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11 more bodies found at Philippine massacre site

Philippine security forces found 11 more bodies at the site of an election-related massacre in the south of the country, taking the toll to 57 dead, officials said.

Reuters

Blog:

Behind the Philippines massacre

Christian Science Monitor

Obama, India’s Singh promise deeper economic cooperation

President Barack Obama and India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh vowed to deepen trade and investment ties as the Indian leader was honored at the White House with a formal state visit.

Bloomberg

High-glitz dinner at the White House

MSNBC

Fed cautious about strength of recovery

Fed policy makers have become slightly more optimistic about the pace of the economic recovery, but they continue to predict that unemployment will remain well above 9 percent through the end of 2010.

New York Times

Fed's economic outlook

CNBC

Special section:

Be thankful, spend less

USA TODAY

Seeking deals, air travelers start early

Many penny-pinching travelers booked earlier, and less expensive, flights. As a result, what used to be a quick holiday trip is now stretching to a week or more.

New York Times

Airlines fined for stranding passengers

ABC News

Holiday meals difficult for binge eaters

Most people feel tempted to overeat during the holidays, when calorie-laden comfort food is in endless supply from Thanksgiving onward.

Chicago Sun-Times

Holiday weight gain estimates exaggerated

Gainesville Sun

NATION

Pentagon readies to send 34,000 troops

Pentagon planners expect to send about 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan, said a defense official, after the president's final meeting on the next moves in Afghanistan.

CNN

Obama ready to announce new strategy

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Winds send Calif. wildfire toward homes

A wind-driven wildfire broke out south of Los Angeles as Santa Ana winds blasted down burning slopes toward homes.

MSNBC

Anaheim Hills brush fire

CBS 2

Homeless organization called a scam

The United Homeless Organization — the non-profit organization which has been soliciting money on street corners since 1993 — is a fraud, according to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

Village Voice

POLITICS

NY governor seeks deficit vote, powers

New York Gov. David Paterson said he’ll attempt to break a stalemate over a $3.2 billion deficit by sending a modified proposal to lawmakers for a vote.

Bloomberg

Bennet joins with GOP to warn about Wall Street bill

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., finds himself the darling of liberals on health care reform, but he appears more cautious on the Democrats' other major priority for the year — imposing new regulations on Wall Street.

Denver Post

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Osmond wins 'Dancing with the Stars'

Donny Osmond and partner Kym Johnson were awarded the season nine mirror ball trophy. The former teen idol teared up after the show as he tried to express how he felt to be the winner.

People

ABC receives complaints on Lambert

Complaints poured in about Adam Lambert's sexually charged performance at the American Music Awards, including criticism of his kiss with a keyboard player.

Baltimore Sun

HEALTH

HIV infections and deaths fall

Greater access to anti-retroviral drugs has helped cut the death toll from HIV by more than 10 percent over the past five years, latest figures show.

BBC

Special section:

AIDS: a global view

MSNBC

Link found between cigarette smoke and rejected heart transplants

A new study conducted on rats provides the first direct evidence that cigarette smoke exposure before a heart transplant — by the donor, recipient, or both — speeds the death of a transplanted heart.

LiveScience

Health services for the unemployed

Under the weather and out of a job? You could be eligible for free health services like flu shots and prescription drug refills.

CNNMoney

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Splitting time from space — new quantum theory topples Einstein's spacetime

It seems that unzipping the fabric of spacetime and harking back to 19th-century notions of time could lead to a theory of quantum gravity.

Scientific American

Can ants count?

Ants do not count the way humans do. But an ingenious experiment conducted in the Sahara suggests maybe ants do count.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Emissions target puts Obama in bind

The U.S. will propose a near-term emissions reduction target at the U.N. climate change summit in Copenhagen, an administration official said.

San Francisco Chronicle

Climate cash is 'unaccounted for'

BBC

Report: dramatic drop in Siberian tigers

The Wildlife Conservation Society announced a report revealing that the last remaining population of Siberian tigers has likely declined significantly due to the rising tide of poaching and habitat loss.

e! Science News

Scientist at center of leaked e-mail dispute dismisses conspiracy claims

The climatologist at the center of the leaked e-mails controversy said that any suggestion of a conspiracy to manipulate or hide data contrary to man-made climate change was "complete rubbish."

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Filmmaker gives $1 million to NAACP

Filmmaker Tyler Perry has donated $1 million to the NAACP to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the organization.

ABC News

Web boosts efficiency at food banks

The Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana still holds regular food drives, but has also decided to hold a virtual food drive because of the flexibility.

NPR

Community Food Share distributes compassion and victuals

Most nonprofits depend upon volunteers. But at Community Food Share in Longmont, Colo., the people who work for free are the backbone of the agency.

Denver Post

WORLD

Iraq war inquiry: Britain heard US drumbeat for invasion before 9/11

Tony Blair's government knew that members of the Bush administration wanted to topple Saddam Hussein but initially distanced itself from the prospect knowing it would be unlawful.

Guardian

Iran expanding effort to stifle opposition

After the disputed presidential election, Iran’s government relied largely on brute force to stifle the country’s embattled opposition movement.

New York Times

Iranian-American goes from grad student to government threat

MSNBC

BUSINESS

Saab failure hurts China's auto dreams

China's automakers may dominate their home market, but the collapse of the sale of Saab to a Chinese-backed group shows it will be a bumpy ride for them to build a global profile.

Reuters

Bankruptcies hit retirement communities

Elderly residents who thought they'd secured their futures are finding their homes and savings at risk.

Newsweek

EDUCATION

Obama backing 'STEM' education

The Obama administration is attempting to marshal private-sector power in a campaign to encourage students toward "STEM" studies and careers.

Education Week

Are small class sizes a thing of the past?

One of the ways affordable colleges are trying to keep their prices down is to pack more students into every classroom.

U.S. News & World Report

Professors file health care lawsuit

A group of part-time community college instructors filed a lawsuit against the state, saying that adjunct faculty in Massachusetts’ public higher education system are denied health care coverage.

Boston Globe

SPORTS

Albert Pujols wins 3rd MVP award

Albert Pujols won his second consecutive and his third career National League MVP award, sweeping the first-place votes of 32 writers around the NL cities.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Death in the ring

Death is the shadow that hovers above every fighter who accepts danger as an occupational risk. Francisco Rodriguez joins the fighters for whom a boxing match became a fight to the death.

Philadelphia Daily News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Jewish athlete's record restored

Germany's track and field association restored Gretel Bergmann's June 30, 1936, high jump record, calling the decision an "act of justice and a symbolic gesture."

The Age

Report on India mosque destruction threatens Hindu-Muslim ties

A report on the 1992 destruction of a centuries-old mosque has sparked fights in Parliament and threatens to inflame relations between Hindus and Muslims.

Christian Science Monitor

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