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US existing home sales rise, fueling recovery hopes

U.S. existing home sales notched their third monthly rise in a sign that the housing industry is slowly healing, but new jobless claims rose last week in a move distorted by unusual seasonal layoffs.

Reuters

Existing home sales up 3.6 percent

Forbes

North Korea 'has no friends left'

Speaking at an Asia-Pacific security forum in Phuket, Thailand, Hillary Clinton said the North's only option was to heed the demands of the international community and return to disarmament talks.

Al Jazeera

Obama forges ahead with health care push

President Barack Obama took his push to overhaul health care to a national audience, but he gave little assurance that Congress would agree to a plan before its August recess.

CNN

Obama heads to Midwest selling health care

MSNBC

Obama defends health care reform

YouTube

A view from Comic Con

Every summer, Comic Con brings together thousands of colorful and costumed fans for four days of pop-culture indulgence.

ABC News

Arrest of black Harvard scholar stirs debate; officer says he won't apologize

A white police sergeant who arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home says he followed procedure and is disappointed by the national debate triggered by the incident.

Baltimore Sun

Blog:

Gates case: Is Obama right?

NPR

Obama on Gates' arrest

ABC News

NATION

Sotomayor gains one GOP vote and loses another one

A key conservative Republican announced his support for Judge Sonia Sotomayor while another said he'd vote against her.

USA TODAY

2 NJ mayors, lawmaker arrested in corruption case

The mayors of two New Jersey cities and a current and former state legislator were among more than two dozen people arrested in a corruption investigation.

Houston Chronicle

Politicians and clergy cuffed

MSNBC

Cult leader sentenced over corpse hidden in toilet

A U.S. judge has sentenced the leader of a religious sect to two years in prison for hiding an elderly follower's rotting body on a toilet for weeks.

Sydney Morning Herald

POLITICS

New tax? Drive more, pay more money

A $16.5 million study, funded by Congress, is looking at changing the tax structure for drivers by eliminating the per-gallon gasoline tax and replacing it with one based solely on how far a driver travels.

ABC News

TMT: too much Twitter?

If the medium is the message, then what's the message when politicians use 140-character tweets to talk about their state's dire economic circumstances or ethics charges?

Yahoo! News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Jackson investigators come down hard on his doctors

With the man who last saw Michael Jackson alive facing potential manslaughter charges, the investigation into the pop icon's death has widened further.

ABC News

Jackson doctor's clinic raided

BBC

Recession works way into pop culture

The new HBO series “Hung” premiered this summer with scenes of abandoned Detroit factories and a voiceover lamenting how the city has gone to seed.

MSNBC

'Spider-Man' director Sam Raimi to direct 'World of Warcraft' movie

Sam Raimi, director of the top-grossing "Spider-Man" films, has signed on to direct a film adaptation of the wildly popular video game "World of Warcraft."

NY Daily News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

This article will self-destruct: Tool is developed to make online data vanish

The University of Washington has developed a way for electronic communications such as e-mail, Facebook posts and chat messages to automatically self-destruct.

ScienceDaily

Microsoft finalizes Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 code

Microsoft has finalized the code for its Windows 7 client OS and Windows Server 2008 R2, sending both products to manufacturing on schedule.

PC World

Making LED bulbs from DNA

By adding fluorescent dyes to DNA and then spinning the DNA strands into nanofibers, a new material that emits bright white light has been discovered.

Technology Review

ENVIRONMENT

Huge oil, natural gas reserve found in California may be biggest in decades

Occidental Petroleum Corp. says it has discovered oil and natural gas in a Kern County field that may represent the biggest find in California in more than 35 years.

Houston Chronicle

EU to ban inefficient fridges and TVs in global-warming battle

The European Union is to ban the sale of inefficient TVs, fridges and electric motors as early as next July in a bid to save energy and fight global warming.

Earth Times

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (James Bamford):

The NSA is still listening to you

Salon.com

Editorial:

A spike in homeless families

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Caitlin McDevitt):

President backs millionaire tax

Slate

Column (John Bersia):

Shah era offers insight on Iran's future

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Merlene Davis):

Harvard incident a failure to communicate

Lexington Herald-Leader

Column (Dan Rodricks):

Cronkite was right about this 'war,' too

Baltimore Sun

Column:

Think H1N1 is bad now? Wait till flu season

TIME

Column:

Flower power: natural skin care products

WebMD

Column:

Some Dems obstacle to health care

Salon.com

Column:

Can we trust politicians with health care?

ABC News

Column:

Turn economic setback into opportunity

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Link between healthy lifestyle and cardiovascular health confirmed

Two large U.S. studies published in a leading journal support the already substantial body of evidence that shows choosing to follow a healthy lifestyle helps prevent cardiovascular disease.

Medical News Today

1st swine flu vaccine trials begin

Two biotechnology companies in Australia have begun the first human trials of a vaccine for the 2009 H1N1 virus.

MedPage Today

WORLD

More troops will die in Afghanistan, says Joe Biden

More British and American troops will die in Afghanistan, but the war against the Taliban is in the national interests of both countries, according to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.

Guardian

Bin Laden son reported killed