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Yemeni demonstrators chant slogans during a rally calling for an end to the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Banner reads:‘Together lets break the ruling party’. (Photo by Hani Mohammed / AP)

Persevering in the economy

Last year, we learned that the Great Recession had come to an end. It ended in June 2009, the experts said. But, for many Americans, this did not bring comfort.

CNN

Crisis report spreads broad blame for meltdown

The Hill

Unemployment benefits up due to snow

Chicago Sun-Times

The winter weather has once again walloped travelers

Thousands of flights were canceled and travelers heading in and out of the East Coast are facing major headaches after the region took yet another major pounding.

MSNBC

Wicked winter weather

ABC News

Yemenis call for president to step down

Thousands took to the streets of Sana’a calling for an end to the reign of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in some of the biggest anti-government rallies Yemen has seen for a decade.

Guardian

Yemen’s protests bringing another revolution?

Christian Science Monitor

Turmoil in North Africa: economy is key

CNN

Is it possible for Congress to avoid a government shutdown?

Congress heads into a new budget season with an unusually broad disparity of views on the way forward, signaling that “getting to yes” on a budget deal could be especially difficult this year.

Christian Science Monitor

Congress accused of forcing budget crisis

Star Tribune

Jay Carney picked as new White House press secretary

President Obama has selected Jay Carney, current communications director for Vice President Biden, as the new White House press secretary.

ABC News

NATION

25 years after Challenger, space flight remains dangerous

Twenty-five years ago, an event occurred that is seared into the memory of most Americans: About a minute after liftoff, the space shuttle Challenger blew apart, killing all aboard.

NPR

Homeland Security to replace color-coded terror alerts

The color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System, which has greeted travelers at airports since shortly after the Sept. 11 attack, will go away in April 2011.

CNN

No more color-coded threat chart

YouTube

POLITICS

Ill. high court: Emanuel can run for mayor

The Illinois Supreme Court put Rahm Emanuel back on the ballot for Chicago mayor, reviving his campaign to lead the country’s third-largest city.

MSNBC

Bleak deficit outlook looms

Grim new deficit estimates add to the pressure on House Republicans to strike some long-range budget bargain with President Barack Obama.

Politico

Social security will run permanent deficits

Sick and getting sicker, Social Security will run at a deficit this year and keep on running in the red until its trust funds are drained by about 2037.

NPR

Social Security projected to run permanent deficits, be drained by 2037

Star Tribune

BUSINESS

US new home sales mark record low

Sales of newly built homes in the U.S. hit their lowest level in 2010 since records began 47 years ago.

BBC

Government’s anti-foreclosure program shows participation gains

Bloomberg

Winter sports gear could be hitting a record $3.2B

Cold, snowy weather and an improving economy are pushing sales of skis, snowboards and other winter sports gear to what could be a record season, says an industry researcher.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

An atmospheric time machine

Pick a day during the past 138 years, say the 1938 New York Hurricane, or the blizzards in the Prairies in 1899 — and now scientists can tell you pretty much what the atmosphere was up to at the time.

Discovery News

Doubting the benefits of natural gas

Policymakers and the energy industry have been looking to natural gas in recent years as a more climate-friendly fuel with half the greenhouse gas emissions of coal, but EPA research is casting doubt.

Scientific American

HEALTH

Brain scans show how teens are more ‘me-1st’ than adults

Scientists and adults have known young adolescents to be selfish. With new technology, researchers are now figuring out how they turn into respectable adults.

LiveScience

2 cents may mean the difference between receiving lifesaving surgery or not

Vietnam veteran Ronald Flanagan has multiple myeloma, cancer of the bone marrow. He now needs a third stem cell transplant surgery but has lost his health coverage over a 2-cent error.

ABC News

SPORTS

Tiger Woods pines for renewed success at site of past glories

The fightback starts when Tiger Woods steps on to the tee at Torrey Pine’s for his first tournament of 2011 and first chance of the new year to silence the obituarists who have signaled the end of his glory years.

Guardian

Torrey Pines a special place for Tiger

ESPN

Fans don’t view Wells as consolation prize

As Angels’ owner Arte Moreno sat at the podium with Vernon Wells, GM Tony Reagins and manager Mike Scioscia, Angels’ fans attending the press conference, cheered.

