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Bank of America’s headquarters are shown in Charlotte, N.C. The government has sued the nation’s largest banks for violating federal and state laws in the sale of home mortgage-backed securities. (Photo by Chuck Burton / AP)

Tiny parks are on a roll in San Francisco

In the last two years, San Francisco, Calif., has seen a proliferation of tiny parks carved out along sidewalks and streets. Some scoff, but others are willing to give the “parkmobiles” a go.

Los Angeles Times

WikiLeaks makes all its US diplomatic cables public

The whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks made public its entire cache of State Department cables that is sure to renew debate over the impact of one of the largest security breaches in U.S. history.

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog:

WikiLeaks: the latest developments

Guardian

Special section:

WikiLeaks diplomatic cables

Spiegel International

Feds have sued big banks over mortgage security issues

The U.S. government has sued the nation’s largest banks, along with other financial institutions and executives, for violating federal and state laws in the sale of home mortgage-backed securities.

CBS News

British banks fear lawsuits from US regulator

The Independent

Fed orders Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to review mortgage practices

Globeandmail.com

Obama has yielded to GOP demands over smog rule

In a dramatic reversal, President Barack Obama scrubbed a clean-air regulation that aimed to reduce health-threatening smog, yielding to bitterly protesting businesses and congressional Republicans.

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog:

White House moves to limit fallout from retreat on clean-air rule

(The Hill)

E2 Wire

Analysis: Quakes pose bigger mishap risk to reactors

The risk that an earthquake would cause a severe accident at a U.S. nuclear plant is greater than previously thought, 24 times as high in one case, according to an analysis of preliminary government data.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

NATION

Southern US states on storm alert

U.S. southern states cast a wary eye on the Gulf of Mexico following forecasts of a tropical depression that could drench the coast over the holiday weekend.

CNN

Map:

Satellite map

The Weather Channel

Hurricane Irene

TIME

Firefighters responding to 9/11 at increased cancer risk

Firefighters exposed to toxic dust and fumes clogging the air after the World Trade Center towers collapsed 10 years ago are more likely to develop cancer, according to a new study.

CNN

POLITICS

Democrat’s bill would require debt supercommittee to prioritize job creation

A leading House Democrat introduced legislation requiring the newly formed debt supercommittee to prioritize job creation as it seeks more than $1 trillion in deficit reduction.

The Hill

Jack Kimball resigns as chairman of the NH Republican Party

Just minutes before New Hampshire’s GOP executive committee members were expected to remove Jack Kimball, Kimball said he will step down.

Politico

BUSINESS

Employers added no new jobs in August

Unemployment in the U.S. remained unchanged in August as employers added no new jobs for the first time since World War II, the Department of Labor reported.

ABC News

Unemployment, Inc.: 6 reasons why America can’t create jobs

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Where are the jobs?

Washington Post

Obama urged to ‘go big’ with jobs package

NPR

Grandpa still works, kids can’t find jobs

CNNMoney

US regulators seek trading secrets

U.S. securities regulators have taken the unprecedented step of asking high-frequency trading firms to hand over the details of their trading strategies, and in some cases, their computer codes.

Reuters

What happens when AOL finally decides to go private?

Many investors, upset over the 30 percent tumble AOL’s stock has taken this year alone and the $1 billion in value it has lost since leaving Time Warner, have pulled out.

The Atlantic

HEALTH

Bad food is too easy to swallow

A new paper by researchers at the University of Southern California reveals why bad eating habits persist even when the food we’re eating doesn’t taste good. The study reveals ways to counter habits.

ScienceDaily

UK group: too much salt in shop bread

A recent survey of the salt content of nearly 300 fresh bread loaves from markets and bakeries found 28 percent contained the same amount, or more, of salt in one slice as in a packet of potato chips.

Medical News Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

‘Roamin’ Catholics wander in search of new place to worship

They call themselves “Roamin’” Catholics, traveling from church to church, looking for a new place to worship since Cleveland, Ohio’s, oldest black Catholic church was shut down more than a year ago.

Religion News Service

Last Ethiopian Jews is finally making exodus to Israel

20 years after the second of two mass airlifts of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, the seemingly endless trickle of other Ethiopian immigrants who claim Jewish ancestry is coming to a long-delayed conclusion.

