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Thousands forced to flee Calif. wildfires

A quick-moving wildfire burned structures and prompted evacuations in the ritzy seaside city of Rancho Palos Verdes, about 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles.

CBS News

Rancho Palos Verdes fire

NBC Los Angeles

Flat incomes raise doubts about economic recovery

Evidence is mounting that the longest recession since World War II is losing its grip on the U.S. economy.

MSN Money

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Fortune Big Picture Index

Fortune

Abuse issue puts Justice, CIA at odds

Long-simmering conflicts between the CIA and the Justice Department burst into plain view, threatening relations between two critical players on President Barack Obama’s national security team.

New York Times

Post-CIA, who will ask the questions, and how?

NPR

CIA will cover legal fees

Washington Post

US envoy 'in heated row' with Karzai

The U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, had a heated row with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, in the aftermath of the election, reports say.

Guardian

US, Afghan 'row' concerns British diplomat

BBC

Banks ‘too big to fail’ have grown bigger

When the credit crisis struck, regulators pumped tens of billions into the nation's leading financial institutions because they were so big that officials feared their failure would ruin the financial system.

MSNBC

Large banks off FDIC radar

Reuters

NATION

Huge crowds bid farewell to Kennedy

A crowd of 25,000 bade farewell to Senator Edward Kennedy, with thousands more expected for his second day of lying in state in Boston.

Times Online

Thousands turn out to honor Kennedy

NECN.com

US Navy: Pirates fire on US helicopter

Somali pirates holding a ship off the coast of Somalia fired at a U.S. Navy helicopter, the first such attack by pirates on an American military aircraft, the Navy said.

USA TODAY

Health care bill has curious coverage for illegal immigrants

Immigrants living illegally in the U.S. could be mandated to have health insurance under the proposed health care reform bill but would be ineligible to receive subsidies to afford such coverage.

CNN

POLITICS

Obama sticks with vacation

He picked a Fed chairman and lost a close political friend, but through it all, President Barack Obama has tried to carry on with the vacation he set out to have.

Politico

FEC allows Club for Growth to go after Specter donors

Donors upset with Sen. Arlen Specter's, D-Pa., decision to bolt the Republican Party earlier this year will have the opportunity to get their money back, thanks to a Federal Election Commission decision.

The Hill

HEALTH

Internet addicts get 1st US clinic

The Heavensfield Retreat Center, located in Fall City, Wash., claims to be the first U.S in-patient center to treat Internet, video game and texting addictions.

LiveScience

Radiation tests are questioned

Skyrocketing numbers of expensive medical imaging procedures — from CT scans to nuclear stress tests — are exposing patients to significant amounts of potentially cancer-causing radiation.

Baltimore Sun

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Madonna booed for backing Gypsies

Madonna incited booing — and a smattering of polite applause and cheers — at a concert in Bucharest after she attempted to preach the importance of loving thy neighbor to the Romanian crowd.

E! Online

Emmett Till’s coffin goes to museum

The coffin of Emmett Till, whose 1955 murder in Mississippi helped galvanize the civil rights movement, has been donated to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.

New York Times

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Facebook ratchets up privacy controls

Facebook announced a new set of modifications to its user privacy controls as well as its developer API, aimed at the thousands of third-party applications built on Facebook's developer platform.

CNET News

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What Facebook quizzes know about you

ReadWriteWeb

Snow Leopard: The big improvements come under the hood

Apple's latest operating system, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, goes on sale very soon, and much of the change comes in infrastructure features.

Seattle Times

Blog:

Snow Leopard on the loose

NPR

Mac OS X Snow Leopard

New York Times

SPORTS

Federer, Nadal can meet in US Open final; Williams sisters cannot

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal could meet in the U.S. Open final for the first time. Serena and Venus Williams will not be able to reprise their sibling rivalry in the year's last Grand Slam final.

Sports Illustrated

Red tennis ball catapults merchandise sales

Bloomberg

Lance Armstrong’s RadioShack team will make debut in Australia

Armstrong, 37, will launch the cycling team at the Jan. 17-24 event near Adelaide, where he made his professional comeback seven months ago.

Bloomberg

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GOOD NEWS

China's legislature endorses resolution on climate change

China's legislature passed a resolution signaling its interest in "actively dealing with climate change" by considering new laws and strengthening controls over greenhouse emissions.

USA TODAY

Developers pitch in to maintain homeless encampment outside church

A project to clean up a homeless encampment outside a church in downtown Baltimore recently received an infusion of cash from two developers who have long complained about the area.

Baltimore Sun

Family prepares to meet daughter missing since 1991

Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was abducted from her South Lake Tahoe home as an 11-year-old in 1991, is being reunited with family after surfacing in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Newsday

WORLD

Grim milestone for US In Afghan war

The death of a U.S. service member in a militant attack brings to 44 the number of U.S. troops who have died in Afghanistan this month, tying with July for the deadliest month of the eight-year war.

CBS News

Japan unemployment hits record high

Unemployment in Japan rose to a record high and consumer prices dropped at an unprecedented pace, adding to fears that the country's economic recovery is already stalling under the grip of deflation.

Guardian

Japan set for risky economic change

Telegraph.co.uk

BUSINESS

Toyota Motor Corp. to shut California auto plant in March

Toyota Motor Corp. has decided to shut its plant in Fremont, Calif., the last auto-assembly line on the West Coast.

MarketWatch

Unemployment may be worse than previously thought

The nation's unemployment rate may be far worse than expected when considering recent comments made by a Federal Reserve official.

NASDAQ

TiVo Inc. sues AT&T Inc. and Verizon over DVR patents

TiVo Inc. sued AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. for patent infringement, including one covering the ability to pause and rewind live TV.

Kansas City Star

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change activists ban police from camp over fears of violence

Protesters have banned police from their Climate Camp site because they mistrust them following the violence at the G20 demonstrations.

Daily Mail

Researchers return from garbage patch with samples

Fresh from a 20-day voyage to a Texas-size vortex of plastic trash called the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch, a team of La Jolla researchers showed samples of what they found floating there.

The San Diego Union-Tribune

Laughing gas biggest threat to ozone layer, study says

Nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, is now the biggest threat to Earth's ozone layer, according to a new study.

National Geographic

NO2 and agriculture: no laughing matter

NPR

EDUCATION

Latina dropout rate 'alarming'

'Alarming numbers' of Hispanic girls are dropping out of high school nationwide, two organizations say in a report that recommends an array of policy and educational changes to stem the trend.

Newsday

FBI seizes financial records of Philadelphia charter school

Federal agents seized financial records from a North Philadelphia school in a widening federal probe of area charter schools.

Philadelphia Inquirer

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Dalai Lama's trip angers China

The Dalai Lama will risk angering China further by accepting a surprise invitation from the government of Taiwan to take part in a prayer meeting with survivors of this month's typhoon.

The Independent

Priests learn best practices in parish management seminar

The International Institute for Clergy Formation at Seton Hall University in New Jersey joined with the Washington-based National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management to offer a seminar.

National Catholic Reporter

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