DailySource: Quality News from Around the Internet

Dear reader,

We're excited to be coming out with a new content focus and new design in the near future that is similar to but different than our current focus. We are pausing publishing so we can create it. We’ll launch the revised site near the start of January, and look forward to seeing you then. We’ll email all registered users, Facebook fans and Twitter followers when we launch. Registering only takes a minute. Click here to register, follow us on Twitter, or friend us on Facebook.

— The DailySource Team

Other Topics

DailySource

Current problems in the media

The growing impact of the Internet

Benefits the site provides

Why we have higher quality news

How we choose articles

My DailySource

Sign-in

Free registration

Make us your homepage

Media Resources

Media organizations list

Contact media sources

Writing a letter to the editor

Media quotes

Other Resources

Career and jobs

Call, email or fax your elected officials

Nonprofit Organizations

Over 1.2 million donation options

27,000 volunteer openings

Nonprofit resources

DailySource
is a nonprofit
news site.
Please
Donate

To donate by check or credit card, click the graphic above.

We are a 501(c)3 charity so donations are tax-deductible.

To find all the ways you can help, click here.

Shop and Donate

Use the search box below, and Amazon will donate 4-7 percent of any purchase you make to us.

Other Items

Website monitoring
for DailySource
provided for free by
WatchMouse

Click here
to follow our news
updates on Twitter

Subscribe to our
feeds via

Russian President Vladimir Putin waves at a polling station in Moscow. Russians voted in a parliamentary election where the only question is whether President Vladimir Putin's party will win merely a strong majority of seats or a crushing share. (Photo by Misha Japaridze / AP)

Putin's party overwhelms parliamentary elections in Russia

Vladimir Putin's party won a crushing victory in parliamentary elections, paving the way for the authoritarian leader to remain in control even after he steps down as president.

Yahoo! News

Fraud claims in Russia poll

Yahoo! News

Darfur mission 'behind schedule'

An international peacekeeping force for the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur will start its mission with a third of the 26,000 troops initially pledged.

BBC

7 dead as winter storm disrupts the Midwest

Forecasters predicted freezing rain and snow flurries in Iowa, a day after snow and ice plastered the Midwest, disrupting airport and highway traffic and leaving seven people dead.

CNN

Winter storm causes chaos

CBS News

Chavez blasts Colombian president Uribe

A Colombian rebel group holding hostages had agreed to release some of them by the end of the year, but Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has derailed those plans, says Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

CNN

Special section:

Profile: Hugo Chavez

BBC

Dog attack ignites immigration debate

An 85-pound German shepherd has become the unlikely face of the immigration debate after a judge ordered the dog to be put down for attacking an illegal immigrant.

ABC News

Police move against illegal immigration

Baltimore Sun

The World in Photos .........................................................................
New York Giants' Kevin Dockery breaks up a pass from Chicago Bears quarterback Rex Grossman to Muhsin Muhammad in the end zone during the final seconds of an NFL football game in Chicago. (Photo by M. Spencer Green / AP)	Spanish bullfighter Sebastian Palomo performs a pass during the Senor de los Milagros festival in Lima. (Photo by Martin Mejia / AP)	Thousands of Basque citizens participate in a rally to protest against the decision of a Spanish court to order the detention of 46 members convicted of aiding the armed Basque separatist group ETA. (Photo by Alvaro Barrientos / AP)

NATION

After fires, Calif. mudslide threat

Southern California's weather turned from dangerously dry to extremely wet as storms brought the threat of mudslides and flash floods to areas burned by recent wildfires, causing evacuation orders.

TIME

Mysterious package possible link to missing woman

A man believed to be Drew Peterson asked two truck drivers to take a package to an undisclosed location in the early morning on the day his wife Stacy was reported missing, Illinois State Police said.

CBS News

Fourth suspect appears in court as Redskins pay Taylor tribute

A fourth man arrested in the shooting death of Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor appeared before a judge via video phone.

CNN

Taylor murder suspects charged

CNN

POLITICS

Bush keeps up pressure on Congress to approve war spending bill

President Bush is urging Congress to pass several pieces of legislation. Among them, the president is pushing for funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Voice of America

Thompson warns of welfare state

Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson said that election of a Democrat to the White House in 2008 would open the way for a welfare state.

Yahoo! News

BUSINESS

A great time to shop, for foreigners

Overseas shoppers whose countries have a stranglehold on the dollar are finding deals at U.S. stores and flying back to their homelands with their suitcases filled.

TIME

Starbucks plans 2nd farm support center in Rwanda's capital

Starbucks, the world's biggest coffee chain, said it would open a second support center for coffee farmers in Kigali, Rwanda's capital, in 2008.

Reuters

SPORTS

U.S. wins first Davis Cup title in 12 years

U.S. men's tennis broke a 12-year drought with a Davis Cup title win as the Bryan brothers completed a 3-0 sweep of Russia in the final.

Bangkok Post

OSU tops the coaches poll; LSU is No. 2

Ohio State jumped to No.1 in the USA Today coaches' poll, but it was LSU's leap to No.2 that indicated the final Bowl Championship Series may mean an exciting post-season match-up.

Columbus Dispatch

Miles will remain LSU's football coach

Les Miles turned down a chance to return to University of Michigan, the school where he played and coached, telling his team he would remain at Louisiana State University.

Sporting News

Special teams, defense lead Navy's big win over Army

Baltimore Sun

HEALTH

Fruits, veggies a hard sell

Years after a concerted effort to boost consumption of healthful foods, Americans eat the same paltry amounts that they did in 1985.

Baltimore Sun

Simple steps to curb respiratory viruses

Just in time for flu season, researchers are making recommendations to cut the spread of respiratory viruses without the use of drugs.

WebMD

Progress slow in fight against cancer

Despite optimistic claims, a growing number of patient advocates and researchers say they are discouraged by the nation's 36-year war against the disease.

International Herald Tribune

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope critical of atheism, Christianity

Pope Benedict criticized modern-day atheism in a major document, saying it had led to some of the "greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice" ever known.

London Free Press

Cool Stuff

The Daily Quote

“Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.”

Tori Amos

Pop rock singer

Daily Quote Archives

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Live Chats All times are E.T.

Fantasy football: Gene Wang Nov. 29 at noon

Washington Post

The environment: Brendan Koemer Nov. 29 at 1 pm

Washington Post

Personal tech: Rog Pegoraro Nov. 29 at 2 pm

Washington Post

Estates: Sharon Siegel Nov. 29 at 10 pm

Laywers.com

Site edited by: Rachel Wright, Elizabeth Stoycheff, Betse Lyons, Aditi Khemka, Mark Rittenmeyer, Paul Wertheim, Tanya Flowers, Patrick Frierson, Diana Shaw, Sumi Naidoo, Sarah Alender and Amy Marie Phillips.

GOOD NEWS

New HIV drug approved in Canada

A new HIV-AIDS drug, the first in a promising new class of medications, has been given approval for the Canadian market for treatment when viruses are resistant to other HIV drugs.

Good News Network

China's Hu presses the flesh with AIDS patients

Reuters

Skin cells: a new age of medicine

Scientists are giddy about the discovery that skin cells can be coaxed into behaving like stem cells. The cells could be some of the greatest tools modern medical science has ever devised.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

Turkish army fires on PKK in Iraq

The Turkish army says it has inflicted "heavy losses" on rebels from the Kurdish separatist PKK movement across the border in Iraq.