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A business that helps prostitutes recover

For prostitutes looking to get drug free and off the streets, the Magdalene program in Nashville, Tenn., provides them with a model for healing.

NPR

US broadens Mexico travel warning

The U.S. State Department has broadened its travel warning for Mexico, advising citizens to avoid certain areas and steer clear of driving at night.

CNN

Mexico drug war

Yahoo! News

Obama releases his birth certificate

The White House has released President Barack Obama’s original birth certificate, following recent remarks that raised doubts as to whether the president was born in the United States.

CNN

Trump takes credit for Obama birth certificate release, but wonders ‘is it real?’

CBS News

Obama addresses birth certificate issue

Politico

9 Americans dead after Afghan officer opens fire

An Afghan Army officer opened fire on foreign troops after an argument at the airport in the capital, sparking a shootout which has left multiple U.S. military personnel dead.

CBS News

Growing ranks of non-traditional couples face financial uncertainty

Gay and lesbian couples have long known the difficulties of living together without official marriage protection: taxes, estate planning, and dividing assets after a breakup are both messier and pricier.

BusinessWeek

NATION

CIA chief Panetta to take over at Pentagon; Gen. Petraeus to lead CIA

President Barack Obama plans to name CIA Director Leon Panetta as the next secretary of defense and move Gen. David Petraeus, now running the war in Afghanistan, into the CIA chief‘s job.

Star Tribune

More violent weather looms in the South

From tornadoes to more heavy rain and rising flood waters, deadly storms continue to hit the South as states to the north and east brace for violent weather.

ABC News

Rain to continue through Wednesday morning; Ohio River just over 30 feet on upper gauge

Courier-Journal

Storms in Missouri

Yahoo! News

Number of 100-year-olds soaring in US

America’s population of centenarians — already the largest in the world — has roughly doubled in the past 20 years to around 72,000 and is projected to at least double again by 2020.

Houston Chronicle

Secrets of the centenarians

New York Times

POLITICS

States grapple with compensation laws for boom in exonerated convicts

Alan Northrop’s case is among a skyrocketing number of wrongful convictions of the innocent discovered over the past decade with the evolution of reliable DNA testing technology.

ABC News

Obama reissues call to repeal US oil industry tax breaks

President Barack Obama is urging congressional leaders to take steps to repeal oil industry tax breaks, reiterating a call he made in his 2012 budget proposal earlier this year.

MSNBC

HEALTH

Why doctors should be more empathetic, but not too much

Research is revealing what goes on in the brains of health care workers when they see patients as objects.

Scientific American

FDA will regulate e-cigarettes as tobacco

The FDA will regulate electronic cigarettes the same way it regulates other tobacco products, the agency has announced.

MedPage Today

EDUCATION

Robo-teams are ramping up for world finals in St. Louis

More than 11,000 students from across the U.S. and 29 countries will gather in downtown St. Louis to compete in a robotics matchup called U.S. FIRST.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Women now surpass men in earning advanced degrees

American women have passed men in gaining advanced degrees, a trend redefining who works and who stays home with the kids.

San Francisco Chronicle

Should seniority prevail in deciding teacher layoffs?

Thousands of teachers are being notified that their jobs are in jeopardy. The result is renewed scrutiny of the seniority rules that govern layoffs in many states.

Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

Biosphere 2 looks good at 20

Two decades later, scientists are still using the 7.2-million-square-foot facility, only now the focus is figuring out how we’ll survive on our own warming planet.

Telegram & Gazette

Catastrophic global amphibian declines have multiple causes, no simple solution

ScienceDaily

Can wasps squash the stink bug plague?

Stink bugs were introduced into Allentown, Pa., from Asia in the 1990s and have been spreading ever since. But an experiment is under way to reintroduce the stink bug to its mortal enemy: a parasitic Asian wasp.

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

A wireless traffic jam

Why do wireless carriers need more radio spectrum? Data traffic on mobile networks last year was triple the amount of all Internet data transmission a decade ago.

Star Tribune

Sony says hacker may have stolen PlayStation customers’ personal data

Sony Corp. warned its 77 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity customers that their credit-card data and other personal information may have been stolen by a hacker.

Bloomberg

Columns And Op-Ed

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The cockroach

San Francisco Examiner

Column (Gloria Borger):

Republicans run away from 2012 race

CNN

Blog (David Weigel):

The long-form birth certificate of Barack Obama

(Slate)

Weigel

Column (E. J. Dionne, Jr.):

Why false choices still matter

Truthdig

Blog (Michael Austin):

Corporal punishment?

(Psychology Today)

Ethics for Everyone

Column (Kevin Horrogan):

A 1-time, 100 percent tax on wealth greater than $10M

Star Tribune

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Elephant

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Editorial:

Deficit targets and triggers — gimmicks or the genuine article?

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Derek Thompson):

America’s post-ownership future

The Atlantic

Column (Froma Harrop):

When trees are gone with the wind

Creators Syndicate

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GOOD NEWS

Lady Gaga and the Robin Hood Foundation team up for contest

Lady Gaga is teaming up with the Robin Hood Foundation for a contest that could net one of five New York City philanthropies a cool $1 million.

NY Daily News

Reports aim to aid homeless

Residents on all major Hawaiian islands are being asked to report homeless people to get them into a network of medical, mental and housing services.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Chicago launches green taxi program

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced the city’s new Green Taxi Program. The initiative will reimburse taxicab companies that use hybrid vehicles or vehicles powered by alternative fuel.

AOL News

WORLD

Egypt gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan explodes after attack