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Archie Panjabi collects the award for best supporting actress in a drama for "The Good Wife" backstage during the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles / AP)

2010 Emmy winners: 'Glee's' Jane Lynch, Edie Falco of 'Nurse Jackie'

It was New York's night in Hollywood. The city and New Yorkers had a good outing at the "62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards" led by Brooklyn-bred Edie Falco.

NY Daily News

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Variety's live Emmys coverage

Variety

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Clooney talks about 'celebrity credit card' and getting involved

(USA TODAY)

Lifeline Live

Department of Agriculture recalls Cargill ground beef

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has recalled 8,500 pounds of ground beef distributed by agribusiness giant Cargill after three people on the East Coast fell ill from a rare strain of E. coli.

Star Tribune

Memories of Katrina's chaos, rebirth

Strangers shared an umbrella and a somber embrace as they scanned 163 names on a marble wall honoring those who died when Hurricane Katrina wracked the region.

Denver Post

Special section:

Landscape of the lower 9th ward

New York Times

Obama visits New Orleans on anniversary

CBS News

How mayor aims to revive New Orleans

Newsweek

Katrina: then and now

CNN

Mexico mayor killed as violence escalates

The mayor of a town in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas has been shot dead — the second to die in the region.

BBC

Still no trial date or venue for 9/11 mastermind and terror cohorts

After announcing five Sept. 11 plotters would be tried in lower Manhattan for killing 2,973 people, the White House is no closer to justice.

NY Daily News

NATION

Economic reports could push Fed to take action

A flurry of new economic data may pressure Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to act on his vow to help a wavering recovery.

USA TODAY

Shooting in Mormon church leaves lay bishop dead

Law enforcement officers in Visalia are investigating a shooting at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints that left a Mormon church official dead.

San Jose Mercury News

Obama plans on refinancing aid and instituting loans for jobless homeowners

The Obama administration plans to set up an emergency loan program for the unemployed and a government refinancing effort to help homeowners pay their mortgages.

Bloomberg

POLITICS

Imam says politics has stoked controversy over center

The imam behind the proposed Islamic center near ground zero, Feisal Abdul Rauf, told a Middle Eastern newspaper that he believed election politics had stoked the debate over the project.

New York Times

Beck says he wanted to reclaim civil rights 'from politics'

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck says his revival-style rally at the Lincoln Memorial was meant to reclaim the U.S. civil rights movement, arguing that it was about "people of faith."

CNN

Crowd estimates at 'Restoring Honor' rally

NY Daily News

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Glenn Beck's 'Restoring Honor' rally reactions

(NPR)

The Two-Way

BUSINESS

Sanofi-Aventis makes bid for Genzyme

France's Sanofi-Aventis publicly disclosed its $18.5 billion, $69-per-share cash offer for Genzyme Corp. in a bid to rouse shareholders after failing to engage the U.S. biotechnology company in merger talks.

Reuters

Jobs report critical to investors and politicians

Where are the jobs? That's what everyone wants to know — from Main Street to Wall Street to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., where President Barack Obama resides.

MarketWatch

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

3rd edition of OED unlikely to appear in print format

Publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary have confirmed that the third edition may never appear in print.

Guardian

1001 inventions: science in Muslim lands

The lore of "One Thousand and One Nights" helped shape western notions about Muslim culture. The collection of tales described an exotic world of flying carpets, Sinbad, Aladdin, Ali Baba and the 40 thieves.

Las Vegas Sun

SPORTS

Dodgers sending Manny to White Sox

Sources say Manny Ramirez will be sent to the White Sox, most likely in a pure waiver claim. A straight waiver deal would mean the Dodgers get no players in return.

Sports Illustrated

Pakistan cricket players questioned over 'betting scam'

Three Pakistan cricket players have been questioned by police over claims they were involved in a betting scam, the team manager has said.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

In Egypt, more people call for civil instead of religious marriage

Controversial cases in Egypt have spotlighted a legal system that leaves regulation of marriage and divorce to religious institutions, limiting individuals’ freedom to make personal decisions.

Christian Science Monitor

Feds probe fire at proposed Tenn. mosque site

Authorities are investigating a fire that damaged at least one construction vehicle at a Tennessee site where a new mosque is being built.

Houston Chronicle

Why Americans are hostile toward Islam

Kansas City Star

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Katrina still hurts

Philadelphia Inquirer

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Future of NJ school reform remains uncertain without fed funds

New Jersey Star Ledger

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Retailers try to bypass environmental rules

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Michael Cassidy):

The recovery act worked

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Column (Charles Euchner):

Why King's march transformed America

CNN

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Leadership deficit: Washington has failed to deal with national debt crisis

NY Daily News

Blog (Brooke Crothers):

IPad, iPhone, notebook, Netbook: a gadget glut?

(CNET News)

Nanotech - The Circuits Blog

Column (Errol Louis):

Katrina — a man-made disaster

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GOOD NEWS

Schoolchildren smoking less, but decline is losing steam

The number of middle and high school children who use tobacco products has dropped since 2000, but the decline has been slowing down, according to a new CDC report.

Medical News Today

Frozen Zoo attempting to save species

The San Diego Zoo began collecting ski samples from rare animals in 1972 with hopes to one day save them.

Guardian

WORLD

1st Australian Aboriginal MP elected

An Aboriginal man has been elected to Australia's House of Representatives, becoming the first indigenous MP in the country's history.

BBC

Chilean miners: drilling of rescue shaft to begin as Pope prays

Chilean rescuers will begin the long task of drilling a shaft to rescue 33 miners trapped deep underground as officials push for an accelerated rescue plan.

Telegraph.co.uk

Indonesia's volcano re-erupts, threatens international aviation

A volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra erupted again, spewing smoke over 6,000 feet into the air and threatening to disturb international flights.

Xinhua

Thousands flee volcano in Indonesia

BBC

Thousands flee Indonesia volcano

YouTube

EDUCATION

Top education officials spar over teacher reform, student success

With classrooms in crisis around the country, the Obama administration is attempting the most ambitious school reform in a generation.

ABC News

School-aged boys may benefit from aggressive play

While some educators prohibit this behavior, other educators and researchers claim that banishing violent play from classrooms can be harmful to boys. It's a debate entangled in gender issues.

LiveScience

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

'As The World' stops turning, are soap operas dead?

Hardly anyone these days admits to watching the soap operas that once dominated the daytime TV schedules. Are soaps dying out?

NPR

As life spins on, the midway beckons

In 1932, a wire editor published a novel about the agricultural shows he remembered from his childhood. Still the state fairs go on.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

ENVIRONMENT

Environmental groups face difficult future in climate-change debate

Some of the country's most respected environmental groups — in the midst of their biggest political fight — sent a group of activists to Milwaukee with a message: We're losing.

San Jose Mercury News

UN hopes science review eases climate skepticism after 2007 error

A review could help restore public faith in the U.N. panel of climate scientists and its finding that global warming is man-made despite errors in a 2007 report, the U.N.'s environment chief said.

Reuters

HEALTH

Genetic link found common to migraine

Gene detectives announced they had found the first inherited link to common types of migraine, a finding that boosts hopes for new drugs for this painful disorder.

Arizona Republic

Field of greens: the growth in farmers markets across the nation

Been to the supermarket this weekend? These days you have another choice. Farmers markets have taken root in cities across the nation.

CBS News

Spinal fusion device is a real bone of contention for FDA

In 2002 the FDA approved a product that many thought would revolutionize spinal surgery. Six years later, the FDA warned doctors that the product had the potential to cause life-threatening complications.

MedPage Today

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