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Disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan says a court has granted him more freedom after years of de facto house arrest. (Photo by B.K.Bangash / AP)

Pakistan nuke proliferator released, 'I damn don't care' what critics think

In Pakistan, Khan is a hero who created the world's only Islamic nuclear state. In 2004, he admitted selling nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya, and has been mostly restricted to his home ever since.

ABC News

TARP oversight report

The federal government handed out hundreds of billions of dollars to troubled financial institutions. So where did the money go? And what assurances are there that the money's not being wasted?

TIME

Snow plunges UK back into chaos

Fresh snowstorms plunged Britain back into chaos after a week when the heaviest snow in nearly 20 years paralyzed the country.

AFP

Senators appear to have a stimulus deal

Bipartisan negotiators appear to have reached a compromise to cut $140 billion from the Senate economic stimulus bill, but the plan needs to clear rank-and-file Democrats before announcing a deal.

Roll Call

Republican senator on stimulus: 'We're close'

CNN

Closing argument: Obama changes tone

Politico

States can't afford to pay jobless benefits

NPR

598,000 jobs lost; US unemployment rate hit 7.6 percent in January

Both manufacturing and service industries were hit hard by job losses in the U.S., reinforcing the picture of an economy contracting at its fastest in decades.

International Herald Tribune

Special section:

In depth: US downturn

Financial Times

Phelps banned from competition for 3 months after marijuana pipe photo

Michael Phelps, who won eight gold medals swimming in the Beijing Olympics, was banned from swimming competition after a photograph surfaced showing Phelps smoking a marijuana pipe.

Bloomberg

USA swimming suspends Phelps for 3 months

Associated Press

NATION

Antarctic patents strain shared science

Fifty years into a treaty demanding freely sharing all scientific findings on Antarctica, governments are trying to end a dispute over a surge in company patents on life in the continent.

MSNBC

Army official: Suicide rate 'terrifying'

One week after the U.S. Army announced record suicide rates among its soldiers last year, the service is worried about a spike in possible suicides in the new year.

CNN

POLITICS

Charges dropped in last open Gitmo trial

The Pentagon's senior judge overseeing trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges against an al-Qaeda suspect in the USS Cole bombing, upholding President Obama's order to freeze military tribunals there.

CBS News

Special section:

Q&A: Closing Guantanamo

BBC

US Rep. Davis seeks to be first black Alabama governor

U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, an early supporter of President Barack Obama, announced his Democratic candidacy for governor in a bid to become the first African-American to win Alabama's top office.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

ENVIRONMENT

Obama team overturns several Bush-era environmental decisions

President Barack Obama put teeth back in America's environmental protection regime, revisiting two widely criticized decisions on car exhaust and mercury emissions.

Guardian

San Francisco looking to convert 'brown grease' into green fuel

"Brown grease" is left over from foods cooked in oil. Officials say we are not taking full advantage of the potential energy in it.

BusinessWeek

The next big biofuel?

TIME

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Movie review: 'Coraline'

Neil Gaiman's children's novel becomes an animated stop-motion fantasy, directed by Henry Selick, that's both creepy and seductively beautiful.

Salon.com

Interview:

director Henry Selick

LA Weekly

Crafting the world of 'Coraline'

Rotten Tomatoes

EDUCATION

Economic downturn causes worries for some private schools

Though not in panic mode, private schools throughout the New Orleans area are taking small steps to cope with the weak economy while bracing for what could be a difficult admissions and financial aid season.

NOLA.com

Obama's stimulus plan hopes to boost assistance from crib to college

President Obama is pushing a different type of first aid for the ailing economy through Congress, one that sees families and their daily worries about child care and education as a key to our economic recovery.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Obama has faith in reshaped office

President Barack Obama, seeking to make God more bipartisan, turned George W. Bush's White House Office of faith-based initiatives into something even an atheist could love.

The Globe and Mail

Church checks land in priest's pocket

Parishioners at St. Walter's Parish in Roselle are, like many good Catholics, a generous lot. So much so that their former priest, Father John Regan, apparently didn't know what to do with all that cash.

MSNBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column:

Spanking the future

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial:

Vatican's tin ear is troubling to many

Chicago Sun-Times

Column:

Why Dean should head the HHS

Newsweek

Editorial:

Obama's faith in faith-based works

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

Shackling immigrants in America

International Herald Tribune

Editorial:

Denying the deniers

NY Daily News

Column:

Obama's friends and foes

Boston Phoenix

Column:

Obama's new map of the world

Esquire

Column:

Democrats: Beware of Michael Steele

Real Clear Politics

Column:

Closing argument: Obama changes tone

Politico

Editorial:

The return of economic nationalism

Economist

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GOOD NEWS

Family doing great 1 year after ‘miracle’ baby helped save mom’s life

Astra Alice Alfreda Follett was named “miracle baby” because if it wasn’t for her, doctors wouldn’t have known her mother Roxanne had a tear in the wall of her heart’s main vessel.

Herald-Tribune

Tot thriving after escaping tornado

A year after a firefighter found him thrown into a field by the tornado that killed his mother, toddler Kyson Stowell is getting ready to celebrate his second birthday.

MSNBC

WORLD

UN halts Gaza aid over 'thefts'

A U.N. relief agency suspends relief imports into Gaza after 10 trucks carrying flour and rice are seized in what Hamas is now saying was a "mistake."

BBC

Big election for Iraqi prime minister's bloc

Preliminary results from Iraq's provincial elections show big wins for the bloc headed by Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.

BBC

Blog:

In election, Iraqis redraw political landsape

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Time for Geithner to show his cards

The Obama administration is about to face its first significant financial test. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will lay out the government's strategy for reviving the failed banking system.

CNNMoney

Toyota widens loss forecast

The global recession crippled Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s largest carmaker, propelling the company to its first operating loss in 71 years.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Privacy group: concerned Google Latitude could track unsuspecting users

A day after Google released Latitude, a new feature that lets users find their friends from a smartphone, a privacy group claims it can endanger user privacy.

Channel Wire

What's the point of being warm-blooded?

If you stopped eating today, you wouldn't survive more than two months. A crocodile, meanwhile, might live for a year or more. Why the difference?

New Scientist

HEALTH

FDA approves drug from genetically engineered animal

The Food and Drug Administration made history as it approved the first drug made with materials from genetically engineered animals, clearing the way for a new class of medical therapies.

Associated Press

Study: Dad's age increases baby's risk of mental illness

A large study suggests that a 40-year-old dad has the same risk of fathering a child with schizophrenia compared to a mother of the same age—and even higher odds of his offspring having autism.

Scientific American

SPORTS

Judge seems set to rule for Bonds

A federal judge indicated she is inclined to exclude significant portions of the government's case against Bonds less than a month before he is scheduled for trial.

ESPN

NFL hopeful of Pro Bowl in Hawaii

"Aloha" means many things in Hawaiian, including farewell and hello. It's a fitting word these days for the Pro Bowl, which will be played in Miami beginning next year, with only a slim chance of returning.

Associated Press

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