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A mother floats her daughter through floodwaters in Taytay township, Rizal province, east of Manila, Philippines. (Photo by Wally Santana / AP)

Thousands trapped under rubble

As many as 4,000 people could be buried under the rubble in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes in Indonesia, with local disaster management officials putting the current death toll at 535.

CNN

World joins Sumatra quake rescue

BBC

Indonesia quake search

CBS News

Obama aide concedes climate legislation won't be done on time

President Barack Obama's top aide on climate change said that legislation requiring major reductions in global warming emissions is unlikely to pass Congress before the Copenhagen summit.

Monsters and Critics

Typhoon Parma slams northern Philippines

Typhoon Parma slammed into the Philippines, ripping off roofs, toppling power pylons and swelling rivers in the country's mountainous north. At least two people were killed, an official said.

Associated Press

Storm spares Philippines capital

BBC

Philippines flooding

Yahoo! News

US 'suddenly' lost track of bin Laden

The United States and Pakistan were closing in on Osama bin Laden, but suddenly lost the mastermind of terrorist attacks, former Pakistan leader Pervez Musharraf said.

USA TODAY

FBI: man arrested in ESPN reporter's nude video case

A Chicago-area man arrested at O'Hare Airport who is accused of taping surreptitious nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was due to appear in federal court, authorities said.

ABC News

Man held over nude videos of ESPN reporter

MSNBC

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Members of the street theater group Royal De Luxe lift a giant out of the river Spree in Berlin. (Photo by Maya Hitij / AP)	A "hayman," made from hay bales, is seen at Marini Farm in Ipswich, Mass. (Photo by Lisa Poole / AP)	The Flying Men of Papantla perform at the Anthropology Museum in Mexico City. (Photo by Claudio Cruz / AP)

NATION

9.8 percent jobless rate is 'sobering'

President Barack Obama said that his administration will do everything possible to put Americans back to work after job cuts pushed the U.S. unemployment rate to 9.8 percent — the highest in 26 years.

NPR

US immigrant population flat

After nearly 40 years of recorded increases, the number of immigrants living in the U.S. remained flat between 2007 and 2008, recent statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau show.

CNN

Special section:

Immigration explorer

New York Times

POLITICS

Health care bill nears key milestone

The quest to reform the nation's health care system entered uncharted legislative territory when House and Senate leaders prepared for historic floor debates.

CBS News

Health overhaul could raise Medicare costs

ABC News

Obama: Health care reform means more jobs

YouTube

President Obama’s Olympic-sized failure

President Barack Obama was "disappointed" Chicago missed getting the 2016 Olympic Games, but didn’t regret putting so much on the line to argue for it.

Boston Herald

Obama fails to bring home Olympic gold

Bloomberg

Obama expresses regret at Chicago's loss

YouTube

Senate’s Warner urges Goldman Sachs to watch ‘optics’ on pay

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. must be careful about handing out record bonuses while the banking industry is still under distress to avoid spurring an outcry from Congress, U.S. Senator Mark Warner said.

Bloomberg

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

The high price of being a gay couple

Much of the debate over legalizing gay marriage has focused on God and Scripture, the Constitution and equal protection. But gay couples complain about all the extra health, legal and other costs they bear.

New York Times

Austin Lovelace to be honored by American Guild of Organists

The American Guild of Organists is honoring Austin Lovelace's influential career at its Hymn and Anthem Festival, "Ninety Years and Seven Decades."

Denver Post

HEALTH

Recession may boost life expectancy

During the Great Depression, the average life expectancy in the U.S. actually rose. This surprising bump in the population’s health is also seen in other economic downturns.

LiveScience

Experts hope swine flu will spur universal flu vaccine

Experts think the H1N1 swine flu pandemic should spur pharmaceutical researchers to renew efforts to develop a universal flu vaccine and rethink ways of dealing with future pandemics.

MSNBC

Some nurses refuse mandatory flu shots

ABC News

Mom's obesity tied to baby's heart defects

Heavy women may be putting their unborn children at risk of congenital heart defects, researchers say.

MedPage Today

Discussion:

Obesity FAQs

Chattanooga Times Free Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Ig Nobel winners

Ig Nobel Prizes, awarded to scientific achievements that "cannot and should not be reproduced," were awarded in a ceremony at Harvard University.

CNET News

US magazines plan online newsstand, led by Time Inc.

Time Inc. is gathering U.S. magazine publishers to start a jointly run digital newsstand that would deliver their titles to mobile devices such as increasingly popular electronic book readers.

Reuters

EDUCATION

States using stimulus to replace instead of to boost school aid

An internal watchdog at the Education Department says states are using money from the economic stimulus to plug budget holes instead of boosting aid for schools.

USA TODAY

GSU wins $13.5M education grant

Georgia State University won a record $13.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to boost the number of qualified teachers committed to high-need schools.

Atlanta Business Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Texas investing $3 billion in the search for a cure for cancer

Texas is planning to invest $3 billion in cancer research and prevention, making the state the keeper of the second largest pot of cancer research dollars in the U.S.

USA TODAY

A quarterback with a cause

Asheville High quarterback Brandon Whiteside is dedicating $1 for every yard he passes for this season to charities that fight cancer, which has recently affected several members of his family.

Citizen-Times.com

WORLD

UN nuclear chief to visit Iran

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, is expected in Iran to discuss inspectors' access to a recently revealed uranium facility.

BBC

Irish voters overwhelmingly back EU Lisbon reform treaty