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President Barack Obama calls on Congress to pass a temporary, one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people who make less than $250,000 a year, during a statement in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (Photo by Susan Walsh / AP)

Cities leading charge on climate action

While many national governments struggle to take comprehensive action on climate change, major cities around the globe are acting on their own.

Grist

Interview:

‘New McCarthyism’ described by climate scientist Michael Mann

ABC News

Baby boomers put their necks on the line

In today’s competitive workplace environment where 60-year-old men vie with those half their age, escalating numbers of men want the younger look that comes with a chiseled neckline.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Obama to call for Bush tax cut extensions

President Barack Obama is expected to call on Congress to pass a one-year extension on the Bush-era tax cuts for people earning less than $250,000 a year.

CNN

US lawmakers signal deep “fiscal cliff” deadlock

Reuters

Special section:

Elections 2012

Guardian

Mysterious illness in Cambodian children

A mysterious deadly disease striking children in Cambodia may be a virulent strain of a common childhood illness called hand, foot and mouth disease.

CBS News

Cambodia’s outbreak linked to hand, foot, mouth virus

Bloomberg

Egypt court challenges Morsi’s reopening of parliament

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi‘s order to reconvene parliament has been rejected by the highest court, which says its ruling that led to the assembly’s dissolution is binding.

BBC

NATION

Jail shift makes waves in California

Under a court order to ease overcrowding in state prisons, California moved to divert thousands of lower-level offenders to local jails. Now the fallout from that shift is reverberating through the state.

Wall Street Journal

Corn growers farming in hell

The worst U.S. drought since Reagan was president is withering the world’s largest corn crop. The speed of the damage may spur the government to make a record cut in July estimate for domestic inventories.

BusinessWeek

States restrict welfare purchases

More states are considering laws that prohibit people who get welfare from spending on liquor, cigarettes, strip clubs, gambling and guns — laws that even supporters say are difficult to enforce.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Republicans attack Obama after jobs slow

Republicans attacked President Barack Obama’s handling of the U.S. economy, saying recent reports suggest it’s weakening, while Democratic defenders urged patience.

BusinessWeek

GOP-appointed judge hears Mississippi abortion law case

Although restricting abortion has long been a conservative goal in Mississippi, the Republican-appointed judge is considering the constitutionality of the state’s stringent new abortion law.

Huffington Post

BUSINESS

College grads find retail a (meager) route to job market

Overeducated, underemployed and disgruntled, many grads saddled by debt are waiting — often in their parents’ homes — for a chance to break into a career in the field they studied.

BusinessWeek

Thousands at risk of losing Internet access due to malware

More than a quarter of a million PC users could find themselves cut off from the Internet as the FBI takes down a safety net protecting them from a specific piece of malicious software.

Desert Sun

Blog:

No, the Internet is not shutting down

(TIME)

Techland

HEALTH

What happens when we sunburn: Red is RNA damage to skin cells

The biological mechanism of sunburn, the reddish, painful, protective immune response from ultraviolet radiation is a consequence of RNA damage to skin cells.

ScienceDaily

An ‘MRI’ of sun’s interior plasma motions created

Times of India

As mine protections fail, cases of miners’ black lung surge

Black lung experts and mine safety advocates have warned of the resurgence of the disease. New reports reveal the extent to which regulators and the mining industry failed to protect coal miners.

NPR

States fight ‘tourists’ trafficking meds

Prescription tourists thwart local efforts to combat the illegal sale of painkillers and to treat addicts by bringing huge volumes of drugs in from outside.

Denver Post

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Church of England delays vote on inclusion of female bishops

The Church of England delayed a vote allowing women bishops after reformers rejected a last-minute concession to conservatives keen to keep the posts reserved for men only.

Reuters

Jesus saves money, Moses lends it, Muhammad invests

While orthodox finance is in a mess, Islamic finance is growing strong. Maybe a little financial Shariah law would help everybody? Before you cast judgment, let us explain about God and mammon.

The Global Mail

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Hoarding: living with the need for stuff

If someone you know has collected so much stuff that they can’t properly use rooms in their home, they might be hoarding.

Globeandmail.com

Is reality TV still not diverse enough?

Reality TV stars at this year’s Essence gathering in New Orleans debate the role of their medium in shaping our views about racial and economic diversity.

TIME

Oscar-winning actor Ernest Borgnine dead at 95 in LA

Actor Ernest Borgnine, whose bulldog appearance made him a natural for tough-guy roles in films like “The Wild Bunch,” died at the age of 95.

Reuters

Ernest Borgnine: Life in pictures

USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (David Corbett):

Where dreams are born

Sacramento Bee

Column (Mark Gongloff):

Obama’s tax cut gambit: 7 and a half things to know

Huffington Post

Column (Susan P. Crawford):

Is Google a monopoly? Wrong question

Bloomberg

Blog (Alva Noë):

The problem with sports on TV

NPR

Editorial:

A clear ruling on gas emissions

Denver Post

Column (Janet Daley):

The law cannot curb greedy bankers, but morals might

Telegraph.co.uk

Column (Mitch Albom):

With Ryan Suter on Red Wings or not, Detroit is still Hockeytown

Detroit Free Press

Column (Ross Gittins):

It’s stupid economists

Sydney Morning Herald

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GOOD NEWS

A 100 wedding dress salute

For the fifth year in a row, a bridal salon has vowed to make wedding-dress dreams come true for military brides-to-be. The shop is giving 100 couples gowns and tuxedo rentals to say thank you.

Star Tribune

Summer jobs program encourages businesses to Hire One Youth

Amber Barner has had a summer job through the city’s YouthWorks program seven times, every year since she was 14. But this time is different. This time her job will outlast the summer.

Baltimore Sun

Seeds of aid bear fruit in Kenya

There is still much to be done in Kenya, and thousands died before aid could reach them. But now, 12 months on from the peak of the region’s worst drought for 60 years, much has been achieved.

The Independent

WORLD

UN envoy Annan visits Syria to present transition plan