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Classrooms or prison cells?

State spending on prisons has been growing and eating away at other priorities, like higher education. There has been a long-standing tug of war between these two very different constituencies.

Newsweek

Health care law: Can Obama admin meet the deadlines?

Three months after the $938 billion health care bill was signed into law, questions abound about whether the government can meet all the deadlines while dealing with the political pressures of Congress.

ABC News

Court rules victims can sue Vatican

The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for sex-abuse victims to sue Pope Benedict when it refused to hear the Vatican's appeal of an Oregon lawsuit.

Star Tribune

Court rules in favor of gun rights

The nation's highest court extended its landmark 2008 ruling that individual Americans have a constitutional right to own guns to all the cities and states for the first time.

Reuters

Special section:

Guns in America

CBS News

NRA will fight to implement handgun decision

MSNBC

FBI: 10 Russian spies arrested in US

Ten alleged Russian spies have been arrested in the United States, the result of a multi-year investigation in four states, the FBI said.

CBS News

Wall Street bill passage seen despite death of Sen. Byrd

The death of Sen. Robert Byrd deprives his fellow Democrats of a crucial vote as they seek to pass a sweeping overhaul of U.S. financial regulations, but the measure is still expected to become law eventually.

Reuters

Byrd: 'I love the Senate'

CNN

Women freeze eggs to wait for 'Mr. Right'

Women in their late 30s are freezing eggs because they are still hunting for "Mr. Right," research suggests. A study found half wanted to do so to take the pressure off finding a partner.

BBC

NATION

Pride Parade hits middle age

San Francisco's 40th annual Gay Pride Parade marched its way through the city's heart with thousands of revelers undeterred by the previous evening's fatal shooting in the Castro neighborhood.

San Francisco Chronicle

Marchers celebrate gay pride across the country

CNN

Worldwide pride

MSNBC

Cleanup jobs are hard to find in the Gulf

Despite the size of the Gulf oil spill, cleanup jobs are hard to come by. Job-seekers say they have gotten the runaround from BP and the Louisiana Workforce Commission when inquiring about work.

NPR

Unpaid summer internships gaining popularity

Summer is the peak season for educational internships of all kinds — paid and unpaid. For small businesses, the unpaid ones are gaining in popularity.

Los Angeles Times

POLITICS

GOP eager to press case in Kagan hearing

Republicans, who decided early on that they stood little chance of defeating Elena Kagan, settled on making her confirmation process a "teachable moment" to highlight the dangers of liberal judicial activism.

Politico

SC hearings: 5 hot topics for Kagan

TIME

Supreme Court to hear Ariz. immigration law challenge

The U.S. Supreme Court said it would hear a legal challenge by business, civil rights and immigration groups to an Arizona law that punishes employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants in the country.

Reuters

HEALTH

Juggling chemotherapy and parenting

New research shows that 18 percent of newly-diagnosed cancer patients are parents to one or more minor children. Of these patients, nearly a third of them are caring for children under the age of six.

ABC News

Airline food could pose health threat

Many meals served on major airlines are prepared in unsanitary and unsafe conditions that could lead to illness, government documents show.

Detroit Free Press

Blood test may predict menopause

A simple doctor's-office blood test may one day be able to predict when a woman will start menopause, possibly even in women in their 20s.

CNN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

False sense of security at dating sites

Despite the fact that many online dating sites don't perform background checks, users feel a comfort level that they won't run into sexual offenders or other criminals because they have paid for the service.

San Francisco Chronicle

Tattoo businesses thrive in recession

Surveys and personal stories indicate increasing acceptance for a practice once considered the domain of biker gangs and drunken sailors.

San Jose Mercury News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Warnings about sex, violence come to Christian movies

Seals are part of a new system to gauge the Christian values in films that contain sex, violence and drugs — a system developed by the Dove Foundation.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Christian Legal Society loses in SC case

Christianity Today

Burqa bans grow fashionable in Europe

A growing movement in Europe to ban burqas and niqabs, the face coverings worn by some Muslim women, is igniting a debate over individual religious freedom vs. broader cultural values.

