’s history.

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MSNBC

Lebanese song writer arrested for ‘defaming’ president

Zeid Hamdan was detained after he and his band, The Wings, wrote a song entitled “General Suleiman,” which asked the Lebanon president and former army general to “go home.”

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Monsters and Critics

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Space station to be sunk after 2020

Russia and its partners plan to plunge the International Space Station into the ocean at the end of its life cycle after 2020 so as not to leave space junk, the space agency said.

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Internet regrets: online and embarrassed

The ease of a quick Tweet or Facebook post frequently turns into regret, according to 18 percent of Americans in a new poll.

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ABC News

HEALTH

Officials fear for infants born to prescription drug addicts

According the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, prescription drug overdose deaths in Florida are up a staggering 265 percent since 2003.

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CNN

Risk for heart attack more likely to be inherited than risk for stroke

While both run in families, people are more likely to inherit a higher risk for heart attack than for stroke, concluded researchers.

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Medical News Today

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Summer food fight: Hot dogs caught in political, cultural crossfire

In these hotly political times, even the poor hot dog can’t keep from getting caught in the cultural crossfire.

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Des Moines Register

For some workers, Baltimore life is sweeter with no car

About 43,000 Baltimore workers are without a car in the household, according to the U.S. census. While many have little choice in the matter, others have decided that a car is an unnecessary expense.

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History of New York’s Times Square

Before the American Revolution, the area that is now New York’s Times Square was a rolling countryside used for farming and breeding horses.

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Telegraph.co.uk

SPORTS

Santana pitches Angels’ 1st no-hitter in nearly 17 years

Ervin Santana pitched the first solo no-hitter for the Angels since 1984, striking out 10 and leading Los Angeles over the Cleveland Indians 3-1.

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San Jose Mercury News

Turning gangsters to ultimate fighters

With gang violence a grim fixture in parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, Eugene Jackson helps at-risk youth avoid the pitfalls that almost claimed him through mixed martial arts.

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TIME

Free-agent frenzy set to begin

About 1,000 NFL veterans, draft picks and undrafted rookies are to be signed by 32 clubs — and contracts must fit the boundaries of the new, still-being-understood labor deal.

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Concord Monitor

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McNabb, Hasselbeck and Stallworth among NFL players on the move

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Ghana says secondhand clothes are no longer good enough

Secondhand goods from the U.S. have long been a staple in Ghana, but now the country is seeking to get secondhand goods off its shelves.

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Christian Science Monitor

Photo of the Day

An iron portrait of Eva Peron, late wife of former President Juan Domingo Peron, hangs in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko / AP)

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