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The iconic globe of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is seen atop the company's waterfront headquarters here. It will continue to spin even after the 146-year-old paper prints its final edition. (Photo by Elaine Thompson / AP)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer publishes final print edition

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer stopped publishing the 146-year-old newspaper, Seattle's oldest business, and ended delivery to more than 117,600 weekday readers. It remains alive online.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The P-I through the years

Seattle Times

Paper folds after 146 years

KIRO TV

Red Cross: Bush detainee treatment amounts to 'torture'

The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a confidential report that the Bush-administration approved treatment of terrorist suspects amounted to torture.

NPR

0Cuomo to subpoena AIG over bonuses

The hot seat got hotter for AIG CEO Edward Liddy as the New York attorney general announced that he will issue subpoenas for the release of the names of those receiving bonuses.

ABC News

President Obama: Block AIG bonuses

Politico

AIG names recipients of bailout money

CNN

Treasury close to bank rules proposal

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will propose overhauling the financial regulatory system to give the Federal Reserve powers to monitor broad economic risks.

Reuters

Jubilation in Pakistan for 'justice'

Pakistan's chief justice was reinstated after a two-year struggle, and for those assembled in the country's capital to celebrate, anything seemed possible.

International Herald Tribune

Clouded details of Pakistan deal

BBC

NATION

Prosecutors seek Madoff's wife's money

Federal prosecutors want the assets of Bernard Madoff's wife. The government will seek the $7 million Manhattan penthouse and another $62 million Ruth Madoff sought to keep.

Newsweek

Madoffs' net worth put at $823 million in 2008

NPR

Inside a Swiss bank's shadowy operations

Newsweek

Obama team to aid small businesses

President Barack Obama opened the federal treasury to small businesses with plans for billions of dollars in government loans for the struggling sector that employs an estimated 70 percent of American workers.

CBS News

Obama: Small business 'heart' of economy

YouTube

Job losses hit black men hardest

Employment among black men has fallen 7.8 percent since 2007, according to a report by the Center for Labor Market Studies. No other demographic group has been hit harder by the downturn.

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Greatest threat to Obama spending plan? Moderate Democrats

Government spending on domestic pro- grams is growing at its fastest pace in nearly 30 years, and a lot of Democrats are seeking ways to rewrite and reduce the size of President Obama's proposals.

McClatchy Newspapers

Ruling by 3-judge panel may not be enough to fill Minn. Senate seat

A three-judge panel has the result of the Minnesota Senate race in its hands. But that doesn’t mean Minnesota will have a senator anytime soon.

The Hill

ENVIRONMENT

A primer: Can algae replace gas?

Can algae, scourge of the swimming pool, fuel an energy-independent America? News reports flow about the possibility of potential algal biofuels.

Good

New high-tech energy source is ... wood?

National Geographic

Global forum seeks to avert water crisis

Government ministers from 120 countries, scientists and campaigners meet in Istanbul to discuss how to avert a global water crisis and ease tensions between states fighting over rivers, lakes and glaciers.

Reuters

HEALTH

HIV/AIDS rate in Washington DC now 'higher than West Africa'

Nearly 3,000 of every 100,000 people living in the nation's capital have HIV or AIDS, according to a report that will be released by D.C. health officials.

MSNBC

Tampa moving to digital medical records

The Paperfree Tampa initiative aims to change how doctors prescribe and practice medicine, digitizing the entire medical record-keeping process, from patient charts to lab reports and test results.

TIME

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

The pleasure principle

Nicole Daedone, the founder of the One Taste Urban Retreat Center, a commune dedicated to a near-exclusive emphasis on women's pleasure, sees herself as leading "the slow-sex movement."

International Herald Tribune

Yet another memoir raises doubts

It’s becoming an old story – the fabricated memoir. Although this time it involves neither the Holocaust nor Wall Street, the memoir in question is about a year spent playing baseball.

Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

Unique anti-kindergarten lawsuit in New Hampshire endorsed

Voters in a southern New Hampshire town are supporting their school board's legal fight against free public kindergarten.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Don't bully the bullies, school learns

Instead of outing the bullies, the district used surveys to identify the problem kids and meet with them to work on solving the individual problems, which often stemmed from trouble at home.

ABC News

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GOOD NEWS

Work on 'veiled reality' earns French physicist $1.4 million award

The prestigious Templeton Prize recognized University of Paris-Orsay physicist Bernard d'Espagnathis for his theory that a new reality lurks behind matter and other observable phenomena.

Christian Science Monitor

Fairy tale for prom-goers

Cash-strapped prom-goers are get the Cinderella treatment from local charities. The Massachusetts Fairy Godmother Project has 2,500 gowns to distribute.

Boston Herald

WORLD

EU links Israel ties to 2-state solution

The European Union says its relations with Israel depend on the Jewish state's commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Voice of America

With local control, new troubles in Iraq

Iraqis are taking to heart the adage that all politics is local, as Americans hand over control of affairs in the provinces. That local control, however, brought more horror than success in the past few days.

International Herald Tribune

Milestones in Iraqi history

MSNBC

BUSINESS

US stocks retreat as rally in financial shares fizzles

U.S. stocks fell for the first time in five days as a rally in financial companies was snuffed out by concern over rising credit-card defaults.

Bloomberg

Bernanke: Recession could end in '09

YouTube

Hard times send 'economoms' back to the job market

With the employment outlook bleaker by the day, many white collar moms who opted out of the workforce to focus on their kids are scrambling to get back in.

TIME

SPORTS

Mickelson overcomes challenges, holds off Watney at Doral for 1st WGC win

Mickelson shot a 3-under 69 to beat Nick Watney by one shot at Doral, getting his first World Golf Championships victory and vaulting to No. 2 in the world.

Star Tribune

Cardinals, Panthers, Heels, Huskies earn top seeds in NCAA 'big dance'

The Big East put up a big number: Three No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament: Louisville, Pittsburgh and Connecticut. North Carolina was the other top seed.

Sports Illustrated

Special section:

2009 NCAA D1 men's brackets

CBS SportsLine

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Space shuttle Discovery nears station amid debris threat

Seven astronauts race to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Discovery, even as NASA debates whether the orbiting outpost will need to shift position to dodge a piece of space junk.

NPR

Space shuttle Discovery launch photos

Newsday

Walking, talking female robot debuts in Japanese fashion show

A new walking, talking robot from Japan has a female face that can smile and is ready to make its debut, but the robot still hasn't cleared safety standards required to share the catwalk with human models.

Huffington Post

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Nearly a year later, Obamas still looking for a church home

Nearly a year after a painful break from his Chicago church, President Barack Obama and his family are considering joining several churches of various denominations but have yet to find one.

McClatchy Newspapers

Bishop orders Episcopal priest to renounce Islamic faith

An Episcopal priest in Seattle is fighting attempts by Rhode Island Episcopal Bishop Geralyn Wolf to defrock her for practicing Islam and Christianity at the same time.

Providence Journal

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