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Accompanied by family members and guests, House members of the 111th Congress are sworn in at the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo by Haraz N. Ghanbari / AP)

Dems look to Obama, retreat on Burris

Senate Democrats retreated from rejecting Roland Burris, yielding to pressure from Pres.-elect Barack Obama and from senators irked that the standoff was putting them in a bad light.

San Francisco Chronicle

Obama: You don't talk down to the American people

CNBC

US budget deficit reaching for $1.2T

The sharp slowdown in the U.S. economy will push the federal budget deficit to more than $1 trillion, says the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

BBC

Same job, less pay

CNNMoney

New attack on Israel opens 2nd battle front in the north

Lebanese militants fired barrages of rockets into northern Israel, striking a nursing home and opening a second front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with its offensive in the Gaza Strip.

ABC News

Lebanese prime minister condemns rocket attacks

International Herald Tribune

Who is behind the Lebanon rockets?

BBC

Israel bombs Gaza into the night

BBC

Negotiations begin over gas dispute

The two top gas executives from Russia and Ukraine held talks in Moscow in the first face-to-face contact since their disagreement choked off supplies to EU countries in bitter winter weather.

Reuters

Europe running out of gas

YouTube

Learning more about levitation

Physics always wants to come out to play. Just when it starts to seem impossibly arcane, it goes goofy on you. Now, the physics magic shop announces yet another wonder: levitation. Really.

TIME

NATION

Most exclusive lunch club ever

Pres.-elect Barack Obama hailed a rare Oval Office gathering of U.S. presidents as an extraordinary event, while Pres. George W. Bush reminded everyone that the office "transcends the individual."

CBS News

Floods threaten Northwest, ice snarls Northeast traffic

Extreme weather hit both coasts, with heavy rainfall, flooding and the threat of avalanches in the Northwest, and snow, ice and heavy rain in the Northeast.

USA Today

POLITICS

Obama names Nancy Killefer chief performance officer

Pres.-elect Barack Obama announced Nancy Killefer as his pick to be chief performance officer.

CNN

Obama offers CNN's Gupta US surgeon general post

President-elect Barack Obama asked neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be U.S. surgeon general.

Reuters

Sanjay Gupta approached for Surgeon General

YouTube

SPORTS

Big 12, SEC continue to dominate the BCS

Florida and Oklahoma will battle for the national championship, but one thing already has been determined: they represent the two most powerful conferences in the country.

ESPN

Celtics can’t stop slide in Charlotte

The backcourt combination of D.J. Augustin and Raymond Felton made the difference as the Bobcats won 114-106 in overtime.

Boston Herald

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Which came first, the galaxies or the black hole at their centers?

Galaxies and giant black holes fit together at their hubs as if they were made for each other. This sounds obvious at first glance, but it gets stranger the more you think about it.

Scientific American

Obama's broadband plan

Companies that build broadband networks in areas with no service could receive 60 percent of their investment back in tax credits. Companies that increase the speed of existing networks could get 40 percent.

BusinessWeek

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Robbers dress like Hasidic Jews in 'Snatch'-inspired diamond heist

Stealing more than a page from the 2001 blockbuster "Snatch," two armed bandits dressed like Hasidic Jews and pulled off a brazen New Year's Eve jewelry heist in the Diamond District.

NY Daily News

Swayze 'may live only 2 years'

Speaking in his first U.S. TV interview since being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, actor Patrick Swayze said he may survive only two years.

BBC

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Bishop's new film focuses on love, family and marriage

"Not Easily Broken," the latest faith-based feature film from Bishop T.D. Jakes, touches upon themes of marriage, family and romance. But it's not a "chick flick."

San Jose Mercury News

Police raid New Orleans church

Police cleared out two New Orleans Catholic churches occupied by former parishioners opposed to the archdiocese's decision to close them.

Examiner

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column:

Why do we love images of brutal misery?

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Joe Conason):

Hypocrisy from the party of pork

New York Observer

Column (Matthew Dallek):

History unlikely to be kind to Bush

Politico

Column (John Lingan):

Our legal immigrants deserve better

Splice

Column (Joan Walsh):

How far should Obama go right?

Salon.com

Editorial:

Putin, pipe down on Ukraine

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

Keep race out of it

Chicago Sun-Times

Editorial:

A mother captures evil of Hamas

NY Daily News

Blog (Eve Fairbank):

The Democratic scandals don't matter (yet)

New Republic

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GOOD NEWS

Fort Worth couple adopts 9 children

John and Marie Ornelas are a Fort Worth, Texas, police husband-wife team who were both school liaison officers.

HappyNews.com

Kevin Sharp plays Make-A-Wish concert

Platinum-award winning country music artist Kevin Sharp plays a benefit concert for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Penn Live

WORLD

Pakistan acknowledges Mumbai link for the 1st time

Pakistan's government acknowledged that there is a connection between November's attacks in Mumbai, India, and elements inside Pakistan.

MSNBC

Pakistan agency had hand in attack

YouTube

Senegal court jails 9 gay men

Nine gay men in Senegal were jailed for "indecent conduct and unnatural acts."

BBC

BUSINESS

Buyers rejoice: Manhattan home prices finally fall

It took war, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and the collapse of some of New York's famed investment banks, but Manhattan apartment prices are finally falling.

Reuters

New stimulus aside, Obama vows future budget restraint

To a public wary of government spending, Pres-elect Barack Obama promises long-term fiscal discipline after the massive economic stimulus package.

International Herald Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

World's smallest fuel cell now promises greener gadgets

The world's smallest working fuel cell has been created by U.S. chemical engineers. Future versions of the tiny hydrogen-fueled power pack could replace batteries in portable gadgets.

New Scientist

South Korea announces 'Green New Deal' to create jobs

South Korea said it will invest $38.1 billion over the next four years on environmental projects in a "Green New Deal" to spur slumping economic growth and create nearly a million jobs.

MSNBC

HEALTH

The power of place

Why we are hard-wired to become attached to a particular piece of land — and how these primal tendencies may be playing out in Israeli-Palestinian disputes.

Newsweek

Deep brain stimulation helps those with advanced Parkinson's

A new study finds that deep brain stimulation improves both physical function and quality of life after six months in Parkinson's patients.

HealthDay

EDUCATION

ACLU sues NC school system for barring peace activist

The American Civil Liberties Union sued a rural North Carolina school system for barring a peace activist from talking to high school students about alternatives to joining the military.

USA Today

50-state report card

Amid national financial worries, states remain on the front line pushing hard for school improvement.

Education Week

Photo of the Day

Former Pres. George H. W. Bush poses with Pres.-elect Barack Obama, Pres. George W. Bush and former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite / AP)

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