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A Muslim man reads the Quran on the first day of Ramadan at the Grand Mosque in Sanaa, Yemen. Muslim authorities in most of the Middle East declared the start of Ramadan, a period devoted to dawn-to-dusk fasting, prayers and spiritual introspection. (Photo by Hani Mohammed / AP)

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Sweltering days of Ramadan to test Muslims’ devotion

It’s an annual challenge of patience and self-restraint, but this year the month of Ramadan has loomed under a scorching sun of intimidation.

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Houston Chronicle

Special section:

Islam at a glance

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BBC

Evolution makes us love to dish dirt

Our love of gossip is evolutionary, part of our earliest mechanisms for finding the best mate in order to survive and keep our species going, according neuroscience research.

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ABC News

Path for debt legislation remains uncertain

Congressional leaders and President Obama reached an agreement to end the debt ceiling crisis. If lawmakers are sold on the deal, a bill increasing the debt ceiling could await the president’s signature.

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NPR

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Asia stocks, US futures, dollar gain on deal

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Bloomberg

Special section:

America’s debt battle

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CBS News

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President Obama: ‘We’re not done yet’

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MSNBC

HSBC sheds 30,000 jobs, posts surprise profit rise

HSBC Holdings PLC will shed 30,000 jobs as it retreats from countries where it is struggling to compete, Europe’s biggest bank said after it reported a rise in first-half profit.

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Reuters

Crimes against LGBT community are up, despite social gains

Violent crimes, including murder, increased against people identifying themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, an advocacy group reports.

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USA TODAY

Undergoing therapy to change sexual orientation can be harmful

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NATION

Arizona middle-class struggling, doing without health care

Dwindling job security, reduced home values and higher personal health costs have changed many middle class lives, with people delaying medical care because they don’t have insurance or cash.

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Arizona Republic

Texas Gulf oysters suffering in drought

Tracy Woody heaved a hemp bag filled with oysters across the deck of his boat and began inspecting his catch. One shell after another was empty.

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Heat wave threatens elderly in US towns

The air is cool inside a makeshift coffee shop on the main strip in Mulhall, a northern Oklahoma farming community, but there aren’t many customers with temperatures topping 100 degrees.

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MSNBC

POLITICS

A troubled gun sting confirms US role in Mexico’s violence

A broad array of Mexicans says the scandal simply underscores the ease with which brutal crime gangs obtain large quantities of assault weapons from U.S. gun shops near the border.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Sperling doesn’t expect there to be a double-dip recession

White House economic advisor Gene Sperling dismissed fears that the U.S. could face another recessionary slump.

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The Hill

BUSINESS

Colorado bank failures could cost the FDIC slightly more than $1B

Five Colorado bank failures could cost the nation’s deposit insurance fund slightly more than $1 billion.

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Denver Post

Borders‘ demise isn’t all good news for smaller booksellers

They’ve survived Amazon, e-books and big-box retailers — at least so far. Now independent bookstores are trying to find their way in a post-Borders world.

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McClatchy Newspapers

ENVIRONMENT

Iowa is a lean, mean, invincible, ‘grain-growing,’ machine

Iowa is an agricultural superpower, that also eclipses Canada in grain production and challenges China in soybean production. No, these are not mathematical errors.

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Grist

Parched as Florida is now, next year could be worse

Despite five wet weeks that dulled the drought’s edge, the area remains far behind in rainfall — leaving South Florida little time before a new dry season that could be even worse than the last.

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Palm Beach Post

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Internet archivist seeks to collect 1 of every book written

Tucked away in a small warehouse on a dead-end street, an Internet pioneer is building a bunker to protect an endangered species: the printed word.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Struggling museum for veterans’ art is fighting for survival

Veteran artists find themselves in the midst of a battle to save their beloved National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago, which is struggling.

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Reuters

Being Juliette Binoche

She’s not a feminist, but says women are born creative. Juliette Binoche talks to Laura Barnett about her spat with Gerard Depardieu, bad reviews — and why acting is like peeling onions.

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Guardian

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

NC appeals court rules against county in prayer lawsuit

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has upheld a lower court’s decision that declared the use of prayer to open North Carolina’s Forsyth County Board of Commissioners meetings unconstitutional.

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MSNBC

German nuns bake bread for pope

Benedict XVI will not visit the Benedictine Abbey of St. Gertrud, but preparations for his trip are nevertheless in full swing, with the nuns baking thousands of communion wafers to be blessed by the pope.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

EDUCATION

Education cuts squeeze NC teachers

In North Carolina, education spending cuts are so severe that Gov. Beverly Perdue warns “they will do generational damage” to public education.

