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Vallejo Police Lt. Joel Salinas, right, and officer Rich Wanzie, left, evict a squatter in Vallejo, Calif. For nearly three years, California’s original state capital has labored under the unflattering distinction of being the biggest bankrupt city in America. (Photo by Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP)

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Has America become a nation of squatters?

The new, recession-created squatters tend to be homeowners who used to pay their mortgage, but then stopped paying, either because their home is worth less or they are unable to make their payments.

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TIME

Forecasters: Hurricane Irene seems headed to Charleston

Hurricane Irene’s forecast path shifted away from South Florida and appeared to aim instead at the Bahamas and South Carolina as a major hurricane.

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Palm Beach Post

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The Weather Channel

Banks got $1.2T from the Federal Reserve

Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. took $669 billion in emergency loans from the U.S. Federal Reserve. The loans dwarfed the $160 billion in public bailouts the top 10 got from the U.S. Treasury.

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Bloomberg

Fighting rages for Libyan capital

Libyan rebels are battling troops loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi for control of Tripoli, after they launched an assault on the capital from several directions.

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BBC

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Key rebel targets in Libya

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Guardian

Libya uprising: tweeting revolutions

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Libya Live Blog

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Gadhafi rule crumbles as rebels surge

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MSNBC

Steps outlined to screen all newborns for heart defects

A panel of pediatric and cardiac experts has outlined a strategy for routine screening of newborns to improve detection of congenital heart disease.

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HealthDay

NATION

A Japanese internment camp revisited

Hundreds of Japanese Americans interned during World War II at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming return — many for the first time — for a reunion and museum opening.

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Los Angeles Times

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Internment history

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PBS

What is contributing to the decline of America’s serious crime rate?

Explanations such as abortion laws, a fall in crack use and — most contentiously — longer sentences, could explain a nationwide drop in serious crimes.

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Guardian

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Small towns in America

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McClatchy Newspapers

Memorial honoring King opens to public

Visitors got their first up-close look at the Washington, D.C., memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. including a granite sculpture inspired by the civil rights leader’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Civil rights in America

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USA TODAY

POLITICS

Wall Street execs turn backs on Obama, donate to Romney

Dozens of Wall Street executives who supported President Barack Obama in 2008 have donated to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign this year.

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The Hill

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Layoffs, low morale sweep Wall Street

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Reuters

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Wall Street picks itself up and dusts itself off

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CNNMoney

GOP may OK tax increase that Obama hopes to block

Many of the same Republicans who fought to keep income tax cuts from expiring are now saying a different “temporary” tax cut should end as planned. By their own definition, that amounts to a tax increase.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

BUSINESS

For young ‘Millennials,’ an American dream deferred

The so-called Millennials, who came of age at the turn of the 21st century, don’t regret their four-year education, but they might be having second thoughts about their majors, experts say.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Marketing shift seen for Millennial generation

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San Francisco Chronicle

Groupon looks to buy Wrigley Building

Crain’s Chicago Business reported that Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky are negotiating with Wrigley parent Mars to purchase the Michigan Avenue property as a new headquarters for Groupon.

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MarketWatch

HEALTH

Scientists close to conquering deadly hospital infection

Scientists have found a mechanism to protect the body from the bacterium that causes one of the most widespread and potentially serious healthcare-associated infections: clostridium difficile.

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HealthNews

Virtual reality growing in the medical field

Researchers and therapists are continuing to expand the ability of virtual reality to treat phobias and even to help burn victims manage their pain.

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San Jose Mercury News

SPORTS

Sooners top preseason AP poll

The Oklahoma Sooners will start out top-ranked in The Associated Press college football poll for the 10th time, more than any program in the country.

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Kansas City Star

Terrelle Pryor goes to Oakland Raiders in 3rd round of NFL supplemental draft

The Oakland Raiders are known for making maverick moves, and they made another, using a third-round pick to select former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor.

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ESPN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Who is going to church? Not who you think, study finds

Contrary to popular perception, college educated white Americans are more likely to practice religion than the working class.

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MSNBC

Muslims finding a place in Colorado

The latest wave of immigrants to remake the face of Fort Morgan, Colo., is black, Muslim and Somalian. Their arrival has tested them and the town in an era of economic uncertainty.

