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New news network to launch

A new news network is launching online with well-known investors. The venture is called #Waywire, and the hashtag is a nod to its emphasis on social media and reliance on digital platforms.

Variety

Your health care is covered, but who is going to treat you?

After the Supreme Courts’ health care decision, medical professionals across the country are wondering: When an additional 32 million Americans get insurance, who is going to treat them?

CNN

Map:

Countries that provide universal health care to their citizens

The Atlantic

Heat, storms bring misery to millions

Millions of people across nine states were left to deal with thermostat-popping temperatures after a fierce line of thunderstorms and high winds pounded the Midwest and Atlantic Seaboard.

CNN

Storms leave 3.4M without power

Reuters

Mursi is sworn in as Egyptian president

Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood has been sworn in as Egypt’s first civilian, democratically elected president.

BBC

Tahrir Square celebrations

CBS News

Special section:

Egypt in transition

Al Jazeera

Former Israeli PM Shamir dies at 96

Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who clung throughout his life to the belief that Israel should hang on to its territory and never trust an Arab regime, has died.

Associated Press

NATION

Police find Dali painting at JFK airport

The New York Police Department has cracked the case of the stolen Salvador Dali painting after it was mysteriously mailed back to New York from Europe.

FOX News

Blog:

Stolen Salvador Dali drawing mysteriously returned by mail

(ABC News)

Nation

Coast Guard unloads $48 million in cocaine seized in Caribbean

When the Coast Guard Cutter Valiant returned to Florida from the Caribbean Sea, the crew unloaded an unusual cargo: lots of cocaine. Guardsmen moved 3,800 pounds onto the dock in Miami Beach.

Miami Herald

US ponders Guantanamo transfer for suspected Taliban militants, reports say

The White House is considering sending suspected militants currently held at Guantanamo back to Afghanistan in a bid to kickstart stalled talks with the Taliban, it has been reported.

Guardian

POLITICS

Young, worried and unsure — about both presidential candidates

A Reuters/Ipsos poll of recent graduates reveals a drop in support for Obama compared with 2008, but it shows no movement toward the GOP.

Reuters

Medicaid ruling could give red states more bargaining power

The Supreme Court ruling left the Democratic health care law intact, but it also left Republicans in a stronger bargaining position when it comes to Medicaid.

Politico

Blog:

Which states are most likely to resist the Medicaid expansion?

(Slate)

Money Box

EDUCATION

Is online teacher training good?

At a time when brick-and-mortar teacher training programs are under fire, does the burgeoning world of online teacher training have the potential to help or hamper efforts to improve public education?

TIME

A movement for absolute smoking bans on college campuses

Colleges are pushing for total smoking bans on campus. This includes not only in buildings but also in the open air. Students who use smoking to get through college are speaking out against the bans.

FOX News

College campuses push smoking bans

YouTube

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The latest in cybercrime? Fully automated bank heists

In a new twist on a familiar online banking cybercrime threat, computer criminals are rolling out a new system targeting businesses’ and high-net-worth individuals’ bank accounts in the US and Europe.

Christian Science Monitor

Can we create intelligent robots?

Walking, talking androids have been a sci-fi staple for decades, but building one in reality is still a matter of getting the right parts and smarts.

BBC

Blog:

Robot plays rock, paper, scissors

(NPR)

Krulwich Wonders ...

HEALTH

Hot flashes don’t signal poor heart health for most women

The hot flashes that bedevil so many women as they enter menopause don’t appear to be linked to poorer heart health. The exception may be if hot flashes persist for years after the onset of menopause.

HealthDay

Purple Hearts for PTSD?

In a report, “Parity for Patriots,” NAMI called mental health disorders “signature injuries" and recommended that military commanders be accountable for suicide prevention.

ABC News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

How do scientologists divorce?

The divorce of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, both bold-faced names and members of the Church of Scientology, shines a light on one aspect of their religion: divorce.

ABC News

Scientology defectors to address conference in Dublin

Irish Examiner

Original Olympics versus modern Games

Today’s Olympic Games may seem a thoroughly modern affair. But how did the original event compare with today’s spectacle?

BBC

Coin toss may decide Olympic trial race

CBS News

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GOOD NEWS

Graduation gift from a father: a 13-year labor of love

For 13 years, Bryan Martin kept a book hidden from his daughter, dutifully taking it to her teachers, coaches and school principals every year to have them append positive messages.

Msnbc.com

Substance-abuse program in prison changing women’s lives

For Cindy Chatterson, life fell apart the same way it does for a lot of women serving time at the Utah State Prison. But the ExCell program helped her turn things around.

Salt Lake Tribune

Blog:

Paws in prison

(Huffington Post)

Bus 52

Anonymous couple gives $30 million gift to homeless

An anonymous couple from Vancouver, Canada, has donated $30 million to pay for a supportive-housing project at Taylor Manor, a complex built to provide housing for low-income seniors.

Globeandmail.com

WORLD

Youthful candidate favored to be Mexico’s new president

As Mexicans prepare to elect a new president, the clear front-runner is Enrique Pena Nieto, who is seeking to return his PRI party to power after 12 years.

NPR

A portrait of Chinese corruption, in pink-tinted portraits

For decades, the country’s Communist Party has declared that corruption threatens its very survival. But there are signs that this is changing.

NPR

Chinese investments that stimulated fast economic growth may be problematic later

GlobalPost

BUSINESS

Fighting for the next billion shoppers

The sense that Unilever is on the up, whereas P&G is in trouble, is the latest pendulum swing that only five years ago saw Unilever struggling as P&G soared.

Economist

The BlackBerry’s 5-year fall

Remember the CrackBerry? Five years ago, the buzzing gadget was all the rage — the rock star of mobile communication and seemingly every office drone’s high-tech status symbol.

CNN

Blog:

The ‘Osborne Effect’: RIM’s BlackBerry 10 chatter killed BlackBerry 7 sales

(ZDNet)

Between the Lines

ENVIRONMENT

4th of July fireworks banned in some states due to wildfire fears

There will be star-spangled banners waving but not so many bombs bursting in air this 4th of July.

GlobalPost

US wildfires are what global warming really looks like, scientists warn

Guardian

How will you spend the ‘Leap Second’?

Scientists have learned that Earth is not the most reliable timekeeper. The planet’s rotation is slowing down overall because of tidal forces between Earth and the moon.

The Atlantic

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholic bishops sponsor rally

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and the state’s Roman Catholic bishops rallied against a mandate for insurance coverage of birth control, protesting it as an attack on religious freedom.

Des Moines Register

Retired African-American Methodist Bishop, Leontine Kelly, dead at 92

Retired Methodist Bishop Leontine T.C. Kelly, the first African-American woman elected to the episcopacy by a major religious denomination, has died. She was considered a pioneer for her ministry.

Huffington Post

Korean shamanism revived

Though an ancient practice long suppressed in Asia’s second most Christian nation, Korean shamanism is now so common that politicians practice it to seek answers to questions.

Reuters

SPORTS

Silent and unsung, ball boys keep Wimbledon rolling

If you watch the action at Wimbledon, you will see the camera closely tracking Serena Williams and David Ferrer. But you will also notice less-celebrated figures darting on and off the court.

NPR

Wimbledon 1st week look back

YouTube

Kevin Garnett to return to Celtics

According to an NBA source and a source close to the center, the sides are working out the details of a deal that will be for at least two years and could possibly include a third.

Boston Herald

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