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The space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis is the 135th and final space shuttle launch for NASA. (Photo by John Raoux / AP)

Space junk no threat to Atlantis and space station

“Mission Control has verified that the track of a piece of orbital debris will not be a threat to the International Space Station and space shuttle Atlantis,” NASA officials said.

Discovery News

Shuttle program’s next trip: to the museum

NPR

NASA’s next target: this asteroid

CNN

Volga river boat sinking: Rescuers give up hope of finding more survivors

Divers searching the wreck of a Russian Volga river boat reportedly saw more than one hundred corpses trapped inside the pleasure craft when they recovered eight bodies.

Guardian

Bipartisan debt ceiling talks to resume

As the deadline for Congress to raise the debt ceiling creeps steadily closer, a deal to cut the size of government in exchange for raising that debt limit seems as far away as ever.

NPR

Debt debate timeline

Reuters

Blog:

The presidential planner: another day, another deficit meeting

ABC News

Budget agreement needed in 10 days

MSNBC

Protesters attack US Embassy in Damascus, Syria

Witnesses say supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad have attacked the U.S. embassy compound in Damascus, causing damage.

CBS News

UN has declared Somalia the ‘worst humanitarian disaster’

The head of the United Nations refugee agency has described the situation in drought-hit Somalia as the “worst humanitarian disaster” in the world.

Al Jazeera

Blog:

Africa drought rips families apart, brings strangers together

(MSNBC)

World Blog

NATION

Feds: Police crackdowns reduce driver texting, cell phone use

High-profile police efforts to crack down on driver texting and talking on hand-held cell phones deter large numbers of violations, a government report said.

Detroit News

Texting study results

YouTube

Economy pits neighbor vs. neighbor

In communities governed by the homeowners’ association, as the sour economy leaves more people unable to pay their fees, it’s neighbor versus neighbor.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

New era set for 9/11 site

On Sept. 12, 2011, when the public is allowed to step onto the World Trade Center site for the first time in 10 years, the approach will be more pedestrian than poignant.

Wall Street Journal

9/11 Memorial tickets on sale online

CBS News

POLITICS

As the U.S. begins withdrawing ground troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, it is increasingly depending on unmanned aerial vehicles to track and kill suspected terrorists and other enemies.

NPR

US suspends $800M in Pakistan aid

The U.S. is withholding some $800 million in aid to Pakistan, almost a third of the $2.7 billion in security assistance it provides each year to the South Asian nation, Obama’s chief of staff confirmed.

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

The ‘snicker factor’ aside, hemp is serious business outside US

American farmers are prohibited from growing hemp. That leaves farmers in Canada — where it’s been a legal crop since 1998 — free to tap the growing U.S. interest in hemp-based products.

Globeandmail.com

Want a free credit score? Get rejected

Starting later this month, lenders and creditors who deny an application for a loan or credit card will be required to disclose the credit score and other decision factors.

CNNMoney

China growth may slow as Wen faces limited scope for response

China’s economy grew the least in almost two years last quarter, contributing to a global weakening that Premier Wen Jiabao confronts with more limited scope for policy response than during the 2008 recession.

BusinessWeek

HEALTH

A lack of education fuels HIV epidemic in the South

Many people regarded HIV/AIDS as chiefly a problem of gay enclaves in big cities. But a new county-level map of HIV infection data shows how HIV also has become entrenched in America’s heartland.

USA TODAY

Risk of lightning strike injuries

In the United States alone, lightning kills 55 people each year and seriously injures hundreds more, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians.

HealthDay

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Archdiocese moves to teach workers how to report child sexual abuse

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia has launched a program to teach employees and church volunteers about Pennsylvania’s child-protection laws.

Philadelphia Inquirer

American Jew refused entry to Israel on suspicion of converting to Islam

Two years after participating in a Taglit-Birthright tour, Harald Fuller-Bennett was denied entry into Israel. The Shin Bet claimed he had links to terrorists and suspected him of no longer being Jewish.

Haaretz

SPORTS

Free agency, rookie wages remain NFL stumbling blocks

A rookie wage scale and free agency for veterans appear to be the biggest stumbling blocks to ending the NFL lockout.

CBSSports

Little time for US women’s soccer team to recover before facing France

The U.S. women have their quickest turnaround yet at the World Cup, with just two days to prepare for their semifinal against France after the physically and emotionally draining epic against Brazil.

Times Union

If US can’t love soccer after this, it never will

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Jason Beaubien):

Fear, God and family pervade migrants’ journey

NPR

Column (E.J. Dionne):

America’s obsession with the death penalty strains nation’s morals

Seattle Times

Blog (Anne Applebaum):

A very British scandal

Foreigners (Slate)

Column (Mitch Albom):

The final frontier will have to wait

Detroit Free Press

Blog (Jonathan Cohn):

Boehner abandons grand bargain, can’t sway caucus on taxes

(The New Republic)

Jonathan Cohn

Column (Roland S. Martin):

Feds go after baseball but not bankers?

Creators Syndicate

Video:

Timothy Geithner on debt ceiling

Huffington Post

Editorial:

South Sudan independence

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Once endangered, eagle population soaring in Mich., US

Since they were removed from the endangered species list, bald eagles have flourished in Michigan and across the United States. In fact, their population surge has happened almost too quickly.

Detroit News

Childhood tumor patients ride for charity

Ten children who survived brain tumors sat in side cars in Overland Park, Kansas, as about 200 motorcyclists rode near the town to raise money for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation.

Kansas City Star

Scientists have finally sequenced tricky potato genome

The not-so-humble potato is the world’s fourth most important food crop and is vital for global food security. Several factors made the sequencing possible.

Scientific American

WORLD

Deadly blasts at Cyprus military base