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Leaders from Japan, Canada, France, Italy, Russia, Germany, Britain, Sweden, the United States and the European Commission stand for a group photo at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy. (Photo by AP)

White House, hospitals reach deal

The nation's hospitals agreed to forgo $155 billion in government reimbursements over the next 10 years, savings the White House says will go toward paying for an overhaul of the health care system.

USA TODAY

Biden announces deal with hospitals

YouTube

US initial jobless claims decrease

The number filing claims for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest since January, as early automotive plant closures altered the timing of layoffs that typically happen at this time of year.

Bloomberg

Obama broadens push for climate change pact

Rallying rich and surging nations alike, President Obama wants the world's top polluters to keep driving toward a deal to halt global warming.

San Francisco Chronicle

G8 opens to developing market economies

Seattle Times

Economy tops G-8 agenda

Reuters

South Korea on high alert for more attacks

South Korea was on high alert for more cyber attacks amid suspicions that North Korea was behind a recent wave of Web site outages in South Korea and the U.S.

Examiner

Attacks highlight flaws in US cyberdefenses

NPR

Cities lose out on stimulus road funds

Two-thirds of the country lives in large metropolitan areas. But cities and their surrounding regions are getting far less than two-thirds of federal transportation stimulus money.

MSNBC

NATION

Massachusetts sues over marriage law

Massachusetts has sued the U.S. govern- ment, challenging the constitutionality of a federal law that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

CNN

US moves to shed light on 'dark markets'

The U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission, which regulates oil and other commodities, is considering tougher rules that would make it harder for speculators to make money timing the market.

CBS News

Oil in downtrend, may fall to $50

Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Treasury opens PPIP program

The U.S. plan to help buy as much as $40 billion in assets from banks got started as the Treasury Department announced its pick of nine money managers for the Public-Private Investment Program.

Bloomberg

China passes US auto market in 1st half

China surpassed the United States as the world's biggest auto market for the first half of 2009 after June sales soared 36.5 percent from a year earlier.

Google News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Murdoch papers paid out nearly $2 million to gag phone-hacking victims

Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers has paid out about $2 million to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists' repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.

Guardian

Local group launches investigative journalism Web site

A group of former Seattle Post-Intelligencer journalists have launched a Web site focused on investigative journalism.

Seattle Times

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Humans can learn to 'see' with sound

Inspired by a blind man who navigates using sound, a team of Spanish scientists has found evidence that suggests most humans can learn to echolocate.

National Geographic

Google Chrome: Microsoft killer?

Experts say Google's new operating system is designed to weaken Microsoft, but the OS battle may have just begun. Could it be a "Microsoft killer?"

CNNMoney

5 ways Microsoft will hurt Google Chrome

PC World

EDUCATION

Calif. nonprofit inspires teens to combat climate change

Alliance for Climate Education is an Oakland, Calif., nonprofit that aims to educate teenagers about climate change in a way that’s hip, engaging, and might actually inspire them to action.

Grist

Universities revitalize native languages

In the past two decades, hundreds of languages indigenous to what is now the United States have joined their “foreign” language counterparts at universities and tribal colleges.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope, Obama may find common ground in 'Charity in Truth'

Pope Benedict XVI's Charity in Truth calls for a worldwide authority for redistribution of the world's wealth, protection of workers, respect for the environment, and refusal to accept an "anti-birth" mentality.

USA TODAY

Pastor gets used by 'Bruno,' and 'Bruno' gets used by pastor

A lot of youth pastors might love the chance to share their faith with a movie star and be featured in a motion picture. Jody Trautwein, youth pastor in Birmingham, Ala., got that chance.

Religion News Service

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GOOD NEWS

Brain surgery frees a runner

Diane Van Deren will leave her house in the Rockies and cut west through the dark canyons with her running shoes and a headlamp, but without a kiwi-sized part of her right temporal lobe.

Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Compete to be Kiwanis’ new worldwide service project

Kiwanis International made a pledge in 1994 to help protect children from the scourges of Iodine Deficiency Disorders in its first Worldwide Service Project.

NonProfit Times

WORLD

Mexico accused of torture in drug war

The Mexican army has carried out forced disappearances, acts of torture and illegal raids in pursuit of drug traffickers, according to recent information.

MSNBC

China riot city 'under control'