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Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, right, listens to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speak at a joint news conference in Cairo. Clinton used her first meeting with Egypt’s new Islamist president to press Mohammed Morsi to start a dialogue with military leaders. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AP)

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Welcome to the age of nonprofit city government

With a remarkable ability to get things done in Detroit, a city on the brink of state of emergency, the nonprofit Midtown Inc. has a reputation for effectively performing the role of government.

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Salon

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

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Omar Khadr wants decision on return to Canada

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Clinton meets with Egypt’s new president

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed that it is up to Egypt’s people to shape the political future and noted that the U.S. would work “to support the military’s return to a purely national security role.”

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CNN

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The depth of Egypt’s power struggle

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Reuters

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Egypt-US relations

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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

Winston Churchill’s way with words

Winston Churchill is best remembered as the British prime minister whose speeches rallied a nation in World War II. But few know he won the Nobel Prize in literature.

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NPR

NATION

Too many jobs, or not enough

Yuma, a town along the Mexican border, has the country’s highest jobless rate, at 28.9 percent. Meanwhile, Bismarck, N.D., has the lowest rate in the U.S., at just 2.5 percent. Local economies differ.

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NPR

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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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

POLITICS

Senate Dems push 1-year tax cut

Senate Democrats will push a one-year tax cut proposal for individuals earning $200,000 or less annually, setting the stage for a showdown with Republicans over extending the Bush tax cuts.

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Politico

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

BUSINESS

Stepping out of the system

In lean economic times, alternative financial systems are sprouting up around the world. And now they come with a digital twist.

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BBC

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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Advocate for your child within school systems

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Is anyone enlightened?

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Somebodies and Nobodies

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The ‘50 shades’ of capitalism

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Salon

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The world’s most hated energy source could make you a fortune

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Townhall.com

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What was Obama’s biggest mistake?

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Slate

Column (Jesse Singal):

Hey Daniel Tosh — no one believes your lame Twitter apology

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Daily Beast

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Hillary Clinton’s tenure: not so bad

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Star Tribune

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

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Grist

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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

How American and Chinese citizens see each other

The U.S.-China relationship is working well, so why are people in the two countries still reporting such unfavorable views of each other?

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The Atlantic

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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

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

Oil company Enbridge finds an unlikely friend in diehard conservation group

Through a series of meetings and discussions between Enbridge Energy Partners officials and leaders of the Anglers, a somewhat unorthodox partnership was born.

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Detroit Free Press

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

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

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

Dwight Howard’s and the Orlando Magic’s options as they move forward

The Dwight Howard stay-or-go saga continues. At this point, the only certainty in this soap opera is that it will feature more uncertainty. Each day seemingly presents one more juicy rumor.

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Orlando Sentinel

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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