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Judy Wheeler, a support of Andrew Romanoff, candidate in the Democratic Primary race for the U.S. Senate seat in Colorado cries as Romanoff concedes defeat in Denver. (Photo by Chris Schneider / AP)

With the web, curiosity and luck, sperm donor siblings connect

Fifteen years ago, sperm donation enabled two mothers to give birth to the children they always wanted. Now the Internet age has allowed their twins to find each other.

CNN

1 missing, 10 rescued after being swept away in storm-swollen Iowa creek

One person was missing and 10 were rescued after several cars were swept away in a storm-swollen creek in Iowa. Thunderstorms dumped up to 6 inches of rain on parts of the state.

MSNBC

Primary night yields good news for Dems

President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party, who have been starved for good news through much of 2010, finally received a generous helping.

Politico

Bennet beats Romanoff in primaries

Denver Post

Discussion:

Election 2010 map: Track House, Senate and governor races

USA TODAY

Ice island from Greenland glacier could pose threat to oil, shipping

An island of ice more than four times the size of Manhattan is drifting across the Arctic Ocean after breaking off from a glacier in Greenland.

Star Tribune

2 cases of global warming

CBS News

UK Olympic etiquette: Try not to offend

Britain's national tourism agency issued guidelines on the etiquette of dealing with the hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors who will be coming to London for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

CBS News

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Flowers grow on a hillside near an old barn on Sauvie Island, near Portland, Ore. (Photo by Rick Bowmer / AP)	An American Bald eagle cools off at the zoo in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Paul White / AP)	A spider hangs in its web in Slobodka, about 90 miles west of the capital in Minsk, Belarus. (Photo by Sergei Grits / AP)

NATION

Fingerprinting program now includes all border counties

Immigration officials have access to the prints of every inmate booked into jail in all 25 U.S. counties along the Mexican border.

Los Angeles Times

The scene at the border

Christian Science Monitor

Investigators to work plane crash that killed former Sen. Stevens

Investigators will be on the scene of a plane crash that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and four others.

CNN

Sen. Ted Stevens historical gallery

Anchorage Daily News

POLITICS

House passes $26B in state aid

The House interrupted its summer recess to approve $26 billion in aid to school districts and states to prevent large-scale layoffs of teachers and public employees.

New York Times

Democrats: 'Bill spared 1,000s of jobs'

PBS

Rep. Rangel expects Democratic leaders to help with his growing legal bills

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) expects Democratic leaders to help pay his legal bills, but that appears unlikely. Rangel complained about the mounting costs of defending himself against an ethics investigation.

The Hill

HEALTH

Firms help workers give end-of-life care

Pitney Bowes is among several companies now reaching out to employees caring for a loved one with a terminal illness.

NPR

New strategy to fix a broken heart

Engineers have built a scaffold to support the growth of stem cell-derived cardiac muscle cells. This strategy may help overcome the damage to heart muscle from heart attacks.

ScienceDaily

EDUCATION

Obama stresses education

President Barak Obama's visit triggered a day of national politics in the Lone Star State with Republicans staging a rally at the Capitol and Democrats shelling out $5,000 a seat at a fund-raising luncheon.

Houston Chronicle

Countries with the highest graduation rate

Christian Science Monitor

Ariz., Tucson at odds over ethnic studies

Arizona education department officials and administrators for the Tucson Unified School District are set to do battle over whether the school district should continue to offer its ethnic studies.

Education Week

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

The young and widowed find solace, 1 another online

Widows in their 20s, 30s and 40s are finding through social networking that they're not alone.

USA TODAY

Famous wills: the last wishes of historical figures

More than 6 million Victorian and early 20th-century wills have been made public, revealing the last wishes of the most important figures of the age.

The Independent

SPORTS

The Blue Jays' blueprint for success

With a young and hard-throwing pitching rotation, the Toronto Blue Jays seem to have what it takes to compete in the AL East — maybe enough to go all the way.

Sports Illustrated

Benches-clearing scrum sparks Cardinals to tie Reds for NL Central lead

From their first-inning scrum to the final out, the St. Louis Cardinals sent a message: don't demean the defending champs. Not without expecting a fight.

ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

The Mower Gang cleans up Detroit

Tom Nardone, looking for volunteer work that was fun, started the "Mower Gang" to revive unkempt public land in Detroit.

Detroit Free Press

Each breast cancer walker has a unique reason for participating

A group known as the Kindred Spirits has prepared for the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure in Michigan, a 60-mile walk that raises money for breast cancer research and treatment.

Detroit Free Press

WORLD

UN launches $459M Pakistan flood victims appeal

The U.N. has launched an appeal for $459 million to help victims of Pakistan's flood disaster, which has affected at least 14 million people.

BBC

Human rights groups ask Wikileaks to censor files