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President Barack Obama meets with the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB), in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)

Karzai is elected Afghan president

Hamid Karzai has been declared the elected president of Afghanistan by poll officials, after they scrapped the planned second round of the vote.

BBC

Obama accused of dithering over Afghanistan

Guardian

Karzai declared Afghan president

Reuters

Logging caused Nazca collapse in Peru

A team of archaeologists have found the demise of the Nazca society was linked in part to the fate of a tree.

BBC

Manufacturing and home sales fuel hopes

U.S. manufacturing activity rose to its highest level in three and a half years and pending home sales contracts surged, offering hope the budding economic recovery would be sustained.

Reuters

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Are things really getting better?

CNNMoney

Getting back to growth

CNBC

Turnout key as Maine prepares for impending election

Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap is predicting a 35 percent voter turnout, despite heavy advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate.

Portland Press Herald

CIT bankruptcy reassigned after recusal

CIT Group Inc's bankruptcy case was reassigned to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper following the recusal of Judge Robert Gerber, who had been assigned the case hours earlier.

ABC News

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The 10 largest US bankruptcies

CNNMoney

CIT's bankruptcy and small businesses

CNBC

NATION

Cheney failed to answer 72 FBI questions

According to an FBI summary former Vice President Dick Cheney equivocated to the FBI on 72 occasions during his lengthy May 2004 interview.

CBS News

Audit warns KBR to cut payroll in Iraq

Pentagon auditors are warning the Army's primary support contractor in Iraq to cut its work force there or face nearly $200 million in penalties for keeping thousands too many on the payroll.

Seattle Times

POLITICS

Dems plan global warming markup

Democrats plan to begin a markup of global warming legislation in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee despite plans by the panel's seven Republicans to skip the meeting altogether.

New York Times

Glaciers disappearing from Kilimanjaro

CNN

Corzine recasts himself in Obama's shadow as NJ race nears end

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine stood in President Barack Obama’s shadow, seeking to muster support among the 21 percent of Democrats who a recent poll showed hadn’t planned to vote for him.

Bloomberg

Election-eve push for Va. gubernatorial votes

Richmond Times-Dispatch

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Races for governor in 2009 and 2010

CQ Politics

ENVIRONMENT

Robot fish could monitor water quality

Scientists are developing robots that use advanced materials to swim like fish to probe areas that are underwater.

ScienceDaily

Smart grid powers energy efficiency

President Barack Obama has delivered $3.4 billion worth of grants to update electricity transmission, and create a smart grid to increase efficiency and promote energy-saving choices for consumers.

Public Radio International

HEALTH

Depression link to processed food

Eating a diet high in processed food can increase the risk of depression. What is more, people who ate plenty of vegetables, fruit and fish actually had a lower risk of depression, research found.

BBC

Breast cancer stigmatizes poor

Cancer specialists will meet to address a troubling increase of breast cancer in developing countries, where nearly two-thirds of women aren't diagnosed until it has spread through their bodies.

News Observer

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

NDiaye wins France's top literary prize

French-born writer Marie NDiaye won France's top literary prize for ''Three Strong Women,'' her moving tale of the struggles of women in Europe and Africa.

Seattle Times

Neil Simon flop missing 'wow'

Comedy is changing on Broadway. One of Neil Simon’s most produced plays in the last 25 years, "Brighton Beach Memoirs," became one of the biggest commercial flops on Broadway in recent memory.

New York Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Tribes claim wind farm project would destroy sacred ritual

The Wampanoag fight to preserve their ceremonies has become the latest obstacle — some say delay tactic — for a pioneering wind energy project that seemed at the cusp of final approval.

Kansas City Star

Defections, court fights test Scientology

The Church of Scientology is going through a difficult season, with some wondering if recent setbacks are momentary or if the church is in big serious trouble.

MSNBC

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GOOD NEWS

Aging turn to nurturing spirit, community

A conference at North Carolina State's McKimmon Center will bring together leading figures in a diverse movement to change the perception and reality of older people's lives in the 21st century.

News Observer

Auto thefts stall

Automakers and police have waged a successful war on car theft in recent years, battering the stolen-vehicle rate by 20 percent to 30 percent annually.

Denver Post

WORLD

North Korea warns US: negotiate or else

North Korea issued a demand for dialogue with the United States with a message that carried an implicit threat: talk or else.

Christian Science Monitor

Deadly blast rocks Pakistani city

At least 30 people were killed after a suicide bomber targeted workers queuing for their salaries outside a bank in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad.

Al Jazeera

Pakistan’s political journey in pictures

MSNBC

BUSINESS

Costco stoops to conquer: food stamps now accepted

Costco Wholesale Corp. said that it would start accepting food stamps at its warehouse clubs nationwide after testing them at stores in New York.

Denver Post

Half of American children receive food stamps

MedPage Today

Ford posts profit of about $997M

The Ford Motor Company posted a surprise third-quarter profit of $997 million and said it had its first profitable quarter in North America in more than four years.

New York Times

Canadian autoworkers vote for Ford deal

Detroit Free Press

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Ford news 'stuns Wall Street'

NPR

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Google's voice cannot be heard in some rural areas

Google Inc. is blocking customers' calls to some high-cost numbers in the Midwest, prompting a dispute.

NPR

Earliest snowfall in Beijing since 1987 after cloud-seeding to beat drought

Cloud-seeding by Chinese meteorologists has led to the earliest snow blizzard in Beijing since 1987. The 11-hour snowfall, which could be the heaviest in a decade, brought the capital to a halt.

Times Online

EDUCATION

Conflict of interest arises as concern in standards push

A respected literacy-research organization is asking that a process be put in place to make more transparent potential conflicts of interest that writers of the common national academic standards might have.

Education Week

Obama community college proposal may not be enough

President Barack Obama's 10-year, $12 billion initiative would provide a welcome infusion of cash, but some fear it would not sustain community college programs.

ABC News

23 college presidents made more than $1M

New York Times

SPORTS

Overwhelming boos greet Brett Favre in Lambeau Field

Head down, once-beloved Packers legend Brett Favre trotted onto Lambeau Field in his white-and-purple Vikings No. 4 jersey to overwhelming boos.

USA TODAY

Dramatic win puts NY Yankees in sight of 27th World Series

The New York Yankees are one win away from clinching a 27th World Series title after a dramatic victory over the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.

Guardian

Broadcasters call A-Rod's double

MLB.com

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