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A bright Perseid meteor cuts across Orion's Belt in this time-lapse file photo during the peak of the annual Perseid shower. (Photo by Wally Pacholka / AP)

Perseid meteor shower: a troublemaker

Perseid meteor shower tonight is at its peak. It's the only meteor shower known to have killed a satellite and delayed a space-shuttle launch.

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Top 10 Perseid shower facts

Space.com

Does the FDA have a drug problem?

The drug industry's outmaneuvering FDA regulators are disturbingly common, say both scientists and policymakers who follow drug approval and safety monitoring.

TIME

FDA: Lamictal may cause meningitis

MedPage Today

Court to decide on same-sex marriage case

A federal court in California will rule on whether to keep a temporary stay in place in the case that overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriages

CNN

Live feed: Awaiting Prop 8 ruling outside courthouse in San Francisco

CBS News

Same-sex marriage, gay rights

Polling Report

Citizen scientists discover new pulsar

Three citizen scientists have discovered a new radio pulsar about 17,000 light years from Earthusing an off-the-shelf program.

Popular Science

The Big Easy pushes forward

Five years after Hurricane Katrina broke the levees and New Orleans was flooded, the city's health is much improved. But like many patients still in recovery, New Orleans has its good and bad days.

NPR

5 year report on response to Katrina

Medical News Today

Special section:

Rebuilding the Gulf

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NATION

Senate approves $600M in border funds

Democrats Charles Schumer of New York and Ben Cardin of Maryland returned from their August recess to give the chamber's approval for $600 million in emergency funding to help secure the U.S. border.

CNN

BP to pay record fine

BP will pay a record fine for safety violations at its troubled Texas City, Texas, refinery, the Department of Labor said.

Reuters

Chicago couple angry at being denied dream home on basis of race

The dream house George and Peytyn Willborn planned to buy was suddenly pulled off the market. Now the owners are being charged with refusing to sell their home in violation of the Fair Housing Act.

ABC News

POLITICS

Senate takes new look at Countrywide

The Senate Ethics Committee is re-examining the participation of senators and staffers in a controversial VIP mortgage-lending program at Countrywide Financial Corp.

The Hill

Graham files Guantanamo Bay habeas bill

GOP Senator Lindsey Graham is moving forward with legislation to address a series of thorny legal questions raised by the long-term detention of terrorism suspects.

Politico

HEALTH

What do food allergy labels really mean?

New research suggests products labeled "made in a facility that processes (some- thing you're allergic to)" are in fact more likely to be contaminated.

MSNBC

Special section:

Food allergies and intolerances

WebMD

Stress reduces likelihood of pregnancy

Living life to a tight deadline, juggling appointments and rushing from place to place may harm a woman's chances of becoming pregnant.

The Independent

Negative stereotypes stick with you

Negative stereotyping wields a lingering impact on those who experience it, and in situations unrelated to the initial insult, a new study finds.

LiveScience

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Tech predicts terrorist's intentions

A simple slide show could be the next weapon against terrorists. Using electrode caps, scientists can pick the date, location and means of future attacks.

Discovery News

India to stop BlackBerry

Research In Motion's encrypted BlackBerry e-mail and instant messaging services will be shut down if Canadian maker does not address Indian national security concerns.

Reuters

Blog:

What to do if BlackBerry’s blocked in India

(Wall Street Journal)

Digits

Arctic rocks may contain the oldest remnants of Earth

Over billions of years, much of the material that made up the early Earth was modified, but Arctic rocks contain chemical signatures that date from just after the Earth's origin.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Memorial cross honoring victims exposes Poland's religious divide

A cross honoring the victims of the plane crash that killed the late Polish President Lech Kaczynski has provoked thousands of protesters to take to the streets to demand its removal.

The Independent

Ramadan begins amid heat wave

Over a billion Muslims around the world began observing the holy month of Ramadan, with the dawn-to-dusk fast posing a particular challenge for the devout in the sweltering summer.

TIME

Observing Ramadan? There's an app for that

NPR

SPORTS

Controversy simmers over report Pavin picks Woods for USA Ryder Cup team

U.S. Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin denied a report that said Pavin was going to select Tiger Woods with one of his four captain's picks if Woods did not make the team as an automatic qualifier.

