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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta speaks during a meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker and head of NATO coalition forces in Afghanistan Gen. John Allen to assess the progress in the war, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Jim Watson / AP)

Video gets the Instagram treatment

The app that allowed flawless picture sharing earned its founders $1B from Facebook. Will the sites that aim to do the same, but with video, cash in too?

The Independent

3 ways colleges use Instagram

U.S. News & World Report

Americans cling to jobs as US workforce dynamism fades

The deepest economic slump since the Great Depression has left its mark on both job seekers and job creators, making them more wary about taking risks in a slowly recovering labor market.

Bloomberg

Fed’s Yellen sees possibility of more stimulus

CNNMoney

Panetta visits Afghanistan amid violence

Leon E. Panetta, U.S. defense secretary, arrived in Afghanistan after the deadliest day for civilians this year and amid controversy over a NATO airstrike in which 18 people were killed.

New York Times

Panetta: patience with Pakistan ‘reaching limits’

Houston Chronicle

Special section:

Panetta in Afghanistan

CBS News

Wisconsin a big setback to unions in benefits battles

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s recall election victory and votes to curb pensions in two California cities are set to embolden political leaders across the U.S. to take on labor unions.

Reuters

Labor’s loss seen tempting other governors

BusinessWeek

Special section:

US 2012

Al Jazeera

Gay-marriage in Wash. may go to public vote

Washington state’s law allowing same-sex marriage was blocked from taking effect when opponents submitted more than 230,000 signatures calling for a referendum on the measure.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

NATION

Starving horses polarize Westerners

Emaciated horses barely clinging to life at a New Mexico auction house, their last stop before a lengthy trip to a slaughterhouse south of the border, give credence to grim tales from around the Southwest.

Detroit News

Americans put energy ahead of vacations

As summer beckons, it seems Americans are thinking more about the stifling cost of energy and saving funds than about making tracks to the beach.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Donut cops sniff out frauds in restaurants

Across America’s thousands of franchise restaurants are more than 300,000 undercover food cops, pulling apart donuts, inspecting sub sandwiches, and checking burger patties for authenticity.

ABC News

POLITICS

California primary: 1st step toward recasting American politics?

California held its first open, nonpartisan primary. Low turnout notwithstanding, the results suggest that the new format boosted moderate candidates.

Christian Science Monitor

Congressional intelligence committees to investigate leaks

President Obama’s administration faced pressure over news reports detailing sensitive national security operations, as Congress’s intelligence committees will investigate whether secrets were leaked.

ABC News

BUSINESS

Google: do not be evil, do not pay tax

Double Irish is not a drink order. A Dutch Sandwich is not a snack. These are the names of strategies that keep Google’s tax liabilities minimal as it shifts vast sums of money around the world.

The Global Mail

Home rentals: the new American dream?

The foreclosure crisis will drive 3 million former homeowners to rent single-family homes between 2010 and 2015. The single-family rental was the fastest-growing part of the rental market from 2005 to 2011.

USA TODAY

Blog:

Home prices stall, breaking 3-month streak

Huffington Post

ENVIRONMENT

Is Earth reaching a tipping point?

Could human activity push Earth’s biological systems to a planetwide tipping point, causing changes as radical as the Ice Age’s end — but with less pleasant results?

Wired

A scientist’s quest to defeat dengue fever

Scott O’Neill’s cure for dengue fever was to infect mosquitoes with a naturally-occurring bacteria called Wolbachia that blocks mosquitoes from carrying the dengue virus.

NPR

EDUCATION

More accountable accreditation

Accreditation has long been a topic likelier to make eyelids droop than to inflame passion. But after years of quiet neglect, it was thrust into the spotlight during the second Bush administration.

Inside Higher Ed

‘Principal-level’ cheating on CSAP at Denver school, probe finds

Cheating on standardized tests was deliberate, spanned all grades that were tested and was likely carried out by administrators at Beach Court Elementary in west Denver, investigators reported.

Denver Post

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Ray Bradbury: passionate writer with the gifts of a painter

Ray Bradbury wrote his more than 500 stories, novels, plays and poems on a typewriter, creating imagery that helped bring sci-fi and fantasy into the mainstream of American popular culture.

Christian Science Monitor

Ray Bradbury’s visions

Discovery News

A look back at the life of author Ray Bradbury

BBC

Hero and horror: Stalin rebranded

What do you do when your city’s most famous son is the notorious Soviet dictator? At a museum in the Georgian city of Gori, they are trying to present a realistic, post-Soviet picture.

The Independent

The odds on gambling

Gamblers and statisticians share a love of odds, though the stakes on the table could not be more different between the two.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Dr. George Abraham):

A healthy third-party approval

Telegram & Gazette

Column (Stan Duncan):

My mother’s neighbors

Huffington Post

Column (Simon Doonan):

My narcissism wears Spanx daily

Slate

Blog (Michael Wallace):

NBA’s Chris Bosh could start game 6

ESPN

Column (Mattea Kramer):

How to close the budget deficit without raising tax rates

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Angela Watercutter):

Ray Bradbury: the late author’s biggest ideas

Wired

Column (Jennifer Stefano):

What really went down in Wisconsin

FOX News

Editorial:

Denver’s police monitor needs free rein

Denver Post

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GOOD NEWS

Heat-absorbing stoves curb fuel use

In Malawi, a new kind of cooking stove made from local materials requires much less fuel than traditional stoves, cutting the need for firewood while benefiting families and the environment.

Christian Science Monitor

Injury turns man into musical savant

Less than six years ago, Derek Amato had only mediocre guitar skills. But after suffering a concussion — and never having a lesson — he became a piano-playing sensation.

Msnbc.com

Gaming software exec turns to niceness

Jon Moses says his latest venture, WeChi.com, could spark the emotions of gamers, since users are rewarded virtual “coins” for sending positive messages to users in need.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WORLD

Superbug turns sexual infection gonorrhea into a global threat