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A hotel is reflected in puddles of rain from approaching Tropical Storm Lee at a streetcar track, as a streetcar passes through Lee Circle, in New Orleans. Lee formed in the waters off Louisiana, threatening a drenching along much of the Gulf coast. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP)

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On location: Minneapolis Rock City Of ‘Purple Rain’

From the opening scenes of “Purple Rain,” as Prince performs on the stage of the cavernous First Avenue nightclub, it‘s clear that the city of Minneapolis is going to be a character of its own.

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NPR

Farmers connect with local customers through social media

Many agriculturists have been typing with their thumbs on social media platforms while standing between rows of cornstalks in an effort to connect with consumers.

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USA TODAY

Tropical Storm Lee pelts Gulf Coast with rain

Tropical Storm Lee has strengthened as it begins dumping rain in southern Louisiana and pelting the northern Gulf coast.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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Gas prices could set record high this Labor Day

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ABC News

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The Weather Channel

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State of emergency in New Orleans

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MSNBC

NATO: Man with al-Qaida links killed

Afghan and coalition forces operating in Afghanistan killed Sabar Lal Melma, an insurgent leader with links to al-Qaida and who had been detained at Guantanamo Bay, officials said.

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CNN

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Key drug cartel figure killed in northern Mexico

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CBS News

Ruling on damages may be pivotal in BP oil spill case

A key court ruling in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill litigation could change the landscape in the massive case, either encouraging more plaintiffs to sue, or spurring the parties to make a deal.

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Reuters

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Halliburton: BP hid info that might have prevented spill

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Houston Chronicle

NATION

Ground Zero’s new shape is finally starting to emerge

When President Barack Obama will lead remembrance ceremonies at the site, he and the relatives of the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, will for the first time see and feel what at last is emerging from Ground Zero.

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The Independent

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9/11: Freedom Tower continues to rise and alter New York’s skyline

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Telegraph.co.uk

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.

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CBS News

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British banks fear lawsuits from US regulator

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The Independent

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Fed orders Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to review mortgage practices

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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.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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

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POLITICS

A hot issue on the presidential campaign trail: theology

Campaigners are desperate to find language generic enough for a broad constituency that also conveys an unshakable faith.

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Houston Chronicle

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.

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The Hill

Investigators probe White House role in massive energy loan

House investigators said they have uncovered evidence that White House officials became involved in a $535 million loan guarantee to the now-failed California solar company Solyndra.

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RealClearPolitics

BUSINESS

Scanning 2.4 billion eyes, India tries to connect poor to growth

Using the same powerful technology that transformed the country’s private economy, the Indian government is creating a vast identity database that it hopes will help relieve chronic inequality.

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Jobs numbers paint ‘very gloomy’ picture for all

President Obama is set to deliver a major speech on jobs, and his task will be even more challenging after the monthly government jobs report.

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NPR

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Job seekers join the military as last resort

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CBS News

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Washington Post

Down and out in LA: When the middle class goes homeless

Homelessness is not a new phenomenon in California. What is new — and so alarming — is that more and more of the homeless are families that once believed they were secure members of the middle class.

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TIME

HEALTH

Common signs of aging are traced to tiny brain blockages

Blocked blood vessels in the brain, often too small to be seen with current medical imaging technologies, may explain some of the the most common signs of aging, researchers said.

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Night owls likely to suffer nightmares

People who hit the sack late might have a greater risk of experiencing nightmares, according to scientists.

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Scientific American

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.

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Religion News Service

Report criticizes Missouri diocese on priest porn case

Catholic church officials in Kansas City are pledging to review immediately a new report on how to protect children after a local priest was charged in May with possessing child pornography.

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Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Space debris: Time to clean up the sky

The U.S. National Research Council’s report on space debris is not the first of its kind. A wide range of space agencies and intergovernmental organizations has taken a bite out of this issue down the years.

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BBC

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.

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Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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Goldman Sachs: More than a travesty of a mockery of a sham

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Forbes

Huntsman is a break from GOP bombast

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Concord Monitor

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Zerocovery

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The Atlantic

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Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga

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Salon

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The President’s speech

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Pray that naysayers are right about climate change

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Presidential race creates 2 camps in GOP

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Idaho Statesman

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Are unpaid internships office entree or free labor?

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GOOD NEWS

Poodle credited with West Jordan, Utah, fire rescue

A mother and two children made it out of their burning Utah house before firefighters arrived, but her 19-year-old son was still inside. It was the family’s dog who led emergency responders to the man.

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Salt Lake Tribune

Special Olympics planning Columbia training center

A $1 million donation from St. Louis-based Centene Corp. has launched a campaign to build a training facility for the group Special Olympics Missouri.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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.

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HealthDay

WORLD

Over 20 dead due to religious rioting in central Nigeria

Religious rioting in the troubled central Nigeria city of Jos has killed at least 21 people, as authorities seem to be unable to curb the rising violence.

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Denver Post

Libya National Transitional Council set for Tripoli move

Libya’s interim authorities are set to move to Tripoli from their stronghold of Benghazi, officials say. The authorities have urged anti-Gadhafi gunmen patrolling Tripoli to go home, as they try to restore normality.

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BBC

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Close CIA ties to Gadhafi spy unit revealed

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UN report causes expulsion of Israeli diplomats in Turkey ‎

Turkey has expelled Israel’s ambassador and suspended all military agreements over its refusal to apologize for last year’s raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla.

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BBC

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UN chief urges Turkey and Israel to fix ties

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Al Jazeera

EDUCATION

Cutting back on Kazakh

In the wake of 9/11, the Education Department increased spending on foreign language programs. A decade later, those programs face elimination on campuses after deep federal budget cuts.

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Inside Higher Ed

Feds warn colleges: Handle sexual assault reports properly

The Obama administration is taking a tougher stance on how colleges handle reports of sexual assault on campus. But some say the administration is taking things too far.

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Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New genetic circuit detects cancerous cells and forces them to commit suicide

A new DNA-based logic circuit can sense the signs of cancer, compute that a cell is cancerous and then cause it to self-destruct, researchers say.

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Popular 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.

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Environmental News Network

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Fewer baby boys are receiving circumcision, CDC says

The number of baby boys which are getting circumcised in hospitals has dropped slightly in the past decade, health experts said.

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MSNBC

Outrage over rhyming ‘diet’ picture book for kids

Messages of good health and self-esteem for girls aren‘t hard to come by in kid lit, so what’s with the attention for a not-yet-published rhyming picture book about obese, unhappy 14-year-old Maggie?

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Detroit Free Press

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.

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Los Angeles Times

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.

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CNN

Baltimore Grand Prix fans flood grandstands before 1st race

Powerful engines thrummed in the Baltimore Convention Center and tens of thousands of racing fans wandered through a maze of grandstand, as they awaited Maryland’s Baltimore Grand Prix.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Why speed dating rarely works

Speed dating presents individuals with such an unnatural number of choices that people either usually avoid making selections or choose the wrong person.

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Photo of the Day

South Korea‘s Kim Deok-hyeon competes in the qualification for the Men’s Triple Jump at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea. (Photo by David J. Phillip / AP)

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