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Obama moves to dampen uproar over comment on race

President Barack Obama concedes his words were ill-chosen. But, while he invited both men to visit him at the White House, Obama stopped short of publicly apologizing for his remark.

ABC News

Police unions happy with reversal

NY Daily News

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Obama calls choice of words 'unfortunate'

CBS News

5 ancient Roman shipwrecks found

Archaeologists have found Roman shipwrecks deep under the sea off a small Mediterranean island, with their cargo of vases and other objects largely intact.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Health reform to aid small businesses

President Barack Obama said creation of an insurance exchange combined with tax credits would help extend health coverage to about 13 million small-business employees who now lack it.

Bloomberg

Obama seeks backing from small business

Wall Street Journal

Small business needs health care help

You Tube

Palin goodbye picnic draws big crowd

More than a thousand people showed up for Gov. Sarah Palin's annual picnic held in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska.

USA TODAY

Palin embarks on goodbye tour

MSNBC

Heavy fire erupts in Afghan city

Taliban fighters attacked the main police station in the southeast city of Khost, triggering hours-long gunbattles that left seven militants dead and 14 people wounded, officials said.

New York Times

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Taliban conflict

BBC

NATION

Cornyn to vote against Sotomayor

Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, said that he would vote against Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court, though he acknowledged her confirmation is inevitable.

Dallas Morning News

Calif. budget crisis resolved, for now

Officials say there's no guarantee that California's budget troubles are over, even after state lawmakers approved a package of spending cuts to fill the budget deficit.

Google News

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Calif. budget

San Jose Mercury News

POLITICS

Ensign apologizes as questions loom

Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., issued a statement to the local media attempting to explain his silence surrounding a sex scandal that has been plaguing him.

The Hill

Bush contemplated deploying troops on US soil to make terror arrests

The proposal, which would have risked falling afoul of the U.S. Constitution, called on the president to deploy troops to make arrests on American soil for the first time since the Civil War.

Telegraph.co.uk

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Octo-mom OKs deal for kids to appear on reality show

Octo-mom Nadya Suleman has inked deals for each of her 14 children to appear on a reality TV series.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Modern rooming house offers furnished rooms the size of a parking spot

The rooms are small, about the size of a parking space, but the developers say they fit the budget and lifestyle of young adults who might be working as baristas or $12-an-hour clerks in big-box stores.

Seattle Times

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Hubble takes rare Jupiter impact images

Some type of “atmospheric debris” collided with the atmosphere of Jupiter on July 19. Four days later, as the spot continues to expand, NASA used the Hubble Space Telescope to take images of the spot.

iTWire

Software crackdown

Cyber attacks seem to be getting more sophisticated by the hour. A few weeks ago malware known as Zero Day could allow online criminals to take control of a computer from anywhere in the world.

Newsweek

ENVIRONMENT

New method to cleaner and more efficient carbon dioxide capture

Separating carbon dioxide from its polluting source, such as the flue gas from a coal-fired power plant, may soon become cleaner and more efficient.

ScienceDaily

England PM Gordon Brown criticized over climate change

England Prime Minister Gordon Brown's outgoing adviser on sustainable development has accused him of "hindering" work on climate change.

BBC

HEALTH

Swine flu claims Md. state's 4th victim

A fourth person has died of swine flu in Maryland but, unlike previous deaths in the state, the person did not appear to also have an underlying medical problem, health officials said.

Baltimore Sun

CDC intensifies swine flu effort

MSNBC

Linalool may explain some of aromatherapy’s stress-reducing benefits

Sniffing your way around the local farmer’s market may offer some of nature’s best aromatherapy to reduce stress.

WebMD

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GOOD NEWS

Bill Gates wins Indira Gandhi Prize

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is in India to receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Charity kick-starts funding for Africa

Kristen Chandler, 46, founded Kick for Hope, a nonprofit that organizes soccer tournaments to raise money for charities.

Union-tribune

WORLD

US envoy set for Syria talks

George Mitchell, the U.S. envoy to the Middle East, has arrived in Syria for talks expected to concentrate on pushing for peace between Israel and its neighbors.

Al Jazeera

Honduras chief's return scorned

The interim government in Honduras has dismissed the brief return to the country of the deposed president, Manuel Zelaya, as a publicity stunt.

BBC

Honduras’ ousted president briefly returns

Los Angeles Times

Ousted Honduras leader briefly returns home

YouTube

BUSINESS

Sales fail to keep pace with profits as economy stays sluggish

Sales growth lagged behind profits as companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index beat analysts’ estimates, a signal that economic recovery may be slow.

Bloomberg

7 banks fail

U.S. regulators closed seven banks, bringing to 64 the number of failed banks and savings and loan associations in 2009.

TheStreet.com

EDUCATION

States scramble for coveted dollars

Now that states know how they may be judged in the $4 billion "Race to the Top" competition, education leaders tries to figure out how they measure up against the education reform criteria.

Education Week

US prods states on education reform

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

City signs up for teacher-rating program

As federal officials begin pushing schools to evaluate teachers based on students' performances, New York City has inked a deal with the University of Wisconsin to expand a program to do just that.

EducationNews.org

SPORTS

Funk leads Senior British Open by 3

Fred Funk shot a five-under 65 for a three-shot lead after the second round of the Senior British Open at Sunningdale, England.

Detroit Free Press

Ganassi admits to Danica Patrick talks

Chip Ganassi has admitted to having held talks with Danica Patrick amid speculation linking the IndyCar star to the current series champions.

Racer Magazine

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Documentary sparks uproar at San Francisco Jewish film fest

A documentary about Rachel Corrie, a Washington state 23-year-old killed in 2003 while trying to prevent an Israeli military bulldozer from demolishing a Palestinian's home, came under seige.

San Francisco Chronicle

Atheists offer to reverse baptisms

American Atheists' Florida state director Greg McDowell has been officiating at services at which the baptized renounce their baptisms.

Chicago Sun-Times

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