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A convoy of buses loaded with Russians evacuated from Gaza Strip is seen after crossing Allenby Bridge into Jordan. (Photo by Nader Daoud / AP)

Chrysler gets initial $4 billion loan

Chrysler LLC. received an initial $4 billion emergency loan from the U.S. government, two days after the government completed a parallel payout to its larger rival General Motors Corp.

MarketWatch

Auto sales for '08 may have plunged 3M vehicles

USA Today

Dow breaches 9,000 in an upbeat start

Investors scooped up bargains in consumer discretionary and energy sectors. The Dow gained more 200 points, ending above 9,000 for the first time since early November.

CNBC

5 governors seek $1T federal bailout

Five Democratic governors are asking the federal government for a $1 trillion bailout package, including $250 billion for education and $150 billion in middle class tax cuts.

Forbes

Hamas warns against ground attack

The Hamas leader-in-exile, Khaled Meshaal, has warned Israel that it would face a "black destiny" if it launched a ground offensive on Gaza.

BBC

Hamas: We will repel any invasion

ABC News

Israel issues warnings to civilians

MSNBC

Targeting Hamas leaders

CNN

Obama's pre-inaguration priorities

Obama promised change in many areas, but the economy is the voters' top concern, and the president-elect has promised a rescue plan: "With our economy in distress, we cannot hesitate nor can we delay."

CBS News

Obama, Congress leaders to meet Monday on economy

Reuters

Obamas begin move to Washington

MSNBC

Clinton's high wire act in Middle East

Having secured her standing as a friend of Israel, Hillary Clinton must show that she can also be a mediator in her next role as secretary of state, when her first challenge may be the violence in Gaza.

International Herald Tribune

NATION

9 Muslims removed from flight receive apology from AirTran

AirTran Airways apologized to nine Muslims kicked off a New Year's Day flight to Florida after other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark about airplane security.

USA Today

Raise gasoline tax 10 cents, commission urges Congress

Members of the infrastructure financing commission will urge Congress to raise the gas tax by 10 cents a gallon and the diesel tax by 12 cents to 15 cents a gallon.

TIME

POLITICS

Educator Bennett appointed senator

Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet has been chosen to fill the Colorado U.S. Senate seat of Ken Salazar.

Denver Post

Why Senate can't ignore Blago pick

Roland Burris, the former Illinois Attorney General appointed under a cloud by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, intends to show up to be sworn into the U.S. Senate to finish Barack Obama's Senate term.

ABC News

Burris defiant on Senate seat

CBS News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Wikipedia raises $6.2 million, exceeds 2008 fundraising goal

The Wikimedia Foundation announced that with the help of over 125,000 donors from around the world, it has reached its goal of raising over $6 million to sustain Wikipedia.

CNET News

Gaza conflict's shadow 'cyberwar'

In the shadows of the violence, both sides have turned to an arsenal of new media tools, such as YouTube, Twitter and the blogosphere in a sophisticated 21st century propaganda war.

ABC News

HEALTH

Hypothermic storage machine may improve kidney transplantation

A special storage machine could be better than ice for keeping donor kidneys fresh for transplantation, say scientists.

MedPage Today

'Bug' could combat dengue fever

Humans could be protected from dengue fever by infecting the mosquitoes carrying it with a parasite which halves their lifespan, say researchers.

Scientific American

SPORTS

State produces rich crop of QBs

As one era of Texas football history comes to a close with the final Cotton Bowl Classic at Fair Park, the game’s quarterbacks represent the vanguard of a new chapter in football’s development.

Houston Chronicle

Peyton Manning voted NFL's MVP

The Indianapolis Colts quarterback was a landslide winner in balloting by a nationwide panel of 50 sports writers and broadcasters who cover the NFL.

CBS News

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

John Travolta's son dies in the Bahamas

John Travolta's 16-year-old son, Jett, died Friday morning at the family's vacation home in The Bahamas after what the family's lawyer says was a seizure-related incident.

ABC News

Sales of music albums drop as single songs rise

Sales of music albums fell in 2008 as more fans went online to buy single copies of their favorite songs.

San Francisco Chronicle

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Following Jesus is one thing; living like him is quite another

The Rev. Ed Dobson has spent most of his life following Jesus. Only now does he realize how hard it is to live like him.

Religion News Service

Where there's a will, there's a way

It has always been possible to draw up a will that follows Quranic guidelines, but because of the complex formulas, and questions of how it fits into Australian law, it has not been common practice.

Sydney Morning Herald

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column:

The view from Tel Aviv

The Nation

Column:

Assault on Gaza the best hope for peace

Telegraph.co.uk

Column:

In saving the world, Fed beats Treasury

Fortune

Column:

FDR prolonged the Great Depression?

Salon.com

Column:

Who saw the housing bubble coming?

Forbes

Editorial:

Obama's big oil decision

Christian Science Monitor

Column:

The meaning of the 'Oval' Office

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

'Blago' Senate charade

USA Today

Column (David Bromwich):

Rules of engagement, Baghdad to Gaza

Huffington Post

Column (Irwin Stelzer):

Through the fog of economic uncertainty

Weekly Standard

Column:

Zakaria: Writing rules for a new world

Newsweek

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GOOD NEWS

Woman giving kidney to son's coach

Carol Martin, a single mother, decided to donate one of her kidneys to her son's coach, Pat Neal, after he was diagnosed with a chronic kidney disease.

The Leaf Chronicle

Rose Parade float honors man who donated heart

The Tournament of Roses Parade, a New Year's Day tradition, paid tribute to a Charlestown, Mass., man whose tragic death gave new hope to a total stranger.

MSNBC

Skateboarding dogs & Pasadena rose parade float

YouTube

WORLD

Once booming Dubai goes bust

Following wave of speculation, real estate collapses in Middle East's capital of the ultra-rich.

CBS News

Teen boy trained to be suicide bomber feels tricked

Muslim radicals told him once he blew himself up, he wouldn't die because God would save him for being a true Muslim.

CNN

BUSINESS

Investors to buy IndyMac - $13.9 billion

IndyMac has come full circle as the failed lender is being returned by government regulators to the private-sector whence it came, and for what seems to be a pretty price.

Forbes

Some economists find reasons to be optimistic for 2009

In the midst of the deepest recession in the experience of most Americans, many professional forecasters are optimistically heading into the new year declaring that the worst may soon be over.

International Herald Tribune

Bonds in 2009: Waiting by the exits

CNNMoney

ENVIRONMENT

A spurt of earthquake activity raises fears of a Yellowstone cataclysm

A wave of recent earthquakes raises fears with origins 642,000 years ago — when a Yellowstone "supervolcano" erupted with 1,000 times more power than the explosion of Mount St. Helens in 1980.

TIME

Top 10 places already affected by climate change

Scientific American

Study links mammoth extinction, comets

Comets that hit North America 12,900 years ago wiped out the wooly mammoth and early Native American cultures.

USA Today

EDUCATION

Gay high schools provide safe haven

High schools opened to give struggling gay students another option — the chance to attend a public school populated by students like themselves where their differences are welcome.

US News

Using virtual worlds and video games to teach the lessons of reality

Educators suggest schools use video games to simulate real-world situations in the classroom that help students develop critical-thinking skills and better understand science and math.

Scientific American

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