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An Indian barber holding a candle, does haircut for a customer at his shop in Kolkata, India. India’s energy crisis cascaded over half the country when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving 620 million people without government-supplied electricity for several hours. (Photo by Bikas Das / AP)

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Was there ever life on Mars?

NASA’s new robot rover, Curiosity, has spent eight and a half months hurtling through space toward its destination. Why Mars again? The big unknown remains: whether life ever existed there.

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Detroit Free Press

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William Shatner and Wil Wheaton describe Curiosity’s landing in NASA video

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Wired

From Chick-fil-A to Amazon: why companies take social stands

In terms of what they sell, neither Chick-fil-A nor Amazon has anything to do with gay marriage, so why did they choose to enter the political arena by making a statement on a divisive social issue?

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TIME

India blackout cuts power to 670 million

Half of India’s 1.2 billion people are without power as grids covering a dozen states have broken down, the second major blackout in as many days and an embarrassment for the government.

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Reuters

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Singh’s $400 billion power plan gains urgency as grid collapses

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BusinessWeek

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India hit with massive power failure

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CNN

Missy Franklin achieves backstroke victory, gold

The young American has won her second medal of these Olympic Games, streaming to victory in the 100-meter backstroke in an astonishing 58.33 seconds.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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What Olympians looked like 100 years ago

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Slate

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CBS News

States where the young can’t find employment, even college graduates

Unemployment in the United States has been a hot-button issue since the Great Recession left millions out of work. One group that is still in particular trouble is people in their early 20s.

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NBCNews.com

NATION

Gas prices turn upward after long skid

U.S. gasoline prices have gone up by nearly a dime a gallon in the past two weeks, reversing a three-month slide amid an increase in crude oil costs, according to a new nationwide survey.

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CNN

New Orleans homeless hole up in Hurricane Katrina’s abandoned buildings

The New Orleans-area homeless population is estimated at 4,900 — twice as big as before the levees failed in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina — and the majority sleeps in 40,000 abandoned buildings.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Mailers fret over Postal Service’s looming payment default

Mail industry companies are concerned about a looming default by the Postal Service on a $5.5 billion payment, saying it adds to uncertainty about the agency and traditional mail.

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Orlando Sentinel

POLITICS

Romney targets Obama on alleged leaking of secrets

Mitt Romney is focusing on what he and other Republicans allege is the Obama administration’s record of leaking classified information for political purposes.

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NPR

NRA clout rooted more in its tactics than its election spending

The National Rifle Association — with more than 4 million members and an annual budget that exceeds $200 million — has dominated the debate on guns in Congress and statehouses across the country.

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McClatchy Newspapers

BUSINESS

Consumer spending in US was unchanged in June

Consumer spending in the U.S. stagnated in June as Americans used the biggest gain in incomes in three months to boost savings, indicating a weak handoff to the second half of the year.

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Bloomberg

US home prices rise for 4th month in May

U.S. single-family home prices rose for the fourth month in a row in May on a seasonally-adjusted basis, suggesting the recovery in the housing market continued to gain traction.

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Reuters

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Is housing recovery real?

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NPR

EDUCATION

Colleges are taking a closer look at crime-reporting procedures

Colleges and universities that participate in federal financial aid programs — more than 6,000 schools nationwide — must let students and others know about crimes reported on their campuses.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Principals drop ball on teacher retention, study says

Policymakers, administrators and advocacy groups have correctly diagnosed a major problem plaguing the teaching profession, but have missed the mark in their ways of fixing it, says a new report.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

State Department highlights religious restrictions across the globe

Religious minorities continue to suffer loss of their rights across the globe, the State Department reported, with a rise in blasphemy laws and restrictions on faith practices.

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Religion News Service

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US Baptist leaders call on church to reject racism

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Yahoo! News

Missouri’s ‘right to pray’ ballot measure gets mixed reviews

A proposed amendment to the Missouri Constitution that supporters say would protect the right to pray in public is likely to pass despite ongoing debate and scrutiny.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SPORTS

Titans receiver O.J. Murdock dies in apparent suicide

Tennessee Titans wide receiver O.J. Murdock has died of an apparent suicide, Tampa police say. Murdock did not report to training camp because of what the team said at the time was a personal issue.

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Sports Illustrated

Johnson dominant at Indy, wins 4th Brickyard 400

Jimmie Johnson stamped another exclamation point on his racing resume after a dominant drive that ended with his fourth career Brickyard 400 victory.

