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At the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., Ezeldin Diab talks about militant cleric and U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, who had preached at the mosque and who was killed by U.S. air strikes in Yemen. (Photo by Cliff Owen / AP)

Tevatron shuts down after 28-year run

Fermilab director Pierre Oddone confessed that he had a bit of a bad dream the night before the final shutdown of the laboratory’s flagship accelerator, the Tevatron.

Discovery News

Obama presses congressional Republicans for jobs bill support

President Barack Obama urged Republicans to spell out what they can support in his $447 billion jobs bill, saying it was “time for Congress to get its act together.”

Reuters

Blog:

Obama to GOP: Tell me what you want

(USA TODAY)

The Oval

Killing of 2 in Yemen puts US in new territory

President Obama steered the nation’s war machine into uncharted territory when a U.S. drone attacked a convoy in Yemen and killed two American citizens who had become central figures in al Qaida.

San Francisco Chronicle

Drones quiet cleric whose words led to jihad

Seattle Times

Legitimacy of al-Awlaki killing sparks debate

YouTube

Alibaba chief interested in buying Yahoo

Jack Ma, the founder and CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is keen on buying Yahoo if the opportunity presents itself.

Telegraph.co.uk

The call of a lifetime: ‘Congrats! You’ve just won a Nobel!’

Scientists, writers and brokers of peace around the world will be holding their breaths for a potentially life-altering, $1.5 million phone call coming from Scandinavia next week.

Forbes

NATION

Military chaplains can now perform same-sex marriages

Military chaplains may perform same-sex marriages, even on military bases, in states where such ceremonies are allowed, but will not be forced to do so, the Pentagon said.

Politico

131,729 gay couples report they’re married

Houston Chronicle

Blog:

Military chaplains won’t be forced to conduct same-sex marriages

Beliefnet

Prohibition — the great American divider

Anyone with a sober view of 20th-century history has a vague idea about Prohibition, and knows it failed. Yet, a new film is filled with the kind of little-known detail that brings even familiar stories alive.

canada.com

Special section:

‘Prohibition’: A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

PBS

Massive transportation study to record habits of drivers in Pa.

A study being performed by the Transportation Research Board is equipping cars with an arsenal of data collection devices as part of the largest coordinated safety program undertaken in the U.S.

Centre Daily Times

POLITICS

New chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff seeks balance in US power

Army Gen. Martin Dempsey was sworn in as successor to retiring Navy Adm. Mike Mullen. Dempsey has made one thing clear: He differs about the threat posed to national security by debt.

Boston Herald

Meet the man behind the nationwide illegal immigration crackdown

Alabama and Arizona have some of the toughest immigration laws in the country and behind both states’ laws and many others is Kris Kobach, a constitutional lawyer and Kansas Secretary of State.

NPR

Hispanic students vanish from AL schools

TIME

US to appeal ruling upholding Alabama immigration law

BusinessWeek

Alabama immigration law threatens kids

ABC News

BUSINESS

US incomes fall for first time in 2 years

Americans earned less last month, the first decline in nearly two years. With less income, consumers could cut back on spending and in turn weaken an already fragile economy.

TIME

Wall Street protesters march on police

Protesters who have camped out near Wall Street for two weeks marched on police headquarters in Manhattan over what they viewed as a heavy-handed police response to their demonstrations.

Reuters

Occupy Wall Street

TIME

America’s rich losing tussle with taxman

Cash-strapped governments are on the offensive against their own elites. Taxes are up, loopholes are being closed and crackdowns on offshore havens and Swiss bank accounts are gaining momentum.

Reuters

HEALTH

Ecstasy to be tested for trauma victims

Scientists hope to overcome anger after U.S. trial suggests the clubbers’ drug ecstasy can bring improvements for post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers.

Guardian

Golfing reawakens dementia patients’ muscle memories

As America ages and the Alzheimer’s population grows, experts say outdoor activities — particularly those that were enjoyed in younger years — can make day-to-day life more pleasant and enriching.

San Jose Mercury News

ENVIRONMENT

Canadian Arctic nearly loses entire ice shelf over summer

Two ice shelves that existed before Canada was settled by Europeans diminished significantly this summer, one nearly disappearing altogether, Canadian scientists say in new research.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

New York ‘urban lab’ seeks to solve city-style problems

With three out of five people across the globe projected to be city dwellers by 2030, transport and urban issues are increasingly vital — prompting some urbanites to solve the issues themselves.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

World’s earliest Christian engraving shows surprising pagan elements

Researchers have identified what is believed to be the earliest surviving Christian inscription, shedding light on an ancient sect that followed the teachings of a philosopher named Valentinus.

