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Can the IRS streamline the filing process?

In all, Americans spend $30 billion a year just on preparing their tax forms. Some states have streamlined the process. Can the Internal Revenue Service do the same?

Kansas City Star

Consumer Reports warns of Lexus SUV rollover risk

Consumer Reports has issued a safety warning on Toyota's 2010 Lexus GX 460 SUV because of an increased rollover risk while turning.

CNNMoney

America's new kinder, gentler militia

Although the Michigan volunteer militias are still big on gun rights, and wary of Washington, they aren't necessarily violent.

NPR

Last bodies recovered from coal mine

The last of the bodies of 29 men killed in a coal mine explosion have been removed from the mine, officials say.

CNN

Deficit slashed, economy rebounds?

The federal deficit is running significantly lower than it did last year. But by suggesting the deficit may have peaked, administration officials are taking a political gamble.

MSNBC

Nation's deficit calls for painful choices

USA TODAY

Economy survey: a look at the recovery

YouTube

China to make its own call on yuan

President Hu Jintao said China would not be pushed by external pressure and would instead base any decision on the yuan on its own economic needs.

Reuters

China to work with US on Iran sanctions

Guardian

Blog:

Political punch

ABC News

IEA says world oil demand to hit record high this year

Global oil demand will hit a record high this year, the International Energy Agency said, revising up consumption estimates as the world economy recovers from recession.

Reuters

NATION

The future of your medical data

Digitizing medical data has been touted as one way to help the already burdened system manage the surge in patients. But putting people's information online will do more than simply reduce redundancies.

Scientific American

Anonymizing patient records for genomics

Nature

Va. paper wins Pulitzer Prize

The Bristol Herald Courier, a small paper in the coalfields of Appalachia, beat out journalism's powerhouses to win the Pulitzer Prize for public service for uncovering a gas royalties scam.

ABC News

Special section:

Pulitzer Prize

New York Times

US to urge Russia to keep allowing adoptions after boy's return

Top U.S. officials plan to travel to Moscow to push Russia to allow adoptions by U.S. families to continue after a U.S. family sparked outrage by sending an adopted 7-year-old boy back to Russia alone.

CNN

POLITICS

Democrats push to require corporate campaign disclosure

The White House is close to proposing legislation that would force private companies and groups to disclose their behind-the-scenes financial involvement in political campaigns and advertising.

New York Times

Unemployment package clears key vote

Democrats in the Senate won an initial skirmish to restore unemployment benefits to hundreds of thousands of jobless people despite Republican criticism that it would add $9 billion to the nation's debt.

CBS News

HEALTH

Memory loss does not wipe out emotions

New research suggests that emotions triggered by events can endure longer than factual recollection in patients with severe amnesia. Researchers hope their findings will increase understanding of Alzheimer's.

Medical News Today

Americans asking: 'How will health reform help me?'

The queries are part of an avalanche of questions aimed at government officials, physicians and nonprofit groups as Americans struggle to understand the complexities of the new law.

NPR

Mass. court rejects health insurers' bid to raise premiums

Christian Science Monitor

Hallucinogens have doctors and scientists tuning in again

Scientists have won permission to once again study hallucinogens' potential for treating mental problems.

New York Times

EDUCATION

Advocates weigh Obama's commitment to early education

Excitement cooled after a high-profile early-education proposal failed to gain traction, but hopes now turn to Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization.

EducationNews.org

Padron gets recognition for urban community colleges

As educators and officials look to reconfigure higher education, they'll be looking to Miami Dade College and Padron, who has transformed the urban school into one of the largest colleges in the U.S.

The Herald News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Obama shifts tactics on Muslim outreach

Nearly a year after President Obama told an audience in Cairo that America wanted a "new beginning" with the Muslim world, evidence of that policy shift has, in recent weeks, become hard to ignore.

Religion News Service

Leader seeks new Muslim in Europe

Yassmine el Ksaihi doesn't see herself as a feminist rebel. She covers her head and wears modest clothing. She learned to read the Quran at age 5 and promotes traditional Muslim values.

San Francisco Chronicle

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Jackie Kennedy interviews to be published Sept. 2011

Sealed interviews given while the former first lady was still in the White House are to be released.

CBS News

Conan O'Brien heading to TBS

Comedian Conan O'Brien is joining cable television network TBS to host a late-night talk show, expected to start in November, in a surprise move following his bitter departure from NBC's "The Tonight Show."

Reuters

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GOOD NEWS

Europe finds clean energy in trash

Denmark now regards garbage as a clean alternative fuel rather than a smelly, unsightly problem. And the incinerators, known as waste-to-energy plants, are in demand as communities want them built.

New York Times

A Zimbabwe native helps refugees from her country in South Africa

Terry Hodson, who now lives in South Africa, delivers food and offers comfort and advice to refugees from the troubles in neighboring Zimbabwe.

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

President Bakiyev's immunity lifted

The interim government of Kyrgyzstan has said President Kurmanbek Bakiyev no longer has presidential immunity and has called on him to surrender.

BBC

Ousted Kyrgyz president gathers support