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Interim Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley, left, talks with reporters about enforcing the Arizona immigration law SB1070 after a news conference in Phoenix. (Photo by Ross D. Franklin / AP)

James decides on Heat

Ending weeks of will-he-or-won't-he speculation, the two-time MVP said that he's decided to join the Heat and leave the Cavaliers after an unsuccessful seven-year quest for the ring he covets.

ESPN

Front page reflects Cleveland's dismay

USA TODAY

Pictures: NBA's top free agents

Baltimore Sun

Rich are biggest mortgage defaulters

The housing bust that began among the working class is striking the upper class in enclaves like this one in Silicon Valley.

New York Times

$500,000 donated to Ariz. to defend law

Retirees and other residents from all over the country were among those who donated nearly $500,000 to help Arizona defend its immigration enforcement law, with most chipping in $100 or less.

MSNBC

Immigration Law Causes Constitutional Clash

Voice of America News

BP slows Alaska offshore oil drill plan

BP PLC's Alaska unit will probably delay development drilling in an offshore field that has become controversial in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, a spokesman said.

Reuters

Backup plan to halt Gulf gusher: transfer oil from blown-out well to others miles away

Baltimore Sun

Blog:

Appeals court, 2-1, rejects Obama plea on drilling moratorium

(Politico)

Under the Radar

Company recalls 4,200 bags of spinach

Ready Pac Foods Inc. announced that it is recalling some 4,200 bags of spinach salad after federal investigators confirmed the presence of E. coli in a random sample test.

MSNBC

NATION

At more and more companies, smokers need not apply

If you're trying to find a job these days, it might help to get rid of your cigarette habit. A hospital in the Atlanta suburbs is the latest employer nationwide that is refusing to hire smokers.

CNN

IMF: joblessness, housing add risks to US recovery

High unemployment and a moribund housing market are constraining the U.S. economic recovery, while the public debt looms large on the horizon and needs to be addressed, the International Monetary Fund said.

Reuters

New jobless claims drop sharply

MSNBC

Calif. transit cop found guilty of involuntary manslaughter

A white transit police officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the videotaped shooting death of an unarmed black man that triggered a night of rioting in Oakland, Calif.

Reuters

Oakland shooting verdict sparks riots

NY Daily News

Oakland exodus as verdict is read

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Marijuana prices would crater if legalized

A ballot measure to legalize marijuana in California would so upend supply and demand that pot prices could plummet by as much as 90 percent.

CBS News

As midterms near, Obama hits the campaign trail in 2 states

President Barack Obama will soon headline fundraisers in two states — Missouri and Nevada. Both are places where Democratic candidates are in tough contests.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Heavy rain and possible flooding as heat wave takes a break

After the second heat wave of the summer, two systems will gang up to bring in some much needed rain. Drought conditions have been building, and with the extreme heat, the soil is rock hard.

Examiner

Special section:

New storm hits flooded Texas-Mexico border

MSNBC

Australia backs away from carbon trading

Australia will not bring in a carbon trading scheme this year or next and will not do so until there is popular support for putting a price on carbon.

Earth Times

Special section:

The great energy challenge

National Geographic

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New drug that helps grow brain cells

Researchers have found a drug that can help the brain grow new cells and said their study may lead to ways to improve Alzheimer's drugs.

Reuters

NSA launching surveillance program to monitor private networks

The National Security Agency is launching a program to detect cyber attacks on private companies running critical infrastructure like the electricity grid or nuclear plants.

Popular Science

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

'The Pacific,' 'Glee,' top Emmy Awards nominees

"Glee," the spunky TV musical comedy about high school misfits and the teachers who shepherd them, was a top Emmy nominee with 19 bids.

Star Tribune

Blog:

Review: Emmy nominations out

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Tube Talk

The 2010 Emmy nominations

Houston Chronicle

'Millennials' leading way on social media

Online information-sharing tools will still play an integral role in the lives of so-called Millennials by 2020, even as they grow older and assume more responsibilities.

