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Honduras's ousted President Manuel Zelaya, holding a copy of the Honduran Constitution, speaks during a press conference at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (Photo by Esteban Felix / AP)

State lawmakers push for ban on mandatory health insurance

A small but growing group of lawmakers are pressing for state constitutional amendments that would outlaw an element of federal health care reform that requires everyone to buy insurance or pay a penalty.

New York Times

What's new about Democrats' health care plans

ABC News

Underinsured in America

NPR

NASA satellite to intentionally slam moon

A NASA satellite is scheduled to slam into the moon on purpose. NASA hopes to determine whether the moon has water.

Arizona Republic

Plutonium shortage could stall space exploration

NPR

Troops raid Honduran media groups

Two Honduran media organizations that have been critical of the country's interim government have been closed. Authorities issued a state of emergency suspending key civil liberties for 45 days.

BBC

Honduras' Zelaya 'holed up' in Brazil embassy

YouTube

Spanish speakers targeted in census

For the first time, the census will be distributed in the two languages to 13.5 million households in predominantly Spanish-speaking neighborhoods.

CBS News

Latinos hope bilingual census aid counts

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Texting while driving a road hazard

A Maryland state law will go into effect this week which makes texting behind the wheel illegal, but many people question how much of a difference it will make.

Baltimore Sun

Poll: 90 percent say ban texting in cars

CBS News

Field trip! Obamas take in monuments by moonlight as they explore DC

President Barack Obama took his family on a brisk moonlit tour of American history, whizzing them through the Jefferson Memorial and the Washington Monument.

Daily Mail

NATION

Great Recession changes the workplace

Going to work may never be the same again. The Great Recession has reshaped the American workplace and work force in ways that will last for years, if not longer.

MSNBC

Job losses, early retirements hurt Social Security

Yahoo! News

CDC tracks daily updates of swine flu H1N1 influenza

The CDC reported this morning that a second wave of H1N1 influenza is now widespread in 26 states across the United States.

Examiner

Swine flu and no paid sick leave

CNNMoney

POLITICS

Obama to fly to Copenhagen to support Chicago Olympics bid

U.S. President Barack Obama will fly to Copenhagen to support Chicago's bid to stage the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Reuters

Obama's Olympic bid

ABC News

New York Governor Paterson says he’ll run in 2010

New York Governor David Paterson said he will campaign to keep his job, disregarding pressure from other Democrats including President Barack Obama who want him to step aside.

Bloomberg

Paterson: 'I’m blind, but I’m not oblivious'

Politico

Republicans feel lost at Calif. convention

Having no favorite candidate to go to is a dilemma that many conservative Republicans wrestled with, as fiscal issues such as cutting taxes rather than social causes dominated the discussion.

Sacramento Bee

BUSINESS

Negative bond returns converge with mortgage miracle

Treasury bondholders will lose money amid an unprecedented decline in the gap between the interest rate on 30-year mortgages and government notes, signaling an end to the financial crisis.

Bloomberg

CEO salaries at nonprofits up

A new study shows that the top pay at the nation's largest nonprofits rose again, with some eye-popping results. The survey also found that these high-dollar salaries may be starting to turn around.

NPR

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Burst of technology helps blind to see

A project, involving patients in the U.S., Mexico and Europe, is part of a burst of recent research aimed at one of science’s most-sought-after holy grails: making the blind see.

New York Times

Discovery brings new type of fast computers closer to reality

Physicists at U.C. San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with “excitons," bringing the possibility of a new type of extremely fast computer closer to reality.

ScienceDaily

Mercury to send message to Earth

Astronomers on Earth are about to learn a whole lot more about the planet Mercury as NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft passes less than 142 miles above the planet’s surface.

iTWire

HEALTH

Researchers struggle to understand breast cancer's racial gap

Breast cancer occurs more often in white women than in black women in the U.S., but it kills more black women than white. This "racial gap" is a provocative topic for cancer researchers hoping to save lives.

The News Star

Exclusion of menthol cigarettes in ban worries health experts

The Food and Drug Administration may have banned candy- and fruit-flavored cigarettes, but some public health experts still see a big hole in their efforts to keep teens from starting to smoke.

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Clinton initiative raises $8 billion

The Clinton Global Initiative gathered more than $8 billion in pledges, surprising its organizers who had worried that the recession would lower the level of support.

Good News Gazette

Blind high schooler creates array of art

Aaron Johnson pushes the pieces of fabric underneath the rapidly moving needle, sewing together his quilt. The young artist will never see his quilt because he is blind, but Johnson feels his art being created.

Kansas City Star

WORLD

Flood-ravaged Philippine capital on disease alert

Philippine health authorities warned of disease outbreaks following horror floods, as filthy water covered large areas of Manila and bodies lay in coffins next to survivors at evacuation centers.

Google News

Philippines flooding

Yahoo! News

Iran test-fires nuclear missile capable of hitting Israel and parts of Europe

Iran has fired one of the longest-range missiles in its arsenal as part of testing it began ahead of a confrontation with foreign powers over a previously undisclosed secret nuclear facility.

Times Online

Iran test-fires medium-range missiles

YouTube

ENVIRONMENT

Scientists announce trove of fragile new species in Mekong

One hundred and sixty three species were discovered by various researchers in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia, the World Wide Fund for Nature announced.

TIME

Exporting waste to poorer countries

Exporting waste illegally to poor countries has become a growing international business, as companies try to minimize the costs of new environmental laws.

New York Times

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Box office: Bruce Willis gets meatballed

The Sony cartoon, "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs," pulled in $24.6 million to win the box office weekend, according to early official studio estimates.

TIME

Polanski arrested in 1970s sex charge

Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski has been arrested in Switzerland on a decades-old arrest warrant stemming from a sex charge in California.

CNN

Swiss detain Polanski on US arrest request

YouTube

SPORTS

Hamilton wins Singapore F1 race

Lewis Hamilton demolished the opposition in his McLaren-Mercedes. It is too late to do anything about the World Championship, but the World Champion can show his class — and he did.

GrandPrix.com

Yankees clinch, get home edge

Andy Pettitte and the New York Yankees wrapped up the AL East title and home-field advantage throughout the postseason, beating the Boston Red Sox, 4-2, for their 100th win of the season.

Detroit Free Press

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Exploring the mysteries of Yom Kippur

Kenneth Van Dyk turned his sixth-graders' attention to Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar and a time of fasting.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Lutheran church in Roanoke County votes to split from association

One of the Roanoke Valley's largest evangelical Lutheran churches voted to separate from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Roanoke Times

EDUCATION

Off to school for migrant children

The government offers a Head Start program for the children of migrant and seasonal laborers, but it serves only a fraction of those eligible.

MSNBC

Black president stands out at mostly white Hampden-Sydney college

All male and 93 percent white, Hampden-Sydney College has its first African American president.

NPR

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