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Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during a press conference about the upcoming elections in Baghdad. (Photo by Karim Kadim / AP)

Iraq's election commission halts preparations for elections

Iraq's election commission has halted all preparations for elections after Iraq's vice president vetoed part of an election law that had paved the way for the poll, an electoral official said.

MSNBC

Obama on terror trials: Mohammed will die

Americans who are troubled by the decision to send alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York for trial will feel better about it when he’s put to death, President Barack Obama said.

Politico

Most oppose terror trials in open court

CBS News

Clinton in Kabul for Karzai inauguration

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Kabul to attend the inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a U.S. embassy official said.

ABS CBN News

Obama: Afghanistan troop plans 'within weeks'

Guardian

NATO troop level increasing

CNN

IBM announces advances toward a computer that works like a human brain

A team of scientists from IBM's Almaden Research Lab and several other Bay Area institutions are planning to announce two developments that could one day lead to a new kind of computer.

San Jose Mercury News

Neuron chamber mimics brain

Wired

The mummies' curse: heart disease

Heart disease may have more of a family history than once thought. Modern imaging techniques have unearthed atherosclerosis in mummies up to 3,500 years old.

HealthDay

The curse of the hardening arteries

Kansas City Star

NATION

Army suicides expected to rise for 5th year, setting record

Suicides in the Army are expected to reach a new high, with 140 suspected cases among active-duty soldiers so far, according to Army officials.

Kansas City Star

White House reports billions of improper payments in 2009

The federal government made $98 billion in improper payments in fiscal 2009, and President Barack Obama will issue an executive order to combat the problem, his budget director announced.

CNN

Vote on license plate recorders

In Tiburon, Calif., leaders will vote on whether to make their community the first in the Bay Area, and perhaps the country, to record the license plate of every car that enters or leaves town.

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Judicial nominee filibuster broken

Sen. Richard Lugar and nine other Republican senators voted to stop a GOP filibuster of a Hoosier judicial nominee.

Journal Gazette

Obama creates task force that will fight financial fraud

The Obama administration announced a government-wide task force to combat financial fraud after the U.S. recession led to an increase in economic crimes.

Bloomberg

3 Dems could block health bill in Senate

Three Democrats could scuttle the health care proposal in the preliminary hurdle — gaining the 60 votes needed to open debate — before the fight over it even begins on the Senate floor.

New York Times

BUSINESS

Nearly 15,000 admit offshore tax cheating

Some 14,700 rich Americans, worried about a stepped-up U.S. crackdown on offshore tax cheats, have turned themselves in under the government's amnesty program.

Reuters

Stickups, burglaries on the rise — at work

These days thieves are really reaching. As traditional targets for theft have beefed up their security and the recession has driven people to desperate measures, robbers are infiltrating corporate offices.

Wall Street Journal

HEALTH

Depression is as deadly as smoking

A new study by researchers has found that depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking.

ScienceDaily

Surprising discovery explains formation of new memories

Short-term memory may depend in a surprising way on the ability of newly formed neurons to erase older connections.

U.S. News & World Report

Many doctors to stay course on breast exams for now

Despite new recommendations that women start breast screening at 50 rather than 40, many doctors said that they were simply not ready to make such a drastic change.

New York Times

Blog:

The real problem with mammograms

Newsweek

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Made in America

The movie production incentives sweeping America may be less worthy than they appear. The credit issued by the state generally dwarfs the tax bill generated by the visiting production.

Hollywood Reporter

Waiting for the end of the world

End-times fears find fertile soil in the U.S., which has a higher degree of religiosity compared to other developed nations.

CNN

SPORTS

Brendan Shanahan to retire

Brendan Shanahan, who scored big on and off the ice during his 21 NHL seasons, announced his retirement.

NHL.com

Bills fire Jauron as head coach; Fewell to take over as interim

The Buffalo Bills promoted their defensive coordinator, Perry Fewell, allowing him to take over as interim head coach after Dick Jauron was fired.

Sports Illustrated

Bills fire head coach Jauron

ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

Chase commits $5 million to Facebook charity campaign

JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced a partnership with Facebook to power the "Community Giving" campaign, which will allocate $5 million to local nonprofits voted on by Facebook members.

CNET News

Music legend starts program to help local teen go home for the holidays

Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora is giving back. He has launched the "You Can Go Home" program to help Kelly Mahon, who has been undergoing treatment for a brain tumor, come home for the holidays.

Edison/Metuchen Observer

WORLD

China not in a gift-giving mood

President Barack Obama is leaving China without concessions on things such as support for tougher sanctions on Iran or currency exchange rates.

Los Angeles Times

US rebukes Israel over settlement plan

The U.S. has voiced its "dismay" over Israel's approval of 900 housing units at a settlement East Jerusalem. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the move would stall Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

BBC

Israel moves to expand settlement

Al Jazeera

Jerusalem Old City signs removed

Jerusalem Post

US ship thwarts second pirate attack

The U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama was attacked again. This time, the container ship evaded the attack by firing back, the European Union's anti-piracy force said.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Pesticide use up with biotech crops

The rapid adoption of genetically engineered crops has promoted increased use of pesticides, resulting in an epidemic of herbicide-resistant weeds and more chemical residues in foods.

Reuters

Poll: Sometimes it isn't easy being green

A majority of Americans recognize the need to help the environment, although there are some things that people often talk about, but don't necessarily act on.

Idaho Statesman

100 trees felled by accident on Observatory lands

One by one the trees were knocked down, and when the excavator finally stopped, more than 100 trees had been cleared on David Dunlap Observatory lands.

Toronto Star

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

T-Mobile says employees sold customer personal data

T-Mobile employees are alleged to have stolen the personal information of thousands of their customers and to have sold the data to rivals.

InformationWeek

Major advance in organic solar cells

A team of postgraduate researchers at UC Santa Barbara have announced a major advance in the synthesis of organic polymers for plastic solar cells.

ScienceDaily

Are you liable for your tweets?

Rocker Courtney Love is being sued for allegedly slamming a designer on Twitter. But as technology evolves faster than the laws that govern online speech, it's not just the famous who are finding trouble.

CNN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Reports say Pope John Paul closer to being declared venerable

The Congregation for Saints' Causes voted unanimously to recommend that Pope John Paul II be recognized for heroically living the Christian virtues.

Catholic News Service

Scientology church says it will cooperate with police investigation

The Church of Scientology in Australia says it is willing to cooperate with police over accusations of criminal activity including coerced abortion, assault, sexual abuse, embezzlement and blackmail.

Sydney Morning Herald

EDUCATION

Schools in dark about tainted lunches

The story of how food with a history of making kids sick continued to get into schools illustrates broad failures in government programs meant to provide safe, quality meals for America's children.

USA TODAY

Test results show improvement for students with disabilities

The study found that students with disabilities showed progress at all levels of proficiency in fourth grade, where the median percentage scoring at the basic level or above was 71 percent.

Education Week

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