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Pakistan's new President Asif Ali Zardari, husband of slain politician Benazir Bhutto, is caught between sovereignty and U.S. missiles attacking alleged terrorist targets in Pakistani territory. (Photo by Thanassis Stavrakis / AP)

Airstrikes challenge Pakistan's leaders

Suspected U.S. airstrikes deep in Pakistani territory — part of an unpopular but escalating campaign — has put the new government on increasingly wobbly footing.

Christian Science Monitor

Pirates vow to defend tanker from military

Pirates controlling a Saudi oil supertanker anchored near Somalia say they have no plans to destroy the boat but will combat any military attempt to free the vessel.

Al Jazeera

Obama drafts bold economic stimulus

President-elect Obama is crafting an aggressive two-year plan to revive the troubled economy, warning that swift action is needed to prevent a deep slump.

Forbes

Obama: 'Millions of jobs' in danger next year

MSNBC

Citi crisis deepens as shares fall further

Financial Times

Special section:

In depth: the Obama transition

Financial Times

Summers to be top White House economic adviser at NEC

President-elect Obama has named former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers the director of the National Economic Council.

ABC News

Obama picks his communications team

CNN

APEC leaders make free-trade vow

Leaders from member countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation have pledged not to respond to the global financial crisis by raising trade barriers.

BBC

Bush pleges new trade push

Reuters

NATION

Bush extends jobless benefits

With no end in sight to economic bad news, President George W. Bush ensured that millions of laid-off workers will keep getting their unemployment checks as the year-end holidays approach.

TIME

Obama outlines job creation plan

YouTube

Neb. safe-haven age limit becomes law

Gov. Dave Heineman has signed into law a bill adding a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that allowed 35 children — including teenagers as old as 17 — to be abandoned at state hospitals.

TIME

POLITICS

Rural America to Obama: Remember us

Some people wonder whether President-elect Barack Obama will pay much attention to rural issues.

NPR

Sen. Ted Stevens accuses prosecutors of forcing witness to lie

Stevens' lawyers accused prosecutors of forcing a witness to lie under oath in the corruption case that effectively ended the career of the longest-serving Republican senator in history.

The Hill

SPORTS

Carlesimo fired; Brooks to take over Thunder in interim

The Oklahoma City Thunder, off to a league-worst 1-12 start in their new home town, have fired coach P.J. Carlesimo.

ESPN

OSU routs Michigan 42-7, Buckeyes get Big 10 share

It took five big plays to give Ohio State a fifth straight win over rival Michigan. The 10th-ranked Buckeyes beat their archrivals 42-7, the first time in 105 meetings that they've strung together five wins.

Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette

Game highlights

ESPN

ENVIRONMENT

Is Obama's energy plan enough? No, many environmentalists say

As ambitious as Obama's campaign promises were, the future state of global energy will demand government policies with a much longer reach, according to alternative-energy leaders.

TIME

New EPA rules imperil parks, critics say

NPR

Business groups, community activists blast California's cap-and-trade plans

One day after being applauded at a climate change summit in Beverly Hills, California officials faced a different kind of reception during a Sacramento public hearing on the state's greenhouse gas reduction plan.

Grist

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

The 'good enough' marriage

Experts and couples discuss whether settling for "Mr. Good Enough" is better than waiting for the perfect soul mate. Their findings just may surprise you.

WebMD

David Mamet's stage direction

David Mamet's writing — and the demands it places on actors who try to perform it — are more complex than his workaday veneer, as the diverging fortunes of two Broadway revivals of his work make clear.

Newsweek

HEALTH

Autumn babies at risk for asthma

Babies born four months before the peak cold and flu season have a 30 percent higher risk of developing asthma, U.S. researchers said, suggesting that these common infections may trigger asthma.

MSNBC

Medical tourism to India, expenses paid

In 2009, a West Bend, Wis., manufacturer will become the first U.S. company to embrace medical tourism, offering employees some nonemergency operations in India.

