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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shakes hands as he enters a town hall meeting at the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Miss. (Photo by Alex Brandon / AP)

Obama winner in Mississippi's Democratic primary

Houston Chronicle

Can Clinton pull it off?

CNN

Barack Obama

CBS News

Fed says it’ll spend, markets react

The Fed promised a $200 billion booster shot for ailing markets — and Wall Street answered with its biggest bounce in more than five years.

MSNBC

Aides: Spitzer likely to quit

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer appeared likely to resign -- brought down in shame by shocking flings with high-priced prostitutes -- and to hand over the Empire State to Lt. Gov. David Paterson, two aides said.

New York Daily News

David Paterson: New York's next governor?

Huffington Post

Spitzer's money trail

CBS News

House approves outside ethics panel

House Democrats, trying to restore integrity to the chamber's tarnished image, pushed through a measure to create an outside panel to review possible ethical lapses by its members.

ABC News

Military chief Adm. William J. Fallon resigns after comments about Iran policy

For Navy Adm. William J. Fallon, the perception of disagreement with President Bush's policies on Iran was enough reason to step down as the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East.

Star Tribune

Central Command chief resigns

CNN

NATION

NASA shuttle embarks on record stay at space station

NASA's Endeavour lifted off before dawn for the International Space Station, beginning an almost 16-day mission that will be the longest by any shuttle.

Bloomberg

Raw video: liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour

Yahoo! News

US sees long fight to oust al-Qaida in Iraqi city of Mosul

American soldiers say the battle for the northern Iraqi city of Mosul is a complicated mix of counterterrorism, economic incentives and political solutions.

Christian Science Monitor

Dems seek alternative on phone immunity

Lawmakers drew fire when they offered an alternative to President Bush's demand that phone companies that participated in warrantless domestic spying receive lawsuit immunity.

Reuters

POLITICS

Drake seeks vote on border security

Rep. Thelma Drake, R-Va., will file a discharge petition in an effort to force a floor vote on a bipartisan border security bill.

The Hill

Obama makes final appeal to voters in Mississippi's primary election

Sen. Barack Obama made a final appeal to voters in Mississippi's Democratic primary election before he and Hillary Clinton settle in for a six-week battle to win Pennsylvania.

Houston Chronicle

BUSINESS

Wall St. sees best one-day rise since 2002

U.S. stocks enjoyed their best one-day advance in more than five years after the Federal Reserve announced a $200bn plan to boost liquidity at troubled financial firms.

Financial Times

Boeing files protest over lost deal

Boeing Co. filed a formal protest with the Government Accountability Office over the loss of a $35 billion Air Force contract to build 179 next-generation tankers used for refueling military aircraft.

MarketWatch

SPORTS

Fitzgerald signs 4-year deal with Cards that frees cap space

Pro Bowl wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald signed a blockbuster four-year, $40 million contract with the Arizona Cardinals, helping free up much-needed salary-cap room for the team.

ESPN

George Mason wins Colonial's berth in NCAA tournament

George Mason is going back to the NCAA tournament, and so is the smothering defense that sparked its run to the Final Four two years ago.

Sporting News

Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett doubtful for Tokyo trip

Boston Red Sox starter Josh Beckett has a back injury and is unlikely to travel with the World Series champions to Tokyo for an Opening Day game against the Oakland Athletics.

Guardian

EDUCATION

Life expectancy tied to education

Life expectancy in the United States is on the increase, but only among people with more than twelve years of education, a new study finds.

LiveScience

Georgia brawl over single-sex school plan

Students in all of Greene County's regular public schools in Georgia will be separated by gender starting next fall, a move educators hope will improve low test scores and curb teen pregnancies.

Christian Science Monitor

RELIGION

Southern Baptist leaders urge climate change action

Influential Southern Baptist leaders are seeking to move the country's largest Protestant denomination beyond its skeptical stance on climate change.

Christian Science Monitor

Turkish scholars aiming to modernize Islam's Hadith

The Hadith deals with events that took place some 1,400 years ago, but an ambitious Turkish project is aiming to reinterpret them to create a collection addressing modern-day concerns.

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Elderly enlist to aid US military

Spread out across the country is a small army of old ladies determined to do their part in the war on terror. Their weapons of choice: scissors and coupons.

MSNBC

Child dials 911, saves mom's life

A 9-year-old stayed calm, dialed 911 and gave rescue officials all the information they needed to help his mother who had collapsed unconscious.

Good News Network

WORLD

Dubai drivers recover after car pile-up

The cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi are recovering from the shock of a 200-car pileup that left at least four dead and 300 others wounded.

ABC News

Two suicide bombs kill 24 in Pakistan

Two powerful explosions, just minutes apart and both of them suicide attacks, rocked the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, killing 24 people, the Interior Ministry said.

International Herald Tribune

Pakistan's victors form government

McClatchy Newspapers

Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al-Qaida

An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with al-Qaida.

McClatchy Newspapers

Special section:

FACTBOX: Military and civilian deaths in Iraq

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Queen weighs in on environment

The Queen of England is urging government and business in developed countries to develop strategies that will leave future generations with unpolluted air and clean water.

canada.com

The dark side of solar: paying the polysilicon piper

Attempts to cut corners while boosting production of polysilicon — an ingredient in manufacturing semiconductors and photovoltaic solar panels — are resulting in severe environmental consequences.

Salon.com

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Researchers create character with reasoning abilities

A group of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is working to make engineering characters with the capacity to have beliefs and to reason about the beliefs of others.

Science Daily

Stealth bomber slips into history

The inky black, angular, radar-evading F-117, which spent 27 years in the Air Force arsenal secretly patrolling hostile skies from Serbia to Iraq, will be put in mothballs next month in Nevada.

CBS News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Madonna, Mellencamp honored at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction

A broad range of newly inducted artists at this year's emotional Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremonies included John Mellencamp, the Ventures, Leonard Cohen, the Dave Clark Five and Madonna.

Rolling Stone

Special section:

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame 2008

TIME

Billy Crystal to play exhibition game for New York Yankees

Billy Crystal will get to "look mahvelous" in pinstripes. The actor will sign a one-day, minor league contract with the Yankees and play in an exhibition game against the Pirates.

Yahoo! News

HEALTH

Deadly superbug evades detection

Efforts to screen patients for drug-resistant staph infections at their hospital admissions appear to be ineffective in stemming the spread of the potentially deadly MRSA, research suggests.

ABC News

Sex-transmitted diseases afflict 26 percent of teen girls

One in four teenage girls in the United States had at least one common sexually transmitted disease, according to the first national study to assess combined rates of the most common STDs.

Bloomberg

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