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Freed Americans Shane Bauer, left, Josh Fattal, center, and Sarah Shourd, right, Bauer’s fiance, wave from the door to an airplane before leaving for the United States at the airport in Muscat, Oman. (Photo by Sultan al-Hasani / AP)

Hikers held in prison: ‘Iran held us because we’re American’

Two American hikers held for more than two years in an Iranian prison came home, ending a diplomatic and personal ordeal with a sharp rebuke of Iran.

MSNBC

Freed hikers: 2 years of ‘lies and false hope’

CNN

Male fans have been banned from Turkish soccer match

The 41,000 passionate fans who packed into the Sukru Saracoglu Stadium in Istanbul were all women and children. Male fans of both teams aged over 12 were banned from attending the game.

ABC News

Women in Saudi Arabia to vote in elections

Women in Saudi Arabia are to be given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, King Abdullah has announced.

BBC

King Abdullah: Saudi Arabia women can vote, hold elected office in 2015

NY Daily News

Saudi women given voting rights

YouTube

Dozens arrested in 8th day of ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests

About 80 people were arrested on the eighth day of protests in New York, the greatest number since demonstrations started near Wall Street.

CNN

Blog:

Police start to crack down on ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests

(Guardian)

News Blog

Obama to African-Americans: I’m going to press on

President Obama, down in the polls and struggling with Congress, still struck a defiant pose in a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus.

USA TODAY

NATION

The new standoff: clean-car jobs vs. disaster relief

The once rare possibility of a federal government shutdown has reared its head again, this time over House Republicans’ desire to offset spending for disaster relief with money for other unrelated projects.

NPR

Parents weigh private schools after more budget cuts

With nearly a third of San Francisco children attending private school these days, it was no surprise to see thousands of students at a High School Fair being held in the city.

San Francisco Examiner

POLITICS

Is Eric Schneiderman America’s most powerful liberal?

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who spent a decade fighting his party’s moderates, found himself in the rare position of erasing disappointment over the 2008 bailout handling.

Politico

Cain upsets Perry in Florida Republican straw poll

Herman Cain, who is far behind the two top-tier candidates Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, won a Republican presidential straw poll in Florida with 37 percent of votes cast.

Reuters

Cain tops Florida straw poll

CNN

University students convicted for disrupting speech

Ten students are scheduled to do community service for protesting against Israeli envoy’s speech at the University of California in Irvine last year.

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

Libraries are stocking up on e-books for free downloads

Amazon’s biggest-selling e-reader device — and the last holdout in allowing libraries to use it — announced its books would be available to 11,000 libraries across the country on Amazon’s e-book platform.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Blog:

How to get Kindle books from your library

(ZDNet)

Tech Broiler

Small factories take root in Africa

Across Africa, scores of tiny manufacturers have been going where most multinationals fear to tread: They’re testing whether the continent can be fertile terrain for industry.

Wall Street Journal

Gruebel resigns from UBS following trading scandal

Oswald Gruebel, chief executive officer of UBS AG, resigned his post at Switzerland’s largest bank after a $2.3 billion loss from unauthorized trading.

Bloomberg

HEALTH

Little girls or little women? The Disney princess effect

In today’s highly sexualized environment, some see the toddlers-and-tiaras Disney princess craze leading to the pre-teen pursuit of “hot” looks. Do little girls become little women too soon?

Christian Science Monitor

Cantaloupe-linked listeria could be 1 of deadliest foodborne outbreaks

The Colorado-based listeria outbreak is climbing the list of the deadliest foodborne illnesses in recent U.S. history.

Denver Post

ENVIRONMENT

Global warming silver lining: The Arctic could get cleaner

There may be a bright side to global warming, at least in the Arctic: The changing climate could improve air quality in the polar region, a new study shows.

National Geographic

Future motors to harness light like plants

A team of researchers has drawn a blueprint on how to harness light energy just like plants — and the team hopes to use it to make new kinds of computers, storage devices or even engines.

Discovery News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Jewish Publication Society sale brings end to era

The purchase of the unsold inventory and publication rights to all of the Jewish Publication Society’s books rings down the curtain on the most prestigious active Jewish publisher in the United States.

Forward

Controversial Michigan pastor leaving megachurch he founded

Controversial evangelical pastor at the head of a Michigan megachurch is leaving the church he founded. Pastor Rob Bell questioned whether hell existed in his book “Love Wins.”

