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Matthew Weisker, right, and his wife, Mindy Weisker, look for jobs in a database as their 4-year-old daughter, Lexi Weisker, looks on at left at the careeer center Worksource Oregon in Tualatin, Ore. (Photo by Don Ryan / AP)

Father’s Day: Dads more engaged ... and more absent

Two distinct trends characterize fatherhood: Educated fathers are spending more time than ever with their kids, but on the other hand, poorer fathers are often absent altogether.

Christian Science Monitor

2 top lawyers lost to President Obama in Libya war policy debate

President Obama rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and the Justice Department when he decided that he had the authority to continue participation in the war in Libya, according to officials.

New York Times

Protests at fever pitch

MSNBC

Payrolls shrink, and the jobless rates drop in many states

The number of people on companies’ payrolls shrank in more than half the U.S. states in May, even though the jobless rates in many places continued to improve, Labor Department data showed.

Reuters

Made in USA: overseas jobs come home

CNNMoney

Leading indicators rise, point to slow growth

CBS News

Map:

The geography of a recession

ABC News

Afghan President Hamid Karzai: US ‘in peace talks with Taliban’

Afghan President Hamid Karzai provided the first high-level confirmation that the U.S. is engaged in talks with the Taliban. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said there could be talks with the Taliban.

BBC

2 dead in insurgent attack in Afghan capital

Houston Chronicle

NY Target store workers have voted against unionization

Workers at a Target store in New York voted against joining the country‘s largest retail union, but the union said it would continue its push to represent the company’s workers nationwide.

Philadelphia Inquirer

NATION

AARP wobbles on Social Security benefits and fights for rights

The AARP, a powerful nonprofit organization that fights for the rights of individuals over the age of 50, appeared to be easing its longstanding opposition to cuts to Social Security benefits.

ABC News

Arizona fires: Monument Fire forces chaotic evacuation

Fire crews relied on slurry bombers and helicopters to battle the Monument Fire that’s been roaring through canyons outside of Sierra Vista in southern Arizona for the past several days.

Arizona Republic

United Airlines: Computers are coming back online

The airline announced on Twitter that its computer systems were up and running, about five hours after the systems went down. The airline said it was in the process of resuming operations.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

GOP candidates show shifting stance on withdrawal from Afghanistan

Some Republican presidential candidates disagree with their GOP counterparts on the war in Afghanistan, raising questions about ideological rifts.

ABC News

Even hawkish Rep. Dicks seeks end to war in Afghanistan

McClatchy Newspapers

Holder vows to keep fighting for terror trials in civilian courts

Attorney General Eric Holder promised an audience of progressives and liberals that he will not abandon the fight to steer accused terrorists to civilian court trials rather than military tribunals.

CNN

A different David Coleman Headley

PBS

BUSINESS

Does gathering gloom raise the risk of a double dip?

This month marks the second anniversary of Great Recession that apparently ended two years ago. But for many households, the economic recovery has yet to arrive.

MSNBC

Made in USA: Overseas jobs come home

It’s still only a trickle compared to the flood of jobs that America lost to overseas outsourcing in recent decades. But some American businesses are bringing jobs home again.

CNNMoney

IMF warns of the increased risks to the world’s economy

The International Monetary Fund has warned that the risks facing the world economy have increased, saying it was concerned about the continuing Greek debt crisis and the arguments over U.S. deficit.

BBC

IMF lowers US growth forecast for next 2 years

International Business Times

ENVIRONMENT

Fukushima: It is much worse than you might think

“Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind,” Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera

Water scarcity could damage municipal bond ratings

Water scarcity may impact the economy as well as the environment. Fitch Ratings, a credit rating firm, recently said it may downgrade Atlanta’s credit rating if Georgia loses a court battle over water rights.

Earth Times

EDUCATION

Study helps pinpoint math disability

New research shows cognitive differences between students who sometimes struggle with math and those who have persistent learning disability in math.

Education Week

New data on college students and their sense of entitlement

Among academics who track the behavior of young adults and teens, there’s a touchy debate: Should the word “entitled” be used when talking about today’s younger people?

USA TODAY

Student stress: Whose is worst?

