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At the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., Ezeldin Diab talks about militant cleric and U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, who had preached at the mosque and who was killed by U.S. air strikes in Yemen. (Photo by Cliff Owen / AP)

Tevatron shuts down after 28-year run

Fermilab director Pierre Oddone confessed that he had a bit of a bad dream the night before the final shutdown of the laboratory’s flagship accelerator, the Tevatron.

Discovery News

Obama presses congressional Republicans for jobs bill support

President Barack Obama urged Republicans to spell out what they can support in his $447 billion jobs bill, saying it was “time for Congress to get its act together.”

Reuters

Blog:

Obama to GOP: Tell me what you want

(USA TODAY)

The Oval

Killing of 2 in Yemen puts US in new territory

President Obama steered the nation’s war machine into uncharted territory when a U.S. drone attacked a convoy in Yemen and killed two American citizens who had become central figures in al Qaida.

San Francisco Chronicle

Drones quiet cleric whose words led to jihad

Seattle Times

US military official: Al-Awlaki‘s death will instill al-Qaida with a ‘sense of doom’

Msnbc.com

Legitimacy of al-Awlaki killing sparks debate

YouTube

Alibaba chief interested in buying Yahoo

Jack Ma, the founder and CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is keen on buying Yahoo if the opportunity presents itself.

Telegraph.co.uk

The call of a lifetime: ‘Congrats! You’ve just won a Nobel!’

Scientists, writers and brokers of peace around the world will be holding their breaths for a potentially life-altering, $1.5 million phone call coming from Scandinavia next week.

Forbes

NATION

Military chaplains can now perform same-sex marriages

Military chaplains may perform same-sex marriages, even on military bases, in states where such ceremonies are allowed, but will not be forced to do so, the Pentagon said.

Politico

131,729 gay couples report they’re married

Houston Chronicle

Blog:

Military chaplains won’t be forced to conduct same-sex marriages

Beliefnet

Prohibition — the great American divider

Anyone with a sober view of 20th-century history has a vague idea about Prohibition, and knows it failed. Yet, a new film is filled with the kind of little-known detail that brings even familiar stories alive.

canada.com

Special section:

‘Prohibition’: A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

PBS

Massive transportation study to record habits of drivers in Pa.

A study being performed by the Transportation Research Board is equipping cars with an arsenal of data collection devices as part of the largest coordinated safety program undertaken in the U.S.

Centre Daily Times

POLITICS

New chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff seeks balance in US power

Army Gen. Martin Dempsey was sworn in as successor to retiring Navy Adm. Mike Mullen. Dempsey has made one thing clear: He differs about the threat posed to national security by debt.

Boston Herald

Meet the man behind the nationwide illegal immigration crackdown

Alabama and Arizona have some of the toughest immigration laws in the country and behind both states’ laws and many others is Kris Kobach, a constitutional lawyer and Kansas Secretary of State.

NPR

US to appeal ruling upholding Alabama immigration law

BusinessWeek

Alabama immigration law threatens kids

ABC News

BUSINESS

US incomes fall for first time in 2 years

Americans earned less last month, the first decline in nearly two years. With less income, consumers could cut back on spending and in turn weaken an already fragile economy.

TIME

Wall Street protesters march on police

Protesters who have camped out near Wall Street for two weeks marched on police headquarters in Manhattan over what they viewed as a heavy-handed police response to their demonstrations.

Reuters

Occupy Wall Street

TIME

America’s rich losing tussle with taxman

Cash-strapped governments are on the offensive against their own elites. Taxes are up, loopholes are being closed and crackdowns on offshore havens and Swiss bank accounts are gaining momentum.

Reuters

HEALTH

Laughter might be good medicine for Alzheimer’s patients

Exposing Alzheimer’s patients to “humor therapy” appears as effective as psychiatric drugs in reducing the agitation that often plagues those struggling with dementia, new research suggests.

HealthDay

Golfing reawakens dementia patients’ muscle memories

As America ages and the Alzheimer’s population grows, experts say outdoor activities — particularly those that were enjoyed in younger years — can make day-to-day life more pleasant and enriching.

San Jose Mercury News

ENVIRONMENT

Los Alamos is under renewed environmental scrutiny

Pickup trucks, coke and whiskey bottles are some of the items left over from the 1940s Manhattan Project, and unearthed by a cleanup of one of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s original toxic dump sites.

ABC News

Canadian Arctic nearly loses entire ice shelf over summer

Two ice shelves that existed before Canada was settled by Europeans diminished significantly this summer, one nearly disappearing altogether, Canadian scientists say in new research.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Religious leaders line up in support of Supreme Court case

Unity among religious leaders is rare, but a pending U.S. Supreme Court case over a Michigan Lutheran school’s firing of a teacher is drawing together a wide group.

Courier-Journal

Ismael and the Holy Thugs answer prayers of Venezuela’s poor

In a country that wakes up every Monday morning to a dismal tally of weekend murders, it is no surprise that people have turned to the saints for help. But the holy men invoked are anything but virtuous.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Noam Chomsky):

Is the world just too big to fail?

Al Jazeera

Editorial:

Good teachers: what the research says

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

Alabama’s win, our loss

Los Angeles Times

Column (Fareed Zakaria):

On US unemployment: Build it and they will work

Khaleej Times

Blog (Linda Holmes):

Congratulations, television! You’re even worse at masculinity than femininity

(NPR)

Monkey See

Column (Michael Grunwald):

Street smarts

TIME

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Advanced college mathematics

Houston Chronicle

Editorial:

‘Prohibition’ and the past as prologue

The Platform (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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GOOD NEWS

Chevrolet allows customers to donate rebates to breast cancer

In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Chevrolet Certified Service is giving customers the option to donate their oil change service rebates to the American Cancer Society

Huffington Post

Nonprofit opens ‘Nick’s House’ to help families fighting cancer

Before passing away from cancer, Nick Colleluori had laid the groundwork for a nonprofit to raise cancer awareness and help others affected by the disease.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Down syndrome brings joy, not regrets, for many families

In a series of recently completed surveys, 96 percent of parents expressed no regrets about having a child with Down syndrome and nearly eight out of 10 said the child had enhanced their lives.

HealthDay

WORLD

2nd typhoon in week lashes rain-soaked Philippines