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Comedian Stephen Colbert testifies before the House Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law subcommittee hearing on Protecting America’s Harvest. (Photo by Alex Brandon / AP)

Eddie Fisher dies at age 82

South Philadelphia’s Eddie Fisher, whose huge fame as a pop singer was overshadowed by scandals ending his marriages to Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor, has died.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Eddie Fisher dead at 82

Examiner

Former Marine sees ‘long way to go’ for equality in the military

Kendall Bailey joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 2001. In 2006, he was a sergeant, assigned to a recruiting office, considering making the military his career. But those plans changed.

NPR

US opposes proposed ‘don’t ask, don‘t tell’ ban

BusinessWeek

Stephen Colbert testifies before Congress

Comedian Stephen Colbert is to appear before a House subcommittee on immigration. Colbert will be in character as a conservative pundit to discuss illegal immigrants and American jobs.

USA TODAY

Blog:

Colbert takes Washington

Huffington Post

Colbert testifies before Congress

MSNBC

UN, Obama eye Sudan and Southeast Asia

President Barack Obama is using his last day at the U.N. General Assembly to focus on averting renewed conflict in Sudan and easing growing maritime tensions between China and its Southeast Asian neighbors.

San Francisco Chronicle

Sudan’s ticking time bomb?

CNN

Stocks jump after manufacturing report

Stocks are surging at the open after news that orders for manufactured goods, excluding the volatile transportation sector, rose sharply last month.

Forbes

NATION

A wave of addiction and crime, with the medicine cabinet to blame

Police departments have collected thousands of handguns through buy-back programs in communities throughout the country. Now they want the contents of your medicine cabinet.

New York Times

Teresa Lewis executed in Va.

The first woman executed in the United States in five years was put to death in Virginia for arranging the killings of her husband and a stepson over a $250,000 insurance payment.

Guardian

Woman executed in Va.

CNN

Richest dynasties back in the money

The top of the list of U.S. billionaires is still dominated by dynastic wealth, according to the latest annual survey by Forbes magazine, while 272 of the 400 richest Americans are self-made.

The Independent

The richest people in America

Forbes

POLITICS

History shows President, Democrats face stiff headwinds for midterms

With the midterm elections less than six weeks away, President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are suffering from a lack of voter optimism, according to a Voter Confidence Index created by NBC News.

MSNBC

US House joins Senate to repeal SEC exemption on withholding documents

The House of Representatives voted to amend the Dodd-Frank financial-regulation law to restrict the Securities and Exchange Commission’s power to withhold documents from the public.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Titanium foam builds Wolverine bones

Eat your heart out, Wolverine. The “X-Men” superhero won’t be the only one with with metal fused into his skeleton if a new titanium foam proves suitable for replacing and strengthening damaged bones.

New Scientist

Revealing Einstein’s relativity

Einstein‘s theories of relativity suggest time is affected by how fast you’re moving and how close you are to a gravitational field, like Earth’s.

NPR

HEALTH

How to fight a scourge: scenes from the bedbug summit

It‘s possible that bedbugs are simply the latest in a long string of public panics over epidemics that eventually proved to be manageable, from killer bees to bird flu.

TIME

Bedbugs head to Chicago for summit

St. Petersburg Times

Similac recall: Bugs in baby formula

Abbott Laboratories is voluntarily recalling up to 5 million containers of its popular powdered Similac infant formula after finding evidence that beetles had possibly contaminated it.

ABC News

US is fattest of 33 countries

The United States is the fattest nation among 33 countries with advanced economies, according to a report from an international think tank.

USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Scientists give estimate of Gulf oil spill

Researchers weighed in on the controversial question of how much oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico during the spill and said the total amount was around 4.4 million barrels.

Reuters

Oil spill paymaster catching up on claims

MSNBC

Lost frogs found

An expedition looking for “lost” amphibian species found three of them, and hopes for more rediscoveries in the future.

USA TODAY

World’s largest offshore wind farm powers up British renewable energy

Britain has inaugurated the world‘s largest offshore wind farm, part of the government’s bid to reduce the carbon emissions that drive climate change.

Vancouver Sun

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Bill Maher):

New rule: Rich people who complain about being vilified should be vilified

Huffington Post

Column (Annette John-Hall):

With the death penalty, you’d better be sure the case is air tight

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Roy S. Johnson):

Texans overtake big brother Cowboys

ESPN

Blog (Bill Maher):

New rule: Rich people who complain about being vilified should be vilified

Huffington Post

Column (Eugene Robinson):

The party of nonsense

Truthdig

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Running with, and from, political labels

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Column (Josef Storm and Malou Innocent):

To better Afghanistan, boot the contractors

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Joshua Green):

The angry middle class

The Atlantic

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GOOD NEWS

A legacy of kindness

Grant Pahl, a seventh-grader at Gilbert Middle School, always sticks up for people and makes it a point to say “hi” in the hallways. He didn’t realize how much good could come from such small gestures.

Ames Tribune

Facebook founder’s $100M gift could change Newark, NJ

Education in New Jersey’s biggest city could be in for a big change — and not just because of the $100 million stock donation Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is expected to announce.

Boston Herald

WORLD

Why Russia is cutting arms sales to Iran

A decree signed by President Dmitry Medvedev bans the supply of battle tanks, armored vehicles, large-caliber artillery systems, warplanes, military helicopters, ships, and missiles to Iran.

Christian Science Monitor

Sarah Shourd’s message to Ahmadinejad