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Bush asks Congress for world food aid

President Bush called on Congress to approve $770 million to help alleviate dramatically escalating food prices that threaten widespread hunger and increasing social unrest around the world.

CBS News

As world grasps for rice, Cambodia's success story

Christian Science Monitor

Torch cheered through Hong Kong

Thousands of people turned out to watch the Olympic torch parade in Hong Kong, in a largely trouble-free first stop on the flame's journey through China.

BBC

Social reforms in Cuba only extend so far

Raul Castro has been liberalizing the economy, but what about the political system?

CBS News

McCain says no ‘mission accomplished’ in Iraq

MSNBC

Fifth anniversary of “Mission Accomplished”

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog:

McCain's 'mission accomplished' misstep

ABC News

Immigrants march but rallies lose steam

Thousands marched in the United States, but smaller crowds suggested their cause had lost momentum in this election year.

Reuters

Immigration reform protests

CNN

Yemen car bomb kills 6, wounds dozens

Worshippers attacked as they file out of mosque in north, official says

MSNBC

US kills al-Qaida-linked militant

News of an airstrike on Aden Hashi Ayro came on the heels of the State Department's annual report on terrorism, which concluded that Al Qaeda was rebuilding in Pakistan.

Christian Science Monitor

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Q&A: Somali conflict

BBC

NATION

Pentagon encourages troops to get psychiatric counseling

Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged U.S. troops to get psychiatric counseling for wartime mental health problems, saying it is "not going to count against them" later if they apply for jobs.

International Herald Tribune

Police: 'DC madam' kills herself in Fla.

A woman convicted of being the "D.C. Madam" hanged herself, apparently making good on her vow never to go to prison for running a high-end prostitution ring.

San Jose Mercury News

Senate panel blocks funding for Iraq reconstruction projects

A Senate panel has agreed to block the Defense Department from funding some Iraq reconstruction projects and to begin to force Iraq to cover costs of training and equipping security forces.

Star Tribune

POLITICS

Obama, Clinton intensify pursuit of white working class

Christian Science Monitor

Clinton appointee now supports Obama

The Hill

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Where is Ron Paul?

Monsters and Critics

Obama-Wright rift reveals divided loyalties in black church

Sen. Barack Obama's break with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is putting black pastors and their congregations in a difficult situation.

Associated Press

Blog:

Black bloggers: All over the map on Obama vs. Wright

USA Today

BUSINESS

Car buyers lighten up

Reports released by top automakers affirmed the continuing shift in vehicle sales: Record-high gasoline prices are prompting more consumers to switch to smaller cars.

CNNMoney

Exxon profit rises less than estimated

Bloomberg

On Exxon results

Financial Times

Sun Micro turns in loss of $34 million

Sun Microsystems Inc. said it swung to a fiscal third-quarter loss and that it will cut up to 2,500 jobs as the computer software company said challenges in the U.S. market contributed to its slipping sales.

MarketWatch

SPORTS

Tigers, Cabrera club Kennedy, sweep injury-hit Yankees

Miguel Cabrera homered, tripled and drove in three runs, leading the Detroit Tigers past the Yankees 8-4 for their first three-game sweep in New York since 1966.

ESPN

Attendance soars even as economy sags

Major league baseball officials say attendance is 2.6 percent ahead of record-breaking figures from last season, when the 30 teams raked in more than $6 billion.

Yahoo! Sports

HEALTH

Congress gives final approval for genetic discrimination bill

A landmark bill to forbid discrimination against people whose genetic information shows a predisposition to certain illnesses won final U.S. congressional approval.

San Francisco Chronicle

Measles outbreak hits 10 states

The biggest U.S. outbreak of measles since 2001 is unfolding in 10 states, with at least 64 people ranging from infants to the elderly becoming ill — most of them unvaccinated, U.S. health officials said.

Reuters

Measles outbreak

CNN

All in a day's work(out)

Prompted by increasing obesity rates, more companies are trying to instill healthy attitudes and encouraging employees to workout during the workday.

Baltimore Sun

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Shmuel Rosner):

Should we talk to our enemies?

Slate

Column (Walter Shapiro):

The Democrats' God problem

Salon.com

Blog (Marie Cocco):

Mythmaking and democracy

Truthdig

Column:

The decline of the wasp establishment

Vanity Fair

Column (Nicholas Kristof):

Can we be as smart as bats?

International Herald Tribune

Editorial:

America’s newspapers face extinction

Economist

Blog (Cherie Black):

Cervical cancer and Merck = $1 million

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Blog:

Superdelegates and the rules of the game

Huffington Post

Editorial:

Jakes, it’s drug-testing before respect

Boston Herald

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GOOD NEWS

Study shows low carb diet curbs epileptic seizures in children

Giving children with epilepsy a special low carb diet reduces the number of seizures they experience by 75% compared with children on a normal diet, according to a new study.

Guardian

Shipwreck laden with treasure found off coast of Namibia

The ship was found laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins — and cannons to fend off pirates lurking off Africa some five centuries ago.

CNN

WORLD

Deal reached on Pakistan judges

The head of one of Pakistan's ruling coalition partners says a deal has been reached on how to restore judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf.

BBC

Austrian police appeal to former residents of Fritzl house

Austrian police have appealed to about 100 former lodgers in the house where a pensioner kept his daughter prisoner in a dungeon for 24 years in the hope that they can throw light on the crime.

Guardian

Costa Rica plants more trees to become carbon neutral

Costa Rica will plant seven million trees in 2008 to soak up as many greenhouse gas emissions as it produces, in a bid to become the world's first carbon neutral nation, a top official said.

Yahoo! News

Quakes confuse experts, send kids under their desks

Quakes aren't uncommon in Reno, Nev., but analysts just do not know what has caused 344 of them in the area, the strongest of which was magnitude 4.7.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Turning over an old leaf

Only 24 books are produced for every tree felled. But book-swapping websites could provide a solution for the eco-aware reader.

Guardian

Ocean dead zones growing; may be linked to global warming

The world's hypoxic zones — swaths of ocean too oxygen-deprived to support fish and other marine organisms — are rapidly expanding as sea temperatures rise, a new study suggests.

National Geographic

Renewed emphasis on gaps in college success for minorities

Christian Science Monitor

Student loan measure backed by Bush wins approval

Congress gave final approval to legislation designed to ensure that turmoil in the credit markets doesn't cause a shortage in student loans. President George W. Bush plans to sign it into law.

Bloomberg

Reading program failing children

The $6 billion reading program at the center of President Bush's signature education law has failed to make a difference, according to the Department of Education.

Baltimore Sun

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Buried prejudice: the bigot in your brain

Deep within our subconscious, all of us harbor biases that we consciously abhor. And the worst part is: we act on them.

Scientific American

Is the future of TV on the Web?

The future of television is changing before our eyes, as media giants scramble to stake their claims in the wilderness of Internet video, in hopes of grabbing a growing audience of online video viewers.

CNN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Theological center calls for greater black church involvement on Darfur

The Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta has urged black churches to take proactive steps to address the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Beliefnet

Bush marks prayer day amid controversy

President Bush marked the National Day of Prayer, noting Americans' equality across their diverse faiths even as critics charged that the prayer observances have been "hijacked" by evangelicals.

Religion News Service

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