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Beer business does good for the needy

When Jacquie Berglund sells her beer brand, Finnegans, to bars and liquor stores throughout Minnesota, 100 percent of the profits go to local food shelves.

Star Tribune

Texas towns scrambling to supply water amid drought

Texas towns are finding temporary solutions to water supply problems brought on by drought, some just in time to avert a crisis. But finding a permanent solution is tricky — and expensive.

San Francisco Chronicle

Texas drought leaves heartbreaking toll of abandoned horses

Reuters

Cain suspends bid, shifting GOP race

Herman Cain suspended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination amid sexual misconduct allegations, throwing conservative supporters up for grabs before the lead-off caucuses in Iowa.

ABC News

Blog:

Candidates react to Cain’s decision

(CNN)

Political Ticke

Herman Cain through the years

TIME

DEA launders Mexican drug cartel profits

Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington’s expanding role in Mexico’s fight against drug cartels.

MSNBC

Migrants say they’re unwilling mules for cartels

NPR

Iraq PM confident in post-US future

Weeks before the U.S. pullout, Iraq’s prime minister confidently predicted that his country will achieve stability and remain independent of its giant neighbor Iran even without an American presence.

MSNBC

Iraq PM: Bomb was assassination attempt

BBC

NATION

Are school zero-tolerance policies too harsh on students?

Critics say that strict policies, designed to keep drugs, guns and other harmful items off campuses, do not give school officials the discretion needed when dealing with students who break the rules.

USA TODAY

USPS wants to limit next-day guarantee

The U.S. Postal Service plans to announce a cost-savings proposal that would no longer guarantee next-day delivery of first-class mail.

CNNMoney

POLITICS

GOP weighs tying Keystone pipeline to payroll tax break

House Republicans are considering tying a plan to speed up approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline to a broader measure that would extend the payroll tax break that expires Dec. 31.

San Francisco Chronicle

Team Obama cheers on Newt

Newt Gingrich is providing President Barack Obama with something the incumbent sorely needed: a credible top-tier Republican who will join him in lambasting Mitt Romney as a flip-flopper.

Politico

BUSINESS

New small business rule: sacrifice inventory, save the store

When John Goldman strolled through his Rhode Island jewelry stores, he used to see every piece on sale as an asset. Now Goldman knows that some of his glittering stock can sink his business.

ABC News

AT&T, Sprint sued by customers over tracking software

AT&T Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp., Apple Inc. and T-Mobile were sued by mobile phone customers who claim that tracking software installed on their phones violates U.S. wiretapping and computer fraud laws.

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

Death by hazing? Why even tragic FAMU case won’t end such rituals

Hazing is so ingrained in various aspects of college life that even egregious incidents won’t be enough to eradicate it, say some experts.

Christian Science Monitor

School districts can use race in decision-making, feds say

Four years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Seattle’s school-assignment racial tiebreaker, the federal government has affirmed that districts can consider race to help integrate schools.

Seattle Times

Some Asians’ college strategy is to not check ‘Asian’

USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Geoengineering could save Earth — or destroy it

At a time of deep concern over global warming, a group of scientists, philosophers and legal scholars examined whether human intervention could artificially cool the Earth.

Sci-Tech Today

US regulator reduces cost of pollution rule on boilers

The U.S. environmental regulator said it slashed the cost of proposed pollution rules on industrial boilers by $1.5 billion a year by allowing some plants to fine tune existing equipment or burn cleaner fuels.

Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Reality TV a positive influence for girls?

Reality TV is often criticized as having little or no redeeming social value, but a new poll from the Girl Scout Research Institute finds that girls can in fact benefit from the shows.

Discovery News

Nature and design meet in Lautner’s modern homes

An artist with an idyllic childhood might be as rare as a house with walls made of air, but both play a part in the story of architect John Lautner.

