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All Things Considered - NPR

House Passes Debt Ceiling Bill

House Votes On Debt Ceiling Plan

Reliving D-Day, With Paintballs And Referees

Blog of Rights - ACLU

ACLU Lens: Justice Department Sues to Block Alabama Immigration Law Previously Challenged by ACLU

FBI Needs Constitutional Law 101, Not "Islam 101"

Court Sanctions CIA to Pay Fees Over Torture Tapes

CNet

Facebook acquires digital bookmaker Push Pop Press

T-Mobile wades into mobile payments

Samsung plans Apple-OK'd Galaxy Tab Down Under

CNN

Gabrielle Giffords' return to Congress sparks re-election talk

Nearly seven months after being shot in the head -- an injury that would have killed most people -- U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned to...

Restive Hama is historic hotbed of rebelliousness

Space shuttle Columbia part found in East Texas

Circle of Blue

The Stream, August 2: Shrinking Glaciers and Growing Deserts

The Stream, August 1: Land-grabbing in Ethiopia

Federal Water Tap, August 1: Flooding

Common Dreams

Koch Brothers Busy Suppressing Votes and Strangling Democracy

Blu's Brain-Washed Soldiers

Real Money: The Ridiculous (At Every Conceivable Level) Cost of the Debt Circus

Daily Bell

Daily Bell Briefs

RT Interviews Anthony Wile: Default Debacle a Charade; US Facing Financial Hurricane

When a Cut Is Not a Cut

Democracy Now!

Ahead of Mubarak Trial, Egyptian Forces Forcibly Remove Protesters from Tahrir Square

Syrian Activist Razan Zaitouneh: Assad Regime the Lone "Terrorist Group" Inside Syria

As Ramadan Begins, Assad Regime Intensifies Deadly Crackdown on Syrian Protesters

Discovery

Forty-One Percent of U.S. Abnormally Dry

Conditions are the driest they have been in 12 years since the Drought Monitor began keeping tabs on parched regions around the United States.

Breast Cancer Screening Not Always Helpful

A Row to the Pole on Melted Ice

Guardian UK

Syria deaths continue as UN considers condemnation

As the security council inches towards a resolution censuring violence, Assad forces press on with crackdown on protestersTwenty-four people have...

House of Representatives passes debt bill

Greece in panic as it faces change of Homeric proportions

Gulf of Mexico/BP/Corexit Spider

Deep Water Horizon oil still affects Gulf Coast environment ...

Save the Arctic? No thanks, says UK Energy Minister | Greenpeace UK

Preventable Disasters: The BP Spill and Dispersants | Astrology ...

The Hayride

JEFF LANDRY: Mary Landrieu Isn’t Serious About Deficits And Neither Are Her Senate Dem Pals

RICH LOWRY: The Debt Deal Has Killed Keynesian Economics

Tenure System For Louisiana Public Schools Questioned

Lifehacker

Ask and Answer Questions About Going Back To School in Today’s Help Yourself Thread [Help Yourself]

Start Google Plus Combines Google+ with Facebook and Twitter [Downloads]

Lifehacker Pack for Windows: Our List of the Best Windows Downloads [Downloads]

memorandum

Will Interest Groups Ride To The Rescue? (Matthew Yglesias/ThinkProgress)

Last Look from Across the Pond: Was This Obama's "Read My Lips" Moment? (Steven Hayward/Power Line)

Mitt Romney to pick up pace in new phase of 2012 campaign (Philip Rucker/Washington Post)

The Obama Downgrade, Alphabetically (Wall Street Journal)

As Senate Votes, McConnell Declares Tea Party 'Won,' Reid says Tea Party 'Disconcerting' (The Note)

How the Debt Committee Could Turn Republican Against Republican (Jonathan Chait/The New Republic)

Mother Jones

John Boehner Is Wrong: Deficit Supercommittee Can Raise Taxes

We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for August 2, 2011

¿Sí Se Puede? Illinois Dream Act Passes

Obama Conspiracy Theories

Obama’s childhood in Kenya

Punking the birthers: priceless

The Doc’s detour

Open Secrets

Prior to Arrest, Kashmiri American Council Director Donated to Congress Members, Political Parties

Financial Sector Helps Barack Obama Score Big Money for Re-election Fight

Huntsman Campaign Manager Resigns, West Uses Insults to Solicit Donations and More in Capital Eye Opener: July 22

Pecan Group

Old soldiers never die, they just pass on their genetic code?

Is marriage obsolete? 6 things to consider

Improving Mexican economy draws Illegals Home

PEW Clean Energy

Editorial: Concealed Weapons Against the Environment

Barack Obama Unveils 'Historic' Agreement on Fuel Economy Standards

Administration, Auto Industry in Sync with Americans' Opinion on Fuel Economy

Politics,Security,Secrecy Spider

Aclu: Congress must act to curb secrecy - Deep Politics Forum

Privacy and Security Fanatic: ACLU to Congress: Cancer of Gov't ...

Liberty, transparency, decency, privacy, security, secrecy, crime ...

Psychology Today

Optimism vs. Pessimism

The Top 25 List - July

Family Secrets

Reef News & Issues

Coral-list: WPBT’s “Lionfish & Panko Thyme” film short

Keysnet.com: Dredging plan gets public airing Wednesday

Jeff Burnside, NBC Miami: INVITATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM CONFERENCE IN MIAMI OCT. 19-23

Rescuing the Frog

Respect our park land – An open letter to the Edmonton District Soccer Association

NY Times story on Keystone XL

My latest in The Globe and Mail: Oil sands monitoring plan a good step forward

Reuters

Congress averts default, downgrade fears haunt

Italy under fire in widening euro debt crisis

Faltering consumer spending to weigh on growth

Nasdaq falls 2 percent on economy worries

Science Daily

Researchers discover method to decrease harmful cyanogens and increase protein levels in key crop

A hot topic: Radioactive decay is key ingredient behind Earth's heat, research shows

Versatile compound examined in crops

Scientific American

Court Tosses Embryonic Stem-Cell Lawsuit Blocking Federal Funds

Chemistry Day at Scientific American Blog Network

NASA Shuttle Fleet Finds New Life in Displays, Parts

Will Climate Change Make Life Harder for Girls?

Techdirt

Court Shuts Down Zediva: Apparently The Length Of The Cable Determines If Something Is Infringing

LA Police Admit That Red Light Camera Payments Are Now 'Voluntary'

What Do They Say About The Lawyer Who Represents Himself?

This Week in Science

Green Connections

Uncover Up

To Trap a Water Molecule

Unexplained Mysteries

Have our brains reached maximum capacity ?

Virgin Galactic chief pilot announced

Crop circle secrets and physics

USA Today

Autopsy results expected Tuesday on N.H. girl

Senate passes debt deal

New arrest in British tabloid phone-hacking scandal

War Room

Will military spending bankrupt the U.S.?

Our debt problems stem from the fact that we're pouring more money into the Pentagon than we have since WWII

Fox: Why does Obama hate Easter and love Ramadan?

Why the Senate should reject the debt ceiling deal

Web MD

Heart Testing Overused, Report Finds

Far too many healthy Americans are undergoing heart-screening tests, which can lead to unnecessary and potentially dangerous treatments, an...

Mold Exposure in Infancy Raises Asthma Risk

Let Dad Be Dad: 6 Ways to Encourage New Fathers

World

US Senate passes debt deal

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