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Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left, listens as Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., responds to a question during a Democratic presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato / AP)

After 19 years, Supreme Court to decide on Exxon Valdez case

Nineteen years after an Exxon oil tanker hit a reef and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil in Alaska, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the final lawsuit lingering from the environmental disasters.

McClatchy Newspapers

Exxon Valdez

Anchorage Daily News

Consumer confidence plunges; wholesale prices soar

Consumer confidence plunged in February as Americans worried about less-favorable business conditions and job prospects, a business-backed research group said.

Houston Chronicle

Obama and Clinton clash in debate

Democratic Sens. Obama and Hillary Clinton clashed sharply in a high-stakes one-on-one debate, accusing each other of falsely portraying their stances on health care, trade and other issues.

Reuters

'Equipment failure' cuts power in Florida

A "significant equipment failure" at a substation west of Miami triggered blackouts around southern Florida, affecting 700,000 customers, a Florida Power & Light official said.

CNN

NY Philharmonic plays in North Korea

The New York Philharmonic performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" for North Korea's communist elite — a feat of musical diplomacy aimed at improving ties with the isolated country.

Yahoo! News

A Gershwin offensive in North Korea

TIME

New York Philharmonic performs in North Korea

NPR

NATION

Legal immigrants to US face endless wait

Immigration has been a hot topic of late. But amid the furor over illegal immigrants, the plight of legal migrants caught in a system that is slow, erratic and often unresponsive is largely ignored.

Christian Science Monitor

Probe sought in Marine vehicle delays

The Marine Corps has asked the Pentagon's inspector general to examine allegations that a nearly two-year delay in the fielding of blast-resistant vehicles led to hundreds of combat casualties in Iraq.

ABC News

See an MRAP on the move

CNN

Calif. program aids 'forgotten' homeless

Safe Haven, a residence in Santa Monica, Calif., takes in those who have been on the streets more than a year and have a disability and helps put them in permanent housing.

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Clinton starts 5-point attack on Obama

After struggling for months to dent Sen. Obama's candidacy, the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton is now unleashing what one Clinton aide called a "kitchen sink" fusillade against Obama.

International Herald Tribune

Dodd endorses Obama

The Hill

Campaign 'robocalls' catch Congress' ear

A bipartisan bill, known as the Robocall Privacy Act of 2008, would keep Americans from being flooded with automated political phone calls.

Christian Science Monitor

Nader's candidacy rankles Democrats

Ralph Nader is back, and the consumer advocate says he's no spoiler.

USA Today

BUSINESS

Home price plunge accelerates

The decline in residential real estate accelerated though the end of 2007, and home prices in 20 key markets plunged 9.1 percent for the year, according to a survey.

CNNMoney

States may seek Congress' aid as subprime fallout boosts costs

U.S. governors may ask Congress to help reverse rising municipal debt costs stemming from the subprime mortgage market's collapse, Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire said.

Bloomberg

SPORTS

Yao done for season with stress fracture in left foot

All-Star center Yao Ming is out for the season with a stress fracture in his left foot, a stunning blow to the surging Houston Rockets.

ESPN

Injury spin: Who picks up Yao's slack?

ESPN

Hossa deal may benefit both sides

As disappointing as Sidney Crosby's injury is for the Pittsburgh Penguins, it has allowed the team to appreciate how strong this team will be when Evgeni Malkin and Crosby play on separate lines.

USA Today

HEALTH

Anemia drugs may raise death risk for chemo patients

Drugs designed to treat a common side effect of chemotherapy may actually increase the risk of death, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet.

USA Today

Study finds depression drugs don’t work

Millions of people taking commonly prescribed antidepressants such as Prozac and Seroxat might as well be taking a placebo, according to the first study to include unpublished evidence.

Times Online

What now for the citizens of Prozac nation? A better pill?

Guardian

RELIGION

Women take on the Torah

One woman has decided it was time that women's voices be added in significant form to the Jewish people's ongoing conversation with God.

Christian Science Monitor

Holy row over land in Vietnam

The Vietnamese government is often embroiled in complex disputes over land rights. But one is making the headlines: the government against the country's Catholic Church and Buddhist community.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (H.D.S. Greenway):

The daydream believers' nightmare

International Herald Tribune

Editorial:

Financing family values

International Herald Tribune

Column (Michael Tomasky):

Clinton needs to accentuate the positive

Guardian

Editorial:

Financing family values

International Herald Tribune

Column:

2 decades after oil spill, Alaskans still await 'new start'

USA Today

Editorial:

The end of multiculturalism

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

DNA déjà vu

Houston Chronicle

Editorial:

Child abuse watchdogs

Baltimore Sun

Column (Edward McClelland):

The dude vote

Salon.com

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GOOD NEWS

Boy recovering from facial burns

Youssif happily pulls off his plastic face mask and pats his cheeks, which were once covered by horrific burns.

CNN

Doc helps heal New Orleans, one wound at a time

Imagine putting $1 million into a small business in downtown post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, La. A young doctor did just that.

NPR

WORLD

5.2 quake rattles England

The U.K. was hit by its biggest earthquake since 1984 when a magnitude 5.2 temblor struck in Lincolnshire, eastern England, the British Geological Survey said.

Bloomberg

Bomb kills policemen and a child in eastern Afghanistan

Five policemen and a 3-year-old child were killed in Afghanistan when the vehicle they were traveling in hit a roadside bomb in the eastern province of Khost, close to the border with Pakistan.

Guardian

Afghanistan

Yahoo! News

Kenya peace talks reach impasse

Former U.N. Chief Kofi Annan has said rival parties in Kenya appear unable to resolve their differences, despite weeks of talks between the two sides.

BBC

Special section:

People and places: Kenya

National Geographic

ENVIRONMENT

Fishing appears to degrade Pacific reefs

Researchers who studied a string of Pacific Ocean atolls are painting the first detailed picture of pristine coral reefs and how they can be disrupted by people —particularly, they said, by fishing.

International Herald Tribune

Flood may help revive a river

For 60 hours the Colorado River will reclaim some of its former glory, swelling with floodwaters that will scour and reshape miles of sandy banks on the floor of the Grand Canyon.

Arizona Republic

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

iTunes grows to No. 2 U.S. music retailer

Apple Inc.'s iTunes digital media store edged out Best Buy Co. and Target Corp. to become the second-largest U.S. music retailer, behind Wal-Mart Stores.

Reuters

US astronomers see first magnetic reversal of star other than Sun

Astronomers have found the first evidence of a star changing its magnetic field. The Sun is known to reverse its north and south magnetic poles, but astronomers had never seen another star do it.

iTWire

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Jackson ranch may go up for bid

Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch will be put up for sale at a public auction next month unless the pop star pays the more than $24 million he still owes on the property, according to a court filing.

CNN

New study literally follows consumers

What better way to track people's video consumption than to follow them around all day, making detailed notes about when and how they watch, listen, surf, read, download, text and talk on the phone?

Hollywood Reporter

EDUCATION

'Distrust' of school cohesion law

The requirement for schools in England to promote "community cohesion" is being treated with "a strong element of distrust" in some areas, says a report.

BBC

Teens losing touch with US history

Big Brother. McCarthyism. The patience of Job. Don't count on your typical teenager to nod knowingly the next time you drop a reference to any of these.

USA Today

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