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With the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the background, a religious Israeli man reacts during the funeral of two of the four Israelis killed in the West Bank in a Palestinian shooting attack as a new round of Mideast talks opened in Washington. (Photo by Sebastian Scheiner / AP)

How do we bring rogue drones home?

An advanced fly-by-wire system capable of landing grossly damaged unmanned aircraft is key to solving one of unmanned flight’s biggest problems.

Hurricane warnings and watches have been issued as forecasters warned Category 3 Hurricane Earl will be approaching the East Coast by late Thursday.

CNN

Special section:

Hurricane Earl: 5 things you should do to prepare

Christian Science Monitor

East Coast waits and wonders about Earl's path

YouTube

Attack overshadows new Middle East talks

Palestinian security forces have mounted a huge operation in the West Bank to catch the killers of four Israeli settlers shot. Dozens of members of Hamas, which said it carried out the attack, have been arrested.

BBC

Obama opens long-shot talks on Middle East peace

MSNBC

Special section:

Key players in peace talks

Reuters

Burger King could be snapped up by private equity firm

Burger King has been hard hit by the global financial slowdown, with sales under pressure from rising jobless numbers and declining consumer confidence.

Guardian

Campaign pushes Yom Kippur as technology and device-free day

A new campaign is promoting Yom Kippur as a day to disconnect from technology, urging all Americans, Jewish or not, to do the same.

Forward

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Ivory Coast's Mouloukou Diabate jumps during a World Basketball Championship match in Ankara, Turkey. (Photo by Thanassis Stavrakis / AP)	Swimmers float down the lazy river at Red Oaks Waterpark in Madison Heights, Mich. (Photo by Paul Sancya / AP)	Artists prepare to perform during a Tibet Week event at the Shanghai Expo. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko / AP)

NATION

Vice President Biden marks transfer of US command in Iraq

After more than seven years of American military operations in Iraq, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden helped mark the transfer of U.S. military command in Iraq.

CNN

Fact check: Is Iraq combat really over for US?

San Francisco Chronicle

Obama addresses the nation

C-Span

Migrants say crossing Ariz. border worth risk of death

Deaths of illegal immigrants in Arizona have soared this summer. Many thought that the furor over the new immigration law and the 100-plus degree heat would draw them elsewhere along the 2,000-mile border.

MSNBC

35 years on, Vietnam heroes reunited

Crew members paid their respects to Ba Nguyen, a helicopter pilot whose stunning airmanship they never forgot. Theirs was a story of selfless rescue at the end of the Vietnam War, nearly lost in history.

NPR

POLITICS

Murkowski gives up

Alaska senator concedes to Joe Miller — a far-right candidate who makes both parties nervous.

Newsweek

Murkowski concedes Alaska primary race

YouTube

Fed policy meeting minutes show debate on economic outlook

Federal Reserve Board policymakers were unusually split at their last meeting over what to do about the struggling U.S. economy, according to recently released minutes.

CNNMoney

Cash-strapped Calif. county voters approve hospital tax

Voters in a rural California county in such dire financial condition that it's seeking a state bailout approved a tax to fund their hospital.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

BUSINESS

New job means lower wages for many

Job growth is increasingly polarized between high-paid occupations demanding education and training and low-wage, service-type jobs.

New York Times

Nuclear industry takes a new path

Of the nation's 104 commercial reactors, no two are exactly the same, a fact that experts blame for causing construction and regulatory delays and leading to bigger bills for power customers.

San Francisco Chronicle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New technique finds gaseous metals in exoplanet atmospheres

Using a new technique at a new telescope, two separate groups of scientists have discovered potassium in the atmospheres of two hot Jupiters more than 190 light-years from Earth.

Wired

NASA and ATK successfully test 5-segment solid rocket motor

With a loud roar and mighty column of flame, NASA and ATK Aerospace Systems successfully completed a full-scale test of the largest and most powerful solid rocket motor designed for flight.

Science Daily

NASA tests largest-ever solid rocket motor

Popular Science

ENVIRONMENT

Can Coon Rapids Dam stop Asian carp?

A consultant will investigate whether the dam on the Mississippi River is the best place for Minnesota to take a stand against the dreaded invasive species.

Star Tribune

Calif. rejects ban on plastic bags

California lawmakers rejected a bill seeking to ban plastic shopping bags, after a contentious debate over whether the state was going too far in trying to regulate personal choice.

Forbes

SPORTS

Brigham Young University football chooses to go independent

Brigham Young University says it is leaving the Mountain West Conference and will go independent in football while joining the West Coast Conference in all other sports in the 2011-2012 school year.

CBSSports

Pakistan match-fixing fight: 3 arrested

Mazhar Majeed, the man at the center of the cricket match fixing scandal, has been arrested by customs officers over claims that he laundered tens of millions of dollars through a non-league soccer team.

Telegraph.co.uk

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GOOD NEWS

Champion barbecue teams make large food donation to kitchen

St. Michael’s Kitchen was the recent recipient of “hundreds of pounds” of barbecued pork, brisket, ribs and chicken donated by teams from the first Colorado State BBQ Championship.

Steamboat Today

Good News for the environment is good news for people in need

The Good News Project is a 27-year-old charity and holds eight recycling events a year, even in the winter, collecting tons of old electronics. All funds are given to missions and charities.

CNN

WORLD

Yemeni flight pair 'not planning attack,' cautions US

U.S. officials have said they do not believe two Yemeni men arrested in Amsterdam after flying from Chicago were planning a terror attack. The two men are being held by Dutch authorities.

BBC

Asylum seekers protest in Australia