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Students of the Kalashri School of Arts perform during the New Jersey Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Commission's annual King Holiday Celebration at the War Memorial in Trenton, N.J. (Photo by David Gard / AP)

MLK's daughter: Be a force for peace

On the first holiday celebrating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. since the death of Coretta Scott King, their eldest daughter urged Americans to be forces for peace.

U.S. News & World Report

Legislature draws flak for convening on MLK Day

Salt Lake Tribune

Some ask why captive boy didn't just walk away

USA Today

Officials move methodically to seek answers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Gene could unlock Alzheimer mysteries

An team of gene hunters has homed in on a new gene that might play a key role in late-onset Alzheimer's.

USA Today

Iraq hanging video shown to reporters

ABC News

First U.S. troops in Baghdad for new plan

The first additional American troops that will take part in a major new security plan in Baghdad have arrived in the Iraqi capital.

Reuters

Bush war plan draws resistance from Iraqis

International Herald Tribune

Iranian leader lashes out at U.S.

Iran's hard-line president said the U.S. is trying to hide its failures in Iraq by accusing his nation of funding insurgents, and he pledged to form an anti-U.S. alliance with countries in Latin America.

International Herald Tribune

White House: Can't rule out attack on Iran

CNN

Cheney: Credit checks aren't illegal

Vice President Dick Cheney said the Pentagon and CIA are not violating people's rights by examining the banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans.

CBS News

NATION

Somalia shuts down broadcasters

Somalia's main broadcasters have been ordered to close, shortly after the interim president set up a new team to end the "chaos" in the capital.

BBC

London bomb suspects used flour-based explosives

The suspects made explosives of hydrogen peroxide and flour, wrapped in shrapnel, in an attempt to carry out a deadly terror strike on London's transport system.

Bloomberg

10 more U.N. advisors arrive in Darfur

Ten U.N. military advisors arrived at the headquarters of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Sudan's war-torn western province of Darfur.

Yahoo! News

BUSINESS

Coca-Cola trade secrets trial to start

A former Coca-Cola secretary alledgedly took samples of products that hadn't been launched with the aim of selling them to Pepsi.

Forbes

Cell phone subsidies enrich telecoms

Cellular subscribers are paying hundreds of millions of dollars each year to subsidize landline telephone service, enriching big telecommunications companies.

Charlotte Observer

POLITICS

Iraq's billions and the White House connection

The company appointed to advise the U.S. government on the economic reconstruction of Iraq has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars into Republican Party coffers.

London Independent

Cheney calls ex-aide Libby 'honest'

Vice President Dick Cheney called his former chief of staff, who goes on trial this week in the CIA leak case, "one of the more honest men I know."

AOL News

New farm bill divides Bush and lawmakers

Lawmakers begin work on a new multibillion-dollar farm bill at odds with President Bush over whether big changes really are needed.

Yahoo! News

SPORTS

Patriots, Bears still in the chase for Super Bowl glory

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, as cool as ever, delivered every time the San Diego Chargers gave him another chance.

Sporting News

Bears outlast Seahawks in OT

ESPN

Beckham reportedly seeks quick exit from Real Madrid

Frozen out by his coach at Real Madrid, David Beckham could join the Los Angeles Galaxy this spring.

International Herald Tribune

EDUCATION

House Dems want to cut rates on student loans

Following up on an election-year promise, House Democrats said they plan quick action to lower interest rates for student loans.

Chicago Sun-Times

Congress to weigh 'No Child Left Behind'

The No Child Left Behind law was supposed to level the playing field, promising students an equal education no matter where they live or their background.

Houston Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

World's 1st 'test tube' baby gives birth

Louise Brown, who was the world’s first “test-tube” baby, has given birth to her first child.

MSNBC

Rarely seen King papers go on display

Modesto Bee

NATION

Fire breaks out at Calif. oil refinery

A fire broke out at an oil refinery, sending flames as high as 50 feet into the air and prompting an order for residents to stay indoors, authorities said.

New York Daily News

Killer ice storm leaves tens of thousands without power

Yahoo! News

Stranded for a month, hiker is finally rescued

A camper who became stranded in a national forest nearly five weeks ago was rescued more than two weeks after the search for her had been called off.

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

'Kite Runner' actors fear backlash

They should be the happiest boys in Afghanistan. Zekeria, Ahmad and Ali were plucked from their home in war-ravaged Kabul to star in "The Kite Runner."

Times

Film examines impact of 9/11 on lives of 3 Muslim teens

A new film examines the struggles of three Muslim teenagers coping with the threat of deportation and discrimination in post-Sept. 11th New York City.

Staten Island Advance

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Experts see bird flu challenge to U.S. health system

A bird flu pandemic remains a threat that the U.S. health care system must take seriously, despite the absence so far of human cases in the United States, experts warned.

Reuters

Second genetic risk for Alzheimer's found

People with a variant of a specific gene have a slightly elevated rise of late-onset Alzheimer's disease, Canadian and U.S. researchers said.

Science Daily

Desperate arrangements

The demand for transplants can't be met by altruistic organ banks, so Internet brokers are stepping into the breach.

Forbes

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

U.S. denies Bush shift on climate change

A U.S. official denied a British newspaper report that President Bush is preparing to announce a dramatic global warming policy shift in his State of the Union speech this month.

Reuters

Congress to reconsider caps on carbon

Potential presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama are joining with newly independent Sen. Joe Lieberman on a plan they say would reduce annual global-warming gases.

MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Video games, rock 'n' roll find common ground

Scorned by parents and politicians and embraced by youth, video games are the rock 'n' roll of this generation and in an increasingly tight embrace with U.S. musicians.

Reuters

Will the Petri dish put Daisy out to grass?

Growing meat in the lab seems the stuff of science fiction, but rival research teams are racing to produce meat using cell-culture technology.

The Times

SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION

New generation of preachers stepping in

The last of the black preachers who came up in the era of Martin Luther King Jr. are nearing retirement, giving way to a generation who learned, but did not live, the civil rights movement.

Ledger

School row over student's crucifix

A Roman Catholic schoolgirl's desire to wear a crucifix necklace has led to her religion clashing with her school's health and safety policy.

BBC

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