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People carry an injured person after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Photo by Jorge Cruz / AP)

President Obama to announce bank fees to cover TARP losses

President Barack Obama, looking to recoup billions in expected losses from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, will announce a plan to impose fees on the country's biggest financial institutions.

CNN

Wall Street underestimated financial crisis

Star Tribune

Bonus season brings political risks for banks

NPR

Don't count on windfall from US, legislative analyst says

California has an "almost non-existent" chance of reaping a $6.9 billion windfall from Washington, D.C. to reduce its deficit, nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor said in his initial budget review.

Sacramento Bee

3 million likely affected, thousands feared dead

The Red Cross warned that up to 3 million people may have been affected by the earthquake in Haiti as aid organizations and governments deployed response teams and pledged resources.

CNN

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How to help Haiti

MSNBC

Blog:

Haiti earthquake updates

Guardian

Gallery: Haiti earthquake

Al Jazeera

Clergy speak out on curriculum in Texas

At a news conference in Austin, Texas, theologians said they were wary of the State Board of Education injecting too much religion into the new social science curriculum standards that will be voted on.

San Antonio Express

Religious textbook debate

KXAN.com

Climate scientists convene global geo-engineering summit

Scientists are to hold a high-level summit in Calif. to discuss how the world could take emergency measures such as blocking out the sun to slow dangerous global warming.

Guardian

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The Freedom Riders in downtown Denver, as the National Western Stock Show Parade kicks off the event. (Photo by Peter M. Fredin / AP)	Tanja Poutiainen of Finland crosses the finish line in the alpine ski Women's World Cup Slalom in Flachau, Austria. (Photo by Giovanni Auletta / AP)	Electronic vehicle manufacturer CT&T introduces e-Zone Plus concept car at the Detroit auto show. (Photo by Paul Sancya / AP)

NATION

Obama wants $33 billion more for wars

The Obama administration plans to ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to reports.

MSNBC

Mixed signal on airport scanners

The Transportation Security Administration has promised not to store nude images of passengers made by whole-body scanners, but required exactly those capabilities, according to agency documents.

New York Times

Most Americans would trim civil liberties to be safer in the air

Denver Post

Distracted driving causes 28 percent of US auto crashes

At least 28 percent of U.S. traffic crashes are caused by drivers using hand-held communication devices such as mobile phones, a safety group said.

BusinessWeek

National campaign to attack distracted driving

Columbus Dispatch

POLITICS

Feingold wary of upcoming ruling on campaign finance

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on a case that challenges one of the primary provisions in Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold's signature campaign finance legislation.

Herald Times Reporter

Obama's political arm under fire

President Barack Obama came to town a year ago to change the way politics worked, and Organizing for America was to be his instrument. A year later, the organization is finding itself on the defense.

Politico

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

‘Baby Einstein’ founder goes to court

A "Baby Einstein" videos co-founder has sought an order for the University of Washington to release records relating to studies that linked television viewing by young children to attention problems.

New York Times

Conan O'Brien won't do a later show

The late-night host informed his writing staff on "The Tonight Show" that he won't do the show in the time slot NBC asked.

Hollywood Reporter

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Silence that cell phone with a whack

Help could be on the way for those of us who have fumbled, red-faced, to silence a ringing phone in a packed theater.

New Scientist

Shar-pei wrinkles explained

Scientists who have analyzed the genetics of 10 pedigree dog breeds believe they now know how Shar-peis got their famous wrinkled appearance.

BBC

HEALTH

H1N1 shots widely available, but do people want them?

A few months ago people clamored for the limited number of H1N1 vaccines. Now that there is ample supply, people are no longer interested in getting the vaccine.

ABC News

Could a bigger bottom boost health?

Fat that settles around the thighs and buttocks may be better for you. In fact, a new review of the data suggests it may even help protect your health.

HealthDay

Green tea may cut smokers' lung cancer

Drinking a cup or more a day of green tea may counteract the effect of smoking on lung cancer, according to a researcher.

WebMD

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

A mosque by any other name

Ahmadis consider themselves Muslims, though they differ from the Sunni on an important point: they believe that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the 19th-century Indian, was a latter-day prophet.

Economist

France may ban Muslim veils

USA TODAY

New York's elite churches struggle

Many of the formerly socially prominent Fifth Avenue churches have sizable endowments, but those endowments have been hit hard by the stock market's decline from pre-recession highs.

Religion News Service

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GOOD NEWS

Gates Foundation grant seeks savings for the poor

Using hand-held devices, motorbikes and even smartphones, micro-lenders such as ShoreBank International hope to give poor communities access to safe and affordable ways to save their hard-earned cash.

Reuters

Jane Goodall: 'Give people hope'

It is half a century since she began her seminal work studying chimpanzees in Africa, but Jane Goodall says her work is far from finished.

Guardian

WORLD

Google to end China censorship due to account breach

Google will stop censoring its search results in China and may pull out of the country completely after discovering that hackers tricked human rights activists into opening their e-mail accounts to outsiders.

MSNBC

Will Internet majors rally behind Google?