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A specialist works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. U.S. stocks are closing broadly higher after an unexpected pickup in manufacturing in the Midwest. (Photo by Richard Drew / AP)

Blacks return to their Southern roots

In a major demographic shift, Blacks are moving out of cities in the Northeast and Midwest and into cities and suburbs of the South.

USA TODAY

Crowds turn out against Syria’s President Assad

Hundreds of thousands of protesters flooded cities around Syria in what activists described as the largest-yet outpouring against the regime of President Bashar Assad.

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog:

Live from Syria

(Al Jazeera)

Syria Live Blog

Wall Street’s best week in 2 years

Stocks started July with a bang with Wall Street scoring its best week in two years on strong manufacturing data that eased concerns about slowing growth.

Reuters

US stocks extend gain

Bloomberg

Talking numbers: bumpy road ahead?

CNBC

Illinois death row officially shuts down

After spending years at the center of heated national debate over capital punishment, Illinois’ death row officially died when a state law abolishing the death penalty quietly took effect.

ABC News

Quinn signs Ill. budget, cuts $376 million more than expected

Huffington Post

Nissan plant opens on Saturdays amid power crunch

Nissan’s plant is busily rolling out the Leaf electric car and other models, having shifted production schedules for an aggressive nationwide effort to fight a power crunch.

Philadelphia Inquirer

NATION

Minnesota government shuts down amid debt fallout

Minnesota’s government has shut down for the second time in the past six years after state leaders failed to find common ground on how to resolve a $5 billion budget deficit.

CBS News

Special section:

Complete coverage of the Minn. state shutdown

Star Tribune

Minn. government shuts down

YouTube

Anti-abortion: the new face of the infamous modern movement

Recent polls show a shifting of support between pro-abortion rights and anti-abortion factions. Anti-abortion groups have hardened their resolve while adopting a strategy of compassion.

Columbia Missourian

POLITICS

Minnesota awakes to shutdown and political parties point fingers

The shutdown is the product of an ongoing dispute over taxes and spending between Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislative majorities.

CBS News

Planned Parenthood fights defunding laws in spending bill

After federal attempts to defund Planned Parenthood as part of Congress’ Continuing Resolution spending bill failed , anti-abortion activists took to state legislatures to continue the battle.

ABC News

New defense chief is seeing tough budget choices

Leon Panetta was sworn in as Defense Secretary promising to keep the military strong while making tough choices on defense spending cuts.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Zynga files for $1 billion IPO

Zynga, creator of the -Ville online gaming franchise, filed to raise up to $1 billion in an initial public offering. Unlike many of its fellow much-buzzed-about Web upstarts, Zynga is solidly profitable.

CNNMoney

Week ahead: Market faces its next hurdle — the jobs report

The June jobs report looms as the next hurdle for a stock market that has gone from gloom to boom with its best weekly performance in nearly two years.

CNBC

Retirement savings near all-time high

Retirement assets rose to $18.1 trillion at the end of the first quarter, up 3 percent from the end of 2010. That’s up nearly 10 percent from the same quarter a year ago.

CNNMoney

EDUCATION

State of Kentucky eyeing new ‘Race to the Top’ grants

State education officials have their eye on a new federal “Race to the Top” education grant proposal that focuses on making improvements in early learning.

Cincinnati Enquirer

Federal data shedding light on recent education disparities

New federal statistics shared about thousands of schools and districts show that students across the country don’t have equal access to a rigorous education, and school counselors.

Education Week

HEALTH

Copper kills 97 percent of hospital ICU bacteria, according to clinical trial

Antimicrobial copper surfaces in intensive care units (ICU) kill 97 percent of bacteria that can cause hospital-acquired infections, according to preliminary results of a multi-site clinical trial in the U.S.

Reuters

Avastin rejection is being supported by cancer experts

Oncologists are endorsing a U.S. health advisory panel’s recommendation that the blockbuster cancer drug Avastin be removed from use in metastatic breast cancer.

U.S. News & World Report

SPORTS

Defending champ Nadal, Djokovic to meet in Wimbledon final

Novak Djokovic secured the No. 1 ranking by reaching the Wimbledon final. He will get a chance to beat the man he is replacing — defending champion Rafael Nadal.

