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President Barack Obama looks on after announcing he is keeping Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, left, to a second term, during a news conference in Oak Bluffs, Mass. (Photo by Stephan Savoia / AP)

Consumer confidence on the rise

Confidence among U.S. consumers increased in August as consumers became less worried about the outlook for the labor market.

Bloomberg

Mixed signals on the recovery

CNNMoney

Blast in Afghanistan kills 4 US soldiers

The U.S. military says an improvised explosive device has killed four American service members in southern Afghanistan.

CBS News

2009 Afghan war's deadliest year

Reuters

Karzai expected to gain election victory

Times Online

Stolen presidency?

CNN

Bernanke to be retained as Fed chief

President Barack Obama will announce that he will appoint Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to a second four-year term, according to an administration official.

Forbes

Fed's Bernanke picked for 2nd term

Kansas City Star

Jury: Philip Morris USA should pay $13.8M to smoker's daughter

A jury has decided that cigarette maker Philip Morris U.S.A. should pay $13.8 million in punitive damages to the daughter of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer.

Star Tribune

Iran resumes opposition trial

Iran has opened the fourth hearing in a trial of opposition supporters accused of involvement in last June's post-election unrest, according to Iranian media.

Al Jazeera

Obama’s vacation spot has strong links to black history

Rocky ocean cliffs, tangles of green foliage, large yachts and even larger gray-shingle mansions. But less known about Martha’s Vineyard is the island's long-enduring African-American history.

Christian Science Monitor

Where the leaders of the world go to get away

NY Daily News

NATION

Detainee interrogation documents released by CIA

The CIA released the documents that former Vice President Dick Cheney requested in his attempt to prove that using enhanced interrogation techniques on terror detainees saved U.S. lives.

ABC News

Probe ordered into prisoner abuse

Reuters

Civil War buffs clash over Walmart

The Battle of the Wilderness has given way to a battle over a Walmart. The discount giant wants to build a store in Orange County, Va., near where a portion of a key 1864 Civil War battle was fought.

NPR

POLITICS

New deficit projections pose risks to Obama's agenda

President Barack Obama's domestic policy proposals will face the reality of skyrocketing deficits when officials release two government reports projecting huge budget shortfalls over the next decade.

Reuters

Federal deficits: $9 trillion and counting

CNNMoney

Obama, Democrats urged to find unity on health care reform

With health care negotiations stalled until Congress comes back from August recess, a top Democratic strategist says President Obama and his party need to seize control of the debate.

CNN

Advocates push for homeless in Medicaid

NPR

HEALTH

Cut back, way back, on sugar

A spoonful of sugar? Americans are swallowing 22 teaspoons of sugar each day, and it's time to cut way back, the American Heart Association says.

MSNBC

South Asia hit by sugar shortages

BBC

Reports of liver injury prompt FDA review of diet drug

The FDA said it has received 32 reports of serious liver injury, including six cases of liver failure, among users of diet drug Orlistat, which is sold as an over-the-counter diet aid named Alli.

MedPage Today

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Apple to ship new Mac OS X soon

Apple will ship its newest operating system to customers a little earlier than expected. The company said Mac OS X Snow Leopard will be available later this week.

CNET News

Swiss official demands Google take Switzerland off street view maps

A Swiss government official is demanding that Google Inc. immediately take off the Internet any "Street View" images of Switzerland.

Washington Examiner

SPORTS

Chargers' Rivers inks 6-year, $93M deal with $38M in guarantees

Philip Rivers got his big-money contract extension. Now all he needs to do to keep up with Eli Manning and Ben Roethlisberger is to win the Super Bowl.

Sports Illustrated

Spilborghs' 14th-inning grand slam rallies Rockies by Giants

Ryan Spilborghs desperately wanted a chance at redemption. With the Colorado Rockies looking at a heartbreaking loss, he got his shot and didn't waste it.

ESPN

Colorado Rockies

NBC Sports

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Mother says slain pastor was a volunteer, 'just loved people'

Pastor Carol Daniels would make the 60-mile trek from Oklahoma City to Anadarko every week to spread God's word, though often her car might be the only one parked outside Christ Holy Sanctified Church.

Star Tribune

`Builder’ bishop attempts to rebuild New Orleans archdiocese

When Bishop Gregory Aymond left his native New Orleans to become bishop of Austin he was without experience at the head of a regional church. He now returns as a builder and quiet pragmatist.

Religion News Service

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GOOD NEWS

Volunteers help replant Portland, Ore. garden hit by vandals

Volunteers helped the victims of a crime that literally took food out their mouths.

kgw.com

New town to honor Robert Owen

A project to build a town for 20,000 people in Lanarkshire, Scotland has been unveiled. Construction could start on Owenstown within three years.

Herald Scotland

Man lends a hand to Paraguay

Alberto Yanosky is a man who rarely stops in his crusade to protect Paraguay from an onslaught of entrepreneurs and private landowners who are slicing, dicing and selling its lands away.

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

North Korea invites US for nuclear talks