Forward

ENVIRONMENT

Booming bitterns become a source of big noise again

The bittern was classed as extinct in the U.K., but following efforts to restore its reed-bed habitat, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds now believes 104 males have been at large in 2011.

Guardian

Wildlife and farmers: Should we share or should we spare?

Scientists have gotten together to look at two wildlife-rich areas in the developing world and work out how to share the planet’s limited floorspace.

Earth Times

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Glenn Greenwald):

Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga

Salon

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The President’s speech

San Francisco Examiner

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Pray that naysayers are right about climate change

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Column (Kevin Richert):

Presidential race creates 2 camps in GOP

Idaho Statesman

Column (Chuck Raasch):

Are unpaid internships office entree or free labor?

USA TODAY

Column (Ian O’Neill):

Domino’s pizza moon plan is all topping, no base

Discovery News

Column (Edward Wasserman):

Media independence has declined post-9/11

McClatchy Newspapers

Editorial:

1 is not a lonely number

Khaleej Times

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GOOD NEWS

Survivor builds ‘cancer-fighting’ house

Charles Ruma, a cancer survivor, with the help of the Ohio State University Cancer Center, built “Home for Hope,” a “cancer-fighting” house, using materials that are free of carcinogens.

HealthDay

Valuable Robert E. Lee photo has been donated to Goodwill

Someone anonymously donated an antique tintype of Robert E. Lee to a Goodwill store in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The public now has a chance to purchase it at auction.

Msnbc.com

Soccer star and UN envoy to empower Sierra Leone’s women

The world’s top female soccer player and United Nations advocate Marta Vieira da Silva is on a mission to Sierra Leone to highlight efforts to empower women in the West African nation.

UN News Centre

WORLD

Afghanistan: a decade of promises

People living in Afghanistan 10 years ago had few radios and almost no televisions to alert them of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington. Today, the struggle for democracy is ever present.

NPR

UN investigation backs, but criticizes, Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza

A United Nations investigation has backed Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza as legal but said its military assault on a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists last year was “excessive and unreasonable”.

Guardian

Libya interim leaders vow tolerance and respect for law

Libya’s new interim leaders have assured world leaders they will build a society full of tolerance and respect for the rule of law.

BBC

Gadhafi regime’s long-kept secrets to be held open to view

CNN

EDUCATION

Swords drawn over funding for learning during extended hours

Divisions have emerged over how federal grants should be awarded to programs that provide extra hours of academic enrichment to underprivileged students.

Education Week

LA teachers union to receive priority on new campuses

The Los Angeles Board of Education has made a major change in its controversial policy that allows charter groups and other outsiders to take over new campuses.

EducationNews.org

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Apollo astronauts’ souvenirs are now up for auction

The Apollo astronauts did not become wealthy by going to the moon. That is why some of them sold off their souvenirs.

ABC News

Physicists turn single atom into mirror

Physicists have fashioned a mirror from a single atom. The advance might lead to an atom-sized transistor for light.

Science

New ‘demon’ bat discovered in Vietnam

Scientists have discovered three previously unknown bat species in southern Indochina, reports Fauna & Flora International. Researchers say they belong to a group known as tube-nosed bats.

Environmental News Network

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

How to save the Taj Mahal?

A debate rages over preserving the awe-inspiring, 350-year-old monument that now shows signs of distress from pollution and shoddy repairs.

Smithsonian Magazine

Major art-world figures salute their role model contemporaries

Contemporary artists talk about how past artists are the source of their inspiration because the art of today would not exist without the art of the past.

The Independent

Shoppers tend to focus on the ‘middle’ items on shelves

Next time you’re shopping, see how many products you pick up from the middle shelf. People tend to favor items located in the middle of a row.

LiveScience

SPORTS

Grinding it out: The uphill battle for American rugby

It’s the simple act of stumbling upon a practice, catching a rare match on TV or tossing a rugby ball around that draws people away from the ingrained mentality of American football.

CNN

Federer wins 2nd-round match at Open; Serena, too

Roger Federer finished a U.S. Open match with six aces and maxed out at 128 mph in what looked very much like a tuneup — a second-round win that took only one hour, 17 minutes.

CBSSports

Federer wins in straight sets

ESPN

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