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Know This:

• Debt Crisis: Obama signs debt bill into law after deal passes Senate; stocks drop, Dow closes below 12,000 despite debt news. Moody’s leaves US credit rating untouched for now, but downgrade still possible; CNN/ORC poll: 77% of Americans think Washington behaved like “spoiled children”; VP Biden: I did not call Tea Party Republicans “terrorists.”

• Congress recesses without solving FAA stalemate, 4,000 employees out of work through Labor Day.

• Former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner arrested in connection with phone hacking scandal; man who threw shaving cream pie at Murdoch jailed for six weeks.

• RIP: Gene McDaniels, successful singer/songwriter, dead at 76.

Read This:

• Today’s Big Read: Islamist insurgent group to blame for Somalia famine.

• Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) compares being associated with Obama to “touching a tar baby,” apologizes.

• Onion News Network writers unionize, call off strike.

• Follow Up: “Promising lead” in D.B. Cooper case points to dead man.

• Shawshank Redemption tree damaged by lightning, sends Mansfield officials scrambling to preserve it.

• Alec Baldwin to host SNL’s 37th season premiere.

• Confirmed: Charlie Sheen’s Two and a Half Men character is dead.

• MTV reality star threatens to sue Entourage, says he’s the real Johnny Bananas.

• Lars Von Trier reacts to Dogville being on Norwegian terrorist’s list of favorite movies: “If it was an inspiration, I’m sorry that I made it.”

• Married Norwegian Lesbian couple saved 40 kids from massacre.

The Other:

• NewsFeed: What Anders Behring Breivik Can Expect Inside Norway’s Prisons.

• Tea x Time List: 15 Kids Books You Need To Read.

• Above: “Circles of Influence”: a chart of artistic, scientific, and phiosophical debts through time. (via / via.)