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Americans and the Great Recession

Fifty-five percent of Americans in the labor force have experienced a job loss, a pay cut, or a reduction in hours since the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, a new survey finds.

Christian Science Monitor

How the recession hurts private prisons

Newsweek

ADP report: US companies added 13K workers

Companies in the U.S. added fewer workers in June than forecast, according to data from a private report based on payrolls.

Bloomberg

Markets sag as slump continues

New York Times

Hurricane Alex mires oil cleanup, beaches left vulnerable

The waves churned up by Hurricane Alex have splattered beaches in Louisiana, Alabama and Florida with oil and tar balls.

CBS News

Alex could be category 2 storm before landfall

NOLA.com

Hurricane Alex takes aim on coast

The Weather Channel

Wis. court upholds gay marriage ban

A legal challenge to the state's constitutional ban on gay marriage was rejected by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Roger Federer beaten by Czech Republic's Berdych at Wimbledon

Roger Federer lost to Tomas Berdych in the quarterfinals at Wimbledon, the six-time champion’s earliest loss at the All England Club since 2002.

Bloomberg

Alzheimer's experts optimistic

Research into Alzheimer's disease has reached a point of significant potential, even as the disease's impact on society grows more dire, experts say.

HealthDay

NATION

Spy ring suspects had interests in science, finance

The 11 people arrested and accused of being members of a Russian spy ring operating under deep cover in America's suburbs appear to have been part of a slow and patient plan by Moscow.

Palm Beach Post

Excerpts from Justice Dept. papers on spy ring

Moscow Times

Russian officials condemn US accusations

PBS

Not so neighborly associations foreclosing on homes

Capt. Mike Clauer was serving in Iraq when he discovered that his home, which was completely paid for, had been foreclosed on for a couple of missed homeowners association payments.

NPR

POLITICS

BP oil spill is taking its toll on lawmakers in the Gulf Coast region

Lawmakers who represent the oil-stained Gulf Coast are struggling to deal with the catastrophe and the effect it has had on their constituents.

The Hill

Sen. Frank Lautenberg to chair homeland security appropriations panel

The New Jersey Democrat was named this morning as chairman of the homeland security subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee — a position held by the late West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd.

Daily Record

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Fast recipes for grilling

There, in all of their Fourth of July glory, are 101 grilling ideas begging to be tried. Most take less time to prepare and grill than it takes your coals turn white.

New York Times

Americans to hit the road with their barbecue

Rockford Register Star

Larry King to end long-running TV show

Veteran broadcaster Larry King has announced that he will be ending his nightly show on CNN in the autumn.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Birth of the Milky Way

For the first time, a team of astronomers has succeeded in investigating the earliest phases of the evolutionary history of our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

ScienceDaily

Special section:

All about the Milky Way

Space.com

Robofish lead in studying group dynamics

University of Leeds scientists have created the first convincing robotic fish that shoals will accept as one of their own, opening up new possibilities for studying fish behavior.

ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

How do interfaith marriages affect Jewish identity?

Nationally, about 50 percent of Jews who marry now wed non-Jews. Studies show that interfaith couples are much less likely to maintain Jewish traditions.

USA TODAY

For evangelical Christians, is Gulf spill a moral issue?

For Baptist preacher and theologian Russell Moore, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is more than an environmental disaster, it is a turning point that could shape how Christians view the environment.

ABC News

Italy seeks to end classroom crucifix ban

The Italian government is appealing to the European court of human rights to overturn a ban on classroom crucifixes.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Scientists to whisk turtle eggs away from oil spill in rare effort to save species

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will collect about 70,000 turtle eggs buried in the sand across Florida Panhandle and Alabama beaches in an effort to save sea turtle hatchlings from dying.

Baltimore Sun

Calif. green chemistry

The California Department of Toxic Substances has drafted a new set of green chemistry regulations, which creates a statewide process for evaluating the toxicity of chemicals in consumer products.

Environmental News Network

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Garrison Keillor):

A parent's prayer on the 1st day of camp

Baltimore Sun

Column (Kathleen Parker):

The Oprah presidency

Post Independent

Editorial:

The price of broadband politics

New York Times

Blog (Bryan Walsh):

Meat and antibiotics: getting our animals off drugs

(TIME)

Ecocentric

Column (David Hearst):

'Russian spies' bungle was epic espionage

Guardian

Column (Richard Herman and Robert L. Smith):

Why immigrants can drive the green economy

Huffington Post

Column (Eric Lowitt):

The 5th imperative: how sustainability makes companies more agile

Environmental News Network

Column (Thad Williamson and Douglas A. Hicks):

World Cup 2010: closer to world support for Africa

Christian Science Monitor

Interview (Laila El-Haddad):

Israel's 'unspoken alliance'

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

White elephant seen as a good omen

A rare white elephant has been captured in the jungles of Myanmar, a mostly Buddhist country where the animals are considered good omens, state media reported.

San Francisco Examiner

Summer camp hosts homeless children

Yellow school buses fanned out to the House of Ruth and the Druid Heights YWCA to pick up 140 homeless children to begin what promises to be a happy summer spent at Camp St. Vincent in Baltimore.

Baltimore Sun

WORLD

Oaxaca in southern Mexico shaken by 6.2 magnitude quake

A 6.2 magnitude earthquake has struck the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, the U.S. Geological Survey says.

BBC

EU states 'use outsourced torture'