USA TODAY

Report: Sixers hire Rod Thorn

A person familiar with the deal says the Philadelphia 76ers have hired Rod Thorn as their new team president.

ESPN

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Tony Karon):

Is the US pursuing the wrong Middle East peace process?

TIME

Column (David Kuhn):

America on edge

RealClearPolitics

Column (Gene Policinski):

Protect free speech

Detroit News

Editorial:

US and UN aid for Pakistan floods

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Walter Kirn):

Boeing berserk: Losing your head at 30,000 feet

NPR

Editorial:

Obama vs. the 'professional left'

The Week

Column (Cameron Sinclair):

Ignoring floods in Pakistan can lead to terrorism

Huffington Post

Column (Michael Shermer):

Our Neanderthal brethren: Why they were not a separate species

Scientific American

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GOOD NEWS

Philanthropy the new status symbol

As dozens of U.S. billionaires pledge their fortunes to charity and the country struggles to shake off recession, philanthropy is a growing status symbol of the rich, experts say.

Reuters

Audubon shares the sensation

Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary will share in a $102,174 grant to further enhance already accessible trails at Massachusetts Audubon Society sanctuaries.

Telegram & Gazette

WORLD

US 'on target' for withdrawal from Iraq

The U.S. has insisted it is on target to end combat operations in Iraq despite warnings from the country's top army officer that native troops will not be ready to take control for another decade.

Telegraph.co.uk

Special section:

Iraq: key facts and figures

BBC

Earthquake shakes Ecuador

An earthquake that measured at 6.9 on the Richter scale shook Ecuador, but there are no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The quake was felt in the nation's capital, Quito.

Las Vegas Sun

Pakistan floods wash away crops

Flooding has caused "huge losses" to crops, the country's food minister, Nazar Muhammad Gondal, has said. Significant amounts of the grain, sugarcane and rice harvests had been washed away.

BBC

Russia fires, Pakistan floods linked?

National Geographic

BUSINESS

Bank repos drive up foreclosures

More Americans fell into foreclosure in July as a sour job market kept them from making payments, and banks took over homes at a near record pace.

Reuters

Low mortgage rates, low sales

ABC News

Why HP can't cut its way to growth

With Mark Hurd out, cost-cutter Cathie Lesjak must keep HP focused. Lesjak made it clear that she doesn't want the top job, as HP searches for a replacement.

BusinessWeek

The fastest growing company ever

Andrew Mason figured out how to inject hysteria into the process of bargain hunting on the Web. The result is an overnight success story called Groupon.

Forbes

EDUCATION

Summit's big hope: reaching an anti-bullying tipping point

The Department of Education convened its first summit on school bullying. It comes as state lawmakers nationwide step up their efforts to pass anti-bullying laws.

Christian Science Monitor

Experimenting with classroomless learning in Ohio

Newsweek

Not just a foot in the door

In Florida, where the community college baccalaureate movement is strongest, community colleges now offer more than 100 four-year degrees, and the figure could be about to jump significantly.

Inside Higher Ed

ENVIRONMENT

Can solar storms cause wildfires?

There is a common misconception that solar storms are associated with Earth's extreme geological and atmospheric effects. The sun cannot produce solar flares that burn the landscape.

Discovery News

Hollywood greens up

The Producers Guild of America unveiled a database of environmentally friendly products and services from U.S. vendors.

Reuters

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Come crash in their pads — the stay is free and found online

Rich Murray, a 36-year-old financial consultant from Willow Grove, offers his room to two guys from Switzerland who, like him, are members of Couchsurfing.org.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Great whites circle board of Calif. surfer

The professional surfer spotted two sharks while out surfing with a couple of friends at San Onofre beach, Calif. Undeterred, he returned the following day with a camera.

Telegraph.co.uk

Chuck Patterson's shark video

Vimeo

Tosh.0: Internet laughs on TV

Daniel Tosh, a 35-year-old comedian whose weekly riff on viral videos and Internet jokes, Tosh.0, has, by at least one measure, become Comedy Central's second-most popular show.

TIME

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