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President Barack Obama speaks at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. (Photo by Alex Brandon / AP)

Obama blasts security failures

President Barack Obama, in his response to a possible terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound plane, said human and systemic failures created a "potential catastrophic breach of security."

Detroit Free Press

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Before the terror attempt

New York Times

1,000 homeless after Nigerian clashes

More than 1,000 people have been left homeless after clashes between security forces and members of an Islamic sect in the Nigerian state of Bauchi.

Monsters and Critics

Nigeria sect violence victims 'mostly children'

BBC

US, Yemen respond to terrorist threat

Questions are being raised about the Obama administration's complicated relationship with Yemen amid U.S. military and intelligence efforts to counter a growing terrorist threat.

NPR

Yemen says forces clash with al-Qaida

Reuters

Detroit terror attack: timeline

Telegraph.co.uk

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Yemen: terrorism's new home

CBS News

Health cuts with little effect on care

Since 1996, the Richmond, Va., area has lost more than 600 of its hospital beds due to state regulations. However, its quality of care is better than the rest of America and continues to improve.

New York Times

New York sees murder rate drop

Calling a sharp drop in overall violence throughout America's most populous city "one for the record books," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that 2009 saw historic crime-rate declines.

CNN

NATION

TSA extends expanded airline security

The Transportation Security Administration extended heightened security measures in the aftermath of a failed attempt to blow up a U.S. jetliner, the agency said.

CNN

Spat triggered over confirmation of TSA chief

Christian Science Monitor

Somali held last month with chemicals, syringe

MSNBC

Obama moves to curb federal secrets

More than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents could be declassified as the federal government responds to President Barack Obama's order to rethink the way it protects the nation's secrets.

TIME

Target Corp. among victims of the biggest identity theft in US history

A 28-year-old college dropout pleaded guilty to charges that he stole more than 170 million payment card numbers by breaking into corporate computer systems from businesses, including Target.

Reuters

POLITICS

President Obama takes the heat President Bush did not

The criticism received by President Barack Obama stands in sharp contrast to the lack of complaints toward President George W. Bush eight years ago regarding the "shoe bomber" incident.

Politico

Poll: Americans most admire Obama, Clinton

USA TODAY

Can Crist survive a GOP uprising in Fla.?

A new voter poll was released that showed Florida Governor Charlie Crist dropping into a tie with former state House speaker Marco Rubio in the 2010 Republican primary race for the U.S. Senate.

TIME

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Love and war: marriage on the front lines

You won’t find Iraq listed as a top 10 honeymoon destination in the glossy pages of any bridal magazine, but there’s nowhere else newlyweds Miguel and Amanda Perez would rather be right now.

Houston Chronicle

Fox, Time Warner in standoff

Fox is locked into a fierce fight with Time Warner Cable over retransmission consent for its own and operated stations, a battle that threatens to deprive millions of viewers of the top series on television.

Hollywood Reporter

HEALTH

H1N1 and health reform dominated 2009 medical news

It was the year that a new flu swept across the globe, initially baffling health authorities and causing worldwide panic.

CNN

In US, medicine cabinets have replaced the street as easy source of drugs

A survey has found that abuse of prescription drugs by young adults rose 12 percent between 2006 and 2007, even as their use of street drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamine decreased.

HealthDay

SPORTS

Back on its feat

Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema, his players and U.W. fans returned to the scene of arguably the young coach's most embarrassing defeat of the 2008 college football season — for a win.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Wisconsin beats Miami

ESPN

Flyers' Mullen wants snow for game

Joey Mullen wants to see his Flyers beat the Bruins at Fenway Park. And Mullen, a Flyers' assistant coach, has one other wish: "I want it to snow during the game."

NHL.com

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Europe talks with faiths it once thought would fade

Europe, the most-secularized region on Earth, has decided to launch a regular dialogue with the organized religions that many on the continent once thought would wither away.

Reuters

Wall Street meditation group cuts landmark building price 33 percent

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's followers have cut the price for their Wall Street Center for transcendental meditation by 33 percent, offering it for $30 million as Manhattan commercial real estate plummets.

Bloomberg

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GOOD NEWS

Mom, baby revive mysteriously on Christmas eve

Both Tracy Hermanstorfer and her daughter stopped breathing during the delivery process. But mysteriously, both sprang back to life, baffling doctors.

CBS News

Mom, baby revived after nearly dying

MSNBC

New acoustic tools may reduce ship strikes on whales

New sensors which improve monitoring of endangered North Atlantic right whales are now being used around the world in an effort to reduce ship strikes.

ScienceDaily

WORLD

UK hostage released alive in Iraq

British hostage Peter Moore, an IT consultant who was seized at Baghdad in 2007, has been released alive from captivity in Iraq, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said.

BBC

Deadly blasts hit western Iraq city

At least 23 people have been killed in twin suicide bombings in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi.

Al Jazeera

UN seeks access to Hmong deportees

The United Nations refugee agency, the UNHCR, has asked the government of Laos to allow it access to the more than 4,000 Hmong asylum-seekers recently deported from Thailand.

Al Jazeera

The Hmong and the CIA

TIME

BUSINESS

GMAC may receive more bailout funds

The announcement for GMAC Financial Services, the troubled auto and mortgage lender, to collect $3.5 billion on top of the $13.5 billion already received since 2008 is expected within days.

CNNMoney

Financial scandals seen sparking reform zeal

Reuters

More employers to boost hiring in 2010

Twenty percent of employers plan to increase the number of full-time, permanent employees in 2010, according to CareerBuilder's 2010 Job Forecast.

CNNMoney

Federal government offering buyouts

Washington Post

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

LED walls could replace light bulbs

Wallpaper that can glow with light is a step closer thanks to research into organic LEDs (OLEDs), which are widely hailed as the next generation of lighting technology.

Guardian

Exploring light and color: light technologies

HowStuffWorks

4 ways technology will change advertising in 2010

From print to radio, TV to the Internet, businesses trying to sell you stuff have quickly taken to new technology.

Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

Experts baffled by vanishing sea lions

Hundreds of sea lions that have provided entertainment for two decades at San Francisco's Pier 39 have disappeared — and biologists have no idea why.

San Francisco Chronicle

Bark houses built with nature’s shingles

The rustic bungalow near downtown Asheville, N.C., is a traffic stopper. Covered in big overlapping shingles of tree bark — rather than wood, brick or stone — it looks a bit like a square tree.

Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

Schools' food safety standards lag

Rules requiring that school lunch meat be rejected if it contains certain pathogens, such as salmonella, have fallen behind the standards adopted by fast-food chains.

USA TODAY

Scholastic graduates from Harry Potter to stimulus for sales

Scholastic Corp., the children’s book publisher whose sales slumped when the “Harry Potter” series ended, is getting a lift from the U.S. government as stimulus funds go to buy educational software.

Bloomberg

Report: develop after-school field

A new report makes a case for creating a professional-development system and clearer career pathways for the people who work in after-school programs.

Education Week

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