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Utah’s Vine Institute nurtures cross-cultural seeds of faith

In a weekly class, “Caring for God’s People,” sponsored by The Vine Institute, students explore Christian teaching and scriptures, then go into their communities to put those principles into practice.

Salt Lake Tribune

Pennsylvania town rejects atheist banner in holiday display

A western Pennsylvania mayor refused to include a banner from an atheist group that says “there are no gods” as part of a holiday display that includes an annually erected Nativity scene.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Is bankruptcy the only answer, Detroit?

Detroit Free Press

Editorial:

Obama’s mileage agreement is a big deal

San Jose Mercury News

Blog (River Jordan):

The masks we wear

(Psychology Today)

Praying for Strangers

Column (Linda Campbell):

About finding God in a busted transmission

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (Tim Stanley):

Cain’s campaign should be remembered as a civil rights breakthrough

(Telegraph.co.uk)

Tim Stanley

Editorial:

Yo Philly, you’re cultured

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (David Lake):

Is America exceptional? Liberals, conservatives agree, and disagree

CNN

Blog (Richard Brody):

You must know everything

(The New Yorker)

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GOOD NEWS

Top UN official confident richer nations will renew carbon vows

The top U.N. climate official said she is confident industrial countries will renew their pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions after their current commitments expire next year.

Globeandmail.com

Millions of UK taxpayers’ money spent on tackling climate change abroad

Telegraph.co.uk

Teacher at Loyola Academy helps boys escape poverty

Loyola Academy in St. Louis, Mo., is among a special brand of private middle schools that take promising students from high-poverty backgrounds and prepare them for selective high schools.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Farms, stores brighten stalled building lots in NY

Instead of allowing stalled construction sites to become eyesores, some New York City developers are coming up with creative ways to use them temporarily until construction can resume.

ABC News

WORLD

Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel try to unite to save the euro

Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy are currently thrashing out the final pre-nuptial arrangements for the political marriage of convenience that will save the euro and possibly Europe.

Telegraph.co.uk

Merkel calls for tighter euro fiscal union

YouTube

Voting begins in Russia’s parliamentary polls; irregularities expected

Polling stations have opened in Russia for the parliamentary elections, amid dwindling support for the ruling United Russia party and pressure on election observers.

Al Jazeera

As Putin plans to stay, many Russians want out

Philadelphia Inquirer

City evacuates 45,000 to defuse massive WWII bomb

Officials in Germany’s western city of Koblenz say some 45,000 residents have to be evacuated as officials try to defuse a World War II era bomb discovered in the Rhine river.

Houston Chronicle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Molecule a promising target for asthma and allergies treatment

The histamine releasing factor molecule has been identified by researchers as a potential target for developing novel therapies for numerous allergic reactions, including asthma.

Medical News Today

Judge denies Apple request for US ban on Samsung gadgets

In the global patent battle between Apple and Samsung, a judge has denied Apple’s request that would have temporarily prevented Samsung from selling four of its devices in the U.S.

CNET News

HEALTH

Nutritional value of a diet of bugs and mouse tails

Experts say that insects, if eaten with fruit and vegetables, can provide missing vitamins and minerals.

BBC

Rising levels of arsenic in rice something to worry about?

Experts say levels of arsenic in rice may be concerning, particularly for infants. For people in the United States and Europe, rice is the largest dietary source of inorganic arsenic.

LiveScience

SPORTS

LSU overwhelms Georgia 42-10 to claim SEC title

Cornerback Tyrann Mathieu turned in an MVP performance as the LSU Tigers advanced to a spot in the BCS Championship Game in New Orleans, just 75 miles from its Baton Rouge campus.

ESPN

Special section:

Roundup of Top 25 games

USA TODAY

Bisping dominates Miller in UFC’s Ultimate Fighter finale

Michael Bisping insisted he’d send Jason Miller down in the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s undercard and move himself a step closer to a long-awaited title shot. Missions accomplished.

Vancouver Sun

Bad boy Bisping ready for all comers

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