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International Longshoremen's Association union members toss Del Monte company pineapples into the Delaware River following a Labor Day parade in Philadelphia. The union members were protesting the possible loss of jobs. (Photo by Matt Rourke / AP)

Evolving culture: Where are we going?

For billions of years, the environment and how it affected organisms' genes was the key to evolution. But in the past 10,000 years, humans have adapted with their wits and shared knowledge.

NPR

Tropical storm heads toward Mexico, US

Tropical storm Hermine is headed toward Mexico and the U.S. with 40 mph winds. A tropical storm warning is in effect for parts of the Texas and Mexican coasts.

CNN

Hermine gaining strength in Gulf

Houston Chronicle

Future jobs require more skills or pay less

Whenever companies start hiring freely again, job seekers with specialized skills and education will have plenty of good opportunities. Others will face a choice: Take a job with low pay — or none at all.

Seattle Times

Labor Day films, facts and more

Gainesville Sun

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Department of Labor launches new website to help unemployed Americans

Huffington Post

Obama to unveil $50B building plan

President Barack Obama will propose a national infrastructure plan as part of a series of measures to boost jobs and spur the economy ahead of the congressional midterm elections.

Bloomberg

Obama to back infrastructure money

YouTube

Employees pay more and get less from medical coverage

Workers are paying 14 percent more for their employer-sponsored plans than they did last year as a bigger chunk of health care costs shifted from employers to employees, according to a new survey.

ABC News

NATION

Anti-Islam rhetoric heats up ahead of 9/11

A Christian pastor is scheduled to hold the second service in a series bashing the planned Muslim community center in downtown New York City ahead of the ninth anniversary of 9/11.

ABC News

Americans in their 50s hardest hit

Their 401(k)s have been cut down. Their home equity has evaporated just as their kids' college bills come due. Fifty-somethings who get laid off are stuck in jobless limbo longer than any other group.

San Jose Mercury News

Federal health insurance changes to start soon

Star Tribune

Lawmakers to revisit Bush tax cuts

After George W. Bush was sworn into office, he addressed Congress, urging lawmakers to act swiftly on his signature campaign promise: $1.6 trillion in tax cuts.

NPR

POLITICS

Obama to ask Congress to pass $100 billion research tax credit

President Barack Obama, focusing on ways to spur economic growth, will urge Congress to extend and expand a research and development tax credit for businesses.

Bloomberg

Unions struggle to combat lopsided election spending

Every election cycle, business outspends labor. And those numbers could become even more lopsided. It's not clear how much corporate and union money is going into politics this fall.

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Privacy concerns grow with RFID tags

RFID tags — miniature chips that use radio waves to exchange data with reading devices — have been around since World War II, but the industry believes the technology's time is now.

San Francisco Chronicle

RFID works better in building ducts

Reuters

Apple ramps up iPad production

Manufacturing plants have doubled iPad production since its launch, and Apple wants to push volume during the holiday season.

PC World

iPad effect brings imitators

ABC News

SPORTS

Stewart snaps winless string, speeds to Atlanta victory

A 31-race streak without a win came to an end on a slippery, treacherous Atlanta Motor Speedway surface as Tony Stewart took lead in the Emory Healthcare 500 in an unpredictable late-race sprint.

Alabama Local News

Usain Bolt says he'll try soccer

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt says he'll attempt to play professional soccer once he brings his track and field career to an end.

ESPN

Stosur wins latest-ending US Open women's match

Sam Stosur won the latest-finishing women's match in U.S. Open history, erasing four match points and coming back to beat 2004 runner-up Elena Dementieva.

York Daily Record

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Warhol’s pivotal years

A major new exhibition of works by Andy Warhol focuses on a four-year period pivotal to his development as an artist.

BBC

Backyard volunteers helping fireflies

The yellow-green streaks of fireflies that bring a magical air to summer nights, and often end up in jars in children's bedrooms may be flickering out as suburban sprawl encroaches on their habitats.

CBS News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Douglas County congregation dedicates specially commissioned Torah

It is brand new and unused, yet ancient and eternal — this Torah is the bond between Moses at Mount Sinai and the shiny new suburbs of south metro Denver.

Denver Post

Why 'Islamophobia' is less thinly veiled in Europe than America

It is Europe, not the U.S., where the West and Islam exist in closest proximity. Mosques, once an urban phenomenon, are found in far corners of the Europe.

Christian Science Monitor

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Islam in Europe

MSNBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Hard, changing times for workers

Star Tribune

Column (James Duran):

Proposition 23 will save businesses from environmental burdens

San Jose Mercury News

Blog (C. Vanessa White):

Authentically black and truly Catholic

(CNN)

Belief

Blog (Dr. Jim Taylor):

Should bad parenting be a crime?

(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

City Brights

Editorial:

Fix Social Security now

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Michael Arrington):

Blogging and mass psychomanipulation

TechCrunch

Column (Serene Jones):

Would Oklahoma City have opposed Okla21?

USA TODAY

Blog (Bill Bonner):

Economy stuck? Print money watch out

The Daily Reckoning

(Christian Science Monitor)

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GOOD NEWS

Camp for Alzheimer's patients about strengths, not losses

Camp for Caring brings together 18 to 20 people who have dementia for a refreshing, engaging weekend of music, dance, reminiscing and other activities that emphasize strengths instead of losses.

NPR

Help for hungry in the Hamptons

When you think of the Hamptons, you don't usually think of food pantries or feeding the hungry. Retired Wall Street executive John Malafronte does.

CNN

WORLD

Suicide attack on Pakistan police

Nineteen people died when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden truck into a police station in northwest Pakistan.

BBC

Up to 100 feared buried in landslides