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Astronauts Douglas Wheelock, right, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson begin work on the International Space Station to replace a broken ammonia pump. (Photo by NASA / AP)

Moscow smog worsens, crippling air travel

A choking smog from raging wildfires shrouded Moscow, grounding flights, plunging the city's iconic Red Square into a sea of dirty mist and stinging eyes and throats across the Russian capital.

CBS News

Russia heatwave and smoke from wildfires

ABC News

Huge ice sheet breaks from glacier

A giant sheet of ice measuring 100 square miles has broken off a glacier in Greenland, according to researchers at a U.S. university.

BBC

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Greenland

CNN

Spacewalkers start repair job at International Space Station

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station began a major cooling system repair job, one that has forced NASA mission planners on Earth to alter their plans.

MSNBC

NASA to go ahead with emergency spacewalk

National Geographic

Astronauts to replace ammonia pump

CBS News

BP: Focus is on killing well, not future drilling in Gulf

A BP official talked about the possibility of resuming drilling at the site of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, but the company clarified his remarks.

CNN

BP engineers wrap up battle against oil

Baltimore Sun

Personality set for life by 1st grade

Our personalities stay pretty much the same throughout our lives, from our early childhood years until after we're over the hill, according to a new study.

LiveScience

NATION

New al-Qaida leader knows US all too well

A suspected al-Qaida operative who lived in the U.S. has become chief of the terror network, marking the first time a leader so intimately familiar with U.S. society is in charge of attacks.

AOL News

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Al-Qaida

MSNBC

Top officials in California urge judge to allow same-sex marriage

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked a federal judge to allow same-sex marriages while an appeal over the struck-down law that banned them makes its way through the courts.

CNN

POLITICS

Obama says US health-care legislation will strengthen Medicare program

President Barack Obama, in his address on the radio and Internet, credited the overhaul of U.S. health-care policy with helping to “preserve Medicare for generations to come.”

Bloomberg

Obama's weekly address

The Hill

GOP cash woes threaten fall gains

The Republican National Committee is entering the fall election season with dire financial problems and will be forced to rely on outside groups to fund activities traditionally paid for by the national party.

Politico

BUSINESS

Tylenol's side effect? A brand boycott

Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl may come back to drugstores, but industry watchers say consumers could permanently banish them from their own medicine cabinets.

CNNMoney

Johnson & Johnson, Merck joint venture gets citation from FDA

YouTube

CEO of HP resigns after investigation

Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd resigned after an investigation found that he had falsified expense reports to conceal a relationship with a female contractor.

Reuters

Disgraced CEO to get nearly $28 million

MSNBC

5 minute delay scuttles chance at $40 billion Air Force deal

A tiny, troubled aerospace firm and its Ukrainian partner have been disqualified from the bidding because they handed in their proposal five minutes too late.

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Flipboard app customizes mix of social, news feeds

A startup called Flipboard made a big splash in the tech world with an application that takes a user's stream of Facebook and Twitter feeds and turns it into an easy-to-read digital magazine.

San Francisco Chronicle

Technology allows doctors to peek inside baby’s brain

A large international effort is underway to better understand the impact of brain injuries in newborns.

Globeandmail.com

Brace yourselves for the data explosion

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says a data tsunami is coming, and we're unprepared to handle the deluge.

PC World

SPORTS

Buck doesn't stop here as O's walk off

Adam Jones' two-out single in the bottom of the 10th inning gave the Orioles their second consecutive walk-off win, this time a 2-1 victory over the White Sox.

MLB.com

Albert Haynesworth passes team's test

Haynesworth arrived at Redskins Park and completed both 300-yard shuttle runs in the required times, ending a soap opera that had overshadowed training camp.

ESPN

ENVIRONMENT

Climate talks in danger of unravelling as China and US clash

Global climate talks have sunk to a new low after China and the U.S. clashed and rich countries lined up against poor in a refusal to compromise on emission targets.

Guardian

San Francisco considers new landfill site

The department hopes that by 2015 San Francisco's trash will be trucked to Oakland, loaded onto rail cars and rolled 130 miles to a 236-acre landfill.

San Francisco Chronicle

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Robert Cringley):

Net neutrality: What's the price?

PC World

Editorial:

Public opinion can't decide court cases

Des Moines Register

Column (Chris O'Brien):

The mysterious circumstances of Hurd's departure

San Jose Mercury News

Editorial:

Mistaken eyewitness testimony is far too common in wrongful imprisonment cases

Houston Chronicle

Blog (Bernd Debusmann):

Iraq, America and hired guns

Reuters

Editorial:

Loud and clear

Columbus Dispatch

Column (Tony Norman):

Club of Christians sometimes feels too big

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Blog (Glenn Greenwald):

What a collapsing empire looks like

(Salon)

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GOOD NEWS

Camp Bayou Learning Center lets kids earn free school supplies

Camp Bayou Outdoor Learning Center is giving South Shore, Fla., students a chance to enjoy nature, have some fun and walk away with free school supplies.

Tampa Tribune

Soccer camp for at-risk youth grows to more than 200 campers

A camp for at-risk youths in California was launched by a group of high school students working with the police departments in Mountain View and Sunnyvale.

San Jose Mercury News

WORLD

Wyclef Jean responds to criticism

The potential front-runner in Haiti's election is attempting a difficult transformation from international recording artist to leader of one of the world's poorest and most dysfunctional countries.

CBS News

Cameron, Obama push for Middle East peace talks