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Cave discovery sheds light on American Stone Age

The discovery of 13,000-year-old stone projectiles and fossilized feces indicates the existence of a second founding culture in the Americas, in addition to the Clovis culture, say researchers.

Christian Science Monitor

How do feces get fossilized?

Slate

Panel calls for annual PTSD screening

The Institute of Medicine recommended that soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan undergo annual screening for post-traumatic stress disorder.

ABC News

Evidence that pot aids PTSD is slim

Arizona Daily Star

Syrian regime launches attacks from sky

Still grappling with a gruesome massacre, Syrians endured yet another bloody day as regime forces fired from helicopters and bombed state security headquarters, killing at least six people.

CNN

UN and US issue strong condemnations of Assad and Syrian massacre

Jerusalem Post

UN monitors in Syria head to ‘massacre site’

Al Jazeera

Suicide bomber kills top Afghan MP at wedding celebration

A well-known Afghan politician and 22 others have been killed in a suicide attack in the northern province of Samangan, police say.

BBC

Special section:

Afghanistan’s challenge

Al Jazeera

Suicide bomber kills 22 and wounds 40

YouTube

What is it really like to be a teenager?

Tantrums, paralyzing inertia and terminal love sickness: Why, when other species seem to manage the transgression from infancy to adulthood with relative ease, do we seem to find it so hard?

The Independent

NATION

Nation’s capital beset by scandal

An embarrassing corruption scandal connected to the mayor’s office further threatens to tarnish Washington’s burnished image and could topple its new leadership.

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog:

Mayor Vincent Gray lashes out at D.C. Council members who demand his resignation

(Washington Post)

District of DeBonis

Judge allows abortion clinic in Mississippi to remain open

A federal judge upheld Mississippi’s anti-abortion law, but said the state’s only clinic can stay open and will not face penalties as it tries to comply with the new mandate.

CBS News

Feds to reroute San Francisco Bay ships to protect whales

Federal maritime officials have approved a plan to protect whales in and around San Francisco Bay. It includes rerouting shipping traffic and establishing better ways to track whale locations.

ABC News

POLITICS

Bain Capital far from fading, Obama keeps after Romney

President Barack Obama is keeping up a drumbeat of skepticism over Mitt Romney’s insistence that he stepped down from his private equity firm years earlier than federal records indicate.

USA TODAY

Latinos to shift outcome of US elections

As the Latino population in the U.S. rises, the demographic shift will affect current and future voting habits, and therefore election outcomes, according to several experts.

Al Jazeera

Missouri governor Jay Nixon vetoes measure on birth control

Gov. Jay Nixon found a narrow reason to veto a bill that would have put Missouri law in direct conflict with the new federal mandate for coverage of contraceptives.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

BUSINESS

Visa, MasterCard and banks in $7.25 billion retail settlement

Visa Inc., MasterCard Inc. and banks that have issued their credit cards have agreed to a $7.25 billion settlement with U.S. retailers over the fixing of credit and debit card fees.

Reuters

Minimum payments get you nowhere

San Francisco Chronicle

China’s economic growth slows to 7.6 percent in 2nd quarter

China’s economy has grown at its slowest pace in three years as investment slowed and demand fell in key markets such as the U.S. and Europe.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Americans’ confidence in the church at all-time low

Americans’ confidence in organized religion is at its lowest in more than three decades, with just 44 percent having a lot of faith in the church, a new Gallup poll suggests.

LiveScience

Evangelicalism strikes a chord in religion-wary France

French scholars say evangelicalism is likely the fastest-growing religion in France, defying all stereotypes about Europe’s most secular nation.

Christian Science Monitor

HEALTH

Dogs enlisted in battle against cancer

While animal research has long played an important role in human medicine, an increasing number of clinical trials for dogs are used to help both species.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Women who have had breast cancer surgery ‘risk more operations’

BBC

Annual report about US children’s health is a mixed bag

Infant mortality, preterm births and teen births have dropped across the U.S., as have violent crime and victimization among children, U.S. health officials report.

HealthDay

Federal report shows no change in rates of childhood asthma, obesity

WebMD

Write it down, shed more pounds

Researchers studying the eating behaviors of female dieters found that two of the most important tools linked to successful weight loss were a pen and notebook.

WebMD

EDUCATION

Gordon Brown to become UN special envoy for global education

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will become the U.N. special envoy for education. He plans to push universal education, calling for a fund to finance schools and train 2 million teachers.

Guardian

Pioneering lawsuit aims to ensure Michigan students learn to read

A class action filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan is the first of its kind asserting a child’s fundamental right to read. The lawsuit cites the implications of reading deficiencies.

Detroit Free Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Randy Lobasso):

Swing state thievery

Salon

Column (Jesse Singal):

Hey Daniel Tosh — no one believes your lame Twitter apology

Daily Beast

Column (Stephen M. Walt):

Hillary Clinton’s tenure: not so bad

Star Tribune

Column (Tom Laskawy):

Insult to injury: The House snuck protection for GMOs into its farm bill

Grist

Column (Dean Obeidallah):

Vacation or die?

CNN

Column (Paul Greenberg):

The amazing water world of the wild Alaskan salmon

The Atlantic

Column (Randy Lobasso):

Swing state thievery

Salon

Editorial:

Illinois moves to outlaw debtors’ prisons, and Missouri should follow

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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GOOD NEWS

Struggling families seek to lift themselves out of poverty

It has been almost 50 years since President Lyndon Johnson declared a “War on Poverty.” But in 2012, the poverty rate in the U.S. is the highest it has been in 17 years.

NPR

It started with a $500 tip

Something made Aaron Collins outline three things he wanted before he died: to repay debts owed to his parents, to give a homeless person some money and to leave “an awesome tip” for a server.

CNN

Boston mosque aims to keep young Somali immigrants off the streets

The Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center aims to outshine the allure of gangster life and overcome a lack of awareness among Muslim Americans about gang problems.

Religion News Service

WORLD

War games showed improved missile accuracy in Iran