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President Barack Obama announces a new fee on big banks to recover up to $120 billion in taxpayers' money used to prop up corporations during the economic crisis at the White House in Washington. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

Black schools restored as landmarks

Several dozen schools in South Carolina are being restored as landmarks. The schools were a turning point, sparking improved, if still unequal, education for much of the South, historians say.

New York Times

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

Obama announces big bank fee

After days of speculation, President Barack Obama confirmed reports that the government will seek to recoup losses from its massive financial system bailout by proposing a new tax on major banks.

ABC News

Banks, experts eye possible ways around Obama fee

Reuters

Washington cracks down on Wall Street

MSNBC

Cartel Inc.: in the company of narcos

Mexican soldiers raided a house in Rio Bravo, a dilapidated town just across the Texas border. What they found was a "back office" that belonged to the Gulf cartel, Mexico's most violent drug gang.

Reuters

Arctic polar bears imperiled by pollution

The long-term survival of polar bears is being threatened by man-made pollution that is reaching the Arctic.

BBC

Polar bear: waving not freezing

Telegraph.co.uk

NATION

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

Ariz. may shut down 2/3 of state parks

Arizona is on the verge of permanently closing more than half of its state parks to ease its budget woes, a proposal that could mean shutting down some iconic Old West locations.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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

Silence amid chaos leads to rescues

On the streets of earthquake-ravaged Haiti, there are calls for absolute silence. Racing to find buried survivors, search and rescue teams know their only indication that a victim is trapped may be a faint scratching.

ABC News

Haiti earthquake survivors await aid effort

BBC

Haiti quake survivor: 'I am so lucky'

MSNBC

Devastating earthquake hits Haiti

New York Times

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

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

Digitizing the tree of life could uncover thousands of new species

Microsoft's Photosynth software will help scan and catalog 3-D models for analysis over the Web, making the thousands of specimens of insects in storage in museums easily accessible to researchers.

Popular Science

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

McAfee to chase out rats Facebook let in

Facebook is taking a new tack on social network security in a deal with anti-malware vendor McAfee, which will remotely scan infected users' PCs.

TechNewsWorld

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

In pictures: Kumbh Mela

BBC

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

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

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

BUSINESS

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

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

Law firm hit by cyber attack

InformationWeek

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

ENVIRONMENT

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

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

College applicants face competition

College applicants are facing one of the toughest years ever to gain admission to the nation's public colleges and universities as schools grapple with budget cuts and record numbers of applications.

San Jose Mercury News

SPORTS

Johnson unanimous for All-Pro

Chris Johnson of the Tennessee Titans didn't get any votes for MVP. He didn't miss any for The Associated Press 2009 NFL All-Pro team.

ESPN

Johnson is NFL offensive player of the year

YouTube

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

WHO rejects claims it hyped-up H1N1 flu

Questions are being raised about how the H1N1 pandemic has been handled by the United Nation's World Health Organization.

CBS News

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

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