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Workers discuss the berm system on the northern end of the Chandeleur Islands, La. The berm system is intended to keep oil off the islands. (Photo by Dave Martin / AP)

DC rattled by earthquake

The largest earthquake ever recorded within 30 miles of Washington, D.C., rattled the capital, waking many residents but causing no reported damage.

MSNBC

Rare earthquake jolts DC

ABCNews

GE profit beats estimates

General Electric Co.'s quarterly profit increased 14 percent, snapping seven quarters of declines.

Bloomberg

BP studies test data after halting Gulf oil leak

BP Plc is evaluating data from a pressure test that will determine whether its leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well can remain sealed.

Bloomberg

Special section:

BP spill: an interactive timeline

Guardian

How the new oil cap works

CNN

Obama: Electric technology will lift Mich.

President Barack Obama said that the battery plant to be built here symbolizes the promise of electric vehicles to help revive Michigan's battered economy.

Detroit News

Why Obama is putting stock in battery tech

Christian Science Monitor

NM to host border governors meeting

New Mexico will host a meeting of U.S. and Mexican border governors, providing a new venue for a conference that was scrapped in Arizona because of a dispute over its new immigration enforcement law.

Baltimore Sun

NATION

Wall Street reform: on to Obama

The Senate passed the most sweeping set of financial regulatory changes since the 1930s, sending the Wall Street reform bill to President Barack Obama.

CNNMoney

Column:

5 problems financial reform doesn’t fix

Newsweek

Public unfamiliar with Wall Street bill

Reuters

Foreclosures set to hit 1 million in 2010

More than 1 million American households are likely to lose their homes to foreclosure this year as lenders work their way through a huge backlog of borrowers who have fallen behind on their loans.

CBS News

Ship discovered at World Trade Center

Construction crews digging at the World Trade Center site discovered the skeletal remains of a 32-foot vessel. It once plied the local waters, archaeologists think.

Christian Science Monitor

18th Century boat found below WTC site

YouTube

POLITICS

Former Bush official: CIA broke the law

Jay Bybee, head of the Office of Legal Counsel under former president George W. Bush, has testified to Congress that certain controversial interrogation techniques the CIA used were not authorized.

Sydney Morning Herald

Ex-governor aide tapped for Byrd seat

West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is tapping his former chief counsel and a member of a prominent West Virginia family, Carte Goodwin, to succeed the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, Democratic officials said.

Charleston Gazette

ENVIRONMENT

Photos 'show Himalayan glaciers receding'

"The melt rate in this region of central and eastern Himalaya is extreme and is devastating," mountaineer David Breashears said at New York's Asia Society.

The Age

Navy doing environmental study

The U.S. Navy said it is studying the effects that its training and testing activities have on the environment off Hawaii, Southern California and the ocean in between.

San Jose Mercury News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Facebook movie: More fun than real life

Adapted by Aaron Sorkin from Ben Mezrich's bestseller, "The Social Network" (aka "The Facebook Movie") is generating a buzz.

CNNMoney

Carlos Santana back at Woodstock

Carlos Santana returns to the site of the fabled 1969 Woodstock festival for a concert just yards from the stage where he played during the "three days of peace and music" that helped define the 1960s.

San Francisco Chronicle

EDUCATION

Mo. backs saving teacher jobs

Missouri's schools chief joined the nation's top education official in support of $10 billion in emergency public school funding to avert a budgetary disaster that could claim the jobs of thousands of teachers.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sex education plan draws fire

A proposed health curriculum in Helena, Mont., public schools has riled up some parents who say it starts teaching students about sex far too early.

Baltimore Sun

SPORTS

Carlos Beltran's return spoiled by both the Giants and the Mets

En route to two straight Cy Youngs, Lincecum had beaten every National League team but the Reds and the Mets.

NBC New York

Beltran singles for 1st hit of season

mets.com

2010 British Open Championship: Woods in hunt at peaceful St. Andrews

Tiger Woods shot 5-under-par 67 on the Old Course, matching his first-round score from 2005 and just one more than when he also won the Open Championship in 2000. And yet, he trailed Rory McIlroy by four shots.

ESPN

The Old Course at St. Andrews flyover

Golf.com

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Paul Krugman):

Redo that voodoo

New York Times

Editorial:

Unproved theory: Obama was going to make scientists happier

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Column (David Broder):

Feeling hopeful on the budget crisis

Washington Post

Editorial:

Russia nuke treaty also aimed at rising powers

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial:

FCC must appeal ruling against its indecency regulations

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Kenneth Prewitt):

How to fix Census' broken race question

USA TODAY

Column (Andrew Leonard):

Obama needs a wakeup call

Salon

Column (Tom Coburn):

Financial reform's empty promises

RealClearPolitics

Column (Adrian Hamilton):

Banning the burka is a lot of hot air

The Independent

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GOOD NEWS

Make a difference this summer

You never know how an act of kindness can change a life. When the Tuohy's reached out to Michael Oher and gave him a home, they didn't realize it would matter to anyone except the three of them.

USA Weekend

'Original grandparents' full of advice

Harry and Barbara Cooper have a couple of thousand fans on Facebook and thousands more visit their website daily — not bad for two love birds pushing the century mark.

NPR

WORLD

World sizzles to record for the year

March, April, May and June set records, making 2010 the warmest year worldwide since record-keeping began in 1880, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says.

USA TODAY

In Latin America, first ladies set eyes on presidencies of their countries