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Wedding couples wary of Friday the 13th

Couples are hesitant to begin their matrimony on Friday the 13th, leading many businesses to offer discounts to ease their superstitions.

ABC News

Blog:

Fear factor: It’s Friday the 13th again

(USA TODAY)

Science Fair

Controversy over US Olympic team’s uniforms being made in China

The U.S. Olympic Committee is defending sponsor Ralph Lauren’s opening ceremony uniforms after it was revealed that American athletes will be wearing clothing manufactured in China.

CNN

Is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid right? Should the Olympic uniforms be burned?

Detroit Free Press

More than 200 killed in Syria massacre

Syrian activists have reported a new massacre in the central Hama province, claiming regime forces killed more than 200 people in shelling and ground attacks.

CBS News

Syria working to secure chemical weapons, say Israeli officials

Guardian

Special section:

The war within Syria

Al Jazeera

Blog:

Who are the Syrian rebels?

(Msnbc.com)

Photo Blog

Disaster declared in 26 states as drought sears US

More than 1,000 counties in 26 states are being named drought natural-disaster areas, the biggest such declaration ever by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Bloomberg

Asian corn demand seen gaining as drought shrivels US crop

BusinessWeek

Sophisticated drug-smuggling tunnels discovered at US-Mexico border

Two drug-smuggling tunnels outfitted with lighting and ventilation systems were discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border, the latest signs that cartels are building sophisticated escape passages.

Houston Chronicle

NATION

Americans living larger as new home sizes defy economy

Even as the U.S. economy struggles to rebound, Americans are living larger — as in larger homes. Slightly more than one in four new homes built last year were larger than 3,000 square feet.

Bloomberg

Eminent domain as foreclosure fix in San Bernardino, Calif.

NPR

Nonprofit turns trash into cash to help nation’s poor

A nonprofit that helps low-income families in Eugene, Ore., recycles mattresses to help bring in money. Its funding model is inspiring other nonprofits to salvage junk to support services for the poor.

NPR

Drawing America’s invisible poor

Guardian

POLITICS

Obama: Romney not necessarily qualified to think about ‘economy as a whole’

Obama has questioned Romney’s economic credentials, saying that though his tenure at Bain Capital does not “disqualify” him, it also will not necessarily translate into job growth for Americans.

CBS News

Special section:

Examine and rate the political ads

USA TODAY

Lines are drawn over opting out of Medicaid expansion plan

Since the Supreme Court ruled that states could opt out of a plan to vastly expand Medicaid under President Obama’s health care law, several Republican governors have vowed to do just that.

New York Times

BUSINESS

JPMorgan earnings solid, but trading loss balloons to $5.8B

In its quarterly profit update two months after JPMorgan Chase blindsided investors with news of a huge loss, the bank posted solid earnings, but said the loss has ballooned from $2 billion to $5.8 billion.

USA TODAY

Jobless claims plunge amid fewer auto plant shutdowns

Automakers are keeping more plants than normal open to fulfill demand and replenish inventories. For that reason, it may take time to determine if the labor market is making any progress.

Bloomberg

Blog:

Is subprime lending fueling the auto surge?

(TIME)

Moneyland

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

German circumcision ban unites religions, worries doctors

A German court’s ban on circumcising baby boys has provoked a rare show of unity between Jews, Muslims and Christians who see it as a threat to religious freedom.

Yahoo! News

Buddhism: glimpses of Mahayana

The Mahayana Buddhist path is a way of expanding, and the Mahayana teacher, who also represents the spiritual friend, acts as the entrance to that journey.

Shambhala Sun

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The Rolling Stones played their 1st gig 50 years ago

“It is quite amazing when you think about it,” Mick Jagger recently told Rolling Stone, reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones first show on July 12th, 1962.

Rolling Stone

Rural English town as Olympic birthplace

A medieval town in rural England is reveling in the Olympics as a long-forgotten story about how this remote community inspired the modern Games receives global recognition.

Reuters

Skills key to UK cities’ survival, history suggests

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

Illinois moves to outlaw debtors’ prisons, and Missouri should follow

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Who wins the stash of corporate gold?

Houston Chronicle

Column (Andrew Leonard):

Thank God for taxes

Salon

Column (Peter Grier):

Was Romney hoping to be booed by NAACP?

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Farhad Manjoo):

How Amazon’s same-day delivery will destroy local retail

Slate

Column (Mark Miller):

How one model state is implementing health care reform

Reuters

Editorial:

It’s better to feed the homeless indoors

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Richard Posner):

Why there are too many patents in America

The Atlantic

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GOOD NEWS

Philadelphia unveils new ‘community-supported art’ project

Farmers know a lot about community-supported agriculture, and so do many consumers. But community-supported art may now be coming into season in Philadelphia as well.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Women exert new, and greater, influence on philanthropy

Women are exerting a greater influence on how philanthropy is done, and wealth controlled by charitably-minded women can be expected to grow.

Reuters

Star ballet dancer born into war grows up to inspire

Michaela DePrince is an African dancer in the world of ballet that sees few leading black females. She was adopted and raised in the U.S. — a country where she believed everyone walked on tippy toes.

Houston Chronicle

WORLD

Explaining Cambodia’s mystery illness