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Rescuers from the Brignoles UIISC 7 Instruction and Intervention Unit gather equipment in a warehouse before taking off for Haiti, 37 miles northwest of Marseille, France. (Photo by Claude Paris / AP)

Haiti earthquake survivors await aid effort

Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are waiting for rescue efforts in the wake of the country's devastating earthquake, the situation is increasingly desperate with no coordinated rescue plan.

BBC

Devastation in Haiti

TIME

Coast Guard video reveals Haiti devastation

YouTube

US missile strikes Pakistan terrorist camp

U.S. missile strikes killed at least 15 people at a compound formerly used as a religious school in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region, officials said, the eighth such attack in two weeks.

CBS News

Congressional panel grills Wall Street titans

A Congressional committee investigating the financial crisis grilled the nation's top bankers in an example of Washington's anger at an industry many there feel hasn't atoned for its role in the slump.

Wall Street Journal

Obama to call for bailout tax

CNNMoney

Regulators face US financial crisis panel

Reuters

Washington cracks down on Wall Street

MSNBC

Justice Department sues Pa. swim club, charging race bias

The Justice Department accused a suburban Philadelphia swim club of race bias in a lawsuit filed six months after the club barred a group of mostly black day campers from their pool.

San Francisco Chronicle

Justice Department sues Pa. swim club

CBS3.com

Yahoo! said to be target of hacker attacks from China

Yahoo! Inc., owner of the no. 2 search engine in the U.S., was targeted by a Chinese attack similar to the one that affected Google Inc.

Bloomberg

NATION

Ruling blocks broadcasting of a trial on same-sex marriage

The Supreme Court has effectively eliminated the possibility that any part of the trial of a constitutional challenge to a ban on same-sex marriage now under way would be broadcast before it concludes.

New York Times

High court rules against video of same-sex marriage trial

CNN

Mom charged for refusing to leave infant

Alexis Hutchinson was supposed to deploy overseas with her Army unit but skipped the flight, she contended, because she had nobody to take care of her then-10-month-old son.

San Francisco Chronicle

Ala. foreclosure rate up 156 percent

The foreclosure rate in Alabama soared more than 156 percent in 2009 over the previous year, ranking it 30th in the nation, according to a recent report.

Birmingham Business Journal

POLITICS

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

Harold Ford's Manhattan makeover

The success of Harold Ford’s prospective run against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand would seem to rest largely on convincing people that he didn’t really believe in most of the centrist positions.

Politico

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Soul singer Teddy Pendergrass dies at 59

Teddy Pendergrass, who became R&B's reigning sex symbol in the 1970s and '80s with his forceful, masculine voice and passionate love ballads, died at age 59.

Kansas City Star

Soul singer Teddy Pendergrass dead

Portland Press Herald

'Avatar' under attack from Vatican, liberals and US military

James Cameron might be laughing all the way to the bank, but his film "Avatar" is receiving criticism from those who accuse it of being everything from a racist throwback to the source of their depression.

Globeandmail.com

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Pandora's free online radio gets boost from iPhone, Ford

Tim Westergren doesn't have to beat the drum as loudly anymore. Thanks to the popularity of the iPhone and other smartphones, listenership has quadrupled since 2008 at Pandora.

USA TODAY

Astronomers explain how galaxies came to be

For the first time, two astronomers have explained the diversity of galaxy shapes seen in the universe.

ScienceDaily

HEALTH

Artificial pancreas prototype in development for Type 1 diabetics

A potentially revolutionary way to manage insulin in people with Type 1 diabetes may be available in just four years.

HealthDay

Morphine helps avoid post-combat stress

U.S. combat soldiers in Iraq who received morphine within an hour of being wounded were less likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers reported.

New York Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

World's largest religious festival under way in India

Close to a million Hindu pilgrims bathed in India's holy river Ganges in an immense display of color and devotion at the start of the world's biggest religious festival.

The Age

Disabled worshippers struggle to find home in pews

Among the most humbling moments of being confined to an electric wheelchair came when Shawana Bulloch realized it could prevent her from attending services at her Savannah church.

Yahoo! News

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GOOD NEWS

Dog helps save elderly, unconscious man in Minn.

Police credit a 15-year-old German shorthaired dog with saving the life of an elderly, unconscious man in Minn.

McClatchy Newspapers

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

WORLD

Japan says US ties firm

Japan's foreign minister shrugged off suggestions that Tokyo was cozying up to China at the expense of its alliance with the United States and repeated a vow to settle a feud over a U.S. airbase by May.

Reuters

Uganda President Museveni wary of anti-gay bill