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President Barack Obama points to a member of the audience as he takes questions during a town hall style event with Chinese youth at the Museum of Science and Technology in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Martinez Monsivais / AP)

GM to start repaying debt to US

General Motors Corp. said better results will allow it to start repaying government loans sooner than expected, although the company continued to lose money in its first quarter.

CNNMoney

GM loses, promises to repay US debt early

NPR

What gets lost when our financial statements go paperless

As we stop holding bank statements in our hands in favor of glancing at the information electronically could we be ignoring where all the money goes?

TIME

Obama says US not trying to contain China

President Barack Obama said that Washington was not trying to contain China's rise but said trade between the two giants needed to be more balanced.

Reuters

While US economy struggles, China's rises

NPR

Obama in Asia

Guardian

Merck cholesterol pill woes may intensify

A finding that Merck & Co.’s cholesterol pills Vytorin and Zetia didn’t reopen clogged arteries as well as Abbott Laboratories’ Niaspan has set off a medical debate on heart treatment strategies.

Bloomberg

Cholesterol drug controversy

CBS News

Imam al-Aulaqi: I didn't spark rampage

A radical Yemeni cleric who helped turn the Fort Hood gunman into a devout Muslim said he played no role in Maj. Nidal Hasan's bloody rampage.

NY Daily News

Hasan kept his inner life well-concealed

Houston Chronicle

NATION

In prison, playing just to kill time and just maybe to help solve a murder

The South Carolina Department of Corrections started selling decks of cards with the faces of victims of unsolved crimes on them. Inmates have bought more than 10,000 packs.

New York Times

Massachusetts immigrant tuition bill to get new push

Nearly three years after Massachusetts lawmakers rejected a bill that would have allowed illegal immigrants to attend college at in-state tuition rates, lawmakers are preparing to revisit the issue.

MSNBC

POLITICS

US senators 'would veto' Palestinian state move at UN

The United States would veto a Palestinian declaration of statehood in the United Nations Security Council, U.S. senators visiting Israel said.

Reuters

Michelle Obama heads to Denver to tout mentoring program

First lady Michelle Obama will take her mentoring program on the road, gathering in Denver with cabinet members and celebrities to highlight the need for involvement in young women's lives.

Politico

HEALTH

Sex infections still growing in US

American squeamishness toward talking about sex has helped keep common sexually transmitted infections far too common, especially among vulnerable teens, U.S. researchers reported.

Reuters

Laptop heart tests may save student athletes lives

Heart tests done with a laptop computer and software that cost $4,000 may help save high school athletes from sudden cardiac death, according to a study of 2,057 students in Texas.

Bloomberg

Drug makers raise prices in face of health care reform

Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years.

New York Times

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Scientist's dino findings making waves

Jack Horner is one of the most prominent paleontologists in the country. He has come up with a new idea for his dream of making a dinosaur — a "Dino Chicken" created by reversing evolution.

CBS News

New dinosaur found

National Geographic

Geeky 'tweeters' to report on space shuttle Atlantis launch

Fingers will be flying when space shuttle Atlantis blasts off. About 100 of NASA's geekiest fans will be on hand, pecking away at iPhones, BlackBerrys, laptops and other Twittering gadgets.

Yahoo! News

New security system uses Wii technology and worries GOP

Several Republican lawmakers are worried about privacy with a screening technology being developed that combines a video game balancing device with thermal, ocular, respiratory and cardiac monitors.

The Hill

EDUCATION

Educators wary of federal grants

President Barack Obama is trying to overhaul public education through his Race to the Top program. However, the requirements to receive money are drawing ire from teachers' unions.

Modesto Bee

Indiana colleges look at different ways to teach teachers

Indiana colleges have started re-examining how they teach the state's future teachers, prodded by rising numbers of teachers who are trained through other programs and not education schools.

Indianapolis Star

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GOOD NEWS

Good Samaritans fill Christmas shoe boxes for needy children

The international "Operation Christmas Child" drive will aim to aid children living in war-torn and impoverished nations by delivering shoe boxes filled with toiletries, school supplies, toys and candy.

MLive.com

Nursing students make blankets

Six college students huddled in a campus-area apartment and clipped, cut, tied and twisted a mountain of fleece into blankets to give to kids in need.

Columbus Dispatch

WORLD

Apology for children shipped from Britain to colonies

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a historic apology to thousands of impoverished British children shipped to Australia with the promise of a better life, only to suffer abuse and neglect.

ABC News

Frustrated Palestinians to seek UN backing for separate state