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NPR

Universities ‘buy’ top A-level students

The highest performing A-level candidates could be tempted with cut-price deals on tuition fees, as some English universities face pressure to maintain student numbers.

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Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Charles Krauthammer):

Until it wins another house, GOP shouldn’t try to govern

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Paul Krugman):

The president surrenders

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Deal not pretty, but beats alternative

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USA TODAY

Column (Mitch Albom):

Beach Boys prove summer is forever

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Detroit Free Press

Benefits outweigh birth control costs

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Star Tribune

Blog (Rebecca MacKinnon):

Our Web freedom at the mercy of tech giants

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(CNN)

TEDTalk Tuesdays

Column (Glenn Greenwald):

Politics in a nutshell

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Salon

Column (Albert R. Hunt):

3rd-party chestnut won’t fix broken politics

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Bloomberg

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GOOD NEWS

Blind surfers get opportunity to hang 10

Some teens have limited sight and others live in a world of total darkness, unable even to sense light. All are getting an opportunity that once would have seemed unthinkable.

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ABC News

New gallery 71 POP gives emerging artists space to make their mark

Detroit is being rebuilt piece by piece — an independent store here, a coffee shop there, lofts here and there.

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Detroit Free Press

Solar chargers for electric cars make zero emissions a reality

The California company, SolarCity, has started offering solar EV chargers to customers in 11 states and Washington, D.C., allowing people to drive their cars purely on sunshine.

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Good News Network

WORLD

Somalia famine: African Union calls ‘pledging summit’

The African Union has announced it is to hold a summit meeting to pledge help for the victims of Somalia’s drought.

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BBC

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Instability in Somalia hampers efforts to aid famine ‘tragedy’

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Iran to ‘rule soon on US spy suspects’

Two U.S. citizens jailed in Iran on charges of espionage and illegal entry are expected to receive a verdict, their lawyer said after a court hearing in Tehran.

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Al Jazeera

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Verdict for 2 Americans in Iran soon

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USA TODAY

Syria: 100 die in crackdown as Assad sends in his tanks

Syria’s uprising faced one of its defining moments when President Bashar Assad followed in his father’s footsteps and sent in tanks to crush protests in the central city of Hama, killing up to 100 people.

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Guardian

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Syria unrest: President Obama condemns ‘brutal’ Hama raid

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BBC

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Scores dead as Hama attacked

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Telegraph.co.uk

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Apple manufacturer to replace some of workforce with robots

Foxconn, a company that manufacturers parts used in Apple’s iPhone and iPad, said it aims to replace workers with 1 million robots, Xinhuanet reports.

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CNN

‘Star Trek’ captains join forces in new William Shatner documentary

The new documentary “The Captains,” written and directed by William Shatner, ”Star Trek“ Captain James T. Kirk, aired to a packed crowd on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum.

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SPACE.com

Materials give off light when heated

A new photovoltaic energy-conversion system developed at MIT can be powered solely by heat, generating electricity with no sunlight at all.

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ScienceDaily

HEALTH

Living kidney donors push for better data on risks

Lisa Giles, a Lake Forest businesswoman, said no one told her that surgeons would stop blood flow to her adrenal gland during the five-hour operation in Cleveland.

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Universal influenza vaccine in reach targeting key common proteins

Almost a quarter million people are hospitalized with the flu every year, and an estimated 3,000 to 49,000 die, making the flu one of the chief causes of preventable death in the U.S.

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Medical News Today

Tiny blood card offers easier tests for remote areas

A cheap and portable blood test could provide a breakthrough for diagnosing infections in remote areas of the world, a scientific study says.

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BBC

SPORTS

Serena captures 1st title in comeback

Serena Williams has captured her first tournament title since returning to tennis, beating Marion Bartoli 7-5, 6-1 to win the Bank of the West Classic.

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NBCSports

Menard scores 1st career victory with upset win in Indianapolis

Paul Menard has won his first career Sprint Cup Series race by conserving fuel then holding off Jeff Gordon to pull off an upset victory at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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Star Tribune

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Finish of Indianapolis Brickyard 400

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YouTube

From jail to the Jets team, Burress finds a new NFL home

Former Super Bowl star Plaxico Burress, recently released from prison after serving 20 months on a gun charge, reached an agreement in principle on a one-year deal with the Jets.

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The Herald

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Plaxico Burress signs with Jets

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Strength training has multiple benefits for older people

Strength training may reduce depression, give older people better cognitive function, boost good cholesterol and more, a new study shows.

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Photo of the Day

Hot air balloons fly over Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, during the International Lorraine Mondial Air Ballons Festival. (Photo by Mathieu Cugnot / AP)

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