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Publicists sort through nominations lists for the 82nd Academy Awards in the lobby of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif., after nominations were announced. (Photo by Chris Pizzello / AP)

'Avatar,' 'The Hurt Locker' lead Academy Award nominations

For the first time the Oscars feature 10 best-picture contenders instead of the usual five. "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker" lead the list with nine nominations each.

San Francisco Chronicle

Complete list of Oscar nominees

MSNBC

Special section:

Awards season

New York Times

Use of Twitter, Facebook rising among gang members

Law enforcement officials say gangs are making greater use of Twitter and Facebook, helping agents identify gang associates and learn more about their organizations.

ABC News

Top Defense officials seek to end ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

The nation’s top two Defense officials called for an end to the 16-year-old “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, a major step toward allowing openly gay men and women to serve in the United States military.

New York Times

Gates presents specifics on abandoning 'don't ask, don't tell'

CNN

Iraq veteran leads 'Don't Ask' push

Wall Street Journal

China protests US arms sales to Taiwan

China repeated its protests of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, but offered no new details on threatened retaliation such as sanctions against American companies.

Washington Post

China on past US arms sales in Taiwan

Reuters

Medical journal retracts autism paper 12 years later

The Lancet medical journal formally retracted a paper that caused a 12-year battle over links between the three-in-one childhood MMR vaccine and autism.

Reuters

NATION

US anti-missile test of 'Iran or North Korea' attack fails

A U.S. missile defense test designed to shoot down long-range missiles was aborted when the radar system, which has been under development for many years at the cost of tens of billions of dollars, failed.

BBC

Prosecutor pulls out of Landrieu case

The top federal prosecutor for New Orleans has removed himself from the case of four activists arrested while trying to capture hidden camera footage in a senator's office.

CBS News

Study: 1 in 8 get help at food banks

One in eight Americans, 37 million, received emergency food help last year, up 46 percent from 2005, the nation's largest hunger-relief group reports.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Huge deficits may alter US politics and global power

In a federal budget filled with mind-boggling statistics, two numbers stand out as particularly stunning for the way they may change American politics and power.

New York Times

2011 budget unveiled

Yahoo! News

Indian-Americans rising in political clout

President Barack Obama has appointed 20 Indian-Americans to his administration. In 2008, a Minnesota Democrat was the only Indian-American to run for Congress.

McClatchy

SPORTS

Make the NCAA tournament bigger? Timeout, some say

The NCAA's exploration of an expanded Division I men's basketball tournament has touched a nerve among some disapproving schools and conferences.

USA TODAY

Freeney's 'really bad' ankle injury could sideline him for Super Bowl

Dwight Freeney still hopes to play in the Super Bowl. A person close to the All-Pro defensive end told the Associated Press in an e-mail that the ankle was "really bad."

CBS SportsLine

BUSINESS

CBS sells out Super Bowl ads

CBS, the broadcaster for this year's NFL championship, said it has sold out all the spots for the big game, said spokeswoman Shannon Jacobs.

CNNMoney

Manuf. expands at fastest pace in 5 years

Manufacturing expanded in January at the fastest pace since August 2004, indicating production gains that are spearheading the U.S. recovery may soon encourage companies to hire.

Bloomberg

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Taiwan, Chinese gay rights groups to welcome 1st gay cruise

A U.S. travel company plans to send the first gay cruise to Taiwan and China in March, which is expected to renew the discussion of homosexuality and reflect the diversity of human sexual expression.

Earth Times

For China's gay community, show doesn't go on

NPR

Macmillan raising e-book prices

U.S. book publisher Macmillan is raising its e-book prices in a move that threatens to shake up the market and is being strongly opposed by Amazon, maker of the Kindle electronic book reader.

The Independent

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Sites deal with digital assets after death

So what happens to our digital identity when we die? Odds are it will remain trapped in the Internet without someone investing quite some time and effort.

San Francisco Chronicle

NASA reaffirms JSC's importance

NASA officials said that Houston's Johnson Space Center will remain at the heart of manned space operations despite the President's proposal to end the agency's program to return astronauts to the moon.

Houston Chronicle

Pressure mounts to phase out Internet Explorer 6

A Downing Street petition is calling for the U.K. government to drop Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 and move to a more modern browser. IE6 has security flaws and uses outdated technology.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column:

Deficit hawks — or deficit dodos?

Salon

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The technology paradox

NPR

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Are we virtually there yet?

Huffington Post

Column:

Shriveled hearts and human souls

Truthdig

Blog:

Obama's budget not nearly enough

Newsweek

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Fannie: pushing foreclosure sales

CNBC

Blog:

NASA finally breaks the budget

Newsweek

Column:

Thank you, Justice Alito

RealClearPolitics

Column:

Lobo might be able to end Honduran crisis

McClatchy

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Best bet for US energy independence

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Insulting China

The Nation

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GOOD NEWS

Trees by the Chesapeake bulking up

Forests by the Chesapeake Bay are growing two to four times faster than expected these days, researchers have found.

Baltimore Sun

Biggest polluters officially pledge to stop

Countries contributing the most to global warming tell the United Nations how much they'll clean up their acts.

Star Tribune

WORLD

China warns President Obama not to meet Dalai Lama

China has warned the U.S. president that meeting with the Dalai Lama will harm ties between the two countries.

BBC

A decade on, trial opens to determine blame for Concorde crash