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In this file photo, Boston Red Sox‘s David Ortiz watches his son D’Angelo hit his wiffle ball pitch at home plate at Fenway Park in Boston, prior to the baseball game against the Chicago White Sox. (Photo by Winslow Townson / AP)

Making a whiffle ball

At various points, whiffle ball has tried flying discs or plastic golf balls. But each time, they were reminded that people did not have much use for anything beside the bat and ball.

Wall Street Journal

How ‘the call’ was heard ’round the wiffle world

MLive.com

History and making of whiffle ball

Wall Street Journal

States balk at Obama administration illegal immigrant fingerprint plan

The Obama administration announced plans to protect crime victims and witnesses from deportation under a hotly debated program that requires local jails to send arrestees’ fingerprints to immigration authorities.

San Francisco Chronicle

At 90 days, Washington remains divided

U.S. military intervention in Libya will soon reache its 90th day. This is significant because the 1973 War Powers Resolution requires Congress to authorize engagements surpassing 90 days.

NPR

Libya conflict: Backlash ensues for Obama’s refusal to seek Congress’s nod

Christian Science Monitor

A slideshow of Libya’s bloody uprising

Economist

Parris Island gets 1st female commander

Parris Island, the military installation that has trained thousands of young Marines, has its first female commander. Brig. Gen. Lori Reynolds just took over at a change-of-command ceremony.

CNN

2011 US Open: Rory McIlroy leads, sets 54-hole record

Rory McIlroy kept punishing the golf course and the record book, setting himself up with an eight-shot lead at the U.S. Open with 18 holes left between him and his first major championship.

ESPN

US Open best shots

Golf.com

Special section:

US Open scoring

USGA

NATION

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

Senate votes to eliminate foreign ethanol tax break

The U.S. Senate voted 73-27 in favor of an amendment by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to eliminate the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit and repeal the import on foreign ethanol.

Environment News Service

POLITICS

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

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

Water is the new liquid gold in Texas

With the region only having received less than 2 inches of rainfall since October, oil producers are buying water from anyone willing to sell the cohesive and adhesive substance.

MSNBC

Worst drought in more than a century strikes Tex. oil boom

Bloomberg

Goldman: Russia investment shouldn’t wait for elections

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) is advising clients to avoid delaying investment decisions for Russia until it becomes clear who will be the next president in elections in March.

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

New data on college students concerning their overconfidence

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

Charter schools group says Gwinnett funding offer violates state law

Gwinnett County Schools did not follow state charter law with its offer to fund Ivy Preparatory Academy, officials with the Georgia Charter Schools Association charged.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

HEALTH

Alarming number of children on Medicaid denied health care

An undercover investigation in Illinois suggests that children on Medicaid are often denied health care by specialty physicians, while privately insured children get health care more easily.

HealthNews

Lung cancer death rate falls faster in men than women

The overall drop in death rates means 898,000 individuals who would have died from lung cancer over the last 17 years did not, according to a report issued by the American Cancer Society.

Medical News Today

Parkinson’s artificial brain bank being built at Oxford

In a study aimed at finding cures for Parkinson’s disease, Oxford researchers have begun creating a bank of artificially grown brain cells.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Baptists tackle immigration issue

Southern Baptists adopted a resolution that supports a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, but clearly states they reject “amnesty.”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Williams sparks a political row in England

Rowan Williams, current archbishop of Canterbury, sparked a political row by criticizing the English government’s austerity measures and budget cuts as the cause of “bafflement and indignation.”

Religion News Service

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

Fill it up, but not that gas

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Eugene Kennedy):

Killng bin Laden and common Islamic and Christian myths

National Catholic Reporter

Column (Dennis Jett):

Is GOP’s 2012 game plan to cause a recession?

McClatchy Newspapers

Video:

Is another stimulus needed?

CNN

Blog (Jerry Brito):

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

(TIME)

Techland

Blog (Tim Padgett):

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

(TIME)

Global Spin

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

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GOOD NEWS

Back on track: African Americans recall their role in the railroad industry

A new national historical society founded in Miami aims to capture the history and contributions of African Americans in the railroad industry.

Miami Herald

Homeless beauty queen to compete for Miss USA crown

Blair Griffith stunned the judges of the Miss Colorado USA pageant with her beauty, winning the title. Then she stunned everyone — when she admitted in an interview that she was homeless.

ABC 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

WORLD

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

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

Blog:

Live blog: Syria

Al Jazeera

Special section:

Arab Spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Hackers target Sega in latest cyberattack

Sega has become the latest computer games giant to fall prey to hackers, warning users of its Sega Pass system that some of their personal information may have been stolen.

Guardian

Hackers might face stiffer sentences in US

Reuters

Symantec: hack attacks sophisticated

YouTube

Memories off and on with flip of switch

Scientists have developed a way to turn memories on and off — and do it literally with the flip of a switch.

ScienceDaily

ENVIRONMENT

A soggy summer awaits along the Missouri River

It isn’t so much the amount of water churning its way down the Missouri River that has people along the nation’s longest waterway on edge. It’s how long all that water will stick around.

Houston Chronicle

Bonn climate talks fail to resolve future of Kyoto Protocol

Climate talks have made “clear advances on key issues” ahead of the United Nations annual climate summit, the U.N.’s top climate’ official said. But environmental groups called the progress “uneven.”

Environment News Service

SPORTS

Nationals beat Orioles 4-2

Michael Morse put Washington ahead with a sixth-inning homer, Ryan Zimmerman also connected, and the Nationals beat the Baltimore Orioles 4-2 for their eighth straight victory.

Yahoo! News

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

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Abigail Adams lost letters

Abigail Adams wrote thousands of letters in her lifetime, but a newly discovered letter sheds light on the future first lady’s mind as she prepared to leave London in 1788.

ABC News

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

Blog:

President Obama’s fatherhood Rx: quality time, structure and love

(USA TODAY)

The Oval

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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