The Daily Source: Quality News from Around the Internet

Home

About us

Our Team

Opinion

In this file photo employees sort garlic cloves at the Christopher Ranch, in Gilroy, Calif. The recovery lost momentum as growth slowed to a 2.4 percent pace, a sluggish showing regarded as too weak to drive down unemployment. (Photo by Paul Sakuma AP)

Regulators want truckers to shape up

Federal regulators have announced plans to step up scrutiny of sleep apnea and other health issues affecting truckers, a move that has put them on notice to get healthy.

NPR

Court denies request for expedited hearing on Ariz. immigration law

A federal appeals court has denied Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's request for an expedited hearing on the state's controversial immigration law.

CNN

Immigration a hot issue in state races

San Francisco Chronicle

Gov. Brewer considers tweaking immigration law

Arizona Republic

Economy cools as lack of jobs limits spending

The world’s largest economy will probably keep cooling as a lack of jobs prompts American consumers to rein in spending.

Bloomberg

Summer slowdown

ABC News

3 companies fight over oil-spill blame, work together to plug well

On shore, BP, Halliburton and Transocean are engaging in a billion-dollar blame game over the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. At sea, they' dependon each other to finally plug up the environmental disaster.

Baltimore Sun

House approves major curbs on offshore drilling

Houston Chronicle

Gulf fishing reopens, but is oil in the fish

ABC News

Crews beat back wildfire in high desert north of Los Angeles

Fire crews working through the night beat back flames and built containment lines around a two-day-old wildfire that charred nearly 22 square miles of brush in the high desert north of Los Angeles.

MSNBC

Crews continue to battle wildfire

CNN

NATION

US Senate passes legislation for tougher airline safety measures

The U.S. Senate approved and sent to the White House legislation that toughens airline pilot training requirements and aims to reduce pilot fatigue.

Reuters

In ironic twist, Iran detained US hikers critical of Israel and America

Iran arrested a trio of passionate young Americans who espouse some of the same causes as Iran itself, particularly taking a stand against the U.S. and Israel.

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Parties battle as 9/11 responders bill fails

A verbal flash-fire erupted on the House floor over a battle to pass a benefits bill for emergency workers who were first on the scene of the 9/11 attacks.

CNN

Support for Rangel fading; Obama calls charges troubling

Rep. Charlie Rangel is getting sympathy from some fellow Democrats but scant support from others as he faces trial on several ethics charges.

Baltimore Sun

Panel recommends reprimand for Rangel

Columbus Dispatch

Second senior Democrat to face ethics trial

Reuters

EDUCATION

A surge in homeless students in schools

Nearly 1 million homeless students attended public schools, a 41 percent increase and another sign of how broadly the economic recession has struck America.

USA TODAY

A 'shoot-out' between methods won't help us teach more children to read

A new report examines why one-third of children have reading difficulties at the age of 11, and concludes it is because of a lack of discipline, and the absence of a teaching system called "synthetic phonics".

EducationNews.org

ENVIRONMENT

Natural disaster victims identified fast with new global database

Rapid identification of multiple victims or missing persons in natural disasters and in police work is being examined by Interpol.

Environment News Service

Solar cycle may drive Venice's floods

If you want to see Venice while keeping your feet dry, don't go when the sun has lots of spots. Peaks in solar activity cause the city to flood more often, apparently by changing the paths of storms over Europe.

New Scientist

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

FDA approves Geron's groundbreaking study of embryonic cells

A Menlo Park biotech firm will proceed with the world's first human test of a treatment made from embryonic stem cells.

San Jose Mercury News

Cybercrime: Are mobsters planting hackers in big companies?

While cybercrime fell in 2009, a report noted that hackers are getting better at what they do. Verizon's annual cyberattack report analyzes more than 900 actual cases and 900 million stolen records.

Christian Science Monitor

HEALTH

Embryonic stem cells cleared for pilot tests in paralyzed patients

Federal officials have cleared a first human embryonic stem cell treatment for experiments on paralyzed patients, a biomedical firm announced.

USA TODAY

Incoming season's flu vaccines

The flu vaccines approved for the 2010-11 season protect against three strains of influenza, including the 2009 H1N1 pandemic swine flu strain, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced.

BusinessWeek

GlaxoSmithKline's FluLaval released by FDA

YouTube

Weight-loss combo appears effective

A sustained-release formulation combining bupropion and naltrexone (Contrave) appears to be an effective treatment for weight loss in obese patients, researchers have found.

MedPage Today

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

Find money for road projects now

Detroit Free Press

Editorial:

Ads for sugar-laden foods aimed at kids hinder obesity control

Houston Chronicle

Column (Adam Smith):

In the short term, immigration ruling is a gift for the GOP

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Jeff Simon):

Weiner enraged on House floor

(CNN)

Political Ticker

Blog (Stephen Sestanovich):

Look who thinks America is cool again

(The New Republic)

Entanglements

Column (David A. Hoffman):

Divorce is costly. The settlement need not be

Christian Science Monitor

Column (David Paul Kuhn):

The 'tipping point' of American debt

RealClearPolitics

Blog (Jeremy Warner):

IMF's mad prescription for the US economy

(Telegraph.co.uk)

Economics

Site edited by: Brigitte Leschhorn, Adrian Smith, Alen Amini, Michael Makofka, Elizabeth Quinn, Daishi Sato, Kristen Toland, Alexa Even, Alessandra Marseglia and Nabila Dellil.

GOOD NEWS

Mother and daughter closer 3 years after bridge disaster

For 13-year-old Arrianna Merritt, the words mother and hero go hand in hand. What she remembers most from the bridge collapse is the choice her mother made.

CNN

60 years after rejection, college grants degree to 1st black applicant

Missouri State’s first black applicant will receive the university’s first-ever honorary bachelor’s degree.

MSNBC

WORLD

Death of top Mexican kingpin threatens to unleash battle for control

One of the world's most powerful drug cartels took a major hit when soldiers killed a top kingpin. His death likely will mean a fight for his drug empire.

Star Tribune

Mexican drug boss killed in clash with army