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Job seekers wait in line to enter a job fair in San Mateo, Calif. Businesses likely shrugged off recession fears and kept hiring in August, although not nearly enough to lower the unemployment rate. (Photo by Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP)

How to save the Taj Mahal?

A debate rages over preserving the awe-inspiring, 350-year-old monument that now shows signs of distress from pollution and shoddy repairs.

Smithsonian Magazine

Southern US states on storm alert

U.S. southern states cast a wary eye on the Gulf of Mexico following forecasts of a tropical depression that could drench the coast over the holiday weekend.

CNN

Map:

Satellite map

The Weather Channel

Hurricane Irene

TIME

Employers added no new jobs in August

Unemployment in the U.S. remained unchanged in August as employers added no new jobs for the first time since World War II, the Department of Labor reported.

ABC News

Unemployment, Inc.: 6 reasons why America can’t create jobs

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Where are the jobs?

Washington Post

Obama urged to ‘go big’ with jobs package

NPR

Grandpa still works, kids can’t find jobs

CNNMoney

Obama has yielded to GOP demands over smog rule

In a dramatic reversal, President Barack Obama scrubbed a clean-air regulation that aimed to reduce health-threatening smog, yielding to bitterly protesting businesses and congressional Republicans.

San Francisco Chronicle

Physicists turn single atom into mirror

Physicists have fashioned a mirror from a single atom. The advance might lead to an atom-sized transistor for light.

Science

The World in Photos .........................................................................
Entrants and their sheep walk in the show ring during a competition at the annual Geauga County Fair in Burton, Ohio. (Photo by Amy Sancetta / AP)	A butterfly is seen in a field of flowers in Prek Eng village in the outskirt of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Photo by Heng Sinith / AP)	Martin J. Hermann decorates the Pope Benedict XVI teddy bear in a show room of a manufacturer of fine German teddy bears, in Coburg. (Photo by Jens Meyer / AP)

NATION

Analysis: Quakes pose bigger mishap risk to reactors

The risk that an earthquake would cause a severe accident at a U.S. nuclear plant is greater than previously thought, 24 times as high in one case, according to an analysis of preliminary government data.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Reinforcements, weather aid firefighters in Oklahoma and Texas

A wildfire burned for a third day in a wooded 18-square-mile area of Oklahoma’s capital and has consumed at least 25 homes, including rambling mansions with horse facilities.

Reuters

Worst drought in Texas history

PBS

Firefighters responding to 9/11 at increased cancer risk

Firefighters exposed to toxic dust and fumes clogging the air after the World Trade Center towers collapsed 10 years ago are more likely to develop cancer, according to a new study.

CNN

POLITICS

Federal deportation review comes too late for some

In a move that could shake up the U.S. immigration system, the Department of Homeland Security said the government would review about 300,000 pending deportation cases.

CNN

Showing immigrants the door

TIME

Jack Kimball resigns as chairman of the NH Republican Party

Just minutes before New Hampshire’s GOP executive committee members were expected to remove Jack Kimball, Kimball said he will step down.

Politico

Lieberman: Obama’s concern with offending Muslims hurts war effort

The Obama administration’s fear of offending Muslims will hurt the U.S. war against terrorism, Sen. Joe Lieberman said in a speech blasting the President’s new counterterrorism strategy.

The Hill

BUSINESS

US to sue big banks over mortgages

The federal agency that oversees the mortgage giants will file suit against more than a dozen big banks, accusing them of misrepresenting the quality of mortgage securities they assembled and sold.

Msnbc.com

US regulators seek trading secrets

U.S. securities regulators have taken the unprecedented step of asking high-frequency trading firms to hand over the details of their trading strategies, and in some cases, their computer codes.

Reuters

What happens when AOL finally decides to go private?

Many investors, upset over the 30 percent tumble AOL’s stock has taken this year alone and the $1 billion in value it has lost since leaving Time Warner, have pulled out.

The Atlantic

HEALTH

Bad food is too easy to swallow

A new paper by researchers at the University of Southern California reveals why bad eating habits persist even when the food we’re eating doesn’t taste good. The study reveals ways to counter habits.

ScienceDaily

Military medicine’s long malaria war

Over decades the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research has produced an unparalleled outpouring of drugs and vaccines to prevent and treat malaria, one of the world’s leading disease threats.

NPR

UK group: too much salt in shop bread

A recent survey of the salt content of nearly 300 fresh bread loaves from markets and bakeries found 28 percent contained the same amount, or more, of salt in one slice as in a packet of potato chips.

Medical News Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Last Ethiopian Jews is finally making exodus to Israel

20 years after the second of two mass airlifts of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, the seemingly endless trickle of other Ethiopian immigrants who claim Jewish ancestry is coming to a long-delayed conclusion.

Forward

Dioceses makes efforts to cope with contraceptive insurance mandate

A new federal regulation that would require employer insurance plans to provide contraceptives is being greeted with varying levels of dismay in Catholic dioceses across the country.

National Catholic Reporter

ENVIRONMENT

Wildlife and farmers: Should we share or should we spare?

Scientists have gotten together to look at two wildlife-rich areas in the developing world and work out how to share the planet’s limited floorspace.

Earth Times

Deer ‘pill’ curbs aggressive mating

U.S. scientists say they have developed a contraceptive vaccine for deer that reduces fertility and eliminates aggressive mating behaviours.

BBC

Cool Stuff

The Daily Quote

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian composer

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Education: Eliza Anyangwe Sept. 2 at 10 am

Guardian

Real wheels: Warren Brown Sept. 2 at 11 am

Washington Post

Advice columnist: Carolyn Hax Sept. 2 at 12 pm

Washington Post

NFL chat: Pat Yasinskas Sept. 2 at 1 pm

ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

Portable ammonia factories could fuel clean cars

Ammonia could be the answer to developing an emissions-free fuel for cars. Ammonia produces just nitrogen and water vapour when burned and, unlike hydrogen, is easy to store in liquid form.

New Scientist

Valuable Robert E. Lee photo has been donated to Goodwill

Someone anonymously donated an antique tintype of Robert E. Lee to a Goodwill store in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The public now has a chance to purchase it at auction.

Msnbc.com

Soccer star and UN envoy to empower Sierra Leone’s women

The world’s top female soccer player and United Nations advocate Marta Vieira da Silva is on a mission to Sierra Leone to highlight efforts to empower women in the West African nation.

UN News Centre

WORLD

Afghanistan: a decade of promises