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From right to left, Attorney General Eric Holder, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, FDIC Chair Sheila Bair, and SEC Chair Mary Schapiro, appear before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)

Amid funding crisis, college athletics soak up fees

More than $800 million in student fees and university subsidies prop up athletic programs at the nation's top sports colleges, reaching that level amid a continuing crisis in funding.

USA TODAY

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

Congressional panel grills Wall Street titans

A Congressional committee investigating the financial crisis grilled the nation's top bankers in an example of Washington's anger at an industry many there feel hasn't atoned for its role in the slump.

Wall Street Journal

Washington cracks down on Wall Street

MSNBC

Justice Department sues Pa. swim club, charging race bias

The Justice Department accused a suburban Philadelphia swim club of race bias in a lawsuit filed six months after the club barred a group of mostly black day campers from their pool.

San Francisco Chronicle

Justice Department sues Pa. swim club

CBS3.com

Yahoo! said to be target of hacker attacks from China

Yahoo! Inc., owner of the no. 2 search engine in the U.S., was targeted by a Chinese attack similar to the one that affected Google Inc.

Bloomberg

China gives first response to Google threat

BBC

NATION

Ruling blocks broadcasting of a trial on same-sex marriage

The Supreme Court has effectively eliminated the possibility that any part of the trial of a constitutional challenge to a ban on same-sex marriage now under way would be broadcast before it concludes.

New York Times

High court rules against video of same-sex marriage trial

CNN

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

HAITI EARTHQUAKE

Haiti earthquake survivors await aid effort

Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are waiting for rescue efforts in the wake of the country's devastating earthquake, the situation is increasingly desperate with no coordinated rescue plan.

BBC

Devastation in Haiti

TIME

Devastating earthquake hits Haiti

New York Times

Lance Armstrong pledges $250,000 to Haiti earthquake victims

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has pledged $250,000 to the victims of Haiti's earthquake crisis.

USA TODAY

Non-aid flights to Haiti halted

Military officials said aid flights from the U.S. to earthquake-ravaged Haiti were resumed, but other charter flights were still being held back.

CBS News

POLITICS

Rangel: Democrats 'close' to agreement on paying for health bill

Democrats are "close" enough on how to pay for a health care bill that they'll be sending language to congressional number-crunchers, House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., said.

The Hill

Column:

Dickering may soon yield final health package, but will the GOP come along?

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Harold Ford's Manhattan makeover

The success of Harold Ford’s prospective run against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand would seem to rest largely on convincing people that he didn’t really believe in most of the centrist positions.

Politico

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Indecency fight continues

Broadcast networks continued their challenge to the FCC's indecency enforcement, arguing to a federal appeals court that the government's practices violate the First Amendment.

Variety

Lawsuit over music downloads revived

A federal appeals court revived an antitrust lawsuit that accuses major record labels controlling 80 percent of U.S. digital music sales of scheming to charge high prices.

San Jose Mercury News

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

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Pollutants plucked from air with copper

In an accidental discovery, chemists have stumbled on a catalyst that strips only carbon dioxide from the air, ignoring oxygen, and converts it into a useful compound.

Nature

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

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

World's largest religious festival under way in India

Close to a million Hindu pilgrims bathed in India's holy river Ganges in an immense display of color and devotion at the start of the world's biggest religious festival.

The Age

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

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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

Pa. runners turn chance to stay fit into chance to do good

The Frigid 5-Miler is the third of five races this season to benefit a different Pittsburgh-area charity. What the runners get out of it is company and competition in a sport they pursue year-round.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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

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

Jobless claims jump in latest week

First-time jobless claims rose by the largest amount in five weeks, surprising economists who had expected a decline.

MarketWatch

Membership: its privileges, drawbacks

It's not a credit card or a debit card. If you've never had a charge card, you may wonder how it compares with the plastic you already carry.

Chicago Sun-Times

2009 foreclosures hit record high

The number of U.S. residential properties receiving at least one foreclosure filing jumped 21 percent in 2009 to a record 2.82 million, RealtyTrac, an online foreclosure marketplace, reported.

MarketWatch

Ala. foreclosure rate up 156 percent

Birmingham Business Journal

ENVIRONMENT

China, India, Brazil and South Africa prepare for post-Copenhagen meeting

In the wake of the Copenhagen climate summit key groups of developing countries will meet to try to explore ways to get to agree a legally binding final agreement.

Guardian

Anti-nuclear protesters reach Vt. capitol

Anti-nuclear activists totaled around 70 when they left Brattleboro, Vt., for a march through freezing winter temperatures to the statehouse.

Times Argus

March to the Statehouse

Burlington Free Press

Sustainability expert urges end to habits of addictive consumption

One way to live a more sustainable existence is to stop tweeting and shut down your Facebook page.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

EDUCATION

Education magazine ranks Md. no. 1

For the second year in a row, Maryland schools were ranked no. 1 in the nation for school achievement and educational policies by a respected trade publication.

Baltimore Sun

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

SPORTS

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

NFL sued by apparel company

ESPN

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

HEALTH

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

1st-response balloon plugs up wounds

When someone receives a shrapnel wound, the TourniCath can be inserted and inflated, plugging up the hole. The device can be deployed in 90 seconds and stops blood loss almost as well as a tourniquet.

Popular Science

Morphine helps avoid post-combat stress

New York Times

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