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Dr. Patrick Hwu, left, talks with his cancer patient Hilde Stapleton during an examination at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Stapleton has been receiving an experimental treatment for melanoma. (Photo by David J. Phillip / AP)

New drugs stir debate on clinical trials

Defenders of controlled trials say they are crucial in determining whether a drug really does extend life more than competing treatments.

MSNBC

Obama urges lawmakers to rally voters

President Barack Obama urged Congressional Black Caucus members to help rally their constituents and remind them that more work must be done to move the country forward.

CNN

GOP weekly address: government spending

Associated Press

Woman freed from Iran arrives in US

Sarah Shourd, an American woman who was held in Iran for more than 13 months and accused of spying, returned to the United States, a spokeswoman said.

CBS News

US woman released by Iran heads home

YouTube

Missing the millennium goals: world fails to deliver on 8 key targets

As world leaders gather at a summit in New York, figures suggest the chances of meeting the Millennium Development Goals by the target date of 2015 are remote.

The Independent

Fraud, turnout weigh on early Afghan vote count

Election officials pored over votes from Afghanistan’s parliamentary poll, but sifting through fraud complaints and waiting for results from the remotest areas will delay even preliminary results for weeks.

Reuters

Afghans vote amid attacks, fraud allegations

Associated Press

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Blacktip reef sharks swim in an aquarium while a child touches the pane at the Leipzig Zoo in central Germany. (Photo by Jens Meyer / AP)	Sanford Stadium is reflected in a pair of sunglasses worn by a Georgia fan during a football game in Athens, Ga. (Photo by John Bazemore / AP)	Chilean Air Force planes fly above La Moneda palace during the bicentennial celebrations in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Roberto Candia / AP)

NATION

Boo! Pop-up stores popping up all over

Retailers are getting ready for the holiday shopping season, and to avoid the cost of long-term leases and permanent locations, more and more companies are selling their goods out of “pop-up” stores.

NPR

Mont. GOP: Make homosexuality illegal

At a time when gays have been gaining victories across the country, the Republican Party in Montana still wants to make homosexuality illegal. The party adopted an official platform in June.

CBS News

POLITICS

GOP divided on new health law

Republicans are promising to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul if they win control of Congress. But with what?

MSNBC

GOP address: government spending

YouTube

Senate Democratic candidates backing away from President Obama’s tax plan

At least seven Democrats in battleground states say they support or could support extending tax breaks for families who make more than $250,000.

The Hill

Federal budget, taxes, economic policy

Polling Report

EDUCATION

College ties to banks, credit-card companies making them millions

Colleges, universities and their alumni associations pocket millions of dollars a year via lucrative deals with banks and credit-card companies that peddle to students, faculty and alumni.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Will edgier college marketing get a failing grade from prospective students?

Drake University hoped a bold, blue “D+” on a direct-mail piece and its admissions website would grab the attention of high school kids inundated with same-old, same-old college recruitment material.

MSNBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The real Jimi Hendrix experience

Forty years ago, one of the most admired rock guitarists died in London at the age of 27. Since his death, Jimi Hendrix has become an icon of 1960s culture, both the music and the visual image known around the world.

BBC

Blog:

40 years after, ‘The Experience’ lives on

(Washington Post)

Post Mortem

Review: Give this gent a 20

This month the show, “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”, and its baby-faced 28-year-old star are headed for Broadway.

Vanity Fair

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope says he’s ashamed, sorry for abuse and hopes humiliation will help heal

Pope Benedict XVI said he was ashamed of the “unspeakable” sexual abuse of children by priests, telling the British faithful during Mass in Westminster Cathedral that he was deeply sorry.

Baltimore Sun

Pope apologizes for pedophilia in church

YouTube

Muslim summit planned as backers of NYC Islamic center seek to jell support

A summit of U.S. Muslim organizations is planned to address both the project and a rise in anti-Muslim sentiments and rhetoric that has accompanied the nationwide debate over the project.

Star Tribune

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The Daily Quote

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

John Quincy Adams

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GOOD NEWS

Cape May Mermaid Guild has fun while aiding charity

A group of South Jersey businesswomen raised more than $20,000 in a mere three hours at a charity event they had quickly pulled together and dubbed the King Neptune Bachelor Auction.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Pope ends British visit, beatifies 19th century convert

ope Benedict XVI put one of the church’s most celebrated converts one step closer to sainthood and reiterated his support for a plan to make it easier for Britain’s Anglicans to join the Catholic Church.

Religion News Service

WORLD

Air India bomb plotter convicted of perjury

A Canadian who helped make the bomb that destroyed an Air India jet in 1985 has been convicted of committing perjury at the subsequent trial.

BBC

Far right tests Swedish tolerance