Sporting News

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Adrian Hamilton):

Uprisings that may not presage democracy

The Independent

Column (Alex Ellgee):

Myanmar hides behind ‘disciplined democracy’

Al Jazeera

Column (Linda Feldman):

Key omission from Obama’s State of the Union address: gun control

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

House Budget Committee Chairman Ryan sounded right note, now GOP must deliver

Washington Examiner

Column (Stephanie Lucas):

Who’s to blame for the Loughners of the world?

Salt Lake Tribune

Column (Kenneth Roth):

Global governance in a changing world

Huffington Post

Blog (Mark Morford):

10 amazing truths you already suspected

(San Francisco Chronicle)

Notes & Errata

Editorial:

Thoughts after the State of the Union ...

USA TODAY

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Ashley Nawn, Rachel Barrus, Sanaz Ariya and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

Teach For America gets $100M

Teach For America is getting $100 million to launch its first-ever endowment in hopes of making the grass-roots organization a permanent fixture in education.

Contra Costa Times

Hormone found to help short-term memories stick

Scientists have identified a substance that can dramatically improve memory in rats. The discovery could lead to drugs that affect memories in people, researchers say.

NPR

With a deep dig into its past, Perugia built an energy-saving future

Perugia shows how even a small city can reap benefits from investment in pedestrian-friendly infrastructure. The city used its geographic and historical preservation challenges to its advantage.

National Geographic

WORLD

Violent protests escalate outside Egypt’s capital

Violence escalated in two cites outside the capital Cairo where anti-government protesters torched a fire station and looted weapons that they then turned on police.

ABC News

Egypt unrest: ElBaradei returns

BBC

Anti-government protests in Egypt

Yahoo! News

Egypt protests fueled by social networking

CBS News

US-built highway to Southern Sudan paved with hope

Six years after a U.S.-brokered peace deal, the road — which links Juba, the region’s capital, with Uganda to the south — bustles with new life.

McClatchy Newspapers

Russian parliament approves START nuclear arms treaty

Russia’s parliament has given its backing to the START nuclear arms disarmament treaty. Under the agreement, the number of nuclear warheads deployed by each country will be cut to 1,550.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Stone tools discovered in Arabia force archaeologists to rethink human history

The collection of hand axes and other tools shaped to cut, pierce and scrape bear the hallmarks of early human workmanship, but date from 125,000 years ago.

Guardian

Facebook unlocks new security mechanisms

Facebook is adding new security features, which come after a pair of high-profile cracks in the site’s defenses that surfaced.

CNN

Holographic Princess Leia nears reality

Researchers from MIT unveiled the fastest 3-D holographic video to date in San Francisco, filming a graduate student dressed as Princess Leia and projecting her as a hologram in real time.

Discovery News

EDUCATION

College tuition: 6 in 10 freshmen say economy affected choice of school

The economic downturn affected the choice of where to attend college for six out of 10 current freshmen at four-year schools, a new survey finds.

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Find the best college for you

U.S. News & World Report

Science scores suffer

Half of Hawaii eighth-graders and nearly 40 percent of fourth-graders in public schools tested “below basic” proficiency in science on a national assessment, according to results released.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

College freshmen troubled but optimistic

This year’s class of U.S. college freshmen is reporting record-low levels of emotional health, with more students saying they frequently felt overwhelmed by work as high school seniors.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Aristotle on modern ethical dilemma

Getting on in the world is a priority for many. But is social mobility good? As the BBC researches the class system, philosophers say thinkers like Kant have mulled over such questions for centuries.

BBC

World’s Muslim population doubles

By 2030 the global population is set to reach over 8 billion and 26.4 percent of that population will be Muslim.

TIME

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Before they were films, they were sketches

Movie magic long predates computers — long before the digital age, scenery and special effects were crafted entirely by human hands.

NPR

A new look at Anne Frank

Two comic book veterans — who authored the graphic adaptation of the 9/11 Report — train their talents on the young diarist, rendering the much-mythologized figure of Anne as a credible, real-life adolescent.

Smithsonian

In a small corner of YouTube, a star is born

More than three million fans on YouTube have signed up to receive updates from Ryan Higa, a student in Las Vegas. Higa’s big appeal is a brand of viral comedy that connects with Web-savvy teens.

NPR

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