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Vice President Joe Biden looks on as President Barack Obama signs a series of executive orders establishing a Middle Class Working Families Task Force in the White House East Room. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

Obama announces new task force

President Barack Obama, reaching out to the working and middle classes while trying to revive the economy, re-announced his Middle Class Task Force headed by Vice President Joe Biden.

CBS News

Energy, economy create balancing act for Obama

CNN

Task force focuses on middle class issues

MSNBC

Zimbabwe rival to enter coalition

Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai announced his party will join a unity government with President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF.

Times Online

Economy: sharpest decline in 26 years

Economic activity shrank 3.8 percent in the last quarter of 2008, according to the U.S. gross domestic product report.

CNNMoney

Obama calls recession a disaster

BBC

US stocks slip into red on economic reports

MarketWatch

Steele to chair RNC as party chooses new direction

Members of the Republican National Committee tapped former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele to lead the party for the next two years. He is the first African-American chosen to head the GOP.

The Hill

More than 600,000 Midwesterners still without power

More than 600,000 homes and businesses were still without power after snow and ice storms left more than 1.5 million customers in the dark from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania.

Reuters

Ice storm blasts the heartland

CNN

NATION

Alaska volcano may blow, scientists say

The Mt. Redoubt volcano 100 miles south- west of Anchorage is rumbling. Geologists warn an eruption may be imminent.

Denver Post

Special section:

Redoubt revisited

CNN

NYC needs sales tax hike, mass cuts says Mayor Bloomberg

New York City sales tax would rise from 8.375 to 8.625 percent under one proposal by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to help get the city through the current budget crisis.

Newsday

POLITICS

Republican Gregg says he’s contender to head commerce

Republican Senator Judd Gregg said he is being considered to lead President Barack Obama’s Commerce Department.

Bloomberg

Michigan GOP boss comes in third

National Republican Party Chairman Mike Duncan gave up his campaign for reelection. "Clearly, the winds of change are blowing at the RNC," Duncan said before a fourth round of balloting.

Detroit News

ENVIRONMENT

Acid oceans 'need urgent action'

The world's marine ecosystems risk severe damage by ocean acidification unless there are dramatic cuts in CO2 emissions, scientists have warned.

BBC

As jungles grow, a new debate rages on rain forests

New "secondary" forests emerge in Latin America, Asia and other tropical regions so fast that the trend set off a debate about whether saving primeval rain forests may be less urgent than once thought.

International Herald Tribune

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Bruce Springsteen talks Super Bowl

Just after his latest album, "Working on a Dream," hit stores and his rousing appearance at the "We Are One" concert, Bruce Springsteen plays the Super Bowl halftime show.

MTV

Super Bowl entertainment

TIME

'Taken' keeps on giving

So many movies are well intended but poorly made that when something like "Taken" comes along, it's almost a joy.

San Francisco Chronicle

HEALTH

Will plastic surgery make you happier?

It certainly works for some. But studies show cosmetic surgery doesn't make you feel better about yourself.

TIME

Earliest bad peanuts found weeks before salmonella outbreak

Weeks before the earliest signs of a national salmonella outbreak traced to peanuts from a Georgia processing plant, peanuts that company exported were contaminated and returned to the U.S.

USA Today

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Survey finds God big in Mississippi, not so much in Vermont

A new Gallup Poll, based on more than 350,000 interviews, finds that Mississippi is where the most people — 85 percent — say yes when asked “Is religion an important part of your daily life?”

Religion News Service

President Obama plans to broaden faith-based office

President Barack Obama plans to appoint Pentecostal pastor Joshua DuBois to direct a revamped office of faith-based initiatives.

International Herald Tribune

Columns And Op-Ed

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Snack tips for Super Bowl Sunday

WebMD

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Sino-American relations strained

Weekly Standard

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On 'ending the culture wars'

Real Clear Politics

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Shelve this stimulus plan

Real Clear Politics

Editorial:

Obama's missing Afghanistan timetable

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Timothy Garton Ash):

What went wrong with the economy?

Globeandmail.com

Column (Christopher de Bellaigue):

Anniversary blues in Iran

Prospect

Column (Claudia Rosett,):

Freedom beats a global retreat

Forbes

Column (George Soros):

The game changer

Financial Times

Column (Jesse Walker):

How to sell a mess

Reason

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GOOD NEWS

Donating a kidney is not bad for your health, research shows

People who donate a kidney live just as long and are just as healthy as those with two kidneys, according to a new study by University of Minnesota researchers.

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Zoloft, Lexapro best new antidepressants, finds study

Pfizer Inc.'s Zoloft and Forest Laboratories Inc.'s Lexapro are the most effective and well-tolerated antidepressants among a group of 12 new drugs.

Guardian

WORLD

Hero's welcome for Turkish leader after Davos walkout

The episode had overtones of a diplomatic incident, ruffling relations between Israel and a Muslim nation playing a key role in Middle East peace efforts.

International Herald Tribune

Iceland to appoint gay woman to PM post

Iceland's Social Affairs Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir expects to be named interim prime minister in a new government before possible early general elections.

Arizona Republic

BUSINESS

ExxonMobil $45.2 billion profit a new record for US companies

Exxon Mobil Corp. reported a 2008 profit of $45.2 billion, breaking its own record for a U.S. company, even as its fourth-quarter earnings fell 33 percent from a year ago.

CBS News

Exxon, Chevron beat Street, stocks rise

Reuters

Wall Street bonuses may go way of dodo

The sacred ritual of Wall Street bonuses may become the industry’s biggest casualty as governments around the world bail out financial institutions.

Bloomberg

For CEOs, thirst for bonuses in their DNA

Reuters

Off-balance economy?

MSNBC

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Feds foil alleged plot to destroy data

The Justice Department says it foiled a plot by a fired Fannie Mae contract worker in Maryland to destroy all the data on the mortgage giant's 4,000 computer servers.

Forbes

Eccentric exoplanet gets hot flashes

A distant Jupiter-like planet on an eccentric orbit swings so close to its parent star that its temperature spikes by about 1,260 degrees Fahrenheit in only six hours, a new study reports.

National Geographic

EDUCATION

The real winner of 100-0 basketball game is sportsmanship

With one Texas high school’s victory over another so severe, the reaction has been too, calling into play questions of fairness, ethics and even gender bias.

Education Week

Court says California private school can expel lesbians

A private religious high school can expel students it believes are lesbians because the school isn't covered by California civil rights laws, a state appeals court ruled.

San Francisco Chronicle

SPORTS

Nadal tops Verdasco in Australian Open

Rafael Nadal outlasted Fernando Verdasco in a five-set semifinal at the Australian Open to set up a dream final with Roger Federer in the first Grand Slam of 2009.

Christian Science Monitor

Nadal escapes Verdasco

ESPN

Super Bowl ads: Get out the 3-D glasses

Beer? Check. Chicken wings? Check. 3D glasses? Check. Is everyone ready for Super Bowl Sunday?

TIME

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