ABC News

Man arrested after shots fired at guard of Pope Benedict in Germany

Pope Benedict XVI has led an outdoor mass in Germany despite shots being fired close to the service. A man fired an air-gun at a guard at the edge of the security zone about an hour before service in Erfurt.

Guardian

In Germany, Pope defends traditional values

CBS News

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Martin Peretz):

Obama is finally doing the right thing on Israel — for now, at least

The New Republic

Editorial:

Taking the 5th on the Solyndra scandal

Washington Examiner

Column (Mitchell Schnurman):

EPA gives Texas short end of pollution limits stick

McClatchy Newspapers

Editorial:

For Md. slots, another unexpected twist

Baltimore Sun

Editorial:

Shenanigans on disaster relief example of Congress’ failure

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Widespread poverty slams suburban Detroit

Detroit Free Press

Blog (Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Ph.D.):

Why we need Obama now, more than ever

(Psychology Today)

Are We Born Racist?

Column (Maurice S. Fisher Sr.):

Market tactics won’t curb drug abuse

Roanoke Times

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GOOD NEWS

Denver dance event steps it up to help put kids through college

The Delta Divas perform at the Mile High City Step Show, a scholarship fundraiser in Denver, Colo.

Denver Post

Student-led program helps diabetics with mental illness

Two UCSF graduate nursing students started SF Empower to help patients with both diabetes and mental health issues at Glide Health Services in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood.

San Francisco Chronicle

Conservative Christians flocking to a Chicago gay bar?

Andrew Marin works to try and bring both Christians and gay people together in open conversation about sexuality and spirituality.

BBC

WORLD

Libya fighters have gained ground in fight for Sirte

Libyan interim government forces have mounted a round of new attacks towards Moammar Gadhafi’s home town of Sirte, getting as close as 500 meters from the center of the former leader’s stronghold.

Al Jazeera

Special section:

Latest from Libya

Reuters

Libyan rebels battle in Gadhafi stronghold

Msnbc.com

Yemeni forces launch deadly attack on main opposition camp

The main opposition protest camp in Yemen’s capital Sanaa came under heavy mortar and sniper attacks, hours after President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned to the country.

Msnbc.com

EDUCATION

Obama links education reform to economic recovery

Students in the United States are falling behind their overseas peers in reading, math and science, President Barack Obama said, calling education reform an essential part of economic recovery.

Reuters

Blog:

Obama’s weekly address: Getting serious about education reform

(ABC News)

Political Punch

MCAS scores appear stuck in stubborn income gap

Educators made modest gains in narrowing the achievement gap between low-income students and those who are better off.

Boston Globe

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Resurrected ancient protein in primitive animal is a potent antibiotic

Biologists have resurrected a mammalian antimicrobial compound that was last seen on Earth 59 million years ago when mammals were recovering from the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

New Scientist

NASA searches for scraps of crashed satellite in Pacific Ocean and Canada

Telegraph.co.uk

California desert spaceship factory completed

The Oklahoman

Amateur planet hunters find exoplanets

The human brain is pretty good at pattern recognition. That’s the idea behind the Planet Hunters project, a web site where anybody can dig into Kepler data to look for exoplanets.

Scientific American

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Bringing Andy Warhol’s shadows to the great Hirshhorn

For the first time, all 102 of Warhol’s ‘Shadows’ paintings have been installed together at the Hirshhorn through the end of the year.

Smithsonian Magazine

Website’s gossip has small towns feeling the sting

In the small towns nestled throughout the Ozarks, Mo., locals like to say that everybody knows everybody’s business — and if they do not, then they feel free to offer an educated guess.

Seattle Times

Box office: ‘Lion King’ pacing to beat ‘Moneyball,’ reclaim throne

So much for early box office projections: Updated data shows Disney’s “The Lion King,” in weekend No. 2 of a 3-D re-release, pulling away from the pack and on pace to gross around $24 million.

Reuters

SPORTS

US draws even at Solheim Cup

The U.S. staged an impressive rally during four ball matches when it won three points and tied Europe at the Solheim Cup.

Sports Network

NFL, union agreed on lockout bans?

The NFL and the NFL Players‘ Association agreed on a list of eight players that could be suspended under the league’s personal conduct policy for actions during the lockout.

ESPN

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