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Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The landing of Atlantis marks the end of NASA’s 30-year space shuttle program. (Photo by Terry Renna / AP)

An era at NASA ends: The last space shuttle lands

The space shuttle Atlantis touched down before dawn, marking the sunset of NASA’s 30-year space shuttle program.

MSNBC

Special section:

30 years of the space shuttle

Nature

Space shuttle farewell: America in space

ABC News

Heat relief is coming too late for some

One of the most intense heat waves in recent years loosened its grip on Minnesota, but not without costing farmers thousands of cattle, turkeys and hogs.

Star Tribune

Heat wave flirting with 100 degrees

CNN

Special section:

Temps soar, record highs

The Weather Channel

Somalia famine: US pledges a further $28M

U.S. spending on emergency assistance in drought areas of East Africa reached $700 million, but assurances were sought before funding will be directed to rebel-held famine regions of Somalia.

Guardian

Climate change ‘threatens peace,’ UN official warns

BBC

Deficit reductions sought as debt-limit deadline approaches

President Barack Obama and the Senate back a $3.7 trillion deficit-reduction plan. They also pressed their case for raising the government’s $14.3 trillion borrowing limit.

USA TODAY

Progress scarce as debt limit impasse continues

ABC News

Doctors group contradicting US mammogram advice

After a government task force recommended that most women in their 40s may not need mammograms, physicians are advising women in that age group to have them annually.

San Francisco Chronicle

NATION

Report: insider terrorist threat to utilities

Sabotage by an insider at a major utility facility could provide al-Qaida with its best opportunity for the kind of massive Sept. 11 anniversary attack Osama bin Laden was planning, according to U.S. officials.

ABC News

New consumer protection agency faces opposition from public

There’s a new cop on the money beat: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created by the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul and signed by the president one year ago.

NPR

Alabama is still collecting tax for Confederate vets

The last of over 60,000 Confederate veterans who returned to Alabama after the Civil War died generations ago, yet residents are still paying a tax that supported them.

Times-Tribune

POLITICS

Lawmakers, farmers worried about more federal regulation

A request by the U.S. Department of Transportation for public input on regulation of American farmers is getting push-back from some Congress members who represent rural and agricultural districts.

McClatchy Newspapers

GOP candidates debate on Twitter: What could they say in 140 characters?

The first-ever presidential Twitter debate unfurled in rapid-fire style with six Republican candidates proving they can “talk 2 u” in abbreviations almost as well as a text-savvy teen.

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Express Scripts to buy Medco for $29B

Express Scripts Inc. will buy rival Medco Health Solutions Inc. for $29.1 billion in cash and stock to create a powerhouse in managing prescription drug benefits in the United States, the companies said.

Reuters

Investors pay big for dot-com stocks

Just 11 years after the dot-com bust, one of the biggest periods of wealth destruction ever on Wall Street, investors are paying rich prices for newly minted Internet stocks again.

USA TODAY

AMR splits record order between Airbus, Boeing in deal

American Airlines’ parent AMR Corp. (AMR) is counting on savings from 460 new, fuel-efficient jets and $13 billion in planemaker financing as the third-largest U.S. carrier struggles with losses.

Bloomberg

Blog:

Fuel efficiency drives American Airlines

(Wired)

Autopia

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Lutheran church divisions could affect social programs

One of the largest social service networks in the U.S. — which works in areas ranging from adoption to disaster relief — faces a shake-up because of Lutheran divisions over homosexuality.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ireland denounces Vatican role in abuse cover-ups

The Vatican encouraged Catholic bishops not to tell police about suspected pedophile priests and flouted Irish law, according to Ireland’s lawmakers.

Idaho Statesman

EDUCATION

In college, without a home

For homeless college students, even the smallest details can become big hurdles: a $5 student ID, a housing or enrollment deposit, and a place to keep a birth certificate or Social Security card.

Inside Higher Ed

Teachers union sues to block effort to spend tax money on religious groups

A proposed constitutional amendment that aims to end a century-old state ban on aid to religious institutions was challenged in court by Florida’s teachers union and several religious leaders.

Orlando Sentinel

ENVIRONMENT

Climate bill mounts as the dash for gas speeds up

The accelerating dash for natural gas risks a bitter backlash as the environmental cost of exploiting new shale deposits and of transporting it in liquid form spoil its credentials as the greenest fossil fuel.

Reuters

After-effects of climate bill’s failure

National Journal

Paying respects at a CO2 graveyard

Wherever permeable and porous rock is capped by an impermeable layer, a natural gas store may form and trap gas for tens of millions of years, making it a logical choice for industrial CO2 storage.

New Scientist

Kenyan president burns ivory to highlight poaching deaths

Kenya’s president has set fire to more than five tons of elephant ivory worth $16 million to draw attention to poaching deaths.

Guardian

Pittsburgh zoo helps rescue 3 African elephants

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Saving the elephant

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Helienne Lindvall):

Behind the music: Should the music industry put digital first?

(Guardian)

Music Blog

Column (Dan Murphy):

Gadhafi could step down and stay? That’s not going to happen

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

House Republicans grandstand in the theater of the absurd

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial:

Flying the intrusive skies

Denver Post

Interview (David Sirota):

Can we ever escape product placement?

Salon

Cartoon (R.J. Matson):

Angry Brits

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial:

Shake off ‘donor fatique’ to end famine in Somalia

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Andrew Cohen):

Why the Defense of Marriage Act is on the ropes

The Atlantic

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GOOD NEWS

Local churches launch fresh-food market to change the way we eat

A half dozen local churches are doing more than spreading the word of God. They’re trying to change the way we eat — and they have the support of local farmers and businesses to do it.

Seattle Times

Report: Women should get free prescription birth control

A new report for the U.S. government recommends that women receive free prescription birth control as part of services under the Affordable Care Act.

Medical News Today

Bahamas bans commercial shark fishing

Marine conservationists across the world have expressed their approval following a decision by the government of the Bahamas to prohibit commercial shark fishing in the nation’s waters.

Positive News

WORLD

China signs South China Sea guidelines, seeks to turn page on row