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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, listens with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, left, and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius during the “Friends of Syria” meeting, in Paris. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AP)

Fake bylines reveal hidden costs of the local news

Major newspapers in Chicago, Houston and San Francisco are among those this week that have acknowledged they published dozens of items in print or online that appeared under fake bylines.

NPR

Hundreds of thousands without power brace for more blistering heat

Another day of blistering heat — and for hundreds of thousands, no power. Thermometers once again teeter above the 100-degree mark.

CNN

Record-setting heat wave could break for millions

USA TODAY

Friends of Syria seeking tough action

Representatives from more than 100 countries are holding talks in Paris in a fresh attempt to decide what should be done to end the violence in Syria.

BBC

Syrian general breaks from Assad’s inner circle

Reuters

Blog:

Live from Syria

Al Jazeera

Continued slow growth in the economy with June job creation at 80,000

The U.S. economy created 80,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate held steady at 8.2 percent, reflecting continued slow growth with the presidential election just four months away.

CNBC

Special section:

Unemployment, state by state

CNNMoney

Insurance companies send firefighting crews to Colorado Springs

When firefighter Eric Morris shows up at wildfires across the West, locals battling the flames sometimes look at him and wonder who sent him. The answer is not a public agency. It is an insurance company.

Telegram & Gazette

NATION

Whites-only Christian gathering riles some Alabama neighbors

A whites-only religious conference — which will conclude with a flaming cross — in Lamar County, Ala., has some upset at racist implications while a minister cites his freedom of speech.

Msnbc.com

Zimmerman bond set at $1M

The Florida neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing Trayvon Martin got a second chance when a judge set George Zimmerman’s bond at $1 million.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Stakes for jobs figures rise as voters’ views start to solidify

Political experts say that the recent jobs report, and those immediately following, may outweigh job reports from the previous three years of President Barack Obama’s term.

New York Times

Elections: Michigan voters may decide on energy standard

A group seeking to require that at least 25 percent of the energy produced in Michigan come from renewable sources by 2025 submitted petition signatures to state elections officials.

Detroit Free Press

BUSINESS

Big retailers fighting back against ‘showrooming’

Big box retailers like Best Buy have suffered from “showrooming,” where customers visit a store to find products they want to buy, but purchase them for discounted prices from online retailers.

Msnbc.com

Blog:

Retailers post worst June sales in three years

(Wall Street Journal)

MarketWatch

Robotic legs recreate human gait

Think of it as one giant step for robot-kind. Scientists at the University of Arizona have published research on the development of a two-legged robot designed to mimic human gait patterns.

Forbes

ENVIRONMENT

Aerosols from small volcanic eruptions could cool climate

Researchers say minute droplets of sulfuric acid from relatively small volcanic bursts can be shot into the high atmosphere by weather systems such as monsoons, cooling the climate.

Montreal Gazette

Chance of El Nino developing increases

Discovery News

Arizona wildfire contained, concerns shift to flooding in the region

Hundreds of square miles of Arizona wildlands have been left bare by three recent major fires and are now unprotected as seasonal rainstorms threaten to become the next disaster.

Arizona Republic

Heavy rains flood Arizona, frustrate residents

USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The dark side of daily Groupon deals

Groupon and Living Social rely heavily on getting businesses to offer their goods and services at deep discounts, but sometimes the flood of extra business causes more problems than it solves.

NPR

The nearly perfect counterfeit coin

Counterfeiting techniques have become so advanced that even the most sophisticated numismatists cannot detect fakes, leaving only electron microscopy and other advanced techniques to reveal frauds.

The Atlantic

EDUCATION

Obama frees more than half of states on ‘No Child Left Behind’ rules

Obama freed more than half of U.S. states from No Child Left Behind education-testing rules after they pledged to turn around low-performing schools.

Bloomberg

Crisis hits City College of San Francisco

The worst off among the state’s budget-battered colleges might look like the accreditation crisis that is engulfing the City College of San Francisco.

Inside Higher Ed

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

Detroit Public Schools contract reflects tough new reality

Detroit News

Editorial:

Homeless camps are bad for all

Denver Post

Column (David Sirota):

Why the US citizenship test is painfully out of touch

Salon

Blog (Hanna Rosin):

Can a child successfully have three parents?

(Slate)

XX Factor

Column (Ericka Christakis):

Modern parenting: Do we really need to reinvent the wheel?

TIME

Editorial:

Obamacare is loaded with big tax increases in plan

Washington Examiner

Column (Dream Hampton):

Thanks, Frank Ocean

Life and Times

Column (Alan Cochrane):

A military based on political common sense

Telegraph.co.uk

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GOOD NEWS

11-year-old making care packages for uncle, fellow soldiers In Afghanistan

A young girl is busy making care packages for soldiers, with one special person putting her on a mission to provide the support.

CBS News

Boxing connects Israeli Arabs and Jews

Jews and Arabs have been fighting each other for decades, so boxing may seem like a strange way to build peace between the two — but that is what the Israel Boxing Association aims to do.

Las Vegas Sun

William Penn Foundation giving $15M to public, private and charter schools

In a signal of its growing reach into the city’s education sector, the William Penn Foundation will give $15 million to fund innovations in Philadelphia public, private and charter schools.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

European Central Bank rates drop to record lows