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A security guard directs traffic into the parking lot of the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va. U.S. air strikes in Yemen killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American militant cleric at the Va mosque, who became a prominent figure in the terror network’s most dangerous branch. (Photo by Cliff Owen / AP)

‘The gift of Detroit’: tilling urban terrain

Detroit is a surprisingly green landscape during the spring and summer months. Alongside houses that are crumbling, boarded up or just missing lie community gardens and even some urban farms.

NPR

As secularism grows in US, atheists push their cause

About 400 people are preparing to gather for a conference in Hartford, Conn., to promote the end of religion in the U.S. and their vision of a more secular future for the country.

Guardian

Retaliation possible over al-Awlaki killing

The U.S. State Department has issued a “worldwide” alert, warning overseas travelers of a possible retaliation against America following the killing of militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.

CNN

How American intelligence finally caught up with Anwar al-Awlaki

Telegraph.co.uk

Death of Anwar al-Awlaki unlikely to concern Arab world

Sydney Morning Herald

Blog:

Yemen: Warplane mistakenly kills soldiers

(Baltimore Sun)

Nation/World

Greece to unveil retrenchment plan

Greece’s government is expected to unveil plans for laying off state workers as it seeks to free up European Union and International Monetary Fund loans and stave off bankruptcy.

Al Jazeera

Tibet’s next incarnation

Unlike protest campaigns in the 1950s and ’80s, the new wave of demonstrations in Tibet has flared across the entire Tibetan Plateau.

TIME

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India‘s Jodha, right, competes with Pakistan’s Mohammed Ali in an Indian style wrestling competition at Katra, India. (Photo by Channi Anand / AP)	Wiz Khalifa is outlined by lights on the stage as he performs during the BET Hip Hop Awards in Atlanta. (Photo by David Goldman / AP)	Kittens are held by their owner waiting for the evaluation of a judge at an international cat beauty show in Bucharest, Romania. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda / AP)

NATION

Study: Most US states score an ‘F’ on civil rights education

American students are increasingly ignorant of the basic history of the civil rights movement, according to a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

TIME

The fight to save the US Postal Service

The U.S. Postal Service is the seventh largest employer in the world. But like a lot of other businesses, this one is being hit hard by the tough economy and transformed by the Internet.

NPR

Congress gives Postal Service reprieve on debt

San Francisco Chronicle

Military chaplains can now perform same-sex marriages

Military chaplains may perform same-sex marriages, even on military bases, in states where such ceremonies are allowed, but will not be forced to do so, the Pentagon said.

Politico

No change seen from Obama on gay marriage

Las Vegas Sun

Blog:

Military chaplains won’t be forced to conduct same-sex marriages

Beliefnet

POLITICS

Pastors try to pick a tax fight with IRS

This weekend, hundreds of pastors, including some of the nation’s evangelical leaders, will climb into their pulpits to preach about American politics.

MSNBC

Perry defends tuition law as conservatives revive repeal effort

As Gov. Rick Perry travels the nation defending Texas’ decade-old law allowing in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, some conservatives back home are mobilizing a repeal effort.

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog:

Rick Perry says drug war ‘may require our military in Mexico’

(ABC News)

The Note

Wall Street protests enter 14th day

Protests meant to draw attention to the power of Wall Street firms in the United States and world economies have continued for a 14th straight day in New York City.

CNN

Wall Street protests

CBS News

BUSINESS

Investors sing a new tune — ‘won’t get fooled again’

Sure, the markets had a couple of spectacular days, but don’t let that fool you into thinking all is well again with the world. There’s still plenty of uncertainty over stocks.

Wall Street Journal

Bank of America may get the last laugh

In the immediate aftermath of Bank of America‘s new debit card fee announcement, many of the bank’s customers have declared this is the last straw. But changing banks is no easy task.

CNNMoney

HEALTH

Surgery is not meant to be ‘a magic pill’ for obese patients

Losing weight in America is big business, and one of the fastest growing and lucrative segments of the burgeoning weight-loss market is surgery.

NPR

Cantaloupe-borne Listeriosis toll rises to 15 dead, 84 sickened

The number of people who’ve died or been sickened in the listeriosis outbreak linked to cantaloupe from a Colorado farm rose again.

USA TODAY

Special section:

Dangerous food: the stats on foodborne illness

LiveScience

ENVIRONMENT

Bats have unique superfast squeak muscles for superfast echolocation calls

The only mammals that can fly are also the only mammals with a larynx that flexes at ludicrous speed, a new study shows. Bats have a superfast pulse called the terminal buzz.

A feud over the right to tap what could be the world’s biggest discovery of natural gas in years has stoked fierce tensions in the eastern Mediterranean, pitting Turkey against other countries in the region.

Guardian

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

New Orleans pastor on restaurant quest can’t live by bread alone

Four years ago, Minister Ray Cannata set out to eat at every restaurant in New Orleans. He’d already checked 719 eateries off his list. That last meal will be a dinner he refers to as “the last supper.”

Religion News Service

How the Catholic Church is making a comeback in Cuba

It‘s been a year of resurrection for Cuba’s Roman Catholic Church, but any sense of exultation by church leaders is tempered by a familiar feeling of persecution.

TIME

Cool Stuff

The Daily Quote

“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”

Laozi

Chinese philosopher

Daily Quote Archives

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Yossi Melman):

Bush talked about a war on terror, but Obama acted

(Haaretz)

The Arms Race

Column (Scott Timberg):

The creative class is a lie

Salon

Blog (Ben Hayden, Ph.D.):

Do you really love your iPhone, that way?

(Psychology Today)

The Decision Tree

Editorial:

Chart a new course for US immigration

Star Tribune

Column (Eric Pooley):

How Inhofe turns balloon animals into ‘news’

Grist

Blog (Barbara Sehr):

Some close encounters of the GOP kind!

(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Barbara Sehr

Column (Daniel Lewis):

Hope for Afghanistan, with its new generation of law students

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Noam Chomsky):

Is the world just too big to fail?

Al Jazeera

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Auto industry: Warren Brown Sept. 30 at 11 am

Washington Post

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Washington Post

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ESPN

TV talk: Lisa de Moraes Sept. 30 at 1 pm

Washington Post

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GOOD NEWS

UN launches competition to design memorial to victims of slavery

The UN launched a global competition for the design of the structure to remind the world that millions of Africans were violently removed from their homelands, abused and robbed of their dignity.

UN News Centre

Implant brings hearing to deaf woman

Sloan Churman, 29, who was born profoundly deaf, wept when she heard her own voice and laughter for the first time after having a hearing device implanted.

Medical News Today

Side-Out Foundation awards $160K to the FNIH to support breast cancer trial

The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health announced that The Side-Out Foundation, a Virginia-based nonprofit, has donated $160,000 to the I-SPY 2 breast cancer clinical trial.

PNNOnline

WORLD

Canada: Alison Redford elected Alberta’s 1st female premier