DailySource: Quality News from Around the Internet

To donate by check or credit card, click the graphic above.

We are a 501(c)3 charity so donations are tax-deductible.

To find all the ways you can help, click here.

Shop and Donate

Use the search box below, and Amazon will donate 4-7 percent of any purchase you make to us.

Other Items

Website monitoring
for DailySource
provided for free by
WatchMouse

Click here
to follow our news
updates on Twitter

Subscribe to our
feeds via

A Muslim man reads the Quran on the first day of Ramadan at the Grand Mosque in Sanaa, Yemen. Muslim authorities in most of the Middle East declared the start of Ramadan, a period devoted to dawn-to-dusk fasting, prayers and spiritual introspection. (Photo by Hani Mohammed / AP)

Sweltering days of Ramadan to test Muslims’ devotion

It’s an annual challenge of patience and self-restraint, but this year the month of Ramadan has loomed under a scorching sun of intimidation.

Houston Chronicle

Unrest in Middle East, Africa cast pall over Ramadan for Muslims

CNN

Special section:

Islam at a glance

BBC

Factory growth slows and casts shadow on economy

Manufacturing grew at its slowest pace in two years in July as new orders contracted, a troubling development for the faltering economy.

Reuters

House passes debt ceiling increase

The House of Representatives voted on a deal to raise the government’s debt ceiling and prevent a first-ever U.S. default. The vote was 269-161.

NPR

Asia stocks, US futures, dollar gain on deal

Bloomberg

Special section:

America’s debt battle

CBS News

President Obama: ‘We’re not done yet’

MSNBC

Crimes against LGBT community are up, despite social gains

Violent crimes, including murder, increased against people identifying themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, an advocacy group reports.

USA TODAY

Blog:

Undergoing therapy to change sexual orientation can be harmful

(NPR)

Shots

Overseas job assignments get a haircut

Some corporations are taking a new approach to the overseas assignment. They have begun to send employees abroad to work on projects to see how they work and adapt outside their comfort zones.

CNNMoney

The World in Photos .........................................................................
Costumed participants sprinkle water in the street to encourage people to help during the hot summer in Tokyo. (Photo by Junji Kurokawa / AP)	Arizona Cardinals’ Larry Fitzgerald makes a catch at Cardinals NFL football training camp in Flagstaff, Ariz. (Photo by Ross D. Franklin / AP)	Roses stand on the sand next to photos of victims of violence during a protest at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. (Photo by Felipe Dana / AP)

NATION

Arizona middle-class struggling, doing without health care

Dwindling job security, reduced home values and higher personal health costs have changed many middle class lives, with people delaying medical care because they don’t have insurance or cash.

Arizona Republic

FBI says it has a ‘credible lead’ in D.B. Cooper hijacking case

The FBI says it has a “credible” lead in the D.B. Cooper case involving the 1971 hijacking of a passenger jet over Washington state and the suspect’s legendary parachute escape.

Salt Lake Tribune

Heat wave threatens elderly in US towns

The air is cool inside a makeshift coffee shop on the main strip in Mulhall, a northern Oklahoma farming community, but there aren’t many customers with temperatures topping 100 degrees.

MSNBC

Texas Gulf oysters suffering in drought

Seattle Times

POLITICS

A troubled gun sting confirms US role in Mexico’s violence

A broad array of Mexicans says the scandal simply underscores the ease with which brutal crime gangs obtain large quantities of assault weapons from U.S. gun shops near the border.

McClatchy Newspapers

Sperling doesn’t expect there to be a double-dip recession

White House economic advisor Gene Sperling dismissed fears that the U.S. could face another recessionary slump.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Colorado bank failures could cost the FDIC slightly more than $1B

Five Colorado bank failures could cost the nation’s deposit insurance fund slightly more than $1 billion.

Denver Post

Borders‘ demise isn’t all good news for smaller booksellers

They’ve survived Amazon, e-books and big-box retailers — at least so far. Now independent bookstores are trying to find their way in a post-Borders world.

