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Health Care czar Nancy Ann DeParle and Sen. Christopher Dodd, confer on Capitol Hill in Washington, as Sen. Reid, right, speaks to reporters. (Photo by Harry Hamburg / AP)

CBO finds Dem bill with public option reduces deficit

The Congressional Budget Office projects that over 10 years the House Democrats' health care plan which includes a public option would cost $871 billion and reduce the deficit.

CNN

Pelosi pushes strong public option

Politico

Dem thumbs down to Reid doctors deal

The Hill

Senate approves moving Gitmo prisoners to US

President Barack Obama won a modest victory in his continuing effort to close the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, allowing transfer of detainees at the facility to the U.S. for prosecution.

HeraldNet

Justices to decide on US release of detainees

Gainesville Sun

US evenly and deeply divided on troop increase for Afghan war

As President Barack Obama and his war cabinet deliberate over a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan, Americans are evenly and deeply divided over whether he should commit a further 40,000 troops.

Washington Post

UN chief on Afghan election

BBC

Karzai challenger urges action to prevent poll fraud

Brisbane Times

Iran nuclear talks reach draft deal to export enriched uranium

Negotiators in Vienna have produced a draft agreement on exporting Iran's enriched uranium, Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has announced.

Guardian

Draft nuclear deal for Iran

BBC

Rethinking routine screenings for breast and prostate cancer

New analysis concludes that routine screenings for breast and prostate cancer miss the most deadly forms of the disease — and may expose healthy patients to risky, expensive and needless treatments.

San Jose Mercury News

NATION

Homegrown terror plot to attack US malls?

In what appears to be another case of a domestic terror plot, federal prosecutors charged a 27-year-old college graduate from Boston with conspiring to wage violent jihad at shopping malls.

ABC News

Obama: Coordinated response reduces threat

Bloomberg

Highlights of the case against terror suspect

Boston Globe

Child-protection efforts gain priority in Colorado

Colorado is among the top 15 states in per capita spending on child welfare, yet deaths of children due to abuse and maltreatment reportedly increased 40 percent between 2001 and 2007.

Denver Post

As aid shrinks, more ‘stuck’ for day care

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Obama takes a health care hiatus

As Congressional leaders and White House officials huddle behind closed doors to settle their differences on health care legislation, President Barack Obama’s voice has grown noticeably quieter.

New York Times

Physician pay increase faces snag in Senate

Reuters

Emanuel at the epicenter: then and now

Before there was Rahm Emanuel, the relentless White House chief of staff, there was Rahm Emanuel, the relentless House Democratic campaign strategist.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Special section:

House races in 2010

CQ Politics

BUSINESS

Watchdog: Bailout increased moral hazard

The U.S. government's $700 billion financial bailout program has increased moral hazard in the markets by infusing capital into banks that caused the financial crisis, a watchdog group said.

Reuters

Brand romance gone for car buyers

So far this year, only about 20 percent of car shoppers stayed with the same brand when they purchased a new vehicle.

New York Times

EDUCATION

College is more expensive than ever

College costs are higher than ever, according to a new report, putting a degree further out of reach for many Americans.

CNNMoney

Job market lands more college grads back at home

Many college graduates who've been forced by the worst job market in decades to move back home with Mom and Dad say they also feel, to their surprise, fortunate.

San Francisco Chronicle

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Barnes & Noble: raising the e-reader bar

The "nook" may not be the game-changer that e-book advocates hope will attract legions of new readers, but it offers some attractive features.

BusinessWeek

Zigzag bugs and ‘A Sea Like God’: Kerouac's Big Sur

In 1960, Jack Kerouac was “on the road” again, this time to Bixby Canyon, Calif., where he would spend six weeks — an experience he captured in his novel “Big Sur.”

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholic church to receive Anglicans

Half a million Anglicans may join the Roman Catholic church following an announcement from the Vatican that Pope Benedict XVI had approved a decree setting up a new worldwide institution to receive them.

Guardian

Atheist ads to adorn NY subway stations

A coalition of eight atheist organizations will run a month-long campaign that will place their posters in a dozen busy subway stations throughout Manhattan.

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

The kindest cut

A Colorado surgeon helps restore feeling — and so much more — to victims of female genital mutilation.

Newsweek

A garden grows in Overtown

One morning, a farmers market came to Overtown in Miami. Children played and chased one another, careful to avoid the rows and rows of leafy veggies nearby; passersby gawked and shoppers browsed.

Sun-Sentinel

WORLD

Pakistan to boost college security after twin suicide bombings

Pakistan’s government said it will step up security at schools and colleges after two suicide bombers killed five people at a leading university in the capital.

Bloomberg

Anger over Pakistani university blasts

Al Jazeera

'Human crisis' looming in Pakistan

BBC

Poles will ask Biden to confirm plans for US missiles, troops

Polish leaders will ask Vice President Joe Biden to confirm specific plans for basing defensive missiles and U.S. troops in their country when they meet with him in Warsaw, a presidential aide said.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Computer memory: New material could boost data storage, save energy

North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-sized chip to exceed the storage capacities of today's computer memory systems.

ScienceDaily

North America's tiniest dinosaur

The fossil bones of a North America dinosaur so tiny it could dart between the legs of its huge neighbors are being assembled at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

San Francisco Chronicle

HEALTH

Swine flu vaccine deliveries run late

Swine flu vaccine shipments to Massachusetts are running behind schedule, forcing the state to direct local health departments to cancel vaccine clinics scheduled for next month.

Boston Globe

Special section:

H1N1 special report

CBS News

FDA cracks down on manufacturers' deceptive food labels

The Food and Drug Administration said that logos from food manufacturers may mislead consumers about the actual nutritional benefits of cereal, crackers and other processed foods.

CBS News

Special section:

Spot the healthy food choices

WebMD

ENVIRONMENT

Yemen could become 1st drought nation

Yemen may become the first country in the world to run out of water, providing a preview of consequences that may spread across the world if population growth outstrips natural resources.

Times Online

Space agencies, Google participate in project to save forests

Space agencies and Google Inc. are helping an international project to monitor forests by satellite to fight global warming.

Reuters

SPORTS

A-Rod, Sabathia lead way in Yanks' romp past Angels

Alex Rodriguez homered in the third straight game of his postseason, and CC Sabathia pitched five-hit ball on three days' rest, as the Yankees took a 3-1 lead in the ALCS.

Sports Illustrated

Angels vs. Yankees highlights

ESPN

Donovan named US soccer player of the year for 6th time

Landon Donovan claimed an unprecedented sixth Honda Player of the Year Award given annually to the U.S.'s top player.

San Jose Mercury News

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