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General Motors Co. Vice Chairman Bob Lutz answers a question during an interview in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Paul Sancya / AP)

GM, bondholders reach deal

General Motors has reached a deal with a committee of its bondholders to give them 10 percent of a newly restructured GM, reports said.

WMUR-TV

Partisan debate over Sotomayor begins

Conservatives are criticizing the nominee over a speech and a court decision. The White House is pushing back hard.

NPR

Interest groups engaged in nominee battle

San Diego Union-Tribune

Initial jobless claims drop unexpectedly

The tally of newly laid-off people requesting jobless benefits fell last week, the government said, a sign that companies are cutting fewer workers.

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Economic indicators are rising

CBS News

High alert on N Korea

South Korean and U.S. troops have gone on higher alert after North Korea said it was scrapping the armistice treaty that ended the Korean War 50 years ago.

BBC

N Korea faces UN sanctions

Reuters

Study says uninsured are costly for all

The average family with health insurance shells out an extra $1,000 a year in premiums to pay for health care for the uninsured, a new report finds.

Sacramento Bee

Health reform: a $1 trillion question

CNNMoney

Gay marriage fight isn't over in California, activists vow

Activists are already crafting a new ballot initiative for 2010 to overturn Proposition 8, the voter-approved measure that amended the state's constitution to limit marriage to heterosexual couples.

Christian Science Monitor

California gay marriage ban upheld

Reuters

Pakistan bounties for Swat leaders

Pakistan has offered $10,000 cash for the arrest of the Islamic religious leader said to be behind of the Taliban's campaign in the Swat valley.

Al Jazeera

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A team of rowers compete in a dragon boat race in Beijing, China. (Photo by Alexander Yuan / AP)	Two red fox kits play over a fox’s den near an elementary school in Laramie, Wyo. (Photo by Andy Carpenean / AP)	Germany' s Anna-Lena Groenefeld eyes the ball at the French Open tennis tournament held in Paris. (Photo by Laurent Rebours / AP)

NATION

Has the real estate market hit bottom?

After nearly two years of steep declines, there are small signs that the housing market may be close to finding a bottom.

ABC News

Stimulus projects bypass needy states

States hit hardest by the recession received few of the government's first stimulus contracts, though the new federal spending was meant to target places with the severest economic pain.

USA TODAY

Blog:

Obama: We're seeing results from stimulus

CBS News

12-year-old Afghan was taken to Gitmo

An Afghan who spent more than six years at the U.S. military's Guantanamo Bay prison was only about 12 when detained, not 16 or 17 as his official record says, an Afghan rights group said.

Reuters

POLITICS

President's security advisor intervenes in US intelligence turf war

Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair wants to pick his representatives abroad. This has brought him into conflict with Leon Panetta, director of the CIA, who now chooses them.

Telegraph.co.uk

Sestak will challenge Specter in 2010

U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak has made no secret of his desire to challenge Sen. Arlen Specter in the 2010 Democratic primary. Now it appears he has told supporters and contributors he will.

PennLive.com

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Tsunami? Apocalypse? No, just the moon

It's only the moon, emergency officials in Puerto Rico are telling nervous islanders who have feared that recent extreme tides portend a tsunami or biblical catastrophe.

MSNBC

Soyuz astronauts head to space station

Three astronauts are on their way to the International Space Station, after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz spacecraft.

InformationWeek

Glowing monkeys to aid research

Scientists have modified genes to make primates and their offspring glow green. Future genetic modifications to primates could aid efforts to find cures for conditions like Parkinson's disease.

BBC

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Pixar builds fan loyalty through its stories

Disney might own Pixar after buying the company for $7.4 billion in 2006. But when it comes to brand loyalty among family moviegoers, Pixar is the new Disney.

Ashbury Park Press

Special section:

Disney Pixar's 'Up'

Disney

Bruce Springsteen closes out tour with hometown marathon

After a rousing version of “American Land,” Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band’s show at the Izod Center truly seemed over.

Rolling Stone

EDUCATION

Students camp overnight as hunger strike hits 2nd day

UC Santa Cruz students participating in a hunger strike to end cuts to academic programs that attract students of color say they will escalate their actions if university officials don't address their demands.

San Jose Mercury News

Education gap leaves advocates divided

On the heels of a study that found quantifiable and disturbing educational achievement disparities between students from different racial and economic backgrounds, solutions remain unclear.

New America Media

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

An old brand tries to be new: Protestant groups put faith in new ad campaigns

The United Methodist Church recently unveiled a $20 million rebranding effort aimed at attracting younger members to the large but diminishing Protestant group.

Star Tribune

Malaysia ban on 'Allah' upheld

The Catholic church in Malaysia has failed in a court challenge to a government ban which prevented the church from using the word "Allah" in its weekly newsletter.

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

'Slumdog' stars to get new flats

"Slumdog Millionaire" director Danny Boyle has promised new homes for the child-stars of his Oscar-winning film and has already bought an apartment for one of them, news reports said.

Monsters and Critics

Fire rescue saves kitten trapped in car

Palm Beach Fire-Rescue dismantled the engine of a Mercedes SUV belonging to crooner Vic Damone to free a feral kitten wedged under the hood.

Palm Beach Daily News

WORLD

Palestinian president pushing pan-Arab peace with Israel

Top Palestinian officials said President Mahmoud Abbas is working to repackage a 2002 plan that called for exchange of Arab land occupied by Israel in the 1967 war for normalized relations with Arab countries.

Examiner

Powerful earthquake off Honduras coast