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Two Somali children from southern Somalia, carrying a bowl and a pot, walk to a food distribution center in a camp for internally displaced people in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh / AP)

Somalis in America strive to help those back home

With few international aid groups or media on the ground, many Somalis living in the large refugee community in Minneapolis feel they must be the voice for famine victims.

NPR

Somali militants reverse course, stop famine aid

CBS News

Logistical nightmare in Horn of Africa

Spiegel International

Health tab to hit $4.6T in 2020

The nation’s health care tab is on track to hit $4.6 trillion in 2020, accounting for about $1 of every $5 in the economy, or so government number crunchers have estimated in a report.

San Francisco Examiner

House GOP set to vote on revamped debt-limit bill

House Republicans are pressing ahead with a vote on a quickly revised plan to stave off an unprecedented government default next week though opposed by a White House veto threat and Senate Democrats.

NPR

Debt ceiling: Washington rhetoric

ABC News

Who’s who in the debt crisis

Christian Science Monitor

South Koreans set on landmine alert after deadly mudslides

South Koreans are cautioned of landmines and explosives after scores of deadly landslides around the capital swamped homes, a monastery and military sites after the heaviest rainfall in a century.

Reuters

Beards and robes for soldiers in new Afghan program

Jim Crawford may not look like it, but he’s a U.S. Army major — and part of a program called Afghan Hands. He wears local clothing and a full beard like most Afghan men.

CBS News

Special Ops Chief warns of al-Qaida 2.0

Philadelphia Inquirer

NATION

Tropical Storm Don forms in Gulf, aims toward Texas

The fourth named storm of an already fast-paced 2011 storm season formed over the southern Gulf of Mexico and appeared to be taking aim at Texas.

Sun Sentinel

Tropical storm Don hurdles toward Texas

ABC News

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.

McClatchy Newspapers

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

MSNBC

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.

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Nintendo posts 1st ever quarterly loss, slashes 3DS prices

Japan’s Nintendo Co posted its first ever quarterly operating loss, cut the price of its 3DS game player and slashed its full-year profit forecast far below market expectations.

Reuters

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.

BBC

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.

HappyNews.com

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.

Detroit News

EDUCATION

States brace for graduation rate dips as formula changes

States are bracing for plummeting high school graduation rates as they dump old measurement formulas that undercount dropouts and produce inflated results.

Las Vegas Review Journal

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.

Columbia Missourian

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Atheists ask judge to order removal of 9/11 memorial cross

A U.S. atheist group has filed a lawsuit asking a judge to order the removal of a cross steel beam at the 9/11 memorial in New York or that other religions and nonreligious views be equally represented.

Guardian

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.

Religion News Service

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Maude Barlow):

‘Do you have running water? I don’t and I live in Canada’

Globeandmail.com

Editorial:

Time for Missouri to forge renewable energy compromise

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Blog (Elizabeth Minkel):

Unusual baby names: literary, numeric, banned and beautiful

(The New Yorker)

The Book Bench

Column (Altaf Husain):

Rep. King must realize Somali Americans are allies

CNN

Column (Allen Barra):

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

The Atlantic

Cartoon (Mike Thompson):

The tea party sails

Detroit Free Press

Blog (Andrew Leonard):

The awesome hypocrisy of GOP mutiny

(Salon)

How the World Works

Blog (Sam Youngman):

Obama wants sympathy (and your vote)

(The Hill)

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GOOD NEWS

Kaplan family set to be honored in Salem, Mass. for philanthropy

Ralph and Harriett Kaplan and their family are being honored by the Jewish Federation of the North Shore with the third annual Lifetime of Leadership Award at the Kernwood Country Club in Salem.

Boston Globe

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.

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.

Star Tribune

WORLD

Authorities blame ‘faulty signal’ for China train crash

Railway authorities in China have said design flaws in signal equipment and human error are to blame for deadly train crash in which 39 people were killed.

Al Jazeera

China blames lightning strike for deadly train crash

YouTube

Shift in Norway, Europe seen in debate on immigrants

Less than a week after the mass killings in Norway, evidence of a shift in the debate over Islam and the radical right in Europe already appeared to be taking hold on a traumatized continent.

New York Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Researchers find gene behind Elephant Man’s disfigurement

Researchers identified a gene variant in the rare tissue, bone overgrowth disorder Proteus syndrome that may confirm the cause of the severe disfigurement suffered by a 19th century Englishman.

Medical News Today

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.

Discovery News

HEALTH

Cellphone cancer risk needs more study

Parents have a tough enough time deciding if their kids should have cellphones. Now they’re facing more conflicting data on whether cell phone use increases the risk for brain cancer.

CBS News

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.

CNN

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.

NPR

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.

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.

Baltimore Sun

SPORTS

Dolphins to conditionally acquire Bush from Saints

The last time RB Reggie Bush played in Miami, he won a Super Bowl. The Dolphins hope he can provide a similar impact for their franchise.

USA TODAY

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.

San Jose Mercury News

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