McClatchy Newspapers

ENVIRONMENT

Iowa is a lean, mean, invincible, ‘grain-growing,’ machine

Iowa is an agricultural superpower, that also eclipses Canada in grain production and challenges China in soybean production. No, these are not mathematical errors.

Grist

Parched as Florida is now, next year could be worse

Despite five wet weeks that dulled the drought’s edge, the area remains far behind in rainfall — leaving South Florida little time before a new dry season that could be even worse than the last.

Palm Beach Post

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Internet archivist seeks to collect 1 of every book written

Tucked away in a small warehouse on a dead-end street, an Internet pioneer is building a bunker to protect an endangered species: the printed word.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Being Juliette Binoche

She’s not a feminist, but says women are born creative. Juliette Binoche talks to Laura Barnett about her spat with Gerard Depardieu, bad reviews — and why acting is like peeling onions.

Guardian

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

NC appeals court rules against county in prayer lawsuit

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has upheld a lower court’s decision that declared the use of prayer to open North Carolina’s Forsyth County Board of Commissioners meetings unconstitutional.

MSNBC

German nuns bake bread for pope

Benedict XVI will not visit the Benedictine Abbey of St. Gertrud, but preparations for his trip are nevertheless in full swing, with the nuns baking thousands of communion wafers to be blessed by the pope.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

EDUCATION

Changes to GED testing spur worry

Virginia’s Race to GED program has increased the number of successful test-takers by 50 percent. Education officials worry that GED testing changes will curb that progress.

Virginian-Pilot

Universities ‘buy’ top A-level students

The highest performing A-level candidates could be tempted with cut-price deals on tuition fees, as some English universities face pressure to maintain student numbers.

Guardian

Cool Stuff

The Daily Quote

“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

First lady

Daily Quote Archives

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Jerry Large):

After Norway attack: How to embrace lots of cultures?

Seattle Times

Column (Charles Krauthammer):

Until it wins another house, GOP shouldn’t try to govern

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Paul Krugman):

The president surrenders

New York Times

Editorial:

Deal not pretty, but beats alternative

USA TODAY

Column (Mitch Albom):

Beach Boys prove summer is forever

Detroit Free Press

Editorial:

Benefits outweigh birth control costs

Star Tribune

Blog (Rebecca MacKinnon):

Our Web freedom at the mercy of tech giants

(CNN)

TEDTalk Tuesdays

Column (Glenn Greenwald):

Politics in a nutshell

Salon

Column (Albert R. Hunt):

3rd-party chestnut won’t fix broken politics

Bloomberg

Live Chats All times are E.T.

Debt limit: Chris Cillizza Aug. 1 at noon

Washington Post

Jobs: Elaine Varelas Aug. 1 at noon

Boston Globe

Immigration law: Andrew Wilson Aug. 1 at 2 pm

Lawyers.com

NFL: Gary Horton Aug. 1 at 4 pm

ESPN

Site edited by: Jodi McMaster, Laura Hardman, Cynthia Vidal, Harsha Malik, Shahinaz Ayoub, Richard Hudson, Kevin Augustine, Kathie Raikes, Brian Lam, Veronica Privett and Valerie Serrano.

GOOD NEWS

Blind surfers get opportunity to hang 10

Some teens have limited sight and others live in a world of total darkness, unable even to sense light. All are getting an opportunity that once would have seemed unthinkable.

ABC News

New gallery 71 POP gives emerging artists space to make their mark

Detroit is being rebuilt piece by piece — an independent store here, a coffee shop there, lofts here and there.

Detroit Free Press

Solar chargers for electric cars make zero emissions a reality

The California company, SolarCity, has started offering solar EV chargers to customers in 11 states and Washington, D.C., allowing people to drive their cars purely on sunshine.

Good News Network

WORLD

Somalia famine: African Union calls ‘pledging summit’