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This file photo shows the sagebrush desert of Summer Lake Basin and Winter Ridge silhouetted by one of the Paisley Caves near Paisley, Ore. Stone tools and human DNA from the ancient Oregon caves offer new evidence of how the first Americans spread through the continent. (Photo by Jeff Barnard / AP)

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Cave discovery sheds light on American Stone Age

The discovery of 13,000-year-old stone projectiles and fossilized feces indicates the existence of a second founding culture in the Americas, in addition to the Clovis culture, say researchers.

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Christian Science Monitor

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How do feces get fossilized?

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Slate

Osama’s driver freed from Guantanamo

Ibrahim al-Qosi, Osama bin Laden’s bookkeeper, driver and sometime cook, is the latest to leave the Guantanamo Bay prison. His departure brings the total detainee population to 168.

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NPR

Syrian regime launches attacks from sky

Still grappling with a gruesome massacre, Syrians endured yet another bloody day as regime forces fired from helicopters and bombed state security headquarters, killing at least six people.

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CNN

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UN and US issue strong condemnations of Assad and Syrian massacre

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UN monitors in Syria head to ‘massacre site’

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Al Jazeera

Bain Capital far from fading, Obama keeps after Romney

President Barack Obama is keeping up a drumbeat of skepticism over Mitt Romney’s insistence that he stepped down from his private equity firm years earlier than federal records indicate.

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USA TODAY

Mitt Romney speaks about Bain Capital

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CBS News

What is it really like to be a teenager?

Tantrums, paralyzing inertia and terminal love sickness: Why, when other species seem to manage the transgression from infancy to adulthood with relative ease, do we seem to find it so hard?

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The Independent

NATION

Nation’s capital beset by scandal

An embarrassing corruption scandal connected to the mayor’s office further threatens to tarnish Washington’s burnished image and could topple its new leadership.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Mayor Vincent Gray lashes out at D.C. Council members who demand his resignation

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District of DeBonis

Judge allows abortion clinic in Mississippi to remain open

A federal judge upheld Mississippi’s anti-abortion law, but said the state’s only clinic can stay open and will not face penalties as it tries to comply with the new mandate.

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CBS News

Feds to reroute San Francisco Bay ships to protect whales

Federal maritime officials have approved a plan to protect whales in and around San Francisco Bay. It includes rerouting shipping traffic and establishing better ways to track whale locations.

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ABC News

POLITICS

Latinos to shift outcome of US elections

As the Latino population in the U.S. rises, the demographic shift will affect current and future voting habits, and therefore election outcomes, according to several experts.

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Al Jazeera

Missouri governor Jay Nixon vetoes measure on birth control

Gov. Jay Nixon found a narrow reason to veto a bill that would have put Missouri law in direct conflict with the new federal mandate for coverage of contraceptives.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

BUSINESS

Visa, MasterCard and banks in $7.25 billion retail settlement

Visa Inc., MasterCard Inc. and banks that have issued their credit cards have agreed to a $7.25 billion settlement with U.S. retailers over the fixing of credit and debit card fees.

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Reuters

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Minimum payments get you nowhere

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San Francisco Chronicle

China’s economic growth slows to 7.6 percent in 2nd quarter

China’s economy has grown at its slowest pace in three years as investment slowed and demand fell in key markets such as the U.S. and Europe.

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BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Hindu Americans redefine service

Seva, which means “service” in Sanskrit, is an important aspect of the Dharmic traditions, which include Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism.

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Huffington Post

Americans’ confidence in the church at all-time low

Americans’ confidence in organized religion is at its lowest in more than three decades, with just 44 percent having a lot of faith in the church, a new Gallup poll suggests.

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LiveScience

HEALTH

Study: Breast-feeding mothers still slimmer 30 years on

A new study from England shows postmenopausal women who breast-fed for at least six months had a lower body mass index than those who did not, regardless of how many children they had.

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WebMD

Panel calls for annual PTSD screening

The Institute of Medicine recommended that soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan undergo annual screening for post-traumatic stress disorder.

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ABC News

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Evidence that pot aids PTSD is slim

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Arizona Daily Star

Dogs enlisted in battle against cancer

While animal research has long played an important role in human medicine, an increasing number of clinical trials for dogs are used to help both species.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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Women who have had breast cancer surgery ‘risk more operations’

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BBC

EDUCATION

Gordon Brown to become UN special envoy for global education

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will become the U.N. special envoy for education. He plans to push universal education, calling for a fund to finance schools and train 2 million teachers.

