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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama greet guests in the Blue Room on the State Floor of the White House. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

Caroline Kennedy drops out of Senate race for Clinton's seat

"I informed Governor Paterson that for personal reasons, I am withdrawing my name from consideration for the United States Senate," Caroline Kennedy said in a released statement.

Newsday

Kennedy is said to withdraw Senate bid

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Clinton sworn in as Secretary of State

CBS News

China's economic growth slows

The world's third-largest economy took a hard hit as China's economic growth slowed to nine percent; its lowest growth rate in seven years.

BBC

Obama pledges 'era of openness'

President Obama announced that his administration will roll back the secrecy that ruled during the Bush Administration and implement a new era of government openness and transparency.

Wired

President Obama retakes oath of office

NY Daily News

Obama's first day agenda

MSNBC

With one draft order, President Obama declares end of Guantánamo

"The detention facilities at Guantánamo for individuals covered by this order shall be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than one year from the date of this order," wrote Obama, in his draft order.

Guardian

Switzerland to consider hosting Gitmo inmates

Bloomberg

Inside Guantanamo’s walls

MSNBC

Pakistan seizes Saudi Arabian suspect in London terror attacks

Pakistani forces captured a Saudi Arabian suspect — along with six other men — believed to have been involved in the 2005 London terrorist bombings.

International Herald Tribune

NATION

House committee advances economic stimulus bill

An $825 billion economic stimulus package sought by Democrats cleared a key hurdle as a House of Representatives panel approved major portions of the spending initiatives.

Reuters

Fire burns NYC hospital

A fire at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan injured at least six firefighters and forced 600 patients to be moved across the sprawling complex.

ABC News

POLITICS

Senate confirms Clinton as the new secretary of state

With a 94-2 vote, the Senate confirmed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. Both parties said her swift confirmation was necessary so Obama could begin tackling major foreign policy issues.

San Francisco Chronicle

Coleman packs, vows to continue legal fight for Senate seat

Sen. Norm Coleman began packing his Capitol Hill office, but said he has no intention of giving up his legal fight to serve another term in Congress.

CNN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Winters warmer, spring earlier

Earth's coldest days of the year are getting warmer, and scientists have seen winter temperatures rising at a much faster pace than summer temperatures.

San Francisco Chronicle

Is a coconut car coming your way?

One day soon your car may be made partly out of coconuts, with a farmer thousands of miles away reaping great benefit.

ABC News

HEALTH

Obesity epidemic imperils health reform

With about two-thirds of American adults overweight, the direct and indirect costs of obesity is $117 billion each year, according to a U.S. surgeon general report.

Reuters

Death sentences in China milk case

Two men were sentenced to death and the chairwoman of a dairy conglomerate received a life sentence for their roles in the contaminated-milk scandal that killed six children and sickened nearly 300,000.

International Herald Tribune

China's milk scandal

BBC

EDUCATION

Presidential race sees rise in student political involvement

The 2008 presidential election helped catapult today's college freshmen to a level of political involvement not seen in decades, a survey suggests.

USA Today

Court: Parents can sue school district over harassment claim

The Supreme Court allowed a girl's parents to sue a Massachusetts school district over a student's alleged sexual harassment.

CNN

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Muslim activists ask Obama for help in fighting extremism

A group of 300 young Muslim activists from 76 countries has asked President Obama to promote policies that can help peacefully curtail religious extremism.

Beliefnet

The role of religion under Obama

After decades of ceding God to the GOP, at least in the public square, Democrats — with President Obama in the lead — are speaking with a fuller religious voice. The watchword? Inclusiveness.

Christian Science Monitor

Obama and religion

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Program donates more than $1.5 million to victims of domestic violence

Verizon Wireless collected a total of 1.13 million old and no-longer-used wireless phones in 2008 through its HopeLine phone recycling and reuse program.

PNN

Saving lives with satellite data

Peter Hall and Christine Edwards, both of British start-up Sci-Tech Systems, came up with a scheme to help save lives using the global navigation satellite system.

HappyNews.com

WORLD

After Gaza war, Israel negotiates with Hamas for a prisoner swap

After battering Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel now hopes to push through a prisoner swap to retrieve a soldier held by the Palestinians since 2006.

Reuters

Rights group puts Gaza death toll at 1,284

CBS News

Hamas leader urges West to talk with Palestinian Islamists

BBC

Hanoi environmental police seize tons of illegal wildlife parts

In their largest-ever seizure of illegally traded wildlife products, Hanoi's Environmental Police have confiscated more than two metric tons of increasingly rare wild animal parts.

Environment News Service

BUSINESS

Sony forecasts $2.9 billion loss

Sony, the Japanese consumer electronics group, said that it would plunge to a $2.9 billion operating loss in the year to March 2009 as the global downturn and strong yen wreaked havoc on sales.

Financial Times

Heartland has closed security hole

Heartland Payment Systems, the sixth-largest payment processor in the U.S., discovered criminals had placed spying software on its computer network in one of the biggest data breaches on record.

Philadelphia Inquirer

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Sundance was 'sneakily' good

This go-round, the Sundance Film Festival looked a lot like the movies it screened: surprising, quality-filled and not as depressing as some expected.

Hollywood Reporter

Total recall: directors who made a splash at Sundance

Rotten Tomatoes

Oscar voting system deciphered

Nominations for the 81st Academy Awards recognize a lot of hard work and creativity — some of which occurred behind the scenes when Academy voters filled out their nominating ballots.

Variety

Oscar nominations announced

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Scotch whisky goes 'green'

Scotch drinkers who care for the climate will soon relish their tipple knowing it provides clean renewable power in the home of whisky.

Reuters

Life expectancy up, thanks to cleaner air

Steps to curb U.S. air pollution are paying off, helping to dramatically increase average life spans, a new study says.

WebMD

SPORTS

NJIT snaps 51-game losing streak

New Jersey Institute of Technology ended the longest losing streak in Division I men's basketball at 51 games.

Sports Illustrated

Virginia Tech upsets Wake Forest

Malcolm Delaney scored 21 points and Virginia Tech held on to upset top-ranked Wake Forest 78-71 for its second victory over a No. 1 team in three seasons.

ESPN

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