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Bedding is hung out to dry on a clothesline after heavy rains at a tent city in Camden, N.J. The Census Bureau released figures showing that nearly 46.2 million people live in poverty in the U.S., with many of them taking shelter in trailers and tents. (Photo by Mel Evans / AP)

Faces behind the poverty figures

The Census Bureau released new figures showing that nearly 46.2 million people live in poverty. The poverty rate is the highest of any major industrialized nation, and many experts believe it could get worse.

CBS News

Poverty grows in Rick Perry’s Texas

CNNMoney

Netflix launches Qwikster DVD service

In a change for movie rentals in the U.S., industry leader Netflix is rearranging its distribution divisions, with the DVD-only service Qwikster being born out of the ashes of a very unpopular new pricing plan.

Pocket-lint

Blog:

Netflix to rebrand DVD service as Qwikster; adds game rentals

(Forbes)

The Tech Trade

Obama proposes $1.5 T in new tax revenue

President Barack Obama has proposed $1.5 Trillion in new taxes as part of a plan to identify more than $3 Trillion in long-term deficit reduction and slow the nation’s escalating national debt.

CBS News

Police monitor protests on Wall Street again

BusinessWeek

‘Buffet Rule’ millionaire’s tax dubbed ’class warfare’ by Republicans

Herald Sun

Obama presents deficit reduction plan

C-Span

Gays to openly serve in the military

The “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy banning gays from serving openly will soon be stripped from the military’s rulebook. For gay Marines it will be a historic moment.

Marine Corps Times

End of “don‘t ask, don’t tell” nears

YouTube

Huge Australian bushfires ignited rare plant growth

Rare plants are springing up in a fire-ravaged Australian park which had never been recorded there before the blaze, providing new insights into the way ecosystems recover from fire damage.

New Scientist

NATION

Study: Recession fueled child abuse

An increase in child abuse, mostly in infants, is linked with the recent recession, according to new research that raises fresh concerns about the impact of the nation’s economic woes.

Telegram & Gazette

Hunger strikes at California prison renew debate over confining prison gangs

As a court-ordered mandate forces California to reduce the number of low-level criminals in its overcrowded prisons, people have begun to protest inhumane conditions for the most hardened, violent criminals.

San Jose Mercury News

Northeast farmers warn of Halloween pumpkin shortage

Hurricane Irene destroyed hundreds of pumpkin patches across the region, farmers say, and wholesale prices have doubled as farmers nurse their crops.

CBS News

POLITICS

GOP-led states change voting rules ahead of 2012

After years of expanding when and how people can vote, state legislatures now under new Republican control are moving to trim early voting days and change other rules concerning how people vote.

San Francisco Chronicle

Could Texas’ redistricting leave Latinos behind?

NPR

Fed to be tested on ‘too big to fail’ in merger review

The Fed will hold the first of three nationwide hearings on the $9 billion deal, serving as a test for how the U.S. government will view big-bank mergers after the 2007-2009 financial crisis.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Bernanke, Europe hold key to aiding market rally

Wall Street hopes for more Fed action and clear signs European leaders will follow through on their new urgency to tackle the euro zone debt crisis if U.S. stocks are to build on their best week since July.

Msnbc.com

Bank for International Settlements: Policy makers should lower risks for banks

BusinessWeek

EU finance ministers take stock of progress on debt crisis

Reuters

UBS chief Gruebel dismisses calls to quit

UBS AG Chief Executive Officer Oswald Gruebel said he doesn’t plan to resign after Switzerland’s biggest bank reported a $2 billion loss from unauthorized trading.

Bloomberg

UBS starts probe into $2.3 billion rogue trade loss

Reuters

EDUCATION

Antioch College opens, again

New students will bring life to Antioch College’s Yellow Springs, Ohio, campus after a lull in the liberal arts college’s operation.

Inside Higher Ed

University seeks funding for new vet teaching hospital

Education officials are asking Gov. Nathan Deal to approve funding for a new veterinary medicine teaching hospital at the University of Georgia.

Houston Chronicle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Taking a rare look at the secret Cold War space program

Two clandestine satellite programs were declassified with the unveiling of the United States’ most closely guarded assets.

SPACE.com

Desert beetle uses eggs as shields against wasps

Seed beetle species, Mimosestes amicus, lay their eggs on seed pods and defend the survival of their offspring against parasitic wasps that attack their eggs before their young can develop.

ScienceDaily

Gamers have successfully solved molecular puzzle

Video-game players have solved a molecular puzzle that stumped scientists for years. The finding could find cures for various diseases in the future.

Msnbc.com

SPORTS

Lexi Thompson wins Navistar Classic

Lexi Thompson was poised to become the youngest player to win an LPGA Tour event at a fresh-faced 16, sitting five strokes ahead of the rest of the field and just one round from history.

ESPN

Colts sputter again, drop to 0-2 with loss to Browns

Cleveland kept the ball on the ground, traded touchdowns for field goals and finally beat the Colts 27-19 — ending a five-game losing streak while playing in the series that dates back to 1994.

USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Konrad Yakabuski):

Read Barack Obama’s lips: Tax the rich

Globeandmail.com

Column (Michael Carroll):

City streets no walk in the park

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Mitch Albom):

Vows don‘t say ’till sickness do us part’

Detroit Free Press

Column (Ashley S. Townshend):

China’s ‘string of pearls’ strategy

Khaleej Times

Column (Leonard Pitts Jr.):

Colin Powell was wrong. Americans walk around afraid

McClatchy Newspapers

Editorial:

The gift of vaccines, including Gardacil

San Jose Mercury News

Column (Mark I. Pinsky):

The truth about evangelicals and their beliefs

USA TODAY

Editorial:

Solyndra scandal exposes the lie of government ‘investment’

Washington Examiner

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GOOD NEWS

UN drafts an action plan to improve safety of journalists

Participants at a United Nations forum that met in Paris have drafted an action plan to improve the safety of journalists and ensure that crimes committed against them do not go unpunished.

UN News Centre

Scuba diving may help paralyzed vets

Paralyzed veterans who learned to scuba dive experienced both physical and mental improvements, a new study suggests.

HealthDay

UK surgeons separate twin girls joined at head

Sudanese twins born with the tops of their heads joined together have been separated in a rare and risky series of operations at a London children’s hospital, officials said.

San Francisco Chronicle

WORLD

6.9 quake strikes India, Nepal