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A man trapped in a collapsed building responds to questions from rescue workers in Port-au-Prince, the day after a powerful earthquake hit Haiti. (Photo by Julie Jacobson / AP)

US missile strikes Pakistan terrorist camp

U.S. missile strikes killed at least 15 people at a compound formerly used as a religious school in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region, officials said, the eighth such attack in two weeks.

CBS News

Disabled worshippers struggle to find home in pews

Among the most humbling moments of being confined to an electric wheelchair came when Shawana Bulloch realized it could prevent her from attending services at her Savannah church.

Yahoo! News

Pandora's free online radio gets boost from iPhone, Ford

Tim Westergren doesn't have to beat the drum as loudly anymore. Thanks to the popularity of the iPhone and other smartphones, listenership has quadrupled since 2008 at Pandora.

USA TODAY

Rescue workers being rushed to Haiti

President Barack Obama dispatched military troops and an air and sea flotilla to speed earthquake relief to Haiti and governments from China to Venezuela rushed to help.

MSNBC

Watchdogs on alert for Haiti charity fraud

CBS News

Coast Guard video reveals Haiti devastation

YouTube

Special section:

Haiti quake: Largest to hit country in 200 years

Yahoo! News

Artificial pancreas prototype in development for Type 1 diabetics

A potentially revolutionary way to manage insulin in people with Type 1 diabetes may be available in just four years.

HealthDay

Government won't seek 5th Gotti trial

The federal government decided not to seek a fifth racketeering trial against John "Junior" Gotti, son of the notorious Gambino family crime boss who was previously known for avoiding conviction.

CBS News

Mom charged for refusing to leave infant

Alexis Hutchinson was supposed to deploy overseas with her Army unit but skipped the flight, she contended, because she had nobody to take care of her then-10-month-old son.

San Francisco Chronicle

NATION

1 in 8 Americans receive food stamps

Some 37.9 million people — one in eight Americans — received food stamps to help buy food at latest count, the government said, as enrollment set a record for the ninth month in a row.

Reuters

‘Baby Einstein’ founder goes to court

A "Baby Einstein" videos co-founder has sought an order for the University of Washington to release records relating to studies that linked television viewing by young children to attention problems.

New York Times

POLITICS

Budget shortfalls for US cities could reach $56 billion

U.S. cities face a collective budget shortfall of at least $56 billion over the next two years, with the current recession not seen hitting bottom until 2011.

Reuters

15th straight month in which outlays exceeded receipts for US

MarketWatch

Don't count on windfall from US, legislative analyst says

California has an "almost non-existent" chance of reaping a $6.9 billion windfall from Washington, D.C. to reduce its deficit, nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor said in his initial budget review.

Sacramento Bee

Obama's political arm under fire

President Barack Obama came to town a year ago to change the way politics worked, and Organizing for America was to be his instrument. A year later, the organization is finding itself on the defense.

Politico

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Soul singer Teddy Pendergrass dies at 59

Teddy Pendergrass, who became R&B's reigning sex symbol in the 1970s and '80s with his forceful, masculine voice and passionate love ballads, died at age 59.

Kansas City Star

'Avatar' under attack from Vatican, liberals and US military

James Cameron might be laughing all the way to the bank, but his film "Avatar" is receiving criticism from those who accuse it of being everything from a racist throwback to the source of their depression.

Globeandmail.com

Controversary surrounds beauty pageants for kids

Child beauty pageants are fun, glamorous — and controversial. The reality show "Little Miss Perfect" gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at a world of pomp, circumstance and competition.

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Silence that cell phone with a whack

Help could be on the way for those of us who have fumbled, red-faced, to silence a ringing phone in a packed theater.

New Scientist

Astronomers explain how galaxies came to be

For the first time, two astronomers have explained the diversity of galaxy shapes seen in the universe.

ScienceDaily

Shar-pei wrinkles explained

Scientists who have analyzed the genetics of 10 pedigree dog breeds believe they now know how Shar-peis got their famous wrinkled appearance.

BBC

HEALTH

Morphine helps avoid post-combat stress

U.S. combat soldiers in Iraq who received morphine within an hour of being wounded were less likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers reported.

