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Pakistani police officers gather at the entry gate of the house of an abducted American citizen in Lahore, Pakistan. Gunmen abducted an American man after raiding his home in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary / AP)

Social media monitored more by law enforcement agencies

Recent news headlines highlight how law enforcement agencies around the world are increasingly monitoring popular social networks to root out criminal behavior.

San Francisco Chronicle

Shoppers have lifted economy in recent months — but will they keep spending?

Consumers, who drive most economic growth, spent more on cars, furniture, electronics and other goods this summer than previously thought.

San Francisco Chronicle

Gov. Rick Perry’s Texas jobs boom

CNNMoney

US development worker abducted in Lahore, Pakistan

A U.S. citizen has been abducted from his home in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, U.S. Embassy and police officials said. The man has worked on development projects in Pakistan.

Bloomberg

Al-Qaida to harness toxin for bombs?

New York Times

American kidnapped in Pakistan

CNN

Fmr. NYPD commissioner to advise UK on gangs

Former New York Police Commissioner William Bratton will advise the British government on gangs in the wake of rioting in London, Prime Minister David Cameron’s office said.

CBS News

Were the London riots a spontaneous mass reaction or a rational response?

Scientific American

Barack Obama warned that al-Qaida planning ricin attack

Counter-terrorism officials are said to have warned President Barack Obama that an al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen is trying to produce the deadly nerve agent ricin for use in bomb attacks on the U.S.

Telegraph.co.uk

NATION

Report: Postal Service considering cutting 120K jobs

The U.S. Postal Service is considering a plan to break union agreements and slash 120,000 or more jobs by 2015 to make up for billions of dollars in losses, according to published reports.

NY Daily News

Dozens of teens detained after Philadelphia’s earlier curfew

Not long after the Philadelphia clock tower chimed to mark the 9 p.m. hour, police picked up almost two dozen teens during enforcement of the city’s new curfew.

CNN

US ports spend big on post-9/11 security

In the 10 years since the Sept. 11 attacks, the federal government has spent $2.5 billion on a sweeping security overhaul at U.S. seaports.

San Francisco Examiner

POLITICS

With only hours left til the Iowa straw poll, candidates make final pitches

With less than 24-hours left before Iowans will cast their votes for the 2011 straw poll, GOP candidates held last minute events around the state.

USA TODAY

Obama health care mandate has been ruled as unconstitutional

A divided U.S. appeals court in Atlanta ruled that a key provision of last year’s federal health-care overhaul is unconstitutional, siding with a group of 26 states that challenged the law.

Wall Street Journal

Parts of ‘Obamacare’ are declared to be unconstitutional by appeals court

CNN

BUSINESS

Nonprofits watch anxiously as the market begins to wobble

Charities of all sizes are only beginning to recover from the recession. Now many are wondering how they’ll survive another market plunge.

NPR

Investors could be in for more stock market vertigo

Big swings in stock prices could again characterize trading, as investors watch Europe and the very behavior of the markets themselves.

CNBC

HEALTH

TB jab may help fight cancer

Using the Baculillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) - the germ commonly used to inoculate against tuberculosis (TB), researchers have found a way to stimulate the body to help fight cancer.

Medical News Today

Study: Cardiologists often miss heart defects in young athletes

Screening to prevent sudden cardiac death is difficult and may lead to bad calls, researchers say.

HealthDay

Special section:

Heart health center

WebMD

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Art exhibit illustrates the Asian-American experience and identity

Nearly 15 million Americans claim Asian descent, and a new art exhibition at one of America’s premier art museums explores the Asian-American experience and identity.

BBC

Gaudí might have used psychiatric hospital to test designs

New research suggests that the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí used the garden of a psychiatric hospital as a testing ground for his designs.

Guardian

Will ‘SlutWalks’ change the meaning of the word ‘slut’?

The SlutWalk march started when Toronto constable Michael Sanguinetti told a group of students that for their safety women “should avoid dressing like sluts.”

TIME

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

How Muslims can potentially win Olympic gold during Ramadan

The arrival of Ramadan has focused minds on how the estimated 3,000 Muslim athletes expected to compete in next year’s Olympics in London will fare.

New Scientist

‘Anti-Mormon’ novel kicked off the list

A parent’s complaint that a Sherlock Holmes novel is anti-Mormon has led to its removal from the sixth-grade reading list in a Virginia county school system.

ABC News

Latvian church mixes the old and the new near Philadelphia

The oldest Latvian Lutheran church in the United States still conducts its Sunday service in Latvian, the native language of the church’s first immigrant members from the Baltic state.

Philadelphia Inquirer

SPORTS

Ohio State will forfeit Sugar Bowl payday

Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith announced that the Buckeyes will forfeit their $338,811 share of the Big Ten payment for playing in the Sugar Bowl.

Columbus Dispatch

Football tries to go HGH-free. Deer antlers anyone?

The NFL wants to start HGH testing as part of its 10-year collective bargaining agreement with the players’ union. But critics say the test isn’t good enough.

Discovery News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial Cartoons

USA TODAY

Blog (Juliet Lapidos):

Overrated books

(Slate)

Culturebox

Blog (Martina M. Cartwright, Ph.D., R.D.):

What are we teaching our girls about self esteem?

(Psychology Today)

Food For Thought

Column (Eugene Robinson):

Hello, Washington? Is anyone listening?

Truthdig

Column (Pepe Escobar):

Why the Syrian regime won’t fall

Asia Times Online

Column (Jeffrey Snider):

The aura of the Fed is gone, good riddance

RealClearPolitics

Column (Richard Hall):

UK riots: To understand is not to condone

Al Jazeera

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McClatchy Newspapers

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GOOD NEWS

Walmart fills backpacks for kids

Walmart partnered with The Salvation Army in Niles as they gathered donations to stock backpacks with school supplies for the upcoming academic year.

Niles Daily Star

Hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada, are warming up to pets as guests

Rumor, which hosts dog-friendly parties, is among more than a dozen hotels in Las Vegas that began accommodating dogs in the past year, following a national trend among hotels to allow pets.

Las Vegas Sun

Disabled athlete’s journey staggering

Watching quadruple amputee Ahmed Mustafa Kelly make his way through the pool is an amazing, and humbling, sight.

Edmonton Journal

WORLD

East Jerusalem construction threatens 2-state solution