U.S. News & World Report

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column:

Obama, another Lincoln?

CBS News

Column (Dahlia Lithwick):

Change at the Justice Department

Slate

Blog (Noam Scheiber):

The dynamic duo: Geithner and Summers

New Republic

Column (Andrea Vecchio):

The need for education reform

Newsday

Editorial:

A reassuring figure for Treasury

Economist

Column (Cal Thomas):

What's past is prologue, so read up

Newsday

Editorial (Al Neuharth):

Why bail out bosses who messed it up?

USA Today

Column (George Will):

TARP and ADD

Newsweek

Column (John Dickerson):

The underminer?

Slate

Column (Eleanor Clift):

The Lieberman lesson

Newsweek

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GOOD NEWS

Walnut trees emit aspirin-like chemical to deal with stress

Walnut trees respond to stress by producing significant amounts of a chemical form of aspirin, scientists have discovered.

HappyNews.com

Paul Newman leaves assets to wife and Newman's Own Foundation

Actor Paul Newman, who died in September, left his assets to his wife, actress Joanne Woodward, and to his Newman's Own Foundation.

Forbes

WORLD

Zimbabwe thwarts Jimmy Carter's humanitarian visit

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, who, at 84, clings to power after 28 years in office, barred another famed 84-year-old, former President Jimmy Carter, from entering the country.

International Herald Tribune

Mugabe tries to hide cholera death toll

Times Online

Shia protest Iraq-US troop agreement

Iraqi Shia protesters burned an effigy of President Bush in a show of contempt for a deal struck between the U.S. and the Iraqi government which will keep U.S. troops in Iraq for another three years.

Guardian

UK militant 'killed in Pakistan'

A fugitive British militant linked to an alleged U.K. plot to use liquid bombs to blow up transatlantic airliners has been killed in Pakistan, reports say.

BBC

BUSINESS

Gas prices dip, but US drivers wary

The average U.S. retail price for gasoline dipped to $2.07 a gallon, the lowest since March 2005. But no one is celebrating.

Reuters

GM doesn't see bankruptcy as option

General Motors Corp.'s board of directors does not consider bankruptcy a viable option to solve the company's financial troubles, but it has discussed Chapter 11 because it has a legal duty to do so.

Forbes

Bush calls on Congress to bailout auto industry

YouTube

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Report: Kids gain skills from time online

Rather than wasting their time, children who gab on Facebook or play online games are gaining valuable social skills, according to a study to be released.

San Francisco Chronicle

Fresh spacewalk in vexed mission

Astronauts from the International Space Station have begun a third spacewalk to solve the latest technical glitch.

BBC

EDUCATION

College presidents take pay cuts

The leaders of the University of Washington and Washington State University are among the best paid in the nation, and both men are taking voluntary pay cuts.

Seattle Times

Are Tennessee schools too easy?

Only four Tennessee public high schools prepare students to pass basic academic courses when they go on to college based on their ACT entrance exams.

The Tennessean

Financial crisis drives up student interest in economics

The financial crisis has made "the dismal science" more relevant and immediate to many high school and college students, who suddenly pay closer attention in class.

CBS News

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Top Vatican-watcher predicts key Vatican appointment is imminent

A respected Vatican-watcher is predicting that the Vatican will soon announce the appointment of a new prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship.

Catholic World News

42 years later, Vatican forgives Lennon for 'more famous than Jesus' quip

The Vatican's newspaper has finally forgiven John Lennon for declaring that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus, calling the remark a "boast" by a young man grappling with sudden fame.

ABC News

Nepal 'Buddha boy' returns to jungle

A young man believed by followers to be a reincarnation of Buddha has returned to Nepal's jungles to meditate alone, police said, as scholars cast doubt on his supporters' claims.

Yahoo! News

Photo of the Day

A view of the fireworks at the Atlantis resort in Dubai, which is celebrating a new $1.5 billion resort built off the Gulf coast on an artificial island shaped like a palm tree. (Photo by Joel Ryan / AP)

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