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A passenger reads a newspaper reporting the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on a subway train in Seoul, South Korea. Kim’s death was announced by the state television two days after he died. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon / AP)

Deadly snowstorm halts travel across Great Plains

A late-autumn snowstorm lumbered into the Great Plains, unleashing snow and fierce winds that turned roads to ice, reduced visibility to zero and jeopardized thousands of holiday motorists.

Msnbc.com

Blizzard belts the heartland

The Weather Channel

WWI vet to be considered for honor that anti-Semitism may have thwarted

Almost a century after her father’s act of wartime bravery, 82-year-old Elsie Shemin-Roth of Missouri is nearing the end of her own determined battle.

McClatchy Newspapers

Kim Jong Il’s death stirs genuine emotions

It may seem perverse, even obscene, that there are people weeping in the streets over the death of North Korean strongman Kim Jong Il.

Washington Post

Young heir faces uncertain transition in North Korea

New York Times

Experts: possible power struggle in North Korea

USA TODAY

BofA shares fall below $5 for 1st time since March 2009

Shares of Bank of America Corp., the second- biggest U.S. lender, fell below $5 in New York trading for the first time since March 2009 amid concerns over Europe’s continuing debt crisis.

Bloomberg

The city speaks — and an artist finds fresh ways to listen

Artist Candy Chang calls her work “a kind of love child of urban planning and street art.” Her goal: to get urban neighborhoods to reflect the goals of it’s residents.

Grist

NATION

Prosecutors claim Bradley Manning wanted to remove ‘the fog of war’

U.S. army prosecutors claim to have found email correspondence between alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website.

Guardian

Blog:

Army eases ban on Dan Choi at Bradley Manning hearing

(Politico)

Under the Radar

Bradley Manning military hearing underway

YouTube

There goes the neighborhood

Across America, foreclosures and plummeting home values have left countless properties vulnerable to looting. It has been so bad in Cleveland, Ohio, that some homes have been demolished.

CBS News

Best and worst housing markets of 2011

U.S. News & World Report

Woman fights on after foreclosure

CNN

POLITICS

Barack Obama preps pitch to gay voters

The Obama administration’s recent actions have fueled speculation that Obama may take a step gay activist’s say would energize a core constituency and strengthen their relationship.

Politico

US market to list futures on next election

Reuters

Life’s extremes: Democrat vs. Republican

Science has suggested that there are key features which exist in the brain that might help explain why people vote the way they do.

LiveScience

BUSINESS

Company to launch free ATMs

Starting next year, you may be able to visit a non-bank ATM without having to fork over a fistful of dollars in fees. There is one catch, however: You’ll have to watch a commercial while you wait.

CNNMoney

Saab heads for scrapyard as long rescue quest fails

Car maker Saab ran out of room for maneuver when its Dutch owner filed for bankruptcy, calling time on a nine-month battle to rescue the struggling Swedish marquee.

Reuters

Saab: a car that inspired devotion

BBC

EDUCATION

Teachers publish own textbooks

When a teacher in Utah decided to combine two of his areas of expertise — athletics and psychology — into a new course, he ran into one major roadblock.

Yahoo! News

New arts buildings planned for Stanford’s ‘arts district’

Stanford University has unveiled plans for two major additions to its emerging arts district, broadening the mission of a campus more famed for engineering than it is for Expressionism.

San Jose Mercury News

HEALTH

Vitamin D prevents fractures, but role in cancer remains unclear

Taking vitamin D, along with calcium supplements, may reduce your risk of breaking a bone, but there’s not enough evidence yet to say whether it may lower your risk of cancer.

Scientific American

Panel takes heat on cancer screening advice

Reuters

Elite athletes at greater risk for arthritis

Elite male athletes who participate in high-contact sports such as football, soccer and rugby have a higher risk of developing knee and hip osteoarthritis than men who exercise little or not at all.

Baltimore Sun

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Angels send message of peace to Mexico

In the violent border city of Juarez, Mexico, young evangelical Christians are dressing up as “Messenger Angels” to bear silent witness against murder and corruption, to the dismay of the police.

NPR

Raising children in a different faith comes with its challenges

With mixed-faith households on the rise from 16 percent in 1988 to 25 percent in 2006, experts say knowledge, honesty and openness are parents’ best tools for raising children of a different faith.