Sports Illustrated

Notre Dame settles case involving death of student videographer

Notre Dame will pay a $42,000 fine for six safety violations and make an undisclosed contribution to a memorial for a student videographer who died at football practice.

ESPN

Sullivan family has no problem with the fine being reduced

Daily Herald

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Robert Grenier):

What is President Obama’s Afghanistan plan?

Al Jazeera

Cartoon (Joe Heller):

4th of July

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Daniel Denvir):

Segregation in the land of limousine liberalism

(Salon)

War Room

Blog (Eliot Spitzer):

China’s a lion. Is the United States a gazelle?

(Slate)

The Best Policy

Column (Ruben Navarrette):

New life for the DREAM Act?

CNN

Editorial:

House Republicans’ budget cuts imperil food safety

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Leonard Pitts Jr.):

On gay marriage, the president evolves too slowly

Detroit Free Press

Editorial:

Character and compassion define the American spirit

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Rare grizzly bear photographed in North Cascades of Washington

A hiker has photographed a living grizzly bear in the North Cascades of Washington. Grizzly bears are a protected species in the area but many experts wondered if the bears still survived.

Seattle Times

Day care teacher recognized for saving toddler’s life

Community officials acknowledged the heroics of Cindy Davis who helped save a 4-year-old’s life by administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Minnesota zoo welcomes animals from North Dakota

Approximately 230 animals evacuated from the Roosevelt Park Zoo in Minot, N.D., have been moved to the Como Zoo in St. Paul, Minn., because of floods.

Star Tribune

WORLD

Moammar Gadhafi threatens European ‘homes, offices, families’

A defiant Moammar Gadhafi has threatened to bring war to the “homes, offices, families,” of Europe unless NATO stops airstrikes against his regime in Libya.

Guardian

China’s Communist Party marks its 90th year with celebration

Celebrating the Communist Party’s 90th anniversary, Chinese President Hu Jintao said that its ability to adapt made China affluent and powerful and that the party must fight corruption.

TIME

China marks 90th anniversary of communism

YouTube

Strauss-Kahn free from house arrest; charges stand

Former International Monetary Fund Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn walked out of court free without bail or home confinement after prosecutors conducted an extensive background investigation.

MSNBC

Dominique Strauss-Kahn case falling apart?

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Cloud-computing presents challenges, opportunities for local firms

It may be bad news for the people in your corporate IT department, but much of their work may be moving to “the cloud.”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Pouch puzzle: Kangaroo moms mysteriously swap offspring

Kangaroos adopt. It does’t happen often, but to the astonishment of biologists at Wilsons Promontory National Park in Australia, sometimes a mother invites a foreign youngster to hop into her pouch.

LiveScience

ENVIRONMENT

Fire crews battle NM fire as it pushes into the canyon

Firefighters battled a 145-square-mile fire burning in a canyon leading to parts of the Los Alamos nuclear lab and an evacuated town, even as confidence rose that both would be spared from the flames.

USA TODAY

Los Alamos fire set to become state’s biggest

MSNBC

Winds of change in the US

The new chair of the American Wind Energy Association is calling for more consistency at policy level to develop the wind sector. Does it point to a change in how government sees wind energy?

Earth Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pastor preaches brotherly love for his co-pastor sister

Siblings Doriane Parker-Sims and Daniel Parker are co-pastors of Kingdom Life Ministries in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Religion News Service

Church takes steps into social media

When it comes to social networking, some Catholics are becoming hesitant to click the “like” button.

National Catholic Reporter

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Canada Day drawing of crowds from coast to coast

There is plenty of excitement for Canada Day celebrations at home and at similar events around the world, as Canadians gather to celebrate the country’s 144th birthday.

CBC News

Specialized summer camp for kids teaches social skills

At Camp STAR in Highland Park, Ill., children with ADHD, anxiety and socially disruptive disorders earn rewards for participation and following rules.

ABC News

Ohio House gives pit bulls a break

A bill passed that would remove the section of the Ohio Revised Code that automatically designates pit bulls as vicious.

Columbus Dispatch

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