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In this file photo, President Barack Obama signs the health care bill in Washington. Beginning 2014, customers will be able to compare and contrast health plans, which will be regulated by government, without the help of a broker. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite / AP)

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Insurance brokers fight for their future

Some experts would say Debbie Stocks ought to start looking for a new career, that the new health overhaul law makes insurance brokers like her obsolete.

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NPR

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Households with insurance hits 50-year low

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USA TODAY

US House votes to keep Bush middle class tax cuts

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would extend tax cuts for middle-class Americans while letting them lapse for the wealthy.

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BBC

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Senate plans weekend votes on Dem tax plans

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Unemployment rises to 9.8 percent

Non-farm payrolls rose by a disappointing 39,000 jobs in November as the unemployment rate edged up to 9.8 percent, the government said.

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ABC News

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Oddities abound in disappointing jobs data

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Reuters

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Economy has sent executives to jobs down corporate ladder

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USA TODAY

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Unemployment rate rises

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YouTube

Congress acts to stifle loud TV ads

The House gave final congressional approval to a bill that would prevent advertisers from abruptly raising the volume to catch viewers wandering when programming is interrupted.

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Detroit Free Press

Hello Kitty hooks generations on cute

Sanrio, the Japanese company that defined cute, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2010. Its star, Hello Kitty, remains popular with adults and children.

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NPR

NATION

Held as slaves, now free

They arrived in the U.S. from West Africa, young girls held against their will and forced to work for hours on end. This time, it wasn’t hundreds of years ago.

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CNN

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Human-trafficking bill sent to House

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Columbus Dispatch

‘Premature’ to end military ban on gays: Sen. McCain

It may be premature to end the U.S. military‘s ban on gays, Senator John McCain warned, as Republicans geared up to block President Barack Obama’s push to repeal the “Don‘t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

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Reuters

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DADT reports released

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Washington Post

WIKILEAKS

WikiLeaks fights to stay online after US company withdraws domain name

The U.S. was accused of opening up a dramatic new front against WikiLeaks, effectively “killing” its web address just days after Amazon pulled the site from its servers following political pressure.

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Guardian

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces new warrant

Swedish authorities have issued a fresh arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange following a procedural error with the first.

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BBC

POLITICS

House approves bill to improve school lunches’ nutritional value

The House approved a bill that would improve the safety and nutritional value of food served at schools — and expand the number of schoolchildren eligible to receive free and reduced-price meals.

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USA TODAY

Erskine Bowles: a Democrat willing to swing the budget ax

Erskine Bowles is co-chairman of the presidential deficit commission, which will soon vote on U.S. fiscal plan. He‘s no stranger to budget-cutting. He’s had to trim more than $550 million and 1,000 jobs.

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Christian Science Monitor

HEALTH

Is infidelity genetic?

Genes associated with sensation-seeking behaviors, such as drinking alcohol or gambling, may also be associated with sexual promiscuity and infidelity, according to a new study.

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WebMD

Employer insurance costs rising

Although premiums for employer health insurance have risen 41 percent since 2003, new research says that employees are getting less bang for their buck.

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HealthDay

Man doses himself with a parasite for intestinal problems

After reading research on the effect of an intestinal worm found in pigs on ulcerative colitis, a patient tracked ingested eggs from a similar roundworm that infects humans, in hopes of easing his own colitis.

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ABC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Holiday battle: Catholics vs. atheists

As if trying to negotiate the traffic wasn’t hard enough, drivers coming into New York City via the Lincoln Tunnel are getting caught up in a battle of beliefs.

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CBS News

Searching for Buddha in Afghanistan

An archaeologist insists a third giant statue lies near the cliffs where the Bamiyan Buddhas once stood.

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Smithsonian

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Where has ‘Tron’ gone?

Has anybody seen Tron lately? Not the new “Tron: Legacy” — with its reported $170 million budget, it’s impossible to miss all the billboards — but Disney’s original 1982 film.

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Newsweek

The real ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ badge coming for Chuck Norris

Actor Chuck Norris for years played a Texas Ranger on television. Now he’s going to become one in real life. Texas Gov. Rick Perry is scheduled to present the actor with a designation as an honorary member.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (John C. Abell):

Don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t do: ‘objectivity’ in the age of the Internet

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Epicenter

Column (Matt Warman):

Net neutrality: where philosophy meets economics

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After Rangel censure, will House backtrack on ethics?