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U.S. News & World Report

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Indianapolis Star

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Time on gov’s side

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Enforce the law for handicap parking

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Detroit Free Press

Column (Anthony Wing Kosner):

Is Apple phoning it in with iPhone 5?

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Forbes

Blog (Rose Eveleth):

Here’s where alien life is going to happen

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Smart News

Column (Niall Ferguson):

Facebook won’t save us

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Daily Beast

Column (Amitai Etzioni):

Does having kids make you less happy?

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CNN

Column (Mitch Albom):

Mother Batie’s life made others’ better

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Detroit Free Press

Blog (Noliwe M. Rooks):

Why the online education craze will leave many students behind

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GOOD NEWS

Helicopter crew honored in 1988 rescue

More than two decades after a daring rescue, the Coast Guard awarded medals to the helicopter crew that saved two people from the sinking fishing vessel Wayward Wind.

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Anchorage Daily News

Former foster youth works on Capitol Hill to change child welfare system

A former foster youth is one of 15 former foster children participating in the Foster Youth Internship program, which aims to give children an opportunity to help shape public policy on child welfare issues.

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CNN

Reddit users discovering goodness in unexpected places

After bullied bus monitor Karen Klein received an enormous gift, the social news site, Reddit, pulled heartstrings again with one user asking fellow Redditors to share stories of “extreme acts of kindness.”

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Huffington Post

WORLD

Syria foes ‘advance’ in battle-wracked Aleppo city

Syrian forces and rebels have clashed violently in and around Aleppo as the battle for control of the northern city rages into a third day, with both sides claiming advances.

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Al Jazeera

Fighting flashpoints in Damascus, Aleppo

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BBC

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Street battles in Aleppo

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Telegraph.co.uk

Female punk band on trial for cathedral protest in Russia

Three members of a female punk band have pleaded not guilty to charges of hooliganism over their profanity-laced protest song about Vladimir Putin at Moscow’s main cathedral.

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USA TODAY

OLYMPICS 2012: LONDON GAMES

James assumes leadership role as Team USA humbles France

LeBron James had eight assists and Kevin Durant scored 22 points as the U.S. defeated France, 98-71, in each team’s first basketball contest of the 2012 Olympic Games.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Durant leads Team USA past France

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ESPN

Serena Williams out of mixed doubles

Serena Williams won’t play mixed doubles at the Olympics, and the two U.S. teams will instead feature four doubles specialists — the Bryan brothers and Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond.

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ESPN

The geography of Team USA

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The Atlantic

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Moderate solar storm to hit Earth

A medium-size solar flare erupted from the sun this weekend, hurling a cloud of plasma and charged particles toward Earth on a cosmic path that is expected to deliver a glancing blow to our planet.

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SPACE.com

Will mini-cars be next?

Now that smaller vehicles are viewed as acceptable — smart, even — automakers are exploring the possibility that drivers may want to downshift further, from small to downright tiny.

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TIME

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The future of driving: ‘smart’ cars

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NBCNews.com

HEALTH

Belittling kids as harmful as beating

It may be the most common kind of child abuse — and the most challenging to deal with. But psychological abuse rarely gets the kind of attention that sexual or physical abuse receives.

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CNN

The case for lying to yourself

Lying to yourself — or self-deception, as psychologists call it — can actually have benefits. And nearly everybody does it, according to a growing body of research using new experimental techniques.

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Wall Street Journal

ENVIRONMENT

BP adds $847 million to Deepwater Horizon legal costs

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues to plague BP more than two years after the disaster, as the company has revealed another $847 million hit to cover rising legal costs.

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Guardian

Former global warming skeptic makes a ‘total turnaround’

A professor at the Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, says he has become convinced that “the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct,” and that humans are “almost entirely the cause” of that warming.

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LiveScience

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The psychology of a $666 burger and other haute cuisine

Even as we decry the indulgences of the super rich, those of us who have the means will still jump at the chance to enjoy a lobster dinner or spring for that fancy goat cheese with jam.

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The Atlantic

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The Age

T.S. Eliot’s’ ‘The Waste Land’ 2012 — a multimedia walk

Earlier this summer, 25 walkers set off to explore the changing face of London through a group reading of T.S. Eliot’s poem, “The Waste Land.”

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Guardian

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

More young adults living with parents

It’s not your imagination: It really is more crowded at mom and dad’s place. A tough economy translates into a rise in young adults aged 25 to 34 moving back into (or never leaving) their parent’s homes.

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TIME

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Wang Hao of China serves against Werner Schlager of Austria during their men’s table tennis match at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (Photo by Sergei Grits / AP)

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