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David Buenrostro, Adrian James, and Jahel Ramos protest outside the Obama campaign offices in Culver City, Calif. The students demanded that President Obama issue an executive order to stop deportations of illegal immigrant students in favor of the DREAM Act. (Photo by Damian Dovarganes / AP)

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Vanishing languages

By the next century, nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English or Spanish.

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National Geographic

How and why do we age?

Why do we develop wrinkles and why do our muscles waste away? Why do our brains and immune systems become less effective? It is part of the rapidly emerging field of epigenetics.

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BBC

US to stop young migrant deportations

The Obama administration will stop deporting younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives.

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Skepticism, joy among illegal immigrants

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U.S. News

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President Obama on immigration policy

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C-Span

World on red alert for Greek vote

Companies across the globe are on high alert as Greeks vote in an election that could decide the future of the single European currency.

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Reuters

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Here is what you need to know about Greece

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Bloomberg

City by city, a guide to the slow economic recovery in the US

The limping gait of the U.S. economy remains painful for many Americans and for Obama’s re-election chances, with mostly only small steps toward recovery.

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Msnbc.com

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Industrial production in US dropped in May

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Bloomberg

NATION

Legal help for the poor in ‘state of crisis’

For decades, federal and state governments have pitched in to help. But money pressures mean the system for funding legal aid programs for the poor is headed toward a crisis.

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NPR

EPA to seek tougher rules on soot opposed by industry

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will propose tougher pollution standards for soot, a step that some said would protect public health, but others warned would crimp economic growth.

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Bloomberg

POLITICS

Romney’s bus tour: the 4 things you need to know

Mitt Romney set out on a six-state bus tour being billed as the “Every Town Counts” tour — his first campaign swing since becoming the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

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CBS News

Romney to launch a charm offensive

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Ken Walsh's Washington

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Casino executive gives pro-Romney group $10M support

Casino executive Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam have given $10 million to a political action committee supporting presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

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BusinessWeek

BUSINESS

Now it is Microsoft vs. Apple in your car

The decades-old battle for computing supremacy between Microsoft and Apple is about to shift from your desktop to your dashboard.

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Sydney Morning Herald

Party harder to lift housing market

Party planners are on the prowl for unique private properties where they can set up weddings and office parties, and they say the demand for these non-traditional venues has increased.

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CNBC

Central banks warn Greek-led Euro stress threatens world

Central banks intensified warnings that Europe’s failure to tame its debt crisis threatens to roil the world’s financial markets and economy as Greece’s election looms.

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Bloomberg

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Coming weeks may prove crucial to world’s faltering economies

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McClatchy Newspapers

HEALTH

NFL, military prevent concussions

General Raymond T. Odierno, chief of staff for the U.S. Army and the United Service Organizations Inc., has partnered with the NFL to try to eradicate the stigma associated with head injuries.

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ABC News

Meditation may calm stress, aid with concentration, multitasking

Need to do some serious multitasking? Some training in meditation beforehand could make the work smoother and less stressful, new research from the University of Washington shows.

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ScienceDaily

SPORTS

In New Orleans, high hopes for the perfect NBA team name

The very day New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson was introduced as the new owner of the New Orleans Hornets, he mentioned that he wanted to make one long-overdue change to the NBA franchise.

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The Atlantic

Nats’ new kid on the block causing a commotion in the Capital

Bryce Harper is the name. Harper made his debut for the Washington Nationals six months before his 20th birthday, and already comparisons are departing this earthly orbit.

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The Independent

2 men in a boat try to bridge South Africa race gap

The members of the South African entry for a sailing event at the London Olympics see themselves as symbols of the multi-racial country former President Nelson Mandela was trying to forge.

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Reuters

5 rowers make US Olympic team

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Audio (Rana Foroohar):

Money talking: Do gas prices or jobs matter more?

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TIME

Column (Despina Lalaki):

The Greek crisis as racketeering threat

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Al Jazeera

Column (Peter Foster):

Is the prohibition of ‘pot’ coming to an end in the US?

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Sydney Morning Herald

Column (Michelle Cottle):

The GOP celeb bashing of Obama’s Parker-Wintour fundraiser

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Daily Beast

When our common sense went off with the dingoes

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The Age

Blog (Brad Tuttle):

When dad says ‘don’t waste your money’ on Father’s Day gifts, he means it

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(TIME)

Moneyland

Lessons in risk for JPMorgan Chase chief

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (James Carville):

What if the rich lost 40 percent of their wealth?

