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Pierson‘s Mill, a historical mill complex in Maplewood, N.J., has been put on a list of the state’s “most endangered historic sites” by Preservation New Jersey. The mill complex is now on the market for $1.65 million, and preservationists want the buyer not to tear it down. (Photo by Mike Derer / AP)

2011’s most endangered historic sites

The National Trust for Historic Preservation released its latest list of places the trust considers the most endangered in the country. The list includes a Chicago hospital, a jazz musician’s home and a mill.

NPR

Blog:

The 11 most endangered places

Chicago Tribune

Is stress good for you?

Most people dream of escaping the rat race, but could stress and long hours be the route to a good life?

BBC

Democratic source: Weiner to step down

Representative Anthony Weiner, who has admitted sending lewd photos of himself over the Internet, has told House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi he will resign from Congress, a party source said.

Reuters

Weiner telling friends he’ll resign

YouTube

Rep. Weiner’s political climb

CNN

Abortion fight heats up in defense debate

Under current law, only those women whose lives are endangered can get an abortion at military hospitals. Victims of rape and incest aren’t entitled to federal funds for abortion services.

ABC News

China closes Tibet to foreigners ahead of Communist Party anniversary

China has closed Tibet to foreigners ahead of the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party on July 1st, travel agents said. Many ethnic Tibetans in the region have chafed under Chinese rule.

Guardian

Study of China’s culture and history

YouTube

NATION

Heat and high winds are threatening West wildfire lines

Firefighters trying to protect homes, a popular national park and dry patches of forest were tested as temperatures peaked and winds started to whip up the flames burning throughout the Southwest.

San Jose Mercury News

Wallow fire: 20 percent contained, local residents allowed back home

Arizona Republic

Progress reported in Wallow, Loop fires

YouTube

Hacker group’s latest target: CIA

LulzSec claimed responsibility for disabling the CIA’s public website, the latest in a string of apparent intrusions by the hacker group.

Politico

LulzSec call-in line taking hacking requests

PC Magazine

US homeless total holds steady in 2010, but ranks grow outside cities

Despite high unemployment and a stalled economy, the nation’s homeless population grew only slightly in 2010 as stimulus-funded initiatives helped keep nearly 700,000 people off the streets.

McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS

Wisconsin unions sue over new collective bargaining law

Unions representing public workers in Wisconsin filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the state’s new curbs on collective bargaining, which were recently upheld by the state’s Supreme Court.

Reuters

NY Assembly passes bill to legalize gay marriage, now up to Senate

The New York Assembly passed a bill to legalize gay marriage while Senate Republicans battled over whether to let the measure come to a floor vote.

NY Daily News

White House defends US role in Libya after lawmakers sue

Facing growing opposition on Capitol Hill, the White House insisted that it’s within its legal rights to wage war in Libya without explicit authorization from Congress.

McClatchy Newspapers

BUSINESS

Big Blue turns 100: IBM celebrates its anniversary, ability to reinvent

IBM is one of the great stories of a company pulling out of a death spiral and reinventing itself.

TIME

J.C. Penney nabbing Johnson from Apple sets ‘huge expectation’

Ron Johnson, who helped turn Apple Inc. into a retail star with flashy big-city stores, now faces the challenge of conjuring up similar buzz around 109-year-old retailer J.C. Penney Co.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

Elephants could face same extinction fate as woolly mammoth

The fate of the forest elephant rests in our hands. But will it go the way of the woolly mammoth as it is hunted for ivory and its habitat is destroyed?

BBC

Traces of radiation found in 2 whales off Japan coastline

Japanese whalers caught two animals along the northern coast that had traces of radiation, presumably from leaks at a damaged nuclear power plant, officials said.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

US bishops debating about updating sex abuse rules

The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops have begun a review of church sex abuse policies, bypassing several recent reports that question whether the rules are effective at removing abusive priests.

USA TODAY

High court spurns atheist’s Pledge of Allegiance ’under God’ challenge

A Sacramento atheist’s challenge to the addition of “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance, which stirred a legal and political frenzy nearly a decade ago, has quietly expired in the U.S. Supreme Court.

San Francisco Chronicle

EDUCATION

Students, lawmakers question value of for-profit colleges

The Obama administration approved new regulations requiring for-profit schools to make sure their students are able to pay back federal loans, and a Senate committee is poised to begin drafting legislation.

McClatchy Newspapers

Frustrated educators are aiming to build a grassroots movement

Thousands of educators and parents are expected to convene in Washington for a march protesting the thrust of education policy, especially the strong emphasis on test-based accountability.

Education Week

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Javier Solana):

Changing relations with the heartland

Khaleej Times

Column (Raghuram Rajan):

Black magic money

Al Jazeera

Editorial:

Ending the Afghanistan war with women’s rights in place

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Ruth Franklin):

Hawk cam: What are we looking for when we watch birds?

The New Republic

Editorial:

America’s diminishing quantity of life

Baltimore Sun

Blog (Roya Wolverson):

The sideways economy: 5 ways the recovery could implode

(TIME)

The Curious Capitalist

Blog (Peter Cohan):

Why Peter Thiel is wrong to pay students to drop out

(Forbes)

The Startup Economy

Column (Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney):

The real costs of US energy

Politico

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GOOD NEWS

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been released from the hospital

Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was released from a Houston hospital, five months after being shot in the head during a political event in Tucson, Ariz.

CBS News

Mouse DNA library set to be released

Investigators are on the home stretch of the effort to disable each of the 20,000-odd genes in the mouse genome and make the results available to the scientific community.

Nature

Tribute concert to honor beloved Arlington, Wash., choir teacher

Current and former students of Washington’s Arlington High School vocal music teacher Lyle Forde are set to attend a tribute concert offered by alumni who plan to perform.

Daily Herald

WORLD

‘Pressure’ placed on Pakistan army chief over US ties