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USA TODAY

Column (John Dickerson):

Please stop playing nice, Mr. President

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Slate

Blog (Mark Thompson):

All players stick to script at Senate hearing on repealing ‘Don‘t Ask, Don’t Tell’

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(TIME)

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Column (David Korn):

Palin, the GOP, and the wimp factor

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Mother Jones

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Republicans should not kill labor committee

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The Portland Press Herald

Column (Patrick Cockburn):

What Afghans will do to get friends out of jail

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The Independent

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GOOD NEWS

Hospital staff works overtime to give sick kids a dose of cheer

Lisa Scherber has spent the past 18 years working to brighten the lives of children with cancer. Last Christmas, Lisa and her staff created a wonderland in the pediatric cancer clinic at a hospital in Boston.

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USA TODAY

Microsoft co-founder gives $26M for animal health

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is giving $26 million to Washington State University for its School for Global Animal Health.

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Star Tribune

Brain scan ‘best thing’ for early detection of autism

The way autism is diagnosed could become less subjective by using a brain-imaging-based test that is being developed by researchers and that, in early trials, was 94 percent accurate.

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MSNBC

WORLD

Bhopal: India wants compensation by US company doubled to $1.1B

India’s attorney general is seeking to more than double to $1.1 billion the compensation paid by a U.S. chemical company for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster.

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BBC

China expands travel ban ahead of Nobel Prize ceremony

A Chinese human rights advocate became the latest casualty in the government‘s effort to expand its no-fly list that aims to prevent prominent guests from attending this Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony.

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CNN

Ivory Coast opposition leader named winner of vote

The head of Ivory Coast‘s electoral commission declared opposition leader Alassane Ouattara the winner of the country’s contested presidential election.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

BUSINESS

Madoff trustee sues JPMorgan

The trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff’s former investment firm sued JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $6.4 billion over claims the bank aided and abetted the imprisoned con man’s fraud.

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BusinessWeek

JP Morgan suspected Madoff

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The Blotter

Pending sales of US existing homes rise a record 10 percent

Pending sales of U.S. existing houses unexpectedly jumped by a record 10 percent in October, indicating the industry at the center of the last recession is stabilizing as the job market improves.

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Bloomberg

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Is the housing market on the verge of a rebound?

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The Atlantic

Jump in holiday retail sales pushes stocks higher

Stocks are starting off December with a two-day winning streak. Strong retail sales and a healthy reading on the housing market helped boost major indexes.

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BusinessWeek

ENVIRONMENT

The words “bureaucracy” and “efficiency” usually don’t make it into the same headline. But the White House’s efforts to cut the government’s energy use are making some progress.

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Newsweek

2010 to be among warmest years ever

The year 2010 will be one of the warmest ever, climaxing a record-breaking decade, the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization says at global climate talks.

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Sydney Morning Herald

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Satellite for sale: Buy it, bring Web to developing world

A school bus-sized satellite parked over North America is up for grabs — and a group of philanthropically-minded futurists want you to help buy it.

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ABC News

Big bang poured out ‘liquid’ universe, atom smasher hints

In the immediate aftermath of the big bang, the universe behaved like a very dense, superhot liquid, according to data from the most powerful atom-smashing experiment yet performed.

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National Geographic

EDUCATION

Drilling the living tongue

A push for standardization and basic foreign language skills has contributed to the departure of some faculty and staff of the Arabic studies department at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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Inside Higher Ed

NYU professor installs camera in head

Wafaa Bilal, an NYU photography professor, had a camera surgically implanted into the back of his cranium for an art project commissioned by a museum in Doha, Qatar, he said.

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CNN

SPORTS

Lebron drops 38 as Heat crush Cavs

LeBron James scored a season-high 38 points — 24 in a third-quarter clinic — to lead the Miami Heat in a 118-90 blowout win over the Cavaliers, taming a hostile Cleveland crowd even before halftime.

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ESPN

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LeBron, a homecoming King

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YouTube

What soccer’s World Cup choices tell us about the world

After a secret ballot, FIFA awarded the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively. The verdict came amid allegations of corruption and bribery ahead of the pivotal vote.

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TIME

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

British websites are pushing boundaries of online medicine

In Britain, an increasing number of websites are pushing the boundaries of online medicine, with many offering consultations and medication most countries only allow during in-person visits.

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USA TODAY

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Pedestrians walk on the illuminated the boulevard “Unter den Linden” in Berlin. (Photo by Markus Schreiber / AP)

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