LiveScience

Ismael and the Holy Thugs answer prayers of Venezuela’s poor

In a country that wakes up every Monday morning to a dismal tally of weekend murders, it is no surprise that people have turned to the saints for help. But the holy men invoked are anything but virtuous.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Noam Chomsky):

Is the world just too big to fail?

Al Jazeera

Editorial:

Good teachers: what the research says

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

Alabama’s win, our loss

Los Angeles Times

Column (Fareed Zakaria):

On US unemployment: Build it and they will work

Khaleej Times

Blog (Linda Holmes):

Congratulations, television! You’re even worse at masculinity than femininity

(NPR)

Monkey See

Column (Michael Grunwald):

Street smarts

TIME

Cartoon (Nick Anderson):

Advanced college mathematics

Houston Chronicle

Editorial:

‘Prohibition’ and the past as prologue

The Platform (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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GOOD NEWS

Nonprofit opens ‘Nick’s House’ to help families fighting cancer

Before passing away from cancer, Nick Colleluori had laid the groundwork for a nonprofit to raise cancer awareness and help others affected by the disease.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Down syndrome brings joy, not regrets, for many families

In a series of recently completed surveys, 96 percent of parents expressed no regrets about having a child with Down syndrome and nearly eight out of 10 said the child had enhanced their lives.

HealthDay

Surgery to help children walk draws parents across world to St. Louis

Families are flocking to St. Louis to have neurosurgeon T.S. Park perform selective dorsal rhizotomy surgery because he has refined and studied the procedure more extensively than any other surgeon.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

2nd typhoon in week lashes rain-soaked Philippines

The second typhoon in a week battered the rain-soaked northern Philippines, adding misery to thousands of people, some of whom were still perched on rooftops from previous flooding.

ABC News

Foreign policy: rebranding Haiti

President Michel Martelly, the Haitian leader formally known as singer “Sweet Micky,” came to N.Y. to “rebrand” the image of the Caribbean island in his first address to the U.N. General Assembly.

NPR

Don’t forget Haiti, top UN aid official urges

Reuters

From playground to battleground: children on the frontline in Somalia

The effects of civil conflict on Somalia’s children have been catastrophic, as many youngsters have been forced to fight.

Guardian

EDUCATION

Majority of states lining up to ditch ‘No Child Left Behind’

Since President Obama announced that he would sign an executive order allowing states to request waivers from mandatory participation in the program, at least 27 states signaled they will ask to opt out.

Msnbc.com

Schools waking up on absenteeism

At least 85 schools in 17 states, representing 88,000 students, are partnering with the Get Schooled Foundation to participate in a seven-week attendance challenge.

MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Future of Chernobyl health studies in doubt in Europe

Researchers had hoped a fresh round of studies on radiation exposure after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 would finally fill a yawning science gap. But their proposal now looks increasingly unlikely.

Nature

‘Flying carpet’ of conductive plastic flies

A miniature magic carpet made of plastic has taken flight in a laboratory at Princeton University. The 10-centimeter sheet of smart transparency is driven by what is called “ripple power.”

BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

How a small-town girl became China’s 1st ever supermodel

At the age of 23, Liu Wen has already worked for most of the world‘s major fashion houses. She is regarded by many in the fashion world as the country of China’s first ever supermodel.

CNN

‘The Revisionists’ searches for a more perfect future

In “The Revisionists,” Thomas Mullen presents a compelling and complex page-turner, a paranoid thriller for the post-9/11 age.

CNN

Willem de Kooning still dazzles

A new major retrospective recounts Willem de Kooning’s seven-decade career and never-ending experimentation.

Smithsonian Magazine

SPORTS

Congress tries to hasten NFL’s HGH-testing program

Congress stepped up pressure on the NFL and its players for an agreement on testing for human growth hormones by inviting NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and other NFL executives to a meeting.

CBSSports

Soccer: Struggling Crew host DC with playoff implications

The Columbus Crew will host D.C. United at Crew Stadium, as Columbus is clinging to a postseason spot and D.C. is looking to move into a wild card position.

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