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Guardian

Camp lets American Indian youth explore higher education

Almost 40 American Indian students have the chance to experience college life through the 14th annual Native Youth Exploring Higher Education summer camp at Washington State University.

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Pioneering lawsuit aims to ensure Michigan students learn to read

A class action filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan is the first of its kind asserting a child’s fundamental right to read. The lawsuit cites the implications of reading deficiencies.

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Detroit Free Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (John Dickerson):

What was Obama’s biggest mistake?

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Slate

Column (Randy Lobasso):

Swing state thievery

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Salon

Column (Jesse Singal):

Hey Daniel Tosh — no one believes your lame Twitter apology

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Daily Beast

Column (Stephen M. Walt):

Hillary Clinton’s tenure: not so bad

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Star Tribune

Column (Tom Laskawy):

Insult to injury: The House snuck protection for GMOs into its farm bill

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Grist

Column (Dean Obeidallah):

Vacation or die?

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CNN

Column (Paul Greenberg):

The amazing water world of the wild Alaskan salmon

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The Atlantic

Illinois moves to outlaw debtors’ prisons, and Missouri should follow

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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GOOD NEWS

India’s frontline health workers help stave off global crisis

As a frontline health worker, India’s Sonam Kumari is not a doctor or a nurse. But she is doing something they cannot: helping the poorest of the poor gain access to health care.

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GlobalPost

Struggling families seek to lift themselves out of poverty

It has been almost 50 years since President Lyndon Johnson declared a “War on Poverty.” But in 2012, the poverty rate in the U.S. is the highest it has been in 17 years.

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NPR

It started with a $500 tip

Something made Aaron Collins outline three things he wanted before he died: to repay debts owed to his parents, to give a homeless person some money and to leave “an awesome tip” for a server.

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CNN

WORLD

Suicide bomber kills top Afghan MP at wedding celebration

A well-known Afghan politician and 22 others have been killed in a suicide attack in the northern province of Samangan, police say.

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BBC

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Afghanistan’s challenge

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Al Jazeera

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Suicide bomber kills 22 and wounds 40

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YouTube

Battered and bruised: the high rates of domestic violence in Papua New Guinea

Domestic violence has reached epidemic levels in Papua New Guinea, the largest nation in the South Pacific. The U.N. has described the problem as a “pervasive phenomenon.”

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Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Cyberdefense: Should Americans be concerned about their privacy?

As Congress weighs information-sharing among government agencies in the name of cyberdefense, the Pentagon is seeking to allay Americans’ privacy concerns.

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Christian Science Monitor

Pluto’s 5th moon: 5 fascinating facts

Using data from the Hubble telescope, SETI scientists spotted a fifth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto.

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Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

US waste of natural gas grows rapidly

The U.S. is posting rapid growth in the waste of natural gas. The fuel is either burned or vented into the atmosphere, damaging the environment and failing to maximize the return to investors.

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Christian Science Monitor

Most endangered mammal? Probably lemurs, say experts

Of all the world’s animals living on the verge of extinction, Madagascar’s lemurs are teetering closest to the brink. A new assessment reveals they are probably the most endangered vertebrates on Earth.

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Msnbc.com

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Looking for lies in people’s shifty eyes

Researchers from Edinburgh University and Hertfordshire University found no connection between eye movements and whether people were being truthful.

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TIME

Oscar-winning producer Richard D. Zanuck dies at 77

Richard D. Zanuck, whose distinguished producing career included the best picture Oscar winners “The Sting” and “Driving Miss Daisy,” died of a heart attack at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 77.

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Hollywood Reporter

SPORTS

US uniforms will be made in USA by 2014

Responding to criticism that U.S. Olympic team uniforms were made in China, Ralph Lauren has announced that uniforms for the 2014 games will be made in America.

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ESPN

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Made in America: the short list

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CNN

Brees, Saints agree to 5-year, $100M deal

Drew Brees has agreed to a five-year, $100 million contract with the New Orleans Saints, with $60 million guaranteed, said a person familiar with the deal.

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Sports Illustrated

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Oldest shark nursery found

Several 230-million-year-old teeth and egg capsules uncovered at a fossil site in southwestern Kyrgyzstan suggest hundreds of young sharks once congregated in a shallow lake.

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National Geographic

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Tibetan Muslim women listen to the Dalai Lama during a function at the Tibetan school in Srinagar, India. The Dalai Lama is on a visit to the troubled portion of Indian Kashmir. (Photo by Dar Yasin / AP)

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