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Microsoft pledges to stay in China despite Google's threat to leave

Microsoft has no plans to pull out of China, its CEO Steven Ballmer has confirmed, dashing hopes that the software giant would support its rival Google in its stand against Chinese censorship of the Internet.

Telegraph.co.uk

Pentagon report faults Hasan's bosses in Fort Hood shooting

As many as eight Army officers could face punishment for failing to do anything when the alleged shooter in the Fort Hood rampage displayed erratic behavior early in his military career, a U.S. official says.

Florida Times-Union

Vexing bugs in the global trading system

As global trade has mounted, more goods are coming in from overseas, sometimes bringing with them the accidental cargo of destructive bugs and plants.

Wall Street Journal

Highest court weighs in on invasive issue

WUWM

Consumer inflation tame, while wages took a hit

Consumer inflation was tame in 2009, with prices rising 2.7 percent. Yet families felt squeezed as their spending power sank with falling wages, job losses and higher prices for energy, medical and education.

NPR

US consumer sentiment holds steady

Reuters

Big earnings gains may not lift stocks

Stocks in the S&P 500 are expected to post earnings gains in 2010, but experts caution that the gains may not be good fuel for a continued stock-market rise.

TIME

Stocks hit by broad selloff

CNNMoney

NATION

Officials at NASA probe bag of drugs

Dozens of Kennedy Space Center employees are undergoing drug tests as authorities investigate the discovery of a small plastic bag that contained cocaine inside a restricted shuttle hangar.

Florida Today

US to further raise airline security

The Department of Homeland Security is further increasing aviation security in response to intelligence indicating Islamist terrorists were planning another attack on the United States.

MSNBC

Special section:

Airport security

BBC

Terror fears up; views on Obama hold steady

NPR

US may be eyeing DC for Gitmo trial

The Obama administration is considering a trial in Washington for a Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspect.

USA TODAY

HAITI EARTHQUAKE

Haiti quake aid hampered by blockages

Bottlenecks and infrastructure damage have been holding up aid efforts in Haiti, where the earthquake has left thousands dead.

BBC

Devastating earthquake hits Haiti

New York Times

Scientists warned Haiti officials of quake

Scientists said they warned officials in Haiti two years ago that their country was ripe for a major earthquake.

St. Petersburg Times

Celebrities to join Haiti telethon

In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, George Clooney and other celebrities are signing on for a telethon to aid the devastated island nation.

CNN

Global reaction to Haiti earthquake

MSNBC

POLITICS

Dems see progress on health bill deal

President Barack Obama agreed to soften a proposed tax on high-cost insurance plans, but work continues on several remaining sticking points in the health care legislation — including the thorny issue of abortion.

USA TODAY

White House scores key labor deal

Politico

Obama ally Reid in danger of losing re-election bid

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may pay the ultimate political price for championing President Barack Obama's liberal agenda: he could lose his seat back home in Nevada.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

India to tackle pollution with energy cuts

India is planning to create a $10 billion-a-year market in energy-saving certificates that officials hope will burnish the country's green credentials and help to avert a looming energy crisis.

Times Online

Environmental group gives nod to sustainable salmon-farming method

Farm-raised salmon has long been the poster child of unsustainable aquaculture practices. Issues of pollution and inefficiency have plunged it into the "avoid" territory of environmental groups.

Scientific American

Arctic polar bears imperiled by pollution

The long-term survival of polar bears is being threatened by man-made pollution that is reaching the Arctic.

BBC

Polar bear: waving not freezing

Telegraph.co.uk

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Neural thermostat regulates brain activity

Our energy-hungry brains operate reliably and efficiently while processing a flood of sensory information, thanks to a sort of neuronal thermostat that regulates activity in the visual cortex.

ScienceDaily

'Doomsday Clock' moves a minute back

The Doomsday Clock — a barometer of nuclear danger for the past 55 years — has been moved one minute further away from the "midnight hour."

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Headache from religious fast? Researchers may have a cure

Every year millions of Jews fast on their holiest day, Yom Kippur, and millions of Muslims fast for the month of Ramadan — and every year, as many as 40 percent of those fasting develop serious headaches.

Reuters

Pope calls on Turkey to give Roman Catholic Church legal recognition

Pope Benedict XVI has called on Turkey to give legal recognition to the Roman Catholic Church in the Muslim-majority but politically secular nation.

Pew Forum

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GOOD NEWS

Librarian leaves $878,000 estate

Bob Olson, who lived quietly in Minneapolis, spread around a substantial estate, including $50,000 gifts to neighbors.

Star Tribune

Pa. runners turn chance to stay fit into chance to do good

The Frigid 5-Miler is the third of five races this season to benefit a different Pittsburgh-area charity. What the runners get out of it is company and competition in a sport they pursue year-round.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WORLD

African immigrants in Italy: slave labor for the mafia

Xenophobes in homogenous European countries often complain that immigrants will erase their most precious cultural norms. The race riots in Italy may be one indicator that change is inevitable.

TIME

Cartel Inc.: in the company of narcos