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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the State Department, with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and special envoys George Mitchell with Richard Holbrooke looking on. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

Clinton takes the reins at State Department

Hillary Rodham Clinton took charge of the State Department, proclaiming the start of a new era of robust U.S. diplomacy to tackle the world's crises and improve America's standing abroad.

MSNBC

Hillary Clinton gets to work

CBS News

New York to get a new Senator

New York Gov. David Paterson said he would announce his choice to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by newly confirmed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Reuters

Kirsten Gillibrand chosen to fill Clinton's Senate seat

PIX News

Microsoft slashing 5,000 jobs

Microsoft Corp. will lay off 5,000 employees, five percent of its work force, in the next 18 months, the first time it laid off workers company-wide.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

CEO Steve Ballmer explains job cuts to employees

Seattle Times

Layoff nation

ABC News

Media frustration spills into briefing

A growing media frustration with Barack Obama’s team spilled into the open at the first White House briefing, with reporters accusing the White House of stifling access to his oath re-do and other events.

Politico

Obama's press secretary holds first briefing

YouTube

Pakistan seizes Saudi Arabian suspect in London terror attacks

Pakistani forces captured a Saudi Arabian suspect — along with six other men — believed to have been involved in the 2005 London terrorist bombings.

International Herald Tribune

July 7 bombing suspect captured in Pakistan

Daily Telegraph

NATION

House panel near passing $275 billion tax cut as part of stimulus

Democrats in charge of the House Ways and Means Committee are poised to approve a $275 billion tax cut as part of the $825 billion economic stimulus bill sought by President Barack Obama.

Bloomberg

With one draft order, President Obama declares end of Guantánamo

"The detention facilities at Guantánamo for individuals covered by this order shall be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than one year from the date of this order," wrote Obama, in his draft order.

Guardian

Gitmo detainees to have cases reviewed

MSNBC

Fire burns NYC hospital

A fire at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan injured at least six firefighters and forced 600 patients to be moved across the sprawling complex.

ABC News

POLITICS

Committee approves Geithner for Treasury position

The Senate Finance Committee cleared the nomination of Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary despite unhappiness over his mistakes in paying his taxes.

MSNBC

Caroline Kennedy drops out of Senate race for Clinton's seat

"I informed Governor Paterson that for personal reasons, I am withdrawing my name from consideration for the United States Senate," Caroline Kennedy said in a released statement.

Newsday

Caroline Kennedy faced 'tax problem' and nanny issue

NY Daily News

Kennedy is said to withdraw Senate bid

YouTube

Obama pledges 'era of openness'

President Obama announced that his administration will roll back the secrecy that ruled during the Bush Administration and implement a new era of government openness and transparency.

Wired

President Obama retakes oath of office

NY Daily News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Is the White House well-wired?

Former Bush staffers disputed a recent story that described Obama's team moving into a building equipped with creaky computers, out-of-date software, no e-mail service and dead phone lines.

FOX News

Winters warmer, spring earlier

Earth's coldest days of the year are getting warmer, and scientists have seen winter temperatures rising at a much faster pace than summer temperatures.

San Francisco Chronicle

HEALTH

Get to the bottom of your sore throat

As a symptom of illness, sore throat rivals fatigue for being both commonplace and a potential sign of catastrophe. In rare cases a sore throat can signal something much more serious.

WebMD

Obesity epidemic imperils health reform

With about two-thirds of American adults overweight, the direct and indirect costs of obesity is $117 billion each year, according to a U.S. surgeon general report.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Presidential race sees rise in student political involvement

The 2008 presidential election helped catapult today's college freshmen to a level of political involvement not seen in decades, a survey suggests.

USA Today

Court: Parents can sue school district over harassment claim

The Supreme Court allowed a girl's parents to sue a Massachusetts school district over a student's alleged sexual harassment.

CNN

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Muslim activists ask Obama for help in fighting extremism

A group of 300 young Muslim activists from 76 countries has asked President Obama to promote policies that can help peacefully curtail religious extremism.

Beliefnet

The role of religion under Obama

After decades of ceding God to the GOP, at least in the public square, Democrats — with President Obama in the lead — are speaking with a fuller religious voice. The watchword? Inclusiveness.

Christian Science Monitor

Obama and religion

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Program donates more than $1.5 million to victims of domestic violence

Verizon Wireless collected a total of 1.13 million old and no-longer-used wireless phones in 2008 through its HopeLine phone recycling and reuse program.

PNN

Saving lives with satellite data

Peter Hall and Christine Edwards, both of British start-up Sci-Tech Systems, came up with a scheme to help save lives using the global navigation satellite system.

HappyNews.com

WORLD

After Gaza war, Israel negotiates with Hamas for a prisoner swap

After battering Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel now hopes to push through a prisoner swap to retrieve a soldier held by the Palestinians since 2006.

Reuters

Rights group puts Gaza death toll at 1,284

CBS News

Death sentences in China milk case

Two men were sentenced to death and the chairwoman of a dairy conglomerate received a life sentence for their roles in the contaminated-milk scandal that killed six children and sickened nearly 300,000.

International Herald Tribune

China's milk scandal

BBC

Hanoi environmental police seize tons of illegal wildlife parts

In their largest-ever seizure of illegally traded wildlife products, Hanoi's Environmental Police have confiscated more than two metric tons of increasingly rare wild animal parts.

Environment News Service

BUSINESS

China's economic growth slows

The world's third-largest economy took a hard hit as China's economic growth slowed to nine percent; its lowest growth rate in seven years.

BBC

China's economy now third biggest

YouTube

Sony forecasts $2.9 billion loss

Sony, the Japanese consumer electronics group, said that it would plunge to a $2.9 billion operating loss in the year to March 2009 as the global downturn and strong yen wreaked havoc on sales.

Financial Times

Heartland has closed security hole

Heartland Payment Systems, the sixth-largest payment processor in the U.S., discovered criminals had placed spying software on its computer network in one of the biggest data breaches on record.

Philadelphia Inquirer

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Sundance was 'sneakily' good

This go-round, the Sundance Film Festival looked a lot like the movies it screened: surprising, quality-filled and not as depressing as some expected.

Hollywood Reporter

Total recall: directors who made a splash at Sundance

Rotten Tomatoes

Oscar voting system deciphered

Nominations for the 81st Academy Awards recognize a lot of hard work and creativity — some of which occurred behind the scenes when Academy voters filled out their nominating ballots.

Variety

Oscar nominations announced

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Scotch whisky goes 'green'

Scotch drinkers who care for the climate will soon relish their tipple knowing it provides clean renewable power in the home of whisky.

Reuters

Life expectancy up, thanks to cleaner air

Steps to curb U.S. air pollution are paying off, helping to dramatically increase average life spans, a new study says.

WebMD

SPORTS

NJIT snaps 51-game losing streak

New Jersey Institute of Technology ended the longest losing streak in Division I men's basketball at 51 games.

Sports Illustrated

Virginia Tech upsets Wake Forest

Malcolm Delaney scored 21 points and Virginia Tech held on to upset top-ranked Wake Forest 78-71 for its second victory over a No. 1 team in three seasons.

ESPN

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