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In this photo taken during a government-organized tour, a Syrian man, background, looks at cars burned during a clashes between Syrian troops and rebels in the southern part of Damascus, Syria. (Photo by Bassem Tellawi / AP)

Curiosity to explore Mars mountain

The towering mountain that NASA‘s Mars rover will explore after landing on the planet next month remains mysterious to scientists, who say there is nothing quite like it here on Earth.

SPACE.com

Special section:

A quiz on Mars exploration

CNN

Religious authorities in Mideast nations declare start of Ramadan

Religious authorities in most Middle Eastern countries declared the start of the holy month of Ramadan, a period devoted to dawn-to-dusk fasting, prayers and good deeds.

Times Union

Syrian forces stretched, intelligence chief dies

A fourth member of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle has died from a bomb attack as his forces fight to recapture border posts and parts of Damascus from rebels.

Reuters

Will GOP increase calls for action in Syria?

NBCNews.com

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Syria crisis: live updates

Guardian

12 Dead in Colorado shooting at ‘Dark Knight’ midnight show

A gunman burst into a movie theater at a midnight showing of the new Batman film and opened fire, killing at least 12 people and injuring at least 50, police said.

ABC News

Movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo.

TIME

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Live updates: text and video

BBC

US forecast: Hot, dry weather to linger

The unusually hot, dry weather that has gripped the nation will not let up its stranglehold over the next few months, federal weather forecasters have said.

CBS News

For American Indians, coping with climate change is ancient history

Scientific American

NATION

Soldiers allowed to wear uniforms at gay pride march

For the first time, the U.S. military will allow its members to wear their uniforms at a gay pride march. Permission was granted for the Gay Pride Parade in San Diego.

BBC

Crews secure fuel on sunken barge in Lake Huron, Mich.

Crews have plugged all fuel valves and vents on a barge that sank in stormy Lake Huron, Mich., preventing more fuel from spilling. People nearby are being warned to stay indoors to avoid fumes.

ABC News

Summer of discontent at the USPS

The U.S. Postal Service is in a financial bind, having reported several quarters of multi-billion dollar losses, declining mail volume and prefunding retirement health care benefits for future retirees.

CNNMoney

POLITICS

Top 2 percent not job creators or millionaires in tax debate

As the president and his Republican opponents debate whether to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the top 2 percent, their phrases obscure the truth about who would be affected.

Bloomberg

Campaigns now translated to Spanish

The race to the White House is now available in Spanish, and it is no surprise, with Latinos projected to be nearly a third of the U.S. population by 2050 and already making up a crucial voting bloc.

U.S. News & World Report

Venture capitalists say: Romney is not one of us

The National Venture Capital Association clarifies that Bain Capital LLC, which Mitt Romney headed, does the bulk of its work in private equity — a distinction that has become important this election year.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Viacom and DirecTV reach agreement, Viacom said to get $600M per year

Viacom Inc. will get more than $600 million a year from DirecTV in programming fees under their new agreement, up at least 20 percent from previous terms, a person with direct knowledge of the matter has said.

BusinessWeek

Feeding frenzy seen if Wall Street sues itself over Libor

Wall Street, grappling with mounting regulatory probes and investor claims over alleged interest-rate manipulation, may face yet another formidable foe: itself.

Bloomberg

Good news from the construction industry — but will housing take off?

TIME

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Ships tracked from orbit

The monitoring of vessels at sea is a fast-developing space service. But ship-tracking from orbit is not straightforward.

BBC

What space smells like

When astronauts return from space walks and remove their helmets, they are welcomed back with a peculiar smell. An odor of “seared steak" or “hot metal.”

The Atlantic

The laser beam 1,000 times more powerful than the US

In true “extreme sports science” fashion, a historic event has transpired: a record-shattering laser beam that, in a single shot fired, generated more power than the U.S. does at any single instant.

TIME

HEALTH

Whooping cough heading to a 50-year high, says CDC

Whooping cough cases could be headed toward a 50-year high in the U.S., and the CDC says the nation is on track for record rates of the disease.

WebMD

Whooping cough on the rise

YouTube

Express Scripts, Walgreen settle spat

Walgreen Co. will soon be able to fill prescriptions for Express Scripts Holding Co. patients after the two corporate giants settled their long-running dispute.

Reuters

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GOOD NEWS

US students major in philanthropy

Indiana University has built a serious program around charitable works, including the first philanthropy doctoral program.

Christian Science Monitor

Ahead of AIDS conference, new reasons for hope

There is now a renewed sense of promise that, even if it is still years away, researchers have a better understanding of targets that could lead to a cure for AIDS.

HealthDay

Russia flood brings volunteer spirit and new law

A spontaneous wave of charity engulfed Krymsk, Russia, in aid of flood victims. The effort was kick-started by social networking sites and independent radio and TV stations.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

Nigeria’s low-cost tablet computer

Saheed Adepoju is the inventor of the Inye, a tablet computer priced at $350 and designed for the African market. The tablet’s apps include one that is designed to raise awareness about HIV.

BBC

Looted art returned to Afghanistan

The British Museum has assisted in the return of 843 artifacts to Afghanistan, almost 20 years after they were stolen or smuggled abroad.

BBC

Kabul exhibit attempts to heal through art

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Greenhouse gas emissions climb

In 2011, the burning of fossil fuels and other activities such as cement and oil production, produced 3 percent more carbon dioxide, bringing emissions to an all-time 37.5 billion-ton high.

LiveScience

US Navy unveils its ‘great green fleet’ with some red-white-and-blue machismo

What do you get when you mix animal fat, algae and 10,000 pounds of steel? The least popular Navy Blackhawk on Capitol Hill. The U.S. Navy showed off its “great green fleet,” which runs solely on biofuel.

Grist

The great green fleet sets sail

Yahoo! News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Youthful circus troupe tries to bridge Arab-Israel divide

Rabbi Marc Rosenstein left Philadelphia for a life in Israel when he was inspired to make his own contribution to Middle East peace. He founded a circus.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Vatican installs Samuel J. Aquila as 5th archbishop of Denver

Under vaulted ceilings and soaring choir voices at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, the Vatican gave Denver its 8th bishop and 5th archbishop, Samuel Aquila.

Denver Post

EDUCATION

Private student loan debt reaches $150B

Americans have racked up $150 billion in private student loan debt, with many graduates owing more than they can afford, according to a new report.

CNNMoney

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Student loan defaults mimic subprime woes, study shows

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The Bottomline

A new ‘Master Teacher Corps’

President Barack Obama proposed spending $1 billion to fund a “Master Teacher Corps” initiative, which would reward top-performing educators with $20,000 annually.

The Atlantic

SPORTS

How Olympic ‘Blade Runner’ sprints without feet

While the debate over whether Oscar Pistorius’ flex-foot Cheetahs makes it harder or easier for him to sprint continues, there is no doubt that they make it different.

Discovery News

15 majors, 15 different winners

Tiger Woods has been stuck on 14 majors since limping away with the championship hardware in the 2008 U.S. Open with his anterior cruciate ligament ruptured and his left leg broken.

USA TODAY

The Open 2012: hole-by-hole

Telegraph.co.uk

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

When hyphen boy meets hyphen girl, names pile up

Those born at the height of the name-hyphenating craze will be the first to tell you — having two last names can be more trouble than it is worth.

NPR

Turkey battles to repatriate antiquities

Turkey envisions a giant new museum in Ankara as the crown jewel in its effort to embrace a multicultural past.

Spiegel International

Photo of the Day

A Palestinian reads from the Quran during the dawn prayer on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in the West Bank city of Jenin. (Photo by Mohammed Ballas / AP)

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