A quarter of students surveyed in the latest National College Health Assessment reported that stress has hurt their academic performance, with impacts such as lower grades and dropped courses.

Inside Higher Ed

HEALTH

Nearly 900,000 fewer cancer deaths in the US since 1990

There has been a steady drop in cancer deaths in the United States in the past two decades, two American Cancer Society reports find.

HealthDay

The growing culprit behind liver disease

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that in some cases fat, not alcohol can lead to cirrhosis, liver malfunction, and dementia-like symptoms.

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Jerry Brito):

‘We do it for the Lulz’: What makes LulzSec tick?

(TIME)

Techland

Column (Lamar Smith and Elton Gallegly):

E-Verify works; let’s use it

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (Maia Szalavitz):

Top 10 unhealthy side effects of the war on drugs

(TIME)

Healthland

Column (David Eagleman):

The brain on trial

The Atlantic

Blog (Tim Padgett):

4 decades later, it’s time to scrap the dead-end drug war

(TIME)

Global Spin

Cartoon (Dave Granlund):

Father’s Day

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Justin Elliott):

Arabic for right-wingers

(Salon)

War Room

Cartoon (David Horsey):

Inaction and denial bring us the whirlwind of climate change

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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GOOD NEWS

Human milk from cows? Scientists can make it happen

Scientists in China and Argentina have cloned cows that produce milk that’s chemically similar to mother’s own.

CBS News

Man brews a link between Fresno, Thai coffee growers

A new nonprofit coffee roasting company in Fresno, Calif., is trying to help hill tribes in northern Thailand earn a living.

Fresno Bee

Girl Scouts’ prosthetic hand device is set to get patent

If there was a way for trees to talk, then a big, old fir residing in Ames, Iowa, would tell a magnificent story about six Girl Scouts who meet in its branches and last year hatched a splendid idea.

ABC News

WORLD

UN body advocates for the protection of gay rights

The United Nations issued its first condemnation of discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people in a cautiously worded declaration.

Seattle Times

US, Vietnam are joining forces to battle Agent Orange

Vietnam kicked off the first phase of a joint plan with the United States to clean up environmental damage from the chemical Agent Orange.

MSNBC

US, Vietnam begin Agent Orange cleanup

CBS News

Syrian forces storm town near Turkey

Syrian troops and gunmen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad stormed a town near the Turkish border, burning houses and arresting dozens, witnesses said.

Reuters

Starting a revolution with new technology

CNN

Special section:

Arab Spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Applications are offering new ways to pay bills on the go

Credit card companies are in a rush to deploy smart phone apps to make cash and credit cards look obsolete.

Tampa Tribune

Gender-spotting tool could have rumbled fake blogger

Software that guesses a writer’s gender could have prevented the world being duped into believing a blog that was striking out for gay rights was written by a young lesbian living in Syria.

New Scientist

SPORTS

Did Babe Ruth really call his shot at Wrigley Field?

Almost 79 years later, it’s still one of the more debatable moments in baseball folklore: Did George Herman Ruth — ‘‘The Babe’’ — really call his shot in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series against the Cubs?

Chicago Sun-Times

Golf: Is there a perfect swing?

The professionals playing in the U.S. Open all have something in common: powerful and accurate golf swings. Which begs the question, is there a “perfect swing?”

Discovery News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Caldwell chaplain assistant helps soldiers of all faiths in Baghdad

Sgt. Keith Millar of Caldwell, a chaplain assistant, helps minister a diverse group of soldiers and civilians at Forward Operating Base Prosperity in Baghdad.

Idaho Statesman

Prayer and politics: How Friday became the Middle East’s day of protest

Following a rhythm as old as Islam itself, Fridays mean lunchtime prayers at the mosque. But with protests and revolutions across the Middle East, the day has taken on a new meaning.

CNN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

How ‘Ghost Town’ defined an era

‘Ghost Town’ by the Specials is 30 years old. How did this strange but unforgettable record capture a moment in history?

BBC

Review: ‘Page One’: the ‘Times,’ a-changing on all fronts

“Page One” is an insider’s view, but if it isn’t raking up any muck, it’s not a love letter. It’s more a portrait of an institution in a moment of transition.

NPR

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