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US wilting under heat wave

On the heels of an earlier heat wave that set records in parts of the country, Americans are bracing for round two of what's becoming a very steamy summer.

CBS News

Special section:

Heat wave

MSNBC

Riding the heat wave

ABC News

The generals who ended Goldman’s war

The SEC and Goldman Sachs settled an epic battle — one waged over whether the storied investment bank defrauded investors in a transaction that regulators said Goldman had built to self-destruct.

New York Times

BP's confidence growing in well integrity

The pressure on BP's Macondo well continued to rise slowly, now sitting at about 6,745 pounds per square inch, with no signs of leaks, BP's Kent Wells said.

Houston Chronicle

Critical test to continue in fight to contain oil spill

Baltimore Sun

'Mystery plumber' may be brains behind containment cap

ABC News

Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster

MSNBC

Incarcerated pregnant women laboring and delivering in shackles

Across the U.S., there are stories of pregnant women going from jails or prisons to hospitals, where they labor and sometimes even deliver while restrained with handcuffs, leg shackles or both.

NPR

Apple sets up cots for engineers working ‘butts off’ on iPhone

CEO Steve Jobs said that employees started a round-the-clock effort to improve the iPhone 4's antenna reception amid complaints since the device’s debut.

Bloomberg

Apple's iPhone fix

YouTube

NATION

'I Write Like' site erupts online

For anyone who has ever thought Charles Dickens was inside his or her prose, a new website claims it can find your inner author.

NPR

$251 million Medicare fraud crackdown in metro Detroit

Dozens of people, including several from metro Detroit, were arrested in what federal authorities described as the nation's biggest Medicare fraud crackdown.

Detroit Free Press

Medicare fraud arrests

CBS News

POLITICS

Obama chides Republicans for thwarting jobless extension

President Barack Obama stepped up criticism of Republicans for blocking jobless aid, hammering home a Democratic election year attack line that casts the opposition as the party of the rich.

Baltimore Sun

Calif.'s Chiang can delay Schwarzenegger minimum wage plan

California Controller John Chiang can delay complying with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s order to slash the pay of almost 200,000 state workers to the minimum wage until a budget is passed.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Techies reject coasts for 'Silicon Prairie'

Midwestern tech is coming into its own. Jeff Slobotski produces an event called Big Omaha that includes more than 500 of the region's workers.

CNN

French crack secrets of Mona Lisa

French researchers studied 7 Leonardo da Vinci paintings, including the "Mona Lisa," to analyze a technique that gave his works their dreamy quality.

CNN

Astronomers discover rare cosmic lens

Astronomers have discovered the first known case of a distant galaxy being magnified by a quasar acting as a gravitational lens.

ScienceDaily

Mapping space in infrared

CBSNews

ENVIRONMENT

Sea-level rise will be worse for some, we just don’t know who

The Seychelles could see up to 10 percent more sea-level rise than the global average. Or the sea level around the islands could drop. It depends on who you ask.

Wired

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

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Ala. man remembers going over Niagara Falls as boy

Fifty years ago, Roger Woodward earned bragging rights as one of the few people to survive a plunge over Niagara Falls.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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

Alliance Defense Fund demands U of I reinstate professor

The Alliance Defense Fund asked the University of Illinois to reinstate a professor fired amid complaints he engaged in “hate speech” by teaching Catholic beliefs on homosexuality.

CSN

Changes urged for Mass. schools

The state’s commissioner of elementary and secondary education recommended replacing its academic standards for English and math with a uniform set of national standards.

Boston Globe

University of California considers online bachelor's degree

The University of California hopes to become the country's first top-tier research institution to offer an online bachelor’s degree that is comparable in quality to its campus program.

Christian Science Monitor

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Tom Carney):

Don't follow Arizona's lead on immigrants

Des Moines Register

Column (Shaun Rein):

Blame yourself for the recession

Forbes

Column (Jesse Bering):

Do stray dogs have qualitatively different kinds of canine minds?

Scientific American

Editorial:

Census sets off a battle to redraw voter districts — and power in Congress

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Larry Kudlow):

Business knows more than Team Obama

RealClearPolitics

Column (Brian Goldsmith):

Defending the 'bailout'

The Atlantic

Blog (Daniel Gross):

Goldman's best trade ever

(Slate)

Moneybox

Editorial:

Racist brew leaves bad taste

Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Volunteer work provides 'lifeline' to city

Jim McNally works about 700 hours per year for the Aurora Police Department. In return, he gets to learn new skills and work with people — a reimbursement he says is greater than any monetary value.

Aurora Sentinel

Cerebral palsy camp uses wheelchairs

At one summer camp power wheelchairs were the art tools instead of paintbrushes. Young people with cerebral palsy attend the camp for the sports they don't normally get to play.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Government to ban dangerous cribs

Members of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission voted in favor of tougher safety standards for cribs. The proposal needs some more work and another vote before it becomes final.

(NPR)

Shots

WORLD