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President Barack Obama is joined on stage by first lady Michelle Obama and their children Sasha and Malia on the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

Modern friendship meets online

While traditional fraternal and social organizations continue to lose steam, the online-based organization, Meetup.com, has attracted more than 16 million members globally.

Star Tribune

Report: US-based foreign employers don’t care about politics

As we await the monthly jobs report, it’s a good opportunity to look at the other side of the employment coin: The foreign-based U.S. employers who employ about 5 million Americans.

ABC News

President Obama lays out election choice

President Barack Obama told voters they face a generational choice as he accepted the nomination of the Democratic party.

BBC

Obama’s safety at DNC: techs that protect

Discovery News

Special section:

2012 election coverage

USA TODAY

President Obama’s full speech

YouTube

Leslie loses strength, downgraded to tropical storm

Hurricane Leslie lost power as it idled over the ocean, weakening into a tropical storm that appeared likely to miss Bermuda.

CNN

Special section:

Leslie heads north

The Weather Channel

Yosemite extends hantavirus warning

Yosemite National Park broadened the scope of its health alert on the deadly mouse-borne hantavirus as the death toll rose to three, warning roughly 12,000 additional visitors.

Reuters

NATION

Ranks of homeless students steadily grows

The homeless student population of Galveston, TX reached 1,800 in 2011, three years after Ike’s storm surge. Over the past four years, the national number increased by 57 percent.

Houston Chronicle

Hunger rose across America in 2011 as economy struggled

McClatchy Newspapers

Women failing to get hired in US seen in childcare woes

Cost-conscious households are one reason employment in the childcare industry has dropped 1.8 percent since the recession ended in June 2009, even as total U.S. payrolls increased 2.1 percent.

Bloomberg

Grandparents provide care for the grandkids

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Feds probe alleged hacking theft of Romney’s tax returns

An unknown person claims to have stolen Romney’s tax returns and threatens to release the information publicly unless Romney pays $1 million.

CNET News

Civil rights under threat as states plan assault on anti-discrimination laws

A rash of legal challenges to a core piece of U.S. civil rights legislation is threatening the foundations of nearly half a century of laws to combat racial discrimination.

Guardian

Arizona immigration law is a legal minefield

USA TODAY

BUSINESS

Amazon unveils new Kindle

The Kindle Fire HD, Amazon’s new souped-up tablet, will be bigger, faster and more expensive, CEO Jeff Bezos announced at a press event.

ABC News

US Airways forecasts an increase in air travel through year’s end

A top official of US Airways Group Inc. said that demand for air travel could improve in the fourth quarter as the public gets more clarity on the outcome of the U.S. elections and the fiscal cliff.

Philadelphia Inquirer

HEALTH

Kid cranky? Cut texting

A new study notes a correlation between those who text in the hour before trying to go to sleep with being 51 percent less likely to report getting a good night’s sleep.

Star Tribune

Report: US health care system wastes $750B a year

The U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion a year through unneeded care, byzantine paperwork, fraud and other waste, the Institute of Medicine said in a report.

Denver Post

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Newfound DNA holds promise of cures

Scientists have now uncovered new clues that promise to reveal how genes work to cause disease and how those genes regulate their own immensely varied functions.

San Francisco Chronicle

What the Encode project tells us about the human genome

Guardian

Super gel can stretch to extreme lengths without breaking

A new type of hydrogel developed at Harvard University promises to be far more robust than your corrective lenses, stretching up to 20 times its original length without breaking.

Gizmodo

SPORTS

US football snack prices double with drought withering crops

The price of food items popular during the U.S. football season, from corn chips and burgers to nachos and wings, is rising after the worst drought since 1956 damaged crops.

Bloomberg

Cowboys drop defending champion Giants in NFL opener

Dallas will not make up for their New Year’s Day loss with this 24-17 victory, but it sure could provide impetus for this season, particularly with the discovery of a new game-breaker, Kevin Ogletree.

CBC News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Brad Tuttle):

Best customers get penalized with higher bills

TIME

Editorial:

A reality show stars the SEALs

Virginian-Pilot

Cartoon (Pat Bagley):

Bill Clinton is in the building

Salt Lake Tribune

Blog (Julia Michaels):

What if technology could undermine drug violence in Brazil?

Latin America Monitor

(Christian Science Monitor)

Blog (Amy Davidson):

Love and presidents: the difference between Michelle and Ann

(The New Yorker)

Daily Comment

Column (Kevin Carrico):

Defenders of the ‘Chinese way’ are off the mark

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Annie Murphy Paul):

What distinguishes a superschool from the rest

TIME

Column (Irin Carmon):

Sandra Fluke: From ‘slut’ to speaker, she still matters

Salon

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GOOD NEWS

Boy wins $1K in scavenger hunt, donates all to sick neighbor girl

Wyatt Erber, an eight-year-old from Edwardsville, Ill., won a scavenger hunt and donated his $1,000 prize to the family of neighbor Cara Kielty, a 2-year-old who is battling leukemia.

Huffington Post

Girl returns lost money, gains reward

Yahoo! News

Parents give goodie bags on flight

Parents of 14-week-old twins provided all fellow flight passengers with goodie bags of ear plugs, candies and an apology note for the potential crying of their newborns.

Travelers Today

‘Magic carpet’ predicts falls for elderly

A team of researchers at the University of Manchester in England has developed a carpet embedded with optical fibers that can sense and map walking patterns in real time.

Discovery News

WORLD

Can private cities save a nation with world’s worst murder rate?

Honduras has unveiled a radical free-market plan to establish three “charter cities” in the violence-racked Central American nation from scratch.

The Independent

ECB’s Mario Draghi unveils bond-buying euro debt plan

Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, is unveiling details of a new bond-buying plan aimed at easing the eurozone’s debt crisis. Draghi has said that he will do “whatever it takes."

BBC

Special section:

Debt crisis live

Telegraph.co.uk

EDUCATION

The open doors of higher education

London’s Metropolitan University is taking legal action after losing its right to admit non-EU students. The case has pitted efforts to tighten immigration against a lucrative international student industry.

Christian Science Monitor

Judge rules against Fla. policy linking tuition to parents’ immigration status

McClatchy Newspapers

Virtual education addresses online teacher certification

Now that 40 states have virtual schools or initiatives in the works to open them, more attention is given to the skills required of online teachers.

Education Week

ENVIRONMENT

Wild bees: champions for food security and protectors of biodiversity

Pollinating insects contribute to agricultural production in 150 European crops that depend on insects for their pollination and yield.

ScienceDaily

Water voles wander across ‘fragmented’ Scottish habitat

Scottish water voles have been found to travel around bogs, lochs and moors in order to join or establish new colonies.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Soldiers learn spiritual fitness

Members of the Fort Benning-based 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team gathered at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, to reinforce the value of spirituality in a soldier’s life.

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Agent Orange victims receive a Scientology ‘detox’

Vietnamese people with ailments linked to Agent Orange are undergoing a “detoxification” treatment developed by the Church of Scientology involving saunas and vitamins.

San Francisco Chronicle

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Andy Warhol’s ‘15 minutes’ not up yet

Iconic pop artist Andy Warhol is often quoted as saying: “In the future, everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” His influence on art has well surpassed the 15-minute mark.

CNN

Warhol foundation selling off all its art

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The #NYFW diet: Part of the job?

New York Fashion Week is one of the biggest events of the year, the culmination of months of planning, organizing, schmoozing — and dieting?

CNN

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