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A helicopter tries to put out fire on the Waldo Canyon wildfire as it moved into subdivisions and destroyed homes in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Photo by Gaylon Wampler / AP)

Nora Ephron, director, dies at age 71

Movie fans and movie stars are mourning the death of screenwriter, director and essayist Nora Ephron, who succumbed to pneumonia after a battle with leukemia.

NY Daily News

Special section:

Nora Ephron: 1941-2012

USA TODAY

BCS gets boot in favor of 4-team playoff

The best way to determine a major college football champion seemed obvious to many for so long. Just have a playoff. Now the people in charge of making that decision are on board, too.

Houston Chronicle

‘Monster’ Colorado fire doubles in size

After jumping fire lines, the towering blaze has now burned 24 square miles and an undetermined number of homes, and a forecast for thunderstorms could mean unpredictable winds.

Msnbc.com

Waldo Canyon fire erupts

Denver Post

Consumer confidence declines

Consumer confidence fell in June for the fourth straight month as worries about jobs and the overall economy outweighed relief at the gas pump and an improvement in the housing market.

Detroit Free Press

Pending home sales climb to two-year high

MarketWatch

Egypt’s Mursi to name deputies including woman, Christian

Egypt’s Islamist president-elect set his sights on naming a woman and a Christian among his deputies, seeking to heal the rifts that polarized the country after last year’s revolt.

BusinessWeek

Special section:

Egypt in transition

Al Jazeera

NATION

Debby aftermath: flooded homes, busted roads and lots of cleaning up

Tropical Depression Debby still poses a flooding and tornado threat as it heads toward the Atlantic, but some Florida communities have started the long process of drying out and cleaning up.

Msnbc.com

Debby’s destructive wake

The Weather Channel

Texas might become the next immigration law battleground

In a state where lawmakers have proposed requiring presidential candidates to prove their citizenship, state lawmakers are eager to propose new immigration-related bills.

McClatchy Newspapers

Pentagon marks gay pride month for the 1st time after ‘don’t ask, don‘t tell’ repeal

Following the repeal of “don‘t ask, don’t tell,” the Pentagon held their first-ever event to recognize the service of the country’s gay and lesbian troops.

CBS News

Rainbow-stuffed cookie sparks boycott

ABC News

POLITICS

Speaker Boehner says contempt vote on Holder will proceed

A vote on holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for withholding documents involving the failed Fast and Furious weapons operation will proceed, Speaker John Boehner says.

CNN

Why NRA wants Congress to vote Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt

Christian Science Monitor

After Supreme Court ruling, Arizona police ask: Now what?

Arizona’s police chiefs and county sheriffs hoped a U.S. Supreme Court ruling would settle their long-running debate on what role, if any, they should play in immigration enforcement.

CBS News

Ripple effect of Supreme Court ruling on Arizona’s anti-immigration law

MSNBC

EDUCATION

What is driving college costs higher?

Just days before student loan rates are set to double for millions of Americans, President Obama and congressional leaders have not reached an agreement on legislation to keep rates at 3.4 percent.

NPR

Rebuilding Mr. Jefferson’s University

The University of Virginia has recently raised questions about its ability to tackle the challenges facing all public research universities and has brought to light some of the university’s significant shortcomings.

Inside Higher Ed

ENVIRONMENT

Wealth gap curbs Rio goals

Brazil‘s extravagant wealth rings Rio’s luxurious beaches, while poverty looks on from across the surrounding hills. Such inequality is symbolic of the challenge humanity faces on a global scale.

Nature

How G-20 nations stack up in renewable energy

SmartPlanet

Blow-up solar lantern lights up Haiti’s prospects for future

The elegant clear plastic lantern, which charges itself when left out in the sun and emits the light of a 60-watt bulb, will bring a safe and inexpensive light source to those without electricity.

Christian Science Monitor

HEALTH

Drinking moderate amounts of coffee cuts heart failure risk

While current American Heart Association heart failure prevention guidelines warn against habitual coffee consumption, some studies propose a protective benefit, and still others find no association at all.

Times of India

Blog:

2 cups of coffee per day may decrease odds of developing heart failure

(CBS News)

Health Pop

Addiction treatment in America not based on science

Unlike most known diseases, the treatment of addiction is not based on scientific evidence, nor is it required to be provided by people with medical education, according to a new report.

TIME

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Robot enhances listener experience

Wedding DJs everywhere should be worried about job security now that a new robot is on the scene.

ScienceDaily

Triumph in the jaws of disaster

It is that moment in a gig that musicians dread. The guitar lead has broken; the monitors are not giving off a sound. But it does not have to be like that.

The Independent

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Michael J. Koplow and Brent E. Sasley):

Ending the ‘cold war’ between Turkey and Israel

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Ericka Christakis):

The school-bus bullies: Are adults to blame too?

TIME

Column (Dick Yarbrough):

It is not the menu, it is the men

The Telegraph

Column (Eric Liu):

The Asian-American dilemma

TIME

Column (Laura Vanderkam):

The not-so-overworked American

CBS News

Editorial:

Supreme Court makes 2 good decisions and 1 bad

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Alex Pareene):

We get it, Grandpa, you’re hip to Springsteen

Salon

Blog (Derek Rielly):

Killing beauty

The Age

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GOOD NEWS

Nonprofit offers dental care for breast cancer patients

Sugar, superacidic foods, and the side effects of chemotherapy can cause damage to your teeth. The latter possibility caused dentist Olya Banchik to establish a nonprofit organization.

Las Vegas Review Journal

The world meets the 1st ‘Bachelor’s Five’ of philanthropic studies

The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University is no newcomer to the mission of working for the public good. It’s been around for 20 years, but its new class of five represents a new step.

The Atlantic

Man behind secret $2M donation is revealed months later

A mystery for 4,000 families was at last solved when casino mogul Steve Wynn made it known that he had made the anonymous donation to the United Way of Southern Nevada.

ABC News

WORLD

Syria’s Assad faces growing rebel and foreign threats