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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, center, accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, right, and Sen. Charles Schumer, speaks during a news conference on health insurance companies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo by Susan Walsh / AP)

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Biden wins Poland’s commitment

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden secured Poland’s commitment to a proposed missile-defense system and invited one of America's "closest allies" to join efforts to improve relations with Russia.

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Bloomberg

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Joe Biden seeks to mend US relations with Poland

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Guardian

Scottish scientists grow liver cells from skin in search for new drugs

Researchers have, for the first time, turned adult skin cells into liver cells — a breakthrough in the development of new treatments for liver disease.

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Scotsman

Senate Democratic leaders drop Medicare doctors' pay plan

Senate Democratic leaders dropped a proposal to boost Medicare payments to doctors because the bill lacked support to overcome procedural roadblocks.

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Reuters

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Unemployment benefit extension stalls in Senate

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Bloomberg

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Health care reform

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CBS News

Obama proposes 2 new initiatives to revive small business loans

As small business lending continues to dry up, the federal government is readying two new initiatives to reverse the trend.

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CNNMoney

Obama's remarks on reviving small business

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Detroit Free Press

Bing wins Facebook, Twitter partnerships

In a blow to Google Inc., Microsoft has struck non-exclusive search deals with Facebook and Twitter to integrate real-time updates into Bing's search results.

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InformationWeek

Buying virtual goods that also do good

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NATION

White House push for executive pay cuts

The Obama administration will soon order the nation's biggest bailed-out companies to drastically cut pay packages for their top executives, a senior administration official confirmed to CNN.

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CNNMoney

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.

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HeraldNet

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.

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Highlights of the case against terror suspect

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POLITICS

Obama targets insurance companies, banks in NY appearance

President Barack Obama criticized insurance companies and banks as he urged supporters to pressure Congress to back his moves to revamp the health care system and overhaul financial regulations.

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Bloomberg

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Obama marginalizes most powerful critics

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Politico

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.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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House races in 2010

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CQ Politics

HEALTH

High protein diet may shrink brain, say Alzheimer's researchers

Researchers have found that mice fed a high protein, low carbohydrate diet developed brains that were five percent lighter than those of mice fed other diets.

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Medical News Today

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.

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San Jose Mercury News

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Big flops and breakout hits are equally rare on TV

Five weeks into the new TV season, few new shows are tanking in the ratings, but breakout hits are elusive.

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USA TODAY

Chicago is the most stressed city in US

A survey by Harris Interactive found that residents in Chicago rank highest in the nation for stress.

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Reuters

EDUCATION

UC Berkeley to admit more out-of-staters

UC Berkeley will start admitting hundreds of additional out-of-state and international students instead of Californians to offset state budget cuts.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Advocacy group to bring dropout-prevention campaign to Pittsburgh

An advocacy group affiliated with retired general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell will bring its dropout-prevention campaign to Pittsburgh.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Rome goes fishing in Anglican pond

In an unprecedented announcement from the Vatican, disenchanted Anglicans may join the Roman Catholic Church as full members, while retaining many of their Anglican traditions and practices.

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BBC

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Vatican targets disillusioned Anglicans

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YouTube

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.

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CNN

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GOOD NEWS

In Overtown, organic garden takes root

Marvin Dunn, a local historian, put vacant land to good use by starting an organic garden, thereby creating jobs and a self-sustaining business.

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Miami Herald

The kindest cut

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

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Newsweek

WORLD

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.

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Guardian

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Draft nuclear deal for Iran

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BBC

Karzai challenger urges action to prevent poll fraud

The main challenger to President Hamid Karzai urged action to prevent a repeat of massive fraud that compromised Afghanistan's elections, as preparations began for a run-off next month.

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UN chief on Afghan election

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BBC

Train crash near India’s Taj Mahal kills 21

A passenger train crashed into another train's rear carriage reserved for women and disabled passengers, killing 21 people.

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MSNBC

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Deadly train wreck in India

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MSNBC

BUSINESS

Like it or not, here comes more stimulus

There's a push to extend some expiring provisions from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. But it will be done in bits and pieces.

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Watchdog: Bailout increased moral hazard

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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.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Special section:

Test your dinosaur knowledge

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National Geographic

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.

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BusinessWeek

New planets found beyond solar system

Astronomers have detected 32 new planets outside our solar system that could possibly harbor life.

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Telegraph.co.uk

ENVIRONMENT

Oil risk assessment called flawed

A panel of scientific experts is raising serious concerns about the state-led, $5 million project to evaluate risks posed by Alaska's aging oil and gas infrastructure.

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Anchorage Daily News

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.

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Times Online

SPORTS

NBA referee agreement closer

The NBA's locked-out referees are on the verge of a return to work after an unexpected meeting in New York led to a tentative labor agreement.

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ESPN

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.

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Sports Illustrated

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Angels vs. Yankees highlights

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Community colleges may boost economy

Community colleges' lack of appeal may change under the new administration, as Obama's education team sees community colleges as a new way to prepare students for a changing work place.

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Time

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An astronomer observes the Orionid meteor shower at an observatory near the village of Avren east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia. (Photo by Petar Petrov / AP)

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