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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court. Behind bars on Rikers Island, the French politician resigned as IMF chief and is seeking bail on charges of sexually assaulting a hotel maid. (Photo by Richard Drew / AP)

Can classical music change the world?

Symphonies affected social change in Beethoven’s day — can they make the same impact in the 21st century?

The Atlantic

Blog:

How is baseball like classical music?

(CBC News)

Radio 2

Geithner: Republicans will be responsible if US defaults

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said if Republicans insist on passage of their budget as a condition for approving an increase in the nation’s borrowing limit, they will be responsible for the consequences.

MSNBC

Blog:

Lawmakers mull selling land, gold to pay off government debt

(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

IMF chief resigns, seeks bail from Rikers

Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned as head of the IMF — saying he needs all his energy to fight charges that he sexually assaulted a hotel maid — prompting a political tug-of-war over his job.

Reuters

Strauss-Kahn lawyers file for bail

CNN

Strauss-Kahn in prison

ABC News

Obama to address Arab Spring in Middle East speech

President Obama will deliver a speech on the Middle East that the White House says will advance specific policy ideas. But it is already being met with skepticism in the region.

ABC News

Blog:

President Obama’s Middle East speech

(NPR)

The Two-Way

President Obama speaks on the Middle East

whitehouse.gov

The race to replace ‘Oprah’

The daytime television landscape is about to look very different after the talk show queen Oprah Winfrey leaves. The move has resulted in speculation over who, if anyone, can fill the void.

CNN

NATION

Giffords ‘recovering well’ after surgery to seal skull

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was doing well after a surgery that replaced part of her skull to help her recover from a head-shot wound left by an assassination attempt.

Arizona Republic

High-tech fix to improve Giffords’ life

YouTube

The 1st woman in Congress: A crusader for peace

The first woman elected to Congress, Jeannette Rankin, died 38 years ago today. She served two terms, each time voting against U.S. entrance into a world war.

NPR

Major changes urged for Mississippi flood control policy

Flood experts and conservationists are calling for a major shift in federal policy that has tried to limit Mississippi River flooding through a massive system of levees, release valves and floodways.

USA TODAY

Blog:

Farm runoff in Mississippi River floodwater fuels dead zone in Gulf

(PBS)

The Rundown

POLITICS

Senate blocks a GOP bid to speed offshore oil drilling

A GOP bid to expand and hasten offshore oil drilling in the face of $4-a-gallon gasoline prices suffered an overwhelming defeat in the Senate.

NPR

Obama seeks Mideast path in a changing peace landscape

President Barack Obama is confronting the wrenching change in the Middle East in a burst of diplomacy, hoping to save a crumbling peace process and addressing the Arab revolt country-by-country.

CBS News

GOP elite see Mitch Daniels as 2012 election savior

Top Republicans are increasingly convinced that President Barack Obama will be easily re-elected if stronger GOP contenders do not emerge.

Politico

BUSINESS

Japan is back in recession as earthquake cuts consumption

Japan’s economy, the world’s third largest, has slid back into recession after the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami.

BBC

Some see rise ahead for dollar

Could the long dollar slide be over? The dollar is up four percent against the euro and two percent against the pound, while rallying against the Romanian and Latvian currencies as well.

CNBC

LinkedIn prices IPO at $45 a share

LinkedIn Corp. said it has priced its initial public offering of shares at $45, the top of the professional networking service’s projected range.

MarketWatch

EDUCATION

What they are really typing

For years, researchers have conducted studies in hopes of answering whether having laptops in class undermines student learning. In the avalanche of literature, one can find data pointing each way.

Inside Higher Ed

Specialists weigh common social studies standards in schools

Subject-matter specialists in social studies from more than a dozen states are meeting to brainstorm ways to improve academic standards in that subject.

Education Week

ENVIRONMENT

Are extinctions overestimated?

Global extinction rates may have been overestimated by as much as 160 percent, according to a new analysis.

National Geographic

Scientists move closer to predicting volcanic hazards

U.K. and Russian scientists say they are a step closer to predicting how dangerous a volcano is after developing a method that lets them figure out how individual volcanoes are “plumbed.”

Environmental News Network

SPORTS

Built to push for titles, Heat push back biggest challenge yet

The pressure has pushed down on the Miami Heat ever since opening night in Boston seven months ago, and this was another wave.

CBSSports

Kye Allums no longer playing for GW

The openly transgender member of the George Washington women’s basketball team, whose groundbreaking season was cut short by a pair of concussions, says he won’t play in his senior year.

ESPN

London 2012 Olympics: torch relay route to begin at Land’s End

The Olympic Flame will arrive in the U.K. from Greece, and the 70-day torch relay will begin in Cornwall before ending at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.

Telegraph.co.uk

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Ruy Teixeira):

Not by popular demand

The New Republic

Column (William Bennett):

Gingrich vs. the GOP

CNN

Column (Patti Domm):

Economic reports

CNBC

Editorial:

Women still face uphill battle to improve Hawaii labor laws

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Column (Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel):

America’s national debt? It’s your fault

USA TODAY

Column (Andrew Leonard):

The bin Laden/Strauss-Kahn effect

Salon

Column (Jonathan Chait):

Welcome to the poorhouse — the plight of the moderately rich

The New Republic

Column (Josh Ozersky):

Fine food and fat: Are chefs to blame for obesity?

TIME

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GOOD NEWS

New film will recall the lessons of Rwanda’s genocide

A nonprofit’s documentary film, “Raindrops Over Rwanda,” premieres online July 18. Giving it a Facebook “like” could result in $50,000 in charitable giving.

Christian Science Monitor

A driving effort to monitor your diabetes

People with diabetes and their caregivers know that careful and constant monitoring of their blood sugar levels is critical to managing the disease. But what about while driving?

Star Tribune

Detroit sewing circle seeks help to keep homeless people warm

On Thursdays, Sarah Fletcher heads to the Troy Assembly of God Church, where for 12 years, she and companions have sewn sleeping bags for homeless people in metro Detroit.

Detroit Free Press

WORLD

US turns up pressure on Assad