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Transportation Security Administration agents search Tonya Garman's carry-on baggage as she goes through security to board a flight home from George Bush Intercontinental Airport. (Photo by Brett Coomer / Houston Chronicle - AP)

Airport security will focus on 'behavior detection'

The government expects to revisit its rule on the amount of liquids passengers can bring aboard planes, while boosting the number of behavior detection officers at checkpoints across the country.

CNN

Airport program stresses how to de-stress

YouTube

Mortgage aid programs not working

Two government programs designed to help hundreds of thousands of delinquent borrowers avoid foreclosure are having negligible effects, a top Bush administration official acknowledged.

CBS News

Obama chooses Daschle as health secretary

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., accepted President-elect Barack Obama's offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.

MSNBC

Republicans react to Dasche appointment

ABC News

Global deflation risk grows

Global concern about inflation, which was widespread just a few months ago, has given way to worries about a potentially more dangerous problem: deflation.

Christian Science Monitor

US shares plunge to 5-year low

BBC

Special section:

In depth: US downturn

Financial Times

Senate nixes auto bailout

Caught in the standoff are manufacturing firms and auto dealers — and millions of Americans' jobs — after Senate Democrats canceled a showdown vote.

ABC News

Automakers begging for billions

CBS News

NATION

Calif. Supreme Court will hear challenges to gay marriage ban

The California Supreme Court plunged back into the same-sex marriage wars, agreeing to decide the legality of a ballot measure that repealed the right of gay and lesbian couples to wed in California.

San Francisco Chronicle

Nebraska adds 30-day age limit to controversial safe haven law

The Nebraska Senate voted 41 to 6 to scrap the current version of the law, which has no age limitation, and set a strict limit of 30 days old to legally give up a child.

CNN

FBI agent killed serving warrant

An FBI agent was fatally shot while serving a warrant at a home in Indiana Township, about 10 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. The agent’s name was not released.

Boston Herald

POLITICS

The rise and fall of Sen. Ted Stevens

Weary Alaskans ended the 40-year Senate career of Ted Stevens, voting by a thin margin to replace him with Democrat Mark Begich, the mayor of Anchorage.

Anchorage Daily News

Why the Democrats — and Obama — forgave Lieberman

Obama wasn't just acting out of bipartisan good will. Supporting Lieberman's inclusion in the Democratic caucus may have defanged his toughest potential opponent in the Senate Democratic caucus.

TIME

10 picks for Obama's Supreme Court

Salon.com

Bill's concessions may ease path

International Herald Tribune

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

The 100 greatest singers of all time

This summer Rolling Stone asked artists along with journalists and industry insiders to name their favorite singers of the rock era.

Rolling Stone

Hugh Jackman: the sexiest man alive

At 6 feet 2, all scruff and biceps, Hugh Jackman looms large in the epic “Australia,” which he says kept him “dirty 95 percent of the time.”

People

SPORTS

NBA: Iverson and Wallace help Pistons cool off Cavaliers

The Detroit Pistons are starting to show their potential with Allen Iverson in the lineup, beating two of the NBA's best teams in less than a week.

ESPN

NFL fines Jared Allen for hit on Rodgers

Minnesota Vikings defensive end Jared Allen has been fined $25,000 for a recent spate of late hits, but he won't be suspended.

Sporting News

EDUCATION

Community colleges in US spotlight

Long the neglected stepchildren of American higher education, community colleges have come front-and-center in the eyes of students and policymakers.

MSNBC

1-year suspension for teacher who had students vote to oust classmate

The teacher who sparked a national controversy for instructing her students to vote on whether an autistic boy should remain in his kindergarten class was placed on unpaid leave.

Palm Beach Post

ENVIRONMENT

Animal rights video shows turkey abuse

A video released by an animal rights group claims to show horrific abuse of turkeys at West Virginia farms operated by major global poultry grower Aviagen.

Yahoo! News

Activist video alleges turkey abuse

YouTube

Despite the economy, Obama vows to continue pressing green agenda

"My presidency will mark a new chapter in America's leadership on climate change that will strengthen our security and create millions of new jobs."

TIME

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column:

Cornel West on the election of Obama

DemocracyNow

Column (Dick Morris):

Bush's legacy: European socialism

Real Clear Politics

Editorial:

Bailing out a car wreck

New York Post

Column (Dan Gerstein):

Obama and the Big 3

Forbes

Column (Everett Pyatt):

A surge to wipe out pirates of the horn

Real Clear World

Column (David Latt):

Will Dick Cheney pardon himself?

Huffington Post

Column:

Misery loves television

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial:

Let's get this bailout plan straight

International Herald Tribune

Editorial:

Launching Hillary at the world

Economist

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GOOD NEWS

$25 million gift creates center for study of rare diseases

Children's Hospital Boston received a $25 million grant from The Manton Foundation to establish the world's first center for research on orphan diseases.

PNNOnline

Political prisoner, detained in 1973, finally returns home to Chile

A man detained in 1973 during Chile's "dirty war" and declared dead in 1995 showed up in his old hometown very much alive, a Santiago human rights group announced.

CNN

WORLD

Al-Qaeda No. 2 calls Obama dishonorable, calls for attacks on US

Ayman al-Zawahiri, the No. 2 al-Qaeda operative, called President-elect Obama "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" such as Malcolm X.

USA Today

New al-Qaeda tape criticizes Obama

YouTube

Syrian site 'resembled reactor'

A Syrian site bombed by Israel had features resembling those of a nuclear reactor site with "significant" uranium traces, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said.

BBC

UN head fears over Gaza blockade

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert he is deeply concerned about humanitarian conditions in the blockaded Gaza Strip.

BBC

BUSINESS

HP's glad 4th-quarter tidings

Hewlett-Packard gave Wall Street some much needed cheer by revealing that its results for the next quarter will exceed analysts' estimates.

BusinessWeek

NYSE may de-list Fannie Mae stock

The New York Stock Exchange notified Fannie Mae that its stock failed to satisfy price-related requirements, and may lose its listing on the exchange.

CNNMoney

Shelby favors changing automaker management teams

The senior Republican on the Banking Committee said he doesn't believe there will be a turnaround in the auto industry until it revamps manufacturing operations.

Yahoo! Finance

Auto city profile: uncertain future

YouTube

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Star Trek's deflector shield envisioned for Mars mission

In Star Trek, a deflector shield surrounded the Starship Enterprise and radiation bounced off it. Now tests show it's possible to create a real deflector shield that would have the same effect.

Space

Future businesses will battle in robotics

Robotics is still a young industry. Microsoft and others say it resembles the early days of the personal computer industry.

MarketWatch

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Schools try meditation to curb violence

The weekly Buddhist ethics class uses meditation, dancing and singing to instill tolerance and discipline, trying to curb troubling violence in Thai schools.

Christian Science Monitor

Al-Qaida-linked group orders Iraqi Christians to leave or have throats slit

A Christian bishop in Iraq received a letter from an Islamic extremist group, ordering Christians to leave the country “immediately and permanently.”

Catholic News Agency

HEALTH

Fast-food ad ban could cut kids' obesity

Banning fast food advertisements would reduce the number of overweight children ages three to 11 by 18 percent and overweight adolescents ages 12 to 18 by 14 percent, a study indicates.

MSNBC

Risk of lung, other cancers soars for people living with HIV

Twenty-five years ago, an AIDS diagnosis was a death sentence. Now that patients with the AIDS virus live longer, doctors are discovering a new complications.

Baltimore Sun

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