New York Times

US obesity rate high, but not rising

According to government data from the years 2007-08, the obesity rate has held steady for about five years, reflecting earlier signs that it had stalled after steadily climbing.

ABC News

Special section:

Overweight health guide

New York Times

Doctors seek to stifle patients' rants on Web sites

Some doctors, worried about their reputations, are trying to fight back against negative reviews, requiring patients to sign contracts — critics call them "gag orders" — promising not to publicly post comments.

MSNBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

A mosque by any other name

Ahmadis consider themselves Muslims, though they differ from the Sunni on an important point: they believe that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the 19th-century Indian, was a latter-day prophet.

Economist

New York's elite churches struggle

Many of the formerly socially prominent Fifth Avenue churches have sizable endowments, but those endowments have been hit hard by the stock market's decline from pre-recession highs.

Religion News Service

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GOOD NEWS

Dog helps save elderly, unconscious man in Minn.

Police credit a 15-year-old German shorthaired dog with saving the life of an elderly, unconscious man in Minn.

McClatchy Newspapers

Gates Foundation grant seeks savings for the poor

Using hand-held devices, motorbikes and even smartphones, micro-lenders such as ShoreBank International hope to give poor communities access to safe and affordable ways to save their hard-earned cash.

Reuters

Jane Goodall: 'Give people hope'

It is half a century since she began her seminal work studying chimpanzees in Africa, but Jane Goodall says her work is far from finished.

Guardian

WORLD

Japan says US ties firm

Japan's foreign minister shrugged off suggestions that Tokyo was cozying up to China at the expense of its alliance with the United States and repeated a vow to settle a feud over a U.S. airbase by May.

Reuters

Yemeni forces kill al-Qaida kingpin

Yemeni security forces killed an al-Qaida kingpin in Shabwa province as part of a siege against the group believed to be behind the botched bombing of a U.S. airliner, an official said.

France24

Uganda President Museveni wary of anti-gay bill

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has distanced himself from a bill proposing execution for some gay people.

BBC

BUSINESS

Bankers face tough questions at hearing on financial crisis

Wall Street's banks faced skeptical questions about executive pay and failures of regulation from the bipartisan commission examining causes of the biggest downturn since the Depression.

New York Times

Bonus season brings political risks for banks

NPR

Moody's says Greece, Portugal may face 'slow death'

The Portuguese and Greek economies may face a "slow death" as they dedicate a higher proportion of wealth to paying off debt and investors demand a premium to hold their bonds.

Bloomberg

Chinese censorship may force Google to shut down site

China is unlikely to allow Google Inc. to provide uncensored search results, potentially forcing the company to close its operations in the country, two people familiar with the matter said.

Bloomberg

Blog:

What Google might leave with China

CNET News

ENVIRONMENT

Climate scientists convene global geo-engineering summit

Scientists are to hold a high-level summit in Calif. to discuss how the world could take emergency measures such as blocking out the sun to slow dangerous global warming.

Guardian

San Francisco's power plant to close

San Francisco's last polluting power plant will be shuttered by the end of 2010 — ending a decade of debate over what to do with the Mirant Corp.'s plant in Potrero Hill, one of the dirtiest in California.

San Francisco Chronicle

Stimulus to fund 22 jobs to reduce bay pollution

Baltimore Sun

EDUCATION

Experts urge earlier start to teaching math and science

"The commonly held view that young children are concrete and simplistic thinkers," said a recent education report, "is outmoded." Refuted, some say, by research in developmental psychology.

Education Week

Clergy speak out on curriculum in Texas

At a news conference in Austin, Texas, theologians said they were wary of the State Board of Education injecting too much religion into the new social science curriculum standards that will be voted on.

San Antonio Express

Religious textbook debate

KXAN.com

SPORTS

Surgery ends Griffin's season

Blake Griffin will have surgery on his broken left kneecap, keeping the No. 1 draft pick out for at least four more months, the eternally star-crossed Clippers announced.

Sports Illustrated

Supreme Court weighs NFL deal

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case testing the legality of the NFL's exclusive deal with Reebok to sell billions of dollars worth of merchandise.

NPR

Colts' Stover a man for 2 cities

In his 20th NFL season, kicker Matt Stover has become a man for two cities, splitting time between his workplace in Indiana and his home in suburban Baltimore.

Baltimore Sun

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