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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks to the House floor to take up his postponed legislation that was rewritten overnight to win the support of conservative holdouts demanding action on a constitutional balanced-budget amendment. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite / AP)

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Apple holds more cash than US govt.

Though it was founded 200 years after the United States, Apple has more cash in the bank than the world’s largest economy. The company recently reported that revenue for its just-ended quarter soared 82 percent.

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San Jose Mercury News

Could Apple pull a JPMorgan and bail out the US government?

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Los Angeles Times

Bacterial bioshield could keep HIV at bay

A living microbicide reduces HIV-like infection in monkeys, and might one day provide women with long-lasting defence against the virus.

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Democratic debt-limit bill defeated in House

The Republican-led House rejected a Senate Democratic bill to raise the nation’s debt limit just days before the deadline to avert an unprecedented U.S. financial default.

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Globeandmail.com

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Troops ask amid debt crisis: Will we get paid?

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MSNBC

Obama sets deadline for debt compromise

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Find a path to compromise?

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CBS News

City turns attention towards elementary science education

Students at Sarah M. Roach Elementary in Baltimore completed a four-week summer science course that is part of an effort by the city to get its long-derailed academic program back on track.

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What will we see as drones evolve?

Every week there are reports about U.S. drones — unmanned, remote-controlled aerial vehicles — tracking down terrorists. Now drone technology is seeing new potential for everyday use.

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NPR

NATION

Corner-store program brings healthy food to the masses

If you walk into any one of 580 Philadelphia corner groceries, the first thing that hits you is that this is not your mom and pop’s mom-and-pop store.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Tropical storm Don downgraded at landfall; all warnings end

Tropical Storm Don has been downgraded to a tropical depression as it moved across the Texas coastline near Baffin Bay, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

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San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Obama administration mulls India-style nuclear pact with Saudi Arabia

U.S. officials are planning to hold talks with Saudi Arabia over a potential civilian nuclear pact. But Israeli concerns and Saudi Arabia’s rivalry with Iran could also complicate matters.

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Christian Science Monitor

Judge orders the release of Nixon’s Watergate grand jury testimony

A federal judge has ordered the release of decades-old secret grand jury testimony from former President Richard Nixon, related to the Watergate scandal.

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CNN

Were the best world leaders mentally ill?

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BUSINESS

US Airways sues pilots to halt slowdown

US Airways Group Inc. sued its pilots union, seeking a court order to halt an alleged illegal slowdown the carrier says is disrupting its operations.

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Bloomberg

Tuition’s paid, where are the dorm deals?

According to the National Retail Federation’s 2011 Back-to-College survey, a majority of shoppers say the economy will affect their spending plans.

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Hartford Courant

Recessions compared

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ENVIRONMENT

‘Unexpected’ source of sea level rise

In the whodunit-style search for the culprit behind drastic sea level rise many thousands of years ago, new research may have cleared one falsely accused party.

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LiveScience

Volunteer towns sought to accept US nuclear waste by Obama panel

U.S. communities should be encouraged to vie for a federal nuclear-waste site as a way to end a decades-long dilemma over disposing of spent radioactive fuel.

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Bloomberg

EDUCATION

Avoiding showdown on agents

Admissions group holds off on adopting rule that would explicitly bar commission-based payments to recruit international students.

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Inside Higher Ed

Tenn. wants out of No Child Left Behind

Tennessee leaders asked the federal government for a waiver from the No Child Left Behind Act after learning that nearly half of their state’s schools failed to meet its requirements.

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Tennesean

Teachers take lessons of No Child Left Behind Act to DC

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CNN

Utah teachers rally against changes they say harm schools

A Utah lawmaker urged teachers and parents to take a more active role in improving education and fighting harmful reforms as part of a Save Our Schools teach-in at the Salt Lake City Main Library.

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Salt Lake Tribune

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Nepal will not send delegation to World Youth Day

The Catholic Church in Nepal will not be sending young people to attend World Youth Day in Madrid in August.

