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Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., right, greets Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)

Bernanke gains more support

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke gained more support from U.S. senators for a second term and prepared to work around a two-day policy meeting that starts with visiting lawmakers.

BusinessWeek

Bernanke likely to win 2nd term as Fed chief

MarketWatch

Some Democrats balk at second term

NPR

Bankers return to Davos

With an economic recovery under way, the financial elite will not be in hiding as they were last year, when only a handful showed up in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual World Economic Forum.

New York Times

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World Economic Forum in Davos

Times Online

Obama to announce partial government spending freeze

U.S. President Barack Obama is to announce a three-year partial spending freeze aimed at reducing the country's current $1.4 trillion budget deficit.

BBC

Budget freeze is proposed

Wall Street Journal

Obama woos middle class

YouTube

Bill requires published death reports from ski resorts

California ski resorts would have to publish reports on how many people are injured or killed on the slopes, increase safety measures, and force minors and employees to wear helmets, under a new bill.

San Francisco Chronicle

Heavy rains strand 2,000 tourists at Machu Picchu

Heavy rains and mudslides in Peru have blocked the train route to the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, stranding some 2,000 tourists.

TIME

US teen pregnancy rate increased

The U.S. teen pregnancy rate rose in 2006 for the first time in more than a decade, reversing a long slide, reports say.

Reuters

NATION

Owners: $5.4 billion NY housing complexes go to creditors

The financially troubled owners of two massive apartment complexes that sold for a record $5.4 billion a few years ago said they're turning them over to their creditors.

ABC News

Census count starts with No. 1 in Alaska

When World War II veteran Clifton Jackson — at 88 the oldest resident of Noorvik, Alaska — answers his door, Jackson will become the first American counted in the 2010 Census.

USA TODAY

Census brings bright spot to Maryland's gloomy jobs picture

Baltimore Sun

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans undecided about census participation

ABC News

Cleanup under way in 462,000-gallon oil spill off Texas

Crews removed about 46,000 gallons of oil from waters near Port Arthur, Texas, roughly 10 percent of the oil spilled when a tanker collided with two barges.

CNN

POLITICS

NYC may lay off 19,000 workers over state budget cuts

New York City will be forced to lay off more than 10,000 public workers and 8,500 teachers if the state legislature approves the $1.3 billion worth of cuts the governor proposed in his deficit-closing budget.

Reuters

Virginia governor proposes budget cuts

Washington Post

Beau Biden's departure is another blow for Democratic party

Beau Biden, the Democratic attorney general of Delaware and son of the vice president, announced he’s not running for the Senate.

Christian Science Monitor

Worried White House

CBS News

BUSINESS

GM says they will repay bailout loans

General Motors will pay back its bailout funds in full to the United States government by the end of June, the Department of the Treasury announced.

The Hill

Existing home sales sink 16.7 percent

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales plunged 16.7 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.45 million units.

CNNMoney

Innovation can leverage change

Innovation and investment in online learning, teacher improvement, and in science and technology can be leveraged to make more of a difference than charity and government aid alone.

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Bats, dolphins separately evolved same sonar gene

Bats and dolphins trod an identical genetic path to evolve a vital component of the complex sonar systems they use to pursue and catch prey.

New Scientist

Study points at a way to diagnose PTSD

Minnesota scientists now believe they have found a long-sought posttraumatic stress disorder fingerprint that confirms the disorder by measuring electromagnetic fields in the brain.

TIME

EDUCATION

College 'gender gap' favoring women stops increasing, report says

More men are attending college and graduating with a bachelor's degree, reversing the tendency of female undergraduates to outnumber and outperform men academically.

San Francisco Chronicle

Middle-schoolers fit in philosophy

Schools these days focus mostly on preparing students for tests, but during lunchtime at Kenmoor Middle School in Landover, Md., youngsters were tackling the deep questions.

WTOP

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Scarlett Johansson scores raves in Broadway debut

Sporting a thick Brooklyn accent, actress Scarlett Johansson was praised in reviews for her Broadway debut in playwright Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge."

ABC News

Damaged Picasso painting to be repaired

An important Picasso painting accidentally damaged by a visitor will be repaired in time for a large exhibition.

Star Tribune

Columns And Op-Ed

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Al-Qaida is losing. Prepare for a hit

Times Online

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Is the president panicking?

Salon.com

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A manifesto for ending the war

The Nation

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Israel reaches out to Haiti

McClatchy

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Supreme Court shows judicial arrogance

RealClearPolitics

Editorial:

Cutting deficit affects benefits

USA TODAY

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The 1994 nightmare

nypost.com

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3 steps to reducing nuclear terrorism

Christian Science Monitor

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Centerfold senator is stud on economics

Bloomberg

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Is the Senate also in play?

RealClearPolitics

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GOOD NEWS

Co-worker donates kidney to fellow employee's daughter

Many people would go to the end of the earth for a child, sibling or spouse. But how many would be willing to undergo a life-saving organ transplant for a co-worker’s child?

Fort Morgan Times

Malaria vaccine could be ready within 3 short years

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has told the BBC that a vaccine for malaria could be just three years away.

BBC

WORLD

Brown and Cowen in talks to rescue Stormont power-sharing deal

U.K. prime minister Gordon Brown flew into Belfast for urgent talks with his Irish counterpart, Brian Cowen, to try to rescue Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive.

Guardian

Bomb blasts mar Sri Lanka elections as polls open

Voting has begun in a tense Sri Lanka amid heightened fears of election violence. Several bombs exploded in the heartland of Jaffna even before polls opened for the crucial presidential election.

Times Online

Voters gear up for Sri Lanka's presidential poll

CNN

Sri Lanka candidates trade barbs

YouTube

Bad weather likely downed Ethiopian jet

An Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed into the sea off Beirut was probably brought down by bad weather, Lebanon's defense minister has said.

BBC

HEALTH

High blood pressure linked to dementia

If the cardiologist's warnings do not scare you, consider this: Controlling blood pressure just might be the best protection yet known against dementia.

MSNBC

St. Jude, Washington U. launch $65M effort to ID pediatric cancer genes

Two leading medical centers, St. Jude and Washington University School of Medicine, launched the largest effort to date to find all of the genetic mutations that cause childhood cancer.

USA TODAY

Study shows teen drinking may cause irreversible brain damage

A recent study led by neuroscientist Susan Tapert of the University of California, San Diego compared the brain scans of teens who drink heavily with the scans of teens who don't.

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Egypts Copts 'await next catastrophe'

Worshipers arriving for mass at St. Mary's Church in central Cairo say they were shocked but not surprised by a deadly attack against Coptic Christians in southern Egypt earlier this month.

BBC

Equality Bill could heighten legal threat for churches and religious groups

Churches and religious groups could be forced to hire homosexuals or transsexuals against the tenets of their faith or face a legal challenge if a planned Equality Bill goes through.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

World's glaciers continue to melt at historically high rates

Glaciers across the globe are continuing to melt so fast that many will disappear by the middle of this century, the World Glacier Monitoring Service said.

Guardian

NASA: 2009 second warmest year

Environmental News Network

Organisms mutate, yet adapt to environmental conditions

Organisms are robust against the effects of mutations yet simultaneously adaptable when the environment changes.

ScienceDaily

SPORTS

Ski cross brings excitement to Olympics

The Winter Olympics open soon in Vancouver, British Columbia, and this year, ski cross will make its debut.

NPR

2nd Wizard pleads guilty to criminal firearm charge

Washington Wizards guard Javaris Crittenton pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge, explaining he had a pistol because he feared teammate Gilbert Arenas would shoot him.

Sports Illustrated

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