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Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, accompanied by, Sen. Jack Reed and Sen. Robert Menendez speak during a health care reform news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP)

Unemployment rates rise in 29 states, fall in 13

Thirteen states reported unemployment rates above the national average of 10.2 percent in October, and a growing number reported rising jobless rates, according to a government report.

CNNMoney

State, local budget cuts a 'time bomb' for jobs

Reuters

'Fat for cosmetics' murder suspects arrested in Peru

Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe.

BBC

Senate may take 1st health care vote Saturday

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that the first crucial vote on an $848 billion health care overhaul package would probably happen Saturday.

San Francisco Chronicle

5 questions that could decide the fate of health reform

Christian Science Monitor

Mammogram debate portends challenges of health care reform

Bloomberg

Senate to balance bill's abortion language

NPR

Guideline change in the future for cervical cancer detection

Most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually, say new guidelines that conclude that is enough to catch cervical cancer.

CBS News

New guidelines on cervical cancer testing

NPR

Rustling up truffles

Most people who live in Italy eventually become curious about truffles. It's not so much that Italian truffles are an acquired taste; they are simply hard to acquire.

Newsweek

NATION

Review of air defense to thwart terror from the skies

The commander of military forces protecting North America has ordered a review of the costly air defenses intended to prevent another 9/11-style attack.

MSNBC

US advisory panel warns of rampant Chinese spying

U.S. congressional advisory panel said that Chinese spies are stealing American secrets to use in building Beijing's military and economic strength.

San Francisco Chronicle

Senate panel notes 'red flags galore' in Fort Hood incident

Military and FBI officials appeared to miss numerous warning signs in the months leading up to the killings at Fort Hood in Texas, lawmakers said in the first congressional hearing into the incident.

USA TODAY

State Department reaches out to Muslims

NPR

POLITICS

What's Obama's trade policy? So far, there isn't much of one

During his first 10 months in office, President Barack Obama avoided pursuing free-trade pacts and limited his public moves on the trade front.

McClatchy Newspapers

Senate duo forms pact on climate

Senate Democratic leaders are resting their hopes for bipartisan climate change legislation on the unlikely partnership of Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

The Hill

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Oprah Winfrey to leave talk show in 2011

Tim Bennett, president of Winfrey's Harpo production house, announced that the media mogul will step off the "Oprah" set in September 2011.

ABC News

Oprah to end talk show after 25th season

NPR

Retailers love shopping clubs, but beware of overspending

While the private clubs can save sale shoppers a lot of time, they also can be risky temptations for those on a budget or prone to overshopping.

USA TODAY

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape

At the end of the last Ice Age, North America's population of large animals began their decline toward extinction. When their populations crashed, an entirely novel ecosystem emerged.

ScienceDaily

Cracked corn: Scientists solve maize's complex genetic maze

The corn genome has been mapped by more than 150 dedicated researchers. It's the most complicated plant genome to be deciphered and promises to increase the efficiency of the crop itself.

Scientific American

Ancestry attracts, but love is blind

People preferentially marry those with similar ancestry, but their decisions are not necessarily based on hair, eye or skin color.

ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Anglican leader defends faith as Vatican welcomes his members

Archbishop Williams delivered a strong defense of Anglicanism, including its commitment to female priests. The Archbishop also called for clarity on the future of Catholic-Anglican dialogue.

New York Times

As Haggard returns, questions linger

After disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard decided to start holding prayer meetings at his Colorado home, advisers and observers, perhaps not surprisingly, reacted with disappointment.

Religion News Service

EDUCATION

Doctorate production ebbs

American universities continued to increase the number of doctoral degrees they award, but just barely. And if it weren't for biology, there would have been virtually no increase at all.

Inside Higher Ed

Students arrested after 32 percent tuition hike sparks protests

Authorities arrested dozens of angry students at the University of California-Davis campus after they refused to vacate the school's administration building in protest of a tuition hike.

CNN

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Questions and consequences

New York Times

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GOOD NEWS

Job-seeking Tennesseans with disabilities find helping hand

Tennesseans find help with an on-going disability employment awareness campaign, which also urges workers with disabilities not to give up on job searches.

Public News Service

All in step as tiny twins prove to be against-the-odds winners

The neurosurgeon Wirginia Maixner was inspired to do a little ''chicken dance'' when brain scans revealed that her team's surgery on the Bangladeshi twins Trishna and Krishna had been a success.

Sydney Morning Herald

WORLD

Al-Qaida using English to push message

Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida's message to Muslims in the West.

CBS News

More than 200 people rescued in floods in Cumbria town