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In this file photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, an oil slick is seen as the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns. (Photo by Gerald Herbert /AP)

Inmate population drops

After peaking at about 4,000 inmates in late 2007, Rhode Island's prison population is now around 3,300. It's an improbable position for the state, whose prison population was projected to grow.

Christian Science Monitor

Prison count 2010: State population declines for the first time in 38 years

Pew Research Center

Mehserle apologizes; Grant family unimpressed and angered

While the jury was deliberating his fate, former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle crafted a handwritten statement in which he apologized for the first time for shooting Oscar Grant.

San Francisco Chronicle

BP is ready to put tighter cap on runaway well

BP will begin replacing the cap on its runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico with a tighter-sealing one meant to collect more oil, the leader of the federal response effort said.

New York Times

Energy experts: 'It's very hard to lower our oil use'

MSNBC

CIA's Panetta, Russian spy chief negotiated swap

CIA director Leon Panetta and Russia's spy chief, Mikhail Fradkov, worked out the largest spy swap since the Cold War in just a few days, a U.S. official says.

CBS News

Spy swap: the boy they left behind

ABC News

Calif. legislators' effort to prevent student DNA testing could come too late

State legislators have lined up a bill aimed at preventing the University of California, Berkeley, from executing a program that asks students to participate in genetic testing as part of an orientation program.

Scientific American

NATION

Petraeus to look at rules of engagement

Addressing concerns about the rules of engagement in Afghanistan will be one of the most complicated initial tasks facing Gen. David H. Petraeus, the new U.S. and NATO commander in the country.

Washington Post

New Central Command head announced

CNN

Economy in US to cool as consumers spend less, survey shows

Economists trimmed their U.S. growth forecasts through the middle of next year, though not enough to show the recovery is in danger of faltering.

Bloomberg

Boeing joins military mega project race

U.S. aerospace giant Boeing submitted its bid for a $40 billion U.S. military contract, joining battle with its rival Airbus.

The Age

POLITICS

Inglis: GOP engages in 'demagoguery'

Too many Republican leaders are acquiescing to demagoguery that threatens the party's long-term credibility, says a veteran GOP House member who lost in South Carolina's primary last month.

CBS News

Google downplays claim it may have breached lawmakers' home networks

Google Inc. is playing down claims that it may have accidentally breached personal Wi-Fi networks at the homes of several members of Congress, including some working on national security issues.

Computerworld

ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Total solar eclipse Sunday, most remote of the century?

On Sunday the moon's shadow will sweep across Earth during one of the most remote total solar eclipses of the century.

National Geographic

Solar eclipse: still powerful in popular mythology

ABC News

Tomb of pyramid construction supervisor is found

Archaeologists unveiled the tomb belonging to a man who had a supervising role in the construction of pyramids.

Discovery News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

CNN fires editor for tweet

CNN has fired a senior editor for Middle East news after she published a Twitter message that said she respected a Lebanese Shia cleric branded a terrorist by the United States.

Telegraph.co.uk

'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

Jindal signs bill to let guns in churches

Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal has agreed to allow concealed handguns inside Louisiana’s churches, mosques and synagogues.

Indian Express

Presbyterians won't reconsider same-sex marriage vote

A split decision from Presbyterian leaders on two gay-friendly measures guarantees even more debate among the U.S. church's members on an issue they've been divided over for years.

Star Tribune

DOJ reviews Mass. rulings on gay marriage ban

Bradenton Herald

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Tim Goodman):

Good viewing means one tough year for Emmys

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Sam Fulwood):

LeBron shouldn't define Cleveland sports

Huffington Post

Column (Stephen M. Walt):

Foreign policy: Twitter firing was a mistake for CNN

NPR

Editorial:

Unavoidable subject

Philadelphia Inquirer

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

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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

Suicide bombers kill more than 50

Two suicide bombers struck outside a government office in a tribal region where Pakistan's army has fought the Taliban, killing more than 50 people and wounding more than 100.

Houston Chronicle

Civilian clashes with UN soldiers rise in Lebanon's Hezbollah heartland

Civilians in Qabirkha, Lebanon, where many support Hezbollah, attacked French soldiers with the UNIFIL peacekeeping mission. The U.N. Security Council is expected to discuss the rising tensions.

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

WikiLeaks founder to make 1st public appearance since Apache footage

The founder of WikiLeaks, the online platform for whistleblowers, is planning to make his first public appearance in Britain since publication of video footage of an Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad.

The Independent

Special section:

WikiLeaks

Guardian

Google wins permission to keep website in China

Google said Beijing has renewed the license it needs to continue operating in China, securing the search giant's foothold in the world's biggest Internet market despite tensions over censorship.

Baltimore Sun

US Treasury releases China currency report

BBC

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

Investment funds stir controversy over recruiting by for-profit colleges

Hedge funds that have taken short financial positions on the stocks of for-profit colleges, may be working behind the scenes to provoke a regulatory crackdown against the schools.

ProPublica

SPORTS

Miami lands 'King' James; LeBron jets in for celebration

The Heat completed the most impressive free agent haul in NBA history as two-time MVP LeBron James said he will sign with Miami. The Heat later traded Michael Beasley to the Timberwolves.

Miami Herald

Cavs fans burn LeBron jerseys

ABC News

Yankees on brink of landing Cliff Lee

New York may have a consolation prize in the LeBron James sweepstakes — Cliff Lee, CBSSports.com reports.

CBSSports

Yanks pursuing Lee

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

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

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