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President Bush, accompanied by Budget Director Jim Nussle, signs an executive order protecting American taxpayers from government spending on earmarks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Lawrence Jackson / AP)

Edwards to withdraw from Democratic presidential race

Bloomberg

Giuliani sees presidential hopes unravel in Florida

canada.com

John McCain, Hillary Clinton win Florida primaries

MarketWatch

Gandhi's ashes scattered by family on 60th anniversary of his death

Mahatma Gandhi’s great-granddaughter scattered an urn containing some of his ashes into the Arabian Sea, hoping to lay his spirit to rest and to heal a family rift on the 60th anniversary of his assassination.

Times Online

The 60th anniversary of Gandhi's death

Guardian

Fed rate cut: What does it mean for you?

The Federal Reserve is expected to once again cut a key interest rate, extending dramatic cuts over the last six months.

ABC News

Asia shares ease pre-Fed

Reuters

Afghan parliament backs blasphemy death of journalism student

The upper house of the Afghan parliament has supported a death sentence issued against a 23-year-old journalism student for blasphemy.

BBC

Children try to make a living on Afghan streets

NPR

Mukasey refuses to judge waterboarding

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee accused Attorney General Michael Mukasey of ducking questions on whether waterboarding is torture.

AOL News

Pakistani Taliban warlord arises as terrorist leader

The shadowy new terrorist leader who's being blamed for the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto embodies a growing threat to the U.S.-backed Pakistani government.

McClatchy Newspapers

NATION

Winds, bitter cold put US in deep freeze

Severe thunderstorms, tornadoes and fierce winds sliced through the Midwest, leaving behind bitterly cold air and blizzards in the northern Plains.

CBS News

Brutal cold

The Weather Channel

No crime found in tiger case

Thirty-five days after declaring the San Francisco Zoo a crime scene, police suspended their investigation of the Christmas Day tiger mauling that left a 17-year-old dead and two friends injured.

San Jose Mercury News

Army blocks disability paperwork aid

Army officials in upstate New York instructed representatives from the Department of Veterans Affairs not to help disabled soldiers at Fort Drum Army base with their military disability paperwork.

NPR

POLITICS

House, Senate pass extension of surveillance law

Congress passed a 15-day extension of a temporary surveillance law set to expire, buying itself more time to come up with a permanent fix for the measure.

CNN

Single women coming out to vote

Unmarried women make up nearly a quarter of the electorate. When they do participate, their vote is overwhelmingly Democratic and they are coming out in greater numbers than ever before.

Real Clear Politics

Obama generates buzz at American University

Examiner

Breaking down the women's vote

NPR

BUSINESS

Treasury announces borrowing

The Treasury Department said it will sell $22 billion in debt at its quarterly auction. The economic stimulus package is expected to boost this year's deficit by more than $100 billion.

Denver Post

Fed may cut rate below inflation at risk of bubbles

The Federal Reserve may push interest rates below the pace of inflation this year to avert the first simultaneous decline in U.S. household wealth and income since 1974.

Bloomberg

SPORTS

Super Bowl tickets are way over actual price of admission

The parade of visitors to the Super Bowl has barely begun, but the nature of this year's game has already driven ticket prices to unthinkable highs.

USA Today

All-time dumbest Super Bowl questions

Sports Illustrated

Mock draft: the sports xchange

While the final order of the first round hasn't yet been determined, the underclassmen list is set and the Senior Bowl is finished, so this is a first look at how things will shake out in this year's NFL draft.

CBS SportsLine

HEALTH

Study: Young women desire domestic bliss and family over successful career

Home and family are back in fashion among younger working women as the lure of a glittering career appears to be losing its shine.

Daily Mail

Don't be happy, worry

Awash in antidepressants, America is manipulated by Big Pharma and numbed out to basic, and inevitable, human pain -- or so argue critics of our serotonin nation.

Salon.com

Study: Cold drugs send 7,000 US children to emergency rooms

Over-the-counter cough and cold drugs send an estimated 7,000 U.S. children under the age of 12 to emergency rooms every year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.

Reuters

RELIGION

Ban 'hate preachers' says Cameron

British conservative leader David Cameron has called for a ban on "preachers of hate" entering the UK. He has accused Gordon Brown of dithering over Islamist cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi.

BBC

Thomas Monson likely to be new leader of Mormon faith

Tradition dictates that Thomas Monson, a 44-year veteran of the Mormon hierarchy, will become the faith's next president and prophet.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Donor gives $130 million to Bangladesh

An unidentified person has donated $130 million to help rebuild hundreds of schools and storm shelters destroyed by a cyclone along Bangladesh's southwest coast, the government said.

Kansas City Star

Hirst's pill cabinet stars in Sotheby's auction for AIDS relief

Bono, Damien Hirst, Sotheby's and Gagosian Gallery have organized a high-wattage event on Valentine's Day called "The (Red) Auction" to benefit Africa AIDs relief.

Bloomberg

WORLD

An apology for Australia's Aborigines

Australia will issue its first formal apology to Aborigines, the country's indigenous people.

TIME

Damaged cable cuts Internet in Mideast

Internet outages disrupted business and personal usage across a wide swathe of the Middle East after an undersea cable in the Mediterranean was damaged.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Société Générale appoints crisis manager; chairman to stay on

Société Générale's top executive offered his resignation to the bank's board for a second time, but directors declined to vote on the issue, maintaining him in his job for now.

International Herald Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

Future of FutureGen clean coal plant looks dim

Illinois elected officials are vowing to fight all the way to the White House a plan by the U.S. Department of Energy to kill the FutureGen clean coal project that was slated for Mattoon, Ill.

Environment News Service

UN aid chief worried by growing inflation and global warming

Rising food prices and extreme weather are sparking more humanitarian disasters around the world, the United Nations' top official for emergency relief warned.

Environmental News Network

UN aid chief, John Holmes

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Nintendo big with Aussies

With Australians spending over $1.3 billion on video gaming in 2007, it is not surprising that Nintendo, with the Wii, achieved a number of sales records.

iTWire

Searching for the Zen computer desktop

A market is emerging for "zenwares," computer softwares that help us to manage our massively expanding desktops.

Slate

Chameleon colored not to blend in

Chameleons first used color change to make them more noticeable rather than, as is popularly believed, to blend in, a study suggests.

BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

TLC turns 'Miss America' into a hit

A little makevover help from the experts at TLC helped boost the audience for the "Miss America Pageant." An estimated 3.63 million viewers tuned into the telecast, according to Nielsen.

Daily News & Analysis

'Dr. Phil' regrets talking about Spears

Television's "Dr. Phil" McGraw says he regrets talking about Britney Spears' mental health after visiting her in the hospital, but didn't violate the family's trust.

Yahoo! News

Could Britney be committed against her will?

ABC News

EDUCATION

3 charged after freshman's alcohol death

Three fraternity members at Clemson University were charged with alcohol-related misdemeanors after a freshman died of alcohol poisoning during an off-campus party, a prosecutor said.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Nationwide 'teach-in' planned to address climate change

"Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America," involving colleges and universities across the United States, is billed as the largest teach-in in the nation's history.

Christian Science Monitor

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