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U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., smiles as he walks out his front door amid family and friends to announce that he will retire after his current term outside his home in East Haddam, Conn. (Photo by Charles Krupa / AP)

US turns to India to create jobs

Company officials put aside anger over outsourcing to woo any company that is hiring in hopes to further bolster the U.S. job market and economy.

MSNBC

Asian consumers most upbeat, American sentiment dips

Reuters

Nursing offers healthy employment future

NPR

Baby panda debut at the San Diego Zoo

Yun Zi, a 5-month-old giant panda cub, made his official debut at the San Diego Zoo. Yun Zi means "Son of Cloud."

CNN

Annual stocktaking at London Zoo

Kansas City Star

Sen. Chris Dodd announces retirement

Veteran Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., announced that he will not seek another term and will retire from his long career in the United States Senate.

ABC News

Replacing Sen. Dodd: Who is Blumenthal?

Christian Science Monitor

Dodd's troubled road

WTNH

Boat damaged in anti-whaling clash

A conservation group's boat had its bow sheared off and was taking on water after it was struck by a Japanese whaling ship in the frigid waters of Antarctica.

Houston Chronicle

Boats collide in anti-whaling clash in Antarctic

YouTube

Republicans see courts as last line of defense vs. Democrats' agenda

Republicans and allied groups say they will spend millions to oppose health care reform and other Democratic initiatives in the courts, which they see as a last line of defense against the opposition's agenda.

The Hill

Jordan embarrassed as bombing reveals CIA link

King Abdullah of Jordan has been badly discomfited by the unprecedented public exposure of his country's role working with the CIA.

Guardian

NATION

Accused Holocaust museum shooter dies

A government official says the 89-year-old man accused of a deadly shooting at Washington's Holocaust museum has died in a prison hospital.

San Francisco Chronicle

Cold snap 'horrifying' for homeless

Homeless shelters are swamped as an extended cold snap in the eastern half of the country raises alarms about people living on the streets.

USA TODAY

'Explosive' at Calif. airport was honey

Authorities shut down a California airport after a suspicious amber liquid in a passenger's bag tested positive for explosives only to ultimately determine that the substance was honey.

Reuters

POLITICS

Wave of retirements speaks to uncertainty about 2010 elections

The surprise retirement announcements by a pair of veteran senators and a first-term governor underscored the degree to which the Democratic Party begins this election year on the defensive.

Washington Post

Nancy Pelosi takes swipe at President Obama's campaign promises

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, piqued with White House pressure to accept the Senate health bill, threw a rare rhetorical elbow at President Barack Obama, questioning his commitment to 2008 campaign promises.

Politico

ENVIRONMENT

Winter weather threatens crops, livestock as icy cold hangs on

Citrus growers in Florida fought to protect their crops and ranchers in the U.S. Midwest watched for more snow as wintry weather sent future prices higher for orange juice, cattle and hogs.

BusinessWeek

Fla. farmers scramble to save crops from cold

ABC News

Native tribes fight Cape Cod wind farm

The plan to build an enormous wind farm in Nantucket Sound, off the coast of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, has seen off a string of formidable enemies.

The Independent

Once-dark factory goes green

Many old factories around the country now sit dark and empty. But at a once-defunct Polaroid film factory in New Bedford, Mass., the lights are on again and a new industry is rising up inside the ruins of an old one.

NPR

EDUCATION

Job-training programs to replace shop and auto classes

Shop and auto classes that kids meandered into as electives are being replaced with 21st century job-training programs that students will vie for throughout Chicago under a vocational education shake-up.

EducationNews.org

Data shows racial gaps in Colo. public-school suspensions

Black public-school students in Colorado are nearly three times as likely to face serious discipline as their white peers, a disparity that is persistently growing despite efforts to curb it.

Denver Post

HEALTH

Dieters beware: Calorie counts are frequently off

According to a new study, prepared foods may contain an average of eight percent more calories than their package labels own up to and restaurant meals may contain a whopping 18 percent more.

