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28-year-old Haisong Jiang is led out of the Port Authority Police building at Newark Airport. He is believed to have caused a security breach at Newark Liberty Airport. He was arrested at his home in Piscataway, N.J. and will be charged with defiant trespassing. (Photo by Joe Epstein / AP)

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Judge tosses out most evidence on Guantanamo Bay detainee

A federal judge has tossed out most of the government's evidence against a terrorism detainee on grounds his confessions were coerced, allegedly by U.S. forces, before he became a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay.

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CBS News

Updated magicJack allows free cell phone calls from home

The company behind the magicJack, the cheap Internet phone gadget that's been heavily promoted on TV, has made a new version of the device that allows free calls from cell phones in the home.

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San Jose Mercury News

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CES 2010: new TV technology for 2010

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Telegraph.co.uk

Police arrest man in Newark security breach

Haisong Jiang, 28, of Piscataway was taken into custody at his home, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said.

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Mind-reading: the future of air security?

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USA TODAY

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Newark security scare on tape

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CBS News

Cocaine scrambles genes in the brain

It's hardly a secret that taking cocaine can change the way you feel and the way you behave. Now, a study published in Science shows how it also alters the way the genes in your brain operate.

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TIME

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Baby boomers still doing drugs

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Study: 48 percent of fountains contaminated

The study found 48 percent of the sodas from fountains were contaminated with coliform bacteria.

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NATION

Panel investigating financial crisis to question bankers

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission will require top bankers and regulators to testify under oath when the panel holds its first public hearings, the chairman and vice chairman of the panel said.

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Wall Street Journal

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Task force targets 4 types of financial crimes

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Reuters

Bomb suspect pleads not guilty

Nigerian terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmatallab stood mute to charges he tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airline during a brief arraignment in U.S. District Court in Detroit.

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Detroit Free Press

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Suspect: 20 others trained to blow up jets

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TSA to expand use of full-body scanners

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NPR

Snow, ice tighten grip on Southeast

The Deep South joined most of the rest of the nation in the deep freeze, as a fast-moving cold front knifed its way down to Florida.

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Amputee warns about cold weather risks

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POLITICS

Geithner under new pressure over AIG

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is facing Congressional investigations after it emerged the New York Fed urged AIG to withhold vital information from shareholders and the U.S. public.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Cummings demands Geithner testify

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Bloomberg

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Geithner back in the hot seat?

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Bush holdover Gates agrees to another year with Obama

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the lone holdover from the Bush administration, has decided to stay on the job for at least another year, a Pentagon spokesman said.

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CNN

Are Blue Dogs an endangered species?

The party of the president tends to lose some traction in midyear elections. But the climate for Democrats could be more sour than usual this year.

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NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Coral reefs are evolutionary cradles

Coral reefs aren't just beautiful and rich in species. They also have long served as an evolutionary wellspring for countless types of marine life.

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Science

Warmer climate could stifle carbon uptake by trees, study finds

Contrary to conventional belief, as the climate warms and growing seasons lengthen, subalpine forests are likely to soak up less carbon dioxide.

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ScienceDaily

HEALTH

Old antidepressant offers promise in treating heart failure

A team of Johns Hopkins researchers have found that an antidepressant developed over 40 years ago can reverse or blunt damage associated with heart failure.

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ScienceDaily

Contentious study says spanking may benefit children

A new U.S. study that has drawn criticism from rights advocates says children who are spanked may grow up to be happier, more-productive adults.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Malaysian Muslims rally church attacks

Malaysian Muslims rallied to protest against Christians using the word "Allah" for God after attacks on churches threatened to stoke racial and religious tensions.

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Reuters

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Can Christians say 'Allah'?

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TIME

Czech bishops denounce European court’s crucifix ruling

Bishops of the Czech Republic have condemned a recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights that ruled against the presence of the crucifix in an Italian classroom.

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Catholic World News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Seeing the golden years as an adventure

Intensely active older men and women who have the means and see the twilight years as just another stage of exploration are pushing further and harder, tossing aside presumed limitations.

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Cyrus leaving ‘Hannah Montana’

Miley Cyrus is saying goodbye to her Disney Channel show, “Hannah Montana,” a source has confirmed to Access Hollywood.

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GOOD NEWS

Finding happiness in helping those who have less

For six hours a week, Sheila Salmon tends to clients who have lost their eligibility for food stamps, need help navigating Medicare eligibility, or are looking to enter a subsidized-housing lottery.

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Iowans giving back

The rate of volunteering in Iowa was 39 percent — higher than the 33 percent three-year rate for the Midwest, and the 29 percent nationally, according to the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service.

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Des Moines Register

WORLD

Portugal approves gay marriage

Portugal's parliament approved plans to legalize gay marriage, less than three decades after revoking the country's ban on homosexuality, but rejected proposals to allow same sex couples to adopt.

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The Age

Great Britain to stem arrest warrants for Israel's leaders

Britain is preparing to shut down a legal mechanism that pro-Palestinian activists, who say that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza, have used to issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials.

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Christian Science Monitor

Pro-government protesters shoot Iranian opposition leader's car

Armed pro-government demonstrators opened fire on the car of Iranian opposition leader Mahdi Karroubi as he was leaving Qazvin, Iran.

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Iran issues new Internet restrictions

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Times Online

BUSINESS

Outlook for job market is grim

As they counted the days to graduation last spring, most of Christopher Hutchens' friends at Johns Hopkins University decided to seek sanctuary in graduate school until the economic thunderclouds cleared.

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USA TODAY

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Employers cut 85,000 jobs

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Reuters

Google risks losing focus amid expansion, analysts say

Analysts say that while Google's expansion is risky, the vendor needs to find ways beyond the search tool to generate business.

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EDUCATION

Pa. state teachers union lays out plan to improve education

The Pennsylvania State Education Association wants to be leading the conversation about improving education, not reacting.

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EducationNews.org

Mass. college alters face coverings ban

A Massachusetts college has modified a controversial security policy after criticism it infringed on the religious rights of students, a school official said.

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CNN

SPORTS

Jerry Rice, Emmitt Smith lead 17 finalists for NFL Hall of Fame

If ever two players seemed like locks to make the Pro Football Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility, Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith would be the choices.

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USA TODAY

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Michael Irvin on Pro Football Hall of Fame

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NFL.com

Pete Carroll close to $7 million per year contract with Seahawks

Pete Carroll is close to signing to a five-year contract to become the next head coach of the Seattle Seahawks.

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Digital Sports Daily

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Organic feed's effect on chicken genes

According to a new study, organic feed produces measurably different gene expression in chickens compared to normal feed, even if the ingredients are the same.

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Popular Science

'Golden ratio' discovered in quantum world

Researchers have for the first time observed a nanoscale symmetry hidden in solid state matter, measuring the signatures of symmetry showing the same attributes as the golden ratio.

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ScienceDaily

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Olympics adds golf, rugby to program

Rugby can start to scrum and golf can tee up after both sports were officially admitted to the 2016 Olympic program in a majority vote of the IOC membership.

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Sports Illustrated

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A rider competes during the seventh stage of the Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally 2010 between Iquique and Antofagasta, Chile. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko / AP)

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