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President Barack Obama speaks at the annual Milwaukee Area Labor Council Laborfest. (Photo by Morry Gash / AP)

Un-natural selection: human evolution's next steps

Millions of years ago, the natural environment was shaping us into the species we have become. Now we create our own environments and that has its consequences.

NPR

Special section:

The human family tree

National Geographic

US catches a break this year with mild wildfire season

The U.S. is enjoying an unusually quiet year for wildfires, the least fiery of the past 10 years, according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise.

USA TODAY

Obama puts jobs on Labor Day agenda

President Barack Obama has for months said that rebuilding the economy and creating jobs is his "most urgent task." He will launch a week of events to again show that he means business.

ABC News

Obama speaks at Laborfest

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Obama to back infrastructure money

YouTube

Plan to woo Taliban foot soldiers stalls

A program to lure low-level Taliban fighters away from the insurgency has foundered, with Afghans bickering over who should run it, and international donors slow to put up the money they had promised.

New York Times

Talking with the Taliban

CNN

When the economy begins to take off, so may many employees

Jobs remain scarce, but as small signs of economic hope emerge more are beginning to jump ship — or at least consider it — for better opportunities, national experts say.

Charlotte Observer

Despite economic downturn, resignations rise

McClatchy Newspapers

NATION

Tropical storm Hermine makes landfall

Tropical storm Hermine slammed into Mexico's northern Gulf coast near the U.S. border with winds of 65 mph, threatening heavy rains that could cause flash flooding in Mexico and Texas.

Baltimore Sun

Special section:

Tropical storm Hermine

Houston Chronicle

Tropical storm Hermine threatens Texas coast

MSNBC

Anti-Islam rhetoric heats up ahead of 9/11

A Christian pastor is scheduled to hold the second service in a series bashing the planned Muslim community center in downtown New York City ahead of the ninth anniversary of 9/11.

ABC News

Planned Quran burning could endanger troops, Petraeus warns

CNN

POLITICS

Unions struggle to combat lopsided election spending

Every election cycle, business outspends labor. And those numbers could become even more lopsided. It's not clear how much corporate and union money is going into politics this fall.

NPR

Campaign season is under way

With less than two months until Election Day, candidates are packing their schedules with campaign events designed to convince voters that they're the best ones for the job.

CNN

Special section:

Election 2010 hot races

CBS News

HEALTH

2 in 5 kids in NY are overweight or obese

According to a new report, two out of every five of New York City's children from kindergarten to eighth grade are either overweight or obese.

Medical News Today

4 nutrients your child may be missing

WebMD

Fast-growing, genetically modified salmon 'safe to be farmed and eaten'

Genetically modified salmon which grow at twice the speed of their natural counterparts are safe to be farmed and eaten, U.S. regulators have ruled.

Telegraph.co.uk

EDUCATION

Parents, ready for the school bell?

When it comes to helping students get the best start on the new academic year, parents should help their kids be positive, organized and should prepare to build a good relationship with teachers.

Detroit Free Press

Formula to grade teachers’ skill gains acceptance, and critics

How good is one teacher compared with another? A number of school districts have adopted a system called value-added modeling to answer that question.

New York Times

SPORTS

Stewart snaps winless string, speeds to Atlanta victory

A 31-race streak without a win came to an end on a slippery, treacherous Atlanta Motor Speedway surface as Tony Stewart took lead in the Emory Healthcare 500 in an unpredictable late-race sprint.

Alabama Local News

Stosur wins latest-ending US Open women's match

Sam Stosur won the latest-finishing women's match in U.S. Open history, erasing four match points and coming back to beat 2004 runner-up Elena Dementieva.

York Daily Record

Lacrosse star teaches elementary

When school starts, Brian Spallina will trade in his lacrosse stick for a ruler. Instead of throwing cross checks and accruing penalty minutes, he will correct journals and write subtraction problems on a blackboard.

ESPN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Douglas County congregation dedicates specially commissioned Torah

It is brand new and unused, yet ancient and eternal — this Torah is the bond between Moses at Mount Sinai and the shiny new suburbs of south metro Denver.

Denver Post

Cordova Christians put out welcome mat for mosque

The Memphis Islamic Center, a nonprofit organization formed three years ago, is two weeks from breaking ground on the first phase of a multimillion-dollar complex.

USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

Put jobs over politics

Orlando Sentinel

Column (Nicholas D. Kristof):

Agriculture system needs overhaul

Columbus Dispatch

Editorial:

Workers will fuel recovery

Daily Herald

Column (Esther J. Cepeda):

College education worth investment

Chicago Sun-Times

Column (Andres Oppenheimer):

In Latin America, US exports are losing market share

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Derek Thompson):

Would unions save the economy?

The Atlantic

Editorial:

Hard, changing times for workers

Star Tribune

Column (James Duran):

Proposition 23 will save businesses from environmental burdens

San Jose Mercury News

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GOOD NEWS

Hidden trail details help a blind man see

Jerry Eastham woke up blind one morning eight years ago. It wasn't a total surprise. His father went blind. So did every one of his 14 older siblings. But over the next few years, he learned to get by.

Anchorage Daily News

Giving sick kids booster 'shots'

When other people looked away, photographer and social worker Annie Levy saw to it that the young adults at Montefiore Medical Center found an outlet to express themselves and their illnesses.

New York Post

WORLD

The glittering Persian Gulf states' dark labor secret

The vast majority of workers who build the sparkling towers in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf are foreigners who are often exploited, rarely protected by local laws, and frequently return home poor.

Christian Science Monitor

Afghan training expected to cost US $6B a year

The United States expects to spend about $6 billion a year training and supporting Afghan troops and police after it begins pulling out its own combat troops in 2011.

MSNBC

BUSINESS

Tech firms shop abroad to avoid taxes

U.S. technology companies are in a bind. Much of their cash is parked abroad and they risk higher taxes if they bring profits from overseas back home.

San Francisco Chronicle

Growth hopes boost global equities

World stocks rose on hopes that the U.S. can avoid slipping back into recession, although the International Monetary Fund's chief economist warned of weak growth.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mars may not be lifeless, say scientists

Carbon-rich organic molecules, which serve as the building blocks of life, may be present on Mars, say scientists, challenging a widely held notion of Mars being barren.

BBC

Privacy concerns grow with RFID tags

RFID tags — miniature chips that use radio waves to exchange data with reading devices — have been around since World War II, but the industry believes the technology's time is now.

San Francisco Chronicle

RFID works better in building ducts

Reuters

Apple ramps up iPad production

Manufacturing plants have doubled iPad production since its launch, and Apple wants to push volume during the holiday season.

PC World

iPad effect brings imitators

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Diverse water sources key to food security, according to a report

Increasingly erratic rainfall patterns related to climate change pose a major threat to food security and economic growth, water experts said, arguing for greater investment in water storage.

Reuters

Special section:

Water

Guardian

Hunters asked to avoid oil spill cleanup area in Mich.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment says hunters should avoid the river from Interstate 69 west to the west side of Morrow Lake.

Detroit Free Press

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Teaching kids about money pays off

Nobody likes a spoiled brat. And the air of entitlement wafting around this type of kid — which only grows thicker as the child grows older — is linked directly to money.

Houston Chronicle

Chinese experiment seeks to find secrets to happiness

“Happy Jiangyin,” an award-winning experiment, has come up with a list of magic ingredients it believes add up to happiness.

NPR

The wild things that happen to filmmakers

If you want to live a wild life, being a wildlife filmmaker is just the ticket. For example, Jon Bowermaster wishes he could have filmed an incident when a camera part had fallen into shark-infested waters.

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