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A man walks past by a building damaged by earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. (Photo by Dita Alangkara / AP)

Indonesian earthquake toll reaches 770

Violent aftershocks continued to rock western Indonesia as the death toll from yesterday's earthquake reached 770 and authorities warned that thousands of people could have died.

The Australian

Disasters caused by 'separate faults'

Telegraph.co.uk

Samoan islands shaken by 2nd quake

CNN

Key Dems confident card-check will pass

A key Senate negotiator trying to advance a contentious union-organizing bill said a modified version could pass the upper chamber this year, despite his reservations with the changes.

The Hill

Key Iran nuclear talks under way

Iranian representatives are meeting the five permanent U.N. Security Council seat holders — UK, China, France, Russia and the U.S. — plus Germany, in Geneva.

BBC

Timeline: Iran's nuclear program

Reuters

Health care may hit House, Senate floor by mid-month

Historic health care legislation could be on the floor of both houses of Congress as early as mid-October.

The Herald

Senate panel faces final hurdle over funding

Bloomberg

Big names arrive in Copenhagen for Olympic bid

Royalty, heads of state, athletes and celebrities are all vying to win the IOC vote to host the 2016 Olympics.

Copenhagen Post

Poll: Who should host the 2016 Olympics?

Huffington Post

Chicago: 2016 Olympics?

CBS News

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A model wears a creation by Gareth Pugh during a fashion show in Paris. (Photo by Jacques Brinon / AP)	Aspen trees stand straight into the blue sky near Buena Vista, Colo. (Photo by Nathan Bilow / AP)	A Jewish man in Jerusalem checks myrtle branches for the holiday of Sukkot . (Photo by Bernat Armangue / AP)

NATION

Bernanke subdued on Fed's consumer protection role

Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress that the central bank is “well suited” to oversee colossal financial companies whose failure could endanger the entire economy.

Globeandmail.com

Speech:

Bernanke's testimony on regulatory reform

Reuters

EPA moves to regulate smokestack greenhouse gases

Proposed regulations would require emissions sources to reduce greenhouse gases by installing the best available technology and improving energy efficiency on new or changed facilities.

Boston Herald

Police use acoustic warfare on crowds

Police ordered protesters to disperse at the Group of 20 summit last week with a device that can beam verbal instructions and earsplitting alarm tones that legal groups called potentially dangerous.

Seattle Times

POLITICS

Rep. Alan Grayson: no apology for 'die quickly' remark

Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., has resisted GOP calls to apologize for saying Republicans "want you to die quickly if you get sick."

USA TODAY

'Die quickly' comment draws fire

CNN

Congress passes stopgap bill to keep government running

With time running out, Congress passed a stopgap measure to keep the federal government operating for another month, while it struggled to finish nearly a dozen overdue spending bills.

New York Times

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Art sales uneven for artists at Santa Fe's Indian Market

Each year at the end of the summer, more than a thousand American Indian artists converge in Santa Fe, N.M., to sell their work at Indian Market.

NPR

NY publisher releases Deveraux novel as video book

The latest novel from best-selling romance author Jude Deveraux isn't exactly a book. "Promises" is a video book — or "vook" — a digital reading and viewing experience.

Denver Post

HEALTH

Domestic abuse may be predictable, researchers say

It may be possible to use a person's electronic medical records to predict the likelihood of domestic abuse years before it actually occurs, according to U.S. researchers.

HealthDay

States prepare for arrival of H1N1 vaccine

Kansas and Missouri will soon have their first 50,000 H1N1 doses of flu vaccine, but don’t roll up your sleeve just yet.

Kansas City Star

H1N1 fears to subside after vaccine delivery

YouTube

Candy, chocolate in kids makes for violent adults, study says

Children who eat candy and chocolate every day are more likely to be violent when they grow up because the instant gratification can nurture impulsive behavior, according to a U.K. study.

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

The dollars and sense of closing US schools for H1N1

Economists estimate that closing all U.S. schools for a month would cost the already stressed national economy between $10 billion and $47 billion.

Scientific American

After school programs net gains in math, but not reading

A federal study of curriculum materials used in two after-school programs has found that a math program produced significant gains in student achievement, while a reading program did not.

Education Week

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Lodi City Council votes to keep prayer as 'uncensored invocation'

After months of debate, the Lodi City Council in Lodi, Calif., voted 5-0 to keep prayer before council meetings.

Examiner

Religious tension mounts in Vietnam

Four years ago the Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, was invited by the Vietnamese government to return home from exile. But four years on, there are signs that the authorities' new-found tolerance is waning.

BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Farmington, NM, councilman donates salary for parks

A city councilman in Farmington, New Mexico, privately donated his annual $10,000 salary for five years to the city for parks and recreation projects.

Farmington Daily Times

Kidney recipient and donor have generosity in common

A story about a man who donated his kidney to a total stranger touched hearts across Chicago and the country.

CBS 2

Fighter jet missing 5 decades found off Calif. coast

Searchers in California say they have found and identified the wreck of a fighter jet that disappeared into the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles International Airport nearly 54 years ago.

WIBW

WORLD

Philippines begins evacuations as Typhoon Parma heads for Luzon