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President Barack Obama announces Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his nominee for Health & Human Services Secretary in the White House East room. (Photo by Ron Edmonds / AP)

Court papers: CIA destroyed 92 interrogation tapes

The CIA destroyed 92 videotapes of terror-suspect interrogations, according to a court document filed by the government. The disclosure marks the first time the specific number of tapes was made public.

CNN

Bush scandal resuscitated

Guardian

Soldiers Kill Guinea-Bissau President

Mutinous soldiers in Guinea-Bissau killed President Joao Bernardo Vieira just hours after a bomb blast killed the country's military chief.

Voice of America

Is Colombia's drug trade behind assasinations?

Christian Science Monitor

Sebelius to head Health and Human Services

President Barack Obama nominated Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as Health and Human Services secretary, making her the center of one of America’s most difficult challenges — remaking health care.

McClatchy

Obama's next battle: affordable health care

ABC News

Is big government a positive?

CBS News

Dow finishes below 7,000

A blizzard of selling swept the Dow Jones industrials to its first close below 7,000 in almost 12 years as despair grew that the recession would be longer and more painful than many investors expected.

MSNBC

Summit pledges $5B to rebuild Gaza

International donors pledged more than $5 billion to help rebuild Gaza and regenerate the Palestinian economy, Egypt's foreign minister said.

Al Jazeera

Clinton pledges aid to Palestinians

NPR

World leaders discuss Gaza future

Reuters

NATION

Washington state to allow 'dignity' deaths

Terminally ill patients with less than six months to live will soon be able to ask their doctors to prescribe them lethal medication in Washington state.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Supreme Court to hear DNA testing rights

The Supreme Court will be asked to rule for the first time that the constitutional guarantee of due process of law gives convicts a right to seek test evidence that could show they are innocent.

Baltimore Sun

Prisoners' right to DNA evidence

NPR

POLITICS

Behind open door, an exercise in politics

The burst of entertaining is giving the White House a livelier feel, but Obama’s open-door policy is not just fun and frivolity; it is an exercise in presidential image-making to advance his agenda.

MSNBC

Obama thrives on taking risks

International Herald Tribune

Selling the White House budget

CBS News

Obama’s Pelosi problem

The president has laid out a paradigm-shifting agenda. There will be pushback from the GOP — but less, perhaps, were it not for the House Speaker.

Newsweek

Divided Congress takes up Obama's plans

NPR

EDUCATION

Obama aims high for higher education

Obama's plan to make college more affordable represents a break from President Bush — he focused much of his energy on K-12 education, most notably with his No Child Left Behind law.

USA Today

Bus driver accused of ignoring abuse

An Indiana school bus driver was charged with felony child neglect for allegedly allowing three teenage boys to terrorize female students on his route.

Palm Beach Post

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Obama's budget toes the Bush line on space: Shuttles out, moon mission a go

President Obama's budget throws White House support behind two of the more controversial NASA plans of the Bush era: Retiring the space shuttle in 2010 and returning humans to the moon by 2020.

Scientific American

Researchers welcome science emphasis

Kansas City Star

Chinese probe crashes into moon

A Chinese lunar probe has crashed into the moon in what Beijing officials are calling a controlled collision. China launched the spacecraft in 2007 on a mission to survey the entire surface of the moon.

BBC

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

'Watchmen' jams in Easter eggs

Zack Snyder's "Watchmen" breathlessly captures Alan Moore's pop-culture graphic novel by cramming more eggs into every frame than perhaps any movie before it.

MTV.com

The magic of movies in tough times

Sacramento Bee

Midnight madness

It's hard to imagine pitying someone who just got a glitzy, lucrative, high-profile job. But Jimmy Fallon, who is taking the reins of NBC's "Late Night" talk show, shouldn't be the object of anyone's envy.

Newsweek

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Anti-porn groups target evangelicals

Responding to this increased accessibility and affordability, faith-based organizations offer their own strategies for overcoming porn addictions, targeting evangelicals who consider the images sinful.

Religion News Service

Vatican: number of priests rising slowly

The Vatican says the number of priests worldwide is slowly but steadily rising. Since 2000, the number of priests has gone up by several hundred each year.

Salon.com

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GOOD NEWS

'Eco Hubble' network to bring nature data to public

A network of ecological "satellites" set to monitor environmental change could do for ecology what the Hubble Space Telescope has done for astronomy, researchers say.

National Geographic

Cruise line donates discarded toiletries

Some people feel guilt at hotel checkout time when they see the small bottles of soap and shampoo that will be thrown out when they leave the room. For cruise lines the guilt is all that much greater.

CNN

WORLD

Iran calls for the arrest of Israeli PM

Tehran's top prosecutor said Olmert, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and 12 other Israeli leaders violated international law and committed Gaza war crimes.

CNN

Mexico: the war next door

Two years ago, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon declared war on the country's powerful drug cartels, who have been fighting back hard.

CBS News

Chávez orders army to take over Venezuelan rice mills

President Hugo Chávez ordered the military to seize control of Venezuela's rice mills, in his first major broadside against the private sector since a referendum win.

Times Online

BUSINESS

AIG to get up to $30 billion more after fourth quarter loss

American International Group Inc., posting a record fourth-quarter loss, will get up to $30 billion more in government capital.

Bloomberg

When will confidence in banking return?

Times Online

Terminated: Why the women of Wall Street are disappearing

After the scandals of the 1990s, didn't investment banks put sexist employment practices behind them? Evidently not.

Forbes

ENVIRONMENT

Explorers begin epic Arctic trek

A British team began a grueling trek to the North Pole to discover how quickly Arctic Sea ice is melting. It will be the most detailed survey of its kind, and should be completed in late May.

BBC

Bolivia looks to lithium, electric cars to foster economic revival

Bolivian President Evo Morales believes lithium, the world’s lightest metal, may help turn around his nation, which has roughly half the world’s lithium reserves.

RedOrbit.com

HEALTH

Resistance to flu drug widespread in US

Virtually all cases of the most common strain of flu circulating in the United States now resist the main drug used to treat it, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.

Reuters

Teen pregnancy on the rise

For the first time in more than a dozen years, more American teenagers are putting off their own dreams of college and success to raise families.

ABC News

Chinese e-cigarette is winning sales but faces safety concerns

With its slim white body and glowing amber tip, the e-cigarette can easily pass as a regular cigarette. It even emits what look like curlicues of white smoke.

Star Tribune

SPORTS

The closer role in baseball

The most important quality a closer needs to have is the ability to get opposite handed hitters out. This is the thing that is hardly ever talked about, but is vital to being able to perform as a closer.

U.S.S. Mariner

He bagged Bonds, A-Rod: Worth it?

Jeff Novitzky will swear to tell the truth in U.S. v. Barry Lamar Bonds. He will say that Bonds lied in that same courthouse five years ago when he told the grand jury he never knowingly took steroids.

ABC News

A-Rod, MLB yet to meet over steroids

Sports Illustrated

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