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Anti-government protestors in Sanaa, Yemen, reach their hands to catch a protestor after throwing him in the air, as they celebrated President Ali Abdullah Saleh‘s departure to Saudi Arabia to receive medical treatment for wounds he suffered in a rocket attack on his compound. (Photo by Hani Mohammed / AP)

AIDS at 30: strides in care, focus on prevention

The tapestry of the HIV/AIDS epidemic has changed dramatically in the thirty years since the first federal report came out about a rare pneumonia that was striking gay men.

San Francisco Chronicle

AIDS 30th anniversary: Americans complacent

Detroit Free Press

Summer job bummer: teen unemployment 24 percent

When it comes to creating new jobs, 70 percent of those are coming from small businesses, but many of them are struggling just to hang on.

CBS News

GOP react to job numbers with concern

YouTube

Saleh in hospital, V. P. takes over

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, wounded in an attack on his compound, flew to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment as his vice president assumed his duties, a government spokesman said.

Bloomberg

Powers transferred to VP after attack on Yemen President Saleh

CNN

Blog:

Yemen live blog

Al Jazeera

Yemen’s Saleh recovering from wounds

Reuters

Studies find that new drugs boost skin cancer survival

Two novel drugs produced unprecedented gains in survival in separate studies of people with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, doctors reported.

San Jose Mercury News

Sony hackers brag of ease to compromise million consumers

Whoever the hackers at LulzSec are, they talk big. They claim to have gotten into Sony’s and stolen information on more than 1 million consumers.

ABC News

Blog:

Why hackers hate Sony

PC World

NATION

Ariz. fire burns summer cabins, forces evacuations

One of the largest wildfires in Arizona’s history grew even bigger as it cast an orange glow over people fleeing their mountain homes and sent smoke across skies 200 miles away.

MSNBC

Ex-Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger dies

Lawrence S. Eagleburger, the only career foreign service officer to rise to the position of secretary of state, has just died at the age of 80.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Special section:

Lawrence Eagleburger: A biographical history

C-Span

POLITICS

Palin: I didn’t mess up Paul Revere history

Sarah Palin insisted that history was on her side when she claimed that Paul Revere’s famous Massachusetts ride was intended to warn both British soldiers and his fellow colonists.

Forbes

Obama needs more jobs to keep his job

President Barack Obama cannot escape one giant vulnerability as he bids to keep his job: Millions of voters still don’t have one.

Huffington Post

Obama’s toughest challenge to re-election may come from economy

BusinessWeek

John Edwards, disgraced but determined, readies for new trial

John Edwards doesn’t dispute he was a cad, but he’s defiant that he’s not a criminal. And it appears this may be one point in which he may get some sympathy in his home state and beyond.

Reuters

Another sad chapter in Edwards’ fall from grace

NPR

Blog:

Edwards’ enabler claims vindication

(MSNBC)

Powerwall

BUSINESS

Wal-Mart’s motive is no secret: Going green saves it money

Public goodwill is nice, but Wal-Mart officials say their environmentally friendly moves are motivated by the bottom line.

Orlando Sentinel

Nearly 14 million Americans currently looking for work

The economic recovery seems to be losing momentum. In May, private companies hired 83,000 new people. But local and state governments cut 28,000 jobs — that’s the biggest drop since last November.

CBS News

HEALTH

Fatigue often 1st symptom of MS

Months or even years before demyelinating events are recognized, patients later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis often turn up in their doctors’ offices complaining of fatigue.

MedPage Today

New male birth control concept

Equality for men may be on the horizon, contraceptive equality, that is. Women have long been able to pop a pill to prevent pregnancy, but a pharmaceutical alternative has never emerged for men.

LiveScience

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Life in Buddha Standard Time

The 14th-century Christian theologian and mystic, Meister Eckhart, said: “To reach the now, where one is present to oneself and to God therein, I say to you, be awake.” It’s so simple that it’s complicated.

Huffington Post

Atheist confab in Ireland comes as Europe confronts religion in public life

This weekend about 350 conventioneers descend on Dublin to discuss matters of faith and its place in public life. It’s not a meeting of the Catholic Church hierarchy, but the first World Atheist Convention.

Christian Science Monitor

SPORTS

Miami Heat player Mike Miller balances family, basketball

An NBA star who made a life-changing donation five years ago to assist sick children is now the one receiving help for his newborn baby health issues.

ABC News

Britton rocked in Orioles’ 8-4 loss to Jays

As a rookie in the big leagues, Orioles left-hander Zach Britton has encountered plenty of celebratory firsts this season.

Baltimore Sun

Shaquille O’Neal eager for next chapter

Shaquille O’Neal made his retirement official, reiterating what he revealed in a video posted online two days earlier that his NBA playing days are over.

ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

The Coco Solo Social Club, open to all

The Martinez family opened up their houses to the whole neighborhood in 2009 for parties that were completely free of charge and became the most important place in the community.

OneWorld

Badly wounded by the Great Recession, they spend time helping others

They’ve lost their jobs, homes, health care, retirement and the ability to put food on the table. And many have come close to losing the most valuable possession of all — hope.

San Jose Mercury News

100-year-old graduate gets her diploma

It took 84 years, but Thelma Dyess finally got her high school diploma. Dyess, 100, led the procession of 389 other Texas City High School graduates across the stage to receive diplomas at Stingaree Stadium.

Houston Chronicle

WORLD

Israel fires shots at protesters