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CatholicCulture

Polygamist threatens court with biblical repercussions if trial not stopped

A polygamist-sect leader defending himself against sexual-assault charges broke his silence with a sermon defending plural marriage and said God would visit “sickness and death” on those involved in his trial.

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GOOD NEWS

Real-life guitar heroes

From reveille to marches to taps, music plays a vital role in the life of a soldier. One disabled Iraq veteran says he believes it may play an even more important role for wounded warriors.

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CNN

Celebrities take up cause of paralyzed Houston brothers

When two Houston brothers were orphaned and paralyzed in a car crash, attention from celebrities including pop star Justin Bieber triggered an outpouring of support.

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Reuters

A US soldier reunites with the little Iraqi girl he saved

Eight-year-old Sadeel giggles and holds up her black hair, revealing the faint scar from a bullet wound. “I’m so happy to see you,” says U.S. Army Capt. Tom Hickey, sounding nervous and overwhelmed.

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Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

Turkey’s military is in turmoil as 4 top brass quit

Turkey faced turmoil within its military after the country’s four most senior commanders quit, offering Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan an opportunity to extend his authority over the armed forces.

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Reuters

Floods wash parts of North Korean landmines into South Korea

Parts of North Korean land mines have washed down a swollen river into South Korea, and troops are searching for other mines that may have been dislodged by deadly landslides and flooding.

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Herald Sun

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Anti-Japan demo in South Korea

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Yahoo! News

Thousands protest in Yemen amidst increased tensions

Tens of thousands of opponents and supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, convalescing in Saudi Arabia, have held rival rallies in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.

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Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

When lightning strikes out of a blue sky

It’s not that uncommon for lightning to travel far from its originating cloud, experts say. In some cases, bolts have struck as much as 25 miles from where they originated.

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Chimps vs. humans: the difference?

Nim Chimpsky, the subject of Project Nim, was a chimpanzee whom scientists raised as a human and taught sign language to in the 1970s.

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LiveScience

Dolphin blubber might hold secrets to human healing

Studying dolphin blubber may yield insights into better medical treatments for skin injuries in the future.

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HEALTH

Breast cancer: Tamoxifen saves lives, but some women go without it

For women diagnosed with hormone-sensitive breast cancer — more than 150,000 in the U.S. each year — five years of tamoxifen treatment can dramatically cut the risk of death.

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ABC News

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Most women carrying cancer genes take action

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Reuters

Major international stem cell trials for multiple sclerosis get funding

U.K. scientists are getting ready to work on major international trials to investigate the safety and effectiveness of stem cells in slowing, stopping or reversing brain and spinal cord damage.

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Medical News Today

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

You can lead a virtual horse to water, but you might get sued

A palomino mare named Star grazes on Debbie DeLouise’s clover meadow, hanging out at a salt lick there and frolicking with her foal Holly. But a legal dispute may imperil their pastoral bliss.

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Wall Street Journal

Children living with progeria: a look inside their world

Only 80 children in the world currently have progeria, including 18 in the U.S. Children are born seemingly healthy, but start aging dramatically by the age of 2. On average, they die at 13.

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ABC News

Musicians unite to rebuild music store in downtown Joplin

Amp maker Orange organized an auction to help raise money to rebuild the Glory Days a music store on Main Street in downtown Joplin, Missouri.

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CNN

SPORTS

Semi-contact sport

One athletic conference’s move to limit tackling and concussions at football practices may mark the start of a trend.

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Inside Higher Ed

Still 85: Ochocinco gets old number from Pats TE Hernandez

Chad Ochocinco has received everything he could have wanted in his exile from the Cincinatti Bengals, a team which he grew increasingly disenchanted playing for over the years.

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NFL.com

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Inner-city inner peace

Yoga poses, breathing techniques and periods of mindfulness can become the means for children with discipline problems to find solitude and develop inner resources.

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Children run along the beach as the sun rises on South Padre Island, Texas. (Photo by David J. Phillip / AP)

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