DailySource: Quality News from Around the Internet

Dear reader,

We're excited to be coming out with a new content focus and new design in the near future that is similar to but different than our current focus. We are pausing publishing so we can create it. We’ll launch the revised site near the start of January, and look forward to seeing you then. We’ll email all registered users, Facebook fans and Twitter followers when we launch. Registering only takes a minute. Click here to register, follow us on Twitter, or friend us on Facebook.

— The DailySource Team

Other Topics

DailySource

Current problems in the media

The growing impact of the Internet

Benefits the site provides

Why we have higher quality news

How we choose articles

My DailySource

Sign-in

Free registration

Make us your homepage

Media Resources

Media organizations list

Contact media sources

Writing a letter to the editor

Media quotes

Other Resources

Career and jobs

Call, email or fax your elected officials

Nonprofit Organizations

Over 1.2 million donation options

27,000 volunteer openings

Nonprofit resources

DailySource
is a nonprofit
news site.
Please
Donate

To donate by check or credit card, click the graphic above.

We are a 501(c)3 charity so donations are tax-deductible.

To find all the ways you can help, click here.

Shop and Donate

Use the search box below, and Amazon will donate 4-7 percent of any purchase you make to us.

Other Items

Website monitoring
for DailySource
provided for free by
WatchMouse

Click here
to follow our news
updates on Twitter

Subscribe to our
feeds via

President Barack Obama makes comments in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, following a meeting with Congressional financial committee leaders and his economic team. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP)

Holder: Guantanamo 'well-run' but closing

The Guantanamo prison is "well-run now," with no signs of inmate mistreatment, but the Obama administration remains determined to close it, Attorney General Eric Holder said after a visit.

Reuters

McCain: US losing war in Afghanistan

Sen. John McCain warned that the U.S. is losing the war in Afghanistan. He believes an additional allied military and civilian surge is necessary to prevent it from becoming an al-Qaida safe haven.

CNN

Two-thirds of Americans support Afghanistan troop surge

ABC News

Obama sending massive 1st budget to Congress

President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3 trillion-plus budget, a spending blueprint that will project astronomical deficits reflecting the deep recession and a severe financial crisis.

Examiner

Obama's budget: back to brass tacks

CNNMoney

Obama's $634B, 10-year health-care plan

Politico

Feds bust 750 in Mexico cartel

Federal agents have rounded up more than 750 suspects in a wide-ranging crackdown on Mexican drug cartels operating inside the United States.

CBS News

US issues Mexico travel warning

MSNBC

Mexico's drug wars

TIME

Q&A: Mexico's drug-fueled violence

BBC

US offers details of bank stress test

The nation's 19 biggest banks were ordered to undergo stress tests to check whether they could hold up if the economy deteriorated further.

International Herald Tribune

The World in Photos .........................................................................
A Tibetan monk stands near performers during a ceremony to mark Tibetan New Year in Beijing. (Photo by Greg Baker / AP)	Workers prepare the field for a spring training game between the D-backs and Rockies in Tucson, Ariz. (Photo by Elaine Thompson / AP)	The Seduzioni Diamonds by Valeria Marini winter 2009/2010 fashion collection is shown in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Alberto Pellaschiar / AP)

NATION

Supreme court rules for Utah city

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a Utah city that has long permitted a Ten Commandments monument in its city park need not accept the Summum church's Seven Aphorisms monument.

USA Today

CIA now giving Obama daily briefing on world economic situation

The daily "economic intelligence brief," which goes to the president and his top advisers, illustrates the CIA's scope in trying to anticipate threats that go beyond terrorism.

San Jose Mercury News

POLITICS

Obama chooses Locke to head up Commerce Department

President Barack Obama introduced former Washington Gov. Gary Locke as his nominee for Commerce secretary, trying a third time to fill the key Cabinet post for a country in recession.

BusinessWeek

Jindal's volcano remark has some fuming

La. Gov. Bobby Jindal, a rising Republican star, questioned why "volcano monitoring" was included in the nearly $800 billion economic stimulus bill the president signed.

CNN

BUSINESS

US existing home sales, prices slump

Sales of previously owned U.S. homes unexpectedly declined in January even as falling prices made them more affordable, signaling that the housing slump is further from a bottom than previously estimated.

Bloomberg

Special section:

How-to: 'produce the note'

Consumer Warning Network

Bad economy? Do what you love

As job security from corporate America fades, some see the economic downturn as an unexpected chance to transform hobbies or youthful fantasies, once-dubbed impractical, into grown-up careers.

CNN

EDUCATION

President Obama: an A+ for education?

During Obama's first formal address to Congress, he emphasized plans to invest in education and asked "every American to commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training."

CNBC

Obama urges passage of Hatch's service bill

Salt Lake Tribune

Deskercise: jazzed and focused at school

Students in Charleston, S.C., don't just write their multiplication tables. They jump them. Some studies suggest that incorporating physical activity into lessons improves student focus and attention.

NPR

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Music (finally) moving beyond the MP3

Finally, after years of watching P2P sharing eat their sales profits, labels have decided to start selling things that people can't already get for free. It's an approach that could help revive album sales.

Wired

Tests using magnets to repel crocodiles

Florida wildlife managers have launched an experiment to see if they can keep crocodiles from returning to residential areas by temporarily taping magnets to their heads to disrupt their "homing" ability.

Reuters

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Washington archbishop takes to YouTube to reach lapsed Catholics

To mark the beginning of Lent, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is launching a $75,000 marketing blitz using YouTube, a blog and advertising to reach lapsed Catholics.

Nola.com

Bus campaign launches bumper stickers

The atheist advert campaign is spreading from buses to cars with the release of a "There's probably no God" bumper sticker.

Daily Telegraph

Rare Shiite protests in Saudi Arabia

Members of Saudi Arabia’s Shiite minority have held protests that included anti-government slogans rarely heard in public, escalating tensions with authorities in Islam’s second holiest city.

Boston Herald

Cool Stuff

The Daily Quote

“It isn't what they say about you; it's what they whisper.”

Errol Flynn

Australian actor

Daily Quote Archives

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Live Chats All times are E.T.

NFL free agents: Mark Maske Feb. 26 at 11 am

Washington Post

Security: Dana Priest Feb. 26 at 12:30 pm

Washington Post

Food: Kim O'Donnel Feb. 26 at 1 pm

Washington Post

'Lost': Jen Chaney Feb. 26 at 3 pm

Washington Post

Site edited by: Rachel Wright, Mark Rittenmeyer, Paul Wertheim, Diana Shaw, Elizabeth Stoycheff, Betse Lyons, Aditi Khemka, Tanya Flowers, Patrick Frierson, Sumi Naidoo, Sarah Alender and Amy Marie Phillips.

GOOD NEWS

Charitable gifts to colleges hit $31B

The nation's colleges and universities set another fundraising record last year, but few expect a repeat in 2009.

USA Today

A new push for grow-your-own veggies

A thousand "growing spaces" will be created throughout England, Wales and Ireland to give local communities the space to grow their own crops.

Positive News

How to create a community garden

5min.com

WORLD

Bangladesh PM threatens mutineers

Bangladesh's prime minister has warned she will take tough action against mutinous border guards unless they surrender their weapons immediately.