TIME

Antidepressant pills may help only most severe cases

Antidepressants may be no better than dummy pills for people with mild or moderate depression, according to a study that suggests 70 percent of patients wouldn't benefit from the drugs.

Bloomberg

What's your experience with antidepressants?

MSNBC

Autism cluster linked to parent education, not neighborhood toxins

College-educated parents of autistic children are more likely to fight for a diagnosis — and seek state-funded services for research — than less-educated parents, say a team of researchers.

San Jose Mercury News

SPORTS

Shanahan to coach Redskins

After an afternoon of negotiations produced an agreement, Mike Shanahan signed a five-year contract to become head coach and executive vice president of football operations for the Washington Redskins.

ESPN

Oilers' $8,000 bar tab prompts probe

Alberta's liquor commission is investigating a high-end Calgary Italian restaurant for allegedly serving too much alcohol to the NHL Edmonton Oilers during a New Year's Eve bash.

Toronto Star

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GOOD NEWS

Optimism arrives on Calif. cul-de-sac

America is haltingly on the mend and the Beth Court cul-de-sac in Moreno Valley, Calif., is a case study in recovery. A dozen lives unraveled on the block during the recession; now empty houses are full.

New York Times

Job picture gets a little bit brighter

CNNMoney

Work force initiative helps those who are mentally ill

A new job training initiative funded with public and private money is expected to help more than 500 mentally ill Marylanders a year find and retain employment.

Baltimore Sun

WORLD

Iran hides nuclear efforts in tunnels

Over the past decade, Iran has quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex in networks of tunnels and bunkers across the country.

New York Times

Taiwan ends examination of illegal sales to Iran

Reuters

Clash in Egypt over Gaza aid effort

At least 55 people have been injured in clashes between Egyptian police and pro-Palestinian activists who were trying to deliver aid into the Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses say.

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

Demand for upgraded energy efficiency at home is weak

The drop in new home construction is forcing companies to seek work upgrading the energy efficiency of U.S. homes.

USA TODAY

Vehicle sales point to 2010 uptick

Automakers emerging from the worst year since 1970 are cautiously optimistic that a recovery is under way after last year's collapse in U.S. auto sales.

Detroit News

Automakers' bright spots end tough year

CBS News

Co-working offers community to solo workers in NY

New Work City is a rented office space in Manhattan where workers can drop in, hook up their laptops and work away with other people similarly mobile, while making face-to-face connections.

NPR

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

FTC has concerns about storing data

The Federal Trade Commission worries that consumers don't understand the privacy implications to storing some of their most crucial data and wants those issues raised in planning the national broadband.

Ars Technica

From crickets to whales, animal calls have something in common

Scientists who compare insect chirps with ape calls may look like they are mixing aphids and orangutans, but researchers have found common denominators in the calls of hundreds of species.

ScienceDaily

Idle minds and intelligence

Initial studies indicate that "resting state" networks may help cast light on mental illness. And now, tantalizing new results suggest a significant link between these networks and intelligence.

Scientific American

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

PETA uses an unauthorized image of Michelle Obama in latest ad

In their latest campaign, PETA, the animal rights organization, failed to consult one of the most-famous American faces before using her image.

People

Grieving on Facebook

While social networking has brought together long-lost friends and rekindled old flames, Facebook has evolved to fill yet another role — an outlet for grieving.

TIME

Leo Tolstoy: the forgotten genius?

One hundred years after the great Russian novelist fled from his country estate outside Moscow, the world is gearing up to celebrate him.

Guardian

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Land sales dispute mars Orthodox Christmas in Bethlehem

At least 100 protesters have accused the Greek Orthodox Church of selling and leasing land in the West Bank to Israeli organizations.

BBC

Abusive Irish priests claimed to have been assigned to US churches

Roman Catholic priests accused of sexual abuse in Ireland have been getting re-assigned to ministry positions in the United States, according to a church reform group with a new database of names.

The Pew Forum

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