San Francisco Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Freedom for Youth Ministries is nominee for award

World Magazine, a Christian-based bimonthly news magazine, along with the American Bible Society, has nominated Freedom for Youth Ministries for its annual Hope Award for Effective Compassion.

Des Moines Register

10 ways to be a more positive person

We are all feeling uncertain these days. Rather than give in to fear and worry, it is important to learn new ways to cope with change and invite inspiration and positivity into our every day.

Beliefnet

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

How to boost confidence in the American economy

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Jim Taylor):

Where have all our heroes gone?

(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

City Brights

Editorial:

Time to raise the US levy on gasoline

Denver Post

Column (Ann Wolner):

Ariz.'s law crosses into US turf illegally

Bloomberg

Column (Leonard Pitts Jr.):

Hate has a familiar face in Mel Gibson

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Sean Trende):

The politics of Ariz.'s immigration law

RealClearPolitics

Editorial:

Climate change: The science stands

Guardian

Column (Raul A. Reyes):

Ariz.’s next ugly battle: citizenship for immigrant children

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Activist's quest to help neighborhood youth via baseball

Philadelphia citizen Derrick Ford, with help from the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program, has created a baseball program for boys and girls that aims to be connected to family values and education.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Wheelchair athletes guide disabled kids down right path

Some of the nation's top wheelchair jocks — in Denver for the annual National Veterans Wheelchair Games — laid it out straight for disabled kids: You can be just as active as your able-bodied peers.

Denver Post

WORLD

Defendants plead guilty in spy case

Ten defendants accused of spying for Russia have told a federal judge in New York that they are pleading guilty. The pleas set the stage for the largest Russia-U.S. spy swap since the Cold War.

San Francisco Chronicle

US, Russia exchange spies in Vienna

MSNBC

Former MI5 officer on swap

YouTube

Afghan citizens paid $1 billion in bribes for public services last year

Almost a third of civil servants said they have been forced to pay a bribe to obtain a public service, while 13 percent of households said that they had paid bribes to secure their own sources of income.

Guardian

BUSINESS

Grameen Bank expands into America

Grameen America, the U.S. offshoot of the famous Asian microlending institution founded by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, is now in its third year of operation in America and is expanding.

Newsweek

Pa. offers nation's 1st wine vending machines in test run

Pennsylvania recently introduced the country's first wine "kiosks." If the machines are successful in test run stores, the state Liquor Control Board could place the alcohol automats in about 100 others.

CBS News

EDUCATION

Teacher union chief raps Obama at national convention

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten told her members meeting in Seattle that the past two years have been "tougher than I've ever seen."

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Mexico schools teach lessons in survival

Schools across Mexico are teaching students to dive to the floor and cover their heads as the country sees more urban gunfights between drug gangs.

USA TODAY

SPORTS

Clippers sign free agents Foye, Gomes

The Los Angeles Clippers have signed free agents Randy Foye and Ryan Gomes. The deals were announced shortly after LeBron James said he was leaving Cleveland for the Miami Heat.

USA TODAY

Agent: Nets, Outlaw agree to deal

Forward Travis Outlaw has agreed to a five-year, $35 million deal with the New Jersey Nets, his agent, Bill Duffy, told ESPN The Magazine's Ric Bucher.

ESPN

HEALTH

1st successful full face transplant with tear ducts

A 35-year-old Frenchman can shed tears of joy through another person's tear ducts following what appears to be the world's first successful full face transplant including eyelids and tear ducts.

ABC News

New anti-HIV weapons found

Scientists report they've discovered possible new weapons in the war against HIV: antibody "soldiers" in the immune system that might prevent the AIDS virus from invading human cells.

HealthDay

Complex environment wards off cancer

Mice raised in a complex environment providing social interactions, opportunities to learn and increased physical activity are less likely to get cancer, and better at fighting it when they do.

Nature

Fish oil linked to lower breast cancer risk

WebMD

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