San Jose Mercury News

A spiritual guru from Columbia Heights

Tibetan Buddhists see the extraordinary in this Columbia Heights boy — the reincarnation of the lama, or a spiritual guru, and the eighth appearance of the original lama, born in 1655.

Star Tribune

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Elaine Aron, Ph.D.):

Holiday depression

Attending to the Undervalued Self

(Psychology Today)

Column (Irin Carmon):

Womanhood’s bad year

Salon

Cartoon (Martin Sutovec):

Double Take ’Toons: Iconoclass-ics

NPR

Column (Dana Milbank):

Can you text ‘draconian’ while driving?

Star Tribune

Column (Aaron N. Taylor):

Hazing’s willing victims part of problem, part of solution

Orlando Sentinel

Column (Allan Jacob):

Where free speech rules

Khaleej Times

Editorial:

Most Americans don‘t buy Obama’s class warfare rhetoric

Examiner

Editorial:

Cellphone ban while driving not practical

State Journal Register

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GOOD NEWS

High-school students create unique safety net for needy peers

A small high school classroom, filled with racks of hand-me-downs, is surrounded by shelves laden with canned tomatoes, rice casseroles, shampoo and empty backpacks left for fellow students.

Orlando Sentinel

For a soldier’s family, Skype and Facebook help during holidays

It should have been a scene ready-made for one of those sappy Hallmark commercials: a military mom based in Afghanistan using Skype to help her kids decorate the Christmas tree in their home.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Justin Bieber donates $100K to Las Vegas school

Justin Bieber thrilled students at Whitney Elementary in Las Vegas when he performed a private concert during a charitable visit, donating Christmas gifts to students and $100,000 to the school.

Daily Mail

WORLD

US concerned over violence in Egypt

The United States said it was worried by violence in Egypt and urged the army rulers to respect human rights as security forces fought with protesters demanding an end to military rule for a fourth day.

Msnbc.com

Blog:

Live from Egypt

(Al Jazeera)

Egypt Live Blog

Mass burial for Philippines floods victims

A mass burial has been organized in the Philippines for scores of people killed by flash floods on the southern island of Mindanao.

BBC

Philippines steps up flood relief efforts

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Wind industry accused of blowing off worker safety rule

Thousands of the giant wind machines violate a federal requirement to give technicians who work inside the towers enough maneuvering space to get up and down their ladders safely.

Msnbc.com

EPA final rule for coal plants deemed ‘unfortunate’ by industry

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s rule to curb toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants drew criticism from an industry lobbyist and praise from an environmentalist even before its release.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

‘Star Wars’ universe is getting bigger

That disturbance in the Force is millions of voices crying out in delight as they join the battle of Jedi vs. Sith in “Star Wars: The Old Republic,” a huge new online game and universe.

USA TODAY

Touchless smartphones and TVs could be on sale in 2012

Based in Tel Aviv, XTR3D is one of the developers of motion capture technology, and it has just received an $8 million investment bound to give “touchless” tech another push.

BBC

Apple wins partial victory over HTC in smartphone claim

A federal agency ruled that a set of important features found in smartphones are protected by an Apple patent, a decision that could force changes in how Google’s Android phones function.

Msnbc.com

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Holiday shoppers pledge to ‘Occupy Christmas’ and buy American

The buy American movement has been gaining momentum in recent years amid the nation’s economic downturn and steady unemployment.

CNN

AP Entertainer of the Year: Lady Gaga

After a year of extravagant globe-trotting and relentless advocacy of tolerance, Lady Gaga has been voted Entertainer of the Year by members of The Associated Press.

Plain Dealer

Sexy Venetians, Pissarro Cocotte, grandiloquent Serra

Two enigmatic portraits by Giorgione from the early 1500s are highlights of “Masters of Venice,” a remarkable exhibition of Renaissance art that is now on display in San Francisco.

Bloomberg

SPORTS

Shawn Marion feels Mavs not getting due as champions

Are the NBA champion Dallas Mavericks getting their deserved respect entering the new season? Not if you ask Shawn Marion.

ESPN

Packers kiss perfection goodbye

Champagne bottles popped across South Florida as the Chiefs kept alive slim playoff hopes and spoiled Green Bay’s bid for history-making perfection with a 19-14 victory at Arrowhead Stadium.

Kansas City Star

Redskins hurt Giants playoff bid

USA TODAY

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