USA TODAY

Israeli pig-farming kibbutz draws ire

Kibbutz Lahav, which raises pigs for pork, insists that the primary purpose of its herd is for medical research. Some think this is disrespectful to the Jewish community.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Ahmed Zewail):

Science, not Hollywood or Starbucks, is America's best soft power

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Mary Sanchez):

Supreme Court rules against peacemakers

Kansas City Star

Column (Robert Fisk):

The US film that confronts the truth about Afghanistan

The Independent

Column (Naomi Klein):

Sticking the public with the bill for the bankers’ crisis

Globeandmail.com

Editorial:

Obama fills oil-drilling panel with opponents of offshore exploration

Detroit News

Column (Diana West):

So what if McChrystal lost his job?

Washington Examiner

Column (Farah Stockman):

Elena Kagan and the Harvard stigma

Boston Globe Magazine

Column (Jonah Goldberg):

The Democrats' vision problem

RealClearPolitics

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Pallavi Sukhia, Lukas Dregne, Nisha Dubey and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

A step to bolster female wellness

A group of mostly female doctors at the University of Colorado have begun studying gender differences in an array of ailments such as heart disease and diabetes.

Denver Post

Inner-city boys school marks first graduation, sends 107 to college

For each boy, the new Urban Prep charter school offered an escape and a chance at a life that seemed beyond reach.

Star Tribune

WORLD

Total stops petrol sales to Iran

French energy company Total says it has stopped petrol deliveries to Iran, after the U.S. Congress passed unilateral sanctions that could punish companies doing business with Iran.

BBC

Iran postpones nuclear talks

Guardian

Hugo Chavez denounces Israel as a 'genocidal' government

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced Israel as a "genocidal" government as he hosted Syrian President Bashar Assad on his visit to Latin America.

The Independent

Turkey bars Israel military flight after Gaza raid

BBC

Burundi slow to cast verdict on leader

In the first public presidential poll after the end of the civil war, Burundians placed their ballots in a envelope to vote for or against another term for President Nkurunziza.

Guardian

Burundi set for 1-name vote

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

G-20 aims to slash their deficits

World leaders agreed to begin transitioning from spending to saving as they walk what Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called a "tightrope" between government stimulus and debt reduction.

USA TODAY

Special section:

G-20 summit

CBC News

G-20 summit agrees on deficit cuts

BBC

Personal income edges higher

Personal income and spending rose in May, according to a government report. A consensus of economists polled by Briefing.com expected personal income to climb 0.5 percent in May.

CNNMoney

EDUCATION

Step too far on textbook costs?

Legislation passed by the Pennsylvania Senate requires faculty members at the state's community colleges and universities to select "the least expensive, educationally sound textbooks."

Inside Higher Ed

Online bullies pulling schools into fray

Affronted by cyberspace’s escalation of adolescent viciousness, many parents are looking to schools for justice, protection, even revenge.

New York Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Obama administration plans to double available wireless spectrum

The government intends to double the available amount of wireless communications spectrum over the next 10 years to keep up with the demand for high-speed video and data transmission.

San Francisco Chronicle

Forget hybrids, make your own DIY electric car

Mike Brown, with his company Electro Automotive, was the first to sell parts for gas-to-electric conversions, and he teaches workshops on DIY conversions.

NPR

SPORTS

Experts warn about repeated brain blows in football

The brain of the late Cincinnati Bengals pass receiver Chris Henry shows a football player can sustain life-altering head trauma without being diagnosed with a concussion.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

US feels good about World Cup host bid

The U.S. soccer team may have been knocked out of the World Cup, but a much bigger match awaits in December, when FIFA decides what countries will host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Biodiversity's 'Holy Grail' is in the soil

Why are tropical forests so biologically rich? Smithsonian researchers have new evidence that the answer to one of life's great unsolved mysteries lies underground.

ScienceDaily

Water trickles back into village, thanks to solar desalination

Ismail Achar never thought a day would come when his island village in Pakistan would be reduced to a barren tract of land with hardly a drop of water to drink.

OneWorld

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