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Apple computer fans hold iPhones and iPads displaying candle graphics during a vigil paying tribute to Steve Jobs, Apple founder and former CEO, at an Apple Store in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo. Jobs’ death at the age of 56 sparked reaction throughout the world. (Photo by Hiro Komae / AP)

10 years of war: longest in American history

Oct. 7 marks 10th anniversary of war in Afghanistan. On that date, U.S. bombs rained down on Taliban forces. Still, today’s insurgents seem utterly confident that both God and time are on their side.

Newsweek

10-year Afghan War mark to pass quietly

TIME

Decade of war in Afghanistan alters lives

Detroit Free Press

Unions, students join in solidarity with Wall Street protesters

Unions gave a high-profile boost to the long-running protest against Wall Street and economic inequality. Across the country, students at several colleges walked out of classes in solidarity.

MSNBC

Police confront Wall Street protest march

Al Jazeera

Jobs: Visionary who redefined digital age

Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who ushered in the era of personal computers and led a cultural transformation in music, movies and mobile communications, died at age 56.

New York Times

Blog:

World reacts to death of Steve Jobs

(CNN)

This Just In

Special section:

Steve Jobs: 1955 - 2011

CBS News

The Crazy One: Steve Jobs tribute

Scientific American

Secret panel puts Americans on ‘kill list’

American militants are placed on a kill or capture list by a subset panel of the National Security Council. While it informs the President of decisions, there is no public record, and no law establishing it.

Reuters

Palestinian state quest wins 1st victory in UNESCO vote

The Palestinian Authority has won a diplomatic victory in its quest for statehood as UNESCO’s executive committee backed its membership bid.

Telegraph.co.uk

Obama tries campaign course correction after ‘tough summer’

Phil Schiliro, then White House congressional liaison, put his boss on notice. One hurdle stood between him and his re-election campaign: the debt ceiling.

BusinessWeek

NATION

NYPD spied on Muslim anti-terror partners

The NYPD dispatched undercover officers into ethnic communities to monitor daily life and scrutinized more than 250 mosques and Muslim student groups in the years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

In memoriam: Civil rights leader, Shuttlesworth

The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who was bombed, beaten and repeatedly arrested in the fight for civil rights and hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and energy, has died. He was 89.

TIME

Super committee deficit-reduction talks get down to taxes, benefits

Budget talks in Congress entered a potentially groundbreaking phase with Republicans signaling they could consider revenue increases in exchange for Democrats embracing healthcare cuts.

Reuters

POLITICS

Congressman raises stakes in ‘Fast and Furious’ probe, targeting Eric Holder

Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas wants special counsel to investigate whether Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress the truth about “Operation Fast and Furious,” a now-discredited gun-tracking program.

Christian Science Monitor

White House defends Holder

The Hill

US trade pacts clear first hurdle on way to final approval

A congressional committee strongly backed deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, ending a lengthy trade policy paralysis. They are expected to boost U.S. exports by about $13 billion.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Bank of England offers more stimulus, $116 billion, for UK economy

The Bank surprised markets by reviving a program of asset purchases with another injection into a British economy suffering from shockwaves of Europe’s debt crisis and austerity programs.

Denver Post

Foreclosure backlog deepens

As the foreclosure backlog continues to build up, delinquent borrowers are spending even more time in their homes without making mortgage payments.

CNNMoney

Gold hedge book set to grow for first time after 11 years

For the first time since 1999, there will be a net increase in the global gold hedge book, with more gold sold into forward contracts, forecasts precious metals consultancy Thomson Reuters GFMS.

Business Day

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists hail gain in human embryonic stem cell research

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating human embryonic stem cells by injecting DNA from a skin cell into an unfertilized egg, says a study.

CNN

Human ‘cloning’ creates embryonic stem cells

BBC

Xbox 360 will soon stream HBO, SyFy and other TV networks

The Xbox 360’s not just for games anymore. Microsoft announced users with a Web-connected Xbox console and a Live Gold account will be able to stream television shows by a range of providers.

Christian Science Monitor

What created Earth’s oceans? Comet offers new clue

For the first time, astronomers have found water on a comet that‘s a chemical match for water on Earth. The discovery backs up theories that water-rich comets helped fill ancient Earth’s oceans.

National Geographic

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Supreme Court hears religious-workplace firing dispute

The Supreme Court struggled with a case fundamental to the separation of church and state, testing when people who work for religious organizations can sue for job discrimination.

USA TODAY

Baptist Fellowship offering cash incentives to churches

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Missouri will offer cash incentives to any member church that is willing to consider hiring a female pastor.

Christianity Today

Bishops warn that church teaching must be non-partisan

U.S. Catholic bishops reminded Catholic voters that they can‘t cherry-pick from church teachings to justify their own political preferences.

USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Plants on earth and in ocean absorb, release carbon faster than thought

A team of Dutch, Australian and American scientists say the rate of photosynthesis, the process underlying catch and release of carbon atoms by plants, happens faster than previously thought.

Earth Times

Europe’s electronic waste

The European Parliament and 27 E.U. member states are set for difficult negotiations as some insist on ambitious targets for collecting and recycling fridges, phones and other e-waste.

Environmental News Network

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Nicholas Thompson):

The next Steve Jobs (and the last one)

(The New Yorker)

News Desk

Blog (J. B.):

10 years of war

(Economist)

Banyan

Column (Vicky Ward):

Heretical but true: The very polite are not digital

Huffington Post

Editorial:

Parents, schools need to help students get adequate sleep

San Jose Mercury News

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The moral risk of gunning for enemies

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Column (Lisa Margonelli):

The (illegal) private bus system that works

The Atlantic

Column (Naomi Wolf):

The price of oppressing your women

Al Jazeera

Column (Mark Morford):

When Jesus ate the magic mushrooms

San Francisco Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Breakthrough may help spinal cord patients experience tactile sensations

In a first-ever experiment, primates move a “virtual body” (an avatar hand on a computer screen) using only their thoughts, and receive electric signals that encode feeling.

Scientific American

Sesame Street tackles child hunger, 1 Muppet at a time

It‘s no surprise that Sesame Street is tackling a tough societal issue. The show’s been doing it from the start. In its new program, the Workshop goes after the very big problem of childhood hunger.

NPR

5 mid-Missouri residents with new ideas strive for microloans, new lives

They’ve all had setbacks from the recession, but these five Missourians have been meeting twice a week to take part in a small-business startup program.

Columbia Missourian

WORLD

Thai flooding closes prison, factories; GDP to suffer