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Russian President Medvedev announces rearmament plan

Russian president announces Moscow will begin a comprehensive military re-armament from 2011 with the goal of "increasing the combat readiness of our forces, specifically our nuclear forces."

CNN

Medvedev announces comprehensive plan

BBC

Bernanke may up Fed’s asset purchases

Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Federal Reserve policymakers may have to ramp up purchasing mortgage securities and other assets after the economy and job market continued to deteriorate.

Bloomberg

Bernanke: Recession could end in '09

Newsweek

73 AIG bonuses hit million-dollar mark

Troubled insurance giant AIG paid bonuses of $1 million or more to 73 employees, including 11 who no longer work for the company, according to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

CBS News

Dodd suggests tax to recoup AIG bonuses

CNN

Special section:

Cuomo letter on AIG bonuses

FOX News

AIG outrage

Politico

Obama to meet Irish leaders

President Barack Obama is meeting on St. Patrick's Day with Irish political leaders intent on maintaining peace despite dissidents' violence in Northern Ireland.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Pope says condoms won't solve AIDS

Pope Benedict XVI said on his way to Africa that condoms were not the answer in the continent's fight against HIV, his first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy.

Baltimore Sun

Pope to begin Africa trip

BBC

NATION

Airports' homeless resist moving

Clusters of homeless have long settled in terminals from Philadelphia to Chicago, ideal round-the-clock shelters for men and women displaced by cities trying to clean up their downtowns.

CBS News

A gay-marriage solution: end marriage?

Two Pepperdine University law professors say the best way out of the intractable legal wars over gay marriage is to take marriage out of the hands of the government altogether.

TIME

POLITICS

GOP 'trackers' stalk Dems in hunt for 'macaca' moment

The National Republican Congressional Committee is sending out video "trackers" to ask provocative questions of Democratic congressmen in hopes of a "macaca" moment meant to wound the vulnerable.

McClatchy Newspapers

'Technophobe' John McCain goes all a-Twitter

Arizona Republic

Obama's brewing court battle

President Barack Obama's ambitious agenda will be scrutinized and second-guessed by a conservative federal judiciary for the first time since 1937.

Newsweek

ENVIRONMENT

Greenland could thaw by 2200

A drastic climate shift such as a thaw of Greenland's ice or death of the Amazon forest is more than 50 percent likely by the year 2200 in cases of strong global warming, according to a survey of experts.

Reuters

World Water Forum to address scarcity

Global demand for water is greater than it has ever been, thousands of delegates to the Fifth World Water Forum in Istanbul heard at their opening session.

Environment News Service

HEALTH

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria killed healthy teen in just 5 days

Ryan Robinson went from a healthy, 17-year-old soccer player at the peak of his form to another victim of a deadly drug-resistant strain of bacteria — all within the span of five days.

McClatchy

New guidelines on daily aspirin doses

U.S. experts revised guidelines stating that lower aspirin doses appear at least as effective as higher doses and safer at preventing heart attack and stroke.

HealthDay

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

President to appear on 'Tonight Show'

The White House says President Obama will appear on Jay Leno's talk show this week, perhaps adding a lighter touch to his bid to resuscitate the moribund U.S. economy.

MSNBC

Personality reveals flip side of comedy

You wouldn't know it from watching Chris Rock or Will Ferrell perform, but professional comedians are shyer than most other people, a new study suggests.

New Scientist

EDUCATION

Duncan: Schools must improve to get stimulus money

Education Secretary Arne Duncan says schools must make drastic changes to get money from a special $5 billion fund in the economic stimulus bill.

San Diego Union-Tribune

Tide turns against schools as home foreclosures rise

Across the U.S., hard times forced schools to trim budgets, freeze hiring and make substantial job cuts, raising doubts about the future of a range of programs.

USA Today

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column:

Those hit hardest get no bailout

Truthdig

Column:

Terrorists, dissidents and copy editors

Slate

Column:

Is Fareed Zakaria serious?

Foreign Policy

Column:

Obama's exploding cigar

Globeandmail.com

Column (Bill Black):

How to stop AIG's bonuses

Huffington Post

Column (Paul Begala):

Cheney: US can torture but can't heal

CNN

Column:

Can AIG get the bonus money back?

CBS News

Column (David Paul Kuhn):

Demographics are not destiny

Real Clear Politics

Editorial:

Who is the enemy?

Al Jazeera

Editorial:

Pakistan on an uncertain path

Economist

Editorial:

Trillions that the world could use

International Herald Tribune

Editorial:

Journalism still must serve the public

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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GOOD NEWS

At-risk youth are next to go green

California's at-risk students may become part of the green economy if they sign up for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's new California "green corps."

MSNBC

Leno adds second free Detroit show

Comedian Jay Leno added a second show after tickets were given away for the first installment of "Jay's Comedy Stimulus Plan" for the unemployed in Detroit.

CNN

WORLD

Madagascan president steps down

Besieged President Marc Ravalomanana of Madagascar stepped down, handing power to the country's senior military officer.

CNN

Storming a palace

BBC

Army moves to topple Madagascan president

Guardian

Iran's Khatami ends presidency bid

Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami has withdrawn from the presidential election, saying he doesn't want to split the vote and endanger a united challenge to Ahmadinejad.

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

US housing starts increase in February

Housing starts in the U.S. unexpectedly surged in February from a record low on a rebound in condos and apartments, suggesting builders cut too deeply as the credit crunch intensified.

Bloomberg

Bondholders plan provides best chance

Advisers to bondholders of General Motors Corp. said they have presented the best framework plan to President Barack Obama's autos task force and the ailing No. 1 U.S. automaker.

Reuters

SPORTS

Louisville is No. 1 in final AP poll

Louisville added one more thing to a week when it swept the Big East titles and earned the No. 1 NCAA tournament seed: Louisville's first appearance atop The Associated Press' college basketball poll.

USA Today

UConn, Terps, OU, Duke women top seeds

ESPN

Cutler no-shows first team meeting

Jay Cutler says he wants to break up. The Denver Broncos say they want to make up. The Pro Bowl quarterback was a no-show for the Broncos' first team meeting and the start of offseason workouts.

Sports Illustrated

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Discovery closing in on space station

Space shuttle Discovery is closing in on the International Space Station. The shuttle and its seven astronauts are delivering one last set of solar wings to bring the orbiting outpost up to full power.

Idaho-Statesman

Canadian dig yields tiny dinosaur

The smallest meat-eating dinosaur yet to be found in North America has been identified from six tiny pelvic bones.

BBC

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Vatican official says doctors didn't deserve excommunication

The Vatican's top bioethics official said the two Brazilian doctors who performed an abortion on a 9-year-old rape victim do not merit excommunication, since they acted to save her life.

Beliefnet

Churches and their lenders suffering after boom-years borrowing

Foreclosures and delinquencies for congregations are rising. With credit scarce, church construction sites have gone quiet, holding shells of sanctuaries meant to be completed months ago.

Baltimore Sun

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