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Government health insurance option appears doomed

Senior House Democrats have largely abandoned hopes of including a government-run insurance option in the final compromise health care bill taking shape, according to several officials.

ABC News

Special section:

Guide to health care reform

MSNBC

Emotion stirs for US to take care of own

Never have so many Americans said the nation should take care of its own and stay out of other countries’ affairs.

Kansas City Star

Banks prepare for bonuses, public wrath

The bank bonus season, that annual rite of big money and bigger egos, looks as if it will be one of the largest and most controversial blowouts the industry has ever seen.

New York Times

Clawbacks spread as cash bonuses get riskier

Bloomberg

6.5 earthquake rocks Calif. coast

An earthquake measuring 6.5 magnitude hit Humboldt County, Calif., shaking up the whole city and leaving it powerless. The quake was centered about 25 miles southwest of Eureka.

The Money Times

2nd quake strikes Calif.

CNN

6.5 quake rocks Humboldt County

San Francisco Chronicle

A look at what al-Qaida can't do

While al-Qaida plots do sometimes succeed, they have become, Rand terrorism expert Brian Jenkins points out, less frequent and less potent.

TIME

NATION

Petraeus: US has plan to deal with Iran's nuclear program

In addition to diplomacy and sanctions, the United States has developed contingency plans in dealing with Iran's nuclear facilities, a top U.S. military commander told CNN's Christiane Amanpour.

CNN

Immigrant deaths in jail concealed

Silence has long shrouded the men and women who die in the nation’s immigration jails. For years, they went uncounted and unnamed in the public record.

New York Times

The fatal attraction of 'suicide magnets'

Some structures exert a powerful hold on the severely depressed. Officials in San Francisco are debating a barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge to thwart leapers.

Toronto Star

POLITICS

Congressional Republicans backing more insurgent candidates

A growing number of GOP members are bucking the party and backing non-establishment candidates in the 2010 primary elections.

The Hill

Tea Party rattles educated class

Barely a week into a new decade that will redefine America's place in the world, the feisty yet fractious Tea Party movement is readying its next brew.

Toronto Star

Hawaii needs $1M to hold election

Hawaii's state government must find about $1 million to pay for a special election to replace U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie or face leaving Honolulu residents without representation in Washington.

Honolulu Star-Bulletin

BUSINESS

Retail sales, production probably climbed

Consumers probably took advantage of holiday discounts in December, pointing to a U.S. economy poised to sustain the expansion into 2010, economists said.

Bloomberg

The comeback quarter

MarketWatch

Special section:

New jobs for a new decade

NPR

Citrus growers fight freeze damage

Florida's growers of citrus, sugarcane and other crops prayed that cloud cover would stick around. Clouds can make the difference between a close call and a killing cold that devastates fruit and plants.

Brownsville Herald

HEALTH

Obesity hazard rivals smoking in US

Obesity now poses as great a threat to Americans' quality of life as smoking, a new study shows.

USA TODAY

Psychotherapy may help teen girls avoid obesity

HealthDay

Protection of food supply faces problems

Foods raised in America and imported from around the world provide greater abundance and choice than ever before. But while our foods are bountiful, they're also inconsistently regulated.

CBS News

SPORTS

Dallas wins 1st playoff game since 1996

It has been 13 long years since the Cowboys tasted postseason success, but they were voracious, tearing through the rival Eagles in a resounding 34-14 NFC wild-card rout.

New York Post

Cowboys photo gallery

Sports Illustrated

Canada counts down to the Olympics

No one in the world of sport needs to be told where Vancouver is. More than 5,500 athletes and coaches from 80-plus countries soon will be on their way, along with 10,000 members of the news media.

Seattle Times

Browns to announce Heckert

The Cleveland Browns are expected to announce that they have hired Philadelphia's Tom Heckert as their new general manager, league sources tell ESPN.

ESPN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Web 2.0 suicide machine: erase your virtual life

What happens if you get sick of all those messages on your Facebook wall? If you just can't stand the chatter anymore? Now one Web site is encouraging you to end it all — virtually.

NPR

NBC anchor tells why Jon Stewart is good for news

Many journalists have come to think of Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" as a kind of external standards-and-practices cop and one whose nightstick leaves painfully embarrassing welts.

NPR

Gumby creator Art Clokey dies at 88

Animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation Gumby became a pop culture phenomenon through decades of toys and satires, died Friday. He was 88.

CBS News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column:

The other plot to wreck America

New York Times

Column:

Inequality is root of society's violence

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Editorial:

Venezuelans wary of nation’s future

Houston Chronicle

Editorial:

Senate rule crippling our democracy

The Star-Ledger

Column:

Captain obvious learns the limits of cool

New York Times

Editorial:

Modesty won't fly at the airport

Huffington Post

Column:

What computer games teach us

Guardian

Blog (andrew sullivan):

The flowering of a new narcissism

The Atlantic

Editorial:

Hold Geithner to account on AIG matter

Capital Times

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GOOD NEWS

Nutritional drink, imaging show promise for Alzheimer's

Cutting-edge research is looking for the brain mechanisms of Alzheimer's at its earliest stages, maximizing the potential for intervention.

CNN

Community rebuilding starts with school

Almost everyone involved in a sprawling $1.8 billion redevelopment project refers to East Baltimore Community School when discussing the odds of success.

Baltimore Sun

WORLD

Venezuela jets intercepted US plane

President Hugo Chavez said he ordered the intercept of a U.S. military plane that twice entered Venezuelan skies.

Reuters

Blog:

US denies military plane entered Venezuelan airspace

Los Angeles Times

Canadian pipeline bombing suspect released without charges

Wiebo Ludwig has been released without charges after being arrested in relation to a series of EnCana bombings, according to his lawyer.

Edmonton Sun

Ludwig released without charge

Globeandmail.com

Togo withdraws from Africa Cup

Togo's national football squad has decided to withdraw from the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, after their bus came under fire.

Al Jazeera

Death toll rises in soccer bus shooting

Toronto Star

ENVIRONMENT

Why Antarctica isn't melting much — yet

Antarctica is warming, but not melting anything like as much as expected. This can be explained by the seasonal pattern of warming, say two glaciologists.

ABC News

EDUCATION

Back to school in hard times

It took longer than some experts expected, but the recession and resulting shortage of good jobs have spurred a jump in applications to law schools and a growing interest in graduate programs.

Seattle Times

Some districts spurn education initiative

Fewer than half of the school districts in San Diego County had notified the state that they intend to apply for grants under the education reform initiative.

The San Diego Union-Tribune

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Researchers closer to pinpointing beneficial evolutionary mutations

By combining statistical tests, researchers can home in on narrow regions, and in some cases, genes, that were selected for during human evolution.

Scientific American

Ant has given up sex completely, researchers confirm

The complete asexuality of a widespread fungus-gardening ant, the only ant species in the world known to have dispensed with males entirely, has been confirmed by a team of Texas and Brazilian researchers.

ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Study: Britons suspicious towards Muslims

The British public are concerned at the rise of Islam in the U.K. and fear that the country is deeply divided along religious lines, according to a major survey.

Telegraph.co.uk

Churches firebombed in Malaysia

Two more churches and a Catholic convent school in Malaysia have been targeted by arsonists, amid a row over the use of the word "Allah" by non-Muslims.

Al Jazeera

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