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Suspected US missile strike kills at least 5 in Pakistan

A suspected U.S. missile strike killed at least five people in a tribal region where Pakistan's top Taliban commander is based, officials said, breaking a lull in such attacks and posing a test for anti-Taliban fighters.

CBS News

At least 11 dead in separate attacks

AHN

Pakistan orders army to go after Taliban chief

Google News

Hearing for nominee poses challenges

Senate Republicans are in a quandary over the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, aiming to raise pointed questions about her record without angering increasingly influential Hispanics.

Reuters

Netanyahu accepts Palestinian state

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu called for creation of a limited Palestinian state for the first time, saying it would have to be disarmed before recognition.

MSNBC

Netanyahu: 'demilitarized Palestinian state'

Jerusalem Post

Israel PM makes peace plea

BBC

Obama eyes tighter controls of banks

President Barack Obama is ready to roll out an overhaul of the rules and systems that govern America's troubled financial institutions, proposing the most ambitious revision since the Great Depression.

Associated Press

Moussavi wants Iran election results thrown out

Fresh clashes broke out between police and protesters as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held a victory rally and opposition supporters claimed ballot fraud in Iran's presidential election.

CNN

The power behind Ahmadinejad's disputed win

TIME

Iranian unrest over elections

ABC News

NATION

Judge: Padilla can sue over memos

A convicted terrorist can sue a former Bush administration lawyer for drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged torture, ruled a federal judge, "trying to balance war and personal freedoms."

USA TODAY

Ex-Bush lawyer can be sued over torture

San Francisco Chronicle

FDA gets tobacco regulatory authority, Phillip Morris cheers

The Senate voted 79-17 to give the Food and Drug Administration regulatory authority over tobacco, a product that kills 440,000 Americans annually.

Forbes

POLITICS

Obama: Save $1 trillion by cutting costs

The critics said it couldn't be done, but President Barack Obama said he's come up with almost a trillion dollars in savings to provide for 45 million uninsured Americans.

CBS News

State redistricting looms over 2010 election landscape

Though two years in the future, the prospect of the next round of redistricting is already rearing its ugly head for many actual and aspiring members of Congress.

The Hill

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Supervolcano may be brewing beneath Mount St Helens

Is a supervolcano brewing beneath Mount St. Helens? Peering under the volcano has revealed what may be an extraordinarily large zone of semi-molten rock capable of feeding a giant eruption.

New Scientist

Chinese regime’s ‘anti-pornography’ software targets Falun Gong

China's communist regime has ordered all new computers purchased in China to have software to target pornography and other “unhealthy information.”

Epoch Times

Getting drinking water from air humidity

Researchers are proposing the creation of a new class of structures that would directly synthesize water from the humidity of the air and could help dry and desert areas.

Softpedia

ENVIRONMENT

Rat Island is now almost rat free

Alaska's Rat Island is finally rat-free, after a Japanese shipwreck spilled rampaging rodents onto the island 229 years ago, decimating the local bird population.

RedOrbit

Hybrid American chestnut trees are carbon storage champions

A new hybrid of the American chestnut tree could not only revive the nearly extinct species, but also help limit the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, according to new research.

Environment News Service

Supervolcano may be brewing beneath Mount St. Helens

A team of scientists say they have evidence that a "super volcano" may be brewing underneath Mount St. Helens.

New Scientist

EDUCATION

Schwarzenegger is for digital textbooks

By the fall, Governor Schwarzenegger intends to make free digital textbooks available for high school math and science classes throughout California, a move that he says will help reduce costs.

ABC News

Student barred from graduation cheers classmates' success

Barred from participating in her graduation ceremony, foster youth Taylor nevertheless woke at dawn, went to school, and climbed the bleachers to honor her classmates.

San Jose Mercury News

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Monument endorses religion, violates Constitution, court rules

A federal appeals court panel has ruled that a Ten Commandments display outside a county courthouse is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.

Ada Evening News

AU asks IRS to investigate Virginia church

Americans United for Separation of Church and State asked the IRS to investigate whether Fifth Street Baptist Church violated the rules of its tax exemption by engaging in electioneering.

OMB Watch

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Dick Polman):

Obama needs courage on gays in military

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Christopher Dickey):

What Ahmadinejad's win means

Newsweek

Column (Robert Dreyfuss):

A rigged election

The Nation

Interview:

Recovery will take another year

Forbes

Column (Daniel Gross):

Dollar store thrives in recession

Slate

Blog:

Meddling with the bail-out

Economist

Editorial:

Meet the new boss in Iran

NY Daily News

Column (Eleanor Clift):

Aiming at new identity, the GOP misfires

Newsweek

Column (Francis Cianfrocca):

Wealth creation under attack

Commentary

Column (Joseph E. Stiglitz):

After the crisis, capitalism discredited

Vanity Fair

Column (Mary Mitchell):

Letterman, Wright done in by own words

Chicago Sun-Times

Column (Robert Reich):

The healthcare war has officially begun

Salon.com

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GOOD NEWS

Tokyo fights burglars with flowers

A Tokyo district plagued with burglaries has turned to planting flowers to beautify its streets and help stamp out crime.

Global Good News

New hope for ending traffic jams

Some traffic jams have no apparent cause; no accident, stalled vehicle or closed lanes. A new study has figured out how to reduce the odds of them forming.

LiveScience

WORLD

Afghan villagers slain as they took cover

Tears streaming down her face, the Afghan woman sat in a room with no roof and broken windows, mourning 19 of her closest and dearest relatives.

Times Online

Yemen says it has arrested top Saudi financier of al-Qaida

Yemen has arrested a man described as al-Qaida's top financier in the Yemen and Saudi Arabia region.

Reuters

Foreigners 'kidnapped' in north Yemen

BBC

Slain Sunni leader laid to rest in Iraq

NPR

BUSINESS

Lilly sold drug for dementia knowing it didn’t help, files show

Eli Lilly & Co. urged doctors to prescribe Zyprexa for elderly patients with dementia, even though the drugmaker had evidence the medicine didn’t work for such patients, according to unsealed documents.

PsychCentral.com

GM sale of Saab looms as speedy Koenigsegg steps up

General Motors is close to selling its Saab unit after tiny Koenigsegg agreed to ride to the rescue of its fellow Swedish carmaker, a source reveals.

Reuters

Koenigsegg CCXR Edition Biofuel

Metacafe

HEALTH

Too fat? Read your e-mail

According to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, simple e-mail reminders to eat more healthfully had a significant effect on the recipients' behavior.

TIME

High noon for health care reform

President Obama and Democrats will try to do what no Congress or president has done: reform the U.S. health care system.

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog:

What are the options?

The Atlantic

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

The switch-off: Analog TV gone for good

TV shows were replaced by the hiss of static in perhaps 1 million U.S. homes as stations ended their analog broadcasts and abandoned the transmission technology in use for generations.

CBS News

SPORTS

Peugeot ends Audi run

Peugeot has finally brought an end to Audi's domination of the race dubbed the "hardest in the world" with a commanding one-two on home soil at La Sarthe.

Crash.net

Red Sox pull a fast one

Jacoby Ellsbury got the ball rolling in the first inning with his legs and finished things off in the ninth to lead the Red Sox to an 11-6 win over the Phillies.

Boston Herald

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