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CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Family-to-Family links well-off families to others in need

Pam Koner started her charity in 2002. Now Family-to-Family provides food to approximately 2,200 children and their families in 20 places across the U.S.

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Christian Science Monitor

A single dad and his unlikely college roommate, years later

In 1996, Wil Smith enrolled as a freshman at Maine’s Bowdoin College with his one-year-old daughter in tow. Now a teenager, Olivia sat down with her dad to look back on their “college days” together.

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NPR

Small comfort: Nanomedicine penetrates the body’s defenses

A team of Johns Hopkins University scientists has developed specially coated nanoparticles that can penetrate deep into the body’s defenses and remain long enough to kill harmful microbes.

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Scientific American

WORLD

Using new media, Chinese student tries out food activism

Shanghai student Wu Heng did not plan to be a food activist. But Heng could not stop himself after reading a story about cooks slathering pork in chemicals to make it look and smell like costlier cuts of beef.

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Star Tribune

Calls to boycott on eve of Egypt vote

The boycott movement‘s strength suggests the political turmoil since Mubarak was toppled 16 months ago may continue in post-election Egypt.

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Reuters

Anger mounts over ’smooth military coup’

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The Two-Way

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Court throws Egypt’s transition into disarray

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YouTube

US military expanding secret spy network in Africa

The U.S. military is expanding secret intelligence operations across Africa through a program that dates back to 2007, according to the Washington Post.

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GlobalPost

ENVIRONMENT

Can the world be saved?

Population growth and climate change are two of the bigger problems facing the earth in the next 50 years. But are there any solutions?

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The Independent

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Global warming’s evil twin threatens West Coast fishing grounds

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Christian Science Monitor

What is the value of organic farmland?

A Maryland organic farm’s battle against development raises big questions about the future of food and farming in this country.

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Grist

Are women greener than men?

When it comes to caring for the environment, is there a gender difference between men and women? A growing body of social science research suggests the answer is yes.

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Kansas City Star

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Famous cave paintings might not be from human beings

A novel method of determining the age of some of those cave paintings questions their provenance.

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NPR

FBI files on famous physicist released

Physicist Richard Feynman helped create the atomic bomb and shared a Nobel Prize, but he was also subject to scrutiny by the FBI as it sought to uncover communist sympathizers in the 1950s.

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LiveScience

New dating of Panama formation throws cold water on ice age origin ideas

A geologist’s revisionist theory that pushes the formation of the Isthmus of Panama back 10 million years casts doubt on mainstream ideas of what caused the last ice age.

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Scientific American

EDUCATION

Chicago pushes longer school days as key to achievement

Many children in Chicago Public Schools will go from having the shortest school days in the nation to some of the longest, a move that some experts say is needed to help push the struggling system ahead.

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Msnbc.com

How to stay on top

A report from the National Research Council argues that the country cannot maintain its position as a leader in research without sustained investment in its public and private universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Persistence is learned from fathers

A new study has found that dads are in a unique position to instill persistence and hope in their children, particularly in the pre-teen and teen years.

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ABC News

Sewing the flags that fly

In the pantheon of holidays, Flag Day does not often register much more than a stitch in the fabric of the everyday. No sequined parades or cookouts, no fireworks, no gift-giving and no day off.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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On Flag Day, inspiration abounds

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Palestinian Authority advised against bid for Bethlehem church

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee opposes the Palestinian Authority’s use of an emergency procedure to register Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity under “Palestine” as a World Heritage site.

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Vatican offers traditionalist Catholics a way to reconcile

The Vatican has formally proposed a way to reconcile with a breakaway group of ultra-traditionalist Catholics in a bid to end a quarter century of schism, offering them a special legal status in the church.

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Kansas City Star

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Bedrock nitrogen may help forests buffer climate change

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that forest trees have the ability to tap into nitrogen found in rocks.

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Photo of the Day

Japan‘s Izumi Kato competes in a women’s 200m Individual Medley heat at the Settecolli Swimming Trophy in Rome. (Photo by Alessandra Tarantino / AP)

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