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Denver Post

Phoenix diocese cathedral won’t allow girl altar servers

Girls no longer will be allowed as altar servers during Mass at a Phoenix, Ariz., cathedral. The rector made the decision to promote religious vocations, such as becoming a nun, for females.

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Arizona Republic

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Peter Feaver):

Too early to say success in Libya

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NPR

Column (Tim De Chant):

Suburbia gets a mixed-use makeover

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Grist

It’s the American way

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Zachary Newkirk):

8 ways conservatives misremember American history

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The Nation

US faces a big dam problem in Pakistan

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz: strong coffee, bitter politics?

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Star Tribune

Column (Peter Diamond):

Want to fix the economy? Start with Social Security

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The New Republic

Rep. Cliff Stearns wasted FBI time and taxpayer money

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Column (Bob Greene):

Free entertainment, for life

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CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Hospitals giving faster help to heart attack victims

Hospitals are getting faster at giving lifesaving angioplasties to patients who have heart attacks, according to a report published in the American Heart Association’s journal, Circulation.

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ABC News

When not to quit: A man considered dead is revived after 96 minutes

A Minnesota man’s heart stopped beating for 96 minutes. First responders who gave CPR on the scene decided not to give up, in part because of technology that allowed them to see their efforts were working.

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NPR

Hypnosis as health care gains ground

More and more research shows there are benefits of hypnosis for medical problems. A number of rigorous studies have found the practice is effective at reducing chronic pain and stress.

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MSNBC

WORLD

Egypt, UN seek ceasefire between Israel and Hamas

Egypt and the U.N. were working to restore an informal ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, officials said, after intense rocket fire from Gaza and Israeli airstrikes took lives on both sides.

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Globeandmail.com

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Egypt’s army must decide on peace

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Haaretz

Assad continues ‘terrorist’ talk, warns against foreign intervention

Amid calls to step down, President Bashar Assad appeared on Syrian television and warned against foreign military intervention in his country.

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Al Jazeera

Norway wants Amundsen’s ship back

A Norwegian museum wants explorer Roald Amundsen’s ship Maud to become its centerpiece, 80 years after it sank in the Canadian Arctic. Canada must agree to the repatriation plan.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Astronomers find ice and possibly methane on dwarf planet

Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology have discovered that the dwarf planet 2007 OR10 — nicknamed Snow White — is an icy world, with about half its surface covered in water ice.

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ScienceDaily

Medical dossiers spilled onto Internet, exposing intimate details

Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see. Through Internet searches, private information could be found.

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Star Tribune

13-year-old’s solar project generates heat if not light

Who decided solar panels should be flat? A seventh-grader from New York has worked out that solar panels arranged more like tree branches may capture more light than flat panels.

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CNET News

ENVIRONMENT

School bus pollution

School buses are the safest way for children to get to school. However, pollution from older diesel vehicles have health implications for everyone.

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Environmental News Network

Apocalypse prep: Time to put on your gas masks, kids!

Dennis McClung is like a Boy Scout on steroids preparing for the end of the world, which he predicts will happen Dec. 21, 2012.

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ABC News

EDUCATION

What students don’t know

A two-year study conducted on Illinois university campuses reveals that students rarely ask librarians for help, even when they need it.

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Inside Higher Ed

Teaching assistants union at UW-Madison to drop official status

More effects of the Wisconsin union bargaining legislation are now being seen, with the first union in the state choosing to drop its official status rather than go through a difficult recertification vote.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

South Dakota schools cut costs with 4-day school week

When the nearly 300 students of the Irene-Wakonda School District in Irene, S.D., returned to school, they found a lot of familiar routines awaiting them. But one thing was missing: Friday classes.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Rules for airlines kick in to protect fliers

New federal rules take effect to prevent long tarmac delays for international passengers, provide greater compensation for fliers bumped off flights and make airlines disclose extra fees.

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USA TODAY

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Sex addiction: Is it a real disease or a convenient excuse?

When it comes to addiction, the line between morality and disease has always been blurry. Only in the past 25 years have we come to regard excesses in necessary cravings as possible diseases.

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TIME

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A fisherman casts his line into the sea at Havana’s bay in Cuba. (Photo by Javier Galeano / AP)

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